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unknown Land, settlement and immigration*
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Confederation and Alberta Provincial Autonomy collection

  • PAA paa-9266
  • Collection
  • Copied 1966

The collection consists of photographs of correspondence, orders-in-council, memorandum, drafts, and resolutions copied from the Library and Archives Canada related to the confederation of Canada and the provincial autonomy of Alberta.

Bassano, Alberta collection

  • PAA paa-9260
  • Collection
  • 1913 -- [ca. 1930]

The collection consists of images of two men and a child in an unidentified location circa 1930; an envelope for the business of R.A. Bird, a photographer in Bassano, Alberta circa 1920; a program for the Annual Banquet of the Timber Construction Staff, Canadian Pacific Irrigation Project, held at the Berkely Hotel in Bassano, Alberta dating from 1913.

Shandro Museum Photograph collection

  • PAA paa-9129
  • Collection
  • 1966

The collection consists of images featuring the Shandro Museum including a framed house and individuals in Ukrainian dress dating from 1966 and taken by an unidentified photographer.

Redwater and District Publication collection

  • PAA paa-9441
  • Collection
  • Copied 1972 (originally created [191-] - [196-])

The collection consists of copies photographs featuring the Redwater district collected and used for the creation of the publication Memories: Redwater and District and includes views dating from the 1910s to the 1960s featuring pioneers of Redwater, the Opal Presbyterian Church and congregation, a ferry across the North Saskatchewan River at Eldora, Opal School picnic, Pinehurst School staff and students, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Radway, loading grain into a seed drill, a wedding, a barn-raising bee, Eastgate School, Opal baseball team, Redwater School staff and students, Eastgate Russian Orthodox Church, trappers, Redwater Hotel, Redwater celebrating Canada's centennial, the first Village Council of Redwater, St. Clare's Church, the official valve opening ceremony at the Interprovincial Pipeline No.1 Station in Redwater, Radway hospital, councilors of the Municipal District of Smoky Lake, a sawmill, Maybridge School, agricultural activity, and musical performance.

Manitoba Museum collection

  • PAA paa-8974
  • Collection
  • 1907 -- [ca. 1927]

The collection consists of postcards featuring views of Alberta locations including Wainwright, Fort McMurray, and Edmonton circa 1907 to 1927.

Medicine Hat District Surveyor's Plans collection

  • PAA paa-9533
  • Collection
  • [between 1911 -- 1912]

The collection consists of surveyor's plans created between 1911 and 1912 by Dominion Government surveyors for the Medicine Hat district including plans for the subdivisions of Rosemount Medicine Hat, Suffield, Fairview, Arlington, Burrell, Kenilworth, north Redcliff, Broadway Extension, and Parkview.

10509 -- 100th Avenue collection

  • PAA paa-9259
  • Collection
  • 1965

The collection consists of four photographs of a building located at 10509- 100th Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta taken by an unknown photographer.

Room A137 collection

  • PAA paa-9446
  • Collection
  • 1906 - 1966

The collection consists of material found in Room A137 of the Provincial Museum and Archives Building in 1969. No information is known regarding the provenance of the materials. The collection includes: an Edmonton and District Labour Council Annuals published by the Edmonton Trades and Labour Council and the Calgary Labour Council dating from 1951 -- 1961; a booklet entitled "Boy Blue's Verses" by Frederick Balmer Watt )1918); the first annual report of the North Alberta Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Canada and Newfoundland (1938); regulations providing for the election of representatives of the Armed Forces (1944); a conference paper presented by Ernest Manning (1945); a booklet entitled "The Magpie Menace" by Kerry Wood; Alberta Public Service pamphlets (1955); informational pamphlets on Alberta's Jubilee Auditoriums of Calgary and Edmonton (1955); a program of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of Alberta (1859); Peace River and District Telephone Directory (1963); copy of the "Tattler" published by the Minus One Club of Edmonon (1955); pamphlets and postcards related to the history of Edmonton circa 1950s; a photo album entitled "The Canadian Pacific Rockies" 25 photogravures published by Byron Harmon circa 1900; copies of the Raymond Review Aug 3, 1966 and Aug 10, 1966; Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Explorer first centennial edition, Peace River Country (1967); a copy of the Alberta Red Cross News Pictorial Campaign No. 3 (1925); a copy of the Edmonton Journal "Annual Review and Forecast (1967); an illustrated booklet celebrating Alberta's Golden Jubilee; Edmonton Transit System passes dating from the 1960s; and 6 blueprints indicating the construction of streets in Carstairs and Wetaskiwin, Alberta (1906).