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Coral Etherington fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3732
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1930]

The fonds consists of a letter from Nellie McClung (one of the Famous Five [Famous 5]) as a result of a public speaking contest won by Strang.

Etherington, Coral

Arthur family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-145
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1930, predominant 1910-1925

The fonds consists of a calendar of pictographs, recording significant annual events for the North Peigan Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy, from 1764 to 1910. The winter count was compiled ca. 1910 by Bull Plume (and annotated by Anglican missionary W.R. Haynes), and records battles and deaths, the arrival of diseases like smallpox and measles, the disappearance of the buffalo, the signing of Treaty 7, and the death of Queen Victoria. The volume also lists the leaders of the Blackfoot, and includes drawings of material culture items. The fonds also consists of one page of Blackfoot syllabics with English translation; an article about Bull Plume written by Moses B. Cotsworth (1939); photographs of the Arthur family, Fort Macleod, Alberta and region, and Peigan Indian Agency at Brocket. Includes the school and military records of Clive Arthur.

Arthur, Chester

Mackenzie family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3791
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1905-1930]

The fonds consists of notebooks, bank books, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous publications. The notebooks contain information about ranching activities, including lists of farm hands and of breeding mares.

Mackenzie (family)

Belcourt family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-227
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1931, predominant 1901-1917

The fonds consists of miscellaneous family records including correspondence (1900-1930), photographs, baptism certificate (1878), St. Albert assessment notice (1931), postcards, newsclippings, and Catholic religious material. Includes a handwritten recipe for dandelion wine, hand-cut paper stencils for beadwork, and a prayer book in Cree syllabics published by the Oblates in Edmonton (1929).

Belcourt (family)

Botsford's shop fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3273
  • Fonds
  • 1925-1933

The fonds consists of a customer accounts book for the general store, which records the sale of a wide variety of goods, including clothing (shoes, rubbers, skates, slippers, shoe laces, gloves, kerchiefs, overalls, underwear, stockings, shirts, caps); horse-related items (curry comb, horse brushes, harnesses, traces, lariats, halters, sweat pads); and hardware (pump rods, plow pulleys, sheet iron, rivets, bolts, nails, screws, paint, door pulls, pie tins, fly swatters, axle grease). Regular customers included W.D. Braden, C.L. Coonfer, Fariplay School, George Henderson, A. Hickle, A.G. Gosling, Ed Linkhart, Theo Lowe, E. Moe, James Rae, Carl Wenstrom, George Whitney, George Winters the Women's Institute, and many others.

Botsford's shop

David Breen's National Archives Petroleum collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2519
  • Collection
  • Photopcopied 1979 (originally created 1887-1934)

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, etc., related to Alberta's oil and gas industries.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this collection. See inventory for details: Alberta Associated Oilfields Ltd., Alberta Petroleum Consolidated Ltd., Athabasca Oils Ltd., John Bain, R.B. Bennett, Dr. T.O. Bosworth, Bow Island, British Empire Trust Co., John E. Brownlee, Calgary and Edmonton Railway, Calgary Petroleum Products Ltd., Canada Southern Oil and Refining Co., Canadian Oil and Refining Co., Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Canadian Western Natural Gas, Light, Heat and Power Co., Dillon Coste, E.H. Cunningham Craig, Archibald W. Dingman, Edmonton-Wainwright Oils Ltd., Newton W. Emmens, Herbert Greenfield, Eric Harvie, W.S. Herron, Lethbridge Oils Ltd., Willian Livingston, McDougall-Segur Exploration Co., Northern Alberta Natural Gas Development Co., Northwest Company Ltd., William Pearce, Range Oil and Gas Co., Daniel Lee Redman, Otty P. Savary, Southern Alberta Oil Co., M.Y. Williams, and J.H. Woods.

Breen, David

William and Samuel Carlyle fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3867
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1935

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding investments and insurance payments from United Dairies and Maple Leaf mines.

Carlyle (family)

Relief Camp Workers collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3833
  • Collection
  • 1933-1935

The collection consists of a photograph album showing construction of a provincial highway by relief workers through the Frank Slide area of the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.

Department of National Defence Relief Camps

Arthur Edward Wilson fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2445
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900-1935]

The fonds consists of photographs of Wilson family in England, Saskatchewan, Calgary and Vancouver including views of Calgary buildings, the Calgary Hunt Club, Bankview district, Bowness Park and the Banff area. Includes Arthur's military service awards.

Wilson, Arthur Edward

Giles family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2739
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1935

The fonds consists of military papers and photographs of William Giles; school papers of Mabel; photographs of the Klondike; aerial views of Calgary; and photographs of the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute.

Giles (family)

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