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Elmer E. Roper fonds
CA EDM MS-11 · Fonds · 1959 - 1967

The fonds consists of political papers relating to Dr. Roper's tenure as Mayor of Edmonton from 1959 to 1963.
The photographs are from an album, presented to Elmer Roper by Chief Constable M.F.C. Anthony, commemorating the official opening of Police Headquarters Building, October 16, 1962.
The textual material was arranged as follows:

  • Speeches, includes proclamations, briefings and other statements.
  • General Correspondence, containing invitations and acknowledgements; complaints and compliments, and general commentaries on civic business; also includes files created by his immediate predecessors as mayor, William Hawrelak, mayor until his resignation in September 1959 and F.J. Mitchell, acting mayor until the municipal election in October 1959.
  • Miscellaneous Papers, including new clippings, reports, and incidental documents
Roper, Elmer E.
CA EDM RG-0 · Collection · 1908-[ca. 1972], predominant 1942-1953

The collection consists of original material removed from the City of Edmonton Archives Clippings collection.

FIC - Found in clippings collection
CA EDM MS-0 · Collection · 1893 - 1967

The collection consists of original material removed from the City of Edmonton Archives Clippings collection as well as records found within the collections that either lack clear provenance or exist as discreet items.

FIC - Found in clippings collection
Helen Ramsay Lindsay fonds
CA EDM MS-521 · Fonds · 1905-[ca. 1950]
  • The collection consists of a copy of the "The Evening Journal", Saturday, September 2, 1905, with headlines 'Alberta, A Province' and 'History in the Making in Alberta's New Capital'.
  • Photographs of Edmonton taken between ca. 1905 and ca. 1950, including Legislature Building and Grounds, Victoria Park, Whitemud, Rossdale Power Plant, Whitemud Bridge, River Valley Road, Central Skating Rink, Helen Ramsay at Ramsay Home, 11008 - 100 Avenue CPR Overpass c. 1914, Robertson Church, High Level Bridge under construction, Legislature Building Under Construction, North Saskatchewan View, Streetcar on High Level Bridge, Macdonald Hotel, Hudson's Bay Store, T. Eaton Co., Pantages Theatre, Welcome Home of 49th Battalion in 1919 and aerial of Edmonton Looking North from Saskatchewan Drive.
Lindsay, Helen Ramsay
Ivor Dent fonds
CA EDM MS-157 · Fonds · 1924 - 2001

This fonds consists of material relating to Ivor Dent's World War II service, teaching and educational career, political involvement including his term as Mayor of Edmonton, and his family and personal life. This fonds also covers Dr. Dent's involvement with various Commonwealth Games organizations including minutes, reports, correspondence, bylaws and constitution for both the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Commonwealth Games Assocciation of Canada. On April 11, 1984, Dr. Dent was invested as a member of the Order of Canada. MS 157.9 includes Commonwealth Games Association of Canada material, political correspondence and clippings, business material, M.Ed Thesis, and other ephemera. MS 157.10 includes Commonwealth Games Association of Canada material, primarily related to the Brisbane, Australia games in 1982, the Aukland, New Zealand games in 1990, and the Victoria, British Columbia games in 1994. This also includes some material related to Dent's activities with the CGAC. Also included inthis fonds is some personal material and other ephemera. MS 157.11 includes material regarding Ivor Dent's Order of Canada, his Commonwealth Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, his real estate dealings, his political and social activities (including the New Democratic Party, Municipal Politics, Alberta's Senatorial Election, the Alberta Council on Aging, and the Commonwealth Games Association), his father Charles Lionel Dent, his son Charles Dent, and correspondence and other papers. This fonds also contains publications, including two books from Geoffrey Handley-Taylor, What Peace Means to Me, the REport of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Provincial Senatorial Election, 1989, and Kaleidoscope of Nauru, 1983. MS 157.12 contains material for the Alberta Common Front campaign against cuts to social spending, a collection of business cards, political material, and correspondence and other materials related to Dent's volunteer and business activities. MS 157.13 consists of material on the Alberta Common Front activist movement, SOS Children's Villages of Canada, Commonwealth Games Association of Canada, Victoria Commonwealth Games Society. This fonds also includes cards for the Dent's 50th wedding anniversary, material from courses Dent taught at Grant MacEwan Community College, correspondence and other papers, and a certificate commemorating Dent's acitvity as a volunteer for the International Year of the Volunteer.

Dent, Ivor
James Finlay Falconer fonds
CA EDM MS-70 · Fonds · 1911 - 1974

This fonds consists of correspondence, brochures and pamphlets relating to James Finlay Falconer’s civic activities and historic events in early Edmonton and Alberta.

Falconer, James Finlay
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.
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
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 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