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Humphreys / Green fonds
CA EDM MS-706 · Fonds · 1855-1944

This fonds primarily consists of military records from Thomas Humphreys from the Crimean War (including a brief family history and a diary) and Lt. P.A. Green from the First World War (including information on his service and his pension). This fonds also contains Lt. P.A. Green's medals and ribbons from the First World War, including his Military cross, Military Medal, and other service medals.

Humphreys, E. (Bunny)
CA EDM MS-679 · Fonds · 1918-1919

The fonds consists of a partial copy of a document labelled 'Sailed for Vladivostok' which is the nominal roll of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919.

Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force
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
Lane family Collection
CA EDM MS-623 · Collection · 1944

The collection consists of 2 propaganda pamphlets dropped by German pilots during World War II.

Lane Family
Rodney Pike fonds
CA EDM MS-582 · Fonds · [1980?]-1995

The fonds consists of materials created by Rodney Pike between ca. 1980 and 1995. The fonds consists of the biographical record and family history of Frank Pike, father of the donor. A later accrual has an essay about the Westward Ho School, a boys' school started by Mr. W. H. Nightingale ca. 1904. Some of the students listed: Howard Emery, Kenny Kinnaird, Otis Bishopric, Dick Secord, Harry Morris, Alan Harvey, Jack Dinning, George Field, Jim Weaver, Kelly Matthews, Ken Pirie, Munro Williamson, Fred Pardu, Vernon Hayward, Peter Pitcher, and the sons of the Wilkins, Blakey, Christie, Gaetz, Matheson, Jamieson, Field and Silas families. The fonds also includes an essay on old Glenora and Dr. W. D. Ferris and his family. In 1997, Rodney Pike donated material he gathered in 1988 for a Historical Society of Alberta lecture on "The Prairie Contribution to the Canadian Navy." This material includes his own recollections of the Second World War, as well as information he gathered from friends who were also from the west and who served in the RCN.

Pike, Rodney
CA EDM MS-570 · Fonds · 1941-1991

This fonds consists of memorabilia and news letters of the Canadian Veterans Association of the United Kingdom. There is also correspondence between a Mrs. Thorleifson and Mrs. Stewart, mother of the donor.

The Canadian Veterans Association of the United Kingdom
CA EDM MS-554 · Fonds · 1939-1991

The fonds consists of materials created between 1939 and 1991 by the Legion of Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth and consists of correspondence and other materials.

Legion of Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth
Edith Sparks fonds
CA EDM MS-450 · Fonds · 1886-1981

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Edith Sparks of Edmonton and dating from 1886 to 1981. The fonds consists of miscellaneous notes on Edmonton, Strathcona, Edmonton hotels, schools (especially Norwood), clippings from the Bulletin (or transcriptions of) concerning Community Leagues, the Dickens Fellowship and the International Order of Daughters of the Empire in Edmonton, a history of the Mounted Police, a biography of Mary Harvey Hilton, Royal Canadian Air Force badges and buttons, coupon book, Demolay programs and "the Alberta Story".

Sparks, Edith
J.P. Feamley collection
CA EDM MS-424 · Collection · 1898-1950

The collection consists of various sheets of music previously belonging to Catherine and Heather Feamley, war collectibles, and ordinance maps dating from 1898 to 1950.

Feamley, J. P.