This series includes certified copies of agreement between the corporation of Edmonton and various other parties. This series also includes agreements made by the Town of Strathcona between 1899 and 1909.
The coronation of George VI and his wife Elizabeth as King and Queen of the United Kingdom took place May 12, 1937. In preparation, a meeting was held by the City of Edmonton March 10, 1937 to discuss a suitable form of celebration for the occasion. The Edmonton Coronation Celebration Committee was thus established, charged with formulating the plans for the observance and celebration of the event. This series contains minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Committee and it's various subcommittees.
This subseries consists of published copies of voters' and burgesses' lists produced from the original ledgers used to gather the information from districts across the City of Edmonton. The published copies amalgamate multiple districts into fewer ledgers, usually three to five, depending on the year. The published copies also incorporate any revisions or edits that may have been made to the information drawn from the original ledgers and were used as reference copies. They include information including the name, address, burgess status (i.e. if they owned property), and which school board they supported (Public of Separate).
This subseries consists of the original ledgers used to record information regarding Civic Elections and Census Enumeration throughout the City of Edmonton's polling districts. Each ledger corresponds to one polling district within the City and were carried by City staff to each address in the district to record information regarding the occupants. The ledgers from 1945 onwards include name, address, if they are a British subject, if they own property, their section of either Protestant of Catholic for school taxes, their marital status, the name of their employer, the number of people in the residence under the age of 21 and their gender, and the type of dwelling in which they reside.
This subseries contains maps that were used by the Office of the City Clerk in its function administering civic elections and census enumeration. In addition to voting and census maps, land use maps and maps of neighborhood and community league boundaries are also included.
This series contains correspondence, reports, and other records created in the pursuit of preparing for and carrying out municipal censuses and elections.
This series contains items and attachments from City Council meetings. The meeting minutes have been digitized and indexed, and are available under RG-8.14.
This series includes the minutes of Edmonton Town Council from 1892-1904, and from Edmonton City Council from 1904-1991, as well as agendas from 1913-1945.
This series contains reports and publications created and received by the Office of the City Clerk. It also contains special reports delivered to the City Council in the early-to-mid 1900s on a variety of topics, including utilities and development. It also includes special investigations into issues such as fires, conflict of interest, and prostitution.
This series consists of meeting minutes, agendas, attachments, reports to Council, and correspondence created by the Economic Affairs Committee. Over the years the Committee had various names, including the Finance and Budgeting Committee (1968-1971), the Economic Affairs Committee (1971-1982), the Corporate Resources Committee (1982-ca. 1984), and the Budget Committee (ca. 1986-ca. 1988). The committee was responsible for financial matters of the City, including approval of land sales and budgeting.
The series includes meeting minutes, agendas and attachments from 1968-1984 (files 1-498), with some earlier years including reports to Council and budget meeting minutes. The series also includes reports to Council with attachments from 1971-1981 (files 499-820), and budget meetings and associated subject files and reports from 1973-1988 (files 821-1324).