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Southern Alberta research project

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55619

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materia…

Date Range: [ca.1845-1920]

Reference Code: LUX / II / C6

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

GMD: Cabinet card; Diary; Organization record; Photograph; Postcard; Print; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook; Textual record; Tintype

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / C : Personal records

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

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / C6

GMD: Cabinet card; Diary; Organization record; Photograph; Postcard; Print; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook; Textual record; Tintype

Date Range: [ca.1845-1920]

Physical Description: 29 cm of textual records -- 29 photographs (28 b&w prints, 1 tintype) ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materials in sub-series believed to have been collected by Eleanor Luxton, possibly on behalf of the Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association or as part of Eleanor's personal research.

Subject Access: Activities; Agriculture; Animals; Buildings; Businesses; Community life; Commerce and industry; Communications; Correspondence; Environment; Family and personal life; Farmland; Finances; Genealogy; History; Homestead; Immigration and homesteading; Inventory; Land use; Land, settlement and immigration; Manufacturing; Municipal views; Oil; Postcards; Portrait; Property; Real estate business; Research; Settlement

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta

Reproduction Restrictions: Some restrictions may apply - fragile materials

Language: English

Category: Commerce and industry; Communications; Family and personal life; Environment; Land, settlement and immigration; Natural resources

Title Source: Title based on contents of sub-series

Processing Status: Processed

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Day journal, 1893-1898

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one journal containing sporadic daily accounts of personal events, field work and other farm labour in Alberta[?] between 1893 and 1898; author unknown.

Date Range: 1893-1898

Reference Code: LUX / II / C6 / 4

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / C : Personal

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

Sub-Series: LUX / II / C6 : Southern Alberta research project

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / C6 / 4

GMD: Textual record

Date Range: 1893-1898

Physical Description: 1.5 cm of textual records (1 volume : 136 pages ; 22 x 33 cm)

Scope & Content: File consists of one journal containing sporadic daily accounts of personal events, field work and other farm labour in Alberta[?] between 1893 and 1898; author unknown.

Subject Access: Agriculture; Farmland; Land use; Labour; Family and personal life

Language: English

Category: Family and personal life; Labour; Land, settlement and immigration

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Canadian news publications

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 3 full copies of Canadian news publications including The Dominion Illustrated, Montreal Star, and The Montreal Herald, as well as one torn section from a 1937 edition of the Edmonton Bulletin newspaper. Content pertains to business development, agriculture, trade and local history…

Date Range: 1890; 1901; 1927; 1937

Reference Code: LUX / II / F1 / 41 to 44

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Published record

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / F : Collected material

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

Sub-Series: LUX / II / F1 : Textual

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / F1 / 41 to 44

GMD: Textual record; Published record

Date Range: 1890; 1901; 1927; 1937

Physical Description: 1.5 cm of textual records (4 volumes ; 28.5 x 41 cm or smaller)

Scope & Content: File consists of 3 full copies of Canadian news publications including The Dominion Illustrated, Montreal Star, and The Montreal Herald, as well as one torn section from a 1937 edition of the Edmonton Bulletin newspaper. Content pertains to business development, agriculture, trade and local history in Calgary; a Royal Visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Canada in 1901; Canadian trade, industry and tourism; and political tension between Russia and Japan prior to World War II.

Subject Access: Advertising; Agriculture; Businesses; Commerce; Environment; Finances; Indigenous Peoples; Land, settlement and immigration; Manufacturing; Military; National parks and reserves; Natural resources; Politics; Geography; History; Industry; Government; Royal Visit; Royal tours; Royalty; Sports and recreation; Tourism; Travel; War

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Calgary; Edmonton; Quebec; Montreal; Russia; Japan

Language: English

Conservation: Edmonton Bulletin newspaper has been placed in mylar; All items stored flat in oversize box to prevent further creasing and damage

Category: Commerce and industry; Exploration, discovery and travel; Land, settlement and immigration; Politics

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: Items are arranged chronologically in file box: LUX / II / F1 / 41 : "The Dominion Illustrated" [1890] LUX / II / F1 / 42 : "The Royal Visit to Canada 1901", Montreal Star LUX / II / F1 / 43 : "The National Number of the Montreal Herald" [1927] LUX / II / F1 / 44 : "Edmonton Bulletin" [1937]

Processing Status: Processed

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Imperial plots : women, land, and the spadework of British colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2016

Author: Carter, Sarah

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Call Number: 08.2 Ca24i

Author: Carter, Sarah

Responsibility: Sarah Carter

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: xxii, 455 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Women; Prairies, Canadian; Land use; Agriculture

Abstract: "Sarah Carter's "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, and challenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the "spade-work" of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its surplus women. Yet far into the twentieth century there was persistent opposition to the idea that women could or should farm: British women were to be exemplars of an idealized white femininity, not toiling in the fields. In Canada, heated debates about women farmers touched on issues of ethnicity, race, gender, class, and nation. Despite legal and cultural obstacles and discrimination, British women did acquire land as homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, and speculators on the Canadian prairies. They participated in the project of dispossessing Indigenous people. Their complicity was, however, ambiguous and restricted because they were excluded from the power and privileges of their male counterparts. Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains, to the land army women of the First World War."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Narrowing opportunities for women : from the indigenous farmers of the Great Plains to the exclusions of the homestead regime -- "Land owners and enterprising settlers in the colonies" : British women farmers for Canada -- Widows and other immigrant women homesteaders : struggles and strategies -- Women who bought land : the "bachelor girl" settler, "Jack" May, and other celebrity farmers and ranchers -- Answering the call of empire : Georgina Binnie-Clark, farmer, author, lecturer -- "Daughters of British blood" or "hordes of men of alien race"? : the homesteads-for-British-women campaign -- The persistence of a "curiously strong prejudice" : from the First World War to the Great Depression.

ISBN: 978-0-88755-818-4 pbk

Accession Number: p2019-04

Call Number: 08.2 Ca24i

Collection: Archives Library

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Travels and tales of Miriam Green Ellis : pioneer journalist of the Canadian West

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2013

Author: Ellis, Miriam Green

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press

Call Number: P E65

Author: Ellis, Miriam Green

Responsibility: edited by Patricia Demers

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: lxxiii, 215 p. : ill., maps, ports.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Journalism; Prairies, Canadian; Agriculture; Canadian Women's Press Club; Biography

ISBN: 9780888646262

Accession Number: AC618

Call Number: P E65

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Eagle Valley - our legacy

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: May 2018

Author: Macklin, Anne; McCullough, Douglas; Henry, Lynne; Souster, Bill; Greif, Frank

Publisher: Cochrane, AB : Satellite Printing Ltd.

Call Number: 08.2 E1e

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Author: Macklin, Anne; McCullough, Douglas; Henry, Lynne; Souster, Bill; Greif, Frank

Responsibility: The Eagle Valley Working Group; Anne Macklin; Douglas McCullough; Lynne Henry; Bill Souster; Frank Greif

Publisher: Cochrane, AB : Satellite Printing Ltd.

Published Date: May 2018

Physical Description: 7 sections ; illustrations (some colour), colour maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Research; Alberta; Development; Maps; Soil; History; History of Alberta; Agriculture

Abstract: In August 2016, a group of about 40 residents as well as a couple of county councillors met at the Eagle Valley Community Hall to discuss the process of creating a new area structure plan under the oversight of a steering committee. The result of that meeting was a consensus to create a working group to provide the county with input as well as to help officials “understand who we are as a community, the commitment that we have to the land we live on, and our heritage, cultural and social resources that are in the community,”.Five volunteers — Anne Macklin, Lynne Henry, Douglas McCullough, Bill Souster and Greif — formed the Eagle Valley Working Group, which is not affiliated with any recognized societies already in the region. Over the following six months, a questionnaire was formulated to glean information from the community’s residents. A summary of the survey’s results was then discussed during a meeting held at the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group’s office this past January. When the process started, a number of important stakeholders in terms of working relationships were identified, such as the oil and gas industry, social services including Greenwood Neighbourhood Place as well as the Town of Sundre. So following January’s meeting, the working group was tasked with preparing the legacy document. Included within its pages is information about Eagle Valley’s climate, oil and gas sector, geology, as well as infrastructure issues such as roads, wastewater, water, parks and recreation. A copy of the book, is available for sale at the Sundre Municipal Library. (Summarized from Mountainview Today article - website)

Contents: Reader's guide; Introduction and background; Pride of ownership; Sense of values; Environmental harmony; Stewardship of resources; Property protection and personal security; Legislative and management framework; Appendices