- CA MED 798
- Fonds
- 1911
Informally published transcribed diary of Tom Readings: "My Canadian Journey"; biographical notes on Tom Readings; 2 black and white photographs relating to Tom Readings and his Canadian Journey.
Readings (family)
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Informally published transcribed diary of Tom Readings: "My Canadian Journey"; biographical notes on Tom Readings; 2 black and white photographs relating to Tom Readings and his Canadian Journey.
Readings (family)
The fonds consists of legal, land and business records of Giovanni's career in Calgary.
Mamini, Giovanni
This fonds consists of records produced by the Edmonton Hockey Club during its existence from 1896 to 1910. Materials include correspondence, player contracts, minutes, receipts, and postcards. Also included in the fonds are photographs of various sports clubs and athletes in Edmonton such as the bowling team, baseball players, skiers, and track runners. Records also relate to hockey in Alberta and the Alberta Amateur Hockey League.
Edmonton Hockey Club
The fonds consists of correspondence with the MDHS and laser copies of photographs from Beater’s album (1907-1911).
Beater, O.L.
The fonds consists of a letter written by Malinda Moore to her mother in Pennsylvania, in which she describes her pioneer experiences, and attending the first Calgary Stampede. It includes descriptions of laundry, canning, pickling, and the harvest; bucking broncos, rodeo events and the crowds in Calgary during the Stampede; and baby Robert's teething and potty training.
Moore, Malinda
Fred Brewer's 1912 diary recording a trip from Edmonton to the Peace River Country with party comprised of F. Olson, W. Martin, T. E. Denning and E. Johnston (the party got as far as Grouard) via three oxen and carts in 1912.
The diary is supported by newspaper articles, a bill of sale for the oxen and photocopied photographs.
Brewer, Fred Everet
The fonds consists of photographs of early Edmonton including Fort Saskatchewan, Sturgeon River, and Pendennis Hotel.
Cartmell, Robert James
The fonds consists of two pages of biography written by the Loggie sisters when they interviewed Dr. Lucy Bagnall in 1955; and a copy of the diary kept by Lucy on a daily basis from May 19 to December 15, 1912. It gives an account of their journey north from Calgary to Grande Prairie, and the first months of their life in the Grande Prairie district. Much of the diary is about building the house; everyday activities such as cooking, washing, and getting food; breaking land, threshing, and haying; church services, with topics and attendees; books that Lucy is reading; and visiting with the neighbours. Dr. Bagnall mentions names such as Appleton, Cranston, Braybrook, Lister, Roberts, Canon Smith, Sharpe, Anderson, McLevin, Trimming, Campbell, Lyster, Parker, Higbee, Meade and Grant, Van Schaick, Moxhay, Forbes, Bredin, Powell, Bousfield, South, Perraton, Matheson, Carter, Ray, Patterson, McAusland, Johnson, Blake, Norley, Hunskor, Hendry, Ryley, Ferguson, and Kennedy.
Bagnall family
Jim Thompson was a real estate agent in Athabasca Landing, and later Mirror Landing, who was associated with Jim Cornwall. He took photographs and collected colour postcards of the area including Egge's Stopping House, the Thompson home at Mirror Landing, Saulteaux (Soto) Landing, SS Midnight Sun, SS Midnight Call, Athabasca Forwarding Company at Mirror Landing, E. S. Viens General Merchant and Cornwall Rooms at Mirror Landing, Jim and Hazel Thompson, Nollie Nicol and a pet moose. Photographs # 11532, 11534 - 11544. The colour postcards are from the N. T. Coy series.
Thompson, James (Jim) A.
Edmonton Saddlery Co. Ltd. fonds
The fonds consists of two photographers pertaining to Edmonton Saddlery Co. Ltd. including an exhibition booth and inside the shop.
Edmonton Saddlery Co. Ltd.