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Bo Holroyd fonds
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- Part Of
- Bo Holroyd fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of Bo Holroyd warden journals for 1920 to 1947 (1928 journal missing). Journals present a personal record of work activities as Park Warden and Supervising Warden of Waterton Lakes National Park. Details pertain to patrols, horses, fire control, trail building and maintenance, searc…
- Date Range
- 1920-1927, 1929-1947
- Reference Code
- M495
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Part Of
- Bo Holroyd fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 495
- Sous-Fonds
- M 495
- Accession Number
- 4011
- Reference Code
- M495
- Date Range
- 1920-1927, 1929-1947
- Physical Description
- 27 v. of textual records
- History / Biographical
- John Charles (Bo) Holroyd, 1889-1974, was a national park warden and rancher at Waterton Lakes National Park and Twin Butte, Alberta, Canada. Born and raised in Prince Edward Island, Holroyd moved to Pincher Creek, Alberta in 1907. In 1920, following careers in ranching near Pincher Creek and soldiering in France and Belgium, he was appointed to the civil service as a Park warden. He began his twenty-seven year warden career in District #3, Pass Creek, Waterton Lakes National Park. In 1933 he became Supervising Warden of the park and moved to Lower Waterton Lake. He managed the Warden Service in Waterton until his retirement in 1947. For a further twenty-seven years, Holroyd raised livestock.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of Bo Holroyd warden journals for 1920 to 1947 (1928 journal missing). Journals present a personal record of work activities as Park Warden and Supervising Warden of Waterton Lakes National Park. Details pertain to patrols, horses, fire control, trail building and maintenance, search and rescue, fish and wildlife duties, law enforcement, supervision, administration, etc. They contain particularly valuable observations on ungulate populations, wildlife management, game, warden service duties and programs and human activity in the park.
- Notes
- Bo Holroyd warden journals are the subject of report : The Holroyd journals : chronicles of a park warden, 1919-1947 / Doug Eastcott (Parks Canada, Western Region, Calgary, Alberta, 1977)
- Name Access
- Holroyd, J. C. (Bo)
- Subject Access
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Government
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: series description
- file list
- Creator
- Holroyd, J. C. (Bo)
- Biographical Source Notes
- J. C. (Jack) Holroyd
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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