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Armstrong Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0632
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900-2014]

The fonds consists of records relating to the Armstrong family. The records are organized into three series, personal papers, photographs and scrapbooks.

Armstrong family

Robsart Community fonds

  • CA MED 755
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900] - 1920

Fonds consist of 72 photographs credited to John Asplund, photographer, who documented the pioneer history of Robsart with his camera.

Asplund, John

Orville Brunelle fonds

  • GLEN glen-367
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1985, predominant 1953-1967

The fonds consists of photographs and slides taken while Lethbridge Herald photographer (1953-1967): Lethbridge personalities, events and industry including the Galt #8 mine and construction of Travers Dam; personalities, businesses, industry and agriculture in southern Alberta towns including Pincher Creek, Fort Macleod, Vulcan; Enchant, New Dayton, Coaldale, Crowsnest Pass, Vauxhall, Raymond, Cardston, Taber, Bow Island, Carmangay, Claresholm, Warner, Champion and Michel, British Columbia; views of Ross and McIntyre ranches; Prince Albert National Park, Uranium exploration in Saskatchewan, Oldman River flood, Lethbridge feedlot, Western Stockgrowers convention, Lethbridge Experimental Farm, Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, Lethbridge stockyards, Lethbridge Handicapped Association, Civic defence exercises, Superior Masonry, Catelli Pasta plant, Leth Turkey farm, Lethbridge Meterological Station, Lethbridge Iron Works, Kishinena trail, visit of John Diefenbaker and Prince Philip, Haynes family and Kainai chieftainship ceremonies at Stand Off and Brocket (including recognition of Nicholas de Grandmaison, Charlotte Whitton and H. N. Woodsworth); public relations photographs taken while army photographer including Camp Dundurn and No. 6 Elementary Flight Training School (EFTS) at Prince Albert (1942-1945); photographs taken while photographer at Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (1944-1950) and Prince Albert Daily Herald (1933-1939, 1941-1942); and photographs of the Brunelle family in LaFleche, Regina and Prince Albert (1900s-1942). Also consists of personal and business correspondence (1930s-1985), awards, notes on news photography, and newsclippings of photograph assignments (1933-1968).

Brunelle, Orville

Stephan G. Stephansson Icelandic Society fonds

  • RED MG 42
  • Fonds
  • 1903-2016

Fonds consists administrative, financial, operational, and advertisements created, accumulated, and used by the Stephan G. Stephansson Icelandic Society in its activities as a cultural society.

The types of records included are minutes, correspondence, payroll, tax forms, bills, pamphlets, conference notes, grant applications, newsletters, cheques, receipts, bylaws, attendance reports, and cemetery logs. Records often include Markerville Creamery related information.

Stephan G. Stephansson Icelandic Society

W.E.M. Holmes fonds

  • GLEN glen-1216
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1934

The fonds consists of minutes and accounts of the Pekisko Polo Club (Gee-Bung Polo Club) (1904-1914); photographs of polo teams, ranching, and High River personalities (1904-1921); newsclippings about polo (1907-1913, 1930); and a polo rule book (1934).

Holmes, W.E.M.

DeBolt & District Pioneer Museum fonds

  • CA GPR 0116
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1905]-2006

The fonds consists of research files, published copies, and correspondence regarding the planning and writing of five publications: "Across the Smoky," "Edson to Grande Prairie Trail," "DeBolt Country Club & Agricultural Society 60th Anniversary Book," "Sawmills Across the Smoky," and "Bridges to the Past." The fonds also includes records gathered by the Museum Society, for use in their publications and for other purposes, including original letters and documents, paper artefacts, maps, and photographs and negatives.

DeBolt & District Pioneer Museum

Hamilton family fonds

  • GLEN glen-3760
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1906-1935]

The fonds consists of newpaper clippings about the family, information about country and western stars, and photographs of the Hamilton family, the David J. Bell farm, scenes around High River and views of rodeo.

Hamilton (family)

Blaine Canadian sports history collection

  • CA MRUASC C0011
  • Collection
  • 1906-2019

Collection documents the history of professional, amateur, and varsity/collegiate sport in Canada, particularly hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo. The collection illustrates the development of these sports in the 20th and early 21st centuries (the period from the 1940s to the 1990s is particularly well-documented), and focuses on Canadian leagues as well as international leagues in which Canadian teams participated. Most of the collection relates to Canadian teams and athletes (although American teams are also well-represented), with a particular focus on Alberta and Western Canada.

The collection largely consists of publications, ephemera, and promotional objects including: game and tournament programs, photographs, magazines, media guides, yearbooks, schedules, calendars, trading cards, game tickets, pins and buttons, pennants, patches, and decals.

The collection is arranged into 5 series by sport: hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo (devoted to the Calgary Stampede). The collection was meticulously organized and documented by the donor Bob Blaine, with most of the collection housed in binders that are arranged by level of competition (professional, amateur, varsity/collegiate), league, date range, and type of material. The contents of each binder are further arranged, typically by material type and date, and many items are accompanied by detailed supplementary contextual information provided by Blaine.

Bob Blaine

British and Colonial Photographic Company fonds

  • GLEN glen-333
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1913

The fonds consists of photographs of Lethbridge buildings, businesses, institutions, personalities, events including the Lethbridge Fair, and industries including the Galt Coal Mine. Also consists of photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) viaduct at Lethbridge, agriculture and irrigatrion in the Lethbridge area, and nearby communities including Diamond City, Monarch, New Dayton, Warner and the Crowsnest Pass.

British and Colonial Photographic Company

Stanley B. Long family fonds

  • CA MED med-163
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1982

The fonds consists of: booklets (2) entitled "Alberta Sons of England Standard" (1915), " Sons of England Benefit Society-By-Laws of Lodge Prairie Rose 285" (1909); Bob Edwards' Summer Annual (2) (1920, 1921); calendars (5) for Gleichen Trading Co. (1911); Sons of England Benefit Society calendars (3) (1912-1914); Leonard and Flanagan calendar (1914); print from Illustrated London News entitled "Little Sister" (1915); O.S. certificate re: Sons of England-Prairie Rose Lodge #285 (1907); 8 photographs of the D.G. White Law Office, the White house, officers of B.R.T. and Engineers, Daughters and Maids of England, officers of "Duchess of Connaught" Lodge No.71, Officers of the first Sons of England Lodge, S.O.E.B.S. Convention at Calgary, Sons of England float ([ca.1910-1912]); images of the Son of England Lodge functions and military training grounds; ; Methodist hymn book presented to Annie Hepple (cousin of Stan Long) (June 19, 1910); "Golf at a Glance" rule book for golf (1934); Souvenir programme for the Edmonton Grads basketball team (July 2, 1938); the Mad Hatters Revue (1943); Share certificate for the Medicine Hat Petroleum Company Ltd belonging to Fred Long (June 13, 1922); Publication "Canada's Constitution, A Proud Moment for Alberta" (1982); Publication "Within Our Borders" (May, 1967); musical piece by Earl Gillett "The Song of the Dominion of Canada" (ca. 1940); copied letter to "Jimmie" from Lawrence Bruce (September 23, 1931); Canadian Pacific Railway time tables 21, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 41-43 (1917-1927); Canadian Pacific Railway Private Instructions to Train Conductors (May 30, 1929); Seniority list of Conductors and Trainmen, Medicine Hat & Lethbridge Divisions (January 1, 1936); Seniority lists of Conductors, Trainmen, and Yardmen, District No. 1 (1944, 1950); Mainliners Seniority Book - for Conductors and Trainmen, Medicine Hat & Lethbridge Division (1964); 3 digital video recordings (oral histories) (2009).

Long, Stanley B. Long (family)

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