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Thelma Cameron collection
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0.01 m of textual records
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Biographical history
Thelma Frances Cameron was the wife of Stewart (Stew) Henry Cameron, a well-known Calgary, Alberta cartoonist; Stew was the son of Calgary lawyer J. McKinley Cameron. Thelma worked as a "lease hound," acquiring oil and gas leases in Alberta and Saskatchewan for a number of leading oil companies. Stew died December 11, 1970. Thelma Cameron died June 16, 1991 in Calgary at the age of seventy-eight.
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Collection consists of stock certificates for various oil companies in Alberta, a retraction of charges by Katty Dewar against Rory McDonald, an informational advertisement for a booklet called Unmarried Mothers and Illegitimate Children written by Georgina Sackville, and two issues of The Yellowknife Blade newspaper.
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Mrs. Thelma Cameron deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1977.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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No inventory/file list available.
Associated materials
Associated material: See also the Stewart Cameron fonds at the Glenbow Archives in Calgary, Alberta. Related records: Other records pertaining to Georgina Sackville can be found in the Georgina Sackville fonds.
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Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Information for the biographical sketch was taken from accession PR1978.0063, from <em>Henderson's Calgary City Directory</em> and from Thelma Cameron's Calgary Herald obituary. Thelma Cameron also deposited the records for the Peter McGregor fonds (PR 1883) and the Stew Cameron fonds (PR1884).<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1977.0177<br><br>
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- Cameron, Thelma (Subject)