Fonds consists of copied photographs that date from circa (ca.) 1848-1922, predominantly 1901-1922, that depict various people, buildings, and views in Chipewyn, Sawridge, Slave Lake, Fort Vermilion, Athabasca Landing, and Fort McMurray, Alberta including a Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) officer, paddle steamers, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) boats, a government telegraph office, log cabins, street views, a sawmill, a cemetery, school teachers, and missionaries.
Babcock, DougFort Vermilion, AB
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Fonds consists of annotated photographs of various people, buildings and views mainly in Peace River, Alberta and includes school children and buildings, churches, weddings, street views, banks, businesses, hospitals, ferries, bridges, steam boats, missionaries and mission buildings, the Grouard Trail, agricultural exhibitions, agricultural scenes, livestock, an HBC trading post, a group of Dominion land surveyors, water falls, the Peace River, oil wells, sled dogs, automobiles, airplanes, women’s and men’s sports teams, and North West Mounted Police (NWMP) barracks. Fonds also includes photographs of Athabasca Landing and the Hay River Mission.
Mathews, G. C.Fonds consists of photographs depicting various scenes around Alberta in the early 1900s.
Browne, H.D.Fonds consists of records primarily relating to the Sheridan Lawrence family and their activities or interests, but also consists of records pertaining to the entire Lawrence family. Records include newspaper clippings about various family members, genealogy books written by members of the Lawrence family and photographs. The fonds has been divided into two series: Sheridan Lawrence family and E.J. Lawrence family.
Lawrence familyThe fonds consists of a copy of The Rhymes of a Homestead Woman by Ernest Ward Rivard, photographs of the Fort Vermilion area and the Rivard family, music and lyrics to "My Cabin by the Peace" by Ernest Ward Rivard, audio recordings of oral history interviews with Elizabeth Ward RIvard, and maps with highlighted areas corresponding to the Elizabeth Ward Rivard interviews.
Rivard, Ernest WardThe fonds consists primarily of Roy Ells’s constituency records from his time as Member of the Legislative Assembly for Grouard, as well as records from his time as chairman of the Legislative Committee on Automobile Insurance; these includes correspondence, certificates, reports and minutes, pamphlets and newsletters, invitations and programs, newspaper clippings, financial statements, speeches and copies of bills.
The fonds also holds some personal papers of Roy Ells, including minutes, reports, correspondence, programs and pamphlets relating to his membership in the Alberta Hotel Association, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Alberta Social Credit League and the Grouard Constituency Association; a photograph of High Prairie’s first town council and other photographs featuring Rimbey, High Prairie, Fort Vermilion, Swan Hills, and other constituency locations, and includes the 1948 High Prairie flood, the High Prairie Fire Department, the Spaulding Hotel, the High Level Hotel, ribbon cutting ceremonies, and Legislature tour groups; and audio recordings of speeches by Roy Ells, interviews conducted by Roy Ells of Mr. Leesrud and Sid (Bud) Brown, the Social Credit Grassroots theme song and the opening of the High Level Hotel.
Ells, Roy