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Robertson family fonds
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0.01 m of textual records
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Mark Wilbert Robertson was born in 1887 in Halls Mills, Lanark County, Ontario. He came to Alberta in 1907. He worked as a carpenter's helper at the Cardiff Mine near Morinville, Alberta before starting work with the Canadian National Railways in 1912. In 1935 he joined the provincial civil service, becoming Civil Service Commissioner for Alberta in 1941 and then Director of Civil Service Personnel in 1947; he retired in 1952. He was a candidate in two provincial elections, for the Conservative Party in 1926 and the Social Credit Party in 1935; he was defeated both times. He and his wife, Bessie Mae (born 1888), had two children: Wilbert J., born circa (ca.) 1919, and Jean Elizabeth, born ca. 1920. Wilbert was killed during the Second World War. Mark Wilbert died February 5, 1957; at that time, Jean was doing missionary work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Bessie Mae died April 11, 1985.
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The fonds consists of Robertson family records, and includes Bessie Mae Robertson's Alberta Blue Cross cards, Group Hospitalization plans forms for the Mark Wilbert Robertson family, and a commemorative card entitled "My Creed," from New Year's 1931.
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Dr. Jean E. Robertson deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1986.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Information Files, from <em>Edmonton Journal</em> obituaries, from the Alberta Genealogical Society Cemetery Database and from the records. This fonds was donated at the same time, and in the same accession as an unrelated discrete item: George B. French's share certificate for the Westlock Curling Rink Limited, 1931.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1986.0429<br><br>
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- Robertson (family) (Subject)