This fonds contains 7.5 cm of textual records, 24 negatives, and 1 photograph relating to the Bezanson Community Blooms group. It includes items from the groups correspondence and publications including “Native Flowers, Shrubs & Trees of the Bezanson Townsite,” reference materials from the 2008 Grande Prairie Regional Heritage Symposium, newspaper clippings, application sheets for the Prairie Shelterbelt Program, information on their Alberta Lottery Fund grant, and many financial records.
The fonds consists of papers relating to the establishment of the Kieyho Park, the lease agreement and licence of occupation, receipts, bills, and correspondence. There is also a booklet prepared by the South Peace Regional Planning Commission in June 1992 which contains the development proposal for the park.
The fonds consist of papers in a crest format filled out by families who had lived on the Lassiter Project describing their time in the Eaglesham area.
The fonds consists of executive records regarding the formation and maintenance of the society; field records recording bird, mammal and wildflower counts; copies of the monthly newsletter, The Northern Naturalist; and copies of a collection of historical articles by F.M. Helleiner, who identified 180 bird species in the Grande Prairie area and wrote articles in the Herald-Tribune from 1953-1954. An embroidered crest, showing a trumpeter swan on a blue background, is included in the collection.
Jim, Murray, David, and Mary Jean cleaning fish beside the Contrary River. The caption below the photograph reads “cleaning fish beside the Contrary River.” The caption on the back of the photograph reads “beside the Kinuseo – Contrary River.”
John and Jessamy Archer, Jim Carlisle, and Bill Archer after an afternoon bird hunting. They are posed in front of a car, and John and Bill are holding dead birds.
Bill Archer and Murray Carlisle fishing in the Contrary River. The caption below the photograph reads “Fishing in the Contrary River.” The caption on the back of the photograph reads “fishing in the Contrary River above the Big Bridge.”