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Stephen Wiedeman fonds
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52 photographs
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Stephen Wiedeman was born in Germany in 1881. After five years in France and England, Stephen immigrated to Canada in 1908, joining the Royal North West Mounted Police in Regina, Saskatchewan that year. Following his training, he was posted to Irvine, Alberta, a settlement with a large number of German-speaking homesteaders. He remained in Irvine from 1908 until 1913, and was promoted to Corporal. He left the force in 1913, and established a real estate and insurance business in Irvine. On June 1, 1916 he married Maria Bechtold in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Stephen and Maria had three children: Hans (1917), Richard (1918) and Gertrude (1920). From 1927 to 1948, Stephen and Maria operated the Golden Rule Store. Stephen was appointed a justice of the peace in the 1930s, and a magistrate from 1945 until 1961. Stephen died in 1964.
Custodial history
Gordon Drever, on behalf of R.C. Wiedeman, Stephen Wiedeman's son, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1983.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of photographs dating 1909 to 1913 depicting Stephen Wiedeman's career with the Royal North West Mounted Police, and includes images from Cypress Hills, Athabasca Landing, Josephsburg, Lethbridge, Irvine and Regina of the officers, horses, Christmas events, and shooting party.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required.
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Other records pertaining to Stephen Wiedeman are located in the Dick Wiedeman fonds at the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
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Information for the biographical sketch is from the records, from <em>A New Beginning: Irvine & District</em>, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.234 Ir8n 1989 PAA and from the Alberta Genealogical Society Cemetery Database. The photographs can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.9257 to A.9266.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1983.0149<br><br>
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- Wiedeman, Stephen (Subject)