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Provincial Archives of Alberta Collection
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David Clark Collection

  • PAA paa-7617
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1905]

The fonds consists of a photograph album with twenty-four photographs of the North West Territories (Alberta and Saskatchewan) and Manitoba, featuring trains, riverboats, picnics, parades, a fire brigade, natives and native encampments, Doukabors, mining, a hotel, the St. Andrew's Lockport bridge, Countess Grey, and a toboggan slide.

Clark, David

Alberta Pioneer Railway Association railway collection

  • PAA paa-7676
  • Collection
  • [ca.1909]-1978

Collection consists of various records relating to the City of Edmonton Street Railway Department, Edmonton Street Railroad and Radial Railway, Canadian National Railroad, Canadian Northern Railway Company, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Grand Trunk Pacific Companies, Northern Alberta Railways Company, Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, and Central Canada Railway Company. Collection includes financial records, passenger statistics, correspondence, telegrams, equipment inventories, specifications and advertising catalogues, tenders, equipment and track standards, duplicate certificates of title, newsletters, newspaper clippings, a conductor's book, public notices and transit system schedules, employee files and seniority lists, radio advertising broadcast transcripts and advertising copy. Collection also includes plans and maps depicting various areas in Edmonton, Alberta that are serviced by transit and railroad companies. Collection also includes photographs that depict the interior and renovations of a street-car, and various railroad construction crews and equipment.

Alberta Pioneer Railway Association

Thelma Cameron collection

  • PAA paa-7689
  • Collection
  • 1904-1975

Collection consists of stock certificates for various oil companies in Alberta, a retraction of charges by Katty Dewar against Rory McDonald, an informational advertisement for a booklet called Unmarried Mothers and Illegitimate Children written by Georgina Sackville, and two issues of The Yellowknife Blade newspaper.

Cameron, Thelma

Cereal Prairie Pioneer Museum collection

  • PAA paa-7690
  • Collection
  • Copied 1974-1987

The collection consists of images, originally dating ca. 1914 to ca. 1983 from Cereal, Alberta, including images of views of Cereal, streets, hotels, train station, schools, hospitals, a restaurant interior, houses and log houses, children, residents, hospital matrons, a hospital doctor, the director of nurses, geese hunters, a fiddler, horse and carts, horse and sleigh, horses, cattle, oxen, barns, farming, harvesting, plowing, harrows, water well, baseball spectators, cars, picnics, skiing, trains, and a steam engine.

Cereal Prairie Pioneer Museum

James H. Harrison collection

  • PAA paa-7703
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1950]

The fonds consists of images of Northern Alberta Railway cars and engines, including the business car "Dunvegan" and the sleeping car "Grande Prairie; " photographs are stamped on the reverse with "Collection of W.C. Whittaker."

Harrison, James H.

Plamondon Municipal Library Photograph Collection

  • PAA paa-7723
  • Collection
  • 1900-1959 (Copied 1982-1987)

The images are of Plamondon, originally dating circa 1900 to the 1950s, and include students, canoe-building, store interiors and exteriors, buildings, post offices, houses and house building, horses, automobiles, churches, baseball teams, funerals, families, nuns, picnics and other social gatherings and views of Plamondon and area.

Plamondon Municipal Library

Seba Beach Heritage Society photograph collection

  • PAA paa-7736
  • Collection
  • Copied 1986 and 1987

The fonds consists of images from Seba Beach, originally dating circa (ca.) 1910, of the beachfront, the lake, picnics, store exteriors and interiors, a baseball team and canoes and canoeing, and images from Lesser Slave Lake and Waterways, originally dating from 1930s and 1940s, possibly once belonging to Knute Booth, of commercial fishing operations.

Seba Beach Heritage Society

Three Hills and District Museum collection

  • PAA paa-7745
  • Collection
  • Copied 1975-1977

Collection consists of photocopied newspaper clipping about Margaret McCauley dated 1961 and copied photographs dating 1914-1974 which depict various people, buildings, businesses, and views in Three Hills, Alberta including Harvey Moir Elliot.

Three Hills and District Museum

Vegreville and District Historical Society photograph collection

  • PAA paa-7750
  • Collection
  • Copied 1974

Collection consists of copied photographs that date from 1912 to circa (ca.) 1923 which depict various people, buildings, and views in Vegreville, Alberta including members of the Girl Guides, army troops on trains, school buildings and students, including the Aplomb and Imperial schools, various farming scenes, Galician settlers, houses, hospitals, churches, banks, grain elevators, and street views. Fonds also contains a panoramic view of Vegreville, Alberta and some collage images.

Vegreville and District Historical Society

Calgary Bar Association Oral History Project collection

  • PAA paa-7767
  • Collection
  • 1982-1984

The collection consists of 23 bound volumes of transcripts of interviews with lawyers, judges, sheriffs, court reporters and clerks relating to the practice of law in southern Alberta. The interviews were conducted by Susie Sparks and James H Gray. Those interviewed were: the Honourable Gordon H. Allen, Q.C., "Barney" Barnett and Tom Malcolm, R.H. Barron, Q.C., W.F. Bowker, Q.C., E.M. Bredin, Q.C., Chester V. Burns, Q.C., R.L. Fenerty, Q.C., Spencer Cumming, Q.C., J.H. Gray, Dr. Ruth Gorman, Rollie Jardine, A.W. MacDonald, M.E. Jones, Q.C., A.W. Henricks, Q.C., the Honourable J.H. Laycraft, the Honourable W.G.N. Egbert, E.W.N. Macdonald, Q.C., the Honourable L.D. MacLean, the Honourable E.C. Manning, R.A. MacKimmie, Q.C., the Honourable R. Martland, Q.C., Marie McCaffary, D.P. McDonald, Q.C., the Honourable J.V.H. Milvain, Q.C., D.P. McLaws, Q.C., Archdeacon Cecil Swanson, Judge F. Thurgood, E. Kush, Q.C., A. Gilchrist, Mrs. Harry Nolan, Mrs. Orrin Might, Ruth Patterson, R.G. Black, Q.C., J.M. Pritchard, Q.C., J.J. Saucier, Q.C., Arthur R. Smith and Peter S. Vallance.

Calgary Bar Association Oral History Project

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