Alberta On Record

CA GPR 0112-0112.02-0112.02.35
Item
1937

The 1937 Clairmont hockey team: Allan Clark, Reg Ireland, Dave Turner, Gordon Forbes, Marion Fisher, Lachlan MacDonald (coach), Howard Anderson, Frank Durda, Bud Ireland

Clairmont, Alberta

CA GPR 0112-0112.02-0112.02.22
Item
[ca. 1925]

Part of Croken Family fonds

Clairmont main street in the spring showing three elevators in the background. (Courtesy of Mrs. Lee Curtis)

Croken Family fonds

CA GPR 0112
Fonds
[ca. 1920]-1986

The records consist of photographs and personal records from Patty and Rudy Croken and Jennie (Tomshak) Croken. They include P.V. Croken financial records from the P.V Croken Store; Patty’s correspondence from 1956-1973; personal income tax returns for Rudy & Jennie Croken from 1953-1958, and for Patty & Daisy Croken from 1958-1966; farm accounts and wheat board certificates; the papers for building Rudy & Jennie’s home in 1954; and two stories about living in Clairmont, and working in the Grande Prairie Post Office, written by Jennie Croken in 2014. The photographs are a wide assortment of subjects from the Peace Celebration in Grande Prairie in 1919, to Jennie on her travels in 1986.

Croken family

Crowd greets Earl and Countess Bessborough, Clairmont, Alberta

CA GPR 0112-0112.02-0112.02.18
Item
1933

Part of Croken Family fonds

Clairmont crowd awaits the arrival of Earl and Countess Bessborough, Canada's Governor General and his wife. A group of small girls dressed in white stand in a group behind a young man holding the pole flying the British flag.

Crowd greets Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir, Grande Prairie, Alberta

CA GPR 0112-0112.02-0112.02.15
Item
1939

Part of Croken Family fonds

Grande Prairie crowd awaits the arrival of Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir, Canada's Governor General and his wife. A group of CGIT girls stand on the right.