This series contains items and attachments from City Council meetings. The meeting minutes have been digitized and indexed, and are available under RG-8.14.
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.
Fonds consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, invoices, clippings, scrapbooks, bylaws, contracts, minutes, and records relating to voter and census enumeration.
An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes multiple series. The first 10 (RG-8.0 - RG-8.9) were processed in the 1970s and 1980s. Due to the size of the collection, the processing archivist decided to create a new division for each accession. From the 1990s the records were processed and arranged based on function, as reflected from RG-8.10 onwards.
- RG-8.0: The Papers of the Edmonton Town/City Secretary (1892-1912)
- RG-8.1: Edmonton Financial Accounts (1892-1915)
- RG-8.2: Debenture (1897)
- RG-8.3: Office of the City Clerk (1891-1913)
- RG-8.4: Election Scrapbooks (1918-1963)
- RG-8.5: Bylaws regarding Royal Visits (1939-1951)
- RG-8.6: Office of the City Clerk (1935-1972)
- RG-8.7: Public Affairs Committee (1968-1973)
- RG-8.8: Office of the City Clerk (1969-1974)
- RG-8.9: Office of the City Clerk (1965-1973)
- RG-8.10: Special Committee Reports of the City Clerk (1907-1966)
- RG-8.11: Civic Elections and Census Enumeration (1895-1974)
- RG-8.12: Bylaws (1892-2014)
- RG-8.13: Contracts (1893-1989)
- RG-8.14: Minutes (1892-1991)
- RG-8.15: Committee Minutes
- RG-8.16: Bylaw Committee Reports
- RG-8.17: Finance Committee Reports
- RG-8.18: Reports and Publications
- RG-8.19: Petitions
- RG-8.20: Executive Committee
- RG-8.21: Rules and Procedures Committee
- RG-8.22: Procedures Review Committee
- RG-8.23: Airport Study Committee
- RG-8.24: Audit Committee
- RG-8.25: Land Sales Committee
- RG-8.26: Legislative Committee
- RG-8.27: Utilities and Engineering Committee
- RG-8.28: Economic Affairs Committee
- RG-8.29: Council Communications
- RG-8.30: City Crest Committee
This series contains artwork that was collected by the Archives as discrete items, or artwork from that collection which has no provenance.
This work, created by Alexander Fraser, previously hung in the Mayor’s Office, before being transferred to the City of Edmonton Archives in 1983. Alexander Fraser (1827-1899), also known as Alexander Fraser the Younger, was a Scottish landscape painter.
Qaqaq Ashoona, also known as Kaka, was a renowned hunter and sculptor. He was born on August 18, 1928 in Ikerrasak camp, Baffin Island, NWT, and was the eldest son of Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona. Qaqaq's sculptures gained recognition for their monumental and powerful portrayal of animals, humans, and spirits. Notably, his works were characterized by their compactness and bold forms. In 1953, his sculptures were showcased at the Coronation Exhibition in London, England, marking his first international exposure. Subsequently, he held his first solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Arctic in Victoria, British Columbia in 1973. His artistic achievements continued to be widely exhibited and celebrated both in Canada and internationally. He died November 2, 1996 in Cape Dorset, NWT.
This is an architectural rendering of Centennial Plaza, located south of the Stanley Milner Library. It was done by Dale Lewis, a graphic designer for the Planning and Building Department.
The Valhalla (11307 - 99 Avenue) opened in 1971 as a luxury apartment building. This painting was created by Jerry Heine. Heine joined the Edmonton Art Club in 1967, and submitted oil and watercolour paintings to club exhibitions between 1967 and 1976. He received early training as a commercial artist at NAIT and took several courses throughout the years at the University of Alberta Fine Arts Department as well as the Department of Extension. He taught at the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension for many years, and has had dozens of solo art exhibitions nationally and internationally.
This work was part of a series of 6 titled "Principal Series I" by James Lindsay. Lindsay was born in Scotland in 1946, and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1967, having studied printmaking. He moved to Edmonton in 1970, where he exhibited paintings and published a book of poetry with Christopher Ringrose. He moved to Victoria in 1974 where he continued working as an artist and as an activist for art on the local and national scene.
Stan Kwong moved to Edmonton as a child from Hong Kong in 1960. A self-taught artist, Kwong had a wide-ranging career before stepping away from business to pursue art full time.