The fonds consists of: history submissions regarding the family, the town of Irvine and surrounding districts, maps (11), and materials contributing to the writing of "A New Beginning" (1983-1989); images of various scenes in Irvine, Alberta.
This fonds contains records from the Canadian Land and Ranch Company and the Canadian Agricultural Coal and Colonization Company, both companies who at one time owned the 76 Ranch enterprise.
The fonds consists of: baptismal certificate for Leonard Anderson (1919); CPR Pension Booklet (1936); CPR Seniority List (1938); biographies of Anderson, Erickson, and Ibbitson families; covering letter addressed to Myra Anderson from the Canadian Pacific Archives regarding information on the Walsh C.P.R. station (1993); World War I documents regarding Stanley Ibbitson (1917-1919); thank you note from Buckingham Palace; autobiography of Stanley Ibbitson (7 pgs) (1976); Walsh history book research materials including correspondence (1934), Ibbitson family information by Marion Williams and edited by Myra Anderson, rural cemetery information, CPR station deaths of George Duburga and James Calkins, and copied Cummins Alberta land maps, an LID map of the southwestern portion of Saskatchewan (copies), a MHSD #4 map of sub division No. 2 (undated), photocopy of MH News page titled Medicine Hat Service Men's Honor Roll listing military personnel who served in WW II (June 30, 1942); history of the Salvation Army at Medicine Hat by Dorothy Linfield (1935); history titled Medicine Hat Corps - Corps History written by L.B. (1983); booklet titled 100th Anniversary of The Salvation Army in Medicine Hat (July 1999); travel brochure titled Sunny Alberta Canada Holiday Guide (April 1955); travel brochure titled This Is Alberta Canada (ca. 1950's); images of various views of Medicine Hat and the Anderson family; a book about the history of Grace Lutheran Chuch and a 50th Anniversary Pictorial Directory of Grace Lutheran Church (1953 - 2003); transcribed letter from P.J Omera (1934); photo of and article about 49th parallel marker from 1872 found in 1983.
The fonds consists of: the personal diaries/daily journals (3) of Arthur Ion, a homesteader in the British Block (1912-1941); images of the Ion family.
Photocopied in 1993 (originally created [ca. 1993])
The fonds consists of: covering letter and interview transcripts of six Buffalo Alberta pioneers: George Mercer, Jennie and Dorothy Cicon, Ted Anderson, Florence Kulyk, Walter Heiland, and Joe Kulyk, as interviewed by Buffalo School students Kendra Beck and Lisa Monkman ([ca. 1993]).