The fonds consists of textual records and photographs of the Ross and Thompson families, predominantly Harold and Winnifred Ross, and Winnifred's brother Hector Thompson.
Sans titreThe series consists of Hector’s diaries, documenting his daily life of farming, as well as family and community events. Hector wrote in the diaries every day from 1 Jan 1936 to 11 Jul 1967. The records also include some invoices, receipts, and correspondence.
The photograph is of Hector with horses.
The series consists of textual records and photographs predominantly pertaining to Harold and Winnifred Ross, and to a lesser extent their daughter Jeane. The textual records includes postcards written from Winnie to some of her family and from Harold to Winnie shortly before they were married. Some photographs include other family members of the Ross and Thompson families. The records reflect Harold and Winnie’s life from coming west as young single adults, becoming a family in Edmonton before Harold went off to war, and Winnie’s later life on the farm in Millet.
Sans titreWinnifred Thompson Ross is third from the left.
It is likely the other people in the photograph are Thompson family members.
Likely Winnifred Thompson Ross with her brother, Abraham, and his children.
Back L to R: Winnifred Thompson Ross, Thelma Thompson.
Front L to R: Kathleen Thompson, Jack Thompson, Abraham Thompson.
See EA-246-95, EA-246-97, EA-246-98
Correspondence on verso - from Bill to Winnie (in Millet)
See MS-206 f. 1
The beginning of the Ross-Thompson farm.
Likely Thompson farm in Millet.