The collection consists of photographs, some original and some copies, of subjects from the Drayton Valley area. The original images were taken by Loosmore of sites in Drayton Valley and beyond in the 1980s and 1990s while the copies are negatives taken of original photographs that pre-date the originals, ranging from the early 20th century to the 1960s. These images were borrowed from their owners by Loosmore for use in his book, To Trail’s End: Early Settlement in Drayton Valley.
Includes photographs of men working on the framing of St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church in Athabasca. One photo shows a man standing by himself. This is probably William Toews.
The fonds consists of a scrapbook conatining historical documents relating to Charles Thomas McLinden Turner and Jeanne (Dubois) Turner, 149 photographs of the Turner family and Grande Prairie town in the 1940s and 1950s. Also included is a number of hockey team photographs and a geneological record of the Turner family written by Suzanne Dunn.
The fonds consists of 12 b & w postcards of scenes from the Grande Prairie area in 1937-1938 taken by Cameron White, photographer for The White Studio. The McDermid Photo Service envelope from Calgary, in which the postcards were housed, dated April 12, 1938 is included. Also in the file is a Ceretificate of Change of Name for John Cameron White to become Ross Haynes.
The fonds consists of a 1926 record of baptism; a Polish-American dictionary; a Canadian Pacific Railway booklet; a 1928 passport; an embarkment card from the steamer "Baltonia" dated May 11, 1928; an immigration identification card from the ship "Empress of France"; a 1938 Certificate of Naturalization; 1939 correspondence with tailors in Montreal and Bluesky regarding a new suit of clothes; correspondence from Alberta Government offices regarding timber permissions for the Volin Community Association in 1938, and proof of age for his senior's pension in 1972; two World War II ration books issued to "Fred" Koda; a Duplicate Certificate of Title for his farmland; raffle tickets supporting the Ukrainian Summer Festival in Palmero, Ont. in 1962; a life insurance cerificate from the Rycroft Co-operative Association; coupons from the Royal Crown Soaps company; and 2 postcards from businesses in the Rycroft area. The collection includes a photograph of Teodor Koda attached to the 1928 passport.
Dr. Lloyd Austin ran a religious commune on his homestead on the NE6-71-5-W6, southeast of the City of Grande Prairie. This land was homesteaded by Dr. Lloyd Austin ca. 1930 and turned over to Billy Blair after the Austins left the area.
William “Billy” Blair was born in 1886. He worked as a camp cook for Henry Selby, who surveyed land east of the fifth meridian, in 1905.
William Blair died in 1995 and is buried in the Grande Prairie Cemetery.
The material in this collection contains records related to Dr. Lloyd Austin’s religious commune.
The record consists of 15 photographs of the dilapidated buildings of a religious commune located on the NE 6-71-5-W6, on the banks of Bear Creek south-east of the City and one 40-minute oral history.
The fonds consists of 35mm slides created for the “Alberta Rural Cemeteries Photographic Project.” This project was funded by a grant from the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation in 1992 and completed over the course of 1993-1994. Randall Adams travelled across Alberta to document rural cemeteries, taking photographs of approximately 300 cemetery sites.
This fonds consists of copies of the school registers of the Porto Bello School, copies of the Porto Bello Community Society Annual Returns, and business administrative records of the Porto Bello Community Society including minutes, financial records, and document regarding the arrangement of the Porto Bello reunions. The fonds also contains photographs and a DVD of the Porto Bello Community Society Events.
