- CA GPR 0155-0155.03-0155.03.01
- Item
- 1908
Part of Bezanson Family fonds
A.M. Bezanson family caboose on the Athabasca River enroute to their homestead in the Peace Country, 525 miles from railway.
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Part of Bezanson Family fonds
A.M. Bezanson family caboose on the Athabasca River enroute to their homestead in the Peace Country, 525 miles from railway.
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.
J.B. Oliver Funeral Home collection
The fonds consists of eleven maps related to the settlement of the area, dating from 1908-1981; ten plans for cemeteries in the County of Grande Prairie; two architectural plans for an expansion of the funeral home on 102 Street; and correspondence and plans for the creation of Wapiti Park ca. 1938.
J.B. Oliver Funeral Home
Fonds consist of: a hand-drawn homestead map; 14 copies of land and tax receipts belonging to the Stauffers (1920's).
Stauffer (family)
The fonds consists of records of the planning for and the construction of the Presbyterian churches at Glen Leslie and Bezanson and photographs presumably assembled by Mrs. Forbes relating to their journey to the Peace Country and church and community activities, buildings, and people in the Grande Prairie area.
Forbes, Alexander
The fonds consists of Ernest Brookes’s certificate of award of the Military Medal; documentation of his acquisition of land from the Soldier Settlement Board; his marriage certificate; invoices and receipts; his application for employment with the Civil Service of Canada; his portrait (ca. 1910); snapshot of his sister’s family (Mrs. Arthur Gyatt of Hussar, Alberta, ca. 1920s); and a snapshot of Ernest, Emily, and Alice Brookes (ca. 1930s).
Brookes, Ernest
Part of Pierre Lozeron family fonds
Diary containing dates and expenses for the emigration of Jean and Pierre Lozeron from Swizerland to Canada.
Fonds contains: 1 black and white magazine clipping photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Visscher (192-?); 1 black and white print of the Visscher family (1923); A joint Canadian Passport for Luite and Johanna Visscher (October 5, 1936); A Canadian Registration Board Certificate for Johanna Visscher (June 22, 1918); A Rolling Hiils School public health notice regarding Johanna Visscher (July 22, 1929); a deposit slip [in Dutch] for passage on the ship S.S. Virginian from Rotterdam, Netherlands to ? for Ms. Johanna Japin (January 31, 1911); a ticket for Ms J. Japin sailing on the S.S. Virginian from Liverpool to Halifax, N.S (March 11, 1911); a ticket, possibly for Mr. Luite Visscher, for travel on the S.S Virginian from Liverpool to Halifax, NS (March 4, 1910); a share certificate for one share in the Southern Alberta Co-operative Association Ltd issued to L. Visscher (October 1, 1942); Marriage certificate for Luite Visscher and Johanna Japin (March 17, 1911); A notice [in Dutch] from the Netherlands Minister of War permitting Luite Visscher to stay in North America until 1915 (February 1913).
Visscher (family)
Fonds consist of: biographies of families and friends of Alice Felesky, copies of letters regarding settlement, a family reunion, and one in Swedish, copied and original certificates primarily regarding Carl Axelson's immigration and naturalization, Lewis Hole and Gagmar's marriage certificate, and a Medicine Hat Land District map, 1912.
Felesky, Alice
Grande Prairie and District Old Timers' Association
The fonds consists of executive records such as constitution and by-laws, legal agreements and insurance records; membership lists and applications for original and succeeding members in the Old Timers' Association; financial records beginning with the first cheque issued by the organization; correspondence and activity files; material related to special events; and files for the creation of "Pioneers of the Peace", a book they published in 1976. There are also some copies of placemats used at the Old-Timers' Banquets, two over-sized posters, one listing the executive members over the years and one listing the scholarship donors and recipients; and a photograph album (ca. 1910-1915) containing photographs from the collection of W.D. Albright.
Grande Prairie and District Old Timers' Association