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Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company fonds

  • GLEN glen-67
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1956, predominant 1882-1909

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding patents and land grants; orders-in-council and schedules; agreements between the CPR and the province of Alberta pertaining to irrigation; North Western Coal and Navigation land sales register; water agreements of the Canadian North West Irrigation Company and the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company; maps of irrigation projects; telegrams and express ledger of Alberta Railway and Coal Company station at Raymond; coal mine employee register (1908-1924); photograph album accompanying report by Jeremiah L. Head (1898); verbatim report of a hearing into a complaint by Cardston farmers and business interests concerning rates (1909); plan of the right-of-way of Western Dominion Railway from Waterton River to the USA border (1915); and a historical sketch of the company. Includes a microfilm of an ARIC scrapbook.

Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company

Alexander Begg fonds

  • GLEN glen-222
  • Fonds
  • 1843-1914

The fonds consists of correspondence (1854-1905) relating to his newspaper businesses, the Temperance Colonization Society, the crofters' immigration scheme, the Alaskan boundary, and the Dunbow Ranche; legal records; diaries (1842-1904); correspondence, minutes and incorporation documents for the railway company; and certificates, appointments and commissions. Includes Emily's correspondence (1853-1914) and photographs of the Begg family.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Robert Begg, Bow River Ranch, Canadian Yukon Railway Co., D.W. Davis, William Duncan, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Richard C. Hardisty, J.J. Hill, Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) lands, Louis Riel, St. Joseph's Industrial School (Dunbow School), Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, and James Wallace.

Begg, Alexander

Alexander Forbes fonds

  • CA GPR 0127
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1925

The fonds consists of records of the planning for and the construction of the Presbyterian churches at Glen Leslie and Bezanson and photographs presumably assembled by Mrs. Forbes relating to their journey to the Peace Country and church and community activities, buildings, and people in the Grande Prairie area.

Forbes, Alexander

Alexander Lennie fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2213
  • Fonds
  • 1983-1989

The fonds consists of information on: John Berg, Mr. Biault, Donald Booth, Floyd Calvert, Herb Calvert, Mark Ferguson, Russell Fodchuk, Steve Fodchuk, Gosselin family, Gullion family, Kinikinik Post Office, Kostiw family, Russell Kostyk, Lac La Biche Trail, Lessard's house, Mr. MacDonald, Overacker family, Rennison family, Amber Ross, Bill Ross; Frank, George,Matt and Tim Sauer; Jimmy Service, Al Sharp's blacksmith shop, Charles Shoubridge, Sgt. Herbert Thorne, Dr. Andrew Turnbull, Scott Willey, homesteading, income, machinery, roads-East Hill, and Athabasca. The textual records consist of genealogical information on the Lennie and Anderson families of Fort Edmonton. Mentioned are school districts MacKenzie School No.234 and Summer School No.1668.

Lennie, Alexander

Alexander Royick fonds

  • PAA paa-9111
  • Fonds
  • 1968

The fonds consists of materials used by Alexander Royick to produce a publication entitled "Ukrainian Settlements in Alberta" Canadian Slavonic Papers -- Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes (10.3) 1968 and includes images of maps created by Orest Phorecky of the Department of Anthropology and Archeology at the University of Saskatchewan illustrating Ukrainian settlements in Alberta in the 1800s. The article discusses an early Ukrainian explorer, Charles George Horetzky's, contribution to the settlement of Alberta.

Royick, Alexander

Alexis Lafferty fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2212
  • Fonds
  • 1983

The fonds consists of an interview in which the following information is mentioned: Magnus Cromarty Brown, Captain Edward Benjamin Haight (1862- ), John MacLeod, Clementine Mercredi, Captain James William Mills (1859-1933), Georges Shank, John Shott, Captain Van Dusen, Charles Joseph Rayner Whiteley (1889-1978), a boiler pulled by horses, ferry, freighting, Grand Rapids railway, houses on the river flats, and tracking.

Lafferty, Alex

Alfred Driscoll fonds

  • PAA paa-7867
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1931

The fonds consists of records relating to Alfred Driscoll and includes his certificate of appointment as Dominion Land Surveyor, a surveying certificate, a copyright certificate, images of Alfred Driscoll, a hunting party (including Driscoll), members of the International Boundary Commission, maps of road diversions in the Municipal District of Sturgeon No. 548 by A. Driscoll, a 1908 map of Edmonton by A. Driscoll, and Driscoll and Knight maps for the Municipal Districts of Grasswold No. 248, Lorne No. 400, Merton No. 451, Wellington No. 481, Cornhill No. 487, Black Mud No. 488, Liberty, No. 489, The Pines No. 516, Sturgeon No. 548, Pibroch No. 609 and Nelson No. 638. The fonds also includes Grand Trunk Pacific Railway photographs of Jasper, including images of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's visit to Jasper in 1914, Angel Glacier, the sign at the summit of the Yellowhead Pass, an internment camp at Jasper, a horse-drawn wagon, Maligne Canyon, and Mount Edith Cavell.

Driscoll, Alfred

Alice and William Rendell fonds

  • GLEN glen-3494
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1905

The fonds consists of transcripts of letters home describing their experiences as settlers.

Rendell, Alice

Alice Felesky fonds

  • CA MED 837
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1910 - 1990]

Fonds consist of: biographies of families and friends of Alice Felesky, copies of letters regarding settlement, a family reunion, and one in Swedish, copied and original certificates primarily regarding Carl Axelson's immigration and naturalization, Lewis Hole and Gagmar's marriage certificate, and a Medicine Hat Land District map, 1912.

Felesky, Alice

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