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Marie Rose Smith fonds

  • GLEN glen-2127
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1954

The fonds consists of her articles, stories and reminiscences, and some correspondence, family photographs, greeting cards, and newsclippings. Includes a rolled scroll, entitled "Catholic Ladder", made by Father Lacombe. Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details:: Lionel Brooke, O.G. Brooke, John George "Kootenai" Brown, Ermineskin (Cree), Ed La Grandeur, George Levasseur, A.H. Lynch-Staunton, Louis Riel, and H.A. Riviere.

Smith, Marie Rose

Peace River Country Research Project collection

  • GLEN glen-1828
  • Collection
  • Compiled 1955-1956 (originally created 1837-1956)

The collection consists of typescripts of interviews (1955-1956), reminiscences, diaries (1897-1914), and autobiographies; files of biographical and historical notes; and photographs of pioneers and the area. Includes typescripts of Fort St. John fur trade post journal (1866-1924), and Fort Dunvegan post account book (1837-1864).
Records related to the following subjects are also in this collection. See inventory for details: W.D. Albright, Kristjan F. Anderson, Athabasca Trail, Dr. Lucy Bagnall, Frank Ward Beatton, John Beatton, Beaver Indians, Bredin and Cornwall, Charles Bremner, Absalom Clark Bury, Mrs. Harry Clifford, Louise Clubine, James Kennedy Cornwall, S.E. Cushway, Henry Fuller "12 Foot" Davis, Ralph Dyer, Edson Trail, Agnes Sorrel Forbes, I.E. Gaudin, H.A. George, Pliny E. Goddard, Bishop Emile J.B.M. Grouard, Peter Gunn, Mrs. Robert Holmes, William Innes, Oliver H. Johnson, George Kennedy, Klondike gold rush, Albert Lawrence, L. Grace Lawrence, Margaret M. Lawrence, Sheridan Lawrence, A.H. McQuarrie, Mrs. Sam McNaught, Metis, Alwexander Monkman, Father Philippot, Mrs. Guy Randall, H.N. Ronning, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Adolphus St. Germaine, St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Grande Prairie), school districts (Kleskun, Wapiti, MacHenry, Halcourt, Lower Beaverlodge), Felix Shaw, William Shaw, Mrs. Thomas B. Sheehan, and Treaty 8.

Peace River Country Research Project

Sisters of Providence fonds

  • GLEN glen-3821
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1977 (originally created ca. 1900-1961)

The fonds consists of views of the order's work in southern Alberta, at St. Joseph's Catholic Mission at Cluny and the Lacombe Home at Midnapore.

Sisters of Providence

Paul Melting Tallow fonds

  • GLEN glen-3788
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1963

The fonds consists of correspondence with political figures, and other articles.

Melting Tallow, Paul

Paul Wolf Collar fonds

  • GLEN glen-2566
  • Fonds
  • 1963-1965

The fonds consists of pictograph drawings (and accompanying explanatory narratives) about the signing of Treaty 7; how Crowfoot got his name; Low Horn's power ca. 1870s; Scraping Hide's murder of a stockman at Gleichen and his subsequent death, 1896; and Wolf Collar's war experiences. Also consists of a recording of Blackfoot songs including Crowfoot's songs, Wolf Collar's war songs, and dog feast songs.
The drawing of the events at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877 when Treaty 7 was signed is annotated on the back:
"Lower left - Crowfoot's camp. Crowfoot leaving in wagon with NWMP escort.
Upper left - Medicine Shield's camp. Medicine Shield was ready to accept treaty (man in circle at lower right) but Crowfoot held him off until he had decided.
Top left - NWMP with cannons. Between flags, left to right, are Col. Macleod, Gov. Laird, Crowfoot and an NWMP sergeant (name forgotten). In front, Indian chiefs who have come (see lines) to sign.
Other camps along Bow River, left to right, are Bloods, Peigans, Sarcees and Stonies."

Wolf Collar, Paul

Roy William Devore fonds

  • CA EDM MS-67
  • Fonds
  • 1807 - 1965

File List:
File 1: Biographical article: “A Builder of the West”, re: John Walter. n.d.
File 2: Note: “River Drivers”, article in Alberta Hysterical [sic] Review, Winter 8:1, pp 21-23. 1960
File 3: Biographical article: “Hormidas Theophile Lamoureux”. Nov. 7, 1961
File 4: Article: “The North Saskatchewan River”. 1963.
File 5: Autobiographical article: “A Lost Cause”. n.d.
File 6: Timeline: Walter Historic Site and Museum. [ca 1965].
File 7: Extract from publication: “90 year old house still an original site”, re: John Walter house; also includes brief articles on McDougall
Methodist Church, Al Rashid Mosque, University of Alberta Campus. n.d.
File 8: Notes: Interview of Roy Devore by B. Jablonski. Sept. 11, 1962.
File 9: Thank-You Notes: from Helga Theophile and members of her school class. Nov 1-2, 1963.

Devore, Roy William

Elizabeth Wilson fonds

  • CA EDM MS-299
  • Fonds
  • 1967

The fonds consists of a play written by Elizabeth Wilson named Raiders on the Wind. The work was commissioned by the Civic Centennial Committee of the City of Edmonton through the Junior Arts Council to mark the celebration of the Centennial of Canadian Confederation.

Wilson, Elizabeth

Geraldine and Douglas Moodie fonds

  • GLEN glen-3916
  • Fonds
  • 1813-1967, predominant 1895-1915

The fonds consists primarily of photographs taken by Geraldine Moodie at Battleford (including an 1895 Cree sun dance), Maple Creek, and Hudson Bay; and photos taken by Douglas Moodie during the two Hudson Bay expeditions, and the Governor-General's trip. The fonds also consists of diaries kept by both Geraldine and Douglas during their time in the north, and registers and copyright records related to their photography. Significant records of their ancestors and descendants in this fonds include James FitzGibbons memoirs and correspondence re his military career and Isaac Brock (1813-1865); poems and correspondence of the Strickland women (1830-1907); Agnes Dunbar Chamberlin's botanical sketchbook (1874-1883); and newspaper clippings re the Earl and Countess of Egmont (1932-1938).

Moodie, Geraldine (family)

George and John McDougall family fonds

  • GLEN glen-1597
  • Fonds
  • 1841-1969, predominant 1858-1944.

The fonds consists primarily of the papers of the Reverends George and John McDougall, related to their work as Wesleyan Methodist missionaries in Alberta. George McDougall's records consist of appointments; correspondence mainly regarding Methodist missionary work; mission administrative records including a baptism register; and a small amount of his writings and sermons. John McDougall's records consist of appointments; letters written to his wife while attending Methodist conferences and during the 1885 Riel Rebellion; official correspondence regarding his missionary work; mission administrative records including baptism and marriage registers; and his writings, sermons and talks. The fonds also contains the writings, speeches, and scrapbooks of John's wife Elizabeth, and the First World War letters of David L. McDougall. Included in the fonds are small amounts of papers for these family members: Eliza Hardisty, Augusta Mathieson, George M. McDougall (junior), John B. McDougall, Lillian E. Graham, Douglas J. McDougall, John E. Graham, and William Graham.
Records related to the following people and subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Samuel Boyd, Central Methodist (United) Church, W.J.Christie, Elkhorn Ranch, James Ferrier, 50th Battalion C.E.F., Sandford Fleming, Frog Lake, Bella Hardisty, Richard Hardisty, James Lougheed, Methodist Missionary Society, Morley, Hayter Reed, Andrew Sibbald, Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association, T. Bland Strange, Alexander Sutherland, Lawrence Vankoughnet, Lachlin Taylor, Enoch Wood, Woodville Mission (Pigeon Lake), Thomas Woolsey, and George Young.

McDougall (family)

Fran Fraser's Blackfoot Culture collection

  • GLEN glen-980
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1930s] - 1973, predominant 1956-1970

The collection consists of interviews with Rosie Ayoungman, Mrs. Richard Brass, Little Chief, Paul Wolf Collar, Joe Cat Face, Mary Many Guns, Ben Calf Robe, Amos Leather, Cyril Olds, Jack Kipp, and One Gun about the Blackfoot language, legends, tobacco dance, snake lodge, owl lodge, tipi designs, coyote songs, crazy dog ceremonies, Crowfoot and Treaty 7 signing, and other subjects, with some translations by Emily Duckchief (1950s-1973); interview with Hugh Dann about Buffalo Child Long Lance; Blackfoot music (including commentaries) recorded at Crowfoot Residential School, Cluny (1956-1957); Blackfoot songs recorded by the A-1 Club, Cluny; and photographs of a Blackfoot sun dance (1965?), and pupils at Old Sun school (1956).

Fraser, Fran

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