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Musée Héritage Museum maps and drawings collection

  • CA MHM MHM
  • Collection
  • 1850 -

This collection consists of maps, surveys, aerials, technical drawings, site plans, and blueprints collected by the museum pertaining predominately to the St. Albert region.

Allan McDonald fonds

  • GLEN glen-1594
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1882

The fonds consists of Allan's correspondence regarding Indian Affairs, and Qu'Appelle land syndicate documents.

McDonald, Allan

Rev. Oddur Vigfus Gislason fonds

  • CA ATH ATH
  • Fonds
  • [1890]

This fonds consists of a magazine article containing biographical information about the life of Rev. Oddur Gislason in Iceland and in Canada. The article has been translated from the Icelandic language.

Rev. Oddur Vigfus Gislason

Rankin family fonds

  • CA MED 772
  • Fonds
  • 1893

Fonds consists of: 1 black and white photographic print of early Maple Creek (1893).

Rankin, Samuel (family)

John William Hope fonds

  • PAA PR3161
  • Fonds
  • 1903

The fonds consists of thirteen letters from John William Hope to his wife, “Louie,” 10 April – 2 August 1903. The letters detail his journey from Britain to Barr Colony, and his struggle to find work in Western Canada. The fonds also includes British Colony and Dominion Lands Branch receipts for homestead land, 30 January and 2 July 1903.

Hope, John William

Enroute to the Homestead

A.M. Bezanson family caboose on the Athabasca River enroute to their homestead in the Peace Country, 525 miles from railway.

Oliver H. Johnson fonds

  • CA GPR 0548
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1909

The fonds consists of the 1908-1909 homestead diary of Oliver H. Johnson. It provides a daily record of his activities as he broke land, built a house, barn, and other structures, interacted with his neighbours, including the Stones, Sinclairs, Fergusons, Bredins, Hardins, Smiths, Germaine, Arnold, Allie Brick, Mead & Grant, members of the Beaver First Nation, and others, and travelled back to Edmonton to join his family. The last few pages of the diary list recipes, drugs, groceries, dry goods, hardware, and accounts, some of which may date from his time as a storekeeper.

Johnson, Oliver H.

Immigration Diary

Diary containing dates and expenses for the emigration of Jean and Pierre Lozeron from Swizerland to Canada.

Bull Outfit

Settlers from the Bull Outfit stopped on the trail to Grande Prairie. Those shown include Mrs. Lossing, Mrs. Drake, Mr. McNaught, Garnet Truax, Clarence Lossing, Mrs. Smith, E. A. Smith, Mr. Gaudin, and R. C. Lossing.

Used in "Edson to Grande Prairie Trail", p. 22.

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