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The file consists of volume 2 of the scrapbook 'The First Fifty Years: A Pictorial Review of the origin of the Parish of St. Anthony of Padua and the contributions made by the pioneers, both for the Church and in the Community'.
The scrapbook was compiled by Mary Wankel Dornan and Mae Bedard Green, and includes reminiscences on early Edmonton as well as family and community histories.
The scrapbook includes photographs EB-40-57 to EB-40-103.

The writings in this volume cover the following subjects or topics:

• The O'Brien Family (Maurice O'Brien, Fred O'Brien, Steve O'Brien, Jim O'Brien, Fanny O'Brien Moreau, Josephine O'Brien Spicer, Bridget Bibby, Agnes O'Brien O'Donnell, Nell O'Brien Connelly, Mary O'Brien McGuinness)
• Mr & Mrs Alois Dittrick, Zelie Fontaine, Regina Bilodeau
• Last Meeting of Strathcona Council Before Amalgamation 1912
• Brother Anthony Kowalczyk, OMI
• College St. Jean (Leo Bartley, Albert Goyer, Aime Goyer, Henry Roth, Thomas Carrigan)
• Mr. & Mrs O'Brien and Family (Dennis O'Brien, Winnie Cahill O'Brien, Nancy O'Brien, Rev 'Bert' O'Brien, Rev. John Legge)
• (likely) St. Anthony's Parish 1917, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1926
• Faith Today - Father John Spicer (Josephine O'Brien, Dolly Mayall, Mr & Mrs Diebolt, A.J. Crowe)
• Sir Austin O'Brien, Knight of St. Anthony, and Lady O'Brien
• Dr. Joseph O'Brien
• Mr & Mrs J.J. Murray, Justina Murray
• In Our Merry Oldsmobile
• Here and There
• Ross' Hardware
• My Father's First Car
• Victoria Moreau Pilon (Bishop Grandin, Father Lacombe, Bishop Legal)
• Mary Wankel
• New School and first teachers (Mother Margaret, Ambrose O'Neil, Florence Esch, Sister Patrick, Mary Wankel, Catherine Carrigan)
• Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (Mary Wankel Dornan's early teaching career)
• The Spanish 'Flu, 1918
• The Coal Mine Explosion, 1907
• McKernan Lake and Whitemud Creek
• Edmonton Journal Bicycle Race 1919 (winner Dan Carrigan)
• South Side Athletic Grounds and Swimming Pool (John Michaels, Mrs. Michaels, Josephine Carrigan, Billy Bedard, Bernard Allen, Babe McLean, Jack Duggan, Dolly Mayall, Zephir Moreau, Fanny O'Brien Moreau)
• Mount Carmel School, 1925 (Ed Carrigan, Catherine Carrigan, Father Carleton)
• St. Anthony's Raquette Club (Vi Fitzgerald, Bernardine O'Connell, Mae Allen, Catherine Carrigan, Blanche Moher, Mamie Wankel, Helen McGuiness, Theresa Carragher, FCJ Sisters, Trimuse Club of St. Joseph's, Heart Club of Sacred Heart, St. Al's from St. Alsphonsus, Jack Dornan, Barney Tansey, John McLean, Tom Carrigan, Ed Dornan, Maudie Walsh, Catherine Carrigan, Bernardine O'Connell, Luella Roth, Pearl Moher, Laura Tansey, Mae Bedard, Rose Pollard, Edna Bedard)
• St. Anthony's Choir (Mrs. Jackson, Miss Slaboda, Victoria Moreau, Mr. Hassan, Madam Coupez, Mary Wankel Dornan, Ruthr Lavallee, Mr Nonn, Lou Peverelle, Mr Schmidt, Johnny Brown, Miss Peverelle, Helen Loughlin, Mrs Carr, Alfred McLean, Jim Smith, John Smith, Louis Naubert)
• 3rd Edmonton Company Girl Guides (Mary Wankel Dornan, Stella McAnally)
• Hay Ride
• 3rd Street Separate High (Laurette Carrigan, Adeline Devereau, John McLean, Mary Murray, Mabel Bard, Louella Roth, Dolly Mayall, Theresa Fraser, Alice McLean, Peg Carrigan, Grace Bard, Kathleen Moher, Mae Allen, Blanche Moher, Margery McKenna, Della McDonough)
• Stan Moher
• Josephine McAuley Lavallee (Mrs. Patrick McAuley, Mary Lavallee, Ruth Lavallee, Margaret Lavallee)
• The Vaugeois Family (Alfred Vaugeois, Bernadette Brouillette Vaugeois, Alex Vaugeois, Jack Chisholm, Dan McDougall, Ralph Pratt, Alice Vaugeois, Germaine Vaugeois, Angela Vaugeois, Florence Vaugeois, Leona Vaugeois, Anne Vaugeois, Helen Vaugeois, Henry Vaugeois)
• Arthur & Ida Cary
• Peter Biollo & Dolly Mae Casell Biollo
• The Catholic Women's League (Mrs Samuel Gorman, Katherine Hughes, L'Abbe Casgrain, Mrs T.P. Malone, Mrs J. Morkin, Mrs Lavallee, Mrs Boucher, Mrs Loughlin, Mrs Bard, Mrs Fraser, Mrs Underwood)
• Catholic Business Girls' Club (Mrs Duggan)
• The Altar Society (Mrs. Wankel)
• Emile Pilon & Victoria Moreau Pilon (Father LaRose, Mr W.J. Chisholm, Cardinal Leger, Cecile Leonard)
• The Blackburn Family (Adrien Blackburn, Antionette Labonte Blackburn, Marcel Blackburn, Maurice Blackburn, Adrinne Blackburn, Jeanette Blackburn, Cecile Blackburn, Gerry Blackburn, Jerome Blackburn, Frank Blackburn)
• Ursuline Convent (Mother Anne-Celine O'Keefe, Mother Gabriel, Sister Adelina, Mother Augustine, Sr. Mary Margaret, Sr. Agnes, Sr. Patrick, Sr. Lelia, Sr. Angela, Sr. St. John, Sr. Celine Marie, Sr. Sebastian, Sr. Vincent Mary, Sr. Mary St. Peter, Sr. Marie Leo, Sr. Mary Felicity, Sr. Scholastica, Sr. Helen, Sr. Rose, Sr. Mary St. Anne, Sr. Alphonse Joseph, Sr. St. Charles, Sr. Helena Valentine, Sr. Joanne, Sr. Marguerita, Mother Ursul, Mother Fidelmia Joseph, Sr. Catherine, Sr. Florence, Sr. Mary Clare, Sr. Geraldine, Sr. Francis Joseph, Sr. Francoise)
• Dances (Raquette Club, Trimuse Tennis Club)
• Varsity Tuck Shop and George Dame
• Mr. Wankel and Friends (Mary Lavallee, Marie Pollard, Ruth Lavallee, Margaret Lavallee, Florence Bedard, Frances Bedard)
• A Tribute To My Mother (Mrs. E. Wankel)
• The Loughlin Family & Residence (Mr & Mrs Andrew P. Loughlin, Helen Loughlin, Frank Loughlin, Joe Loughlin)

This fonds consists of material collected and created by Reg Appleyard, Doug Matheson, Rev. Harry Meadows, Matheson and Company, and the staff of Meadowcroft Seniors’ Residence through their function of running the Meadowcroft corporations and providing quality affordable housing in Edmonton between 1969 and 2010. It contains legal documents, correspondence, reports, committee minutes, pamphlets, photos, plans, audiovisual material and a book, ‘The Meadow’s Story’ (922.77 ROB).
The fonds been arranged into five sous-fonds and various series. The sous-fonds are as follows (with overall dates):
Sous-fonds 1 – Meadowcroft Housing Corporation
Series 1 – Administration (1971-1977)
Series 2 – Financial Statements (1974-2009)
Series 3 – Letterhead (n.d.)
Series 4 – Correspondence (1969- 2001)
Series 5 – Meadowcroft Seniors’ Residence Management and Staff (1972-2004)
Series 6 – Meadowcroft Seniors’ Residence Renovations (1978-2001)
Series 7 – Meadowcroft Seniors’ Residence Mechanical Systems (1980-2007)
Series 8 – Events (1973-2002)
Series 9 – Meadowcroft Tenants’ Association (1973-2005)
Series 10 – Douglas Tower ([ca. 1996])
Series 11 – Matheson and Company (1976-1987)
Sous-fonds 2 – Meadowcroft Holdings
Series 1 – Administration (1974-2007)
Series 2 – Financial Statements (1975-2009)
Series 3 – 11115, 11141 and 11145 – 84 Avenue (1976)
Series 4 – Sherbrooke Townhouses (2008-2009)
Series 5 – Matheson and Company (1974-1985)
Sous-fonds 3 – Meadowcroft Housing Society of Edmonton
Series 1 – Administration (1977)
Series 2 – Financial Statements (1977-2009)
Series 3 – Correspondence relating to Brentwood Homes (1976-1979)
Series 4 – Brentwood Homes Land Acquistion (1976-1977)
Series 5 – Brentwood Homes Renovations (1977-1980)
Series 6 – Appraisal of Brentwood Homes (1980)
Series 7 – Brentwood Homes Phase II (1978-1983)
Series 8 – Mortgage Renewal (1988)
Series 9 – Loans to Other Organizations (2003-2008)
Series 10 – Matheson and Company (1977-1989)
Sous-fonds 4 – Other Material
Series 1 – History (2010)
Series 2 – Conferences on Gerontology (1976-1996)
Series 3 – Research material relating to Seniors (1976-2000)
Sous-fonds 5 – Personal Correspondence
Series 1 – Doug Matheson (1984)

The fonds consists of a letter to Gretchen Clink from Ruth (Matheson) Buck, 17 Aug 1967. The letter includes some reminiscences of their time in Battleford together, as well as the activities of Ruth and her sisters, ‘The Matheson Girls’, to celebrate the 1967 Expo.

There is also a 1971 note and letter from Gretchen to Cam Finlay, the then Director of the City of Edmonton Archives. The note and letter include some information and reminiscences by Gretchen of some noted Edmontonians and Albertans, (Mrs. John T. Robertson, Dr. William M. McKay, J.W. & J.B. Tyrrell, Colin Fraser, Fred Rowland, and Alex Rowland).

Gretchen’s note also includes a pitch promoting Maclean Hunter’s historical map which, at the time, was given complimentary with a McLean’s subscription.

The fonds consists of political papers relating to Dr. Roper's tenure as Mayor of Edmonton from 1959 to 1963.
The photographs are from an album, presented to Elmer Roper by Chief Constable M.F.C. Anthony, commemorating the official opening of Police Headquarters Building, October 16, 1962.
The textual material was arranged as follows:

• Speeches, includes proclamations, briefings and other statements.
• General Correspondence, containing invitations and acknowledgements; complaints and compliments, and general commentaries on civic business; also includes files created by his immediate predecessors as mayor, William Hawrelak, mayor until his resignation in September 1959 and F.J. Mitchell, acting mayor until the municipal election in October 1959.
• Miscellaneous Papers, including new clippings, reports, and incidental documents

The series consists of records outlining the Edmonton Social Planning Council and the United Community Fund of Greater Edmonton interactions and work with the Canadian Welfare Council. The series includes correspondence, reports, memorandums, minutes, papers, clippings, statements and recommendations. The series also includes records pertaining to the Canadian Conference on Housing and Community Funds and Councils of Canada conference.

Gibson, Joe