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Alberta Kodály Association fonds.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2462
  • Fonds
  • 1983-1995.

Fonds consists of official records of the Association, including agenda and minutes, reports of officers and committees, membership lists, conference and workshop reports and financial statements.

Alberta Kodály Association

Eugène Strens fonds

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2559
  • Fonds
  • [19--]-1986

Fonds consists of miscellaneous archival material including: newspaper clippings of puzzles and other items relating to recreational mathematics, mainly in Dutch (Acc 2080); Martin Gardner's Mathematical games column from Scientific American, December 1956-September 1974 (Acc 2120); various supplementary catalogues and mailings from Mathematisch Centrum, 1949-1964 (Acc 2123); a partial descriptive catalogue of the Eugene Strens Recreational Mathematics book collection on 4x6 cards and miscellaneous items removed from the books and journals in the collection (Acc 2188-2189); and an album of photographs and text from the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Intuitive and Recreational Mathematics and Its History, July 27 - August 2, 1986, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta (Acc 2774).

Strens, Eugène, 1899-1980.

George F.G. Stanley fonds.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2536
  • Fonds
  • [19--], 1908-2007.

Fonds consists of correspondence; research notebooks, manuscripts of articles, addresses, book reviews, forewords, lectures, mini-speeches and speeches and Ph.D. dissertation; published works; degrees, awards and honours; scrapbooks including digitized copies on a cd; works about G.F.G. Stanley and his family including eulogies delivered at his funeral; 6 bankers boxes of periodicals; and miscellaneous material.

Stanley, George F.G., 1907-2002.

Gertrude Laing collection of documentation relating to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2361
  • Collection
  • 1963-2006.

Collection consists of minutes of the first to eighty-third meetings of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963 September 4 - 1971 February 27); Research Bulletin, a compilation of research projects and contracts to be carried out to provide background information for the Royal Commission; A preliminary report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; Press reaction to the preliminary report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; and several miscellaneous reports and a letter relating to the Commission. Items distributed to Commissioners, among them Commissioner Gertrude Laing, Calgary, Alberta. MsC 333 consists of 3 recorded interviews of G. Laing by Dr. Marion McKenna, November 1, 1978, April 8, 1997 and April 23, 1997; transcript of April 8, 1997 interview; photocopy of a photograph of G. Laing; and Tribute column by Nancy Millar published in the Calgary Herald, January 12, 2006. Filed with MsC 226 (Box 2).

Laing, Gertrude, 1905-

Helen M. Buss fonds.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2539
  • Fonds
  • [19--], 1961-2003.

Fonds consists of correspondence; daytimers, diaries and journals; manuscripts of fiction - novels, poetry, radio play, short stories, stage plays; and non-fiction - thesis and dissertation, prose monographs, autobiography, articles, book reviews and academic papers; published works; material relating to H.M. Buss and miscellaneous. Fonds also includes 0.125 metres of manuscript material by H.J. Clarke (H.M. Buss's father) and his brother Leonard Clarke.

Buss, Helen M., 1941-

Kodály Society of Canada fonds.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2479
  • Fonds
  • 1972-2006.

Fonds consists of official records of the society including minutes, membership lists, financial statements, reports of officers and committees, conference and workshop reports and issues of Notes and Alla Breve. Includes several theses on the Kodály method, sound recordings of addresses at the 1984 and 1994 conferences and the Kodály Institute of Canada seal.

Kodály Society of Canada.

Leonora Mary Pauls fonds.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2548
  • Fonds
  • 1978-1991.

Fonds consists of material relating to Leonora Paul's thesis The English language folk and traditional songs of Alberta : collection and analysis for teaching purposes (M. Music, University of Calgary, 1981). Includes correspondence, song lyrics, research material, photographs, and sound recordings of interviews with 'informants'.

Pauls, Leonora Mary, 1934-

Senator Donald Cameron collection of submissions to the Royal Commission on Education and related documentation.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2404
  • Collection
  • 1949-1967.

Collection consists of submissions to the Commission and summary of briefs; verbatim transcripts of hearings; research material; correspondence; and newsclippings. Also includes material relating to a 1965 research project carried out by Donald L. Mills, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Robert F. Lawson, Department of Educational Foundations, both faculty members at University of Alberta, Calgary Branch. The study was in conjunction with the Educational Committee of the Alberta Canadian Conference on Children. The faculty members used the Cameron Commission material as research material.

Alberta. Royal Commission on Education.

William D. Gentleman fonds.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2363
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1922.

Fonds consists of eleven notebooks containing class notes taken at West of Scotland Agricultural College, Glasgow, Scotland, in subjects including Intermediate and Advanced Agriculture, Practical Botany, Bacteriology, Dairy Farming and Cheese Making; and several pamphlets on agricultural topics, 1910-1922.

Gentleman, William D., d. 1950.