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Gordon Taylor fonds

  • PAA paa-9177
  • Fonds
  • 1931 - 1988

The fonds consists of material used, maintained, and created by Gordon Taylor while serving as Minister of Highways from 1958-2967, as a Member of Parliament for the Progressive Conservatives dating from 1979 to 1988, and as the Social Credit MLA for Drumheller constituency. The fonds also consists of records from the real estate and insurance businesses Taylor purchased in Drumheller in 1946, and from “Camp Gordon,” which he organized and ran from 1932-1966. Types of records in the fonds include copies of House of Commons proceedings; and office files consisting of research notes, clippings, conference packages, correspondence, speeches, addresses, maps, and photographs. Subjects discussed in the files include abortion, religion, First Nations, immigration, rural Alberta, transportation, natural resources, utilities, and labour and unions.

Taylor, Gordon

Festival '88 fonds

  • PAA PR3759
  • Fonds
  • 1987-1989

The fonds includes records detailing the planning and organization of Festival ’88. Documents include board meeting minutes; contracts for services and sponsorships; contracts for performers and artists; detailed financial information including budgets and financial reports; records describing fundraising strategies; formal grant applications; executive correspondence; ballots and correspondence about the First Ukrainian Contemporary Music Awards; and press releases in both English and Ukrainian.

    The fonds also includes promotional materials such as posters, pamphlets, programs, and brochures; news clippings about the festival; and correspondence received in the aftermath of the festival. 30 photographs depict members of the Board of Directors at work as well as events over the course of the festival.

Festival '88

Lorieau family fonds

  • PAA PR3634
  • Fonds
  • 1883 - 1990

The fonds consists of family photos and personal records of Marie-Claire Lorieau, including a scrapbook, an autobiography and press clippings related to Henri Garnier, and the marriage certificate of her grandfather, Alcibiade Lamoureaux, dating from 1883.

Also included is a recorded radio coverage of the 25 years of Edmonton Opera, with interviews including Lucien Lorieau, and a booklet about the first years of the Edmonton Opera.

Lorieau (family)

Pam Barrett fonds

  • PAA PR2401
  • Fonds
  • 1967-1993

The fonds consists of the Highlands (Edmonton) constituency files, legislative issues files, Culture critic and Health critic files, committees files, and New Democratic Party and Caucus records. These records offer a comprehensive account of an MLA’s duties, documenting Barrett’s career as a MLA for the New Democratic party, as the first woman in Alberta to serve as House Leader in 1986, and as an active participant in community affairs.

Barrett, Pam

Randall Adams fonds

  • PAA PR3854
  • Fonds
  • 1993-1994

The fonds consists of 35mm slides created for the “Alberta Rural Cemeteries Photographic Project.” This project was funded by a grant from the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation in 1992 and completed over the course of 1993-1994. Randall Adams travelled across Alberta to document rural cemeteries, taking photographs of approximately 300 cemetery sites.

Adams, Randall

Alberta Foundation for Nursing Research Fonds

  • PAA PR3826
  • Fonds
  • 1980-1997

The fonds consists of operational and administrative files created and collected by the AFNR, and includes legislation, policies and procedures, administration, finance, committees, conferences, board meeting minutes, presentations, submission and awarding of grants, photographs and negatives, and other records relating to the running of the Foundation. DVD+R contains scans of the physical documents donated by AFNR.

Alberta Foundation for Nursing Research

Gerald S. Anderson fonds

  • PAA paa-3841
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1999

The fonds consists of records that were created and maintained by Gerald S. Anderson which document his careers, interests and hobbies, covering the period of the late 1890’s to 1999. The photographs and negatives cover his travels through Canada, the United States and Europe as well as the Anderson family and Gerald's army training unit.

Gerald S. Anderson

Alberta Provincial Parks Alumni Association fonds

  • PAA PR3623
  • Fonds
  • 1993-2001

The fond consists of the administrative records of the APPAA and includes newsletters, Board and Annual General meeting minutes, and correspondence.

Alberta Provincial Parks Alumni Association

Cy and Mary Hampson fonds

  • PAA PR3711
  • Fonds
  • 1942 - 2002

The fonds consists of research material (including field journals and dissertation material), copies of publications, original manuscripts, correspondence, scrapbooks of wildlife-related clippings, scrapbooks of Outdoors Unlimited articles, pamphlets for Question Mark Trail, and files of the Hampson owned Cymar Films.

The majority of the photographs and negatives depict flora and fauna from around Alberta and northern Canada, with particular emphasis on birds and Arctic animals. The photos are skillfully composed by Cy Hampson and were developed by Mary Hampson. Many of the images were used by Cy Hampson in his research and teaching.

The films were created by Cy Hampson during the course of his doctoral research and depict flying squirrels and motion studies of other animals such as dogs and horses.

The fonds also consists of poetry journals, an extensive collection of programs from Edmonton and area theatrical productions, unpublished play scripts, and a scrapbook of Alberta drama and dance material created or collected by Mary Hampson.

The fonds also consists of films that were created under the Cymar Films label. There are other films that were co-produced with Mary Hampson and focus on a number of topics related to nature and wildlife. The films are all release prints or answer prints, with the exception of a few reels of work prints that have no corresponding release/answer prints. There are also production files related to these productions including licensing agreements, correspondence, project files, and broadcast agreements.

Hampson family

Irene Ramsell Fonds

  • PAA PR3810
  • Fonds
  • 1851 - 2006

The fonds consists of the personal records of Irene Ramsell including family photographs, birth and death certificates, university degrees, post cards, greeting cards, family trees, teaching qualification documents and bibles.

Ramsell, Irene

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