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Lewis Evans collection
CA EDM MS-635 · Collection · 1936

The collection consists of a single Prosperity Certificate from 1935.

Evans, Lewis
CA EDM MS-40 · Fonds · 1901, 1904

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.
MacKenzie, Kenneth William
Kenneth Wayne Tingley fonds
CA EDM MS-610 · Fonds · 1986-1994

The fonds consists of certificates for Halley's Comet 1986 sighting, a copy of the site profile on the 1908 house in downtown Edmonton later converted into a restaurant called Vi's and information on the Oliver area. Another accrual in 2010 contained documents used for site profiles on the Canadian Furniture Company, Armstrong Drug Store, W.W. Arcade, Mike's News, Pantages (Strand) Theatre and the Princess Theatre.

Tingley, Kenneth Wayne
Kenneth A. McLeod fonds
CA EDM MS-7 · Fonds · 1910 - 1917

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).
McLeod, Kenneth A.
Ken Slater collection
CA EDM MS-658 · Collection · 1959-1960
  • The fonds consists of 4 essays providing histories of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System: "A brief history of the NWT & Y Radio System", "R. C. Signals
  • A History of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System 1923 to 1960"
  • "North Radio Service" has colorful history by Ron Hayter
  • and "The Khaki Telco commercial activities of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals 1923 - 1959"
  • and 3 photographs which are catalogued separately.
Slater, Ken
Julian Suski fonds
CA EDM MS-341 · Fonds · 1955-1968

The fonds consists of materials created by Julian Suski of Edmonton between 1955 and 1968. This fonds consists of a copy of the Canadian Federation of Municipalities Inquiry on Municipal Administration, reports, surveys of various cities, correspondence, materials gathered during European study tour, materials relating to the Council on Urban and Regional Research, proposals made to the City of Edmonton, booklets, organizational charts, statistics, history of the city and organizational annual reports.

Suski, Julian
John Paterson fonds
CA EDM MS-860 · Fonds · [ca. 1950]

The fonds consists of photographs of City of Edmonton employees who worked with John Paterson.

Paterson, John
John Joseph Duggan fonds
CA EDM MS-28 · Fonds · 1897 - 1939

This fonds consists of personal papers of John J. Duggan as well as some records for the Town/City of Strathcona, including Duggan’s mayoral candidacy.
The photographs are predominantly of the activities of the Old Timers’ association but there is also one of the first hand car into Edmonton.

Duggan, John Joseph
John Booth fonds
CA EDM MS-758 · Fonds · 1912 - 1951

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).

Booth, John
Joan M. Neil fonds
CA EDM MS-536 · Fonds · 1918-1982

The fonds consists of brochures, booklets and photographs on various subjects including Strathcona Composite High School, Edmonton weather, David Kilgour M.P., Molson's Edmonton House, the North Star Chapter of the Acacia Masonic Lodge, and the Old Timers Baseball Association. There are also family documents for Private W.D. McAllister, including a rationing order book (1918), Canadian Discharge note giving permission for leave, note for permission to marry, a printed note from Buckingham Palace giving thanks for service and a letter from Grant MacEwan, Lieutenant-Governer of Alberta (1966).

Neil, Joan M.