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Elly De Jongh fonds
Elly De Jongh fonds
CA EDM MS-731 · Fonds · 1977 - 1999

The fonds consists of records relating to the Urban Reform Group of Edmonton (URGE), including production of a 1978 historical calendar, Board minutes, reports and correspondence. It also contains records relating to the Society for the Protection of Architectural Resources in Edmonton (SPARE) and personal correspondence.
The photographs consist mostly of buildings and street scenes in Edmonton and Toronto, ca. 1980, taken as part of research into heritage buildings for SPARE. They include the Ross Brothers and Brighton Block in Edmonton, and the St. Lawrence Market and Gooderham Building (flatiron) in Toronto (EA-560). One photograph is a portrait of Elly De Jongh used for an Edmonton Historical Board award in 1984.
The artwork consists of an ink drawing of Primrose House, 1979, as part of research on heritage buildings for SPARE (EAA-113).

 De Jongh, Elly
Josef Huber fonds
CA EDM MS-596 · Fonds · 1909 - 1927

The fonds consists of the identification papers and personal documentation of Josef Huber and family including:

  • Wedding certificate (Trauungs Schein) for Josef Huber and Francisca Lang, married 1891, certificate issued 1909
  • Baptismal certificate (Tauf-Schein) for Pauline, daughter of Josef Huber and Francisca Lang, born 19 Dec 1897, certificate issued 1909
  • Baptismal certificate (Testimonium ortus et baptismi) for Anton Huber, born 25 Oct 1900, certificiate issued 1909
  • Land certificate ? (Heimats-Schein) for Josef Huber, issued 1909
  • passport issued to Josef Huber by the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Chernowitz (Czernowitz), Bukovina in 1909; it includes Josef Huber, his wife Francisca Lang and their four children, sons Johann and Anton and daughers, Kristina and Karoline,
  • Dominion Lands interim homestead receipt for SE-21-56-6-W5, issued to Josef Huber, July 25, 1912 at Edmonton,
  • Register of Alien Enemies card issued July 2, 1915 at Edmonton,
  • Certificate of Naturalization issued February 26, 1921,
  • a letter of agreement with Ernest Abbott dated August 29, 1927.
 Huber, Josef
Alberta Pensioners' Society fonds
Alberta Pensioners' Society fonds
CA EDM MS-9 · Fonds · 1924 - 1967, predominant 1940 - 1966

The fonds consists of administrative and financial records of the Alberta Pensioners' Society, including correspondence, scrapbooks of minutes, news clippings, legislative materials from various jurisdictions and other publications.
The photographs include portraits of Chief Justice William R. Hawson and a photo of the Fred Marshall family.
The material was arranged as follows:

  • Correspondence files
  • News clippings
  • Incorporation and Policy
  • Other Literature
  • Records scrapbooks
  • Financial records
 Alberta Pensioners' Society
Caine Family fonds
CA EDM MS-1164 · Fonds · 2001 (originally created [between 1938 and 1941])

The fonds consists of photographs from the Caine family photo album. The photographs include images of the Pleasantview area before development and the Caine family.

 Caine Family
Lyman Delmar Parney fonds
Lyman Delmar Parney fonds
CA EDM MS-41 · Fonds · 1888 - 1942

The fonds consists of private letters, business correspondence, documents relating to the L.D. Parney Estate, and a scrapbook relating to various subjects.

File List:
File 1: General correspondence - includes
~ letter and envelope, John McDougall, Methodist Church, Dept. of Missions to Mrs. L.D. Parney, Ridgetown, Ontario, 29 Feb 1904, re - books;
~ letter, addressed to Fred (L.D. Parney's son), likely by L.D. Parney, 9 Apr 1935, re - family and business activities

File 2: Correspondence - re: Warehouse, 10256 - 107 St., rental by Wilson Transit and Distributing Co. Ltd., installation of railway spur, 1933-1941

File 3: Accounts, L.D. Parney estate, 1943-1948

File 4: Scrapbook news clippings - re: new London telephone exchange, with illustration of Canada House, 1933; members of the Parney family; poetry; Royal family; World War I and II; Jenny Morris, (“mother” of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry); pencil drawing, duck with nest of eggs; deaths of Wilfred Grenfell, Thomas Alva Edison, Wilfrid Laurier, 1898-1942.

File 5: News clippings - loose clippings from scrapbook, include:
clippings re: World War I and II; Jenny Morris (“mother” of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry); poetry; inspirational stories; royal family; cartoons, 1918-1942.

 Parney, Lyman Delmar
Pollard Family fonds
CA EDM MS-42 · Fonds · 1968 - 1969

The fonds consists of documents relating to the history of the Pollard Brickyard and John Walter logging operation in Walterdale. Also included is a photocopy of a notebook with a handwritten account of the history of the Bedard family and recipes compiled by Firmin Bedard. The photographs are of the Pollard brickyard and a family group photograph of the Pollards and Bedards.

File List:
File 1. Documents - Pollard Bros. brick plant and Walterdale area, Edmonton, includes:

  • drawing – Layout of Pollard Bros. Brick Plant, Walters Flats, Edmonton, 1914 (2 pages);
  • photograph of Pollard Bros. brick plant, pre-1914, with explanatory text (in folio) (EA-113-2);
  • summary of Pollard Bros. brick plant and John Walter logging operation, illustrated with small;
  • notes re: homes of Muchias (Matthias Collins) and John Walter, Pollard brick yard and original St. Anthony church;
  • announcement, programme and poem re: the Walterdale Bunch reunion, July 27, 1968, organized and written by Rosa Pollard;
  • letter, from Charles. W. Pollard to Names Advisory Committee, City of Edmonton, recommending use of Pollard name in street and district naming.

File 2. Notebook: Grandfather Firmin Bedard’s family history record. Includes genealogical information of Bedard family (1807-1927), recipes, other notes; in French and English (photocopy).

 Pollard Family
Moreau Family fonds
CA EDM MS-873 · Fonds · 1898 - ca.1900

The fonds consists of photographs of the Moreau family, their home, and store.

 Moreau Family
Carmichael Family fonds
CA EDM MS-799 · Fonds · 1909-1910

The fonds consists of family portraits of the Carmichaels including Mr. and Mrs. Norman Carmichael and their two children Glen Carmichael and Mary Marie Carmichael.

 Carmichael Family
Mrs. Alvin Snyder fonds
CA EDM MS-333 · Fonds · 1912-1921
  • This fonds contains one scrapbook filled with pictures from magazines and greeting cards and dating from 1912 to 1921.
  • Book: Bringing up father by George McManus (741.5 MCM)
 Snyder, Alvin (Mrs.)
Murray Huff fonds
CA EDM MS-388 · Fonds · 1940-1951

The fond consists of butter papers from the Huff Dairy, clippings related to the Huff family history, milk bottle top tabs, posters of the livestock sale in 1951, a souvenir program from the 1940 Edmonton Winter Carnival, a souvenir of the Edmonton Grads Basketball team, and a Royal Air Force Bowden Training School yearbook from ca. 1942. The fonds also includes photographs of Edmonton and the Edmonton area from the 1940s.

 Huff, Murray