The fonds consists of ranching records (1896-1985): correspondence, agreements, inventories, appraisals, financial statements, ledgers, maps, purchases and brand records; oil records (1911-1953): correspondence, leases and oil company prospectuses; legal records (1882-1959): mortgages, agreements and leases; investment records (1896-1955): correspondence, mortgages and agreements; records of Burns' companies (1898-1981): correspondence, ledgers, memorandum of association, financial statements and minutes; real estate records (1942-1973): correspondence, reports and maps; records of Burns' estate (1932-1983): will, reports, correspondence, minutes of executors' meetings and ledgers; personal account ledgers (1912-1936); share certificates (1903-1941); and collected samples of Metis scrip and North-West Mounted Police veterans' land scrip (1880-1911). Includes photographs of Alberta oil wells, Burns' ranches, the meat industry, and aerial views of Bow River Valley and Fish Creek.
Burns, Patrick- The fonds consists of general correspondence (1906-1954); correspondence regarding land sales and purchases (1903-1953), and the Suffield and Vauxhall townsites (1903-1953); and payment collection correspondence and reports (1924-1954). Includes farm and grazing leases (1917-1959); crop records (1943-1945); hay permits (1917-1953); engineering, land, progress and financial reports (1914- 1949); water agreements (1917-1954); easements (1919-1921); tax records (1924-1951); and weather reports (1885-1924). Also includes statutory declarations (1921-1941); general ledgers (1908-1915, 1921-1922); land sale register (1912-1920); cost ledger (1937-1946); and photographs of Vauxhall and Suffield areas (ca. 1920), and CLI Co. staff and equipment (1913-1921).
The fonds consists of W.N. Smith's First World War diary (1917), correspondence (1915-1967), including extensive correspondence with prominent UFA and Social Credit leaders; articles, reports, etc. re the monetary system (1915-1933); election and other papers of UFA, Social Credit and CCF, including platforms, radio broadcasts, etc. (1917-1935); reports and circulars of many agricultural associations (1920-1960); and Amelia Turner Smith's diary (1913-1917), tax returns, speeches, correspondence and campaign literature. Includes interviews with Amelia Smith (1978).
Smith, Walter NormanThe fonds consists of Rawlins' correspondence, articles, speeches, radio broadcasts, letters to the editor, etc., pertaining to grain marketing, droughts, irrigation, farmers' organizations, education and social credit; submissions to the Turgeon Royal Commission; and newspaper clippings. Includes minutes and correspondence of the Bow River Drought Area and Retlaw Agricultural Improvement Association (1937-1938).
Rawlins, AlfredThe fonds consists of correspondence about personal, agricultural, municipal and political affairs (1926-1961); president's addresses to AAMD (1934-1943); and speeches, radio broadcasts and articles on agricultural and political topics (1938-1946).
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