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Lucas family fonds

  • PAA paa-74
  • Fonds
  • [187-]-1960

Fonds consists of photocopies of histories compiled by Daisy Lucas pertaining to the Lucas family, the Nelson family and other homesteading families in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, as well as photographs depicting early scenes around Edmonton and a manuscript about Fort Ethier and the Indian Industrial Farm from 1879 to 1902.

Lucas Family

Harold McIntosh Kidd fonds

  • PAA paa-8258
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1937, predominantly 1918

The fonds consists of a postcard of Nakoda people with a tipi and views of the mountains near Banff, Alberta, and photographs from Nordegg, Alberta of trains, the train station, buildings, stores, street scenes, a dogsled, religious services, Indigenous peoples and ceremonies, Harold Kidd and Harold’s brother, Stuart Kidd.

Kidd, Harold McIntosh

Alberta Genealogical Society, Calgary Branch fonds

  • PAA paa-6712
  • Fonds
  • 1976-1979

The fonds consists of materials created by the Calgary Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society between 1976 and 1979. The fonds consists of cemetery listings for the Airdrie Cemetery, the Wesley Band Cemetery at Morley, the Pine Creek Cemetery, the Cochrane Cemetery, the Haneyville Cemetery, and the Stoney Nakoda First Nation Reserve Cemetery.

Alberta Genealogical Society, Calgary Branch

Beth Tachit collection

  • PAA paa-7040
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1930]-1978

The fonds consists of photographs and copied photographs dating from 1917 to 1978 which were collected and used in Our Bend in the Peace: The Story of Royce and Lubeck, and End of Steel: Hines Creek, a pictorial history, along with a newspaper clipping about Louie Garskie, and photocopied records about the 1928 surrender of the Beaver First Nation Reserve.

Tachit, Beth

Henry Stelfox fonds

  • PAA paa-6861
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1972

Fonds consists of a memoir entitled Rambling Thoughts of a Wandering Fellow, 1903-1968, and a book of poems entitled When the Sawflies Mate in Summer and other Alberta poems, both written by Henry Stelfox. Fonds also includes photographs depicting Stelfox family members, farming, the lumber industry, and various Indigenous peoples and scenes.

Stelfox, Henry

Ron Whitby fonds

  • PAA paa-7339
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1981

The fonds includes seven images of Bashaw Alberta originally dating 1912 to 1920, including the Bashaw Skeet and Hunting Club, the Whitby General Store (interior and exterior views), Alfred James Whitby and Franklin Ormande Whitby, and an Indigenous encampment.

Whitby, Ron

William Henry and Edwin Henry Turton fonds

  • PAA paa-7330
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1971

The fonds includes newspaper clippings, a Cree election pamphlet (1911), Alberta: A Land for Living magazines, Gyro Club of Edmonton roster book, a copy of Jerry Potts, plainsman (by Hugh Dempsay), a copy of The Prairie Garden (magazine), certificates belonging to Harry and Edwin Henry Turton, a marriage certificate for Kenneth Campbell MacLeod and Winifred Viola Macdonald (1920), booklets about Freemasonry, Jacques De Molay (order of De Molay) and the Grand Lodge of Alberta, a souvenir program of 1939 Royal Visit, a booklet of Alberta Historic Sites, Clarence Tillenius wildlife and prairie prints, and photographs and photographic postcards mostly dating circa (ca.) 1909 to 1915 and 1952, including Grouard, Sawridge, Sturgeon Lake, Peace River, Dunvegan, Athabasca Landing and the areas around Lesser Slave Lake, and include Cree Nation Chiefs Moostoosh and Kinisāoo, the Peace River landing, the first car in Grouard, Sturgeon Lake Mission, churches, local people, mail delivery, homesteads, main streets, horses and carts, stores, buildings, bridges, snowploughs, dogsleds, Indigenous peoples, as well as photographs and photographic postcards of Fort Edmonton, views of Edmonton, the 1915 Edmonton flood, 19th Alberta Dragoons, First World War Honour rolls, soldiers, mountain scenes around Banff, portraits of John Stocks, L.C. Charlesworth, H.P. Keith, J.D. Robertson, G.H.N. Monkman, Peter Tomkins, Kenneth MacLeod, Winifred Macdonald, and postcards from Bath, Folkestone and Taunton, England.

Turton, William Henry (Harry)

Alberta Genealogical Society fonds

  • PAA paa-6711
  • Fonds
  • 1885, 1959-2000, predominant 1973-2007.

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by the Alberta Genealogical Society and dating from 1885-2000. The fonds consists of seven series: Administrative and Operational Records (1973-2007); President’s Records (1975-2001); Publications (1973-1995); Occasional Papers and Seminars (1983-1994); Cemeteries Listings (1974-2004); Library Records (1979-2006); Scrapbooks and Clippings (1885-1990).

Alberta Genealogical Society

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

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