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May Family fonds

  • PAA paa-7808
  • Fonds
  • 1886-2014

The fonds includes articles, certificates, correspondence, scrap books, journals, cards, postcards, programs, drafts, publications, magazines, reminisces, booklets, and a screenplay that cover the life of the Mays and individual family members. Subjects of photographs, negatives, slides, and CDs include aviation, the First World War, family life, Vi’s horse riding career, friends, travels, Boy Scouts, ceremonies, and reminisces.

Denny and Margaret May

Gerald S. Anderson fonds

  • PAA paa-3841
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1999

The fonds consists of records that were created and maintained by Gerald S. Anderson which document his careers, interests and hobbies, covering the period of the late 1890’s to 1999. The photographs and negatives cover his travels through Canada, the United States and Europe as well as the Anderson family and Gerald's army training unit.

Gerald S. Anderson

John William Hope fonds

  • PAA PR3161
  • Fonds
  • 1903

The fonds consists of thirteen letters from John William Hope to his wife, “Louie,” 10 April – 2 August 1903. The letters detail his journey from Britain to Barr Colony, and his struggle to find work in Western Canada. The fonds also includes British Colony and Dominion Lands Branch receipts for homestead land, 30 January and 2 July 1903.

Hope, John William

John Ludwig fonds

  • PAA PR3812
  • Fonds
  • 1951-2010

Fonds consists of records created and maintained by Johann (John) B. Ludwig, primarily within his capacity as president of Frisia Properties Ltd. and Frisia Realty Ltd., as well a small number of personal and family records, covering the dates of 1951-2010. The fonds has been arranged into 2 series: 1. Frisia Properties Realty Series. 2. John Ludwig Personal Records series.

Ludwig, John

Christina Olsen fonds

  • PAA PR3678
  • Fonds
  • 1953-[2009?]

Fonds consists of records relating to the life and work of Christina Sharon Olsen. The records include a news article from the Calgary Herald published in 2009 detailing Christina’s childhood and experience as a preoperative trans woman living and working in Alberta and overseas; report cards and photographs from Christina’s schooling in Claresholm, Alberta between 1953 and 1965; photographs documenting Christina’s work as a drilling engineer in Africa and Alberta between 1977 and 2000; and photographs of Christina’s cats and visiting wildlife to her acreage west of Calgary taken in the years after her gender reassignment surgery in 2004.

Olsen, Christina Sharon

Clara Southwell fonds

  • PAA paa-9453
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1970 (originally created 1910)

The fonds consists of typed transcription of Clara Southwell's diary. The transcription describes Clara's trip by train from Field, British Columbia to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1910.

Southwell, Clara

Clarence Wilbert Austin Drader fonds

  • PAA paa-7695
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1931

The fonds includes 6 photographs originally dating 1910 to 1931, and includes images of the students at Beacon School, Glendon School, and East Edmonton School, the home of Beacon corner residents, the Elinks, E.E. Birnel's Threshing outfit in Vegreville, Alberta, and a tractor.

Drader, Clarence Wilbert Austin

Clayton Willson fonds

  • PAA paa-9231
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900] - 1929

The fonds documents Clayton Willson's career with CPR and consists of images of a CPR train and CPR boats at Arrow Lake, BC (1900), Clayton Willson on a CPR steamer (1908); Clayton Willson and other men in a CPR engine yard in Canmore, Alberta (1912); Clayton Willson inside the cab of the North Passenger Train #2532 behind the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) building in Calgary (1912), Alberta; Clayton Wilson in the cab of the North Passenger Train #2532 in front of the Palliser Hotel in Calgary (1929), and a map illustrating the stops and side trails along the track from Calgary to Field, BC [1910].

Willson, Clayton

Côté family fonds

  • PAA paa-9725
  • Fonds
  • [1920-1988]

The fonds is composed of various papers, genealogical material and photographs concerning the Côté family and its activities in Alberta.

Côté family

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