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This fonds consists of material relating to Ivor Dent's World War II service, teaching and educational career, political involvement including his term as Mayor of Edmonton, and his family and personal life. This fonds also covers Dr. Dent's involvement with various Commonwealth Games organizations including minutes, reports, correspondence, bylaws and constitution for both the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Commonwealth Games Assocciation of Canada. On April 11, 1984, Dr. Dent was invested as a member of the Order of Canada. MS 157.9 includes Commonwealth Games Association of Canada material, political correspondence and clippings, business material, M.Ed Thesis, and other ephemera. MS 157.10 includes Commonwealth Games Association of Canada material, primarily related to the Brisbane, Australia games in 1982, the Aukland, New Zealand games in 1990, and the Victoria, British Columbia games in 1994. This also includes some material related to Dent's activities with the CGAC. Also included inthis fonds is some personal material and other ephemera. MS 157.11 includes material regarding Ivor Dent's Order of Canada, his Commonwealth Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, his real estate dealings, his political and social activities (including the New Democratic Party, Municipal Politics, Alberta's Senatorial Election, the Alberta Council on Aging, and the Commonwealth Games Association), his father Charles Lionel Dent, his son Charles Dent, and correspondence and other papers. This fonds also contains publications, including two books from Geoffrey Handley-Taylor, What Peace Means to Me, the REport of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Provincial Senatorial Election, 1989, and Kaleidoscope of Nauru, 1983. MS 157.12 contains material for the Alberta Common Front campaign against cuts to social spending, a collection of business cards, political material, and correspondence and other materials related to Dent's volunteer and business activities. MS 157.13 consists of material on the Alberta Common Front activist movement, SOS Children's Villages of Canada, Commonwealth Games Association of Canada, Victoria Commonwealth Games Society. This fonds also includes cards for the Dent's 50th wedding anniversary, material from courses Dent taught at Grant MacEwan Community College, correspondence and other papers, and a certificate commemorating Dent's acitvity as a volunteer for the International Year of the Volunteer.

• The collection consists of a copy of the "The Evening Journal", Saturday, September 2, 1905, with headlines 'Alberta, A Province' and 'History in the Making in Alberta's New Capital'.
• Photographs of Edmonton taken between ca. 1905 and ca. 1950, including Legislature Building and Grounds, Victoria Park, Whitemud, Rossdale Power Plant, Whitemud Bridge, River Valley Road, Central Skating Rink, Helen Ramsay at Ramsay Home, 11008 - 100 Avenue CPR Overpass c. 1914, Robertson Church, High Level Bridge under construction, Legislature Building Under Construction, North Saskatchewan View, Streetcar on High Level Bridge, Macdonald Hotel, Hudson's Bay Store, T. Eaton Co., Pantages Theatre, Welcome Home of 49th Battalion in 1919 and aerial of Edmonton Looking North from Saskatchewan Drive.

The fonds consists of materials created by David Leadbeater of Edmonton between 1974 and 1977. The fonds consists of minutes, budgets, reports, brochures and other materials derived from City Council committees during the period that Mr. Leadbeater was an alderman.

This fonds contains meeting minutes from the Civic Service Association. In June of 1914, the Civic Service Club voted to become the Civic Service Association. The minutes detail activities and structure of the Association during the period of 1914 to 1916 including administration, social activities for members, and interactions with government.

File list:
File 1: Civic Service Association executive meeting minutes, June 1914 - April 1916
File 2: Civic Service Club / Association general meeting minutes, June 1914 - January 1916

This fonds consists of records generated by the Telephone Department. It includes the following series:

• Series 1: Reports
• Series 2: Photographs
• Series 3: Equipment Records
• Series 4: Discrete Items
• Series 5: Architectural Drawings
• Series 6: Executive
• Series 7: Correspondence
• Series 8: Edmonton Telephones Corporation

Fonds consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, and scrapbooks relating to the activities of the Recreation Department.

An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes 5 series. The series are as follows

• Series 1: Reports
• Series 2: Recreation Commission
• Series 3: Recreation Board
• Series 4: Media Coverage and Scrapbooks
• Series 5: Correspondence with Outside Organizations
• Series 6: Theatre for Children