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Alda Dale Randall fonds
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- Source of title proper: Title based on contents of fonds.
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1920-[ca. 1960] (Creation)
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- Randall, Alda Dale
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- While the records were primarily created in the 1920s, there are some entries from 1938 and 1939, and then a comment on a 1920 entry written about 40 years later.
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0.05 m of textual records
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Custodial history
Leila R. Lawrence, daughter of Alda Dale Randall, donated the records to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1994.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of two diaries of Alda Dale Randall, primarily from the 1920s, which include accounts of her life as well as short stories. The diaries serve as a good example of the reuse of writing materials which had previously served another purpose.
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Some pages are torn and the binding is broken.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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An inventory is not available.
Associated materials
See also the Peace River Country Research Project collection at the Glenbow Archives in Calgary, Alberta.
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Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Information for the biographical sketch is taken from <em>Turning the Pages of Time: A History of Nampa and Districts, 1800-1981</em> and <em>"Where the Redwillow Grew:" Valleyview and Surrounding Districts</em>, which are available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.231 N152 and 971.231 W574r, from <em>Trails We Blazed Together: History of Grouard, High Prairie & Surrounding areas</em>, from information provided by the Glenbow Archives, from Dale Randall's obituary in <em>South Peace News</em> and from the records. The diary was used in the Archives Society of Alberta's 1998 virtual exhibit <em>Dear Diary</em>, which can be viewed at <A href="http://www.archivesalberta.org/diary/diary.htm" target="_blank"> www.archivesalberta.org/diary/diary.htm </A>, last accessed January 18, 2007. It was also used as part of the 2005 Provincial Archives of Alberta Archives Week event <em>Voices of the Past</em>.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1994.0202<br><br>
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- Randall, Alda Dale (Subject)