This series includes correspondence relating to taxation, legislation, building construction, Council, and the Bouillon Investigation. This series contains the following classes:
- Class 1: Correspondence, 1891-1913
- Class 2: Scrapbook
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This series includes correspondence relating to taxation, legislation, building construction, Council, and the Bouillon Investigation. This series contains the following classes:
This series comprises repealed municipal bylaws.
This series includes the minutes of Edmonton Town Council from 1892-1904, and from Edmonton City Council from 1904-1991, as well as agendas from 1913-1945.
This series includes all incoming and outgoing correspondence and several administrative registers. The correspondence deals with all matters involving the Town, in particular municipal elections, water and sewer extensions, electric lighting, the street railway system, immigration, the sale of Town debentures, taxation, property alterations, and numerous petitions for extended services. The records have been classified according to subject and provided with an index.
This series contains the following classes:
This series includes correspondence, ledgers and receipts. This series contains the following classes:
This series includes certified copies of agreement between the corporation of Edmonton and various other parties. This series also includes agreements made by the Town of Strathcona between 1899 and 1909.
This series contains minutes from various Council Committees. Much of City Council's business was conducted through these Committees, which then reported to Council. Many specially appointed committees existed, as well as two standing committees: the Bylaws Committee (1922-1965) and Finance Committee (1914-1965).
In an attempt to streamline meetings, in 1965 the Committee of the Whole was established, replacing the Bylaws and Finance Committees. The Committee of the Whole met prior to Council meetings to listen to delegations and consider matters, and bring forward recommendations to the regular Council meeting.
Specially appointed committees were struck to meet the needs of the City Council to respond to specific issues arising from the business of the City. Calls for investigation of administrative matters, organization of public meetings, special commemorative events, or fact finding to answer questions raised by aldermen led to the appointment of short-term committees. By 1915, many of these committees such as the Finance Committee and the Negotiating Committee were routinely appointed each year. Other committees had shorter lifespans, or changed name and focus as the needs of the City Council changed.
During the period following the Second World War the work of organizing these committees increased significantly and a Secretary to the Committees was hired. Eventually the committee structure stabilized to four or five regularly appointed bodies which appear in most of the years from the 1930s onwards.
This series contains correspondence and special reports from these special committees.
This series contains reports and publications created and received by the Office of the City Clerk. It also contains special reports delivered to the City Council in the early-to-mid 1900s on a variety of topics, including utilities and development. It also includes special investigations into issues such as fires, conflict of interest, and prostitution.
The City Clerk's Department was established August 20, 1912 by Bylaw 425, which stated in part that the City Clerk was responsible for performing all duties required in regard to municipal and school elections and the voting of the burgesses upon referred bylaws. In 1964 the City Clerk ceased to be responsible for municipal elections and censuses. A position of Returning Officer was created within the City Clerk's Department, which took on the responsibility for elections.
This series includes 14 scrapbooks divided into different themes.
Scrapbook 1: Voting on School Money Bylaws, 1922-1938
Scrapbook 2: Plebiscite Ballots, 1922-1963
Scrapbook 3: Notices of Polling Places, 1919-1962
Scrapbook 4: Ballots for Mayoral Elections, 1922-1963
Scrapbook 5: Ballots for Public School Trustees, 1918-1963
Scrapbook 6: Ballots for Separate School Trustees, 1918-1963
Scrapbook 7: Instructions to Deputy Returning Officers and Assistant Deputy Returning Officers, 1919-[ca.1955]
Scrapbook 8: Poll Clerks and Constables, [ca.1938-1945]
Scrapbook 9: Voters' List Certificates, 1938-1952
Scrapbook 10: Ballots for Aldermanic Elections, 1923-1955
Scrapbook 11: Ballots for Aldermanic Elections, 1956-1963
Scrapbook 12: Instructions for Election Campaign Meetings, 1953-1956
Scrapbook 13: Notices of Public Meetings for Elections, [ca.1928]-1956
Scrapbook 14: Instructions for Election Campaign Meetings, 1928-1952