Postcard with formal portrait of Louis Strawhat & his wife Josephine Strawhat of the Hobbema Fist Nation near Ponoka, Alberta. Louis Strawhat's Cree name was "Ka wa Kohtew" and Josephine's Cree name was "Sa Kawskew". The message on the back is from Clarence Field to his wife Edith.
Formal dress portrait of Mike Dion Buffalo, a member of the Hobbema First Nations in Central Alberta, sitting in a moose antler chair with rifle across his knees.
Formal portrait of an Indigenous family group from the Hobbema First Nations in Central Alberta. They are posed in a classical studio setting, with details such as the fireplace, clock and rug.
Fonds consists of material created or collected by Judge John H. "Jack" Sissons or members of his family from ca. 1914 to 1993. Fonds contains the following series: correspondence, publications, miscellaneous personal papers, scrapbooks, and photographs. Material covers many aspects of Judge Sissons' life, starting at Queen's University, but is predominantly about his time in the Northwest Territories. Also includes Sissons' fur parka, judicial robes, and the hood given to him with his honorary degree from Trent University.
Image shows Indigenous students gathered together standing behind a fence. The caption beneath the photograph says “Indians at Sturgeon Lake let out of school to see their first car – Dec. 1913.”
The fonds consists of photographs of Lethbridge Experimental Station and projects (1911-1942), soil erosion in Alberta and Saskatchewan (1930s), and agricultural views; discussion notes on irrigation for experimental station staff seminars and meetings (1933-1949); and Alex's papers on agriculture for the station (nd). Also consists of research materials including photographs of southern Alberta in the 1890s to 1910s, Alex's address on the history of the Western Stock Grower's Association (1971), and recorded conference on the Mounted Police held at University of Lethbridge (1974). Includes recorded Glenbow Foundation staff conference (1959), manuscript of "Indians of the Western Plains" by Mike Mountain Horse (1936), and miscellany.
The fonds consists of extensive photograph albums of La Nauze's police and military careers in the north, Alberta, Ontario, and the Maritimes. Also includes views of his family in Ireland, a trip to Baghdad, and photos of his wife and children. The fonds also consists of his Mounted Police and Canadian Expeditionary Force diaries; memoir of Great Bear Lake patrol; his article "Murder in the Arctic" (1929); article on the Bathurst Inlet patrol; "A History of the La Nauze family" (including a biography of his father Thomas La Nauze's mounted police career); and other articles, obituaries and notes re Mounted Police activities.