This collection consists of donations accumulated by the City of Edmonton Archives which consist of a limited number of photographs. Often these donations had little or no provenance, however were considered to be historically relevant enough to preserve. Photographs range in subject matter from Edmonton events, buildings, transportation, people, and businesses.
Sans titreThis collection consists of various materials related to the Edmonton Grads basketball team. The records include Winnie Martin Tait's Edmonton Grads scrapbook, an academic paper written by Jennifer Miller-Tait, photographs of the Edmonton Grads, and six figurines made in the likeness of Edmonton Grad team members.
Sans titre- Merluk, Bing
- Bathgate, Bernie
- Latoski, Steve
- Weston, R.A.
The fonds consists of photocopies of news clippings from the scrapbook created by Harold Brown. The news clippings relate to the Crestwood Community League and its predecessors, the 142nd Street and Jasper Place Community Leagues. There are also some early annual reports, newsletters, and correspondence of Harold P. Brown, the secretary of the league for many years and a member of the executive and president of the Federation of Community Leagues in the 1920s.
The photographs (1915-1924) cover events in the community, likely held by the community league (Maypole dancing, parades, children playing in parks, theatrical performances, parks), buildings (Alberta Legislature), roads and bridges, CKUA radio studio and portraits of Harold P. Brown and Cyril Geoffrey Wates.
File List:
File 1: Harold P. Brown, 1919, 1924, 1935, 1960
File 2: Crestwood Community League, 1917-1919
File 3: Crestwood Community League, 1920-1929
File 4: Crestwood Community League, 1930-1939
File 5: Crestwood Community League, 1940-1949
File 6: Crestwood Community League, 1950-1959
File 7: Crestwood Community League, 1960-1969
File 8: Crestwood Community League, 1970-1979
Fonds consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, and scrapbooks relating to the activities of the Recreation Department.
An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes 5 series. The series are as follows
- Series 1: Reports
- Series 2: Recreation Commission
- Series 3: Recreation Board
- Series 4: Media Coverage and Scrapbooks
- Series 5: Correspondence with Outside Organizations
- Series 6: Theatre for Children
This series contains meeting minutes from the Recreation Board.
Sans titreThis collection consists of programmes, scorecards and other publications relating to the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball club.
Sans titreThe fonds consists of one photograph of the paddlewheeler, The Klondike Queen.
Sans titre- Macdonald Hotel
- Asp, Ted;
- Griffith, Stanley;
- Kennedy, Bill;
- Elder, Russell
This series consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, studies, agreements, and assorted material relating to the involvement of different civic departments in the preparation for the 1978 Commonwealth Games.
This series has been divided into the following subseries:
- Subseries 1: Administration records (1971-1978)
- Subseries 2: Background Material records (1967-1975)
- Subseries 3: City '78 records (1971-1978)
- Subseries 4: XI Commonwealth Games Canada (1978) Foundation records (1972-1978)
- Subseries 5: Consultants' records (1973-1977)
- Subseries 6: Equipment records (1975-1978)
- Subseries 7: Financial records (1974-1978)
- Subseries 8: Management Advisory Committee records (1974-1978)
- Subseries 9: Pre-Games Events records (1976-1978)
- Subseries 10: Protocol records (1978)
- Subseries 11: Related Events records (1972-1977)
- Subseries 12: Studies (1971-1975)
- Subseries 13: Venues records (1973-1981)