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Activities and Employment

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Part Of
Bert Riggall fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of 28 b&w negatives. The negatives pertain to activities of the Riggall family, and Bert and Dora's employment .
Date Range
[ca.1904 to ca.1959]
Reference Code
V26 / VII / A4 / NA - 1 to 28
Description Level
5 / File
Part Of
Bert Riggall fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Series
VII. Familial and Personal Series: Activities and Employment
Reference Code
V26 / VII / A4 / NA - 1 to 28
Date Range
[ca.1904 to ca.1959]
Physical Description
Negatives: 28 b&w
Scope & Content
File consists of 28 b&w negatives. The negatives pertain to activities of the Riggall family, and Bert and Dora's employment .
Subject Access
Employment
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Content Details
The negatives in this file are not individually numbered. Storage Location: V26 / III / B19 / NA - 40 to V26 / VIII / E / NA - 2
Processing Status
Processed
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Employment and Activities

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions23640
Part Of
Bert Riggall fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of 28 b&w, some captioned, some mounted. This file pertains to important historic firsts in the Waterton area and Riggall's early employment and activities. The prints document various views of Gloyne's Oil camp (first oil well site in southern B.C) and Riggall constructing homemade b…
Date Range
1907 to 1910
Reference Code
V26 / VII / A4 / PA - 18 to 45
Description Level
5 / File
Part Of
Bert Riggall fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Series
VII. Familial and Personal Series: Activities and Employment
Reference Code
V26 / VII / A4 / PA - 18 to 45
Date Range
1907 to 1910
Physical Description
Photographs: 28 prints, b&w
Scope & Content
File consists of 28 b&w, some captioned, some mounted. This file pertains to important historic firsts in the Waterton area and Riggall's early employment and activities. The prints document various views of Gloyne's Oil camp (first oil well site in southern B.C) and Riggall constructing homemade boats (first commercial boats on Waterton Lakes) with friend and future business partner J.C. Watmough.
Subject Access
Boat building, employment, Oil exploration
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Content Details
PA - 18 to 35 Pertain to Gloyne's Oil Camp
PA - 36 to 45 Pertain to boat building at Waterton
Riggall's Grandson John Russell provided an idendification on a photograph as follows:
PA - 32 According to F.H.R's short autobiography of his early years in Canada, this camp was closed down at the time of the photo.
Processing Status
Processed
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This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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