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Artwork
CA EDM RG-27-3 · Series · 1912 - 1998
Part of City of Edmonton. Edmonton Public Library fonds

This series contains three architectural drawings showing the proposed civic centre as designed by Morrell & Nichols Architects.

  • File 1: Proposed Civic Centre looking south Scheme A
  • File 2: Proposed Civic Centre Scheme B
  • File 3: Proposed Civic Centre looking north Scheme B
Byron-May Company
CA EDM MS-1192-1 · Series · 1905 - 1916
Part of Byron, May Family fonds

The series consists of Byron-May Company photographs from the Byron-May album. Many were part of their business, including images commissioned by the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. The photographs include buildings, sports events, agriculture, exhibitions, street and river valley scenes, and military personnel. At the time, these photographs were used to promote Edmonton as an up-and-coming city.

Other commissioned photographs, such as family or home portraits, show not only the growth of the Byron-May Co. and the booming prosperity of Edmontonians at the time, but also reflect the increasing popularity of photography in the early twentieth century.

Byron-May Company
Contracts
CA EDM RG-13-3 · Series · 1917-1997
Part of City of Edmonton. Law Department fonds

This series consists of documentation regarding contracts Edmonton Law Branch was involved in creating and investigating. These records include negotiations with professional Edmonton sport teams, artists for creating public art, property developers and declaring several buildings Historic Resources, commercial developers and owners in developing the downtown pedway system, the lead up to hosting the Commonwealth Games, the construction and transfer of the downtown Royal Canadian Legion, the City's role in nuclear defense, and servicing land owned by developers.

Council Projects
CA EDM MS-323-6 · Series · 1949 - 1982
Part of Edmonton Social Planning Council fonds

This series consists of a variety of records concerning projects the Edmonton Social Planning Council (E.S.P.C.) and its numerous committees were involved in or concerned with. The projects concern social issues such as the needs of the elderly, community services and development, child welfare and day care services, the Christmas Bureau, the development and support of cooperatives, community schools, services for people with physical disabilities, services for homeless people, women’s shelters, Indigenous and Metis welfare, poverty, rehabilitation, and more. In some cases the E.S.P.C. was the primary driving force behind a project while in other cases it provided support to other organizations’ projects. The types of records included in this series include minutes, correspondence, memorandums, reports, proposals, and studies. The records provide insight into the social issues the E.S.P.C. was concerned with as well as how it worked to address them. In addition, the records help paint a picture of how the E.S.P.C. and its role within the community changed over time.

Edmonton Social Planning Council
Ellerslie Rugby Park
CA EDM MS-672-1 · Series · 1963-1993
Part of Edmonton Rugby Union fonds

The series consists of records from 1963 to 1993 pertaining to the development and operations of Ellerslie Rugby Park, home to the Edmonton Rugby Union, located on Ellerslie Road, Edmonton, Alberta. The series includes correspondence, financial records, land titles, legal correspondence, reports, brochures, insurance appraisals, and architectural drawings of proposed plans. Also included in the series are minutes from the Ellerslie Rugby Park Management Board meetings.

Edmonton Rugby Union
Glass Slide Photographs
CA EDM MS-59-2 · Series · [ca. 1900-1949]
Part of Hubert A. Hollingworth fonds

This series consists of photographs originally created by others or from books, which Hubert Hollingworth re-photographed onto glass slide negatives. These were possibly used by Hollingworth for presentations on glass slides. The images cover a variety of subjects including religion and missionary work, farm animals, medical education, images of the reconstruction of England after WWII, Indigenous people, the Canadian West including Saskatchewan, Vancouver and the Rocky Mountains, and Quebec.

The majority of the religious images belonged to missionary Charles O. Bowen, a Welsh immigrant. The images consist of nature photographs, often mountain scenes with a biblical scripture or hymn transposed on them.
Another contributor of the religious images was Miss Cork, a missionary who worked in Africa.

Some of the medical education images can be attributed to professors from the University of Alberta including Dr. Evan Greene, Dr. Ralph Faust Shaner and Dr. Maxwell Mordecai Cantor.
Dr. Evan Greene (1873-1966), a surgeon and anatomist, was one of Alberta’s earliest doctors. The subject of his slides is anatomy.
Dr. Ralph Faust Shaner (1893-1976) was an anatomist, professor and head of the University of Alberta’s Department of Anatomy. His images represent many of the course that he taught such as histology, embryology and neuroanatomy.
Dr. Maxwell Mordecai Cantor (1903-1981) was the provincial coroner and a biochemist at the University of Alberta. Dr. Cantor’s images are of the pathology of disease.

Heritage Planning
CA EDM RG-17-17.9 · Series · 1911 - 2017, predominant 1978 - 2015
Part of City of Edmonton. Planning Department fonds

These records were created by the Heritage Planning Unit through their function of identifying and preserving historical buildings in Edmonton. The records include reports, publications, walking tours, correspondence, and operational files relating to the preservation of historical properties, including projects such as heritage surveys and inventories.

The series includes a full run of neighbourhood fact sheets documenting communities in Edmonton in the late 1980s and early 1990s (files 55-245). Also included are files containing information and correspondence around buildings of interest (files 296-1438), and buildings which have been demolished or moved from their original location (files 1590-1684).

Files 1685-1975 are designation files, and include information and correspondence related primarily to the conservation of properties which have been formally designated as Municipal Historical Resources.

Many files listed in the file list contain photographs documenting buildings.

Hollingworth Photographs
CA EDM MS-59-1 · Series · 1897 - 1957
Part of Hubert A. Hollingworth fonds

This series consists of photographs taken by Hubert Hollingworth. The images document life in Edmonton during the first half of the twentieth century, including portraits, street scenes, buildings, events and activities.