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Archival description
Albert Donnelly fonds
PR2339 · Fonds · 1993

The fonds consists of 2 audio cassette recordings of an oral history conducted by the Old Strathcona Foundation with Albert Donnelly.

Donnelly, Albert
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
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
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
PR3822 · Collection · 1961-2015

The collection consists of issues of the Rimbey Reporter, Rimbey Review, Red Deer Advocate, Co-operative Consumer, Lakes District News, The Advocate, Daily Herald-Tribune, Fototab: A Photographic Journal of the Lakes District, Central Alberta Parkland News, and Ponoka County News.

Bentley Museum
Canada Map Office collection
PR3985 · Collection · 1834, 1966-1992, predominant 1966-1992

This collection contains a broad scope of published maps, mainly depicting Canada, Alberta, and smaller-scale maps within Alberta. Some examples of the areas depicted on larger-scale maps include Alberta communities of Paradise Valley, Grizzly Bear Creek, Lloyminster, Delacour, Trochu, Cluny, Bearspaw, Lac La Biche, Kananaskis Lake, Weberville, Grande Prairie, Brazeau Lake, Edmonton, Red Deer, and Wainwright.

The maps come from a variety of original sources and served a wide range of original purposes. Most were created by the federal National Topographic Survey, many more are general topographical maps, and some were produced for the National Atlas of Canada, among other purposes.

Canada. Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources. Canada Map Office
Chris Mundle fonds
PR1501 · Fonds · Copied 1984

The fonds consists of images of the Red Deer Rustlers hockey team from 1971 and 1980.

Mundle, Chris
PR3028 · Fonds · 1943 - 1991

The fonds consists of records documenting the operation of the Consumers' Association of Canada, Alberta Association, including its predecessor bodies and its local branches. The fonds includes speeches, publications, advertisements, and correspondence of the Wartime Price and Trade Board dating from the 1940s; reports, promotions, bulletins, publications, financial statements, receipt books, constitution, lists of officers, minutes of executive and general meetings, briefs, and submissions to government bodies of Edmonton Local Branch dating from the 1960s to the 1980s; addresses, briefs, memos, bulletins, press releases, Treasurers' reports, cash books, daily logs, memberships lists, photographs, and pamphlets of Consumers' Association of Canada, Alberta Association, dating from the 1960s to the 1990s; and minutes of the Lethbridge Local Branch and the Red Deer Local Branch dating from the 1960s.

Consumers' Association of Canada. Alberta Association
Cory Cunningham fonds
PR0057 · Fonds · 1972-1994

The fonds consists of architectual plans of college and university campuses, private residences, churches, medical, provincial and commercial buildings, and light rail transit stations in Alberta. It also consists of the correspondence, reports, contracts and financial records relating to these plans.

Cunningham, Cory
Donald McBride fonds
PR0052 · Fonds · 1913-1969

Fonds consists of daily registers of the Edmonton Residential School from 1942 to 1967, financial records of the Red Deer Industrial School from 1913 to 1919, of the Edmonton Industrial School from 1920 to 1923, of the Edmonton Residential School from 1923 to 1952, and administrative files relating to the staff and students of the Edmonton Residential School from 1958 to 1969; Fairview Credit Union Board of Directors minutes from 1945 to 1950.

McBride, Donald
Dorothy Dyde collection
PR0636 · Collection · 1904-1930

Collection consists of programmes from various professional and amateur theatre and music productions held in a number of venues in Edmonton, Alberta, including the Empire Theatre, McDougall Auditorium, Edmonton Opera House, Marie Hall, Grand Theatre, Thistle Rink, Glenora Skating Club, Edmonton Arena, Orpheum Vaudeville, and Temple Theatre. Collection also includes a souvenir menu from the Shasta Grill in Edmonton and a photograph capturing a fire in Alfred Block in Red Deer, Alberta.

Dyde, Dorothy
Dorothy Tetley fonds
PR1801 · Fonds · Copied 1988

The fonds consists of images, originally dating circa (ca.) 1940 to 1943, of a rifle practice at a local range for members of the Veterans Guard of Canada for Red Deer and District; identifiable members in the images include Rex Tetley and Jack Drever.

Tetley, Dorothy
Edmund Warlow fonds
PR2865 · Fonds · 1983 - 1993

The fonds consists of copies of letters Edmund Warlow wrote to his mother in Simla, India while he homesteaded in Red Deer, Alberta and during his service in World War I from 1914 - 1916. In 1993, Patricia Honnor copied and bound the letters. The fonds also includes an introduction written by Patricia Honnor while she sought a publisher for the letters.

Warlow, Edmund
Evelyn Jenner fonds
PR1482 · Fonds · Copied 1984

The fonds consists of images of the Red Deer Amazons Hockey Club (women’s team), originally dating 1928 to 1934, and the Red Deer Hockey Club, originally dating 1931 to 1932, for whom Fred Jenner played.

Jenner, Evelyn
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
Fred Freschette collection
PR3904 · Collection · 1906 - 1938

The collection consists of photographs of Red Deer, Dalemead, Lacombe, and Old Basing in the early decades of the twentieth century. The account book is a farm ledger belonging to Arthur L. Long.

Freschette, Fred
G.A. MacAllister fonds
PR1754 · Fonds · 1897-1976

The fonds consists of materials gathered by G.A. MacAllister about all aspects of the dairy industry and dairy farming and includes publications, journal articles, newsletters, architectural drawings of barns, mechanically produced prints of cattle breeds and photographs.

MacAllister, G.A
George F. Chipman fonds
PR3914 · Fonds · 1903 - 1904

The fonds consists of photographs created by Chipman of the Calmar, Red Deer, Sunnyvale, Penhold, and Edmonton areas as well as memoirs on Chipman's teaching experiences in Alberta.

Chipman, George Fisher
Gordon Sorensen fonds
PR0588 · Fonds · 1958-1960

Fonds consists of photographs depicting buses and employees of Sorensen Bus Lines.

Sorensen, Gordon
PR0283 · Fonds · 1915-1945, Copied 1970

The textual records in the fonds includes two school district cashbooks (1915-1920 and 1935-1939) and an assessment and tax roll for the Great Bend School District (1940-1945). Fonds also consists of microfilm copies of the Great Bend School District No. 814 records from 1903 until 1944 including minutes, bylaws, and financial records.

Great Bend School District
Henri Rioux fonds
PR0987 · Fonds · Copied 1980

The fonds consists of images originally dating from about 1924 to 1940, of churches, a garage, the Jesuit College Orchestra, J.A. Rioux, and an Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta float, from Villeneuve, Bonnyville, Red Deer and Edmonton.

Rioux, Henri
J.B. Tyrrell collection
PR2850 · Collection · Copied 1966

The collection consists of copies of photographs taken in 1881, 1883, 1886 and 1900 by J.B. Tyrrell of locations in Alberta. The photographs feature Chipewyan, Hudson's Bay Company posts, Fort McKay, Red River carts, the Athabasca River, Smith's landing, Lac La Biche, Saddle Lake Mission, sled dogs, the Red Deer Settlement, Edmonton, Lorne Crossing, Blackfoot Creek, Bear Lake, Red River Carts, Calgary, Rocky Mountain House, Fort Pitt, Fort Saskatchewan, and Battle Lake.

Tyrrell, J.B.
John Grey Dixon fonds
PR1683 · Fonds · 1936-1965

Fonds consists of ration coupons, financial records, correspondence, receipts, tax notices, theatre and church service programmes, agreements, auction posters and a commercial road map of British Columbia. Fonds also includes various publications including the Central Alberta Farm and Ranch Directory, a Red Deer and district telephone directory, and an issue of Reddy Reader.

Dixon, John Grey
John Tobias fonds
PR3825 · Fonds · 1964-2013

The fonds consists of research papers, lecture notes, research notes taken for his dissertation, papers from John Tobias’ teaching career at Red Deer College, court case files from his time as a subject matter advisor, high school memorabilia, and recordings of lectures and presentations.

Tobias, John
Ken Renshaw fonds
PR3708 · Fonds · 1943-1944

The fonds consists of five issues of The Penhold Log, which was the bulletin/newsletter of 36 SFTS RAF Penhold, Ken Renshaw’s liquor ration card, and a souvenir booklet of photos of Edmonton that Renshaw annotated with his impressions of the city.

The fonds also photographs consist of snapshots taken around RAF Penhold, Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton. There are also images of events such as dances for the airmen and a carnival in Penhold that was attended by airmen. The photographs also include postcards featuring images of various sites visited by Renshaw in Alberta (including Red Deer, Banff, Edmonton, and Calgary) and well as a few images of Salmon Run, British Columbia where Renshaw had relatives. Some of the postcards have remarks on the back written by Renshaw regarding the sites depicted on the front.

Renshaw, Ken
Laurence M. Unwin fonds
PR0807 · Fonds · 1905-1928

Fonds consists of maps of Canadian National Railway trackage in Red Deer, Alberta, photographs of Canadian National Railway tracks and rail cars, a cemetery plan for Red Deer Cemetery, specifications of a Lacombe and North Western Railway power unit, and a newspaper clipping.

Unwin, Laurence M.
Lou Paul fonds
PR2166 · Fonds · 1991

The fonds consists of one audio CD recording of “This is Lou Paul Running South on a Northbound Train” by Lou Paul, dating from 1991.

Paul, Lou
Margaret Waldron fonds
PR0287 · Fonds · 1908-1971, predominant 1908-1912

Fonds consists of a typed copy of Margaret Waldron’s homestead diary and personal expense books.

Waldron, Margaret
Marguerite Schumacher fonds
PR4142 · Fonds

The fonds consists of news clippings about Marguerite Schumacher (1964-1973), monographs, reports and studies she wrote and collected (1968- ca 1970), and one speech. "Reflections on the Process of Change" (1989). There are also audiotaped recordings of a conversation between Marguerite Schumacher and Glenna Gorrill in which they discuss of the establishment of the diploma course in nursing at Red Deer College in 1968. They describe the pattern of education they wanted for the student nurses, the need to win the support of the College, the Hospital staff, and the community for a program based in a college, not in a hospital. The students would have a broad base of correlated academic subjects from several departments, and would serve their practicum periods in hospitals, doctors’ offices, community agencies and nursing homes. They would each be assigned to a family from the community and keep a journal on the health progress of the family members. The program included research, initiated by outside consultants and academics as well as by the Nursing School staff. Continuing education, also offered to community nurses, included night classes, guest lecturers from throughout the province, and academic work coordinated with the universities that would lead to the BScN degree. The taped dialogue runs 60 minutes. Textual material deposited with the audiotape includes articles and reports by Marguerite Schumacher, 1970-1973, describing the program as it progressed.

Schumacher, Marguerite
Mary Beatrice Rundle fonds
PR2176 · Fonds · 1935

The fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled by Mary Rundle during her service as Private Secretary to Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow for the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry in Alberta dating from 1935.

The scrapbook contains diary entries, postcards, and photographs of Alberta including photographs of the Tofield Coal Mine, Rabbit Hill, MacDonald Hotel in Edmonton, Red Deer Ferry, Henderson’s Mine, Drumheller, Lethbridge, Blairmore, Crow’s Nest Mountain and Lake, Old Man River, Forest Reserve near Thunder Creek, Banff, Kicking Horse Pass, Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake, Kicking Horse Canyon, Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Caste Mountain (Saskatchewan), Luscar, Cadomin, Crazeau, Mountain Park, Leyard Junction, Luscar, Edson, Coalspar, the Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton, as well as photographs of Sir Montague-Barlow, Lady Montague-Barlow, and coal miners in Alberta.

Rundle, Mary Beatrice
PR3476 · Fonds · 1904-1925

The fonds consists of minutes of annual Ministerial Sessions and District Meetings (1904-1925, with gaps) and Leonard Gaetz Memorial [Methodist] Church, minutes (extract), (1918).

Methodist Church (Canada). Red Deer District
Michael Keusch fonds
PR2579 · Fonds · 1980 - 1983

The fonds consists of 2 16 mm film copies and two VHS copies of Pieces of Anger (1980), directed by Michael Keusch, and If I Can Do it (1983). If I Can Do It documents the William Roper Hull Home for emotionally disturbed children in Calgary, Alberta. Pieces of Anger documents the Michener Centre home in Red Deer, Alberta.

Keusch, Michael
PR0843 · Fonds · 1936 - 1971

Fonds consists of the business records of the Penhold Mutual Telephone Company and includes subscriber lists, correspondence, financial records, memorandum, agreements, voting proxies, share certificate stubs, Alberta Government Telephone notices, subscriber accounts, and maps.

Penhold Mutual Telephone Company
PR2957 · Collection · Copied 1968

The collection consists of a copy of a photograph of the Union Bank at Fort Macleod, Alberta taken by an unidentified photographer circa 1906, and a copy of a photograph of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Red Deer, Alberta taken by an unidentified photographer circa 1906.

Unknown donor
Red Deer County fonds
PR2749 · Fonds · 1891 -1962

The fonds consists of cashbooks, minutes, plans, receipts, assessment and tax rolls, cash book disbursements, summaries of assessment, expenditures, tax recovery records, tax consolidation record and bylaws of the following former local authorities of Red Deer County dating from 1909 - 1960:

  • Municipal District of Hays No. 338
  • Local Improvement District 19-T-4
  • Municipal District of Pine Lake No. 339
  • Local Improvement District 18-M-4
  • Local Improvement District N0. 340
  • Municipal District of Arthur No. 340
  • Municipal District of Poplar Grove No. 341
  • Local Improvement District No. 371
  • Municipal District of Golden West No. 371, and
  • the Municipal District of Penhold No. 350.

The fonds also includes four maps of Red Deer and area dating from 1906 to 1967.

The fonds also includes minutes, assessments, ledgers, and disbursements from the following school districts and divisions dating from 1891 - 1962:

  • Delburne Consolidated No. 37
  • Louisiana Consolidated No. 38
  • Red Deer School Division No. 35
  • Great Bend Consolidated No. 82
  • Elnora Consolidated No. 39
  • Evarts No. 736: NE 7-38-2-W5, 1902 - 1959
  • Helena Public No. 210 (Innisfail): 28-35-28-W4, 1890 - 1899
  • Horn Hill No. 251:36-36-27-W4, 1892 - ?
  • Horna No. 665:? Innisfail No. 210 (Helena): 28-35-28-W4, 1890 - ?
  • Jones Valley No. 549: 10-39-25-W5, 1900 - 1955, and
  • Satinwood No. 1630: 1-39-25-W4, 1907 - 1952.
Red Deer County
PR3104 · Collection · [Copied 1972]

The collection consists of copies of photographs featuring views of Red Deer dating from the early part of the 20th century.

Red Deer Historical Society
Robert N. Thompson fonds
PR1958 · Fonds · 1943-1968

The fonds consists of published material, including pamphlets, newspaper articles, addresses and speeches, as well as photographs, all relating to Robert N. Thompson’s political career.

Thompson, Robert N.
Speakman family fonds
PR2803 · Fonds · 1991 - 1993

The fonds consists of typed transcripts of letters Joseph Taylor wrote to his parents while visiting his uncle, James Speakman, in 1894-1895. Joseph Taylor's granddaughter completed the transcripts in 1993. The fonds also includes reminiscences written by Thomas Speakman Barnett in 1991 recalling his childhood growing up in Waskasoo, Red Deer, and Rocky Mountain House in the early party of the 20th century.

Speakman family
PR2116 · Fonds · 1972- 1992

The fonds consists of a typed transcript, completed in 1992 by Allen Ronaghan of Victoria Anderson and Mary Barnett's diary documenting their wagon journey from Waskasoo, Alberta to Vermilion, Alberta in 1906. The fonds also includes a letter, written in 1972, from Victoria Anderson to John C. Anderson describing the diary.

Anderson, Victoria
Willard Dean Trimble fonds
PR0858 · Fonds · [Copied ca. 1904-1969]

Fonds consists of copy photographs of newspaper halftone photographs dating circa (ca.) 1883 to ca. 1925 which depict various people, streets, buildings, businesses, churches, horse and carriages, sports events, and farms in the Red Deer, Alberta area.

Trimble, Willard Dean
William John McLennan fonds
PR3402 · Fonds · 1968-1998

The fonds consists of images by William McLennan depicting various sites around Alberta, including Edmonton, Drumheller, Calgary, Jasper, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Fort McMurray, various provincial parks, several heritage sites, churches, and more. The slides also contain images of community events such as Edmonton’s Heritage Fest, chuckwagon races, etc.

There are also slides of McLennan family members and events. Furthermore, there is a relatively comprehensive collection of close-up images of various species of butterflies and other insects from across Alberta. Lastly, there are title card slides that McLennan would have used to create slide shows from his work.

McLennan, William John