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The sub-series consists of historical notes and essays on the fairs in Grande Prairie from 1910 to 1951, photographs of fairs and parades from 1954 on, planning documents, programmes and news clippings from fairs following that time.

Turn Back the Pages: Clairmont 1908-1992 is the history of the community of Clairmont (originally called Twin Lakes) written by Beth Sheehan in 1992. The book contains the history of the hamlet/village and its schools, churches, organizations and sports, illustrated by stories of local characters, maps, photographs, art work and clippings from the Clairmont Independent newspaper.The sub-series consists of the research files (including people, government, businesses, events) used to create the original book, newsclipping files for Clairmont from 2011-1908, the 1992 manuscript of the book “Turn Back the Pages”, and a file for the update of the book, dated 1999-2005. There is also a 20 page document from the Provincial Archives of Alberta detailing all the records with material about Clairmont in their holdings, a hand-out on How to Prepare a Local History by Hugh Dempsey, and a copy of the published book. The photographs in this sub-series are dated from 1915-2004, and record the changes in the hamlet in almost 90 years. They include early hamlet scenes, farm buildings, schools and children, the Krimmer Mennonite congregation and the cemetery; and the buildings, businesses, homes and street scenes in the town and country, and views from outside of Clairmont as the area became more developed.

In 1955, Beth Flint Sheehan undertook a river boat trip on the Peace, from Dunvegan to Hudson’s Hope and back. Her companions on this trip were Mr. & Mrs. W. P. Loggie and their daughters, Isabel and Margaret, who were collecting material that summer on the pioneers of the south Peace and the importance of the river to the development of the country for the Glenbow Archives. The boat was skippered by Harry Taylor. Beth’s diary about this trip concludes that it was “one of the most wonderful experiences I ever expect to have.” This is evidenced by her continued interest in the Peace River for many years after the trip.

The series consists of “‘Firefly’ on the Peace,” the diary written by Beth Sheehan during her river boat excursion in 1955, a scrapbook of news articles kept by Beth from 1956-1979, and some articles on the Peace River written by Margaret Loggie in 1959. There are also files on the history and development of the Peace River with hydro-electric dams such as the Bennett Dam, the boats which plied the Peace and the communities along the Peace River: Hudson’s Hope, Taylor, Fort St. John, Dunvegan, Peace River, Fort Vermilion, and Watino.