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- 1913-1964 (Creation)
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12.5 cm of textual records
20 photographs
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Biographical history
Egbert I. Wells, 1886-1969, was born in Hastings North Township, Ontario and moved to Alberta in 1902 to a farm at Wellsville, 12 miles south of Fort Macleod. He and his wife Isabella May Rollins were married in September 1914 in Lethbridge and they had four children, Margaret (Reasbeck, later Maxwell), 1919-2018 , Egbert Rollins, 1915-1969, Jean [Horricks], 1928- , and Allen Rollins, 1931- . They later moved to Calgary, then returned to the Fort Macleod area.
Jean Wells wrote an account of life on the farm in Morning Has Broken / Jean Wells. -- Victoria : Trafford, 2003; and Allen wrote The Winter Count / Allen R. Wells. -- Bloomington: Xlibris, 2012.
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Gift of Barbara Booher, Linda Zachri and John Reasbeck, 2012.
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The fonds consists of diaries (1913-1964), transcript of the diaries prepared by Allen Wells, and photographs of the family and farm.
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The material is in English.
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Digital content is available for a transcript of the diary: https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Package/2R3BF1S3QX87P
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Thursday, June 07, 2018