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South Peace Regional Archives Photograph collection

  • CA GPR 0502
  • Collection
  • [1880]-2003

The collection consists of photographs relating to the history of the South Peace River Country of Alberta. These photographs were donated by various donors to South Peace Regional Archives after it was established in 2000, and are not associated with a fonds. Photographs range in date from ca. 1880-2003 and cover a range of subjects.

South Peace Regional Archives, collector

Wally and Doris Tansem fonds

  • CA GPR 0012
  • Fonds
  • 1907-2000

The fonds consists of four photographs of the South Slope School and students taken during Doris Tansem’s time teaching in 1945-46; weekly issues of the Wanhamite, a community newspaper written by Wally Tansem and Lawrence Laughy; printed material authored by Wally Tansem; 20 aerial photographs of the Lassiter area north of Wanham; some news clippings; and Wally’s research files for his self-published book “Foulest of Murders”.

Tansem, Wally

W. D. Albright fonds

  • CA GPR 0362
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1945

The fonds consists of lecture notes, addresses, radio addresses, articles, research materials, and slides and index cards created or gathered by W. D. Albright. The material dates from 1890 to 1945 and relates to Albright’s work as a speaker and author, connected with his role as Beaverlodge Experimental Substation Superintendent.

The fonds is organized in two series: Lecture Notes and Lantern Slides. The division is primarily due to the difference in media, since the two series are intellectually closely related to one another and deal with many of the same topics

Albright, William Donald

Stanley William Bird fonds

  • CA GPR 0594
  • Fonds
  • 1918

The fonds consists of a photograph of Stanley William Bird, and two letters which he wrote to his sister and father in 1918. The letters describe what was happening in the local area, and what he was doing. He mentions the 1918 murders, attending Sports day, and going hunting.

Bird, Stanley William

Oliver H. Johnson fonds

  • CA GPR 0548
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1909

The fonds consists of the 1908-1909 homestead diary of Oliver H. Johnson. It provides a daily record of his activities as he broke land, built a house, barn, and other structures, interacted with his neighbours, including the Stones, Sinclairs, Fergusons, Bredins, Hardins, Smiths, Germaine, Arnold, Allie Brick, Mead & Grant, members of the Beaver First Nation, and others, and travelled back to Edmonton to join his family. The last few pages of the diary list recipes, drugs, groceries, dry goods, hardware, and accounts, some of which may date from his time as a storekeeper.

Johnson, Oliver H.

Frank Earnest Hardy fonds

  • CA GPR 0344
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1959

The fonds consists of 51 photographs, 2 diaries, a journal recording photographic information, a Christmas card from Hermit Lake School, and a copy of 1 letter.

Hardy, Frank

Kathryn & Leo Auger fonds

  • CA GPR 0252
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1984

The fonds consists of 117 photographs, copies of family history records, 2 Social Credit brochures "Keep Alberta in the Lead", a booklet and a newspaper on the history of Catholic Education "The First Fifty Years", one placemat featuring the Edson Trail and one showing the history of St. Joseph's School in pictures, "Facts about the Grande Prairie District in the Famous Peace River Country" booklet (1926)"The Peace River Country" a booklet by the Department of the Interior (1927), invitiation for a float in the Grande Prairie parade (1958), the book "Cold Tracks" signed by the author Clarence Steeves, program for the three plays; The Grand Cham's Diamond, The Blue Willow Plate and The Wizard of Oz (1959), news clippings, program from the Grande Prairie High School Glee Club version of a Star of the Silent Night (1959), commencement program from the Grande Prairie High School (1959), program from the play Arms and the Man from the Grande Prairie High School, memorial program for Roger Repka's funeral (1961) and a $0.61 dollar from the Bank of Trudeaumania (1974).

There is also a taped interview of Leo Auger talking about the Lanctot and Auger families.

Auger, Kathryn

Holroyd Drugs fonds

  • CA GPR 0024
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1990

The fonds consists of Lynn Holroyd’s research notes on pharmacies in the south Peace Country and Marian Holroyd’s collection of historical photographs from families in the County of Grande Prairie and from Paquin Photographs. The accrual consists of historical photographs, 5 Paquin photographs, a 1962 County Fair Prize List booklet, a booklet "Place Names of Alberta", 1928.

Holroyd Drugs

Bezanson Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0155
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1983

The fonds consists of a collection of photographs donated by the Bezanson family when the Bezanson Towsite became an historical site ca. 1986; and a collection found in a Seattle rooming house in the 1970s. There is some duplication in the collection. They include photographs of Bezanson’s first trip into the Peace Country in 1906, their homestead on the Smoky River from 1908-1913, his 1913 trip over the Edson Trail in a 1912 Cadillac with an Edmonton Realtor named Davidson, the creation of the hamlet of Bezanson at the junction of the Smoky and Simonette Rivers, and a collection of Peace Country scenes dating from 1910 to 1930.

Bezanson, Ancel Maynard

Harry Tuffill fonds

  • CA GPR 0056
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]-1944

The fonds consists of photographs, postcards, and a publication from United Grain Growers. Of the 327 photographs, 110 portray surveying in the Peace Country from 1909 to 1911, 5 picture life on the Tuffill homestead, and the remaining 212 are of Mr. Tuffill’s service in WWI and family and photographs from England. There are also 72 postcards from Canada and abroad.

Tuffill, Harry

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