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Collection Politics and government*
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University of Calgary (1912-1915) collection

  • CA ACU ARC uofc-1210
  • Collection
  • 1910-1915

Fonds consists of "An Act Respecting the University of Calgary", a report of the commission appointed to consider degree-granting powers, annual calendars, a copy of the architectural plan of university, an invitation to closing ceremonies (1913), a newsclipping, and preliminary announcement containing artist's rendering of proposed university layout.

University of Calgary (1912-1915)

Edgar Osborne collection of 16th, 17th and 18th century manuscripts.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2278
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1592 - 1830], 2000s.

Collection consists of British manuscript documents collected by E. Osborne relating to a variety of topics. Includes ballads, letters, play, parliamentary documents, speeches, petitions and applications for letters patent. Also includes 6 items (200- - 2005) relating to MsC 132.27, unpublished play, variantly titled Marriage upon marriage, or As I told you before and The humorous magistrate.

Osborne, Edgar

R.M. Edmanson collection of portraits of Canadian statesmen.

  • CA ACU SPC spec-2330
  • Collection
  • [18-- or 19--].

Collection consists of framed, matted reproductions of drawings, paintings and photographs of prominent 19th century Canadian statesmen. Includes George Brown, Robert Borden, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Edward Blake, Sir Georges Etienne Cartier, Robert Baldwin, Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Richard John Cartwright and Lord Durham. Versos of items contain holograph notes about the statesmen and identify some of original artists.

Edmanson, R. M.

The St. Albert Star/L'Etoile de St-Albert Collection

  • CA MHM mhm-1778
  • Collection
  • 1912-1914

The collection consists of 73 issues of The St. Albert Star/L'Etoile de St-Albert, comprising up to eight pages each.

The St. Albert Star/L'Etoile de St-Albert Collection

Raichman Canadian communist pamphlet collection

  • CA MRUASC C0002
  • Collection
  • [194-]-1979

Collection contains pamphlets published by the Communist Party of Canada/Labor-Progressive Party, Progress Books, and other Canadian communist and socialist organizations and publishers. Pamphlet subjects include the anti-war movement, political platforms, labour, and economics.

David Raichman

Canadian Cold War pamphlet collection

  • CA MRUASC C0006
  • Collection
  • 1947-1985

Collection consists of pamphlets published by the Canadian government and other organizations during the Cold War, mostly concerning the threat of nuclear war. Pamphlets were published by the Government of Canada, Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and others. The collection is arranged into four series, and subjects include civil defence, the anti-nuclear movement, nuclear war, survival planning, and communist threats. Other items discuss radioactive fallout, rescue operations, and first aid.

Don Peacock's Harry Hays Research collection

  • GLEN glen-1830
  • Collection
  • 1940-1984, predominant 1963-1984

The collection consists of biographical sketches; Hays' speeches, newspaper columns and radio broadcasts; transcripts of interviews with and about Hays; two recorded Hays' speeches; Hays' outgoing letters, much of it written on his behalf by Peacock; Hays' campaign speeches and literature; and newsclippings and press releases about Hays' career. Includes extensive photographs of Hays, his family, ranch, livestock, Stampede breakfasts, and political activities.

Peacock, Don

Hilia Keila's Trochu Finnish Settlers collection

  • GLEN glen-2287
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1909-after 1973]

The collection consists of David Ranta's receipt for Worker's Party of Canada dues (1923), a letter and Finnish-Canadian Organization constitution (1932), and minutes to the Finnish-Canadian Worker's Delegation Meeting in Toronto (1931). Includes biographical information on John and Wilhelmiina Hannu and John and Sanna Luoma (written after 1973); Andrew Anderson's socialist literature (1928), John Keila's naturalization papers (ca. 1909) and minutes from Trochu's Finn's meeting (1924).

Keila, Hilia

United Farmers of Alberta Oral History Project collection

  • GLEN glen-2325
  • Collection
  • 1958-1967, predominant 1960-1962

The collection consists of recordings and transcripts of interviews with the following individuals: Hugh Allen, John E. Brownlee, James A. Cameron, T.A. Crerar, Edward J. Garland, William Irvine, George Johnston, J. Russell Love, William Thomas Lucas, J.F. Lymburn, R. Milton McCool, Lorne Proudfoot, Richard Gavin Reid, Henry Spencer, Mary Sutherland, and Ray Wood. Includes a photograph of Una MacLean Evans interviewing R.G. Reid; and a brief biography of Irene Parlby.

United Farmers of Alberta Oral History Project

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