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Brigham Young Card fonds
CA EDM MS-250 · Fonds · 1977

The fonds consists of a report written by Professor B.Y. Card on the Beau Park Addition in the McKernan neighbourhood of Edmonton. The Report is named "Beau Park Addition or Life on the Bottom of McKernan Lake: A Report on a Neighborhood." The neighbourhood study includes important information about the area's history, finances, social demography, and future.

Card, Brigham Young
Peter Hawker fonds
CA EDM MS-542 · Fonds · 1864-1995
  • The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Peter Hawker. This fonds consists of a manuscript biography of Richard Secord
  • a copy of a proclamation "uniting the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
  • a copy of the 1918 "Globe and Mail" Winnipeg General Strike edition
  • and other souvenir newspaper editions. There are also maps showing: electric generating systems and stations, dated 1961-1962 and oil and gas fields in Western Canada, dated 1975. There are two books: "John Rowand" and "Fort Edmonton: Fur Trade Entrepot "[warehouse] and special edition anniversary postal envelopes transported by dogsled and York boat.
Hawker, Peter
CA EDM MS-533 · Fonds · 1905-2001
  • This fonds consists of a Stovel's pocket map of Edmonton (1917), posters for community events
  • clippings, an Old Timers Association menu (1905), and papers on various subjects relating to the Society. The fonds also contains information on the Heritage Program started in the winter of 1972, that brought seniors into schools to share with students their memories of pioneer life and homesteading on the prairies. There are also a number of books which have been placed in the Archives Reference Library and photographs from presentations, and the Heritage Collection, as well as the SRSR collection of images detailing their activities, staff, members and facilities over the years. There is also a VHS tape of the opening of their new facility in 1989.
Society of the Retired and Semi Retired
William Patrick Daly fonds
CA EDM MS-487 · Fonds · 1913
  • The fonds consists a photocopy of 12 pages from the 1913 diary of William Patrick Daly.
  • The postcards include the Edmonton Provincial Court House; Jasper Avenue [ca. 1930], a group of men (possibly a hunting party) and a Teepee with a Red River Cart.
Daly, William Patrick
John Gilpin fonds
CA EDM MS-449 · Fonds · 1982

This fonds consists of a paper entitled written by John Gilpin in 1982 entitled "Patterns of Land Development in Edmonton, Alberta, 1881-1917".

Gilpin, John
Jim L. Mitchell fonds
CA EDM MS-262 · Fonds · 1890 - 1979

The fonds consists of articles collected by Jim Mitchell about places in Alberta, the Northwest territories, and British Columbia and dating from 1890 to 1979. There are also notes relating to the Mitchell homestead in Edmonton and a story about the Francis C. Clare family.

Mitchell, Jim L.
Heathcote family fonds
CA EDM MS-258 · Fonds · 1978

The fonds consists of two copies, including a prologue, of a story written by Olive Kathleen Murdoch (nee Heathcote) written in 1978. The story recalls the experiences of the Heathcote family's experience while homesteading near Edmonton.

Heathcote Family
Arthur Cload fonds
CA EDM MS-182 · Fonds · [191-?] - 1987

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Arthur Cload of Edmonton and dating from ca. 1910-1987.This fonds consists of one small album of postcards, mainly of scenes in early 20th century Prairie Provinces. There are also typewritten copies of "Recollections of Arthur Osborne Cload", "My Own Story" which includes the memories of his youth, WWI, coming to Canada in 1925 under the British Empire settlement Scheme and "Recollections of Early Auctioneers" pertaining to Edmonton.

Cload, Arthur
CA EDM MS-601 · Fonds · [ca. 1910], [ca. 1962]

The fonds consists of a manuscript “Memoirs of Anna Laura” written by Annie Robertson Harrison recounting her life in Edmonton at the end of the 19th century and one photograph of Annie.

The memoir mentions Annie’s family – parents (W. Scott and Harriet Robertson), siblings (Harry, Nell, Carrie, Fred, Robert, Grace), husband (Dr. John Darely Harrison), as well as her children and grandchildren. It also covers family activities and buildings including her father’s Cooking Lake residence, Spruce Lodge, and her father’s opera house, Robertson Hall, including the night the hall burned down.

It also includes references to various events and people: the 1885 Rebellion, 1897 Klondike Gold Rush, construction of the CPR and EY&P railroads, Strathcona, Fort Edmonton, Long Lake, St. Albert, Herschel Island, Athabasca Landing, Eggies Halfway House, Louis Daniels, Grasshopper, Mrs. Grey, Mary Bobsleigh, Kenny McLeod, Colonel Jamieson, Dr. and Mrs. McKay, Casey family, and Muchias,

The memoir describes a number of "firsts" in Edmonton, such as the first: public school (McKay Avenue School), sheriff, women's hockey team, theatrical hall, and piano. There are also references to many original settler families, such as, the Olivers, Walters, Macauleys, Griesbachs, Mckays and McDougalls.

There is also a photocopy of a newspaper article about Annie Robertson Harrison and her memoir, "'It Was Wonderful To Be Young In Edmonton'... As Mrs. Harrison Recalls Settlement 72 Years Ago", by Ruth Bowen, Edmonton Journal, September 1, 1955.

Harrison, Annie Laurie Robertson
Wallis Kendall collection
CA EDM MS-34 · Collection · [ca. 1850]-[ca. 1930]

The collection consists of miscellaneous textual and photographic records collected by Wallis Kendall. It is possible some of the records are connected to each other.
Item List:

  • handwritten Bond from Benjamin Walter Smith to George Perry, July 12, 1852, for the sum of 113 pounds,
  • Certificate of Recommendation for Homestead Patent (SE 22-38-38-W4) for William Stewart, August 8, 1903, with cover letter,
  • handwritten poem/manuscript, 'The Chase - A Tale of the Prairie', by E.H., n.d.
  • 3 postcards (one postcard to Miss L.M. Perry, from Etha Vale, 19 Aug [190-?],
  • newspaper clippings of poems.
    The photographs include people, horses, cars, homes and farming activities of the early 1900's.
Kendall, Wallis