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Imperial Oil Limited fonds

  • GLEN glen-3603
  • Fonds
  • 1860-2014, predominant 1880s-1980s

The fonds consists of records documenting all aspects of the operations of Imperial Oil Limited and includes the corporate records, photographs, publications, sound recordings, television commercials and videotape collection. Also includes records of Texaco Canada Limited and other subsidiary and affliliated companies.

Imperial Oil

Boorne and May fonds

  • GLEN glen-281
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1907

The fonds consists of traveller's sample book of photographs of mountain scenes, the British Columbia interior, CPR points and railway bridges, tunnels, trains and workers (1889). Includes photographs of native people and a Blood sun dance (1887); of May, his wife, family and ranch (1885-1907); of Boorne, his Manitoba homestead, and the Calgary studio; and experimental photographs (1883-1884). Includes his article, "With the Savages in the Far West", published in the Canadian Photographic Journal, 1893. Also includes a diary of Boorne's cousin Ernest May (1897).

Boorne and May

A.E. Cross Studios fonds

  • GLEN glen-15
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1966

The fonds consists of photographs of personalities, commerce, institutions, events and buildings in Lethbridge and area including photographs from Waterton Lakes and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. Includes a few copy negatives of photographs dating from 1895-1905, and miscellaneous advertiques and order forms.

A.E. Cross Studios

Anahareo family fonds

  • GLEN glen-3806
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1920-1999]

The fonds consists of correspondence, sketches, photographs and other records, much of which was compiled by Dawn Richardson and Katherine Swartile, which relates to Anahareo's life with Grey Owl and subsequent activities in Alberta and British Columbia, particularly related to the promotion of her book and of Grey Owl's significance.

Anahareo family

T.J. Hileman fonds

  • GLEN glen-1187
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1940

The fonds consists of photographs of Waterton National Park (1927-1929) including the Prince of Wales Hotel, and Blood and South Peigan (1924-1940).

Hileman, T.J.

Zahava Hanan fonds

  • GLEN glen-3483
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1997, predominant 1971-1993

The fonds consists of legal records, correspondence and Energy Resources Conservation Board hearings relating to Zahava Hanan's dispute with Imperial Oil. The fonds also consists of extensive personal papers related to her publications, ranch, the Hanen Trust and her life and activities while living in England.

Hanan, Zahava

Thomas Ray's Grey Owl collection

  • GLEN glen-3944
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1928-1935]

The collection consists of material saved by Thomas Ray, including correspondence from Grey Owl and his mother, Kittie Scott-Brown, to Country Life Magazine and Lovat Dickson publishers; four photographic transparencies featuring Grey Owl, Anahareo and a log cabin; and two short, silent, black and white films "Beaver People" (1928) and "Beaver Family" (1929).

Ray, Thomas

Nature Calgary fonds

  • GLEN glen-435
  • Fonds
  • 1949-2013

The fonds consists of Calgary Naturalists' Club minutes, correspondence, membership lists (1949-1956) and photographs of natural science display; and Calgary Bird Club / Calgary Field Naturalists' Society constitution (1955-1963), minutes (1955-2013), correspondence (1956-1978), attendance and membership lists (1965-1975), reports, bird species checklists, newsletters (1978-2013), newsclippings and pamphlets, posters and miscellany.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Mary Barclay, C.D. Bird, Horseshoe Canyon, Ghost River, Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, Kathleen Morck, Dan Patton and Ya-Ha-Tinda Ranch.

Nature Calgary

Nose Hill Park Communities Board fonds

  • GLEN glen-1769
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1960-2010]

The fonds consists of historical information, briefs, plans, proposals, reports, submissions, copies of legal papers and maps relating to the preservation and development of Nose Hil Park. The fonds also consists of executive papers including minutes, membership lists, financial statement, newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs relating to the Nose Hill Park Communities Board and various other groups with an interest in Nose Hill, including the Nose Hill Park Management Advisory Committee and the Friends of Nose Hill Society.

Nose Hill Park Communities Board

Waterton Centennial Oral History Project collection

  • GLEN glen-2589
  • Collection
  • 1995

The collection consists of recorded interviews and interview summaries with pioneers of Waterton Lakes National Park. Frank Goble, and Ed and Cheryl Mitchell were interviewed but not recorded, although notes were taken and are found with the inventory. There is very poor sound quality on the Tom Jenkins recorded interview due to a cassette malfunction. The Frank Johansen interview summary is accompanied by extensive biographical material about his great aunt, Lu Nielson.

Waterton Centennial Oral History Project

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