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The collection consists of a souvenir book of the Canadian Grand Union Meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and Ladies’ Societies, and photographs of the staff and students at the Western Canada College in Calgary, Alberta.

The fonds consists of records related to Amos Mann's work with the Woodland Dairy Ltd. including a price list for Woodland Dairy dating circa 1941. The fonds also includes photographs owned by Amos Mann featuring Edmonton in the 1940s. The fonds also reflects James Mann's career with the Canadian National Railways and includes certificates, manuals, forms, photographs, a history of Northern Alberta Railways line, instruction manuals, wage tables, gazetteer and shippers directory, freight car types, a telephone directory, equipment registers, and a system map dating from 1951 to 1990. In addition the fonds includes James Mann's high school yearbooks from Strathcona Composite High School dating from 1945/46 and 1948/49, a price list from California Confection Store located on Whyte Ave, Edmonton in the 1940s, and booklet from the opening celebrations of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music in Edmonton, Alberta dating from 1997.

The fonds consists of photographs, negatives, and slides featuring locations, facilities, and equipment of Northern Alberta Railways that were created by Cecil Swanson during the course of his work and were subsequently used to create the publication The Northern Alberta Railways Vol. 3 (1998). The fonds also includes a copy of The Northern Alberta Railways Vol. 3.

The fonds consists of records related to John Callaghan's involvement in Alberta railways and includes minimal correspondence, a biographical pamphlet, and images of John Callaghan, trains (including Northern Alberta Railways and others), employees, horse and wagons, bridges, washed out tracks at Slave Lake, flooding at Waterways, Grande Prairie main street (1914), Premier Greenfield, Minister V.W. Smith and others examining oil sands along the Athabasca River, and postcards with images of last spike, the Lethbridge viaduct and a Fort McMurray souvenir.

The fonds consists of membership cards, birth and marriage records, passports, and licenses. There are also copies of by-laws and constitutions from the Masonic Lodge and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees union. The photos include a military portrait of Harry’s brother, Roman, during the First World War, family photos from Poland and in Harry’s early years in Canada, images of Harry at work in rail yards, images of Marie’s family, and many photos from the Ostashes’ 50th wedding anniversary and of their extended family. There are also a few examples of b&w photographs that have been colourized and a large, gum print photograph of an unrelated couple on their wedding day.

The fonds consists of professional records such as correspondence, tax forms, insurance forms, receipts related to George Masikewich's career with CNR and the operation of his farm. The fonds also contains personal records of George and Annie including certificates, correspondence, and postcards. The fonds dates from circa 1904 to 1953.

The fonds consists of images of the CN railway through areas of Alberta including Miette, Medicine Lodge Station, and Edson Hotel taken by an unidentified photographer and dating from the 1950s and the 1960s.

Fonds consists of a report entitled Report on Edmonton Interurban Railway Company, written by Maurice Polet, a resume, correspondence, newspaper clippings and a copied newspaper clipping, a transcript of a personal reminiscence, daily journals, poems, and post cards. Fonds also includes negatives, glass plate negatives, and photographs depicting the Polet and Boulanger families and the Boulanger homestead, as well as various people, places, and views, mainly in Alberta, including railroad construction, bridges, and stations, roads, street views, survey parties, machinery, and camps, boats, hunting, automobiles, animals, automobiles, churches, Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts, and furniture. Fonds also includes photographs depicting a number of creeks, rapids, rivers, lakes, and mountains.

The fonds consists of three photographs regarding CN and the Keefes, numerous Rail Operating Instruction and rule books and other trade manuals, ledgers detailing day to day train operations, newspaper articles related to railway history, two union constitution manuals and a labour relations manual, Instructions and Schedule for the CNR Royal Tour in 1939, a folio of folded circuit designs, and numerous CN time tables.

The fonds consists of correspondence, journals and reports created during the course of Harold Stepney's employment with the Northern Alberta Railways Company. The fonds also includes records of his involvement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The records pertain to his career as an engineer, as a Rules and Safety Inspector, as well as his education to become an engineer, or engineman. The fonds also contains newsclippings and articles highlighting some of Harold Stepney's own personal interests, including elections, the 11th Commonwealth Games and Centennial celebrations.

The fonds includes a photo album documenting Colin Hardwicke's experience working for the Canadian National Railway (CNR) from 1912 to 1916. The album includes images of people, places, and events around the building and development of railways in Northern Alberta taken by Colin Hardwicke while he worked for CPR. The fonds also a biography written by Norman Hardwicke in 2004, the Colin and Beatrice Hardwicke Story.

The fonds includes records relating to the family history and employment history of Paul Hawirko. The records from the family consist of a stereotype matrix (printing plate) for the front page of the October 29, 1931 Edmonton Bulletin, and photographs of delegates to the Rural Municipalities Convention in Calgary and the officers of the 101st Regiment (Edmonton) of the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier Camp (Quebec).

The employment material mainly relates to the Northern Alberta Railway and railway pension reform. These records contain material from the Retired Railway Veterans Organization, the American Association of Retired Persons, the Northern Alberta Railway, and the National Council of CN Pensioners Association. They include meeting minutes, publications, meeting attendance, correspondence, labour and pension booklets, constitution and bylaws, brochures and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and newsletters.

The fonds consists of images of workers in front of a Grand Truck Pacific engine, First World War soldiers, train engines; most images include R.T. McGrath. The fonds also includes a short synopsis of R.T. McGrath's life.

The fonds includes a transcript of a letter to William Weir and his sons from Robert MacDonald recalling MacDonald’s life working for the railway on the Coal Branch in the 1940s and 1950s, a photocopy of a map of the area and a second letter from MacDonald with photocopied information about Brule, Alberta.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting Russell Hadley with locomotive Number (No.) 21, and various railroad accidents and bridges, and the siding at Hythe, Alberta.

The collection consists of photographs of sites in and around Fort McMurray and Waterways, Alberta. Images include trains and railways as well as floods in Waterways and street scenes in Fort McMurray.

The fonds consists of nine lantern slides that were potentially created as promotional images for Canadian Pacific Railway in the early 20th century. The images depict CPR employees, trains, interiors of train cars, and a biplane.

Fonds consists of records belonging to the Blank family including correspondence, account books, and photographs.

The fonds documents the life and activities of the Geddes family and consists of photographs, publications, clippings, certificates, sound recordings, maps, plans, correspondence, and cards. In particular, the fonds documents Malcolm Geddes activities with the Alpine Club of Canada from 1917 to 1927; Tony Oke's career with CN during the early part of the 20th century; and Alvin Geddes engineering career and his business venture, Geddes Engineering Ltd, during the 1960s to the 1980s.

The fonds also includes poetry and writings by Malcolm Geddes, vital statistic records, family histories and genealogical information written and collected by members of the Geddes Family dating from the 1910s to the 1990s, and an audiocassette capturing an oral history interview with Alvin Geddes completed for the Petroleum Industry Oral History Project at the Glenbow Archives.

Fonds consists of records mainly pertaining to the Northern Alberta Railways Company (NAR), Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR), and Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway (ED&BC), and other railway companies and includes copied menus dating 1920, operation manuals, blank report forms, trainmen’s wages and merit tickets, a conductor’s ticket report book, and photographs, copied photographs and negatives depicting various railroad cars, locomotives, employees, trackage, accidents and stations in various parts of Alberta, including Peace River, Dunvegan Yards, Edmonton, Waterways, Grouard, Sexsmith, Watino, Grand Prairie, Sawridge, Smoky River, Nordegg, McLennan, Slave lake, Lesser Slave Lake, Widewater, Dog Island, and Salteaux Landing. Fonds also includes images of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) boats and trading posts, tennis players, coal mine employees, buildings, equipment and machinery at Nordegg, Alberta, hotels, street views, sawmills, missions, houses, and a Dominion Land Office.

The fonds consists of records created or collected in the course of Atkin’s involvement with the labour movement, the CCF, and the NDP, and consists of NDP and CCF information pamphlets; convention programs from the AFL, IFLA, Canadian Congress of Labour, the Canadian Labour Congress, the CCF, and the NDP; union magazines; press clippings related to the labour movement, CCF, and NDP; notes from the founding conventions of the NDP; information pamphlets related to pensions and social security; United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) leaflets and stickers related to the 1998 boycott of Maple Leaf Foods; and two copies of The Battle of 66 Street, a two-song record recorded to support the UFCW strike at Gainers meatpacking plant in 1986.

The fonds consists of audio cassettes written and narrated by Gordon Waite circa 1993. The tapes illustrate the duties of railroad employees, standard railway rules, examinations and rules for operators, the history of the Central Canada Railway, the history of Edmonton Railways, the history of the Dunvegan Railway, and the history of the British Columbia Railway. The fonds also includes a photocopy of the rules and regulations for railroad employees in 1921 and other textual material related to the railroad industry.

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Robert S. Niven, primarily taken on a Sunday visit to Calgary by airplane from Arrowwood, and includes images of an airplane, aerial views of the Bow River and Calgary, the oil derricks at Turner Valley, the Bow River at Arrowwood, an irrigation flume at Crossing Valley and workers along the railroad tracks.

The fonds consists of records used, created, and maintained by Louis Broten while serving on the International Board of Directors of BLF and E, North Star Lodge 810, Local 1771, as General Chairman of the Board of Appeals of the BLF and E and its successor body, the UTU, (E) Division, and as an Engineer for CNR including reports, correspondence, memoranda, information files, audits, photographs, constitutions, publications such as the Locomotive Firemen's and Enginemen's Magazine (1891 - 1960), Enginemen's Press (1959 - 1968), circulars, lodge directories, newsletters, reports, bulletins, pamphlets, agreements, contracts, appeals cases of the BLF and E dating from 1886 - 1969. The fonds also includes copies Hansards dating from 1960 to 1967 collected by Louis Broten.

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

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, newsletters, directories, meeting material, and meeting minutes relating to the Retired Railway Veterans Organization and pension programs. Also included are some personal correspondence, an NAR employee pass, an issue of The Railroad Telegrapher, and the first timetable issued to cover the Hythe Dawson Creek extension between Alberta and British Columbia

The fonds consists of photographs, maps, plans, and documents created or collected by George Henry Richardson during the course of his work as a civil and railway engineer.

The fonds consists of material acquired by Myles Tymchyshyn while he worked for CPR and reflects his professional occupation. The fonds includes a CPR table for Spiral Curves dating from 1904; a copy of the first CPR Railway telegraph sent from Strathcona to Calgary dating from 1913; a CPR Standards Plan Book dating from 1916; a "Maple Leaf" Rangers, Heaters, and Furnaces Illustrated Price List No. 26 published by Beach Foundry Ltd., Ottawa, 1920; and a Peace Furnaces, Boilers, and Radiators Catalogue and Price List No. 90 published by Pease Western Foundry Ltd, Toronto, 1922.

The fonds consists of records documenting the United Transportation Union, formerly the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Local Lodge 793 dating from 1919 - 1969. The fonds includes constitution and general rules, proceedings of conventions, agreements, minutes, attendance records, a photograph of an international conference in 1967, circulars, correspondence, and membership lists.

The fonds consists of records created and acquired by Leslie, Kathleen, and Ralph Dent in the course of their work and private lives. Leslie's records include photographs, training notes, and correspondence from his service during the First World War, correspondence and records related to his union activities and work for CNR, and a significant amount of material from his amateur performance career. This latter material includes annotated and non-annotated song sheets, programs, and song lyrics.

Kathleen's records include a self-created cookbook, certificates received on significant dates such as birthdays and anniversaries, and photographs related to her personal life and performances with Leslie.

Ralph's records consist of photographs from his service in the Second World War, training notebooks and other military-related textual material, scrapbooks, personal correspondence, and war-time publications related to flight education and training.

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].

Fonds consists of photographs depicting mainly railroad locomotives, cars, stations, employees and derailments in Lac La Biche, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Waterways and Hythe, Alberta, but also includes a ceremony for returning First World War soldiers, buildings, sled-dogs, a hotel, floods, buffalo, tar sands, a Hudson’s Bay Company steamer on the Athabasca River, bridges, and construction of a water tower. Fonds also includes a newspaper clipping entitled The Muskeg Special, correspondence, information and photographs used for publishing the book Ribbons of Steel.

Fonds consists of a scrapbooks containing correspondence, poems, inquest transcripts, invitations, photographs, funeral announcements, and newspaper clippings of obituaries, retirements and appointments of Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employees. One scrapbook also includes newspaper clippings regarding railroad safety, accidents, expansions, schedules and steam engines. Fonds also includes a postcard of the early dormitories of the University of Alberta, and photographs of the steamship D.A.Thomas circa (ca.) 1920, and the Northern Alberta Railway dating 1928-1935.

Fonds consists of negatives and a photograph depicting Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) trains. Also includes images of the Alberta Great Waterways train, railroad stations, employees, and a crash.

Fonds consists of hand-coloured photographs depicting Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) locomotive number 56 and various NAR employees, including Burt Carrish, Tom Liking, Louis Peltier, and Bert Bennett.