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Celebrating incorporation of Alberta as a province, Edmonton

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Photograph depicts large crowds and several individuals on a raised stage, during celebrations in Edmonton marking the incorporation of Alberta as a Canadian province, September 1, 1905.

Date Range: 1905

Reference Code: LUX / II / F2 / PC - 12

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Framed print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / F : Collected material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / II / F2 : Photographs

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / F2 / PC - 12

GMD: Photograph; Framed print

Date Range: 1905

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w framed print ; 33 x 28 cm

Scope & Content: Photograph depicts large crowds and several individuals on a raised stage, during celebrations in Edmonton marking the incorporation of Alberta as a Canadian province, September 1, 1905.

Material Details: Photograph is in dark brown wooden frame with brown paper backing and metal hanging wire attached to back.

Subject Access: History; Government; Events; Public events

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Edmonton

Language: English

Category: Government

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Portrait, unidentified young woman

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Framed photograph depicts portrait of an unidentified woman in a ruffled dress.

Date Range: [ca.1902-1911]

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PC - 90

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Framed print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / III / D : Other material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PC - 90

GMD: Photograph; Framed print

Responsibility: Photograph produced by E.B. Curlette of Calgary

Date Range: [ca.1902-1911]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w framed print ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope & Content: Framed photograph depicts portrait of an unidentified woman in a ruffled dress.

Material Details: Dark wooden frame with gold-painted border on front (geometric and leaf design), glass front and plain paper back

Subject Access: Family and personal life; Portrait

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Calgary

Language: N/A

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Nicholas Morant Order of Canada, Framed

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: Framed award, Order of Canada, given to Nicholas Morant in 1990; black and red text with printed emblem near top, in simple black / gold frame.

Date Range: 1990

Reference Code: M300 / II / C / 6 / 69 O.S.

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Government record; Textual record

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M300 / V500 / S20

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: M300 / II / C / 6 : Promotional Items, Awards and Correspondence

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: M300 / II / C / 6 / 69 O.S.

GMD: Government record; Textual record

Responsibility: Nicholas Morant

Date Range: 1990

Physical Description: 1 Framed Award: textual, Order of Canada

Scope & Content: Framed award, Order of Canada, given to Nicholas Morant in 1990; black and red text with printed emblem near top, in simple black / gold frame.

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas

Subject Access: Award; Order of Canada; Government of Canada

Geographic Access: Canada

Reproduction Restrictions: This item is not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of its identified owner(s).

Language: English; French

Creator: Government of Canada

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Canadian Rockies Scrapbook

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Part Of: Ford Family fonds

Scope & Content: Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for…

Date Range: 1908-2003

Reference Code: M583 / 01

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Scrapbook; Private record

Part Of: Ford Family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M583 / V274

Sous-Fonds: M583

Accession Number: 2021.16

Reference Code: M583 / 01

GMD: Scrapbook; Private record

Date Range: 1908-2003

Physical Description: 4 cm of textual records (1 volumes ; 24.5 x 29.3 cm)

History / Biographical: Nancy (Ford) Dart, daughter of Minneapolis businessman Allyn K. Ford, became a member of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1953. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Scope & Content: Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for Jasper and the Jasper Park Lodge from ca. 1954. Tucked into a pouch inside the front cover are two letters addressed to Nancy Dart in 2003 regarding her 50th anniversary as a member of the ACC, four ACC annual newsletter booklets from 1922, 1923, and 1925, and an envelope addressed to Nancy Ford (Dart) containing paperwork pertaining to her admission to the ACC in 1953. Items throughout the scrapbook are either tucked into the plastic sleeves or dispersed throughout the pages. Contents include annual ACC camp brochures (one from 1908, others from the 1940s and 50s), letters (one addressed to Geoffrey Howard from Allyn K. Ford, in 1941 and another addressed to Mr. Ford, probably Allyn Ford, in 1953), photographs/postcards taped to a page divider, seven dinner lists from 1953 for the Jasper Park Lodge (all dated Friday, July 10 but each has a different header picture), a booklet from the third annual ACC membership dinner, a brochure for the 1941 annual American Alpine Club meeting and dinner, three tourism magazines for Jasper from the Canadian National Railway, one trail map of Jasper and one of Banff, an ACC newsletter and brochure for the Mountain Leadership Conference from 1989, a typed copy of a short story "A Journey with the Men of Alps" held together with a small pin (possibly a dramatic retelling of Allyn Ford's first trip to the Rockies), two ACC crossword puzzels (one partially completed), and a notice from the American Alpine Club pertaining to America's involvement in World War II from 1941. Tucked inside the back cover is a red paper envelope containing two photographs (possibly printed off the computer) of A.O. Wheeler from the 1923 ACC camp in Larch Valley.