This series includes all incoming and outgoing correspondence and several administrative registers. The correspondence deals with all matters involving the Town, in particular municipal elections, water and sewer extensions, electric lighting, the street railway system, immigration, the sale of Town debentures, taxation, property alterations, and numerous petitions for extended services. The records have been classified according to subject and provided with an index.
This series contains the following classes:
Class 1: Outgoing correspondence, 1892-1894
Class 2: Outgoing correspondence, 1894-1896
Class 3: Incoming correspondence, 1895-1896
Class 4: Outgoing correspondence and census report, 1896-1899
Class 5: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1902-1903
Class 6: Plumbing undertaken for private citizens, 1902-1906
Class 7: Debentures sold, 1893-1906
Class 8: Electric metre recordings and payments, 1903
Class 9: Receipts and disbursements, 1903-1905
Class 10: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1904
Class 11: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1905
Class 12: Register and index of new buildings, 1905-1911
Class 13: Outgoing correspondence to various school districts, 1905-1907
Class 14: Electric light register, 1905-1906
Class 15: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1906
Class 16: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1907
Class 17: Debenture register, 1906-1910
Class 18: Electric metre books, 1907
Class 19: Electric metre books, 1908
Class 20: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1908
Class 21: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1909
Class 22: City Council Finance Committee, recommendations for payment, 1909-1911
Class 23: Disbursements, 1909-1911
Class 24: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1910
Class 25: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1911-1912
This series includes correspondence relating to taxation, legislation, building construction, Council, and the Bouillon Investigation. This series contains the following classes:
This series includes correspondence, ledgers and receipts. This series contains the following classes:
Class 1: Journal detailing income and expenditures, 1892-1915
Class 2: Cash book detailing income and expenditures, 1892-1902
Class 3: Ledger detailing finances of various departments and listing the major areas of public expenditure, 1892-1899 (includes index)
Class 4 : Ledger detailing the financial situation of the Town and listing the major areas of expenditure and sources of revenue, 1899-1904 (includes index)
Class 5: Two cheque books, 1894-1896
Class 6: Correspondence, receipts and financial statements, 1896-1904
Class 7: Insurance policy for the City of Edmonton protecting from embezzlement by the Secretary-Treasurer, 1900
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).
This fonds consists of a photograph of Alexander Naismith Mouat, 1916 and a certificate of appreciation on his resignation as City of Edmonton’s Comptroller, 1917.
This series contains debenture certificates and tax collector's and assessment rolls from the Village of West Edmonton, as well as the assessment rolls for the West Edmonton School District No. 2320.
