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Hilda Mary Robinson fonds
CA EDM MS-393 · Fonds · 1965 - 1988

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Hilda Mary Robinson during her role as a librarian and volunteer. These organizations and institutions include Northwest Industries Limited, the University of Alberta, All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Concordia College, Edmonton Klondike Days, the Library Association of Alberta, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and the Royal Canadian Legion. The records of each of these organizations consist of publications, correspondence with members, and some notes Hilda Robinson might have taken while attending a meeting of the organization. Also included are various published materials from institutions that Hilda Robinson was employed by or volunteered for. Most of the materials are Concordia yearbooks which included staff member photos that included Hilda Robinson as a library staff member.

Robinson, Hilda Mary
CA EDM MS-55 · Fonds · 1940 - 1957, 1963

The fonds consists of financial records and correspondence of the Veterans' Volunteer Reserve, South Edmonton Battalion.

File list:
File 1: Notices of reunion and annual meeting, 1952-1956
File 2: Revenues and expenditures, 1950-1957
File 3: Statement of expenditures re: annual reunion, 1950-1955
File 4: Special permit - liquor, 1955, 1956
File 5: Letterhead sample, 19--
File 6: Correspondence re: donation to Edmonton home for ex-servicemen's children, 1957-1963
File 7: Payments and receipts, 1940-1955
File 8: Financial journal, 1941-1957
File 9: Financial journal, 1940-1957

Veterans' Volunteers' Reserve, South Edmonton Battalion Association
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
CA EDM RG-2 · Fonds · 1926-1974, predominant 1955-1963

The fonds consist of meeting minutes, agreements, financial records, personnel records, correspondence, and other material generated through the business conducted at the Municipal Airport.

An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes three series.

  • Series 1 – Administration
  • Series 2 – Correspondence
  • Series 3 – Airport Tenants
City of Edmonton. Edmonton Municipal Airport
Ethel MacKenzie fonds
CA EDM MS-224 · Fonds · 1900 - 1930

The fonds consists of two scrapbooks created by Ethel MacKenzie between 1900 and 1930, consisting of newspaper clippings, marriage announcements, wedding invitations, dance cards, postcards, theatre programs, and souvenirs.
File list:
Box 1, File 1: ephemera removed from scrapbook 1
Box 1: Scrapbook 1
Box 2, File 2: scrapbook 2
Box 2, File 3: plan of table at civic luncheon in honour of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
Box 2, File 4: page from scrapbook 1, includes Summer School for Teachers 1917, bulletin no. 24 and Western Universities Battalion 196th, October 21, 1916
Box 2, File 5: Summer school for teachers, 1917, bulletins 1 thru 23

MacKenzie, Ethel
Anthony Graham Shute fonds
CA EDM MS-756 · Fonds · 1917 - 1958

The fonds consists of documents and photographs related to Anthony Shute’s police career and activities in the Boxing and Wrestling Commission. .
File List:
File 1: Certificate of military instruction for infantry, non-commissioned officers, for Corporal A.G. Shute, 1917;
File 2: Appointment as Justice of the Peace to Anthony G. Shute, signed by Robert George Brett, Lt. Gov. of Alberta. Sept. 8, 1920 (formerly known as EA-10-3206);
File 3: Citation for Silver Jubilee, Buckingham Palace, May 6, 1935.
File 4: Letter, Anthony G. Shute to Wm. Murphy, Secretary-Treasurer, Edmonton Boxing and Wrestling Commission, January 13, 1958. (Note: given Anthony Shute’s death on January 14, 1958, this is possibly the last letter written by him).
For photograph of Anthony Shute, see EA-10-2784.

Shute, Anthony Graham
Gary Stretch fonds
CA EDM MS-866 · Fonds · 1942

The fonds consists of photographs of the 1st (Res) Canadian Armoured Divisional Ordnance.

Stretch, Gary
Harry Maxted fonds
CA EDM MS-786 · Fonds · 1905, 1968

The fonds consists of two photographs of Fort Walsh, a former fort of the North West Mounted Police (N.W.M.P.) located in Saskatchewan near the Canada/U.S. border.
The first photograph is of the original fort in 1878. The second photograph is approximately the same view in the 1940s showing the reconstructed fort, with horses roaming in front.
The fonds also includes a 1905 Driscoll’s Map of Edmonton, 2nd Edition (EAM-48).

Maxted, Harry
William P. Wagner fonds
CA EDM MS-244 · Fonds · 1902-[ca.1964]

The fonds consists of textual records and photographs created and collected by the donor. The photographs include street scenes of Jasper Avenue [ca. 1914, 1969], William’s teaching and educational administration career [ca. 1930, 1964], Vera Smith [ca. 1900, 1960] and the students of Queen’s Avenue School, 1909 (it is likely William is in the photo).
File List:
File 1: W.P. Wagner autobiography, includes accounts of childhood, early teaching career, military service and educational administrative career; written for William Wagner’s retirement. [ca. 1899-1964], (photocopy);
File 2: Commemorative Booklet for the Inauguration of the Province of Alberta, September 2, 1905. Includes 'Telegram from His Majesty King Edward VII; Address of His Excellency Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada; Address of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; and Telegram from the Right Hon Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Note: booklet is annotated 'Dorothea Wagner, Edmonton, Alta, 1905' (nb: Dorothea is William’s sister).
File 3: Certificates for Vera Smith. Include High School Certificates for Vera Eloise Smith, Provincial Examinations sat at Liverpool Station, Nova Scotia, 1902, 1904, 1905 and Certification for Teacher’s Professional Qualification, Nova Scotia, 1911.

Wagner, William P.
Andrew L. Parnham fonds
CA EDM MS-674 · Fonds · [ca. 1900] - 1976

The fonds consists of a documents, photographs, scrapbooks and news clippings related to Andrew Parnham’s military service and the 51st Battalion, C.E.F.
This fonds also consists of records of the 51st Battalion Association, including minutes, correspondence, membership and financial records and the nominal roll of officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the battalion. It also includes the association gavel and the leather briefcase that held the association records.
The material is arranged into two main sections, Andrew L. Parnham and the 51st Battalion Association.

Parnham, Andrew L.