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- 1934-1985 (Creation)
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62.5 cm of textual records. -- ca. 150 photographs. -- 7 drawings
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Administrative history
Ferguson Supply was established in Calgary in 1916 by Daniel Ira Ferguson, who had moved to Alberta in 1911 from South Dakota, USA. Daniel's brother, Al, subsequently joined the business. The company supplied equipment for contractors engaged in railway work, general construction, earthmoving and oil fields. In 1946 Norman Palleson bought out the Fergusons. The following year the company became the distributor for Euclid Road Machinery Company (later General Motors Terex). Branches were opened in Edmonton and Lethbridge and two affiliated companies, CPC Sales and Rentals and Arctic Terex Ltd. were established. Mel Chrumka and Lou Campbell purchased Ferguson Supply and its affiliates in 1970. In 1976 Chrumka and Campbell sold the company to Ken Davis Industries of Fort Worth, Texas, USA and in 1988 Blackwood-Hodge of Britain bought the company and closed the Calgary office. In 1985 Riverton Construction, using Ferguson earthmoving equipment, began construction of Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Ferguson Supply Company, Ralph Pepper, Mr. C.B. Hegy, and Fred Page, 1973-1993.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of minutes (1975), newsletters (1960-1974), promotional brochures and press releases (1978-1985), scrapbooks (1960-1968), engineering drawings for the "Helpmate" hitch for a Terex scraper (1969), miscellaneous financial records (1934-1946), photographs of staff and buildings (1950s-1970s) and slides of construction of the Olympic ski jump at Canada Olympic Park (1985).
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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No finding aid
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Digital content is available: https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Package/2R3BF1S3QNP3O
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There are Ferguson Supply Company calendars (1923) in the calendar collection.
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Thursday, March 22, 2018