Collection illustrates the early development of movable type printing in Europe. Collection consists of printed books including a book of hours, leaves from Bibles, hagiographies, liturgical texts, Japanese woodblock prints, and works of history, literature, and canon law.
Collection mainly consists of books and pamphlets published in England and Scotland between 1500 and 1800. Collection contains three subject-based series: English Civil Wars, witch trials, and the Popish Plot. Collection also contains satirical prints, daily news periodicals, novels and poetry, religious texts, a cookbook, and a herbal.
The fonds consists of a souvenir photograph album of the trip, possibly kept by G. Mayor-Cooke, the General Manager of Lang's company. Includes 31 snapshots of Lang, Mayor-Cooke and the rest of the company on board ship, and in locations enroute including Whitefisth Lake (Ontario), Winnipeg, Regina, and Edmonton; and 25 scenes along the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) across the country from Quebec City to the West Coast. Most of the latter are commercial prints taken by Brigden Photos.
The fonds consists of an unlined Norwegian School scribbler labeled "Tegnebog for Olav Vekvic," containing five pencil drawings signed by Olav and dated 1906, when he was 19 years old. Most of them are floral bouquets, but one is a portrait of an elderly man described as "Utenrikeminister Lavland". There is also a 1928 report from the Experimental Sub-Station at Beaverlodge, AB, and a 1920 letter from The Pellman Institute regarding a course of studies about which Olaf had enquired.
The fonds consists of Erwin's correspondence, photographs, and other records related to Chautauqua in western Canada. The photographs document the daily lives of the Chautauqua performers while on tour.
The fonds consists of photographs pertaining to Rotary theatrical productions and minstrel shows, the Holy Trinity Church drama group, and C.J.C.A. Radio orchestra. The fonds also consists of a photograph of R.W. Drake and of the 19th Alberta Dragoon's cricket Team.