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This fonds consists of materials which were collected and created by the City's Commissioners through their function of overseeing all aspects of City administration. The fonds includes correspondence with City staff, provincial and federal representatives, other municipalities, corporations, community groups and the general public. It also contains reports and financial records relating to various departments, memoranda, committee minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photos, maps, and architectural drawings.

An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes 11 series and multiple subseries. The series are as follows:

• Series 1: City Clerks and Administrative Records
• Series 2: Financial
• Series 3: Development and Planning
• Series 4: Transportation
• Series 5: Engineering
• Series 6: Utilities
• Series 7: Community Services
• Series 8 : Wartime
• Series 9: External Organizations
• Series 10: Commissioners Reports
• Series 11: Orphaned Material

This fonds contains meeting minutes from the Civic Service Association. In June of 1914, the Civic Service Club voted to become the Civic Service Association. The minutes detail activities and structure of the Association during the period of 1914 to 1916 including administration, social activities for members, and interactions with government.

File list:
File 1: Civic Service Association executive meeting minutes, June 1914 - April 1916
File 2: Civic Service Club / Association general meeting minutes, June 1914 - January 1916

Fonds consists of records kept regarding the different types of licenses granted by the City in the early 1900s. It also includes examples of licenses purchased from the City.

The fonds consists of the following files:

• File 1: Ledger of Licenses Granted (1909-1911)
• File 2: Ledger of Dog Tags Issued (1905-1909)
• File 3: Ledger of Dog Tags Issued (1909-1911)
• File 4: Ledger containing Business Licenses Issued (1908-1911) and Dog Tags Issued (1908-1922)
• File 5: License issued to Mah Jim to keep a restaurant at 264 Namayo Avenue known as “The Frisco Restaurant” (1909)
• File 6: Dog tag #2451, issued to Mrs. L. Doherty for a black spaniel (1918)
• File 7: Dray license #160 for a two horse vehicle (1928)
• File 8: License register (1905-1909)
• File 9: Ledger of documents stamped with the seal of the City of Edmonton (1914-1915)
• File 10: Licenses Paid (1915-1916)

This fonds consists of a membership certificate, National Fire Protection Association International, for John Booth, May 1940 and various photographs of displays by the fire department.

The photographs also include a panorama of the fire department’s new fleet of motorized fire-fighting equipment that replaced horse-drawn rigs.

The fonds also includes a report from the enquiry into the 1949 fire at the Northern Hardware Building in Edmonton which burned for three days (351.9 WES).

The fonds consists of records belonging to Kenneth William MacKenzie. They include:

• An Address to Governor-General, Sir Gilbert John Elliott Murray Kynnymond [sic], 4th Earl of Minto, signed on behalf of Town of Edmonton, Kenneth William MacKenzie, September 1901;
• A petition requesting Kenneth MacKenzie to stand as Mayor of the City of Edmonton, 1904.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook, mostly of newspaper clippings, created by Kenneth A. McLeod relating to the Government of Premier A. F. Sifton, Government of Alberta. The clippings cover a variety of topics, subjects and people, including:

• Alberta: provincial finances, natural resources, politics and government
• railways: the Canadian Northern Railway, Canadian Northern Western Railway, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, Grand Trunk and Pacific Railway
• people: Donald Baker, R.B. Bennet, J.R. Boyle, G.H.V. Bulyea, Archy Campbell, W.R. Clarke, J.L. Cote, C.W. Cross, W.H. Cushing, Peter Gunn, George Hoadley, Robert Jaffray, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Peter E. Lessard, A.J. McArthur, J.D. McArthur, John A. McDougall, A.J. (Archie) McLean, Duncan Marshall, Edward M. Michener, C.M. O’Brien, Frank Oliver, William Franklin Puffer, E.H. Riley, Harold Riley, Alexander Cameron Rutherford, Walter Scott, Arthur Lewis Sifton, Clifford Sifton, John W. Sifton, Charles Stewart, Robert Taylor Telford, T.M. Tweedie.
• current events at the time: freedom of the press, women’s suffrage, World War I (1914-1918).
  The fonds also includes the book, The Last of the Buffalo: Comprising a History of the Buffalo Herd of the Flathead Reservation and An Account of the Great Round Up, by Tom Jones and Norman Luxtion, 1909 (599.64 JOH o/s).

The fonds consists of personal papers of Nicholas Beck, including:

• 8 pages of Beck's account with John Cameron General Wholesale and Retail, from 9 Feb 1893 to 1 Aug1894 (itemized list with the prices each item)
• 2 pages of Beck's account with John Cameron General Wholesale and Retail for August & September 1894 (itemized list with the prices each item);
• 2 cancelled cheques, Imperial Bank of Canada, 1906;
• employment contract between the Town of Edmonton and Nicholas Beck, as Solicitor and Advocate for the Town of Edmonton, dated 28 Feb 1900.