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Bruce Nodwell fonds
CA ACU GBA F1398 · Fonds · 1942-1977

The fonds consists of correspondence, agreements, patent licences, vehicle specifications, financial statements, photographs, articles and newsclippings pertaining to his tracked vehicle business. Includes a recorded interview with Bruce, and a promotional film about Nodwell tracked vehicles.

Nodwell, William Bruce
CA ACU GBA F0384 · Fonds · 1886-1960, predominant 1907-1947

The fonds consists of minutes (1909-1948), annual reports, agreements to provide service, legal agreements, lists of properties and assets, financial records, income tax returns, shareholders' records, construction records, and scripts for radio broadcasts sponsored by the company. Includes films, photographs and slides of power plant, dam and transmission line construction (1910-1962), and employee outings. Also includes Calgary Water Power Co. minutes (1890-1934), incorporation ordinance and bylaws, correspondence, agreements, annual reports, and financial records; and financial records of Montreal Engineering Co., Saskatchewan office, and Prairie Power Co., Regina. Also includes drawings relating to the automation of plants and dams.

Calgary Power Company
CA ACU GBA F0395 · Fonds · 1960-1982

The fonds consists of constitution and bylaws, programs, set designs (by Laszlo Funtek and G.L. Palmer), photographs, slides, a film, sound recordings, prompt scripts, and newspaper reviews pertaining to 24 of the group's productions.

Calgary Theatre Singers
CA ACU GBA F0466 · Fonds · 1949-1999

The fonds consists of the constitution and bylaws, minutes, annual reports, financial statements, membership lists, correspondence, and photographs. Includes organizational records of conventions and conferences; records of the Ladies’ Auxiliary (1966-1995) including many photographs; and records of the Doodlebug Golf Tournament (1953-1971). Includes records of the Society of Edmonton Geophysicists (1958-1972). Includes collected technical manuals and wiring diagrams for seismographic equipment (1956-1970). Includes David Finch’s research notes and collected source material for his book Traces through Time; A. Easton Wren’s historic collection; and Finch’s recorded interviews with prominent Canadian geophysicists John C. Hollister, Alex Herz, Bruce Nodwell, Don Axford, J. Tuzo Wilson, David Strangway, Jack Porter, Roy O. Lindseth, David Savage, Harold Farney, Ralph Steeves, Fred Foo, A.E. Pallister, and Arne Nielsen.

Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
CA ACU GBA F0467 · Fonds · 1926-2002

The fonds consists of administrative subject files (1927-1976) which include minutes, membership lists, committee records, budgets and financial statements, and files related to awards, conferences and publications; minutes (1977-1991); subject files (1977-1988) divided into these ten sub-series: Executive Committee, Business Committees, Conventions and Seminars, Publications, Scientific Programs, Awards, Special Committees / Social Programs, Public Services, Divisions, and Liaisons; records related to conventions hosted or co-hosted by the society (1967-1991); proceedings and sound recordings of speakers at the National Conference on Earth Sciences (1965-1981); Medal of Merit records (1953-1988); membership applications (1953-1997); photographs (1926-1978) of executives and members, field trips, field work, conferences, core samples, and the Turner Valley fields; Ted Link’s photographs and glass slides (1943-1959); sound recordings of conferences (1955-1961); and films (1957-1975) of a geological field trip and the Calgary area.

Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
CFAC Radio fonds
CA ACU GBA F0507 · Fonds · 1921-1984, predominant 1934-1983

The fonds consists of the textual, visual and audio records of CFAC. Textual records consist of station reports, blueprints, correspondence and financial records; radio licences, contracts, agreements, coverage documentation and scripts; staff files; and promotional material including advertisements, handouts, newsletters and newsclippings. Includes scrapbooks, visitors books and awards. Audio recordings consist of sports coverage, commercials, promotional jingles and regular, current interest and special broadcast shows. Includes recorded speeches including one of William Aberhart. The photographs and slides depict CFAC promotional events, billboards, radio stations and equipment, employees and special events in which the station participated including the Calgary Stampede. The films consist of television commercials, footage of the demise of old station buildings and equipment, and the introduction of new transmitters. Also includes a film regarding animated advertising signs (telesign).

CFAC (Radio station)
CFCN fonds
CA ACU GBA F0508 · Fonds · 1931-1988

The fonds consists of financial statements and tax returns (1931-1971); radio-related correspondence, schedules, scripts, advertising files, and audio recordings of broadcasts, advertisements and jingles (1930s-1984); television-related correspondence, licence applications, annual reports and director's files (1962-1978); extensive news footage films (1976-1984); photographs and slides of facilities, events and personalities; and film footage of the XV Olympic Winter Gamers (1988). Includes early sound recordings of Premier William Aberhart; also program re: Carl Rungius (1952).

CFCN (Radio station : Calgary, Alberta)
Charles S. Noble fonds
CA ACU GBA F1396 · Fonds · 1886-1986, predominant 1912-1969

The fonds consists of biographical, personal and family papers (1886-1982); records about the establishment and promotion of the Noble Foundation (1912-1921); material compiled in 1957 by Glenbow staff member O.S. Longman about the Noble Foundation, Cameron Ranch, Sir Roderick W. Cameron, etc.(1913-1957); Noble Farms records including correspondence about farming operations, and the development, manufacture, patenting and marketing of the Noble Cultivator ((1933-1940); Noble Cultivators Ltd. patent records, promotional literature, patent infringement correspondence, financial ledgers, employee timesheets, and films (directed by Carly Stewart) featuring Noble agricultural implements (1937-1986). Includes extensive photographs of agricultural activities on the Cameron Ranch and Grandview Farm, the farm implements factory, family members, and Nobleford (aerial views).

Noble, Charles Sherwood
CA ACU GBA F0517 · Fonds · 1914-2019, predominant 1931-2019

The fonds consists of minutes, annual reports, membership lists, correspondence, financial ledgers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs of society members, children, entertainers and celebrities. Includes a promotional film "A Special Kind of Courage" (nd), and Easter Seal Campaign recordings (1972 and nd).

Children's Hospital Aid Society
Guy Vanderhaeghe fonds
CA ACU SPC F0180 · Fonds · 1960-2017

Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts, ranging from fragments and rough drafts to printers' copies and page proofs, of novels, short stories, short story collections, stage plays, poetry and lyrics; screenplays by G. Vanderhaeghe and others based on G. Vanderhaeghe's works; articles, book reviews, essays, lectures and speeches; promotional material; articles, essays and thesis about G. Vanderhaeghe and his works; interviews with the author; miscellaneous material; works by other authors; and published work.

Vanderhaeghe, Guy
Hal Godwin fonds
CA ACU GBA F2409 · Fonds · [ca. 1948-1997]

The fonds consists of business records and photographs of Seismic Drilling International, and papers from the various organizations with which he worked. Includes some military and Orange Lodge records of his father, Alfred. Includes videotaped interviews with Hal Godwin regarding Seismic Drills International, a videotape on The Beta Foil, a corrosion detection device, and a videotaped production on The Greenhouse Conspiracy. Also includes sound recordings re the Alaska Highway Pipeline Project.

Godwin, Harold Walter "Hal"
Jack Peach fonds
CA ACU GBA F1455 · Fonds · 1897-1993

The fonds consists of manuscripts for books, newspaper columns and radio broadcasts (1974-1985); recorded interview about his life (1981); recording of "This is the House" lectures (1981); and photographs of the Peach family, RCAF, Calgary personalities and views, and southern Alberta (1914-1945). Includes a film and photographs of Second World War bomber training (1943), and some records of his parents and grandfather (1890-1940).

Peach, John Stevley "Jack"
CA ACU GBA F2628 · Fonds · 1975-2002

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, publications and media presentations.

Petroleum Communication Foundation
Randy Avery fonds
CA ACU GBA F2125 · Fonds · 1937-1992

The fonds consists of scripts, photographs, posters, correspondence, etc. relating to productions of the Young Canadians at the Calgary Stampede.

Avery, Randolph Francis
Sat-Teen Club fonds
CA ACU GBA F2670 · Fonds · 1946-1952, 1978-1994

The fonds consists of bylaws and minutes (1946-1952); The Sat-Teen newspaper (1946-1948); photographs of club activities (1946-1948); a scrapbook of programs, membership cards, conference ribbons, and newspaper clippings (1946-1948); and miscellaneous club memorabilia (1946-1952). Also consists of planning records for three reunions (1978, 1984, 1993-1994); posters for reunions (1984, 1994); a 1948 movie about the club produced by Sat-Teen member Rob Middleton (who transferred it to VHS for the 1994 reunion); and a CBC radio feature on the 1994 reunion.

Saturday Teen Club
Susan B. Peters fonds
CA ACU GBA F1465 · Fonds · 1900-1993, predominant 1956-1963

The fonds consists of a biography (1993), family histories of the Peters and Klassen families, education certificates (1934-1956), teacher inspectors' reports (1953-1960), diary (Dec. 1957-June 1958), extensive correspondence (1956-1963), history of Reindeer Station (1957), grocery and car account books (1942, 1958-1960, 1966-1973, 1984), slides of Reindeer Stn. (1956-1960), photographs of family and NWT (1900-1970), films of Reindeer Stn., Gumbo School, Alberta, family gathering, and Rockies trip (1950-1960), and audio recordings of school concerts and activities at Reindeer Stn. and Fort McPherson (1957-1963).

Peters, Susan Bernhards
Trudy Carlyle fonds
CA ACU GBA F0480 · Fonds · 1929-1982, predominant 1940-1957

The fonds consists of notes, sheet music, albums of her recordings, a kinescope of the opera "The Medium", promotional photographs, and programs. Includes letters, poems, and photographs from Marion and Jim Nicoll.

Carlyle, Gertrude E. "Trudy"
CA ACU GBA F1842 · Fonds · 1909-1990, predominant 1917-1962

The fonds consists of minutes of AFCEC annual general meetings (1913, 1915, 1917); minutes of UGG annual general meetings (1925-1943, 1945-1951, 1953, 1955-1956, 1958-1971); bylaws (1943); extensive scrapbooks of newsclippings about UGG, grain marketing and agriculture (1917-1962); films about cooperative organizations, farm safety, elevator construction, weed control, harvests, grain handling and other agricultural topics (1951-1957); recordings of annual meetings, John E. Brownlee addresses to agents, and UGG radio commercials (1952-1962); transcription discs of a CFAC broadcast about UGG's history (1952); photographs of executives and office staff; plans and specifications for grain elevators; and photographs of elevators, company houses and employees.

United Grain Growers
United Way of Calgary fonds
CA ACU GBA F1847 · Fonds · 1921-1996

The fonds consists of correspondence, annual reports, and financial records of Community Chest, Council of Social Agencies, and United Way; and photographs, slide shows and films promoting the United Way's cause (1950s-1980s).

United Way of Calgary
Wop May fonds
CA ACU GBA F1247 · Fonds · 1916-1973, predominant 1916-1945

The fonds consists of correspondence (1919-1936); military certificates, log books and combat reports (1916-1919); aviation certificates and log books (1919-1932); recorded interview (1945); and miscellaneous personal and aviation records. Includes a recorded interview with Violet May about her husband (1973); recording of a memorial program broadcast by CBC (1952); photographs of northern aviation and the Air Observer School; and films about postal service on the Mackenzie, the Yellowknife Royal Visit, Dawson City, Great Bear Lake region, and oil well drilling and construction in the North (ca. 1930-1950).

May, Wilfrid Reid "Wop"
CA ACU GBA F1977 · Fonds · 1905-2009, predominant 1905-1996

The fonds consists of constitution and bylaws (1905-2002), minutes (1905-1999), annual reports (1920-1999), Pat O'brien's files (1980-1990), Wayne Perkins' files (1968-1996), publications, newsletters, newsclippings, scrapbooks, marketing documents, membership rosters, branches and branch activity documents, fundraising and capital development campaigns, financial reports, staff and personnel documents, correspondence and subject files, affiliate organizations, photographs of members and activities, and promotional films and radio broadcast.

Young Men's Christian Association (Calgary)