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City of Edmonton Archives Fonds Family and personal life
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Meadowcroft fonds

  • EDM MS-744
  • Fonds
  • 1976-2009

This fonds consists of material collected and created by Reg Appleyard, Doug Matheson, Rev. Harry Meadows, Matheson and Company, and the staff of Meadowcroft Seniors’ Residence through their function of running the Meadowcroft corporations and providing quality affordable housing in Edmonton between 1969 and 2010. It contains legal documents, correspondence, reports, committee minutes, pamphlets, photos, plans and audiovisual material.

An attempt has been made to preserve the original order of the material. The files themselves have been arranged into 5 sous-fonds and various series. The sous-fonds are as follows:

Sous-fonds 1 – Meadowcroft Housing Corporation
Sous-fonds 2 – Meadowcroft Holdings
Sous-fonds 3 – Meadowcroft Housing Society of Edmonton
Sous-fonds 4 – Other Material
Sous-fonds 5 – Personal Correspondence

Meadowcroft Housing Society of Edmonton

Peter Hawker fonds

  • EDM edm-1664
  • Fonds
  • 1864-1995

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Peter Hawker. This fonds consists of a manuscript biography of Richard Secord; a copy of a proclamation "uniting the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; a copy of the 1918 <em>Globe and Mail</em> Winnipeg General Strike edition; and other souvenir newspaper editions. There are also maps showing: electric generating systems and stations, dated 1961-1962 and oil and gas fields in Western Canada, dated 1975. There are two books: <em>John Rowand</em> and <em>Fort Edmonton: Fur Trade Entrepot </em>[warehouse] and special edition anniversary postal envelopes transported by dogsled and York boat.

Hawker, Peter

Lyman Delmar Parney fonds

  • EDM edm-131
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1942

This fonds consists of private letters, business correspondence, documents relating to the L.D. Parney Estate, and a scrapbook containing news clippings relating to world wars I and II, the royal family, Parney family, Jenny Morris, the "mother" of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and the deaths of prominent persons, including Wilfred Grenfell, Thomas Alva Edison and Wilfrid Laurier.

Parney, Lyman Delmar

Marion Shipley fonds

  • EDM edm-1099
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1939

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Marion Shipley of Edmonton and dating from 1906 to 1939. The fonds consists of brochures, newspaper clippings, bills, stationary, and correspondence.

Shipley, Marion

John William Clutton fonds

  • EDM edm-122
  • Fonds
  • 1894

This fonds consists of copies of an original letter written in 1894 by Mr. Clutton to an acquaintance in England, telling about pioneer life in the Beaumont area.

John William Clutton

Scott family fonds

  • EDM edm-1750
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1983

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by the Scott family of Edmonton from 1923 to 1983. The fonds consists of family memorabilia such as letters, poetry, programmes, a 1960 Girl Guide Cookbook, and a photograph of Edmonton.

Scott family

Robert Thompson Anderson family fonds

  • EDM edm-1891
  • Fonds
  • 1905, 1920

The fonds consists of papers relating to the registration of Malcolm Robert Anderson's birth, and of a diary belonging to her mother Margaret McPherson "Greta" (Grant) Anderson. There are several photographs of her father (especially as a fireman) which are catalogued under EA-65.

Anderson, Robert Thompson

Mays family fonds

  • EDM edm-1772
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1960

The fonds consists of photographs, family records, keepsakes, sales agreements, land titles, tax receipts, music scores, 1939 Royal Visit Souvenir, and several books.

Mays family

Merril E. Wolfe fonds

  • EDM edm-156
  • Fonds
  • 1970-1971

The fonds consists of materials created by Merril E. Wolfe of Edmonton between 1970 and 1971. The fonds consists of correspondence and minutes of meetings relating to Merril Wolfe's work for various community organizations.

Wolfe, Merril E.

Milton Tibbetts fonds

  • EDM edm-1686
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1991 [predominant 1913-1915]

This fonds consists of letters of Milton Tibbetts.

Tibbetts, Milton

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