The fonds consists of the administrative and operational records of the Old Strathcona Foundation. These records include minutes, reports, financial information, agreements, bylaws, contracts, correspondence, photographs, audiovisual tapes, and other material pertaining to the Foundation’s efforts at conservation in the Strathcona area.
An order has been imposed on the material. Four series have been utilized in the arrangement of the records. The series are as follows:
- Series 1: Administration
- Series 2: Property Files & Inventories
- Series 3: Publications & Research Library
- Series 4: Voices of Old Strathcona Oral History Project
The fonds consists of 2 City of Edmonton Christmas cards with winter scenes of Edmonton from Alderman, Una MacLean Evans, as well as a copy of "Edmonton Country Club: The Early Years" (1986).
Sin títuloThis fonds consists of:
- a paper entitled written by John Gilpin in 1982 entitled "Patterns of Land Development in Edmonton, Alberta, 1881-1917"
- "Farming in Alberta Canada" by the Government of the Province of Alberta, Department of Agriculture (1949)
- "The Peace River Country Canada: Its Resources and Opportunities" by F.H. Kitto (1930)
- "Where Go the Boats...: Navigation on the Peace 1792-1952" by Evelyn Hansen for The Friends of the Museum, Peace River Centennial Museum (1978)
This fonds consists of watercolour paintings done by Reg Turner, mostly of historical scenes. The fonds includes print copies and greeting cards he had created of his artwork. The fonds also includes narratives describing the scene which he included in the cards, as well as research and preliminary drawings he created to inform his art.
Sin títuloThis series consists of records created as the City of Edmonton expanded their boarders to annex surrounding lands and communities. It includes records of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Development (the McNalley Commission), annexation and attempted annexations of Strathcona County, Jasper Place, Riverbend, and St. Albert. It also includes records regarding major city lead developments such as the Downtown Pedestrian Circulation System, the Mill Creek Ravine, the Aurum Dump, Borden Park, Kinsmen Sports Centre, and the Genesee Power Plant. This series also includes blueprints of City Developments including buildings such as City Hall, parks, roads, and transit developments.
Fonds consists of transcriptions of court cases and hearings, correspondence, bylaws, contracts, architectural drawings, maps, photographs and artwork relating to city activities the law branch believed where of historical significance.
An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes multiple series based on the function law was serving within the City. Within each series the records were processed following the order received from the creator as much as possible.
- 13.1: Mayors and Council
- 13.2: Bylaws
- 13.3: Contracts
- 13.4: City Land and Property Development
- 13.5: Legal proceedings and Administration
- 13.6: Divestments
Metal plaque containing history of George Yee's Market Garden created by Jim Yee.
This fonds consists of a bank book and deposit slips documenting the fund-raising for the Edmonton Cenotaph, copies of the programmes for the unveiling and re-dedication of the cenotaph, and a copy of a publication intended to help veterans reintegrate into Canadian society.
- File 1: Bank book and deposit slips
- File 2: Programmes - Unveiling of the Edmonton Cenotaph, August 13, 1936 (3 c.); Re-dedication of the Edmonton Cenotaph, August 26, 1946 (3 c.)
- File 3: "Back to Civil Life, prepared to inform members of the armed forces and Canadians generally of Steps Taken for civilian rehabilitation of those who served", third edition. Issued under the authority of Hon. Ian A. MacKenzie, Minister of Veterans Affairs. Oct. 15, 1946
The fonds consists of a copy of "Courrier-Sud", Sept. 5, 1972, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the order's presence at Nicolet, Quebec, a copy of "Le Franco-Albertain”, Oct. 10, 1973, which contains an article on the Lamoureux family, and a dedication booklet of "La Congregation Des Souers de l'Assomption de la Sainte Vierge", 1974.
The photographs available in the reference room include Assumption Academy, convent and chapel at St. Joachim, Ecole Sacre Coure, and Immaculate Conception church and rectory. The photograph available online here is of the sisters with children at Hobbema.