The fonds consists of the records of Alexander John Charnetski relating to his involvement in agriculture, and includes slides of livestock, barn plans, farm equipment and pastures. The fonds also includes correspondence, reports, records, including a photograph, relating to the Agriculture Officers Orientation conducted by the Canadian Civil Defense College, and yearbooks of the Olds School of Agriculture and the Vermilion School of Agriculture.
Charnetski, Alexander JohnFonds consists of records belonging to Arthur Marshall including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and postcards.
Marshall, ArthurThe fonds consists of correspondence and assessments for the Municipal District of Beaver Dam #281. The records include a description of changes in land assessment, property assessment lists, declarations of assessment, and other correspondence between George Hunter and officials such as the commissioner and the deputy minister of municipal affairs.
Beaver Dam Municipal District #281Fonds consists of the business records of the Coburn Mutual Telephone Company and includes minutes, financial records, subscriber accounts, correspondence, subscriber lists, and a map.
Coburn Mutual Telephone CompanyThe fonds consists of images, originally dating 1907 to 1941, of the 1939 Royal Visit, the unveiling of the cairn at Frog Lake, and other images from Kitscoty including store exteriors and interiors, banks, streets, horses, wagons, bison, automobiles, snow banks, hockey teams, tents, fishing, children, swimming as well as R.W. Miller’s store in Lloydminster, the Olds Agricultural School, Sylvan Lake, picnics at Lake Laurier, boats, boating and a cabin at Cold Lake.
Dale, JohnThe collection consists of five photo-postcards featuring locations and activities in small town Alberta dating from circa 1900 to 1940 including: "Main Street, Killam, Alberta", "Killam Memorial Arena", "Grading Near Excel", "Gullekson's Outfit, Oyen, Alberta", and "Railway Ave, Olds, Alberta".
Wetheral, ElizabethThe collection consists of fire insurance maps for the following communities in Alberta:
Alix, 1910
Bawlf, 1910
Blairmore, 1925
Bruce, 1910
Burdett, 1910
Carbon, 1924
Cardson, 1915
Carmangay, 1910
Castor, 1910
Claresholm, 1906
Cochrane, 1908
Coleman, 1905
Daysland, 1924
Didsbury, 1924
Exshaw, 1910
Frank, 1906
Gadsby, 1910
Gleichen, 1916
Grande Prairie, 1916
Hanna, 1922
Hardieville, 1920
Hardisty, 1910
High River, 1915
Holden, 1910
Irma, 1931
Irvine, 1910
Killiam, 1910
Lacombe, 1946
Leduc, 1930
Fort Macleod, 1912
Manville, 1918
Monarch, 1910
Morinville, 1930
Mundare, 1946
Nanton, 1931,
Olds, 1924
Pincher Creek, 1908
Ponoka 1924
Provost, 1924
Redcliffe, 1913
Ryley, 1910
Steller, 1951
Strome, 1931
Taber, 1910
Tofield, 1910
Vegreville, 1930
The fonds consists of the records of Frank Sidney Grisdale. The fonds is divided into the following three series: Diaries; General files; and Farm records.
Grisdale, Frank SidneyFonds consists of records reflecting Parkinson’s interest and involvement with the agricultural community in Alberta including photographs, negatives, postcards, correspondence, newspaper clippings, blueprints for the stook sweep and reports.
Parkinson, Fred FreemanThe fonds consists of the records of the Hainstock Mutual Telephone Company, and includes telephone statistics, financial statements, annual reports, correspondence, minutes, accounts and maps.
Hainstock Mutual Telephone CompanyFonds consists of the business records of the Harmattan-Sundre Mutual Telephone Company and includes minutes, memorandum, voting proxies, agreements, notices, annual returns, annual reports, telephone statistics, correspondence, promissory notes, receipts, subscriber lists, share certificates, financial records, subscriber accounts, line maintenance records, plans, newspaper clippings, and maps.
Harmattan-Sundre Mutual Telephone CompanyThe first of these photographs is a composite portrait of the 1910 Travelling Representatives of Western Canada’s Lumber Industries. The photo is mounted on matte board and was created by Gauvin Gantzel and Company photographers of Winnipeg. The photo contains individual portraits of John Nelson as well as his business associates Tom Cuddy and S.L. Raymond. The second photo depicts farm workers and a thresher in Olds, Alberta ca. 1910s.
Nelson, John McQueenThe fonds contain textual records and photographs from various members of the Lunden family. The records come from across the family and have been sorted by which family members they came from and the time periods that they span. The textual records include documents such as birth and marriage certificates, letters between family members and friends, business records from various ventures, stories and histories written by the family, and school records, among others.
The photographs are generally well-sorted and labeled with names and dates on the envelopes, depicting a broad picture of the family and their histories.
The fonds represents a broad—and sometimes deep—picture of the work and lives of an Alberta family, including early years after immigration, raising of a multigenerational family, farming in Alberta, and life during the Great Depression.
Lunden FamilyThe fonds consists of photographs relating to the dairy industry in Alberta and includes images of dairy conventions, groups standing in front of train cars, the Valhalla Creamery, G.W. Scott instructing students of the Olds School of Agriculture, and G.W. Scott conducting an experiment.
Scott, MarjorieThe photographic records are comprised of photographs of Maurine, her family, and some friends in Olds and Lethbridge, Alberta. Most of these photographs have been labeled with people, places, and dates by Maurine and her family.
The photographic records from Nelson Maslen include images of his early life and family, hometown buildings and people, the family farm, and travels. Also included are photographs of people, including relatives, friends, and returned POWs. There is also a small photo album of photographs of a truck accident that Nelson Maslen was called to assist with.
The textual records include Maurine’s Bible (with a genealogy section), Maurine’s baby book, balance and financials notebooks, cards and correspondence, teaching and schooling certificates and reviews, recipe books with notes and markings, and collected textual records and memories from Ruth Maslen.
Maslen FamilyThe fonds consists of minutes of annual Ministerial Sessions and District Meetings (1912-1915); Financial District minutes (1910-1915); and General Conference Fund, Social Service and Evangelism Fund, Educational Fund statements and correspondence (1913-1916).
Methodist Church (Canada). Olds DistrictThe fonds consists of a farm record book for the Clark farm from circa 1905 to 1963.
Michael Clark familyThe fonds consists of minutes, tax rolls and assessments, disbursements, and cashbooks of the former local authorities of Mountain View County dating from 1904 – 1972.
The fonds also consists of minutes, registers, and assessment and tax rolls for a number of school districts dating from 1904 – 1989.
The fonds also contains a map illustrating the land boundaries of Mountain View County No. 17.
Mountain View CountyCollection consists of copied photographs dating about 1910-1930 that depict various people, buildings and views in the Olds, Alberta area and includes picnics, automobiles, houses, the Percy Edwards threshing outfit, a men’s curling team, logging, street views, and Moritz Lake. Collection also includes a photocopied history of Olds district by O.S. Moore entitled In the Shadow of the Rockies.
Mountain View MuseumThe fonds consists of instructional and informational films produced in the 1920s by the University of Alberta, Department of Extension for use at the Olds School of Agriculture. The fonds also includes material commemorating Olds School of Agriculture including newsletters, pamphlets, a history of the school, a coin, stamps, and photographs.
Alberta. Agriculture. Olds School of AgricultureFonds consists of the business records of the Olds Northwest Mutual Telephone Company including minutes, financial records, correspondence, reports, agreements, maps, and published advertisements.
Olds Northwest Mutual Telephone CompanyFonds consists of the business records of the Olds South West Mutual Telephone Company and includes minutes, financial records, subscriber accounts, receipts, returned cheques, cheque stubs, correspondence, bank statements, and a map.
Olds South West Mutual Telephone CompanyFonds consists of photographs depicting the construction of the High Level bridge in Edmonton, Alberta dating 1910-1913, and a photograph of the interior of Moore’s Drugstore in Olds, Alberta dated 1915.
Cross, R. R.The fonds consists of images of Sam Stoochnoff's mother and other Ukrainian women pulling a plough through a field taken in 1899 by an unidentified photographer.
Stoochnoff, SamCollection consists of photocopied newspaper clipping about Margaret McCauley dated 1961 and copied photographs dating 1914-1974 which depict various people, buildings, businesses, and views in Three Hills, Alberta including Harvey Moir Elliot.
Three Hills and District Museum