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1993 (Creation)
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2 audio cassettes
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Albert Michael Donnelly was born in Bretchin, Ontario in 1888 into a family of 2 sisters and 8 brothers. While in Ontario, he worked as painter for the Northern Ontario Railway and the Grand Trunk Railway. In 1914, he traveled west and took up plumbing.
After living in Regina, he moved to Rimbey, Alberta to farm with his father's family. After farming, he moved to Edmonton. He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) first as a laborer then as a car inspector. He worked in Red Deer for CPR for 39 years. While living in Red Deer, he served as reeve of the Village of North Red Deer (1924-1925) as well as a trustee of the Red Deer Separate School Board for thirty-one years. He retired from the CPR in 1953 and later moved to Osoyoos, BC.
In 1993, he "drove" the first spike in Edmonton's End of Steel Park in Old Strathcona.
He married Mary Isabel Craig (1889-1948) in Lacombe, Alberta in 1917. They had five children: Donald (1925-1962), John, Tom, Bob and David. He later married Justine (Roth) Maller (1906-1984). He died in Oliver, British Columbia in 1996 at the age of 107.
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The fonds consists of 2 audio cassette recordings of an oral history conducted by the Old Strathcona Foundation with Albert Donnelly.
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In 1993, the Old Starthcona Foundation donated the material to the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
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The material is in English.
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Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the fonds.
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Includes accession PR1993.0634.