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William P. Wagner fonds
CA EDM MS-244 · Fonds · 1902-[ca.1964]

The fonds consists of textual records and photographs created and collected by the donor. The photographs include street scenes of Jasper Avenue [ca. 1914, 1969], William’s teaching and educational administration career [ca. 1930, 1964], Vera Smith [ca. 1900, 1960] and the students of Queen’s Avenue School, 1909 (it is likely William is in the photo).
File List:
File 1: W.P. Wagner autobiography, includes accounts of childhood, early teaching career, military service and educational administrative career; written for William Wagner’s retirement. [ca. 1899-1964], (photocopy);
File 2: Commemorative Booklet for the Inauguration of the Province of Alberta, September 2, 1905. Includes 'Telegram from His Majesty King Edward VII; Address of His Excellency Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada; Address of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; and Telegram from the Right Hon Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Note: booklet is annotated 'Dorothea Wagner, Edmonton, Alta, 1905' (nb: Dorothea is William’s sister).
File 3: Certificates for Vera Smith. Include High School Certificates for Vera Eloise Smith, Provincial Examinations sat at Liverpool Station, Nova Scotia, 1902, 1904, 1905 and Certification for Teacher’s Professional Qualification, Nova Scotia, 1911.

Wagner, William P.
William Mair fonds
CA EDM MS-942 · Fonds · 1916

The fonds consists of a panorama photograph of the 202 Overseas Battalion taken at Sarcee Camp on 14 Oct 1916.

Mair, William
William A. Griesbach fonds
CA EDM MS-209 · Fonds · 1891 - 1974

The fonds consists of William Griesbach’s political, military, and personal papers, as well as numerous books from his personal library.

Political papers consist of reports, correspondence, contracts, and financial documents concerning the City of Edmonton and the City of Strathcona between 1892 and 1935. There is also a 1912 Edmonton Subdivision map (EAM-178).

Military papers include correspondence, clippings, programs, pamphlets and other materials related to Major-General Griesbach's military career, created between 1919 and ca.1943.

Personal papers include correspondence, financial documents, theatre programmes and other materials relating to Griesbach's personal activities and interests. It includes correspondence on the memorial window in the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Edmonton.

The books reflect the various aspects of Griesbach’s life, career, and interests covering military, political, diplomatic, economic, and historical topics. It should be noted that the books published after Griesbach’s death in 1945 were added by the Western Command HQ Library.

Griesbach, William A.
Webb Family fonds
CA EDM MS-49 · Fonds · [ca. 1900] - 1980

The fonds consists of textual records and photographs of Joseph and Alice Webb, and their daughter Ellen Godwin.

The fonds is arranged into two series:
Series 1: Joseph & Alice Webb
Series 2: Ellen Godwin

Webb Family
Wade DeLano collection
CA EDM MS-410 · Collection · 1899-1911

This fonds consists of copies of "The Rebel", published by J.J. Zubric of Calgary and critical of the Social Credit government in Alberta, one copy of a catalogue for the Scottish Historical Exhibition at Glasgow, and several copies of the serial illustrated histories of the war "With the Flag to Pretoria" and "Celebrities of the Army".

DeLano, Wade
CA EDM MS-55 · Fonds · 1940 - 1957, 1963

The fonds consists of financial records and correspondence of the Veterans' Volunteer Reserve, South Edmonton Battalion.

File list:
File 1: Notices of reunion and annual meeting, 1952-1956
File 2: Revenues and expenditures, 1950-1957
File 3: Statement of expenditures re: annual reunion, 1950-1955
File 4: Special permit - liquor, 1955, 1956
File 5: Letterhead sample, 19--
File 6: Correspondence re: donation to Edmonton home for ex-servicemen's children, 1957-1963
File 7: Payments and receipts, 1940-1955
File 8: Financial journal, 1941-1957
File 9: Financial journal, 1940-1957

Veterans' Volunteers' Reserve, South Edmonton Battalion Association
CA EDM MS-570 · Fonds · 1941-1991

This fonds consists of memorabilia and news letters of the Canadian Veterans Association of the United Kingdom. There is also correspondence between a Mrs. Thorleifson and Mrs. Stewart, mother of the donor.

The Canadian Veterans Association of the United Kingdom
Ross, Thompson Family
CA EDM MS-206 · Fonds · [ca. 1905] - 1967

The fonds consists of textual records and photographs of the Ross and Thompson families, predominantly Harold and Winnifred Ross, and Winnifred's brother Hector Thompson.

Ross, Thompson Family
Rodney Pike fonds
CA EDM MS-582 · Fonds · [1980?]-1995

The fonds consists of materials created by Rodney Pike between ca. 1980 and 1995. The fonds consists of the biographical record and family history of Frank Pike, father of the donor. A later accrual has an essay about the Westward Ho School, a boys' school started by Mr. W. H. Nightingale ca. 1904. Some of the students listed: Howard Emery, Kenny Kinnaird, Otis Bishopric, Dick Secord, Harry Morris, Alan Harvey, Jack Dinning, George Field, Jim Weaver, Kelly Matthews, Ken Pirie, Munro Williamson, Fred Pardu, Vernon Hayward, Peter Pitcher, and the sons of the Wilkins, Blakey, Christie, Gaetz, Matheson, Jamieson, Field and Silas families. The fonds also includes an essay on old Glenora and Dr. W. D. Ferris and his family. In 1997, Rodney Pike donated material he gathered in 1988 for a Historical Society of Alberta lecture on "The Prairie Contribution to the Canadian Navy." This material includes his own recollections of the Second World War, as well as information he gathered from friends who were also from the west and who served in the RCN.

Pike, Rodney