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Millet Tourism Fonds

  • MIL A70
  • Fonds
  • 1994-2016

The fonds consists of the business administrative records of the Millet Tourism Committee as well as records documenting their participation with the Edmonton Regional Tourism Group, Alberta Visitor Information Providers and the Battle River Alliance for Economic Development.

Millet Tourism and the Millet and District Historical Society

Spirit River Settlement Historical Society fonds

  • CA GPR 0486
  • Fonds
  • 1973-1989

The fonds consists of records of the Spirit River Settlement Historical Society including executive records and records of their History Book Committee which consist of planning documents, financial records, minutes and correspondence, and original and/or edited copies of submissions to the Spirit River history book Chepi Sepe. The first sections of the Book Committee records include a history of the general region and the Spirit River Settlement area, the coming of settlers and the growth of agriculture, businesses, industries, municipal governments, the history of veterans of WWI and WWII, schools, churches, medical facilities, and cultural and recreational groups. The second main body of the records contains original and/or edited copies of over 630 family histories arranged in alphabetical order by surname.

Spirit River Settlement Historical Society

Lawrence Cuming fonds

  • GLEN glen-3885
  • Fonds
  • 1968

The fonds consists of Lawrence Cuming's memoirs (written in 1968) of his arrival in Canada and early experiences in the country. Includes descriptions of cutting ice on the Bow River in Calgary, and rescuing a horse which had gone through the ice.

Cuming, Lawrence

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

Tom Starkey

Tom Starkey and Art Boe at an outdoor barber shop, possibly taken while Tom was cooking for a crew of surveyors.

Used in "Across the Smoky", p. 128.

Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-958
  • Fonds
  • 1924-2011

Fonds consists of organizational records including photographs, brochures, correspondence and other documents which are divided into five series [see General Notes]. Content pertains to the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, including the organization's history, members and staff, trail rides and other events, publications and advertising, finances, and administration.

Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies

Peter Erasmus fonds

  • GLEN glen-907
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1920s]

The fonds consists of Peter's reminiscences as told to Henry T. Thompson.

Erasmus, Peter

Survey Map collection

  • PEACE F024
  • Collection
  • 1918 - 1919

The collection contains 29 survey maps between Township 81-87 and Range 18-26, West of the 5th Meridian.

Charles McLaughlin series

This series contains a photograph album taken by Charles E. McLaughlin of Edmonton on a trip from Wolf Creek on the McLeod River through to the Peace River country in 1912.

McLaughlin, Charles E.

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