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FC 3213 L55 019.065 · Item · May 22, 1849
Part of Life, Events, and Players in the North-West

Place: Red River Settlement

From: Alexander Christie, Lower Fort Garry

To: Mrs. Jeny Hickenburger ; Reverend John Smithurst

Details: 2pp

Notes: A pair of letters both written on the same day concerning the same matter. The first is written to "Mrs. Jenny Hickenburger" and the other to Reverend Smithurst regarding the death of Jenny Hickenburger's father. The letter requests that she attends Christie's office to sign the necessary paperwork for her to inherit her father's money. The letter to Smithurst requests his assistance in ensuring that his cousin does not redeem her HBC stock and instead accepts £9 per year as income.

Christie, Alexander
FC 3213 L55 019.067 · Item · September 25, 1849
Part of Life, Events, and Players in the North-West

Place: Red River Settlement

From: James Hunter, Norway House

To: Reverend John Smithurst

Details: 3pp

Notes: Hunter goes into detail about the visit of the Bishop of Prince Rupert’s Land. 
He also writes of matters of business regarding food supplies for the winter, the price of freight from Red River to Norway House and the construction of the Church.

FC 3213 L55 019.070 · Item · March 8, 1851
Part of Life, Events, and Players in the North-West

Place: Red River Settlement

From: Reverend Abraham Cowley, Partridge Crop

To: Reverend John Smithurst

Details: 3pp

Notes: Partridge Crop was a missionary outpost on the northern reaches of Lake Manitoba, and was later renamed Fairford in 1851 by Bishop Anderson.

The outpost was on the left bank of the Partridge Crop River and was established by McNap for Winter trading with the Indigenous people. The lengthy letter from Cowley mentions topics such as the recent arrival of the bishop, his meeting of confirmation candidates and inspecting the school.

This letter would have travelled by canoe down Lake Winnipeg to the Red River.

Cowley, Abraham
FC 3213 L55 019.072 · Item · January 29, 1852
Part of Life, Events, and Players in the North-West

Place: Salisbury Street, Ireland

From: John Chapman, Missionary at Middle Church

To: Reverend John Smithurst, 18 Salisbury Street, Ireland

Details: 2pp

Notes: Chapman thanks Smithurst for newspapers and of his letter detailing his route to New York. He also discusses the status of the congregation and the building of a new church.

Chapman, John
1911 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.29 · Item · 1911
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the front of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1912 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.28 · Item · 1912-1913
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for 1912; the last entry, however, is dated Jan. 1913.. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1914 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.27 · Item · 1914-1915
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for 1914; the last entry, however, is dated Jan. 1915.. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

Enclosed loosely in the book are a variety of documents, including internal union forms - especially applications for membership , and additional handwritten notes.

Letter from H. R. Ellis
PE001336.41 · Item · June 2, 1914
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Letter, on Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Sioux Lookout Lodge No. 308 letterhead, from H. R. Ellis to Mr. (Illegible). Bremman, on an application by another individual to join Lodge 127.

1916 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.26 · Item · 1916
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1917 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.25 · Item · 1917
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. Attendence lists for various meetings during the year are also included, either as loose sheets or gluded to the inside covers, as is a circular letter from the overall union to local recording secretaries and officers. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1918 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.24 · Item · 1918-1919
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for 1918; the last entry, however, is dated Jan. 1919. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. Attendence lists for various meetings during the year are also included, either as loose sheets or gluded to the inside covers. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1919 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.23 · Item · 1919
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1920 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.22 · Item · 1920
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

Enclosed loosely in the book are a variety of documents, including handwritten notes, correspondence, a reciept from Clark-Leatherdale Co. Ltd. Funeral Directors, internal union forms, and a number of lists recording attendence at various meetings during the year.

1921 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.30 · Item · 1921
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. Attendence lists for various meetings during the year are also enclosed, as loose sheets. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1922 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.31 · Item · 1922
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. Attendence lists for various meetings during the year are also enclosed, as loose sheets. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1923 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.32 · Item · 1923
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. Attendence lists for various meetings during the year are also enclosed, as loose sheets. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1924 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.33 · Item · 1924
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1925 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.34 · Item · 1925
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Accompanying the notes are a number of monthly reports by the financial secretary, pasted on unused pages. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1926 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.35 · Item · 1926
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Accompanying the notes are a number of monthly reports by the financial secretary, pasted on unused pages. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1927 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.36 · Item · 1927
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Accompanying the notes are a number of monthly reports by the financial secretary, pasted on unused pages. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1928 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.37 · Item · 1928
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Accompanying the notes are a number of monthly reports by the financial secretary, pasted on unused pages. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1929 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.2 · Item · 1929
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by a Feb. 14 financial secretary's monthly report, which is glued onto an unused page in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1930 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.15 · Item · 1930
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed, while the pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1931 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.16 · Item · 1931
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Additionally, appended with paperclips, are the text of several resolutions passed by the lodge, as well as a letter on proposed regulations on firing pools for railway employees in Winnipeg. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed, while the pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge,

1932 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.17 · Item · 1932
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed, while the pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1933 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.18 · Item · 1933
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed, while the pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1934 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.19 · Item · 1934
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed, while the pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1935 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.5 · Item · 1935
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1936 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.6 · Item · 1936
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

Item · [1937]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Harris standing on a hill in Trail, British Columbia. Caption reads "Trail and CMS". The image was likely taken the summer after Harris' third year at University when he worked at Consolidated Minning and Smelting as a general labourer in the phosphate fertilizer plant. Slide used in personal presentation.

1937 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.7 · Item · 1937
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1938 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.8 · Item · 1938
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. The typewritten text of several resolutions passed by the lodge are also pasted inside the book. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1939 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.9 · Item · 1939
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. The typewritten text of several resolutions passed by the lodge are also pasted inside the book. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1940 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.10 · Item · 1940
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

Additionally enclosed is a small handwritten note, badly faded, relating to the Aug. 15th meeting.

1941 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.11 · Item · 1941
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1942 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.12 · Item · 1942
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1943 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.1 · Item · 1943
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1944 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.13 · Item · 1944
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

1945-1946 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.14 · Item · 1945-1946
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. Addtionally attached is a postcard from W. E. Jones, General Secretary and Treasurer, acknowledging the reciept of the lodge's 1944 annual reciept. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during 1945, with the names of lodge officers being listed. The pages near the end of the book feature a handwritten membership list for the lodge.

Co-60 Gamma Ray
Item · 1950s
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Co-60 gamma ray unit used in cobalt therapy, the use of gamma rays to treat medical issues such as tumors. The Physical Science Centre had a special "cave" built out under the basement with a Co-60 gamma ray unit for the initiation of radio chemical reactions. Slide found in box labeled AECL for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Slide likely used in lecture or public talk.

National Research Universal
Item · 1950s
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

National Research Universal, Atomic Energy of Canada United in Chalk River, Ontario. Harris spent one summer in Chalk River with R Betts on the isotopic separation of sodium-22 and sodium -24. Slide found in box labeled AECL for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, likely used in lecture or public talk.

Item · 1950s
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

National Research Universal reactor Atomic Energy of Canada United in Chalk River, Ontario. Harris spent one summer in Chalk River with R Betts on the isotopic separation of sodium-22 and sodium -24. Slide found in box labeled AECL for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited likely used in lecture or public talk.

1952-1953 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.20 · Item · 1952-1953
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book; additional notes are enclosed on loose yellow pages. One ballot for local lodge office elections is also included. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the period, with the names of lodge officers being listed.

1953-1954 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.21 · Item · 1953-1954
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. The blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the period, with the names of lodge officers being listed.

1955 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.3 · Item · 1955
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are glued onto unused pages in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings during the year, with the names of lodge officers being listed.

Additionally enclosed is a postcard, from Ray Scott, General Secretary & Treaurer, signalling reciept of the lodge's annual report for 1954.

1956 Meeting Minutes
PE001336.4 · Item · 1956
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Handwritten meeting minutes for the Northern Lights Lodge, No. 127, for the entire year. Notes are accompanied by attendence lists for meetings, which are stapled onto unused pages in the book. Additionally, the blue-colored pages at the front of the book record the officer's roll-call for meetings until March, with the names of lodge officers being listed.

Cold Rooms
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Two cold rooms one for storing volatile and unstable chemicals and the other is equipped as a laboratory.

Main Supply Room
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Main supply room for the storage and retrieval of chemicals, glassware and other equipment needed for teaching and research. The supply room was located in the basement of the Physical Science Centre.

Item · 1961
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Harris leaning on his Pontiac car, with his friends taking pictures at a mountain viewpoint. Image found inside card from Audrey and Willard F Allen. Willard Allen was a friend and fellow chemistry teacher at the University of Alberta.

Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Photograph taken in the Inorganic and Analytical Research Laboratory. Image focuses on the Leeds & Northrup Electro Chemograph Type E with a built in Speedomax Recorder designed for polarography analysis. Machine commonly used in the study of kinetics and mechanism of inorganic reactions. Image also appears in "New Physical Sciences Centre" booklet advertising the newly built facility.

Glass Blowing Shop
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Two technicians working on glass lathes in the Glass Blowing Shop. This room was used for the building and design of new glass equipment for research. The shop was located in the basement of the physics-mathematics wing.

Physical Science Center
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Physical Science Center at the University of Alberta built to house three departments of Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. The building officially opened May 24, 1961 and was designed by the Department of Public Works.

Physical Sciences Auditorium
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Physical Sciences Auditorium with 400 sloping seats full of students. The auditorium was housed in a seperate wing to the North of the Mathematics-Physics building and was used for large lecture classes, special lectures and public meetings. A projection booth is also located at the back of the room.

Undergraduate Laboratory
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Undergraduate laboratory with private working areas for up to twenty students. The side benches and cabinets display equiptment and materials in general use.

Physics Machine Shop
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Physics machine shop with wood and metal-working equipment to create materials for research and undergraduate laboratories. The machine shop was located in the basement of the physics-mathematics wing.

Item · 1961
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Harris and friends standing in front of a lake in the Rockies. Image found inside card from Audrey and Willard F Allen. Willard Allen was a friend and fellow chemistry teacher at the University of Alberta.

Staff Office Laboratory
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Staff office laboratory in the Physical Science Center, with a Fisher zone refiner in the center of the image. Each staff room was accompanied by a private laboratory.

Machine Shop
Item · [1961]
Part of Walter Edgar Harris fonds

Three Machinists operating tools in the machine shop. The shop was complete with wood and metal-working equipment to create materials for research and undergraduate laboratories. Included in the photograph is a lathes, jig saw, sheet metal bender, grinder, two drill presses, and a welding area. The machine shop was located in the basement of the physics-mathematics wing.