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Lorna (Bisset) McPherson series

  • PAA paa-9764
  • Fonds
  • 1914-2010

The series consists of records related to church and school activities; genealogical information; correspondence; photographs; autograph albums; and annotated cookbooks.

Alexander Blair McPherson series

  • PAA paa-9763
  • Fonds
  • 1909-2010

The series consists of memoirs; professional and personal writings; correspondence; photographs; records related to Blair's church and counseling careers; and binders of material that Blair collected on a variety of subjects and interests in his retirement years.

Alexander Blair McPherson

Mary (Scott) Bisset series

  • PAA paa-9762
  • Fonds
  • 1888-2009

The series consists of correspondence; photographs; writings and aphorisms; books and writings on etiquette, morality, and remedies; records related to Mary's civic activities; and annotated cookbooks and home economics books.

Scott, Bisset, and McPherson family fonds

  • PAA paa-9761
  • Fonds
  • 1874-2010

The fonds consists of records created and/or collected by members of the Scott, Bisset, and McPherson families as well as related branches. The records include correspondence, diaries, clerical documents, family photographs, cookbooks, professional writings, and genealogical information. The records relate to such subjects as the domestic and professional lives of women across the 20th century; Albertan legal history; Albertan religious life and history; the evolution of public morality from the late 19th to the 21st centuries; the evolution of etiquette, entertainment, and home economics in the same period; and military records related to both the First and Second World Wars, including Canadian involvement in the armed forces and life on the home-front.

Scott, Bisset, and McPherson family

Buttons and Bows Square Dance Club fonds

  • PAA paa-9758
  • Fonds
  • 1953-2008

The fonds consists of membership lists for the entire span of the group, newsletters, meeting minutes, registers of dance participants, financial statements, posters, flyers, correspondence, histories, and call sheets.

The newsletters include Buttons and Bows publications as well as publications from the Edmonton District Square Dance Association, the Alberta Square Dance Institute, the Alberta Square and Round Dance Federation, and the Canadian Square Dance Association. There is also correspondence from several of these organizations as well as from other clubs.

The histories were compiled by club members for various club anniversaries and consist of oral histories, recollections, and compendia of articles about club activities.

The photos are in albums arranged chronologically with all of the subjects meticulously identified. The badges were collected by club members from various dance that they attended, sister clubs, dance associations, and special events. The badges are arranged in polyethylene sleeves.

Buttons and Bows Square Dance Club

Jeanne Boivin Noël fonds

  • PAA paa-9749
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1987

The records are composed of personal diaries (1947--1987), personal correspondence (1927--1986), a notebook with natural diets and remedies, birth certificates and an annotated and indexed photo album.

Noël, Jeanne Boivin

Gérard Maisonneuve fonds

  • PAA paa-9747
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1983

The fonds consists of genealogical materials, certificates, negatives and an illustration series depicting early French-Canadian life.

Maisonneuve, Gérard

Brimacombe family fonds

  • PAA paa-9744
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900] - 1945

The fonds consists of images that depict multiple members of the Brimacombe family from the earliest years of their presence in Alberta to the end of the Second World War. There are also multiple images of various sites around Vermilion, events, and farming.
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Sites include multiple buildings in Vermilion, the exterior and interior of the Brimacombe Brothers store, the interior and exterior of the Breage and Vermilion post offices, Brimacombe homesteads and farms, and unidentified sites in England related to the Brimacombe family. There are also images of events such as hockey games, baseball games, picnics, community gatherings, ice-skating, and family get-togethers. Most of the images feature people or events but there are also some landscape shots and images of flora and fauna around Vermilion.
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The remaining material consists of seven cigarette cards, which are small prints that were distributed in tea and cigarette boxes in England from the late 19th century through the early decades of the 20th century. Cards were printed in thematic series and were collected. These seven cards were part of a series of 50 cards related to gardening and were issued in 1938 by the Imperial Tobacco Company.

Brimacombe (family)

LaPerle family fonds

  • PAA paa-9740
  • Fonds
  • [189-]-1995

The records of the family are extensive and consists of photographs, correspondence, diaries and other personal papers, cookbooks and recipes, gardening, how-to and decorating magazines, books and booklets, biographical and genealogical papers, press clippings, school handbooks and other materials used or accumulated by Annie LaPerle as a teacher. Also included are records from the Winterburn Golden Agers and Winterburn Women's Institute, store and farm cash books and statements of accounts and other records documenting daily activities, as well as greeting and sympathy cards, maps, slides and 8 mm film reels. The photographs, slides and films depict the LaPerle family and friends, the Winterburn Store, post office, house and other buildings, farming, farm machinery and crews, weddings and anniversaries, burials, churches and other buildings, cars, picnics, parties and leisure activities, students and schools, soldiers, First Nations people, Banff and Jasper, Edmonton and other places in Alberta, and the Edmonton Ski Club.

LaPerle family

Hittinger family fonds

  • PAA paa-9738
  • Fonds
  • 1990

The fonds is composed of a memoir and genealogy of the Hittinger and Tellier families.

Hittinger (family)

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