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E. E. Kirkpatrick fonds
CA EDM MS-374 · Fonds · 1942-1945

The fonds consists of scrapbooks, photographs and other records pertaining to the construction of the Alaska Highway and the Canol Project and the air facilities related to them and dating from 1942 to 1945.
File list:
File 1: Reports on the Canol project, poetry, menus, bulletin
File 2: Welcome American, The Alaska Highway revised edition, money. Includes 10 coins
File 3: The Story of the tour on the Skagway, Alaska Street Car
File 4: Menus, newspaper clippings, letters, maps, train time table, work feasibility chart
File 5: Scrapbook on the military. 49 photographs : b&w
File 6: Scrapbook on newspaper articles on Alaska Highway and Canol Project. – 1943-1944. Scrapbook extremely fragile, access copy in box.
File 8: Whitepass Railroad. 11 photographs : b&w
File 9: U.S. Army H.Q. Site – Jesuit College. 5 photographs : b&w & sepia
File 10: 3 photographs : sepia & b&w. Alaska Highway, Lt. Col. E.E. Kirkpatrick portrait, unidentified military group portrait.
Library: 665.54 FIN o/s Canol: the sub-Arctic Pipeline and Refinery Project constructed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan for the Corps of Engineers United States Army 1942-1944.

Kirkpatrick, E. E.
CA EDM MS-375 · Fonds · 1951-1986

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the Edmonton branch of the Oil Wives Club including minutes, correspondence, annual reports, rosters and by-laws.

File list:

  1. Dinner Meeting Minutes, 1951-1956
  2. Dinner Meeting Minutes, 1971-1975
  3. Executive Minutes, 1971-1975
  4. Executive/General Meetings, 1976-1977
  5. Executive/General Meetings, 1977-1979
  6. Minutes- Regular Executive, Correspondence, and Annual Reports, 1980-1986
  7. Executive Meeting Minutes, 1979-1984
  8. Rosters and By-Laws, 1970-1986
Oil Wives Club of Edmonton
CA EDM MS-376 · Fonds · 1966-1971

The fonds consists of materials created by the Better Civic Governement Committee of Edmonton between 1966 and 1971. The fonds consists of minutes and correspondence of the Committee as well as biographical information on the candidates supported by the committee. There are also clippings, newsletters, presentations and scrapbooks from the Concerned Citizen's Committee.

Better Civic Government Committee
Lon Marsh collection
CA EDM MS-377 · Collection · 1939-1988

The collection consists of materials collected by Lou Marsh and created between 1939 and 1988. The collection consists of publications relating to the rail transportation system in Alberta. Several brochures relate to the Edmonton Streetcar System. Also included: articles, clippings, brochures and copies of newspapers or magazines relating to the 1987 tornado in Edmonton, Royal visits, sports events, antique collections, trolley cars, railroads, and railway history. There are also minutes, bylaws, correspondence and the newsletter of the Studebaker Drivers Club Inc., Edmonton Chapter.

Studebaker Drivers Club Inc. Edmonton Chapter
James Oakland Valleau fonds
CA EDM MS-379 · Fonds · [191-?]-1946

The fonds consists of records collected by James Valleau, presumably once living in Edmonton. They relate to different events in Edmonton, often prior to James' own birth or living in Edmonton. As such, his relation to the documents is uncertain. It is assumed that Valleau collected them in pursuit of an interest in the history of the city. The records are divided into three main topics - the Edmonton Industrial Association and its 1914 promotional trip, 'The Edmonton Spirit'; the early theatrical scene in Edmonton; and miscellaneous.

Edmonton Industrial Association
The Edmonton Industrial Association, which operated under the aegis of the Edmonton Board of Trade, was created to promote Edmonton and industrial opportunities to a wider national and international audience. In June 1914, a two week promotional train excursion named 'Edmonton Spirit' was made from Edmonton to Toronto, with stops in Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Stratford and Guelph. The train journey was interspersed with civic receptions and tours of local facilities. Among the passengers were some of Edmonton's leading businessmen. A twice-daily newsletter was published each day of the journey.

The records include itineraries, notes, articles, newsletters, announcements and accounts of the 'Edmonton Spirit' train excursion. There are also two panorama photographs of the excursion participants, taken in Winnipeg and Milwaukee.

Theatrical Programmes
The theatrical programmes include material that was originally created by Kenneth A. Ross. Mr. Ross came to Edmonton from Ontario around 1913 and appears to have had ambitions of being a concert impresario. He was manager or presenter of some concerts in 1916. Then in 1917, Ross, with the cooperation of the Edmonton Women's Musical Club, arranged the 'Edmonton Concert Series', to be held in the 1917-1918 season, and produced a brochure with biographies of the upcoming performers in order to promote sales.

In 1920, Ross was promoted to manager of the Musical Merchandise Sales Co., who was the Canadian distributor of Brunswick phonographs. However in 1923, Ross was convicted in Calgary of the theft of 133 gramophones from the McLaran Gramophone Corp. of Stratford, Ontario, and sentenced to three years in the Prince Albert penitentiary.

The theatrical records of Kenneth A. Ross include handbills, programmes including the brochure for the 'Edmonton Concert Series' produced by Mr. Ross, photographs and album. The photographs, most of which are in the photo album, are portraits of several of the concert performers, many with salutations addressed to Kenneth A. Ross or his wife. The Ross theatrical records also include a handbill for a play, 'The Temple of Fame', in which both Kenneth Ross and his wife are listed as performers. Accompanying the handbill is a handwritten document, 'Red Cross Nurse', which is likely the script for Mrs. Ross' address in the play.

There are also other theatrical programmes that are likely not associated with Kenneth Ross as they are for concerts either before his arrival in Edmonton, or after his 1923 conviction. It is not known if these programmes were originally used by Valleau, or by someone else and collected by Valleau.

Miscellaneous Material
The miscellaneous material includes a commencement programme for the Misericordia Hospital School of Nursing, an advertisement for Thompson & Dynes women's wear shop in Edmonton, and newspaper clippings.

Valleau, James Oakland
Gladys Edith Muttart fonds
CA EDM MS-38 · Fonds · 1919 - 1927

The fonds includes programmes and score cards of the Edmonton Commercial Grads basketball team, programmes of the Edmonton Rotary Minstrel Revue, and an Edmonton Eskimos hockey game, postcards and tickets to an Independent Order of Odd Fellows picnic draw.

Muttart, Gladys Edith
Mary Hanratty fonds
CA EDM MS-380 · Fonds · 1803 - 1941

The fonds consists of sheet music collected and used by Mary Hanratty. The music is a variety of sacred and popular songs.

Hanratty, Mary Gladys Young
Frank Bernard Jamerson fonds
CA EDM MS-386 · Fonds · 1914 - 1988

The fonds consists of a historical and biographical narrative handwritten by Frank Bernard Jamerson regarding Black immigration into western Canada as well as the Black experience in the prairies, specifically northern Alberta Black communities. The first file in the fonds consists of this narrative while the second file consists of newspaper clippings, family photographs, an anniversary booklet of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and correspondence used by Jamerson in the creation of his narrative.

Jamerson, Frank Bernard
Gyro Club of Edmonton fonds
CA EDM MS-387 · Fonds · 1921-1994

The fonds consists of historical records of the club, including association application, membership rosters, correspondence, programmes of banquets and events, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, publications, and photographs.
The photographs include some of the parks established by the Gyro Club in Edmonton.
The publications include The Gyrolog, the newsletter of the Gyro Club of Edmonton, and The Gyroscope, the news magazine of Gyro International.

Gyro Club of Edmonton
Murray Huff fonds
CA EDM MS-388 · Fonds · 1940-1951

The fond consists of butter papers from the Huff Dairy, clippings related to the Huff family history, milk bottle top tabs, posters of the livestock sale in 1951, a souvenir program from the 1940 Edmonton Winter Carnival, a souvenir of the Edmonton Grads Basketball team, and a Royal Air Force Bowden Training School yearbook from ca. 1942. The fonds also includes photographs of Edmonton and the Edmonton area from the 1940s.

Huff, Murray