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Agriculture Groups
Subfonds
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Publications, reports, and song books from Agriculture Groups within the Canadian Prairie Provinces, such as: Alberta Wheat Pool, United Farmers of Alberta (U.F.A.), Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, United Grain Growers (U.G.G.), Saskatchewan Cooperative Wheat Producers, Canadian Wheat Board, and the Canadian Seed Growers' Association.

Albums & Scrapbooks
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Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

A wide variety of experiences are captured in the pages of these albums and scrapbooks. From family vacations to prisoner of war (POW) experiences, stories from a wide range of people are captured here in the materials arranged and saved by them. While names, places, and dates are not always available, there is much to discover in this collection.

File · 1910s-1950s
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Documents relating mostly to the later life of Clayborne Stewart, who lived in Red Deer, Alberta. Includes a collection of letters and cards documenting his 1946-7 courtship and subsequent marriage with his second wife, Louise (legal name Zenobia) nee Taylor. The two exchanged letters while Louise was living in Calgary and Clayborne in Red Deer; many of Clayborne's letters to Louise and other correspondence are collected here. Stewart worked as an army cook in Red Deer, and attended an army cook training course at Camp Borden in Ontario in 1953; the file also includes letters written from Clayborne to Louise during this time.

Commerce & Industry
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Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Ephemeral materials produced by businesses. Includes publications relating to labour movements and unions. Held within the Prairie Ephemera Collection.

D. Lamont WWI Collection
File · 1914-1920
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Materials relating to D. Lamont of Maidstone, SK's personal involvement in WWI as a Corporal in the 9th Canadian Mounted Rifles Regiment (C.M.R.R.) and Sergeant in the 9th Regiment of the Canadian infantry Brigade.

Education & Academia
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Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Report cards, certificates, exams, essays, and a wide variety of items to do with the educational and academic experiences of Prairie Province residents.

File · [1930’s – 1970]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Commercial and marketing materials related to trapping and the fur trade. Consists of advertising documents, official correspondence, and reciepts, produced by the Hudson's Bay Company, and other purchasers of furs.

Subfonds
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

An assembly of material reflecting the breadth of government and political engagement across the Prairies, including election campaign materials, political party convention reports, and civic development activities. Two series within this broader category include ephemeral publications produced by government, and a collection of scrapbooks covering the history of the Social Credit party within Alberta.

All of the letters in this collection are addressed to Irma Breadner, employee of Don Stanton's General Store of Westlock, Alberta, from her friends and family. The letters span the years 1941 through 1948, but the bulk were sent in the years 1944 and 1945. Together the letters offer an intimate view of Wartime as it was experienced by Central Albertans. Breadner's correspondents include servicemen and women working overseas, her sister, Jean, building airplanes in Ontario, and many Albertan women getting their educations or helping their families with the harvest against the backdrop of the final years of the Second World War. The collection also includes cards, postcards, pay stubs and a church program.

A collection of albums, loose photographs, and assorted ephemera documenting the northern mining development, projects, and exploration of the McNeil family, c. 1930-1950. Matriarch Pearl McNeil (nee Montgomery) was the niece of Bob Montgomery of Death Valley Skidoo Gold Mine fame. She had three sons; Bob, Tom, and Don. Locations of the photographs range from Ontario to northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, to the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Collection contains two albums, three sets of loose photographs, and a selection of miscellaneous items including Christmas cards and a small bank/address book.

Military
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Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Items relating to military events and activities, as well as those documenting individuals' participation in the military.

Non-Commercial Organizations
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Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Publications or materials belonging to non-commercial organizations, such as associations, foundations, clubs, societies and volunteer groups, that cannot be otherwise located in one of the other sub-fonds.

Parker Social Credit Papers

The donation of the family of Frank and Mary S. Parker, these scrapbook collections of newspaper articles, greeting cards, and photographs cover four (4) decades of Alberta political history, seen from inside the Social Credit party.

Item · 1947-1965
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

"50 Plus Proverbs We Learned" self-published monograph by Margaret Harder with illustrations by Malyssa & Cora Wiens. The monograph contains 52 pages of memoir on growing up in Manitoba. Inserted with the work are:

  • four (4) pages of B&W photographs of family and life in rural Manitoba (some annotated), affixed to paper (with photocopies);
  • loose B&W photograph of author’s father in Russian ‘Forstei’ uniform;
  • photocopies of other photographs, not annotated;
  • Manitoba Dept. of Education Grade 12 report on final examinations (with photocopy) 1947;
  • photocopy of Manitoba Dept. of Education Interim First-Class Teacher’s Certificate, Grade B, 1949;
  • Manitoba Bible College report cards, signed by Esther Horch 1954-1955;
  • Manitoba Dept. of Education Interim Collegiate Certificate (with photocopy) 1965;
  • Winnipeg School Division No. 1 hiring agreement (with photocopy) 1965.
Item · ca. 1910
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

B&W print, mounted, framed, of First Nations person, wearing war bonnet, astride a horse that pulls a travois, with second horse in tow, on riverbank. No date.  -- reverse caption reads “Indian Travois” but also “Chief Duck’s Squaw” -- Provincial Archives of Alberta traces this photo as ‘Indian travois’ by Harry Pollard ca. 1910, as well as ‘Mrs. Duck Chief’ ; Glenbow Archives traces this photo as ‘Duck Chief’ ca. 1930-1937 by Reeves.