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Valhalla School District #3130

  • SPRA-0584
  • Corporate body
  • 1914-present

Valhalla School began in Olaf Horte’s house in 1914 with Nelius Ronning as the first teacher. In the summer of 1915, community members built a new school on S.W. 18- 74- 9 W6. This new school opened just after New Year in 1916 with Alvie Baycroft as teacher. Other teachers included Chester Ronning, Miss Sigrid Hommy, Mrs. A. S. Todd, and Miss M. Erickson.

In 1925-26, the Valhalla School Board included Molde School pupils and a second room was needed. In 1929, the school reverted back to one room, but in about 1943, a two room school was built. With the closing of the one-room country schools, Valhalla School became a central facility. Three rooms were opened in 1951, and in 1954, a six room school was erected about one quarter of a mile east of the original log schoolhouse. A gymnasium was added to the school in 1964. The following teachers also taught at the Valhalla School during these years: Judd Perry, Tillie Torgerson, John Paul, Mr. R. Leitch, Mr. E.A. Keeping, Edna Small, Ferne Rideout, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Pattullo, Stella M. Becker, Mr. R. A. Hill, Agnes Melsness, Ruth Axelson, Stella Gilkyson, Elizabeth Baker, Mary Gray, and Lorna Horte.

In 1960, the decision was made to van the high school students to Hythe. Ten years later, the Junior High students were sent to Hythe and the high school students to Beaverlodge. Valhalla Centre School continued operating as an elementary school under the County of Grande Prairie and Peace Wapiti School Divisions. When closure threatened due to low enrollment, the community applied for and was granted charter Status and continued to operate under their own Board of Directors.

Valley Rural Mutual Telephone Company

  • paa
  • Corporate body

In October 1947, the Rosebud Rural Mutual Telephone Company reorganized and became the Valley Rural Mutual Telephone Company. The Valley Rural Mutual Telephone Company took over servicing the area formerly served by the Rosebud Rural Mutual Telephone Company around Redland and Rosebud, Alberta. Specifically it serviced the area within Township 27, Range 22, West of the 4th Meridian (27-22-W4) to Township 28, Range 22, West of the 4th Meridian (28-22-W4). The Valley Rural Mutual Telephone Company was integrated with Alberta Government Telephones on November 16, 1969.

Valleyview & District Chamber of Commerce

  • SPRA-0175
  • Corporate body
  • Unknown

Sturgeon Lake was a favoured fishing and hunting base for First Nations people, first for their own food supply and later for supplying the fur trade posts around Lesser Slave Lake with meat and furs. The land was inhabited first by the Beaver First Nation, who were joined by the Cree, and after 1870 by an influx of Metis of various ethnic origins, including Cree, Iroquois and Assiniboine.

The first fur trade post was established by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1877. By 1879, when George Dawson came through the area via an established Indian trail across the Wapiti and Smoky Rivers, a settlement had been established there with a few log homes and several gardens containing barley, potatoes, turnips, carrots, beets and onions. The settlement increased substantially in the early 1880s and by the time the NWMP conducted their first inspection tour in 1897, there were about 40 homes and 4 fur trade posts, including the Hudson’s Bay Company compound of shop, fish house and factor’s home.

After Treaty No. 8 was signed in 1899, Sturgeon Lake Indian Reserve #154 was established beside the Lake. Sturgeon Lake Settlement was surveyed in 1907, with lake-front property granted to the HBC, the RNWMP, the Roman Catholic Mission and Revillon Freres Trading Co. Metis families living in the settlement prior to 1907 were also granted 40 acres each. That same year, the Residential School was established at St. Xavier Mission on the lake shore. The Oblate fathers had been visiting the area since 1884, and built a church in 1905. They also added a Mission Farm on the south-east shore of the lake, where they produced grains, garden crops and raised livestock. The Residential School also accepted day students, such as the Kerr and Williamson children.

Metis families, such as Eli and Eva Badger and their two sons, Paul and Dan, were among the areas first settlers. They were experts at building log cabins, craftwork such as snowshoes, and gardening. They raised the first crops, about 1905, on the land which became the Valleyview townsite and supplied hay for travelers coming in over the Edson Trail in 1911. Paul’s wife was known to be the area’s midwife. In 1916 the first European homesteaders, such as Daniel McMillar began to arrive, with the Williamsons and Adolphsons coming in 1918. Some land was settled through Soldiers Settlement Board after World War I, but the main influx of settlers began to arrive in the late 1920s.

The community’s first post office opened in 1929 along with the Red Willow Creek Store. It was with the renaming of the post office and store that Red Willow Creek became “Valleyview.” Also in 1929, the Calais School District was organized, and in the summer of 1930 the first resident nurse, Jessie Hyde, arrived. A temporary nurse residence and office-dispensary was set up in David Williamson’s original homestead cabin. Later in the 1930s a new home and office for Nurse Hyde was built. The initial medical fees were along the following lines: house-calls $1.00, visit to the office $0.50, and maternity care (including pre- and postnatal care) $10.00.

Fishing, hunting and trapping remained predominant in the Valleyview area, where there were bear, moose, martin, fox and beaver whose furs were valuable. Traditionally in the First Nation and Metis communities, women were in charge of preparing fish, activities which included cleaning, frying, and smoking fish, saving them for months to come. In the 1930s a major winter commercial fishery was developed at Sturgeon Lake. The fish market was based on supplying eastern Canadian and American markets with whitefish, which were considered as the finest whitefish in Alberta. In the 1950s this market disappeared with the establishment of inspection procedures and the Federal Fish Marketing Board.

Sawmills were another source of jobs and income. Burrough’s Mill operated north of Sturgeon Lake operated with a crew of fifty men, and supplied lumber for the High Prairie market as well as their own. Also, Sturgeon Lake continued to be a focal point for the Valleyview area. As early as 1920, there were “resorts” and cabins for rent around the lake to provide for recreational time.

By 1949 Valleyview was expanding with the completion and opening of a new ten room hotel, a beer parlour, and a restaurant. In September, 1950, the Pacific Petroleum Company stuck oil about seven miles north-east of the tiny hamlet. As a result of the discovery, Valleyview boomed. In only one year, 1955, the community went from hamlet to village to town status.

Valleyview Town & Country

  • SPRA-0688
  • Corporate body
  • 2015-2020

The Valleyview Town & Country Newspaper was established on April 1, 2015. They permanently closed in spring of 2020. Susie Peters was the owner, Publisher, Editor, and Reporter. The Town & Country replaced the Valleyviews Newspaper which closed its doors in 2015. There were three permanent staff and casual contract reporters.

VVT&C started out as a 12 page, sometimes 16 page bi-weekly publication with a circulation of about 1000. In January 2020, only one 16 page edition was published on the first Wednesday of every month and circulation was at 700.

VVT&C covered stories/advertising/events/meetings from the communities of, Little Smoky, Valleyview, Sturgeon Lake, Sunset House, New Fish Creek, Sturgeon Heights, Crooked Creek, Ridgevalley, DeBolt, Teepee Creek and surrounding northern Peace Country areas. The paper covered local news and sports stories of interest and publishes a number of special sections per year, including Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Fire Prevention, Graduation, Small Business Week, International Women’s Day, and Christmas.

Van Horne Institute for International Transportation and Regulatory Affairs

  • uofc
  • Corporate body

The Van Horne Institute for International Transportation and Regulatory Affairs was established to assist industry, governments and the public in addressing transportation and related regulatory issues that are relevant to the well-being and growth of industry and commerce. The Institute was founded as a not-for-profit organization in 1991 with the cooperation of industry, the University of Calgary and the Alberta government.

Vancouver Yukoners Association

  • dcm
  • Corporate body

The Vancouver Yukoners Association began as impromptu gatherings of ex-Yukoners that settled in the Vancouver area in the 1920s. The association was offically formed in 1928 with the first meeting at Piccadilly Cafe, 581 Granville Street, Vancouver with 17 individuals present. An executive of 10 was elected at this time. The association was basically a social club for ex-Yukoners but evolved into a lobby group as well as a social and financial support group for its members during the depression of the 1930s. Maurice de Leon and associates donated a Headquarters for fellow Klondikers and the Castle Hotel in Vancouver became the home of the Vancouver Yukoners Association in the 1920s. The association held many dances, picnics and annual banquets. The Canadian Arctic Brotherhood extended a merge offer that was declined in 1929. The Alaska Yukon Pioneers suggested the development of a federation with the association in 1929 that was declined as well. The association's membership grew to 346 in 1930 and remained around this number for many years. In 1930 the association began providing financial support to members in need. In 1934 the Vancouver Yukoners Association joined in an affiliation arrangement with the Internation Sourdough Reunion Incorporation of Seattle, Washington. Their lobbying efforts for the development of the Alaska Highway began in 1934. The association petitioned the federal government in 1936, to provide old age pension in the Yukon as it was being provided in British Columbia.

Vang Lutheran Church Ladies Aid

  • MIL
  • Corporate body

The Vang Ladies Aid was established in April 29, 1900 at the home of Mrs. Thomas Dahl. The Ladies met to sew, knit and crochet items that could be sold at the annual bazaar to raise funds for the construction of the Vang Lutheran Church (built 1899) Norwegian Synod. The Aid assisted with Church programs and activities -- including picnics, Sunday school, catering at weddings and other events. In later years the Aid made quilts for raffles at their spring "Strawberry Tea" until 1995 when membership both aged and dwindled. They still provided a stained glass window in the church in 1998. In 2000, the remaining Aid members decided to fold 100 years after the group started.

Vasa Order of America. District Lodge Alberta No. 18

  • paa
  • Corporate body

The Vasa Order of America was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, on September 18, 1896. The Order is named for Gustav Vasa, who liberated Sweden in the 16th century and became the first King of modern Sweden. The Order was established as a Swedish sick and death benefit society. The Vasa Order's objectives were to preserve Swedish culture, and to provide financial aid to members who were incapable of working due to illness or other misfortune, or to families of deceased members. The income for this was received through entrance fees, monthly dues, donations, and interest on other deposits and other sources. The Vasa Order was initially a strictly Swedish organization, and the English language was not allowed to be used at meetings until the 1920s. Though primarily a men's organization, women participated in auxiliary activities and children's clubs were formed to encourage interest in the history, culture, and language of their ancestral country. The lodges also serve as gathering places for Swedish festivities or events. The Alberta District Lodge No. 18 was established in 1930 to serve as the overseeing body for individual Alberta Lodges. The individual lodges were: Branting Lodge 417 in Calgary, organized in 1925; Norden Lodge 513 in Meeting Lake, established in 1928; Skandia Lodge 549 in Edmonton, founded in 1924; Tegner Lodge 565 in Stavely, organized in 1930; and Lethbridge Lodge 579, Lethbridge, established in 1932. In January 2004, all of the lodges were still operational except for Tegner Lodge 565.

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