The glass plate slides, also known as lantern slides, were used by the Faculty of Extension, the Department of Entomology, and E.H Strickland for lecture purposes. The 121 slides feature photographs and illustrations of beetles, ants, flies, and many other insect specimens, as well as charts, graphs, and material from textbooks, research, and field work.
Zonder titelAccession consists of four photographs of the University of Alberta Hospital. Two of the photographs illustrate the construction of the new addition to the U of A Hospital.
Accession consists of a booklet from the Intrafraternity Council titled "Fraternities at the U of A" and photographs of University of Alberta residences, including Rutherford House with a Delta Upsilon symbol, Pembina Hall, Athabaska Hall, and Assiniboia Hall.
Correspondence, memorandum, pamphlettes, submissions, notices, press releases, reports, bar review articles, and newspaper clippings regarding the Canadian Bar Association, women in legal professions, violence against women, women's rights, aboriginal rights, Senate reform, and human rights.
Accession consists of 2 VHS tapes pertaining to Mrs. Oodle Noodle and Noodle Doodle Box School Show.
Photograph depicts a small waterfall (Ekaluk Cascade) on the Takuirbing River just before the stream enters the eastern end of Nettilling Lake. Soper spent five months in the Nettilling Lake area, surveying its topography, mapping the lake and surrounding terrain, and collecting animal and plant specimens for the Victoria Memorial (later National) Museum of Ottawa.
House of Lords research materials on divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.
Photograph depicts Fort Garry. In the foreground is the bank of the Assiniboine River with York boats pulled up from the river. Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Hind's 1858 expedition to the North West Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.
Photograph depicts St. John's Church, Red River. Wooden buttresses on the side indicate structural problems that caused the church to be rebuilt shortly after photograph was taken. Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Y. Hind's 1858 expedition to the Northwest Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts McDermot's Store near the Red River, Winnipeg. McDermid was described as the first free trader in Winnipeg.Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Hind's 1858 expedition to the Northwest Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a view of St. Boniface Cathedral. Taken during S.J. Dawson and H. Hind's 1858 expedition to the North West Territories to study the West's resource potential for United Canada's annexation. The expedition was sponsored jointly by the British Colonial Office and the legislature of United Canada.
Photograph depicts Winnipeg street scene. View is the west side of Main Street from the south side of First Street south of Portage Avenue. Office for Duffin and Company, Photographers in the foreground.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts Fort Garry.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a sketch of Fort Carlton. It was established in 1810 as a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade and provision post. Eleven years after the 1874 Mounties arrived it was burned during the North-West Rebellion.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts Little Fox, Cree Chief.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts unidentified Aboriginal people making a birch bark canoe.
Photograph depicts unidentified prairie settlers sitting in front of log house.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts bull train getting ready to transport supplies from Fort Benton; the Missouri River is in the background. Ox teams' destination likely Fort Walsh or Fort Mcleod in the North West Territories.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts Councillors of the Provisional Government of the Metis Nation.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts the first land office in Winnipeg. Opened in 1873 it was known as the "best house" in Winnipeg. Constructed of squared logs with clap board covering. The men in the photo were Land Department employees. The Land Department was located on the first story and the surveyor's offices were on the second story. The stack of bricks in the foreground served as a vault.
Zonder titelPhotogarph depicts a portrait of Louis Riel. This portrait was made in a studio in Ottawa after Riel's election as Member of Parliament for the riding of Provencher, Manitoba, 1873.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts J.L. Reid, Dominion Land Surveryor, arriving in Winnipeg.
Photograph depicts a portion of Main Street, Winnipgeg. H.D. Lumsden commented on photo as follows: "The label on the photograph is Gary Street, May 1873, but it is not Garry Street, it is a portion of what is now Main Street, Winnipeg at that date."
Zonder titelStereocard depicts a church in St. Boniface, undentified buildings in background.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts an ox-cart in Winnipeg. Pearce described the photograph as "a fair representation of a oxen and cart in the early seventies."
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts settler's house opposite the head of St. Andrew's Rapids.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts officers quarters' at Lower Fort Garry.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts Main Street, Winnipeg. H.D. Lumsden describes the photo as follows: " at the angle where Brown's Coulee was. The building at the left with the porch is the City Hall of Winnipeg. The view is looking North. This building had to be torn down owing to weakening of its foundations. The City decided it could fill in the coulee where the bridge stood, but unfortunately did not leave an aperture of sufficient size to allow the necessary discharge of water during the very wet season of June 1877."
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a street scene in Winnipeg. The building in the right foreground, "Archibald Wright," is now the Union Bank. The view is looking south with the bend in the distance indicating Portage Avenue.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a Winnipeg street scene. On the left is James H. Ashdown's store and wholesale hardware warehouse built between 1878-1879. .
Zonder titelPhoto depicts two York boats with crews on the Slave River.
Photograph depicts lower Fort Garry, popluarly known as "The Stone Fort," built in 1831 by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts freighter originally known as the "Chief Commissioner" on the banks of the Red River seven miles below Ft. Garry. The first steamboat built to navigate the Lower Red River and a portion of Lake Winnipeg.
Zonder titelDenis assures Pearce that the Board of Examiners of Surveyors will meet with quorum in Winnipeg to approve his bona fide surveyor's certification.
Zonder titelPhoto depicts small boat at Fort Simpson, N.W.T. coming back from a goose hunt.
Photo depicts small boat at Fort Simpson, N.W.T. coming back from a goose hunt.
Photo depicts the "Wrigley" No. 1 in winter quarters.
Photograph depicts town of St. Boniface from the west side of the Red River.
Zonder titelPhoto depicts the "S.S. Wrigley"
Photo depicts the "Wrigley" No. 1 in winter quarters.
Photo depicts the "S.S. Wrigley"
Photograph depicts Nick Sharon, proprietor and developer, standing in front of the entrance to his mine; described by H.D. Lumsden as the first mine in Alberta.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts the North West Mounted Police post at Calgary with the Bow River running alongside.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a view of Fort Walsh and the future location of Medecine Hat prior to the construction of the railway. An 'X' has been placed to indicate the future location of the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge on the South Saskatechewan river.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts Big Bear's camp at Maple Creek.
Zonder titelPhoto depicts The Baroness on the South Saskatchewan River in Medicine Hat. The boat was built to haul coal between Medicine Hat and the Coal Banks, now Lethbridge.
Photograph depicts Fort Walsh. Built by the North West Mounted Police in 1875 as part of the Dominion of Canada's program to establish sovereignty in the North West Territories. With the coming of the railway, the signing of treaties and the return of the Lakota to the United States, Fort Walsh was dismantled in 1883.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a scene at the future location of Medicine Hat; probably taken in the winter of 1882-1883; the C.P.R. did not reach this point until June 1883.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts ferry crossing Belly River on the trail between Lethbridge and Macleod, Alberta. The building across the river forms part of the Sharon Mine.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a workers' camp on the construction site of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
Zonder titelUnkown water delivery man with ox-cart. Demonstration of Winnipeg waterworks up to the time of the installation of the water line from the Assiniboine River. Later, the water source was Artesian wells installed in Winnipeg about 1883.
Zonder titelPhoto depicts a mill located on Mill Creek, a branch of Old Man River. Acquired from D.B. Dowling, representing the Geological Survey, Department of Mines. Sawmill erected and operated by Senator Maclaren. This was the first sawmill constructed and operated in Southern Alberta.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a view of Fort Walsh, future location of Medicine Hat, showing an ice flow caused by a Chinook during the winter of 1882-83.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a view of a mine opening just south of Stair Station of the Canadian Pacific Railway on the south bank of the Saskatchewan River. This mine commenced to ship coal in September 1883. The output was shipped to Winnipeg, but proved a loss owing to deterioration in quality.
Zonder titelGeological Survey photo. This mine opened just south of Stair Station on the CPR line near the south bank of the Saskatchewan River. The mine began shipping coal in 1883 to Winnipeg. This venture proved a loss due to poor quality. Pearce acquired this photograph to illustrate his "Historical Narrative" of development of the Canadian West. He collected photos as he wrote his narrative between 1917 and 1928.
Zonder titelThe series consists of six leatherbound books. Each letterbook numbers over 600 pages of handwritten correspondence. Correspondence represents copies of incoming and outgoing commmunication relating predomiantly to Pearce's professional work as a surveyor for the Department of the Interior. The hand copied letters are in chronological order and each letterbook has a subject index.
The series title is based on the contents of records.
Unidenitified Aboriginal people near Maple Creek.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts Upper Fort Garry, showing the Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest bastions. The Assiniboine River would be just behind the photographer in foreground.
Zonder titelLower Fort Garry was generally known as Stone Fort on account of the stone walls put up by a detachment of soldiers from an English regiment (Regulars) who came out to the Red River in the 1850s.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts driving the last spike of the C.P.R.'s transcontinental railroad. Noted from left to right: M.J. Haney, D.McGillivray, Sir W. VanHorne, Sir Sanford Fleming, E. Mallandaine, Donald A. Smith, J.H. McTavish, J.M. Egan, C. Todd, James Ross.Description of photo based on Pearce's notes. Correct identification in note field.
Photograph depicts the steamboat "International" at a landing on the Assiniboine River in the vicinity of the Hudson's Bay Fort Gary post. Fort Garry with palisade in the background; Hudson's Bay Company warehouse in the foreground.
Zonder titelRev. Pere Lacombe, standing far left; Big Bear standing in back; Colonel Sam Bedson -- Warden of the Penitentiary, wearing Bowler hat; Poundmaker, sitting in front of Big Bear; Rev. Pere Cloutier, Roman Catholic Priest working as "Acting Chaplain" at the penitentirary, standing in robe at far right; bottom left -- Roman Catholic Priest at penitentiary. Photo taken in front of visitor's entrance to the Warden's quarter's at the penitentiary.
Transcripts from House of Commons debate regarding electoral franchise and woman's suffrage.
Photograph depicts aboriginal people sitting in front of a tipi.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts man with dog team in Winnipeg.H.D. Lumsden described this photo for his narrative as "a fair representation of a dog train and a man riding in an imporvised carry-all. Ther are however, only three dogs in this train, generally the regular train was composed of four."
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts St. Andrew's Church on the Red River. H.D. Lumsden described the photo as "a very good representation of St. Andrews Church of England on the Red River about 10 miles below Winnipeg at St. Andrew's Rapids. It was in its time the largest Church on the Red River."
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts the first Church of England in Winnipeg. The original portion right wing of the building. This section was adjoining Portage Avenue and just to the east of what is now Garry Street, Winnipeg to the south of Portage Avenue. The left portion of the Church was an 1874 addition. The Aboriginal people in the foreground and the parishioners near
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Photograph depicts Fort Pitt looking from the hillside to the northwest. The Fort was burned down in the North-West Rebellion in 1885.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts Edmonton with the North Saskatchewan on the left; perspective is looking west; Hudson's Bay Company post is in the centre of photograph.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts bastions at Rocky Mountain House, North Saskatchewan river in the foreground. Fortifications no longer in existence.
Zonder titelPhoto depicts the "Wrigley" No. 1, the first steamer on the Mackenzie River, built by Captain J. Smith. Captain Bell, John Reid, Pere Keranguy [SP?] and pilot Joseph Savoyard on deck. Taken near Fort Providence about September 1887.
Photo depicts the "Wrigley" No. 1, the first steamer on the Mackenzie River, built by Captain J. Smith. Captain Bell, John Reid, Pere Keranguy [SP?] and pilot Joseph Savoyard on deck. Taken near Fort Providence about September 1887.
Photograph depicts "Old Fort Whoop-Up," officially known as Fort Hamilton lying between the junciton of the St. Mary's and the then Belly River, now the Old Man. Headquarters of the free whisky traders erected in 1868. Practically an outpost of the I. G. Baker Co. since this firm furnished supplies from Fort Benton to establish post along the Old Forts Trail; later occupied by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
Zonder titelSteele thanks Pearce for his valued correspondence
Zonder titelMemorandum Pearce wrote concerning the progress and problems surveyors experienced in implementing the survey program of the Department of the Interior
Zonder titelHelen Unwin requests Pearce intervene with the NWMP for an unpaid bill.
Zonder titelMiss Unwin sends Pearce an unpaid bill Capt. Deane owes to the Ladies Work Reformatory for the purchase of 220 lbs. Of of marmalade.
Zonder titelSteele tells Pearce he is not in contact with Captain Deane and will therefore find it difficult to get payment to the Ladies Work Depository for the cost of marmalade purchased for the NorthWest Mounted Police detachment in Lethbridge, Alberta
Zonder titelItemized invoice for the cost of 200 pounds of maralade sold to Captain Deane representing the Northwest Mounted Police base in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Zonder titelPearce informs Miss Unwin that he has contatected Capt. Deane, concerning money he owes and assures her Capt. Deane will soon pay.
Zonder titelAccession consists of medical notebooks by Arthur S. Smith, Professor A. Simard, William A. Polson, Professor Littlejohn, Professor McLagan, and Professor Cathcart.
Photo depicts unidentified prospector north of Edmonton washing gravel in search of gold
Zonder titelPearce writes to Steele requesting him to resolve the Ladies Work Depository's request for payment of bill for supplying 200lbs of marmalade to the NorthWest Mounted Police detachment in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Zonder titelPhoto depicts York boat with sail and crew.
Photo depicts Julian (left) and Seton Mills as young children in paper frame marked "Julian's first work."
Photograph depicts Hudson's Bay Factor's residence in Edmonton, popularly known as the Big House. The individuals in the photograph are from the left: Reverend John McGougall, J.R. Michael, W.E. Trail, Senator Hardisty, W. Leslie Woods, Harry Grahme, W. Pearce, Chief Factor James Macdougall.
Photograph taken from the attic or roof of Bow Bend Shack at 2014-17th Avenue East. The camera was pointing in a south-easterly direction. The river in the background is the Bow. The house depicted is on the south side of 17th Avenue. In the foreground is the southerly edge of the Pearce property.
Photograph depicts unidentified traders arriving in Prince Albert with their furs.
Photograph depicts a sketch of Norway House from across Lake Winnipeg.
Photograph depicts the "Saskatchewan" a Hudson's Bay Company Steamer on the North Saskatchewan River opposite Prince Albert.
Photograph depicts Aboriginal Tipi in winter in the Qu'appelle Valley.
Photograph depicts Aboriginal Tipi in winter in the Qu'appelle Valley.
Photograph depicts unidentified boy standing in front of a long stack of buffalo bones.The bones were collected immediately prior to the construction of the railway lines: Qu'appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan which were opened as far as this point in 1890. It is probably the largest collection of buffalo bones ever accumulated. Native groups had been gathering them for two seasons since it was known the Canadian Pacific Railway would be constructed at this point.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a dog train beside a brick building.
Photo depicts a York boat lining up Grand Rapids.
Photo depicts Julian A. Mills as a young child sleeping on floor amid toys. Caption reads "Having a snooze."
Photograph depicts unidentified boy standing in front of a long stack of buffalo bones.The bones were collected immediately prior to the construction of the Railway lines: Qu'appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan which were opened as far as this point in 1890. It is probably the largest collection of buffalo bones ever accumulated. Various groups had been gathering them for two seasons since it was known the CPR would be constructed at this point.
Zonder titelPearce obtained Lumsden's photo from James White of the Commission of Conservation. The bones were collected immediately prior to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is probably the largest collection of buffalo bones ever accumulated. Native groups had been gathering them for two seasons since it was known the CPR would be constructed at this point.
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