Land, settlement and immigration*

Taxonomy

Code

Scope note(s)

Source note(s)

Display note(s)

  • Deprecated subject term, do NOT use for new records

Hierarchical terms

Land, settlement and immigration*

Equivalent terms

Land, settlement and immigration*

Associated terms

Land, settlement and immigration*

2372 Archival description results for Land, settlement and immigration*

2372 results directly related Exclude narrower terms

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

Canadian Pacific Railway, Right-of-Way Department fonds

  • GLEN glen-3869
  • Fonds
  • 1881-1985, predominant 1881-1930

The fonds consists of 3400 case files of land transactions relating to the building of branch lines across the Canadian West, particularly in Manitoba. Also consists of plans of railway stations and their grounds; "title record" plans recording the names of individual land owners throughout the west; ledgers of townsite land sales, primarily in Alberta and British Columbia; and ledgers of land leases in western Canadian communities, including Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba.

Canadian Pacific Railway, Right-of-Way Department

Cathedral Church of the Redeemer fonds

  • GLEN glen-615
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1976

The fonds consists of photocopies of register of baptisms, marriages and deaths (1883-1926); a lantern slide show (ca.1914) about the work of Anglican missions during the settlement of the Canadian West (ca. 1914), used to raise money in England; 75th anniversary program (1950); program regarding designation as historic site (1975); Proceedings of 51st Meeting of Synod, Diocese of Calgary; and photographs of Anglican clergy and church interiors.
The lantern slide show consists of slides and an accompanying script describing the railway, immigrants, Anglican missions, churches and clergy, settlers' homes, transportation (horses, sleighs, wagons), and activities of the Church in Western Canada (this version has been re-created by Glenbow from a photocopy of the original script and scans of the lantern slides.)

Cathedral Church of the Redeemer

Edward Hauzenberger fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1883-1976

Includes information on farming and dairies. There are several memory pages with stories about: a badger, the ice house and the yoo-hoo phone. There are two pages taken from the St.Paul history book about Freda Gosselin teaching at Many Lakes School. The Hauzenberger family story is written about in this book, also.

Hauzenberger, Edward

A.W. McVittie collection

  • GLEN glen-3939
  • Collection
  • 1883-1920

The collection consists of brief biographies of Barrie, Ontario architects and surveyors, written by Steve Otto (1980), which includes information about McVittie and firms for which he worked, and photographs of McVittie and his log house.

McVittie, Archibald Westmacott

Cavan family fonds

  • CA MED 776
  • Fonds
  • 1884-1942; predominantly 1887.

1 birth certificate for Henry Cavan (issued 1893).

Cavan (family)

Beth Sheehan, Historian

The sub-series consists of an index of material collected from pioneers in the Peace Country of Alberta by York University; a source list of material compiled in the Provincial Archives of Alberta on the Grande Prairie area before 1982; lists of archival material donated by Beth Sheehan to the Provincial Archives and the Grande Prairie Public Library; and cards with the names of Clairmont residents prepared for the 1978 Census.

A. J. Watt family fonds

  • CA GPR 0144
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1992

The fonds consist of personal papers in the form of genealogy records, income tax returns and correspondence; farm records consisting of income receipts and crop statements; hand-written recipes; a collection of booklets: coupon premium catalogues, cookbooks and household remedies; and some clippings on the Royal family from 1921-1938.

A.J. Watt family

Queenstown collection

  • CA MILO QTN
  • Collection
  • 1887 - ?

Around 1887, an Irish surveyor planned to organize a colonization company in the Snake Valley, and he named his chosen site Queenstown, after his birthplace in Ireland. Of the 3 settlers who came with him in 1889, only Mr William Brown stayed in the area. By 1907, he and his family had been joined by several other homesteaders, including Willard F. Durston, Nels Nelson and Peder Solis, and within a year there was an official Post Office and the area’s first school, Queenstown School District #1798.

When the railway came through the area in 1926, the CPR was unable to make a deal with the landowner of their preferred depot location. The station was instead built a few miles north and west of the existing school, and the community that sprang up beside it became the village of Queenstown. The school building was moved to the south edge of the town site and expanded to two rooms, and by 1931 the population of the ‘unincorporated hamlet’ had grown to 125. The streets were graded and in good condition, and amenities included restaurants, hardware and general stores; a hotel, barber shop, bank, and butcher; garage, lumber yard, and implement dealership. The post-war years saw the addition of several shops and services, including a branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and a small community lending library. An important contributor to the town and the surrounding area was the Queenstown Seed Cleaning Plant, which opened in 1960.

When Queenstown School closed in 1952, much of the town’s industry relocated to Milo and other communities. A few businesses struggled on, but within a decade they, too, had closed. While some of the buildings were repurposed, such as the Bank building which was moved to Rocky Buttes to serve as a school room, Queenstown’s main street became a virtual ghost town. The abandoned buildings fell into a state of such disrepair, in 1971 the Women’s Institute petitioned Vulcan County to see to their demolition. A large hole was dug and the smaller buildings were bulldozed into it, and then burned. The larger buildings along Main Street were burned, with their rubble then bulldozed into the hole. The grain elevators remained in use until rail service was discontinued in the late 1990s; the Queenstown Seed Cleaning Plant continued operating in its original facility until it was rebuilt near Milo in 1993.

The collection consists of minute books, correspondence, financial information, photographs, a hand-drawn map, a photocopied 1931 insurance survey map and report regarding the village of Queenstown.

The collection has been divided into the following series: Community Hall, Hotel, School, Seed Cleaning Plant, Women’s Institute, Maps.

Results 1 to 10 of 2372