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Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

  • CA GPR 0001
  • Fonds
  • 1875-2007

The fonds consists of the records of the Board of Directors; Administrative planning documents, financial and personnel records, information on the physical plant, and subject and correspondence files; photographs and information on Collections’ artifacts, buildings, and displays; photographs and files of Programming and special events. Completing the collection are brochures and books published by the society, associated organizations; and photographs, scrapbooks and guest books from the Grande Prairie Museum.

Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District

Spirit of the Peace fonds

  • CA GPR 0007
  • Fonds
  • 1899-2002

The fonds consists of copies of Spirit of the Peace newsletters; written descriptions, photographs and pamphlets collected on three tours of the Peace Country sponsored by Spirit of the Peace in 1990-1991; oral history tapes made for the Treaty 8 display and kit in 1999; and publications promoting the museums and activities of the group.

Spirit of the Peace

DeBolt & District Pioneer Museum fonds

  • CA GPR 0116
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1905]-2006

The fonds consists of research files, published copies, and correspondence regarding the planning and writing of five publications: "Across the Smoky," "Edson to Grande Prairie Trail," "DeBolt Country Club & Agricultural Society 60th Anniversary Book," "Sawmills Across the Smoky," and "Bridges to the Past." The fonds also includes records gathered by the Museum Society, for use in their publications and for other purposes, including original letters and documents, paper artefacts, maps, and photographs and negatives.

DeBolt & District Pioneer Museum

Grande Prairie Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce fonds

  • CA GPR 0050
  • Fonds
  • 1905-2000

The fonds consists of executive and administrative records; subject files from both the Board of Trade and the later Chamber of Commerce; briefs, submissions and forums presented to various groups and government departments; project files from the time Grande Prairie achieved cityhood until the 90s; publications about the area produced or collected by the Board of Trade/Chamber of Commerce; reference files with news clippings and guest books that detail the history of the Board from 1914 on; information about associated organizations; and photograph and slide collections. The photograph collection mainly details progress in the Grande Prairie area from 1905 to 1980, and the activities of the Chamber after 1975. There is one reel to reel film, “Alberta on the North Side,” which was presented to the people of Northern Alberta on the occasion of the provincial cabinet meeting in Grande Prairie, October 17, 1972.

Grande Prairie Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce

Alberta Association of Registered Nurses, Grande Prairie Chapter 16 fonds

  • CA GPR 0034
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1998

The fonds consists of the by-laws, minutes, reports, membership lists, news clippings and newsletters from Chapter 16; articles on the history of the AARN in Alberta; publications from the AARN including Nursing Legislation, the 1989 Rainbow Report which detailed the provincial government’s vision for health care in the province, and a group of photographs illustrating the medical and nursing history of Grande Prairie.

Alberta Association of Registered Nurses. Grande Prairie Chapter 16

D. W. Patterson family fonds

  • CA GPR 0152
  • Fonds
  • 1914 - 2002

The fonds consist of D.W. Patterson’s memoirs,1956, (original and a copy) and a short story, Rose Patterson’s memoirs, Dorothy Hall’s personal record, the document admitting D.W. Patterson to the Law Society of Alberta, 1914, a program for the visit of the Earl of Bessborough in 1933, newsclippings concerning the death of Judge Sissons and appointment of Donald as Assistant Chief Judge, 4 portraits, a Women's Institute album of photographs, and several scanned copies of family photos, and miscellaneous papers and letters.

Patterson, D.W.

John A. (Jack) Crerar Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0663
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1940

The fonds consists of four photographs and two documents. The photographs are of Jack Crerar in 1924 and Doug Crerar ca. 1940, Bear Creek Bridge ca. 1915, and a Winter Carnival ca. 1924. The documents are a program for the “First Annual Banquet of Grande Prairie Conservative Association at the Empire Hotel Monday, January 17, 1916”; and a program for the “Third Annual Peace River Musical Festival on May 25 and 26, 1927 at Grande Prairie Alberta.” There is also a legal sheet of paper containing a short history of the Alexander and Sarah Crerar family produced ca. 2000.

John A. (Jack) Crerar Family

Louise Arnold Findlay fonds

  • CA GPR 0665
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1934

The series consists of photographs taken by Louise Arnold while she was living in the Clairmont area. The photographs consist of pictures of gatherings along the Wapiti, trip to the Beaverlodge Experimental farm, the gatherings at the Bredin family home and Currie school and students.

Findlay, Louise

Buffalo Lakes Community Society fonds

  • CA GPR 0536
  • Fonds
  • 1917, 1946-1999

The fonds consists of records relating to the management of the Buffalo Lakes Community Society from 1946-1999. The fonds is divided into seven series based on type and content: Minutes, Financial Records, Annual Returns, Legal Papers, Insurance Records, Correspondence, and Photographs.
Most of the records were not arranged upon arrival and an order by date and record type has been established by the archivist.

Buffalo Lakes Community Society

Birch Hills Historical Society fonds

  • CA GPR 0018
  • Fonds
  • 1918 -1992

The fonds consist of a collection of historical photographs, maps personal papers, and business receipts which were gathered for the publication. Many of the illustrations in Grooming the Grizzly were returned to their owners, and are therefore not in this collection; on the other hand historical documents which were never incorporated into the publication, are part of this collection.

Birch Hills Historical Society

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