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• This collection consists of a variety of materials collected by the Cameron library and relating to the City of Edmonton. The collection includes a 1954 Christmas Card from the Edmonton Eskimos football team and a manuscript biography of Richard, Jane and Arthur Whiteside, the first minister of the First Methodist Church in Edmonton.
• Also includes assorted papers and brochures relating to: the Al Rashid Mosque, Bob Bradburn of CJCA radio, the Coliseum and the Omniplex projects, Dominion Folk Festival, Downtown, Edmonton and Radioland weekly guides, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, Edmonton District Labour Council, Edmonton Aquarium Society, Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues, Edmonton Fish and Game Association, the Edmonton Monastery of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood, Communion tickets for Mrs. Peckham, Ukrainian Canadians, the circus in Edmonton, YWCA history
• a copy of The Olympus and arts magazine of Harry Ainlay High School.

This fonds consists of the warrant for the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada, Fort Edmonton Branch. The names of the first executive are written on the reverse of the warrant.

The fonds consists of 2 City of Edmonton Christmas cards with winter scenes of Edmonton from Alderman, Una MacLean Evans, as well as a copy of "Edmonton Country Club: The Early Years" (1986).

The fonds consists of records from Thomas Henry Jones life in Edmonton, Lizzie Boyle and the Edmonton Exhibition.

File 1:
Municipality of the Town of Edmonton Tax Assessment for T.H. Jones of lots 83 & 84, 3 block HBR (Hudson’s Bay Reserve), 1902;
Northwest Territories Summon For Jurors to Thos. H. Jones, to appear at Court in Edmonton Wednesday October 1, dated September 19, 1902;
City of Edmonton Voter’s List 1904 (includes Jones, T.H.).

File 2:
Dominion Lands receipt, issued to Lizzie Boyle for scrip purchase of land, SE ¼ and E ½ of SW ¼, of Section 4, in Township 56, Range 24, west 4 Meridian, December 19, 1900 (land is near Morinville);
Envelope addressed to Miss Lizzie Boyle, c/o Harry Jones Esq (likely for Dominion Lands receipt).

File 3:
Printed programme – Alberta’s Grand Summer Fair, July 1 to 4, 1901, Edmonton (includes Citizens’ Day, Old Timers’ Day, Farmers’ Day, Americans’ Day), by the Edmonton Industrial Exhibition Association Limited;
Printed programme – Edmonton’s Annual Exhibition, 1907 (July 1-4), Official Race Programme.

The fonds consists of a postcard photograph of a horse and wagon plowing team and a book ‘Incidents in the Life of John S. Sullivan and other Famous People’ by William C. Burns (921.BUR).
The book is the personal reminiscences of William Burns who was a prize fighter but in later years resided at the Selkirk Hotel and was often known to stand on the corner of Jasper Ave and 101 St., telling ‘interesting yarns’ about his prize fighting days. The publishing of the book was funded by donations of William Burns’ friends. It is possible Thomas Walsh contributed to the publishing of the book.

The collection consists of materials collected by Thomas McMinn, including:

• programme: The Women’s Musical Club of Edmonton - Song Recital by Amelita Galli-Curci, Empire Theatre, October 19th, 1926.
• programme: Organ Recital by Monsieur Louis Vierne, Titular Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris (North American Tour), First Presbyterian Church, March 10th, 1927 (2 copies).
• programme: Nation Council of Education, Programme of Concert to be given by The Gentlemen of His Majesty’s Free Chapel of St. George in Windsor Castle and the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, n.d.
• programme: International Basketball Championship, Chicago “Taylor-Trunks” vs “The Grads”, Edmonton Arena, Oct 25th and 27th, 1927.
• 1 Canadian meat ration token, WWII, [ca. 1938].