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James Hector fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2549
  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1970 (originally created 1857-1860)

The fonds consists of correspondence, geological notes, and other records created while a member of the Palliser Expedition.

Hector, James

Samuel Wark fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3777
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1865-1870]

The fonds consists of photos of Wark, James Montgomery and the Wark family.

Wark, Samuel

Riveredge Foundation Ships' Logs collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3094
  • Collection
  • 1790-1872

The collection consists of ships' logs, a shipboard newspaper, and a seaman's diary from merchant and naval sailing vessels. Includes the diary of John Bartlett (1790-1795), a member of the crew of the Massachusetts, an American merchant ship sailing from Boston to Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands and back to Canton via the Sandwich Islands. Bartlett then joined the American whaling ship Elenoro, bound back to the USA via Madagascar. Includes the log (1805-1806) of the Royal George, a British merchant ship sailing from England via India to China and back. Includes a manuscript newspaper published aboard the British naval vessel Alceste in 1816. Also includes logs kept aboard British naval vessels as training exercises by junior officers George Buck Keene (1844-1848), G. T. L. Bolton (1860-1865), and Collingwood Fenwick (1870-1872). These logs feature watercolour views of ports visited, profiles of coastlines, and manuscript maps.

Riveredge Foundation Ships' Logs collection

Ozija Thiha fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3864
  • Fonds
  • 1877

The fonds consists of his original presentation copy of Treaty 7.

Ozija Thiha

Marquess of Lorne fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1491
  • Fonds
  • 1881-1883

The fonds consists of a microfilm of newspaper reports, published in The Times and The Scotsman, about Lord Lorne's tour. Includes an 1883 letter from Lord Castletown, describing a trip by CPR from Winnipeg to Calgary. The fonds also consists of photographs of sketches done during the 1881 trip, along with original 1870s sketches of European castles and scenes (possibly done by Princess Louise), which had been glued to the back of these photos. Includes a scrapbook of newspaper clippings written by Reverend James MacGregor who accompanied Lorne.

Lorne, Marquess of

George Martin fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3854
  • Fonds
  • 1888

The item consists of letter from Martin to John I. Chambers regarding the acquisition of a knife from Crowfoot, Chief of the Blackfoot (Siksika) in southern Alberta.

Martin, George S.

W.S. Caine fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-398
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1888

The fonds consists of scrapbook of published letters regarding Caine's trip. Includes other newsclippings from English newspapers about emigration, various colonization schemes, and conditions in the Canadian West.

Caine, W.S.

Charles Harris fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2569
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1892

The fonds consists of Charles account of the 1882 trip from Halifax to Fort Macleod, written in 1892; and a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harris at the hot springs in Banff (1886).

Harris, Charles E.

Wesley Stockton fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3786
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1897

The fonds consists of his account book recording purchases made from "Messrs Baker & McColl" general store (location unknown). Purchases included food items (butter, molasses, sugar, rolled oats, mustard, coffee, tea, biscuits, etc.), clothing and sewing supplies (shoes, drawers, fabric, scissors, socks, braces, buttons, thread, etc.), and various household and hardware supplies (broom, paint, soap, lamp glasses, axe handle, etc.).

Stockton, Wesley

Sam Livingston fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1473
  • Fonds
  • 1849-1931, predominant 1849-1898

The fonds consists of letters to family in Ireland (1849-1850), homestead documents (1885-1892), notebook (1890) and family photographs. Includes program for dedication of monument to Sam Livingston (1898) and a few letters about Howse family genealogy (1931).

Livingston, Sam

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