Topical research files, set 1
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists mainly of biographical research files containing notes, transcripts and writing re individuals and families in the High River area and other ranching communities of southern Alberta
- Date Range
- [1956-1961]
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / B4 - 1 to 22
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Series
- II.B.4. Professional : historical research
- Sous-Fonds
- II. Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / B4 - 1 to 22
- Responsibility
- Files were created as part of Glenbow-Alberta Institute research projects, 1956-1961
- Date Range
- [1956-1961]
- Physical Description
- 24 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists mainly of biographical research files containing notes, transcripts and writing re individuals and families in the High River area and other ranching communities of southern Alberta
- Access Restrictions
- Reproduction may be restricted due to conservation concerns
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Content Details
- LIST OF FILES (LUX / II / B4 - 1 to 22) :
- B4 - 1
- * Earl Adsit : 1 item
- * James Aird : 1 item
- * Alexanders of Two Dot : empty
- * W. H. Allan : 1 item, re 50th wedding anniversary
- * John Allan : 1 item; Staff Sergeant John Allan, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- * Bill Alley : 1 item
- * Thomas Andrews : 1 item, re Thomas and Flora Andrews
- * Sam P. Armstrong : 1 item; Regimental Tailor, Sergeant, North West Mounted Police
- * Henry Arnett : 1 item
- * William E de Chautiers Austin : 1 item; William Edmund de Chautiere Austin
- * Harry Baines : 5 items, re Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hewitt Baines
- * Thomas Baird : empty
- * William Baird : 2 items, also includes Miss Pearl Baird
- * I. G. Baker : 1 item, re daughter Frances Baker born in Fort Benton, Montana 1867
- * A. A. Ballachey : 1 item; Alec Addington Ballachey
- * Albert Edward Banister : 3 items, re Albert Edward and Helen Mary Banister
- * Harold Banister : 2 items
- * John J. Barter : empty
- * Frank Bedingfeld & mother : 1 item
- * Dr. Bedingfield : 1 item; Dr. Howard Ernest Bedingfield. Also includes Dr. John Smith Stewart, dentists
- * Mrs. M. Begg : empty
- * Robert A. Begg : 4 items, re Bob and Alex Begg
- * Andrew Bell : 1 item, re Andy Bell
- * Billy Bews : 1 item
- * James G. Bews : 6 items, re Sullivan Creek Ranch. One item is notes on Jim Bews and Sullivan Ranch in Lenore Bews Grade 6 school notebook
- * Big Rock School : empty
- B4 - 2
- * Dave Blacklock : 1 item
- * Alec S. Blackwood : 2 items, re Mr. and Mrs. Alec S. Blackwood
- * Jack & George Blake : 6 items; John (Jack) S. Blake
- * George Blake NWMP : 1 item; Sergeant George (Kid) Blake, North West Mounted Police
- * Charlie Blazier : 1 item, re Charlie "The Wolfer" Blazier, antelope rancher
- * Bliss brothers : empty
- * Blunt & Holmes : 1 item, re Dave Blunt and "Bar D" Holmes
- * James N. Bond : 1 item
- * William M. Bond : 2 items, re Bond family
- * Tom Boulton : 3 items; Thomas Boulton
- * Jerry Boyce : 1 item
- * Levi Bradley : 2 items, re buffalo bone hunts, leather business
- * Harry Brayne : 3 items
- * Frank Brazil : empty
- * Menno, Harvey & Edgar Bricker : 5 items
- * Bridges, Albert : empty
- * Stephen Bridges : empty
- * Peter Briggs : empty
- * R. N. Broderick : 2 items; Richard N. Broderick
- * Edmund Forster Brown : 3 items, also includes Annora Brown
- * Jean Brown : empty
- * Jebb Brown : 1 item; Sergeant Jebb Brown, North West Mounted Police
- * Joseph Harrison Brown : 4 items, aka "Seven U" Brown
- B4 - 3
- * Sam Brown : 2 items (B4-3)
- * Sylvester J. Brown : 2 items; forest ranger
- * Dave Bryant : empty
- * Elizabeth J. Bryce : 1 item; Elizabeth Jane Bryce
- * Henry & Mary Anne Bryce : 2 items
- * William Bryce : 4 items, re Mr. and Mrs. William Bryce
- * George A. Burchet : 1 item; George Alfred Burchet
- * Edward Burke : 2 items, re Burke family
- * Patrick Burns : 1 item; Senator Patrick Burns
- * Mr. Butler : 1 item, re Mr. and Mrs. Butler
- * James Byron : empty
- * [Caldwell] : 1 item
- * Duncan Cameron : 1 item
- * John Cameron : empty
- * Kenneth Cameron : empty
- * John Carmichael : empty
- * H. Walter Carpenter : empty
- * James H. Carr : empty
- * Mrs. Carr : empty
- * Henry Carroll : 2 items
- * Mr. & Mrs. E. A. Cartwright : 3 items; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Aubrey Cartwright
- * Hugh Cayley : 1 item; Hugh Quentin Cayley
- B4 - 4
- * Charles Clark, Sr. : 3 items, re founder and editor of the High River Times
- * Louis B. Cochrane : 1 item
- * [Mr. Collier] : 1 item
- * F. N. Comstock : 2 items; Francis Norman Comstock
- * Joe Comstock : 1 item, re Comstock family, including Joe, Frank, Richard (Dick), Fred and Albert
- * William W. Conklin : 1 item; re William (Billy) Wallace Conklin
- * J. H. Connell : 2 items, re Mr. and Mrs. Joseph (Harry) Henry Connell
- * John Thomas Cooper : empty
- * William Cousins : 1 item
- * W. R. Cox : 1 item; And cattle died by the thousands : [excerpt from W. R. Cox' diary], 1889
- * Coyote Pete : 1 item, re catching coyotes
- * John Crawford : 1 item, re Jack Crawford
- * Finlay Creighton : 1 item, re Creighton family
- * A. E. Cross : 3 items, re Alfred Ernest Cross, Cross family, reminiscences of roundup 1887
- * Crowfoot : 1 item; Chief Crowfoot, Blackfoot Indian Chief
- * J. C. Cuffling : 1 item; John Coleman Cuffling
- * John Currie : 1 item, re John Currie family
- * [Robert Currie] : 1 item
- * William Cust : 1 item, re wheat farmers
- * E. A. Dagget : 1 item; Earnest Austin Daggett
- B4 - 5
- * Harold Daly : 2 items, re Harold Mayne Daly and life at the Bar-U Ranch in the 1890s
- * Peter John Danielson : 1 item
- * Harry Darrigan : 1 item
- * H. E. Denning : 2 items, re Harry Denning and family
- * Milton Doty : 1 item, re Milton Dody, adventurer
- * J. W. Douglas : 3 items, excerpts from J. W. Douglas' diary 1886
- * Charles L. Douglass : 1 item
- * L. A. Douglass : 1 item; Wagon Wheels a Squeaking / L. A. Douglass : [poem]
- * Dunbow : 3 items, re Dunbow School, St. Joseph's Indian Industrial School
- * Pat Eagen : 1 item; Sergeant Pat Egan, North West Mounted Police, horse thieves
- * James Eberly : 2 items, re Mr. and Mrs. James Eberly
- * Mrs. J. A. Eckersley : 1 item, re pioneer women, George "Joe" Eckersley, stone quarry owner and contractor
- * A. H. Eckford : 3 items; Herbert Eckford
- * Bob Edwards, The Eye Opener : 8 items; Robert Chambers Edwards
- * [Pat Egan] : 1 item; Detective Pat Egan: Bad medicine for horse thieves
- B4 - 6
- * John Eide : 1 item
- * Joseph Rushton Emery : 2 items
- * Fallow family history : 1 item; As I remember it / Myrtle Fallow Cuyler, 43p
- * Mr & Mrs Thomas Field : empty
- * Mary Jane Findlay : empty
- * Fisher : 1 item
- * Mr. E. Fisk : 1 item, re Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fisk
- * May Flanagan : 7 items, includes 4 photographs
- * Alexander Fleming : 2 items, re "Mutiny" Fleming, North West Mounted Police
- * Comtesse de Foras : 1 item; Father was Brazilian Ambassador to the Court of Belgium
- * Foreign reference : empty
- B4 - 7
- * E. Forrester diary : 1 item; January to December 1889, North West Mounted Police camp life, 39p
- * A. S. H. Fowler : 1 item, re road construction east of Banff
- * L. A. Fowler : 2 items
- * Johnny Franklin : 1 item, re famous horseman
- * A. H. Fraser : 1 item; A. H. Fraser, Surgeon-General
- * Duncan Grahame Fraser : 3 items; Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Grahame Fraser, a war story 1918
- * Emma L. Fraser : 1 item, re Emma Louise Fraser
- * Lafunette French : 2 items, re Lafayette French, prospector for the Lemon Mine
- * A. Gardner : 1 item
- * W. C. Gardner : 5 items; William C. Gardner
- * Gervais : 1 item, re Gervais brothers: Louis, Guillaume, Adrien and Romain
- * William Gilmore : empty
- * John Glendenning : 1 item, re John M. Glendenning, round-ups
- * E. W. Godsal : empty
- * Frank Gough : 4 items, includes newspaper clipping January 15, 1930
- * Edwin W. Gould : 1 item
- B4 - 8
- * Mrs. Marvin Graves : 1 item
- * Donald Gray : 3 items
- * Paddy Green : 2 items, re piano
- * Alexander Robinson Greig : 1 item
- * George Greig : 1 item; "Geordy" Greig
- * James Allan Greig : 1 item; James Alan "Sam" Greig
- * Octavius & Ronnie Greig & George Sage : 1 item
- * A. B. Hamilton : 3 items, re Fort Whoop Up
- * Frank Hamilton : empty
- * John Hamilton : 1 item
- * Walter Hanson & wife : 7 items; Walter Theodore Hanson and Ruth Hanson
- * James Hargrave : 1 item, re irrigated vegetables
- * [Charles W. S. Harkness] : 1 item
- * Lilly Harper : 1 item, aka Mrs. George Harper
- * Howell Harris : 1 item, re Gabriel Dumont's rescue of Harris
- * Francis John Hartell : empty
- * Jane Havens : 2 items, re life on the Duke of Sutherland's farm 1911; covered wagon family
- * Bayard L. Hayes : 2 items; Bayard Leverett Hayes
- * John J. Healy : 4 items, re John Jerome Healy, Fort Whoop Up
- * Harry Hemus : 1 item
- * Mrs. Tom Henry : 1 item, re Mrs. Thomas Henry, pioneer woman
- B4 - 9
- * William Henry : 6 items, re William (Billy) Henry and Agnes Baird Henry; Billy Henry trailed beef to Dawson City, 1898, and was wagon boss for Bar-U Ranch
- * Mike Herman : 1 item
- * A. Herr : 4 items, re Mr. and Mrs. Albert Herr
- * William Stewart Herron : 1 item, re pioneer oilman, Turner Valley
- * Fred Hicks : 1 item
- * Mrs. I. J. Hicks : empty
- * Ted Hill : 1 item
- * Col. W. C. Hitchener : 1 item, re 27 years of auctioneering in Alberta
- * George Hoadley : 4 items; Provincial Cabinet Minister
- * Sam R. Hodson : 3 items; newspaperman
- * Mrs. Hogge : 4 items, re Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hogge
- * W. E. G. & W. E. M. Holmes : 2 items, also includes Janet Holmes (aka Mrs. W. E. G. Holmes)
- B4 - 10
- * Sam Howe : 1 item
- * Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hull : 7 items; Mr. and Mrs. William Roper Hull
- * Hunt & Watt : empty
- * [Billy Hyde] : 1 item
- * W. J. Iken : empty
- * Jim & John Ingram : 6 items, also includes Douglas, Hugh and Oliver Ingram
- * Fred Ings : 1 item; Ranching in Alberta / F. W. Ings : [manuscript], 36p
- * James W. Ings : 2 items, re Mr. and Mrs. James Walter Ings
- * John Innis : 1 item
- * William Irvine : 1 item, re Billy Irvine
- * John Alexander Irving, P. H. Irving : 3 items; Percy Harold Irving
- * Mrs. William Jackson : 1 item
- * Frances G. Jameson : 1 item; Frances Grace Jameson
- * Ed Johnson, 2 items
- * George Hope Johnston : 1 item
- B4 - 11
- * J. H. Johnston : 4 items; James (Jimmy) H. Johnston
- * John (Liver Eating) Johnson : 2 items
- * Thomas Wesley Kadey : 4 items
- * H. A. Kanouse : 1 item
- * James Kipp : 2 items
- * Charles Knox : 1 item; Charles T. G. Knox
- * Fred Kuck : 1 item
- * Joe Lamar : 2 item
- * James Lambert : 1 item; James F. Lambert
- * George Lane : 8 items
- * Thomas "Paddy" Langford : empty
- * Edwin Larkin : empty
- * Lavers : 1 item
- * Isaac Laycraft : 1 item
- * Joseph Limoges : 1 item
- * The Linehams : 3 items
- B4 - 12
- * Sam Livingstone : 5 items
- * Thomas Long : 1 item
- * Harry Longbaugh : empty
- * Tom Lynch : empty
- * The Macabees to Dec 31/58 : 2 items
- * D. C. Macdonald : empty
- * Alexander MacDougall : 1 item; Alexander Peter MacDougall
- * William MacDougall : 2 items; William C. MacDougall, also includes Frank Shier
- * George Edmund Mack : 1 item
- * Roderick R. Macleay : 6 items
- * James F. Macleod : 1 item; Colonel James Farquharson Macleod
- B4 - 13
- * Edward Marsden : 7 items; aka Edmund Marston
- * [Ed Martin] : 1 item
- * P A Matheson : 1 item
- * Ed McArthur : 1 item
- * Mrs. S. J. McBee : empty
- * Mrs. McCorquodale : 3 items; Mrs. Alexander Yound McCorquodale
- * Mrs. Margaret McCorrister : 1 item
- * Big Jim McDonough : 1 item
- * Alexander McDougall : empty
- * Peter McElroy : empty
- * John H. McEwan : 4 items
- * Frank McHugh : 2 items
- * Duncan McIntosh : 3 items; Duncan S. McIntosh
- * W. M. McIntosh : 3 items; William Murray McIntosh
- * McIntosh, Walter Wilde : 1 item, also includes Charles Edgar McIntosh
- B4 - 14
- * McIntyre Ranch (B. McIntyre) : 1 item; Billie MCIntyre : [article], 29p, re William H. "Billie" McIntyre
- * John McKeage : 3 items
- * Mrs. R. G. McKeage : 1 item
- * J. W. McLaughlin "Shorty" : 3 items; John Wesley McLaughlin
- * Tom McMaster : empty
- * [Robert John McNamee] : 1 item
- * Addison McPherson : 4 items
- * Duncan McPherson : 1 item
- * Alexander McRae : 3 items
- * John Stewart McTavish : 1 item
- * Charles F. Meadows : 1 item; Charles Francis Meadows
- * The Meinsingers : 1 item, re Jim Meinsinger family
- * Thomas Albert Merriam : 1 item
- * Herb Millar : 5 items; Herbert William Millar / Miller
- B4 - 15
- * Malcolm Millar : 1 item; Malcolm T. Millar
- * Joe Miller : 1 item
- * Charles Wesley Minue : empty
- * James & Robert Mitchell : 1 item
- * J. H. Monkman : 2 items, re James Hamilton Monkman, Marla Monkman and family
- * The Mont Head Ranch : 1 item
- * Wm. Moodie : 1 item
- * Mr. Moody : 1 item
- * Donald Morrison : 1 item, also includes Grace McRae Morrison
- * Rev. Wm. Morrison : 1 item; Reverend William Morrison
- * Dan Mott : 1 item
- * Alphouse Mounkes : 2 items; Alphuse (Al) Calvin Mounkes
- * Charles Nash : 1 item
- * Fred Nash : 1 item
- * Nelson : empty
- * James Alexander Nesbitt : 1 item; aka Alex Nesbitt
- * Dr. Charles S. Noble : 8 items; Dr. Charles Sherwood Noble, also includes Margaret Naomi Noble
- * Paddy Nolan : 2 items; P. J. Nolan
- * [Jack Norish] : 1 item, notes by son, S. H. Norish
- * John D. Norrish : 1 item
- * Dr. Oliver : 1 item
- * Hon. Frank Oliver : empty
- * [Guy Pallister] : 1 item
- * Billy Parker : 1 item
- * Charlie Parks : 1 item
- B4 - 16
- * Alexander Patterson : 1 item
- * [John J. (Jack) Petterson] : 1 item
- * A. C. Tucker Peach : 1 item
- * William J. Pender : 3 items
- * Mrs. Vern Peterson : 1 item
- * A. Pettibone : 1 item
- * Pettipiece : empty
- * Bert Pierson : 2 items
- * Place names : 1 item, report re Alberta places names, 15p
- * William Podger : 4 items
- * "Scotty" Porteous : 2 items; David "Scotty" Porteous
- * Mr. Porter : 1 item
- * Isaac Potter : 1 item, also pertains to Pettipiece
- * Jerry Potts : 3 items
- * Charlie Priddis : 2 items
- * [Priest family] : 1 item
- * John Quirk : empty
- * Thomas Raycraft : 1 item
- * Walter Renard : 1 item
- B4 - 17
- * Senator Dan Riley : 17 items (.5 cm), includes manuscript re the Lost Lemon Mine by Dan Riley, ca.1946
- * Ezekiel Roberts : 1 item
- * Harry Robertson : 2 items, also includes Hugh Robertson and Edgar Robertson
- * Thomas Wilkinson Robertson : 1 item
- * R. T. Rod : empty
- * The Rodgers brothers : 1 item
- * Ada Rowland : 3 items, also includes Mabel Rowland
- * Andy Rowles : 4 items; Andrew Reuban Rowles, also includes Thomas Rowles
- B4 - 18
- * Charles Russell : 3 items
- * Rev. J. H. Ruttan : 1 item
- * Ryan : 2 items
- * Asa P. Samples : 2 items, also includes Daniel Samples
- * Samson & Harford : empty
- * James F. Sanderson : 2 items
- * Charles Schack : 1 item
- * [Ted Schintz and Janet Kay Schintz] : 1 item
- * Mr. & Mrs. J. Lem Sexsmith : 9 items, also includes Robert E. Fisk, Edward Fisk and Mrs. J. H. (Lillian) Sutherland
- * John Sexsmith : 3 items, also includes Mrs. Jane Sexsmith
- * Marston Sexsmith : 2 items
- * Miss Shackley : 1 item, poem: Legend of the Hand Hills, 1p
- * Mrs. Charles Shattuck : 1 item
- * Hugh Murray Shaw : 1 item
- * Mrs. H. Sheppard : 1 item, excerpts from Mrs. H. (Isabell) Sheppard's diary, 1893
- * Henry F. Sheppard : empty
- * Henry Norman Sheppard : 2 items
- * Frank Shier : 2 items
- B4 - 19
- * Charles C. Short : 14 items (1.5cm), also includes Joseph William Short, Charles Conklin Short, Edith Emma Short (McIntosh), Julia Anna (Lulu) Short (Asher), William Hall Short
- B4 - 20
- * John Slade : 1 item
- * Buck Smith : 2 items; Jasper "Buck" Smith
- * Henry Smith : 1 item
- * Orville H. Smith : 1 item; aka Buster Smith
- * Albert B. Snider : 1 item; Albert Bricker Snider
- * Mr. & Mrs. J. Snyder : 1 item; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Snyder
- * Dick Spackman : 1 item
- * John Speers : 1 item
- * Harry Spurrier : 1 item
- * Dr. G. D. Stanley : 2 items; Dr. George D. Stanley
- * Vin Stanley : 1 item
- * Mr. & Mrs. R. J. C. Stead : 1 item
- * Alexander G. Stewart : 5 items, also includes Martha Stewart
- * Howard Stewart : empty
- * James Stewart : empty
- * William B. Stitt : 2 items
- * Harry Streeter : 1 item
- * Charles Stubbs : 1 item
- * David Suitor : 1 item, also includes William Suitor and John Suitor
- * Samuel Suitor : 1 item
- * John Sullivan : 7 items, re John J. Sullivan, Barbara Harkley Sullivan (Hicks) and family
- * Bill Summers : 2 items; William Summers
- * Duke of Sutherland : empty
- B4 - 21
- * Percy Taylor : 1 item
- * Jack Thomas : 1 item
- * Robert Cadogan Thomas : 1 item
- * Mrs. A. E. Thompson : 1 item
- * Alexander William Thompson : 3 items, also includes Annie Isabell Thompson
- * John V. Thomson : 3 items
- * [Thomas John Thompson] : 1 item
- * Thomas Thomson : 2 items, also includes Mrs. Thomas Thomson
- * The Thorburns : 1 item; Captain William Thorburn and David Thorburn
- * Thorburn, William : empty
- * Wilfred Bevan Thorne and Milton Thorne : 4 items
- * John Thorp : 3 items
- * James Elmer Tillotson : empty
- * Robert, James and John Turner : 1 item
- * [Mr. Tweed] : 1 item
- * Walter & Agrippa Vine : 2 items
- * Vulcan : empty
- * Mr. & Mrs Walter Wake : 1 item
- * Charles & Noah Wakeford : 3 items
- * Mr. & Mrs. R. A. Wallace : 3 items
- * Mr. Walton : 1 item
- * John Ware : 9 items
- * James Henry Wark : 1 item, re Susan Mildred Wark
- B4 - 22
- * John Cook Warren : 1 item
- * Frank Watt : 1 item
- * Walter Langmuir Watt : 1 item
- * Guy Weadick : 5 items
- * Phil Weinard : 3 items, includes History of the Highwood River from 1882 - 1898 / Philip Weinard, 12p
- * A. P. Welsh : 1 item
- * Westropp brothers : 2 items; R. W. "Dick" Westrop and Harry Westropp
- * Mr. & Mrs. E. R. Wilder : 2 items; Everard Raphael (Bert) Wilder and Bertha Wilder
- * Mr. & Mrs. James Williams : 1 item
- * Mrs. H. H. Wilson : 1 item
- * Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Wilson : 4 items; John H. Wilson
- * Slim Woods : 2 items
- * Mrs. Herschel Wright : 1 item
- * Alex Wyndham : 1 item
- * Beatrice Wyndham : 1 item
- * Mrs. S. F. York : 1 item; Ella York, aka Mrs. Stanley York
- * Robert Young : 1 item
- TOTAL FILES: 372
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