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Sheraton, Leslie
Person · 1906-1978

Leslie Frederick Sheraton was born November 16, 1906 in Hull, England. He immigrated to Canada with his family circa 1910 and eventually settled in the area of Calgary, Alberta. Sheraton served with the Royal Canadian Navy from July 1942 to November 1945 and married Eileen Margaret Wood of Edmonton, Alberta on April 15, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia. They moved to Vancouver shortly after and had one son, Donald Frederick Sheraton on August 29, 1946.

Leslie's professional life was in sales and he was co-owner of a photographic supply shop in Vancouver. He was an avid and accomplished photographer and photographed sites in Alberta, British Columbia, California, Nevada, and Hawaii on regular travels with his family. Sheraton was also an experienced carpenter and boating enthusiast.

Leslie died July 6, 1978 and Eileen just 3 months later. Their son Don died September 20, 2003.

Shewchuk, Muriel
Person · 1940-2017

Muriel Gwendolyn (Olderskog) Shewchuk, of Hythe, Alberta, completed her nursing training at the University of Alberta Hospital School of Nursing in 1962. From early in her training, she became interested in operating room practice and was assigned to the Surgical Suite at the University Hospital after her graduation. In the term of eight months, she was promoted from Staff Nurse to Charge Nurse, serving in the Opthamology, Plastic Surgery, Urology and Neurosurgery theatres successively. She continued her education, receiving a Diploma in Teaching and Supervision in 1965 and her BScN in 1968, both from the University of Alberta. Several short courses in teaching, surgical procedures, and management followed. She became a nursing instructor for the University of Alberta and the Faculty of Nursing and was awarded five times for excellence in nursing practice and twice for community service. In 1985, she assisted in coordinating the move of the 14 Operating Room theatres from the old hospital building to the Surgical Suite in the new Walter C. MacKenzie Centre at the University of Alberta. In 1986, Shewchuk moved to Calgary to be Director of Nursing in the Operating Suite of the Foothills Hospital, and in 1991, she became Manager of Cardiac Surgery Program Management. Muriel Shewchuk has been, throughout her career, an active member of the AARN, the Alberta Hospital Association, the Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada and the Operating Room Nurses of Alberta.

Shields, Jack
Person · 1929-2004

John (Wendele "Jack" Shields was born in Grande Prairie, AB, on December 25, 1929. After high school he worked in the oil fields until 1947, when he joined the army serving in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry parachute battalion and fought in the Korean War for two years between 1950-1953.

Following the war, he obtained a Bachelors of Education at the University of Alberta, and, after some post graduate work at the University, gained an assistant superintendent position with the Northland School Division. In the 1960s he became the founding president of the Alberta Vocational Centre, now Keyano College, and helped to establish vocational schools in Lac La Biche, Kikino, and Fort Chipewyan. After leaving the government, he opened a restaurant in Fort McMurray and became a partner in the McMurray Concrete Company. He also served as the president of the local chamber of commerce, and a founding member and president of the Kinsmen Club. He entered local politics as a member of the school board in Fort McMurray between 1974-1977, and the Chairman between 1977-1979.

In 1980 he ran and was elected as Member of Parliament for Athabasca, running as a Progressive Conservative. During his time in government, he served on numerous committees, as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs (1984-1986), Assistant Critic for Energy, Mines, and Resources (1983-1984), and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy, Mines, and Resources (1986-1989), Minister for International Trade (1989-1991), Minister of Employment and Immigration (1991-1993), and the Minister of Labour (1993), before he was defeated in the 1993 election. During his time in office he was a prominent supporter of Oil Sands Development and Aboriginal Rights.

He married Pat, and together they had five children: Elaine, Lisa, Clarence, Jim and and John. Jack Shields died in 2004.

Shnitka, Abraham
Person · 1895-1972

Born in Latvia, Abraham Shnitka moved to Canada in 1912 and founded Franklin Press. He was the Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta from 1935 until 1957. He knew William Aberhart, the Premier of Alberta quite well and they would often play chess together.

He married Pearl Friefeld (1896-1976) in 1921, and together they had a son, Theodore (1927-2011). Abraham died in Edmonton in 1972.

Corporate body

The Sholom Aleichem Free Loan Association was formed in Edmonton, Alberta by members of the Edmonton Jewish Community. The association operated during the 1930s and 1940s. Membership in early 1931 included H. Hiller, H. Satanove, A. Nelson, S.A. Katzenelson, A. Griesdorf, M. Bornstein, M. and Messrs. Shabin, Wyman, and Henkleman.

Corporate body · 1963-1973

The Short Grass Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated on April 18, 1963 and served an area around Medicine Hat, Alberta. The final meeting of the company was held in February 1973.

Shortreed family
Family

William John Shortreed (1887-1962) graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1907. In 1911, he moved to Alberta and studied law at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He married Madge Karran (1892-1950) the next year.

When the First World War broke out, he enlisted with the 260th Canadian Rifles for the duration of the conflict. At the end of hostilities in 1918, Shortreed joined the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force in Siberia until 1919. He then returned to Alberta and was admitted to the bar.

The Shortreed family relocated to Hardisty, Alberta where William practiced law until the outbreak of the Second World War. Despite his age, Shortreed once again joined the Canadian Army and served as a training commander in Alberta until 1942. At that point, the Shortreed family moved to Edmonton where William continued to practice law.

In 1948, William was made Crown Prosecutor in the Supreme Court of Alberta after serving one year as Crown Prosecutor in the city police court. In 1949, he was appointed King's Counsel. At the time of his death in 1962, he was a senior partner in the law firm of Shortreed, Shortreed, Stainton, and Enright.

Margaret Shortreed (1883-1973) was the sister of William Shortreed. She served as the personal secretary to Lady Eaton in Paris, France from the 1920s until 1950. In 1950, Margaret returned to Canada and settled in Edmonton with her brother after William's wife, Madge, died in 1950. Upon William's death in 1962, Margaret relocated to Toronto and lived there until her death in 1973.

John Winfred Karran Shortreed (1914-1981) was the son of William and Madge Shortreed. He followed in his father's footsteps by earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1936. While there he met Mary Cullen Brooks (1914-1992), who was studying home economics. John and Mary married in 1940, just after John joined the Canadian Army. They had three children: John, Ross, and Mary (Okada).

During the Second World War, John served with the Royal Regiment of Canada and rose to the rank of colonel over the course of the conflict. Upon his return to Edmonton he attended the University of Alberta and won the gold medal in law in 1948. He then practiced law with his father and became a Crown prosecutor, being named Queen's counsel in 1962. With the death of William Shortreed, the family law firm underwent a partnership change and amalgamated with Joe Shoctor's firm in 1971.

John Shortreed died in Edmonton in 1981.

Shortt, James
Person · 1914-2002

Born in 1914, Rev. James Shortt was a minister at the Bissell Memorial Church in Andrew, Alberta, and lived in Lamont, Alberta.

He married Doris Hendricks (1914-2011) in Pincher Creek, Alberta in 1938, and together they had three children: Wayne, Lyle, and Lynell (Czekaj),

He died in Lamont in 2002.

Shtabsky, Rose
Person · 1903-1989

Rose Olyan was born circa (ca.) 1903 in Minsk, Russia. She immigrated to Chipman, Alberta and moved to Vegreville, Alberta in 1926. She married Joe Shtabsky, who was born in 1901 in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to Alberta in 1924 with his brother, Sam.

Joe and Rose Shtabsky lived in Vegreville for a time and then moved to Edmonton, Alberta where Joe Shtabsky worked as secretary for Edmonton Talmud Torah School, Chevra Kadisha, and Beth Israel Synagogue.

Rose Shtabsky died on December 23, 1989, predeceased by her husband Joe who died on January 29, 1975.

Shugarman, Jack
Person · 1906-1994

Born in Russia in 1906, Jack Shugarman emigrated to Canada in 1915. He lived in Edmonton, Alberta in 1976 and owned Jack's Pipe Shop. He served overseas during World War II. He also managed Mike's News, a popular newspaper stand in downtown Edmonton.

He married Lucy Dlin (1908-1989) in Edmonton in 1930, and together they had three children: Mavis (Chetner) (1931-1994), Judi (Salem) (1938-1990), and Sid. He died in Edmonton in 1994.

Shutt, Harold
Person

Harold Shutt lived in Edmonton, Alberta.

Sibbald United Church
Corporate body · [19--]-1986

Sibbald United Church was one of three congregations under the Oyen Pastoral Charge (the other two congregations being Cereal and Oyen United Churches). In 1978, Sibbald United Church moved to temporarily close down its church and move their worship to Oyen. On November 26, 1986, Sibbald United Church voted to close down entirely and amalgamated with Oyen United Church. The resolution for this move was made December 8, 1986. It is unclear as to when the Sibbald United Church congregation was established.

Sierra Club. Prairie Chapter
Corporate body · 1995-

The Sierra Club was founded in 1892 in San Francisco, California as an alpine club for people interested in mountain climbing, hiking, and the exploration of wilderness areas. The club soon expanded its efforts and became devoted to the preservation of natural areas against mining, deforestation, logging, grazing and other threats to wilderness as well as education on the benefits of environmental conservation.

Over the first half of the 20th century, the Sierra Club grew to include chapters in every U.S. state and in 1969, the first Canadian chapter was founded in British Columbia. Sierra Club Canada expanded with further chapters in Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada.

The Prairie Chapter was founded in Edmonton, Alberta in 1995 and opened its office there in 1998. The Prairie Chapter works in conjunction with Sierra Club Canada as well as the other chapters and cooperates with the Sierra Club U.S. on transboundary environmental issues. The chapter has developed many campaigns and projects focusing on environmental issues affecting Alberta including vehicle idling, urban sprawl, the preservation of the Castle Crown Wilderness, reduction of car dependency, and the environmental destruction caused by the oil industry.

In addition to the office in Edmonton, the Prairie Chapter has consisted of three sub-groups: the Chinook Group in Calgary, the Saskatoon/Parklands Group and the Agassiz Group in Winnipeg. Of these, the Edmonton office and Chinook Group are currently active.

Corporate body

Named after the Honourable Clifford Sifton, Sifton School District No. 727 was established at Southeast of Section 26, Township 46, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (SE 26-46-20-W4) in 1902. Miss Olive Wilson of St. Mary's Ontario served as the first teacher. The school closed in June of 1952.

Sifton, Arthur
Person · 1858-1921

Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton was born on October 26, 1858, near St. Johns, Middlesex County, Canada West (Ontario). His father, John Wright Sifton, was a Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and president of the Manitoba Free Press Publishing Company. His mother was Kate Watkins, and his younger brother, Sir Clifford, was prominent in Manitoba and federal politics. Sifton was a Wesleyan Methodist.

Sifton was educated at various public schools in Ontario: Wesley College, Winnipeg, Manitoba; and, Victoria University, Cobourg, Ontario (later located in Toronto). In 1880, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Victoria University, then a Master of Arts degree by the same school in 1888, and finally a Bachelor of Laws degree by the University of Toronto later that same year.

In 1882, Sifton married Mary H. Deering (1859-1939) of Cobourg, Ontario. Together, they had three children: Nellie Louise (Kenny) (1883-1972) , Clark Dennis (1885-?), and Lewis Raymond St. Clair (1898-1952).

In May of 1880, Sifton began studying law in Winnipeg, and was admitted to the Manitoba Bar in 1883. In the early 1880s, he practiced law with his brother Clifford in Brandon, Manitoba. He then practiced in Prince Albert, North-West Territories, from 1885 to 1888, and after 1889, in Calgary, North-West Territories (later known as Alberta).

In 1882, Sifton was elected to the first City Council of Brandon. In 1889, after moving to Calgary, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories as the Member for the electoral district of Banff. From 1901 to 1903, he served as the Territorial Commissioner of Public Works.

In 1903, Sifton was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. After the Province of Alberta was established in 1905, he was appointed as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alberta in 1907. He resigned as Chief Justice and was appointed Premier of Alberta on May 26, 1910, by Lieutenant Governor George H. V. Bulyea. Sifton was elected the Member for Vermilion in a by-election held on June 29, 1910, and his Liberal government was re-elected in the general elections of 1913 and 1917.

Alongside his duties as Premier, Sifton also served the Province of Alberta as Provincial Treasurer (1910-1912, 1913), Minister of Public Works (1910-1912), and Minister of Railways and Telephones (1911-1917). As Premier, Sifton expanded railway service and promoted the transfer of control over natural resources from the federal government to the provincial government. He held office in 1916, when white and black women were given the right to vote in Alberta. Following a plebiscite in 1915, the Sifton Government enacted legislation in 1916 that severely restricted the sale, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

On October 30, 1917, Arthur L. W. Sifton resigned as Premier of Alberta in order to join the federal Union Government of Prime Minister Sir Robert L. Borden. In the general election of December 17, 1917, Sifton was elected Member of Parliament for Medicine Hat, Alberta, and was appointed Minister of Customs that same year. In 1919, he was appointed Minister of Public Works and Secretary of State, and served as a member of the Canadian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. In 1920, he was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Sifton's honours include: King's Counsel (April 23, 1902) and an Honourary Doctor of Civil Laws degree, University of Alberta (1908). In 1911, he represented Alberta at the coronation of King George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-1936).

Arthur L. W. Sifton died on January 21, 1921, in Ottawa, Ontario, and was buried in the Beechwood Cemetery. A boulevard in the city of Calgary and an elementary school in Edmonton were named in his memory.

Sigur, Marguerite
Person · 1923-2023

Marguerite Sigur was born on March 19, 1923, at Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe, Tarn department, Southern France, to Jeanne Mathieu and Laurent Gaudou. She had one older brother, Maurice Gaudou, and sister, Marthe Gaudou, married Pichou. Marguerite married Edouard Sigur on October 24, 1942 (d. 2001) and had two children, Marie-Françoise Roseline Sigur-Cloutier (living in Regina, Saskatchewan) and Francis Sigur (deceased in Montpellier, France).

Marguerite Sigur was a seamstress before the Second World War, then a house wife, then she helped her husband with his truck company, and later she worked briefly in a hospital. For a long time she was in the pastoral choir and organized recreational activities for the seniors in Aucamville (Haute-Garonne). After her retirement, Marguerite et Francis came to settle to Calgary, Alberta, sponsored by their daughter, in October 1981, but Edouard returned to France in 1982. As soon as she arrived in Calgary, she got involved in local theatre and in painting, as well as in various Francophone organizations, including Saint Famille Parish (for about 20 years), the Société franco-canadienne de Calgary (responsible of the Villa Jean-Toupin), and the Club d’amitié, a seniors group.

She received the Ordre des sages de l’Alberta in 2005, the title ‘volunteer of the year’ in 2003, the Prize Roger-Lalonde in 2004 and 2012, and the the Golden Jubilee Medal of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Marguerite Sigur moved to Edmonton in 2012 to live in the Manoir Saint-Thomas and died in 2023.

Sillak, Josephine
Person · 1905-1995

Josephine (Loos) Sillak was born October 5, 1905, and was the daughter of Frank Loos, born 1870, and Edla (Bodie), born 1877.

Frank Loos arrived in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1908 from the United States, and was soon followed by Edla and family. They homesteaded in the Minda district of Alberta (now Manyberries). Years later, Edla, Frank and their five younger children moved to British Columbia, then to Eckville, Alberta, and then briefly to Saskatchewan. Subsequently, they settled in Hines Creek, Alberta, in the Peace River district, where they grew a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, starting an orchard in 1930. Frank Loos died in 1943 at age seventy-three, and Edla in 1969 at age ninety-two.

Josephine married Carl Sillak (1898-1984) in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1923, and they moved to Elkwater Lake, Alberta in the summer of 1929, and then to Wetaskiwin, Alberta in 1962. She died in Wetaskiwin in 1995.

Corporate body

Dates of founding and/or dissolution:
The Silver Birch Child and Family Services Authority was created effective April 1, 1999 by means of Ministerial Order pursuant to the Child and Family Services Authority Act, 1998 c. C-11.

Functional responsibility:
The Authority is responsible for the provision of community based child and family services and programs under the direction and guidance of the Ministry of Children's Services. The Authority- plans and manages the provision of services to children and families,

  • ensures provincial policies and standards are followed by social services providers,
  • monitors and assesses the provision of services, and
  • coordinates services with other Child and Family Services Authorities and public and private organizations.

Predecessor and successor bodies:
The predecessors to the Silver Birch Child and Family Services Authority were various branches and offices of the Ministry of Family and Social Services.

Administrative relationships:
The Silver Birch Child and Family Services Authority is governed by its board, which reported to the Minister of Family and Social Services and the Minister without Portfolio Responsible for Children's Services April 1, 1998-May 27, 1999. Since the creation of the Ministry of Children's Services, the board has reported to the Minister of Children's Services.

Administrative structure:
The Authority consists of its board and board chairman, a Chief Executive Officer, and staff located at offices in High Level, Fort Vermilion, La Crete and Rainbow Lake.

Corporate body · 1951-1970

The Silver Spike Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated under the Companies Act on December 6, 1951. The Silver Spike Mutual Telephone Company served an area near Morrin, Alberta. Like other Mutual Telephone Companies in Alberta, the Silver Spike Mutual Telephone Company would likely have signed an agreement with Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) agreeing that AGT would assume provision of communication services in the area. The Silver Spike Mutual Telephone Company was dissolved October 20, 1970.

Silver, Phillip
Person

Phillip Silver is an award-winning set, lighting and costume designer. Born in 1943 in Alberta, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Alberta in 1964 and subsequently attended the National Theatre School of Canada. His early design work in Edmonton, Alberta was for Theatre for Children and the Edmonton Musical Theatre Company. Phillip spent two seasons with Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, primarily working as a stage manager. He returned to Edmonton in 1966 to work on a production of Faust for the Edmonton Opera Association.

From 1967 until 1978, Phillip was resident designer for the Citadel Theatre, and was a consultant for design of the Shocter and Rice theatres in 1976. Phillip has done designs for a number of other theatre companies across Canada including the Stratford Festival, the Canadian Stage Company, Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, the National Arts Centre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, and Theatre Plus.

He worked across Canada from 1978 until 1986 when he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University where he taught stage design in the Department of Theatre. On July 1, 1998, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. Phillip Silver occasionally returns to the Citadel Theatre to design for their productions, including the 2001 production of Wit where he was the set and lighting designer.

Silverman, Bert
Person

No biographical information available.

Silverman, Eliane
Person

Dr. Eliane Leslau Silverman received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and received her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of her professional employment includes a position as the Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Alberta; Advisor to the President of Women's Issues, University of Calgary; Professor, Faculty of General Studies, University of Calgary; Professor Emeritus of Women's Studies, University of Calgary; and Director of Research, Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Ottawa.

Dr. Silverman received the Woman of the Year Award from Calgary Young Women's Christian Association in 1982. She has published numerous books including The Last Best West: Women on the Alberta Frontier, 1890 - 1929. She has also published articles in Psychohistory Review, Canadian Women Studies, Canadian Oral History Review, and Atlantis. Dr. Silver has served on numerous committees and boards, including positions such as Chair, Adolescent Women's Heath Research Group; Chair, Advisor's Network on Women's Issues; Director, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women; Founding Member, Western Action Research Committee on Violence Against Women; and Founder, Calgary Abortion Information Centre.

Silverman, Margaret Gilmour
Person · 1911-1977

Margaret Gilmour Hulburd was born in 1911, the daughter of Gordon Richard (1882-1944) and Corinne Hulburd (1882-1965). She attended Garneau High School in Edmonton, Alberta.

She married Irving Silverman (1912-1987) in Calgary in 1944, and they lived in Washington, D.C. for a time before returning to Edmonton. Margaret and Irving had one daughter, Viki (van Hogezand).

Margaret died in Edmonton in November 20, 1977.

Corporate body

The Silverwood Community Hall Association, located in Silverwood, Alberta southeast of Spirit River, was formed on March 4, 1939. The charter members of the Association were C.R. Pearson, George Campbell, Felix Playter, George Merowcik and Steve Boychuck.

The objects of the Silverwood Community Hall Association were to provide a centre and meeting place for the recreation of its members and for the various activities of the community. The society encouraged amateur games and exercises, arranged musical and dramatic entertainments, provided lectures on a wide range of subjects and encouraged public speaking among its members. It also fostered and developed recognition of the importance of agriculture in the national life.

Simmons, Barbara
Person · 1897-1980

Barbara Smith was born in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She married Harry Simmons (1892-1964) in Red Deer, Alberta in 1917. Together they had two children: Dorothy (Rourke) (1924-2014) and Eileen (Peterson) (1929-2010).

Harry worked in the coal mines of Mountain Park, Alberta first as a miner and then as a company official. When the mines closed in 1950, the Simmons family moved to Edmonton, Alberta.

Barbara died in Edmonton in 1980.

Simpson, David
Person · 1884-1972

Born in 1884, David Simpson came to Alberta in 1906. He set up a Methodist congregation in Innisfree as well as in three other towns and two country locations. Simpson spent the summer months of 1911 preaching the gospel to the men building the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway through the Yellowhead Pass. He set up a parsonage at Innisfree and travelled between British Columbia and Alberta preaching to the construction gangs. To his knowledge he was the only minister to serve the men in their own camps over such a large area.

In the winter months, he would continue with his theological training at Alberta College in Edmonton, Alberta, becoming ordained as a Methodist minister in 1912. In that same year, Simpson married Ethel James (1882-1962) in Edmonton in 1912, and together they had five children: Kathleen (1915–1985), Elsie (Hilkemann, then Lockwood) (1916–2017), Lillian (Sanders), Doris (RIng) (1918-2017), and Olive Patricia (Gilman) (1920–2010).

Simpson was in charge of pastorates in the west for 15 years. He moved to the United States for his health and served in a number of charges, including those in Lincoln, Nebraska, until his retirement in the summer of 1956. Upon his retirement he moved to California.

He died in Los Angeles, California in 1972.

Simpson, Robert
Person

Robert Simpson lived in Edmonton, Alberta.

Simpson, W.E.
Person · 1894-1988

W.E. (William Edward) Simpson was born in Middlesex, Ontario in 1894 to David Albert Simpson (1870-1938) and Lenna Jane Tibbets (1870-1960). The family moved to Lethbridge, Alberta in 1910.

William began reading law at a local law office in Lethbridge in 1913 and attended the University of Alberta law school, graduating in 1918. He passed his Alberta bar examination in 1918 and entered practice in the firm of Simpson and Van Horn. He became a King's Counsel in 1938 and practiced law until his retirement in 1984.

He acted as an advisor to Premiers John Brownlee and Ernest C. Manning on legal aspects of Alberta oil and natural gas resources. He also served as Alberta's legal counsel for the Royal Grain Inquiry Commission (1924), the Rowell-Sirois Commission (1939) and the Gordon Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (1955).

He married Ethel Lillian Stewart (1892-1984), and together they had five children: William, David (d. 1941), Lenna, Kathleen and Jocelyn.

He died in Edmonton in 1988.

Simpson, William J.
Person · 1864-1951

Born in 1864, William J. Simpson graduated from Queen's University in 1899 with a degree in medicine. He was one of the first members of the Medical Council of the Northwest Territories. He came to Lacombe and practiced medicine there until 1928, when he moved to Millet. He was awarded life membership in the Canadian Medical Association in 1948.

Predeceased by his wife in 1935, he died in 1951.

Sinclair family
Family

Originally from Scotland, Peter Sinclair (1872-?) and Barbara Laing (1871-1965) came to Canada from South Africa in 1906 and lived in Edmonton, Alberta.

They had seven children: Bessie (Samis) (1897-1978), Maude (McDonell), Bill, Oliver, Alec, George, Charlie, and Barrie Laing Sutherland (1912-2009).

Sinclair, Frances
Person · 1902-1990

Frances Margaret Bell was born in England on September 7, 1902, the daughter of Reverend J.W. Bell and Mary Pauline Hancock. She grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. She graduated from the Royal Alexandra Hospital School of Nursing and worked as a registered nurse and nursing instructor. She married John Chambers Sinclair (1898-1961) in Edmonton in 1929, and together they had two children: John and William (Bill).

Her family was friends with the John Henry Riddell family; for a year, Robert Gerald Riddell lived with Frances' family while his parents were on sabbatical in New York.

In 1939, the Sinclairs moved to British Columbia, where John died in 1961. In 1979, Frances was living in Maple Ridge, British Columbia and was a past president of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Historical Society.

She later moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where she died in 1990.

Singer, Millie
Person · 1922-2013

Mildred "Millie" Podersky was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1922, the daughter of Louis Podersky (1885-1976) and Anna (nee Pollack) Podersky (1895-1989). She attended Oliver School in Edmonton and briefly studied study interior design in New York City. She married Henry Singer (1911-1980) on March 2, 1941. Together they had two children, Fred and Trudy (Pekarksy).

Henry Singer moved from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Edmonton, Alberta in 1938 and opened a men's clothing store on Jasper Avenue called Bond Clothing. While he served in the army during World War II, Millie Singer operated the store and began selling baby merchandise instead of men's clothing. Upon his return from service, Henry Singer renamed the store to Henry Singer Menswear. She also helped establish a local chapter of Jewish Family Services.

She died in Edmonton in 2013.

Sion Hall Company
Corporate body

The Sion Hall Company, Limited was incorporated under the Ordinance of the North-West Territories respecting Companies on April 4, 1910. The Sion Hall Company was also known as the Sion Public Hall. The company built and ran a hall in Sion, Alberta.

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In 1965 the City of Lethbridge, Alberta opened its first civic museum with George McKillop as the first curator. The Museum was housed in the Bowman Elementary School building and then relocated to its present facility at the Galt Hospital and, after renovation, opened to the public as the Sir Alexander Galt Museum in 1967.

The Museum was operated by the Lethbridge Historical Society and volunteers until 1971 when professional staff was employed. In the early 1980's the Museum expanded again with new gallery space and expanded storage space, which allowed the Museum to develop new programs and temporary exhibits. The Museum now cares for over 20,000 artifacts and 300,000 archival documents and photographs.

Corporate body

The Sir Alexander MacKenzie Historical Society was formed on April 29, 1963 and incorporated under The Societies Act on December 11, 1963.

Corporate body

The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Montréal (Grey Nuns) was founded in 1737 in Ville-Marie (Montréal) by Saint Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, the young widow of François d'Youville, who formed a lay community that undertook charitable work. Ten years later the community took over the administration of Montréal's general hospital.

The first Grey Nuns arrived in present-day Alberta in 1859 when sisters Zoé Leblanc-Emery, Adèle Lamy and Marie Jacques-Alphonse joined Father Albert Lacombe, O.M.I., at Lac Ste. Anne. In 1861 the area of Saint-Albert was chosen as the site for a new mission by Father Lacombe and Bishop Alexandre Taché, O.M.I. Father Lacombe and 20 families arrived there in April. The Grey Nuns stayed at Lac Ste. Anne until 1863, at which time they joined Father Lacombe in Saint-Albert. The Grey Nuns would break new ground in health care, education and charitable services. In 1990 Saint Marie-Marguerite d'Youville would become the first person born in Canada to be canonized.

The Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) of Alberta, also known as the Grey Nuns of Saint-Albert, are one of the five communities of the Sisters of Charity of Montréal (Grey Nuns). The Grey Nuns have managed their missions and institutions in western and northern Canada from their center in Saint-Albert for many years.

The Grey Nuns Regional Centre in Edmonton was built in 1967. It was the home base of the Grey Nuns serving in parts of western Canada and the Northwest Territories. It also housed the provincial administration and a residence for the elderly and retired Grey Nuns. The sisters sold it around 2005 and moved to Saint-Albert.

Corporate body

The Catholic religious congregation named the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Evron was founded in 1682 by Perrine Brunet in Mayenne, France. The congregation was dedicated to teaching and the care of the sick, especially of the poor, while at the same time becoming more open to God. The order grew until it reached 100 communities in Mayenne.

However, the French Revolution forced the congregation to disperse and two sisters, Françoise Tréhet and Jeanne Véron, were guillotined in 1794. Nine years later the sisters were asked to reorganize and continue their work as teachers and nurses among the poor. The prefect of Laval allowed them to take over the Benedictine abbey in Evron. The monks who had lived there had been expelled from France during the revolution.

The application of the law of associations (1902), which required elementary school instruction in France to be secular, forced the sisters to conduct their educational activities outside of France, leading them to move to Belgium, England (1904) and eventually to Trochu, Alberta (1909). From 1911 to 1912, 32 sisters came to Alberta.

The Canadian Province of the congregation was officially formed in 1912 and incorporated in 1913. Sister Marie-Louise Recton was the first provincial superior. In Alberta the sisters opened a school and a convent in Trochu, as well as hospitals in Trochu, Bonnyville and Vegreville. The Canadian arm of the congregation remains active and is located in Edmonton.

Sisters of St. Martha
Corporate body · 1900-present

The Sisters of St. Martha was established in 1900 as an auxiliary of the Sisters of Charity in Halifax. It was founded as a religious sisterhood comprised of 15 women with the goal of performing domestic work in Catholic charitable institutions. In Alberta, the Marthas were the founders of St. Michael's Hospital in Lethbridge, and served as the nursing administrators of Mineral Springs Hospital in Banff. They were responsible for the School of Nursing at St. Michael's Hospital, and for the Lethbridge Community College School of Nursing when the program was transferred from the Hospital.

PR0077 · Corporate body · 1853-2021

The religious community of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was founded in the province of Québec, at Saint-Grégoire near Nicolet, in 1853 as a teaching community by Fr. Jean Harper and Léocadie Bourgeois, the first Mother Superior. In 1872 the mother-house of the community was definitely established at Nicolet and from there, missionary groups went to rural parishes in the dioceses of the Province of Québec.

The Sisters came to Western Canada in 1891 to the Oblate mission of Onion Lake, in Saskatchewan, as a result of Bishop Vital Grandin’s need for missionary teachers. From Onion Lake the Sisters spread quickly to other Roman Catholic missions in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In addition to native communities, the Sisters served the francophone population in Western Canada. Outside Canada, the Sisters worked in the United States, Brazil and Japan.

The community was divided into various ecclesiastical provinces. Alberta and Saskatchewan belonged to the ecclesiastical Province of St. John the Evangelist, administered by a Provincial office located in Edmonton, until 1998 when this ecclesiastical Province disappeared; Alberta and Saskatchewan are now directly under the administration of the community mother-house or head office in Nicolet, Province of Québec.

Corporate body · 1926-1972

The Sisters of the Assumption opened in 1926 in Edmonton a boarding school for French-Canadian girls, which took in 1960 the name of Académie Assomption. The goal of the institution was to offer a superior education in French. The school was especially outstanding in choral singing and music. In addition to teaching children, the Sisters of the Assumption stimulated and facilitated French-Canadian education in Alberta by organizing competitions, festivals and other educational activities and by promoting French-Canadian youth organizations. After 1967 the Académie Assomption took only day-students and did not accept boarders any more. It closed in 1972 when the contract between the Sisters of the Assomption and the Edmonton Separate School Board came to an end and when the School Board decided to open a new bilingual (French and English) school named École Picard. This new school replaced the Académie Assomption.

Corporate body · 1893-1962

In 1893 the Sisters of the Assumption arrived at Battleford, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Prince Albert, and took over the school. Battleford was a strategic place for the Natives because the location, at the meeting of the Northern Branch of the Saskatchewan River and its affluent the Battle River, was a meeting place for the Natives and the employees of the Hudson's Bay Company. During the years 1928-1929 the boarding school was at its best with fifty-two boarders. The Sisters left the school in June 1962.

Corporate body · 1927-1967

The Sisters of the Assumption arrived at Biggar in 1927 to teach in the boarding school and in the day-school. During the first years of their missionary work, the Sisters had to face financial difficulties and hostility among the local population. The boarding school closed in 1967 when school transportation allowed the children to stay with their families. The day school remained as a Catholic school.

Corporate body · 1972-

The opening of a residence for the Sisters of the Assumption in Bonnie Doon in Edmonton was necessary to receive some of the Sisters who left the Académie Assomption in 1972. The Sisters exercised their teaching ministry in the Ecole Picard attended by the students who were used to attend the Académie Assomption. In 1977 the Sisters abandoned the Bonnie Doon rented house to move into another house in Holyrood bought by their Congregation. They continued their educational work in the field of music and undertook missionary work among the poor. In 1986 the Sisters left the Holyrood residence to join the other Sisters living in another residence called Assumption Residence in Edmonton.

Corporate body · 1937-1968

The Sisters of the Assumption were called to Bonnyville by the parish priest in 1937. This invitation was accepted for September 1938. The Sisters settled in the school while waiting for the completion of their convent. The number of students and Sisters increased quickly, but towards the 1960s important changes started to take place. The convent did not receive boarders anymore, the Principal's position was taken by a layman and the number of Sisters decreased rapidly. In 1968 only three Sisters were left in Bonnyville and the convent was sold.

Corporate body · 1954-1964

In 1954 the Sisters of the Assumption were called by the Roman Catholic parish of Brosseau to teach French-Canadian children. In 1960 the Sisters of the Assumption asked that the Brosseau school be entrusted to another religious community. Therefore in 1964 the Dominican Sisters took over the school.

Corporate body · 1900-1969

The Sisters of the Assumption arrived at Delmas in 1900 and the construction of their Indian school was completed in 1901. Towards the end of this first year, there were 120 boarders at the school. In September 1902 the Sisters of the Assumption opened a day-school for the non-Native population, in addition to running the Indian Boarding School. In 1907 the Sisters admitted non-Native children into this boarding school. In 1911 a school Board was formed and the day-school became public. The year 1948 marked the end of the boarding school: a fire destroyed the boarding school and most of the archival records kept in the building. The public school continued to be operated under the requirements of the Government of Saskatchewan. The Sisters left Delmas in 1969.

Corporate body · 1887-1995

A Catholic school was established at Hobbema in 1887 to serve the local reserves. Bishop Grandin asked the Sisters of the Assumption to administer this school and the first nuns arrived in 1894. The first boarders were admitted in January 1895. The building of a new boarding-school large enough to house 50 children began in 1897. In the early 1920s, the Government of Ottawa authorized the Hobbema missionaries to receive a greater number of boarders. Two successive additions to the building took place and the boarding-school admitted 130 students in 1929. For forty years, the Sisters were responsible for the financial administration of the school and in 1934 the administration of the school was transferred from the Sisters to the Oblates, such as requested by the Government of Ottawa. One building followed another in order to accommodate the growing number of students. In 1969 around 1 000 students attended the school. In addition to working in the school, the Sisters served the local Natives by teaching catechism on the reserves. They left the Hobbema Catholic parish in 1995

Corporate body · 1951-1972

The Roman Catholic parish of Ste. Anne, founded in 1951 to the West of Edmonton, asked the Sisters of the Assumption to take the administration of the school. In 1955 the local School Board offered the Sisters a house to rent where they could live while teaching. In addition to teaching, the Sisters were very active in the parish. The Ste. Anne church was destroyed by a fire in 1966 and was not replaced. In 1970 the Jasper Place mission became a simple residence for student Sisters. It survived for two more years and then the Sisters dispersed into other fields of action. The house was sold in 1972.

Corporate body · 1941-1964

The Roman Catholic parish at La Corey started to ask for teaching Sisters in 1939. It was only in 1941 that two Sisters of the Assumption came from Hobbema to La Corey in order to look after the educational needs of the French-Canadian parish. In addition to regular teaching in the school, the Sisters provided medical care and taught catechism in the surrounding area. In 1963 several students were transferred to Bonnyville and the small number of students left at La Corey did not justify the need for a local school. The Sisters of the Assumption left La Corey in 1964.

Corporate body · 1941-1979

In 1940 part of the St-Vincent territory was annexed to Mallaig and this allowed the formation of a new parish named St-Jean-de-Brébeuf. The priest of St-Vincent asked the Sisters of the Assumption to come to the new parish to provide education. The Sisters arrived at the new parish in Mallaig on September 5, 1941, on the same day of arrival of the new priest. For the first year, the Sisters had 34 students. During holidays, they dispersed for the teaching of catechism to the children attending the other rural schools of the area. The number of students increased in the 1950s and 1960s. The principalship of the school was given to a layman in 1968. In the 1970s new duties were added to the Sisters' teaching duties: the Sisters became pastoral agents, adult catechism teachers, liturgical animators and choir singers. The Sisters left Mallaig in 1979.

Corporate body · 1891-1985

Bishop Grandin invited the Sisters of the Assumption to come to Onion Lake where they arrived in 1891. The Sisters opened their school in September of the same year with 30 native students. In 1894 the day-school was completely destroyed by fire and the idea of building a boarding school was submitted to Ottawa. In 1895 the Sisters received 38 boarding children. The school quickly experienced financial difficulties. In November 1918 all the children and seven Sisters became sick with the flu. New orphans arrived at the school at the end of the epidemic. In 1934 the administration of the boarding school was transferred from the Sisters to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The nuns continued to teach and work in the school under an Oblate principal. In 1961-1962 the personnel of the school included fourteen nuns. In 1970 the building of a new school began and it opened in September 1973 when the old boarding school closed. The Sisters remained in Onion Lake to continue their missionary work until July 1985 when they left the area.

Person

The community of the Sisters of the Assumption established, designed, and built institutions of education. In conducting their activities, many sisters accumulated personal records which document those activities. When donated to the Archives, these records were donated as part of the Sisters of Assumption fonds and this series was created to include them.

Corporate body · 1900-1998

The community of the Sisters of the Assumption is divided into various ecclesiastical provinces. Around 1900 the Sisters opened a provincial administration office in Edmonton to manage the ecclesiastical Province of St. John the Evangelist covering Alberta and Saskatchewan. This office was directed by a Sister having the title of Provincial and by a group of Sisters forming the Provincial Council. This administration office managed finances, human resources and policies related to the convents and schools found in the Province of St. John the Evangelist. This administrative centre closed in 1998 when the ecclesiastical Province of St. John the Evangelist disappeared during a reorganization of the ecclesiastical provinces. Alberta and Saskatchewan are now directly under the administration of the community mother-house or head office in Nicolet, Province of Québec.

Corporate body · 1952-1963

In 1952 the Saint-Edouard parish priest asked the Sisters of Assumption to take over the local school. From 1956 to 1959 the school had six classes, from grades one to eleven, for one hundred and forty students. The number of registrations declined slowly from 1959 to 1963 because of several families leaving the district. In 1963 there were only sixty registrations and the school closed. The Sisters moved to Saint-Paul to carry on their teaching.