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Young Women's Christian Association (Calgary) fonds

  • GLEN glen-2495
  • Fonds
  • 1907-2000

The fonds consists of board and committee minutes, financial statements, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, and photographs of members and events. Includes nominations files for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards, and programs and guest books for the Women Celebrate Women dinner which commemorated the Persons Case. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Calgary Youth Aid Centre Society, Stanley Harold Comba, Ruth Lowry, Florence Alberta Shaw, Mary Gay Sparks, Unemployed Girls' Club of Calgary, and Leone Wellwood.

Young Women's Christian Association (Calgary)

W.V. Lawrence fonds

  • GLEN glen-1430
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1960s

The fonds consists of memoirs about Stettler (ca. 1960s); and photographs (1910-1911) of a Castor street scene, pupils and teachers at a Willingdon school, and the Johnson home at Whitford.

Lawrence, W.V.

Wright family fonds

  • GLEN glen-2929
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1924-1934]

The fonds consists of photographs of Crescent Heights athletic teams, Lake Louise, Bishop Pinkham, Banff, Bankhead, other mountain views, Big Hill Springs, Fish Creek, Turner Valley, unemployed camps near Exshaw, road grading, Waterton, Elbow Falls, and Glacier Park.

Wright (family)

Wood's Christian Home fonds

  • GLEN glen-2475
  • Fonds
  • 1873-2004, predominant 1915-1974

The fonds consists of board minutes and annual reports; records relating to fundraising campaigns; admissions records and personal files of children; attendance registers, yearbooks, etc. for the school run by the Home; records of extra-curricular activities of the children; financial records and tax returns; architectural plans and other records re the construction and maintenance of buildings; personal papers of the Wood family; and extensive photographs of the children, staff and activities of the Home.

Wood's Christian Home

Wing family fonds

  • GLEN glen-2455
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1915-1926]

The fonds consists of photographs of family and friends taken in Calgary, Edmonton, Cluny, Strathmore, Victoria, Vancouver and the USA.

Wing, Abel

Willison family fonds

  • GLEN glen-3078
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1993

The fonds consists of diaries, correspondence and personal papers of Anne, Mary, Hilda, Evelyn and Gladys. Much of the correspondence is between the sisters, and includes letters they received from the sixth sister, Ellen. The diaries are rich in reflections on their spiritual lives as well as their day-to-day activities. The records relate primarily to their personal relationships, and are strong in documenting sisterhood, lives of unmarried women, and old age. Anne's papers in include her first "book of cases" as a nurse. The papers of Mary, Hilda, Evelyn and Gladys all include details of their teaching careers. The papers of Evelyn and Gladys include details of their Moral Re-Armament activities, and manuscripts of their short fiction and biographies. The fonds also includes photographs of all six sisters, their parents, homes, cats and friends. The notebooks of the nurses who cared for Evelyn and Gladys during the final years of their lives are also present.

Stirling, Anne

William John Baptie fonds

  • GLEN glen-3070
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1899, 1973

The fonds consists of the 1892 diaries of William John Baptie and his father; William's diary for 1897-1899; photographs of prospectors, cabins, dog teams and a riverboat taken during the Klondike gold rush; and a sound recording with transcript of an interview with E. Reynolds Baptie concerning his father's Klondike experiences.

Baptie, William John

William H. and Marie DeVine fonds

  • GLEN glen-3202
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1890-1960]

The fonds consists of photographs of Calgary and horse sales operations, DeVine family and travels.

DeVine, William H. DeVine, Marie

William B. Gilbert fonds

  • GLEN glen-3559
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1929

The fonds consists of a receipt for purchase of shares in Alberta Flour Mills Ltd. (1923) and a letter from John J. Koehn, who accompanied Billy to a sanitarium in British Columbia, reporting to Mrs. Gilbert on his health (1929). Also includes biographical information published in 1974.

Gilbert, William B.

Willans family fonds

  • GLEN glen-3688
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1949

The fonds consists of Norman Willans' diaries (1934-1935, 1946-1949), cow record book (1899-1906), and combined cow record book, cashbook, notebook (1908-1915, 1925). Also consists of Alice's photo albums showing the Willans family and extended family activities in the Millarville area.

Willans family

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