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This series consists of correspondence, brochures, and newsletters relating to Festival '78 held in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton.

The series consists of records pertaining to events the Society of Western Canadian Artists held or took part in including exhibitions, shows, and workshops. Materials include correspondence, programs, planning materials, invitations, forms, guidelines and rules. Also included in the series is an issue of The Works A Visual Arts Celebration and the Edmonton Art Gallery Calendar of Events.

The series consists of the Edmonton Rugby Union’s annual reports from 1974 to 1988. The series also includes a summer report from 1975.

This series contains subdivision files created by the City when land was subdivided specifically for condominiums. The files typically include applications, correspondence, subdivision plans, and copies of relevant pages of minutes from the Municipal Planning Commission. The files were identified by a CN number and the properties identified by their legal address (i.e. lot, block, and plan). Some files also include a street address and/or a building name.

This series consists of documents related to the regular operation of the Foundation. Included in this series are minutes and agendas of the Board of Directors and various committees that reported to the Board, incorporation records, bylaws and their amendments, financial statements, budgets, annual general meetings including annual reports, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to the larger operation of the Foundation. The documents in this series have been arranged to roughly correspond to their subject matter. For example, files related to the Princess Theatre’s operation are grouped together though there may be some documents with higher file numbers to reflect later accruals to the collection.

This series contains material relating to the operations and activities of the Garneau Planning Committee. Founded in 1975, the Planning Committee was concerned with urban planning and development in the Garneau neighbourhood. The Committee successfully fought against several high-rise developments in the area. The Committee also communicated with various City of Edmonton departments regarding topics such as zoning, parking, infrastructure, and expansion of the University of Alberta. The committee was also heavily interested in maintaining the historic character of the Garneau neighbourhood. Records include minutes, correspondence, redevelopment plans, reports, court appeals, site plans, research material, and legal documents. Also included are some material relating to the Community League proper such as minutes and correspondence.

The series consists of photographs from the Edmonton Social Planning Council's 1979 Annual Meeting and of Edmonton housing, both interiors and exteriors.

This series consists of the publications of the Old Strathcona Foundation as well as the publications of other institutions that formed the Foundation’s research library. The newsletters of the Foundation, as well as their longer-form periodical, the Strathcona Plaindealer, are included here. The Foundation also collected reports and publications from other institutions such as the City of Edmonton in an effort to advocate for the preservation of Old Strathcona’s history prior to amalgamation in 1912.

This series consists of a set of service profiles and their priorities created by the United Community Fund of Greater Edmonton. The profiles document social problems and areas of concern while highlighting potential solutions and challenges involved. They define the problem and its significance, list objectives, provide a program, document the volume of services already provided, identify gaps and redundancies in service delivery, effectiveness of service, projection of needs, and identifying patterns of financing for the service. This series is significant as it demonstrates the forward thinking and research conducted by the Community Fund in addition to how the fund prioritized its work and financing. The first file in the series also provides context for the codes used in the service profiles.

This series, the most extensive of the fonds, consists of the following sub-series: Bibliographies/Directories; Reports and Reference Texts; Articles and Clipping files; Conference information; and Periodicals. The periodicals include both local publications, as well as those published across Canada, in the United States, and elsewhere. For some of the serials, such as The Advocate and Times .10, there are many issues, while others may be represented by just a single issue or volume.
The clipping files, likewise, include some topics that are thick with clippings and articles (such as ‘Civil Rights-Equality Rights’, while others may consist of a single item. It is interesting to consider which subjects were deemed important enough or of broader interest to warrant creating a clipping and article file.
The Conference files provide information on conferences held locally, nationally and internationally, and often consist of promotional brochures, and related correspondence and printed information.