The series consists of daily journals (diaries), 1906-1918, 1937-1950, scrapbooks and recipe clipping books, 1945-1962 (one recipe book added to after her death), correspondence, books, and other documents relating to her life, interests and activities.
Secord, Annie Ada YorkRobert Smith Forrest (1871-1943) was a Scottish portrait painter and etcher who exhibited between 1908 and 1934.
This painting was used as the frontispiece for Ella May Walker's book of historical fiction "Fortress North" (1947).
Walker, Ella May JacobyThe series consists of agendas, minutes, correspondence and supporting documentation relating to Richard York Secord’s service on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 1959-1968, the Edmonton Archives and Landmarks Committee/Edmonton Historical Board, 1964-1972, the Alberta Heritage Sites Board, 1973-1976, and the Fort Edmonton Foundation, 1970-1975.
There is also personal and business correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Secord family history, as well as research material, correspondence and manuscripts relating to the Richard Henry Secord biography and Richard York Secord memoirs.
The photographs and books reflect many aspects of Richard Y. Secord’s activities and interests.
Secord, Richard YorkThe fonds consists predominantly of textual records of Richard Henry and Annie York Secord, and their son Richard York Secord, and to a lesser extent Margaret Calder Secord (wife of Richard York), Isobel Secord, Lena Secord McFayden and Gene Secord Keltie (sisters of Richard York), and family of Richard David Secord (son of Richard York).
The photographs consist of family and friends, farming and business activities, events and street scenes of Edmonton.
The fonds has been arranged into the following series:
Series 1 - Richard Henry Secord
Series 2 - Annie York Secord
Series 3 - Richard York Secord
Series 4 - Margaret Calder Secord
Series 5 - Lena Secord McFadyen
Series 6 - Isobel Secord
Series 7 - Richard David Secord family
Series 8 - Gene Secord Keltie
Joseph van der Gracht was born in the Netherlands in 1880. He married Florence Ethel Ross, and joined the Edmonton Art Club in 1929. He moved with his family to Vancouver around 1933. He died in 1959.
This painting was included in the Edmonton Art Club 1933 exhibition.
Robert Campbell was born in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1883 and moved to Canada in 1906, where he homesteaded near the town of Minden. Campbell began painting in 1916 under the watercolourist Victor W. Burnard, after returning to England during the First World War. After the war he moved to Edmonton, where he worked as a dental technician and continued his artistic endeavors. He was a charter member of the Edmonton Art Club and the Artists Society of Alberta. He was also one of those responsible for founding the Banff School of Fine Arts. Robert Campbell died in 1967.