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Archival description
PR3962 · Collection · 1872-1929

The collection contains a variety of materials, purchased from Academic Books in five purchases over a decade. The collection includes an unpublished manuscript (1908) written by Alexander MacKenzie on the Peace River District covering the years 1793-1908. The next is a typed letter from R.B. Bennet to John Stocks (1905), the then-Deputy Commissioner of Public Works of the North-West Territories (which included present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan at the time). This letter concerned the rising waters that were beginning to circumvent the Elbow River Bridge in Calgary.

Other records include North-West Territories Gazettes (Volume 18, Numbers 7-14, 1901), a HBC census record of the Saskatchewan District (1872), a HBC census record from the Athabasca District (1873), and a small ledger book used in Dunvegan with several pages at the end used by a child to practice letters and drawing (1891-1925). Attached to the census of the Athabasca District is also a document noting the “division of the Chipewyan Nation” according to the Census taken.

Academic Books (Vancouver)
A.H. Baker fonds
PR0423 · Fonds · Copied 1970

Fonds consists of a scrapbook dating 1928-1953 that contains newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, invitations, programmes, and various issues of the Central Alberta Sanatorium’s newsletter.

Baker, A.H.
Alan E. Smith fonds
PR1784 · Fonds · Copied 1988-1989

The fonds consists of images, originally dating from 1927 to 1933, of the students of the Royal School of Cavalry (maintained by the Lord Strathcona's Horse) at the Mewata Armoury in Calgary, officers of the 23rd Field Battalion of the Canadian Artillery, soldiers of the 91st Field Battalion of the Canadian Artillery at Sarcee Camp, and a group portrait of the award-winning 15th Canadian Light Horse Machine Gun Troop.

Smith, Alan E.
PR2394 · Fonds · 1943

The fonds consists of a circuit photograph featuring the soldiers of the # 11 Equipment Depot, Royal Canadian Air Force in Calgary, Alberta, reflecting Alan Stewart's Fitzsimmons' military career.

Fitzsimmons, Alan Stewart
Albert E. Orpwood fonds
PR1038 · Fonds · [19-?]-1963

Fonds consists of photographic and mechanically produced postcards, photographs, negatives, and a photograph album depicting various images including Albert Orpwood, the Calgary Normal School, construction, railroads, log cabins, oil wells, women, children, soldiers, agricultural machinery, farm scenes, buildings, cars, bridges, houses, barns, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers, street views, airplanes, snow blowers, churches, a sports team, and a wedding. Fonds also includes booklet, containing a commercial map of Alberta and historical sketch, produced by CJCA Broadcasting Station.

Orpwood, Albert E.
Alberta Ballet fonds
PR3742 · Fonds · 1925-2018

The fonds consists of board of directors records such as minutes, handbooks, and correspondence; executive director records such as correspondence, grant applications, and annual reports; artistic production records such as programs, rehearsal and performance schedules, tour files, set designs, lighting plots, stage plans, and recorded audiovisual elements of performances and rehearsals; marketing records such as press clippings, media releases, posters, pamphlets, handbills, photographs, and commercials; development records including planning documents for fundraisers, subscription campaigns, and special events; outreach documents such as school study guides; administrative records such as personnel files, financial statements, internal correspondence, and office administration; and records related to the management of the Alberta Ballet School of Dance.

Accession PR2018.0509 includes the records of Ruth Carse and the Alberta Ballet School. The Ruth Carse records are arranged as such and include her personal photo albums depicting performances, events, school events, and dancers; programs from dance troupe performances that pre-date the founding of Alberta Ballet (including the Muriel Taylor School of Dance); programs from piano recitals that Ruth Carse performed in dating to the 1920s and 1930s; correspondence; administrative records related to Alberta Ballet and the Alberta Ballet School; and grant files.

The fonds includes the Calgary City Ballet (CCB) sous-fonds, which includes similar records as listed above, with the addition of records related to the restoration and administration of the Nat Christie Centre.

Alberta Ballet
PR0026 · Fonds · 1927-2011

The fonds consists of records created and received by the Association, the Edmonton and District Cricket Association, and the Calgary and District Cricket League. It includes minutes, correspondence, financials, membership lists, grants, scoring sheets, and photographs.

The records also include the bylaws of the Alberta Cricket Association, correspondence to and from Cricket Canada, financial statements, planning documents around the development of a turf pitch in Edmonton, workshop records, and a record of addresses of association members.

Alberta Cricket Association
PR1094 · Fonds · 1980-1982

The fonds consists of materials created by the Alberta Family Histories Society between 1980 and 1982, and includes cemetery listings for the Okotoks Cemetery and the Strathmore Cemetery.

Alberta Family Histories Society
PR0622 · Fonds · 1963-2002

The 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 Clubs
PR0585 · Fonds · 1976-1979

The fonds consists of materials created by the Calgary Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society between 1976 and 1979. The fonds consists of cemetery listings for the Airdre Cemetery, the Wesley Band Cemetery at Morley, the Pine Creek Cemetery, the Cochrane Cemetery, the Haneyville Cemetery, and the Stoney Nakoda First Nation Cemetery.

Alberta Genealogical Society. Calgary Branch
PR0254 · Fonds · 1915-1985

The fonds consists of the business records of the Alberta Music Festival Association and its branches. The fonds includes three sous-fonds, the Calgary Branch sous-fonds, the Edmonton Branch sous-fonds, and the Lethbridge Branch sous-fonds, and the following records from the provincial level: provincial executive minutes, general minutes, agendas, notices of meetings, a cashbook, financial statements, festival planning records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, The Alberta Music Festival Association Master Awards Book, digest reports from the Conferences of Delegates from the Musical Competition Festivals of Western Canada and then of Canada, and digest reports from the Federation of Canadian Music Festival

Alberta Music Festival Association
PR0325 · Fonds · 1969-1998

Fonds 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 Association
PR0030 · Fonds · 1932-2014

The fonds consists of the by-laws, minutes, membership lists, financial records, correspondence and newsletters of the Edmonton branch of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers' Association (1932-2013); a historical summary of activities in the Calgary branch (1936-1977); records concerning the Provincial Board Meetings and Annual General Meetings (1938-2013) held by the Edmonton branch of the Association; and photographs from various ARMTA events (1975-2014).

A portion of the records are from the organization of the CFMTA convention “Peak Performance” held in Calgary in 2005. These include a final report, minutes, financials, competition material, applicants, registration documents, pamphlets and inserts, and other convention material.

Alberta Registered Music Teachers' Assocation
Alfrey family fonds
PR2363 · Fonds · 1910-2007

The photographic records in the fonds include photographs, negatives, and slides from members of the Alfrey family, including Edward and Winnifred Peterson and of earlier ancestors of the family. There are many photographs from Rita’s brother, Eric Peterson. These photographs depict family and friends, property, and his vacations. Many of the photographs have not been labeled, making identification difficult.

There are multiple textual records from Winnifred Peterson, including copies of her self-published biography and poetry books. The records also include draft and work copies of the chapters and poems included in her books, as well as hand-written stories and reminiscences that were considered for the books.

The fonds also contain scrapbooks from Dar Alfrey’s time with the Edmonton Rotary Club, which contain many textual and photographic records. Other textual records include a Golden Jubilee Alberta award given to Bernard Alfrey, the wedding certificate of Bernard and Martha, hairdressing and beauty culture certificates given to Lucy Jean Moe Brunner, and teaching records of Martha Alfrey.

Also included are nine colour, silent 8mm films of the Alfrey family's home movies filmed by the father, Dar Alfrey. Subjects include views of Alberta communities such as Carstairs, Edmonton, Wetaskiwin, Banff, Medicine Hat, Taber, Calgary, Claresholm, and Jasper. They also include such subjects as the sugar beet factory in Taber, the Calgary Zoo, Storyland Valley Zoo in Edmonton, the Al Oeming Game Farm, and Alfrey family events such as birthdays, weddings, vacations and Christmas. These films start from the time the family was living in Bow Island in 1957 and end after their return to Edmonton in 1968.

Alfrey, Darwin (Dar) E.
Amelia E. McCrum fonds
PR1915 · Fonds · 1893-1943

The fonds consists of images of early Edmonton and includes photographs of Edmonton and Strathcona, Edmonton hospitals, schools, brewery, train stations, streets (including Whyte Avenue), houses, buildings, ferry, bridges, a train derailment, Heimthal church (east of Ellerslie), the Stettler creamery, the Innisfail Hotel, the dining room of Royal Hotel, children swimming, canoeing, shaving, and a bear, and postcards of the Royal Hotel, Diamond Hall (Ash Brothers (Bros.)), Edmonton bridges, an incline railway, buildings, views, streets, street cars, the Legislature, the University, views along the Athabasca River, hotels, buildings and banks in Wetaskiwin, Sylvan Lake, scouts, buffalo, bridge at Rocky Mountain House, First Nations peoples, North Battleford (Saskatchewan), buildings, trolleys, bridges, and rivers in Calgary, mountains, glaciers, near Banff and Jasper, buildings, bridges in Banff, branding, and harvesting.

The fonds also includes an Edmonton Orpheus Society banquet program, toast lists and menus for the Old Timers’ Association of Edmonton, a business card for the Royal Hotel, a Salvation Army Diamond Jubilee dinner ticket, a Christmas card, a Jasper House Christmas Day menu, Royal Hotel Christmas menus, and sheet music for song “The Emblem of Alberta” (words by Jeannette Forsyth and music by Gilbert Stirling).

McCrum, Amelia E.
Anthony Clarke fonds
PR3025 · Fonds · 1942

The fonds consists of material acquired by A. Clark including a Canadian Army Diet Sheet, dating from 1942, from the Training Centre C.E. Currie, Barracks, Calgary, Military District No. 13. The Sheet details the types of food included in daily meals and rations.

Clarke, Anthony
Ardis Kamra fonds
PR0875 · Fonds · Copied 1980

The fonds consists of 4 images from circa (ca.) 1918, of the Calgary Derby, F.E. Nichol’s Department Store in Killam, Alberta and views of Killam.

Kamra, Ardis
Art Dixon fonds
PR2000 · Fonds · 1945-1979

The fonds consists of materials relating to Art Dixon’s political career and dates from 1945-1979. The fonds includes Social Credit pamphlets, election pamphlets for Dixon, committee files, clipping files, correspondence, Social Credit meeting minutes and banners used by William Aberhart in election campaigning.

Dixon, Art
Art Roberts fonds
PR1881 · Fonds · Copied 1978

The fonds consists of images of the 1937 May Day Parade in Drumheller, and images of the representatives at the Canadian Congress of Labour conferences in Calgary, Alberta in 1947 and 1948.

Roberts, Art
Arthur Marshall fonds
PR0243 · Fonds · 1900-1949

Fonds consists of records belonging to Arthur Marshall including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and postcards.

Marshall, Arthur
PR0015 · Fonds · 1912-2012

The fonds consists of records from national, provincial, regional and local levels. A large extent of the fonds consists of administrative and financial papers, minutes, correspondence and publications pertaining to the ACFA and organizations with close associations to the ACFA.
Included in the fonds are thirteen sous-fonds. These sous-fonds are related to the regional offices of the ACFA, including: Bonnyville/Cold Lake, Calgary/Banff, Centralta, Red Deer, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Jasper, Plamondon/Lac-la-Biche, Rivière-la-Paix, Saint-Paul, Wood Buffalo, Lethbridge/Medicine Hat, and Provisoires et general.
The fonds is divided into sixteen series, including: Administration, Comptabilité, Commission culturelle, Éducation, Information/Politique, Développement communautaire, Procès-verbaux, Autres organismes, Histoire, Comités, Correspondance, Mémoires/Études/Rapports, Activités, Circulaires et Publications, Sessions/Stages/Colloques/Projets, and Cause judiciaire. The administration series is divided into five sub-series, including : Membres, Exécutif, Conseils généraux, Bureau des presidents, and Personnel. The procès-verbaux series is divided into three sub-series, including : Congrès/Assemblés générales annuelles, Réunions, and Rond Point. The Autres organismes series has been divided into two sub-series, including : Interieur de l’Alberta and Extérieur de l’Alberta. The histoire series has one sub-series, Personnalités.

L'Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta
B. A. Redmond fonds
PR0994 · Fonds · [1915]

The fonds consists of eight photographs, and includes six of the areas affected by the flooding of the Bow River, including homes and bridges, and two photographs of girls in residential yards.

Redmond, B.A.
PR1565 · Fonds · 1984-1985

The fonds consists of the records of the TriBACH festival director, Michael Tabbitt, regarding the planning and organizing of the festival, and includes correspondence, contracts, agreements, pamphlets, and programs, and three notebooks of newspaper clippings about the TriBACH Festival.

Bach Tercentenary Festival 1985 Foundation
Baker Centre collection
PR3922 · Collection · 1988

The collection consists of photographs and negatives of the Baker Centre in Calgary, formerly the Baker Memorial Sanatorium.

Unknown donor
PR2074 · Fonds · [1920 - 1930]

The fonds consists of 76 photographs and a scrapbook dating from the 1920 to 1940 of the Central Alberta Sanatorium. Some of the photographs are attributed to W. Oliver of Calgary, but most of the photographs were taken by unidentified photographers. The creator of the scrapbook is also unknown.

Baker Memorial Sanatorium
Barry Gibson fonds
PR1825 · Fonds · Copied 1989

The fonds consists of images, originally dating circa (ca.) 1920, of the Royal North West Mounted Police/Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at Fort Macleod, Alberta, including an image of the funeral of RCMP Corporal Usher and Alberta Provincial Police Constable Bailey, and images of North West Mounted Police and First Nations people at the Calgary Stampede in 1912.

Gibson, Barry
BC Archives film collection
PR3760 · Collection · 1961, 1966

The collection consists of two films: A New Rose in Alberta (1961), produced by the Canadian Oil Companies Ltd., is an industrial film about White Rose gasoline. An Invitation to the Future (1966), produced by the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), is a promotional film about SAIT and its programs.

Unknown donor
Becky Hanson Rosenberg fonds
PR1234 · Fonds · Copied 1975

Fonds consists of copied photographs dating circa (ca.) 1909 to 1934 that depict members of the Hanson family, Calgary Laundry Limited employees, and pioneer women from the Jewish community. Fonds also includes a copied photograph that depicts Leo Goelman, a principal of the Talmud Torah school.

Rosenberg, Becky Hanson
PR0327 · Fonds · 1936-1970

Fonds consists of the business records of the Beddington Mutual Telephone Company including correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, maps, brochures, and pamphlets.

Beddington Mutual Telephone Company
Bernice Dell fonds
PR3017 · Fonds · Copied 1972

The fonds consists of a copy of a photograph featuring the Pat Burns residence in Calgary circa 1912 taken by Harry Pollard.

Dell, Bernice
Beverly Alcock collection
PR3923 · Collection · [194-]

The collection consists of photographs of Banff National Park, Royal Canadian Air Force #2 Wireless School, and Royal Canadian Air Force Service Flying Training School #3 in Calgary.

Alcock, Beverly
Borgwardt family fonds
PR1445 · Fonds · Copied 1976

Fonds consists of photocopied records dating 1885-1938 and includes correspondence, a will, immigrations records, and homestead records. Fonds also includes copied photographs dating 1898-ca. 1924 which depict members of the Borgwardt and Vogel families, the Borgwardt house, the Vogel Meat and Packing Company Limited (Ltd.), Sunshine Auto Camp and Central Park in Calgary, Alberta, and a costume ball.

Borgwardt family
PR3425 · Fonds · 1904-1915

The fonds consists of church registers containing Bow River Circuit baptisms (1904-1911), marriages (1904-1908), and burials (1904-1912). The registers also include West Brook Mission baptisms (1911-1915) and marriages (1909-1912).

Bow River Methodist Circuit
Brenda Hemsing fonds
PR2129 · Fonds · 1984

The fonds consists of images taken by Brenda Hemsing in 1984 of auctions located in Alberta communities including Hussar, Milo, Water Valley, Spruceview, Calgary, Rimbey, Finnegan, and Conrich.

Hemsing, Brenda
PR1247 · Fonds · 1950-1976

The fonds consists of the records of Burritt Travel Service Limited as well as Maher-Burritt Travel Limited, which was purchased by Burritt Travel Service Limited, and includes incorporation records, minutes, resolutions, licenses, certificates, agreements, correspondence, and financial statements.

Burritt Travel Holdings
PR1855 · Fonds · 1950-1989

The fonds consists of the records of Butler, Angus Engineering Limited and includes slides of mechanical and electrical tracings of buildings designed for Edmonton from 1950 to 1989 as well as an index to the images. The fonds also includes publications prepared by Angus, Butler Engineering Limited as well as publications and other materials prepared by Intercontinental Engineering Limited, primarily concerning an Athabasca Tar Sands project, and a photograph album commemorating the construction of the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria.

Butler Angus Engineering (1980)
PR0251 · Fonds · 1918-1985, predominant 1955-1969

Fonds consists of the records of the Calgarian Publishing Company including correspondence, annual reports, records of its incorporation, legal invoices, copies of The Calgarian, and newspaper clippings.

Calgarian Publishing Company
PR0502 · Fonds · 1936-1969

Fonds consists of volumes 1-22, and 34 of the Calgary Associate Clinic Historical Bulletin and various articles about pioneer doctors in Alberta.

Calgary Associate Clinic
PR1710 · Collection · 1982-1984

The collection consists of 23 bound volumes of transcripts of interviews with lawyers, judges, sheriffs, court reporters and clerks relating to the practice of law in southern Alberta. The interviews were conducted by Susie Sparks and James H Gray. Those interviewed were: the Honourable Gordon H. Allen, Q.C., “Barney” Barnett and Tom Malcolm, R.H. Barron, Q.C., W.F. Bowker, Q.C., E.M. Bredin, Q.C., Chester V. Burns, Q.C., R.L. Fenerty, Q.C., Spencer Cumming, Q.C., J.H. Gray, Dr. Ruth Gorman, Rollie Jardine, A.W. MacDonald, M.E. Jones, Q.C., A.W. Henricks, Q.C., the Honourable J.H. Laycraft, the Honourable W.G.N. Egbert, E.W.N. Macdonald, Q.C., the Honourable L.D. MacLean, the Honourable E.C. Manning, R.A. MacKimmie, Q.C., the Honourable R. Martland, Q.C., Marie McCaffary, D.P. McDonald, Q.C., the Honourable J.V.H. Milvain, Q.C., D.P. McLaws, Q.C., Archdeacon Cecil Swanson, Judge F. Thurgood, E. Kush, Q.C., A. Gilchrist, Mrs. Harry Nolan, Mrs. Orrin Might, Ruth Patterson, R.G. Black, Q.C., J.M. Pritchard, Q.C., J.J. Saucier, Q.C., Arthur R. Smith and Peter S. Vallance.

Calgary Bar Association Oral History Project
Series · 1958-2008

The series consists of the operational records of the Calgary Correctional Centre. The files include minutes of meetings, director's reports, and records related to inmate programs and services.

Alberta. Attorney General. Calgary Provincial Gaol
PR2917 · Fonds · [ca. 1909]

The fonds consists of two Calgary Electric Street Car Railway tickets dating from ca. 1909.

Calgary Electric Street Car Railway
Calgary Eye Opener fonds
PR3157 · Fonds · [between 1916 - 1917]

The fonds consists of 22 card blocks for the Calgary Eye Opener circa 1916 to 1917.

Calgary Eye Opener
PR3018 · Fonds · [ca. 1926] - 1945

The fonds consists of materials documenting the activities of the Alberta Prophetic Bible Institute circa 1926 to 1945 and includes: bulletins; pamphlets; lectures; bylaws; platforms; brochures and pamphlets related to Social Credit theory; and photographs of Ernest Manning speaking at the Institute.

Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute
PR0303 · Fonds · 1985-1988

Fonds consists of the business and financial records of the Calgary Quality of Life Association including correspondence, minutes, brochures, newsletters, and newspaper clippings.

Calgary Quality of Life Association
PR4281 · Fonds · 1978-2014

The fonds consists of administrative files created by CSIF over the course of its history. These include grant applications, minutes, correspondence, bylaws, policies, and newsletters. There are also program files for specific events such as the $100 Film Festival, film screenings, workshops, etc. There are also publicity files and press clippings that include posters, flyers, and other media.

The photos, slides, and negatives depict CSIF events or are production stills from CSIF members’ film shoots. The films are all copies of CSIF members’ work. This is not a complete collection of CSIF members’ films and should be considered a representative sample of CSIF works.

Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
PR1086 · Fonds · 1959-1978

The fonds includes the Calgary Theatre Singers’ (CTS) incorporation application and bylaws, set and stage plans, architectural drawings for a proposed CTS building, programmes, photographs from “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” fifteen scrapbooks containing newspaper articles and advertisement, telegrams, postcards and programmes for CTS productions such as “The Sound of Music,” “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Carousel,” “The King and I,” “My Fair Lady,” “Oliver,” “South Pacific,” and one scrapbook with articles about a proposed CTS building (from a donated Canadian National Railway station).

Calgary Theatre Singers
PR3429 · Fonds · 1988-1995

The fonds consists of annual reports (1988-1994, with gaps) and newsletters (1989-1995, with gaps).

Campbell-Stone United Church
PR3973 · Collection · 1964-1975

This collection contains microfilm reels of newspapers copied by the Canadian Library Association as part of its various microfilm projects. it includes various newspapers related to Alberta and the west, spanning 1871 to 1910, and includes Le Manitoba (1881-1900), Saskatchewan Herald (1878-1910), Farmer’s Advocate, Western Editor (1890-1910), Métis (1871-1881), Calgary Eye-Opener (1902-1922), Lethbridge News (1885-95), Macleod Gazette (1882-1906), and Edmonton Bulletin (1880-1906).

There are also some reels from the T. Eaton Co., including The T. Eaton Co. Limited mail Order Catalogue (1953-1964) and T. Eaton Catalogue (1884-1953).

Canadian Library Association
PR2276 · Fonds · 1929-1961

The fonds consists of meeting minutes of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Calgary Branch dating from 1929 to 1961 and a souvenir booklet entitled "Souvenir of Calgary, Visit of the Canadian Manufacturers Association 1906" printed by the Herald Company, Calgary, Alberta.

Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters. Calgary Branch
PR3066 · Fonds · 1913 - 1944

The fonds consists of records of the former bodies of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and includes minute books, attendance records, and receipt books of the local branch of the Federation Associated of Letter Carriers, Branch 14, 1927 - 1944. The fonds also includes a photograph featuring the members of Branch No. 15 (Calgary) of the Federation Association of Letter Carriers in 1913 and a photograph featuring the letter carriers of the Strathcona Post Office in 1913.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Carolyn Tavender fonds
PR3776 · Fonds · 1981-2015

The fonds is comprised of records related to Carolyn Tavender’s interior design work throughout her entire career, mainly in Alberta but also around the world. The textual records include correspondence, fees, applications, contracts, proposals, project reports, master copies of corporate projects, reference letters, corporate histories, brochures, posters, notices, banners, design themes, presentation boards, pamphlets, magazines, manuals, furniture inventories, and letters patent. There are many photographs, transparencies, and negatives of her design work at various stages of the projects, some including captions. Other photographs were previously used in the Canadian Pacific Limited offices and have labels, including themes such as railways, hotels, transport, war efforts, ships, planes, and oil and gas.

The fonds also includes drawings, plans, and specifications of the architecture, mechanical, electrical, furniture, floor finishes, millwork, planter, carpet, drapery drywall and signage, and sketches of the offices and floors Tavender designed. Accompanying the drawings are paint, wallpaper, fabric, tile, decal, and carpet samples.

The fonds also contains records related to Tavender's work with the Olympic Winter Games. These include a plaque dedicated for Tavender’s volunteer time on the XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee, two videocassettes relating to the work conducted by Tavender, and 1988 Calgary Olympic stickers and memorabilia from Tavender’s time on the committee.

Tavender, Carolyn
CFAC-TV fonds
PR0913 · Fonds · 1959 and 1973

Fonds consists of films about the official opening of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Calgary fires, Lake Louise, the University of Calgary, the First Social Credit Opposition, the resignation of Harry E. Strom, the National Energy Policy, the Calgary Public School Board, and the Calgary City Police Department.

CFAC Television
Charles Knight fonds
PR1654 · Fonds · 1926-1957, predominant 1926-1930

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Charles Knight’s patent for the Knight Tar Sand Recovery Process and includes correspondence, equipment brochures, chemical analysis reports, equipment inventories, and images from magazines of various oil sand areas. Fonds also includes technical drawings of the Knight Tar Sand Recovery Process machinery.

Knight, Charles
City of Calgary fonds
PR3160 · Fonds · 1915 - 1951

The fonds consists of auditor's reports and financial statements of the City of Calgary for 1915, 1917 - 1919, 1936, 1944- 1945, and 1950 - 1951.

City of Calgary
PR3021 · Collection · Copied 1971

The collection consists of copies of photographs dating from the 1870s to the 1910s in Alberta from the City of Edmonton Archives and includes images featuring Fort Saskatchewan, a log cabin, teepees near Fort Carlton, coal mining in Edmonton, the first jail in Calgary, Calgary's first City Hall, Calgary's first Land Titles Office, D. Ricker's lumber camps at Poplar Creek, and Main Street in Tofield. There are also photographs of churches in Edson and views of Fort McMurray.

City of Edmonton Archives
Clayton Willson fonds
PR2888 · Fonds · [ca. 1900] - 1929

The fonds documents Clayton Willson's career with CPR and consists of images of a CPR train and CPR boats at Arrow Lake, BC (1900), Clayton Willson on a CPR steamer (1908); Clayton Willson and other men in a CPR engine yard in Canmore, Alberta (1912); Clayton Willson inside the cab of the North Passenger Train #2532 behind the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) building in Calgary (1912), Alberta; Clayton Wilson in the cab of the North Passenger Train #2532 in front of the Palliser Hotel in Calgary (1929), and a map illustrating the stops and side trails along the track from Calgary to Field, BC [1910].

Willson, Clayton
PR3667 · Fonds · 1983-2013

The fonds consists of administrative and project files including correspondence, minutes, reports, studies and other supporting documentation. All projects are related to economic development in general, with French or Francophone involvement in particular, at many levels and in various domains—from cooperation to tourism, to education, to sports, to heritage.

Conseil de Développement économique de l'Alberta
PR0533 · Fonds · 1936-1953

Fonds consists of the business records of the Coronation Livestock Co-operative Association and includes Alberta Co-operative Union publications, annual reports, and company letterhead.

Coronation Livestock Co-operative Association
Corrine Hulburd fonds
PR1068 · Fonds · 1905-1955

Fonds consists of scrapbooks containing poems, newspaper clippings and magazine articles by and about various celebrities, musicians, and political figures. Fonds also includes photograph albums containing black and white and coloured photographs of Seattle, United States of America, Waterloo, Quebec and Mexico, as well as to Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia and various places in Alberta including Peace River, Athabasca, South Cooking Lake and Edmonton. A large portion of the photographs depicts houses, streets and building interiors in Edmonton, Alberta, but there are also photographs which depict log cabins, ships and boats, women, children, beaches, picnics and other recreational activities, gardens and flowers, bridges, churches, airplanes and float planes, automobiles, hospital, university and civic buildings, street views, parades, members of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP), a golf course, schools, sawmills, railroads, hotels, and members of the Royal family. Fonds also includes pictorial souvenir booklets of Banff and Calgary, Alberta, and photographic and mechanically produced postcards.

Hulburd, Corrine
PR2951 · Collection · Copied 1968

The collection consists of a copy photograph and negative featuring cowboys from the Calgary Stampede circa 1926. The collection also includes a list identifying the individuals in the photograph. The photographer remains unidentified.

Unknown donor
Cyril Alwin Tregillus fonds
PR3135 · Fonds · [before 1972]

The fonds consists of the reminiscences of Cyril Alwin Tregillus written before 1972. The reminiscences, which cover the years 1902-1914, discuss his childhood in Alberta and his career in agriculture.

Tregillus, Cyril A.
PR0852 · Fonds · 0.01 m of textual records

Fonds consists of the administrative records of the Daughters of Germany Club and includes, correspondence, bylaws, notices, recipes, and issues of various club newsletters including the German Canadian Club in "Shangri La" newsletter. Fonds also consists of copied records that date from 1957-1972, which includes correspondence, membership lists, and a newspaper clipping.

Daughters of Germany Club
Daughters of Penelope fonds
PR3788 · Fonds · 1959-2009

The fonds consist of administrative records of the Daughters of Penelope, Calgary Chapter that documents their activities, interests, issues and commitments. The records specifically include: minutes, financial reports, correspondence, membership lists, newsletters, scholarship applications, yearbooks, and constitutions and bylaws.

Daughters of Penelope. Calgary Chapter
David Carter fonds
PR2279 · Fonds · 1908 - 1992

The fonds consists of an unpublished history of the Anglican Diocese of Calgary written by David Carter in 1992; an unpublished history of the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton written by Reverend Randall Ivany in 1992; an unpublished history of the Anglican Diocese of Athabasca written by Derek Hoskin in 1992; a transcript of a taped interview with Most Reverend Walter F. Barfoot, Primate of Anglican Church of Canada conducted by David Carter in 1966; photographs of various Anglican churches and individuals in Alberta dating from 1905 to 1947; and three audiotapes of interviews conducting by David Carter in 1977 and 1978 documenting the history of the Athabasca Diocese from 1905 to 1992 with the Most Reverend Frederick W. Crabb, Bishop of Athabasca, and Bishop R.J. Pierce, Bishop of Athabasca. The fonds also includes an order of service for the induction of the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's land dating from 1970.

Carter, David
PR3433 · Fonds · 1980-1994

The fonds consists of annual reports (1980-1994); Quarterly Official Board minutes (1981-1983); congregational meetings records (1981-1982); financial statements (1988); newsletters (1981-1991, with gaps); and historical data (1986).

Deer Park United Church
Dennis Brooks fonds
PR3673 · Fonds · 1949-1979

The fonds consists of slides that depict sites and scenes from around Alberta, with particular emphasis on Peace River, Edmonton, and Calgary. There are images of community events in Peace River (including auctions and fireworks displays), parades in Edmonton, and the Calgary Stampede. There are also images of oil crews in northern Alberta, including images of oil scouts working in the bush.

Brooks, Dennis
Dorothy Arliss-Andrews fonds
PR1442 · Fonds · [ca. 1918]-1932

Fonds consists of photographs depicting various people, buildings and events in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta including the Legislature buildings, Calgary Stampede, parades, a Sarcee reserve, the Western Ski Championship, an ice carnival, a reception for Lord Byng, Royal North West Mounted Police officers, First Nations men and women, and street views. Fonds also includes a photograph and obituary for Major Leon Charles Eckenfelder, a memorial article about Vernor W. Smith, and books of poetry written by W.V. Newson.

Arliss-Andrews, Dorothy
Dorothy Gray fonds
PR3258 · Fonds · 1949-1978

The fonds consists of records pertaining to Dorothy Gray's involvement with a variety of Calgary women’s groups including the Calgary Women’s Press Club, the Media Club of Canada, the Calgary Press Club, the Women’s Canadian Club, the Calgary Canadian Citizenship Council, the Alberta Heart Foundation, the Ladies Auxiliary, and the Imperial Order of the Daughters of Empire.

Gray, Dorothy
Doug Haynes fonds
PR2481 · Fonds · [between ca. 1960 - 1969]

The fonds consists of 17 drawings of the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta dating from the 1960's created by Doug Haynes. The fonds also includes 11 photographs of the Deputy Ministers of the Government of Alberta Department of Public Works dating from the 1960's taken by Doug Haynes.

Haynes, Doug
E. Kendrick fonds
PR2139 · Fonds · 1928-1936

The fonds consists of a notebook detailing the activities of E. Kendrick. The notebook refers to weather, harvesting, and also contains verses, and dates from 1928-1936.

Kendrick, E.
Edith H. Gostick fonds
PR0687 · Fonds · 1934-1935

Fonds consists of two Alberta Social Credit Party election posters.

Gostick, Edith H.
Edith Kirby fonds
PR2585 · Fonds · [1912]

The fonds consists of a booklet entitled Calgary - Alberta -Canada published in ca. 1912.

Kirby, Edith
Emil Skarin fonds
PR1071 · Fonds · 1908-1961

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Emil Skarin's employment with Crown Paving Company, and includes photograph albums and photographs depicting road surfacing and construction, mainly on Edmonton, Alberta streets and at the Edmonton airport, and includes images of work crews, paving equipment and machinery, houses, street views, automobiles, horses, airplanes, building interiors, and work camps. Fonds also includes photographs depicting road surfacing in British Columbia, Lethbridge, Ponoka, Banff, Blackfalds, and Calgary, Alberta, and paving company buildings and equipment in the United States. Included in this fonds are photographs depicting coal mining equipment, machinery, employees and buildings, a souvenir booklet of images from the Calgary Pageant in 1908, four mechanically produced reproductions of photographs that depict First Nations chiefs, and maps depicting northern and southern Alberta.

Skarin, Emil
PR3879 · Fonds · 1976-2012

The fonds consists of the EMMEDIA media library, most of which are copies of members’ productions. These titles were created on a wide variety of video and audio media and span from the earliest days of EMMEDIA (with a few titles created by future EMMEDIA members prior to the establishment of the organization or its predecessor) to 2012. For the most part, these are short works created by EMMEDIA members or using EMMEDIA equipment and provided to EMMEDIA for preservation purposes. The works cover a wide variety of topics and include experimental, narrative, documentary, performance, and installation works.

The remainder of the titles consist of recordings of EMMEDIA events/workshops and a small collection of works created by media artists unaffiliated with EMMEDIA, most likely acquired for exhibition.

EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society
Eric Musgreave fonds
PR1712 · Fonds · 1975-1989

The fonds consists of the records of Eric Musgreave from his time as Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Calgary-McKnight Constituency. The records have been divided into the following series: Constituency records, Information Service records, Personal records, Speech records, Legislature records, Alberta Research Council records and Issue records.

Musgreave, Eric
Esther N. Kelly fonds
PR1518 · Fonds · 1931-1941

The fonds consists of photographs of views of Edmonton and Calgary, predominantly of buildings including university buildings, schools, churches, hotels, hospitals, libraries, court houses, grain elevators, train stations, city halls, armouries as well as bridges, monuments, rivers and parks; views of the Rocky Mountains, especially around Kootenay Park and Radium, British Columbia, including mountains, hot springs, canyons, rivers, trees, and highways; various views of Stanley Park and Capilano Canyon and River in Vancouver, British Columbia; postcards of the Alberta-British Columbia border, Bow Lake, Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise, Sicamous Hotel, Central School (Calgary), views of Banff buildings, water falls and mountains; and a booklet of scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Kelly, Esther N.
F. Morris Flewwelling fonds
PR1008 · Fonds · 1917-1972, predominant 1960-1972

Fonds consists of the personal records of F. Morris Flewwelling and includes programmes from various orchestral and theatrical productions performed in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, and includes the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's newsletter, Encore, and the Calgary Philharmonic Society's newsletter, Bravura. Fonds also includes souvenir pamphlets from Alix and Banff, Alberta, a copied newspaper clipping about singer Elena Nikolaidi, various Alberta Department of Education departmental examinations, Province of Alberta Centennial Bulletins, negatives depicting an orchestra, children, musicians and musical instruments, and copied photographs dating 1916 that depict the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, including a parade, various events, and First Nations people, including Blackfoot Chief Yellow Horse.

Flewwelling, F. Morris
Flora Lamb fonds
PR1586 · Fonds · 1854-1946

The fonds consists of the personal records of Flora Lamb, and includes A Universal History of the World, From Creation to the Year 1780, Revised and Brought Down to the Year 1853, souvenir albums for Calgary and Edmonton with photographic reproductions of city sites and buildings, and photograph and postcard albums containing commercially-produced postcards, and photographic postcards and photographs of family and friends.

Lamb, Flora
Frank Walker fonds
PR1999 · Fonds · 1916-1979

The fonds consists of images copied from glass negatives, originally dating from 1906 to about 1920, and includes images of various family members, friends, homes and homesteading, taken in Edmonton, Manly and Round Hill. The fonds also includes two photographs of United Farmers of Alberta delegates in Calgary and a copy of a paper about the history of the Hay Lakes Mutual Telephone Company.

Walker, Frank
PR3235 · Fonds · [1945]-1951

Fonds consists of negative photographs taken in locations across Alberta including Stettler, Edmonton, Calgary, and Buffalo Lake and depict road trips, urban and natural landscapes, military installations, Queen Elizabeth's 1951 visit to Alberta, and Layton family members and friends.

Layton, Fraser and Margaret
Fred Stewart fonds
PR0299 · Fonds · 1981-1994, predominant 1988-1992

The fonds consists of records created and received by Fred Stewart as Minister of Technology, Research and Telecommunications, including publications and other reference material created prior to his tenure. The files include correspondence, reports, speeches, press releases, briefing books, minutes of meetings, and subject files pertaining to planning, accommodations, broadcasting and cable, federal-provincial relations, recycling, Alberta Government Telephones (AGT), ACCESS, space initiatives, Science Alberta, Alberta Research Council, cabinet and caucus meeting materials, individual line service, Chembiomed, and other corporations, associations and societies.

Stewart, Fred
Frederick George Topp fonds
PR3132 · Fonds · Copied 1970

The fonds consists of a copy of Frederick George Topp's autobiography, "An Immigrant of '82". The autobiography recounts Topp's life in Calgary as well as politics, business, the North West Mounted Police, and railroad construction.

Topp, Frederick George
Gary Dickson fonds
PR0153 · Fonds · 1981-2001

The fonds consists of the records created and received by Gary Dickson in both his capacity as a political party member of the Liberal Caucus and also as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the riding of Calgary Buffalo. The records are both provincial and local in geographic scope. Gary Dickson was the only Liberal MLA serving in the Calgary region in the late 1990’s and therefore he found his area of representation grew to encompass a larger area than his elected constituency of Calgary Buffalo. The fonds has been divided into two series accordingly: Liberal Caucus series; and Calgary Buffalo constituency series.

Dickson, Gary
Gary Zeman collection
PR3995 · Collection · 1918-1984

The collection consists of photographs of the Edmonton Flyers hockey team, Edmonton Chimos hockey team, Vimy Bantam hockey team, Edmonton Waterloo Mercurys hockey team, the University of Alberta hockey team, Clarence Campbell, and the Calgary Canadians Juniors hockey team.

Zeman, Gary
George Fyfe fonds
PR1853 · Fonds · 1940-1949

The fonds consists of a booklet entitled “Instructions to Agents at the Polls,” issued by the National Conservative Party for the Dominion General Elections in 1940, a campaign card for the Calgary West Constituency candidate A.L. (Arthur LeRoy) Smith (as well as the Progressive Conservative leader George Drew), issued by the Calgary West Progressive Conservative Association and a Rural Preliminary list of electors for the Electoral District of Calgary East, Rural Polling Division No. 58, Big Rock.

Fyfe, George
Georgina Sackville fonds
PR1689 · Fonds · 1929-1940

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Georgina Sackville's book, Birth Control or Prevention of Conception and includes the book, correspondence, drafts of the introduction, and an advertising flyer. Fonds also includes photographs depicting Georgina and Alfred Sackville and their home.

Sackville, Georgina
Gerald Schuler fonds
PR1145 · Fonds · 1918-1952

The fonds consists of two photographs, one of the 1918 United Farmers of Alberta annual convention, and one of the 1952 Farm Women’s Union of Alberta annual convention.

Schuler, Gerald
Gertrude Ragan fonds
PR0842 · Fonds · 1921

Fonds consists of photographic postcards depicting the ski long jump at the Calgary Winter Carnival.

Ragan, Gertrude
Govier family fonds
PR3791 · Fonds · 1912-2016

The fonds consists of records related to the education and careers of George, Doris, and Katherine Govier as well as the family life of the Goviers. Records include obituaries, diaries, degrees, awards, speeches, teaching material, publications, conference material, anniversary material, journals, reports, business records, geneaology, biographical notes, newspaper clippings, articles, notebooks, writing, correspondence, interviews, ceremonies, architectural drawings, and maps. Photographs, negatives and slides show travel, work, and family.

Govier, George W.
Graham Smith fonds
PR0926 · Fonds · 1919-1921

Fonds consists of photographs depicting the Edmonton Fire Department in and a Canadian Fire Chief Convention in Calgary, Alberta.

Smith, Graham
H.A. Waterhouse fonds
PR0419 · Fonds · 1913-1930

Fonds consists of a University of Calgary Closing Ceremonies programme from 1913, and a drivers’ license from 1930.

Waterhouse, H.A.
Harold D. Finch collection
PR0530 · Collection · 1916

Collection consists of a photograph and a copied pay list of ‘A’ Company, Platoon 4, 89th Battery, in Calgary, Alberta.

Finch, Harold D.
Harold Medjuck collection
PR2011 · Collection · [ca. 1896 – 1955]

The three lantern slides and four stereoviews are as follows: “A Treacherous Crevasse in Victoria Glacier;” Centre Street Bridge – Calgary (colour); “Midnight Sun [river boat] – G. Rubie – 1896;” “Mt. Edith Cavell from Jasper Park Lodge…;”Beautiful Crystal Garden and Cascade Mountain Range, Banff, Alberta, Canada;” “One of the Three Sisters Overlooking the Snow River Valley, Banff, Alberta, Canada; ”Ancient Monarch of the Herd, Buffalo at Banff, Alberta, Canada.”

Medjuck, Harold L.
Harold Shutt fonds
PR2790 · Fonds · [ca. 1917] - 1928

The fonds consists of a Calgary Exhibition and Stampede poster dating from 1928, and a picture postcard featuring Jasper Avenue west from 100th St in Edmonton circa 1917.

Shutt, Harold
Harry Pearce fonds
PR0633 · Fonds · Copied 1972

Fonds consist of a photograph depicting the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) barracks in Calgary, Alberta dated 1910, and an undated article entitled History of the Establishment of the Chief Parks along the Main Line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Waterton Lakes Park in Southern Alberta and Jasper Park along the Canadian National Railway in the neighbourhood of Yellowhead Pass in the Rocky Mountains, written by William Pearce.

Pearce, Harry
Harry Pollard fonds
PR0125 · Fonds · 1875-1970

Fonds consists of two scrapbooks with letters, clippings and photographs related to Pollard's family and travels, tour brochures and lists of photographs taken on foreign journeys, an essay on the Cardston Temple and magazines with Pollard's photographs. Fonds also consists of a photographic supply catalogue, a large number of photographs taken or collected by Pollard, cinefilms created by Pollard, two order books, lantern slides, correspondence, magazines and brochures.

Pollard, Harry
Helen Westley fonds
PR4130 · Fonds

The fonds consists of an interview by Sheila Way of Helen Westley as part of the oral history project of the AARN History of Nursing oral project. Westley describes her training at Holy Cross Hospital in Calgary and her work as a professional nurse in Southern Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and as a volunteer with CUSO, in a medical mission in Papua-New Guinea (a one-year appointment). She observed the doctor/nurse/patient relationships in the hospitals in which she worked, and comments on the changes that have occurred since she began nursing. There is background noise on the audiotape which obscures the dialogue in some places.

Westley, Helen
Hillhurst collection
PR2536 · Collection · [195-]

The collection includes five photographs of Hillhurst, Alberta. The photographs are exterior and interior shots of small commercial properties. One photo has written on the back, "Interior view Chinese laundry [spans], Calgary [Maxwell] Property." The other four photographs have no written description but the three exterior shots may be identified through store signage, including, Hillhurst Hardware, Laval Cleaners, Brydson's and [Wallis Sign Service].

Calgary [Maxwell] Property