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Medicine Hat and District Germans from Russia Society fonds

  • CA MED 773
  • Fonds
  • May 9, 2013

1 bound copy of "Medicine Hat and District Germans from Russia Society Legacy Project" (2013), 7 oral histories which were aired on SHAW TV, 2017-2018.

Germans from Russia Society. Medicine Hat and District.

Jillian Wright fonds

  • CA GPR 0680
  • Fonds
  • 2010

This fonds contains records collected or created by Jillian Wright for her research about surveyors and early pioneers in the Peace Region.

These records consist of two copies of the booklets written by Jillian and copies of the newspaper articles the booklet was based upon.

Wright, Jillian

One Room Schools collection

  • CA MILO ORS
  • Collection
  • 2009 - 2013

Since 1908, the area around Milo has been home to 14 one-room schools. School districts were established when a group of three or more ratepayers petitioned the Provincial Ministry of Education, and there generally had to be at least five eligible students within a 4-5 mile radius.

The first one-room schools in the area were established at Queenstown (April 1908) and Pioneer (June 1908), and they were quickly followed by Liberty (1909), Corbie Hill and Willard (1910), Lake McGregor (1912) and Eastway (1913). East Majorville was established in 1917 (though it didn’t open until 1920), then Giffen and Kirkdale (1918), Fawn Hill (1919), Rocky Buttes (1921), Sunny Lake (1922) and finally Robertson (1928). Enrollment at the schools ranged from five to twenty-five students, and occasionally if the numbers dropped too low, a school might close for a year until enrollment increased. Since many of the students travelled long distances each day, schools were often closed when the weather was bad, with the missed time being made up in the summer. Closures due to epidemics lasted anywhere from a few weeks to several months. Most schools offered grades 1-8, after which students who wanted to continue their education had to travel to – or board in – a larger community. In 1926 Queenstown School moved into town and became a two-room school, going through to grade 12.

Corbie Hill and Kirkdale were the first of the one-room schools to close, both in 1937, and in 1938 supervision of the remaining schools was taken over by Bow Valley School Division #43. Consolidation became the guiding principle, and by the end of World War II the only one-room school left in the Milo area was East Majorville, which closed in 1952. A van was used to transport the children from Pioneer, Liberty and Rocky Buttes School Districts into Milo.

The collection consists of Minute Books, Daily Registers, correspondence and Assessments and Tax Rolls from some of the one-room school districts in the Milo area.

The collection has been arranged into the following series: Bow Valley School Division #43, Liberty, Pioneer, Rocky Buttes.

Ted and Irene Herman fonds

  • CA MED 828
  • Fonds
  • 2003

Consists of one bound volume, titles "There is a Tomorrow", a family history.

Herman (family)

Sunnybrook Farm Museum

  • RED MG 554 Sunnybrook Farm Museum fonds
  • Fonds
  • 1996-2003

Fonds consists of the administrative and operational records created, accumulated, and used by the Friends of the Sunnybrook Farm Museum and the Red Deer & District Museum Society during their activities programming and running the Sunnybrook Farm Museum.

The types of records include administrative and foundational documents, minutes, correspondence, proposals, contracts, land zoning, budget, biography on James Bower, feasibility studies, reports, and photographs of museum items and activities. Records also include the South Cottage Outreach School Handbook and a photograph of the South Cottage School.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.

Friends of the Sunnybrook Farm Museum

Central Alberta Regional Museum Network fonds

  • RED MG 581
  • Fonds
  • 1994-2001

Fonds consists of the records from administrative and project activities, as created, used, and accumulated by the Central Alberta Regional Museum Network staff, volunteers, and contractors.

The types of records include minutes, agendas, workshop information, grants information, research notes (Inventive Spirit project, CARMN Trails and Stopping Places project, ), reports (Unspoken Words of Aspenland, The Formation of Mind and Spirit, Lesbian and Gay Life in Alberta, Novacor), and photocopies of original records for research purposes.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.

Central Alberta Regional Museum Network

Horseshoe of the Peace Historical Society fonds

  • CA GPR 0495
  • Fonds
  • 1990-1991

The fonds consists of files created for the production of "Tales, Trails and Gumbo", the history book for the Cotilion, Silver Valley and Fourth Creek districts of the south Peace River Country of Alberta. Files include the history of the society; township maps showing original land owners, old trails and roads, and community buildings; and 416 individual family stories or historical submissions for "Tales, Trails and Gumbo." Many of the stories are hand-written by family members. Also included are anecdotes, poetry, art work, five photographs, and one sound recording. A list of the stories is roughly equivalent to the index of the book.

Horseshoe of the Peace Historical Society

Eileen Hendy fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2217
  • Fonds
  • 1985, 1991

The fonds consists of one article entitled "Athabasca Landing Ferry, (1906-1951)." The ferry service in Athabasca Landing began in 1906. In 1934 a cable cage system was installed as an auxiliary service to the ferry. When a bridge across the Athabasca River opened in 1952 the ferry service was discontinued. The article is illustrated with photographs, newspaper articles and crossing statistics. The cassette includes information on researching the history of the Town of Athabasca. A donation of seven books includes David Leonard's Peace River series: The Lure of the Peace Country 1872 – 1914, David Leonard and Victoria Lemieux: 1992. Delayed Frontier: The Peace River Country to 1909, David W. Leonard, 1995. The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914, David W. Leonard, 2005.
Margot Kindt, "The Town of Athabasca," 1986. Framed print.

Hendy, Eileen

Kieyho Park fonds

  • CA GPR 0562
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1981-1996]

The fonds consists of papers relating to the establishment of the Kieyho Park, the lease agreement and licence of occupation, receipts, bills, and correspondence. There is also a booklet prepared by the South Peace Regional Planning Commission in June 1992 which contains the development proposal for the park.

Kieyho Park

Marion (Lewis) Ward fonds

  • CA ATH 05.08
  • Fonds
  • 1981

The fonds consists of the following topics: Lawrence Rye, moving reindeer by train, building Highway 2 in 1925, aboriginal pilgrimage to Lac St. Anne, Perryvale (Lewiston) , Lewiston School, Miss Howlett, wild game, Sandy Creek, Athabasca Landing Trail, Rein family, scows, grain elevators and medical doctors.

Marion (Lewis) Ward

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