The fonds consists of a 1906 bill of sale for a bay pony, a 1904 letter from A.G. Kinnaird and six aerial images of Medicine Hat, Alberta from 1951, taken by Douglas Folkins with a 24 Fairchild aerial camera.
Folkins, DouglasFonds consists of materials created and collected by Mary Ruckman including a school art notebook, two autograph books, a high school graduation photograph, a postcard sent to Mary Ruckman's father featuring Harley Davidson motorcycles. The fonds also includes material related to Mary Ruckman's musical studies including a music exam and a music dictation book; and materials documenting her life in the Vauxhall and Scandia/Rainer area of Alberta including correspondence, a history of Vauxhall, a Christmas Day services pamphlet, two copies of The Vauxhall Advance, and a Union Bank of Canada Farmer's Handy Book Account.
Yawney, Adella MaryThe fonds consists of a letter from F.H. (Bert) Riggall, a list of the images, and photographs and photographic postcards of mountains, lakes, wildlife including bears, mountain goats, mountain sheep, deer, a grouse, and a porcupine, pack trains, tenting, hunting, and Bert Riggall. The fonds also includes a photograph of Lethbridge Central School, a photograph of Medicine Hat Public School, a photograph of Edmonton Protestant Public School, and a photograph of Edmonton High School. The photographs date from circa 1900. The photographer remains unidentified.
Turner, Allan R.Fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, voting proxies, reports, financial records, accounts payable and receivable records, inventories, annual reports, a share certificate, diagrams of tiles, bricks and kilns, and maps depicting the land and mines owned by the Redcliff Brick and Coal Company Ltd.
Perry Brick and Tile CompanyThis fonds is comprised of records from Memorial Salem United Church and preaching points that amalgamated with it, including Washington Avenue Methodist, Knox Presbyterian, Zion Congregational Church, and Fifth Avenue Memorial United.
The records include annual reports, treasurer and financial reports, sacramental registers, communion rolls, orders of services, and minutes. Minutes are from Church Boards, Sessions, and congregational meetings.
Memorial Salem United Church (Medicine Hat)Fonds consists of the business records of Medalta Potteries Ltd. including financial records, minutes, correspondence, reports, blueprints, maps and promotional materials. Fonds also includes photocopies of the certificate of incorporation, an example of a share certificate, and minutes of the first meeting of the stock-holders dated December 22, 1915, The fonds has been divided into the following series: Correspondence; Financial records; and General files.
Medalta PotteriesThe fonds consists of minutes (1914-1925); certificate of transfer, testimonial, authorization of proxy (1925); minutes of interim meeting (1925); returns on ministers, students and licentiates (1925); Treasurer's accounts (1915-1925) of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Presbytery of Medicine Hat.
Presbyterian Church in Canada. Presbytery of Medicine HatThe fonds consists of the Pingle Drug & Book Company's register of liquor sold to permit holders in Medicine Hat.
Pingle Drug & Book CompanyFonds consists of the research records of L.J. Wilson and includes correspondence, notes, copies of articles about Perren Earle Baker, and taped interviews with Baker and Richard Reid. Fonds also includes some personal records of Baker including memoranda, correspondence, and speeches.
Wilson, LeRoy JohnThe fonds consists of minutes (1925-1952, with gap) and Treasurer's accounts (1926-1951).
United Church of Canada. Medicine Hat PresbyteryThe fonds is comprised of photographs and textual records.
The photographs depict James Jensen and his family in his early years on the farm in southern Alberta, Jensen and his company and friends during their military careers, and several photos of Jensen and his family in the 1950s on the family farm.
The fonds also contain textual records which are copies and originals of documents from James Jensen’s and his family’s history. These include the homesteading papers, border crossing record, and probated will of his father. There are also records of James’ service records which were obtained from the Canadian Armed Forces.
Jensen, JamesThe fonds consists of 2 pieces of sheet music by Lawrence Bruce entitled, "Joanne", and "True Sweetheart of Mine".
Bruce, LawrenceFonds consists of the business records of the Ranchers Mutual Telephone Company and include, by-laws, agreements, share certificates, minutes, subscriber accounts, subscriber lists, certificate of incorporation, financial records, annual reports, telephone statistics, correspondence, policies, publications, and maps.
Ranchers Mutual Telephone CompanyThe fonds consists of a register of the Prisoner of War Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta from 1943-1946 listing the arrivals and transfers of individual prisoners of war.
Canada. Prisoner of War Camp 132 (Medicine Hat, Alberta)Fonds contains Minutes (1952-1983, 1987, 1994-2013); Pastoral Charge Statistics (1962-1966); Correspondence (1945-1978, 1988-1989); Lethbridge Extension Council (1984-1988); Photographs of Executive (1991-1992); Treasurer’s Reports (2006-2013); Pastoral Oversight Committee [1973-1999]; Financials (1985-1997); Stewardship (1994); Consultation (1994-1997); Newsletters (2000-2001); Budget (1995); History Book [2000]; U.C.W. (United Church Women) (1961-1996); Annual Reports (1992-1994); Community and Global Justice Committee (2003-2015).
United Church of Canada. South Alberta PresbyteryThe fonds consists of images, dating 1949 to 1962, featuring various locations in Alberta including Banff, Beaver Lodge, Brazeau, Calgary, Caroline, Champion, Crowsnest Pass, Cypress Hills, Dorothy, Drumheller, Duvernay, East Coulee, Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, Frank, Frog Lake, Grisham, High Prairie, High River, Kananaskis, Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Longiven, Manning, Manville, Manyberries, Medicine Hat, Midland, Nordegg, Orion, the Red Deer River, Ricinus, Rocky Mountain House, Rosebud, Rosedale, Sundre, Vulcan, Wabamun, Whiskey Gap, and the Yellowhead Pass. The photographs include street scenes, schools, fire halls, churches and mosques, stores, restaurants, diners and bakeries, beer parlours, post offices, greenhouses, telephone lines, workers and operators, grain elevators, ferries, swimming pools, airports, Jaycopters, airplanes and cargo, mills and mines (flour, steel, coal, nickel), plants, camps, pipeline construction, saddleries, apiaries, bridges, dams, roads, signs, hoodoos, mountains, ice fields, cattle, horses and sheep, stampedes and parades, cattle branding and dehorning, lariat making, artists and sculptors, and laundry and ironing.
The fonds also includes images of rancher and juniper root carver Wilf Hodgson (Wilfred Garstang-Hodgson), of Dorothy, Alberta.
Harrington, RichardThe fonds consists of travel photography and corresponding information compiled by Russell to accompany slide shows as well as extensive coverage of various sites and events across Alberta. These images include Medicine Hat, Albertan industry (specifically the Medicine Hat clay industry), churches of various denominations (including the Al Rashid Mosque prior to its move to Fort Edmonton), Edmonton, Calgary, the Calgary and Medicine Hat Stampedes, sports and recreation, and national/provincial parks. International travel photography is also included, such as images from pre-Revolution Cuba and Cold War-era Berlin. The slides also show PRPA field trips, conventions, and photographic lessons as well as title slides created by Russell for use in her slide shows.
Russell, MonaFonds consists of the business records of the Pashley Mutual Telephone Company and includes minutes, agreements, subscriber accounts, correspondence, financial records, telephone statistics, line maintenance diary, annual reports, certificate of incorporation, Alberta Government Telephone publications, plans of telephone wires crossing Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, and maps.
Pashley Mutual Telephone CompanyThe fonds is comprised of management and development plans and reports that Keith Driver had a part in. His contribution varied across the records and is not always recorded, but includes roles in research, consultation, writing, and management. The records span across his career and are mostly from across Alberta, with some work from elsewhere Canada. Prominent examples include Oldman River General Plan Analyses, Lethbridge General Plan documents, and Bushe River assessments and planning.
The records were created for a variety of clients, including land management corporations, municipal councils, and consultation boards. Also included in the donation was a large transparent sheet with a base map of the Wabamun Lake area. Many of the textual records have labels or codes written on the front covers in pen or pencil, sometimes with Keith Driver’s name.
Driver, KeithThe fonds consists of executive minutes, correspondence, bylaws, and a club history created by the Alberta Federation of Rock Clubs between 1963 and 2002. The executive minutes cover the period between 1963-1972 and 2002.
Alberta Federation of Rock ClubsFonds consists of the business records of the Shortgrass Mutual Telephone Company and includes minutes, financial records, subscriber accounts, correspondence and agreements.
Shortgrass Mutual Telephone CompanyThe fonds consists of records related to Frank Byrne's career as an Alberta provincial court judge, and his interest and work with youth justice committees. The fonds includes correspondence, proposals, and drafts related to the passing and evaluation of the Juvenile Delinquents Act and the Young Offenders Act dating from 1965 to 1985.
Byrne, FrankFonds consists of records from the Provincial Chapter including operational records, financial records, executive records and the Association’s articles of incorporation. Fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, annual reports, committee and chapter reports, audio cassettes, newsletters, hand books, pamphlets, and mailing lists.
Alberta Pastoral Care AssociationThe fonds consists of histories written by Vera Bracken in ca. 1996 including "The One-Room School", the "Rural School Teacher", and the "Schools of the Foothills". The fonds also includes reminiscences documenting her experience growing up on a homestead in Alberta written in 1981 entitled, "Real and Romantic Reminiscences of the Early Years of the Daughter of a Pioneer."
Bracken, VeraThe fonds consists of two 16 mm films created in ca. 1960 by I-XL Industries Ltd. and illustrating the activities of the Medicine Hat Brick and Tile Co. The films are entitled Packaging Brick and Steps to Automation.
I - XL IndustriesFonds consists of records dating 1912-1973 and includes a report on the Canada Land and Irrigation Company Limited, which contains maps and photographs of areas in Medicine Hat, Alberta, a report entitled The Lost Mine of the Saskatchewan, and a brief history of Medicine Hat. Fonds also includes various photographs relating to engineering, railroads, land and irrigation, and farming.
Milroy, A. ClaytonFonds consists of photocopies of transcribed letters written to Grace Bear from Edward J. Sartain, who lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta and Montana from 1906-1916 (primarily 1906-1908), about his daily life, including hunting and traveling across Alberta.
Bear, GraceThe fonds consists of 10 images, originally dating from 1912 to the 1960s, of the Redcliff Pressed Brick Company, the Medicine Hat Brick and Tile Company and brick manufacturing.
Marshal, JimThe fonds relates to George Adel's work with Medalta Potteries and consists of a photograph featuring the Medalta Potteries Ltd. staff circa 1927 taken by an unknown photographer.
Adel, GeorgeThe fonds consists of copied images, originally dating from the 1890s to the1950s, of hospital buildings throughout Alberta including those in Lethbridge, Daysland, Medicine Hat, Mannville, Ponoka, nurses, and one image of Dr. Max Cantor with colleagues outside the Banff School of Fine Arts.
Cantor, Max