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.
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
- RG-8.31: Edmonton Coronation Celebration Committee
This series contains material relating to Edmonton Power's communications directly to the public through various publications. It contains examples of mass-produced publications intended to educate citizens about the department and the creation and use of electricity. It also contains samples of artwork and production proofs used to create the publications, as well as photos taken by the department to illustrate said publications.
The series has been divided into three subseries:
- Subseries 1: Publications
- Subseries 2: Artwork and Production Proofs
- Subseries 3: Photographs
This series contains employee newsletters produced by Edmonton Power.
This fonds includes records related to the provision of electrical services to Edmontonians. It includes three series, which are as follows:
- Series 1: Meter Services
- Series 2: Communications
- Series 3: Historical Records
- Series 4: Reports
- Series 5: Employee Newsletters
This series consists of records created as the City of Edmonton expanded their boarders to annex surrounding lands and communities. It includes records of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Development (the McNalley Commission), annexation and attempted annexations of Strathcona County, Jasper Place, Riverbend, and St. Albert. It also includes records regarding major city lead developments such as the Downtown Pedestrian Circulation System, the Mill Creek Ravine, the Aurum Dump, Borden Park, Kinsmen Sports Centre, and the Genesee Power Plant. This series also includes blueprints of City Developments including buildings such as City Hall, parks, roads, and transit developments.
Fonds consists of transcriptions of court cases and hearings, correspondence, bylaws, contracts, architectural drawings, maps, photographs and artwork relating to city activities the law branch believed where of historical significance.
An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes multiple series based on the function law was serving within the City. Within each series the records were processed following the order received from the creator as much as possible.
- 13.1: Mayors and Council
- 13.2: Bylaws
- 13.3: Contracts
- 13.4: City Land and Property Development
- 13.5: Legal proceedings and Administration
- 13.6: Divestments
This series includes certified copies of agreement between the corporation of Edmonton and various other parties. This series also includes agreements made by the Town of Strathcona between 1899 and 1909.
This series consists of documentation investigating Edmonton's Mayor and Councilors regarding compliance with the Municipalities Act. These investigations include the Porter Royal Commission into civic mismanagement especially in regards to property speculation and profiteering by William Hawrelak, the Morrow Inquiry into bribing councilors including Aldermen Fallow and McLean, the disqualification of Mayor Hawrelak for violating the City Act in 1965, and the Nuclear Disarmament Referendum quashed by Mayor Purves. This series also includes the report of the form of City Government which proposed switching Edmonton to its current ward based system.
This item consists of a thematic finding aid compiling Local Histories in the City of Edmonton Archives Collection. There are many different publications which reveal some aspect of the histories and stories of Edmonton. There are general histories of Edmonton, neighbourhood histories, organization and business histories, biographies, monographs on buildings, cookbooks, collections of photographs and particular subject histories.