The collection consists of ships' logs, a shipboard newspaper, and a seaman's diary from merchant and naval sailing vessels. Includes the diary of John Bartlett (1790-1795), a member of the crew of the Massachusetts, an American merchant ship sailing from Boston to Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands and back to Canton via the Sandwich Islands. Bartlett then joined the American whaling ship Elenoro, bound back to the USA via Madagascar. Includes the log (1805-1806) of the Royal George, a British merchant ship sailing from England via India to China and back. Includes a manuscript newspaper published aboard the British naval vessel Alceste in 1816. Also includes logs kept aboard British naval vessels as training exercises by junior officers George Buck Keene (1844-1848), G. T. L. Bolton (1860-1865), and Collingwood Fenwick (1870-1872). These logs feature watercolour views of ports visited, profiles of coastlines, and manuscript maps.
The fonds consists of city licences, receipts and stationery.
Riverside Jewellers
The fonds consists of bylaws, annual and director's reports, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, staff handbook, newsclippings and newsletters.
Riverside Villa Association
The fonds consists of letters from R.J. to George about how to run a saddlery business.
Hutchings, Robert John "R.J."Collection consists of framed, matted reproductions of drawings, paintings and photographs of prominent 19th century Canadian statesmen. Includes George Brown, Robert Borden, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Edward Blake, Sir Georges Etienne Cartier, Robert Baldwin, Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Richard John Cartwright and Lord Durham. Versos of items contain holograph notes about the statesmen and identify some of original artists.
Edmanson, R. M.
Fonds consists of correspondence; notebooks, manuscripts of poems, poetry collections, novels, essay collections, articles, book reviews, essays, conference papers, interviews and prose from rob mclennan's blog; editing and publishing files; material relating to reading series; articles, interviews, reviews and other material about r. mclennan; works by others; and miscellaneous materials of interest collected by r. mclennan.
McLennan, Rob
The fonds consists of diary, account book, photographs of the Begg and Wilson families, and miscellany. Includes minutes of the Davisburg Ranchers Society.
Begg, Robert Anstruther
The fonds consists of photographs of Calgary buildings, bridges, businesses and events (1912-1954); Glenmore Dam construction (1929-1931); Calgary Stampede events and parades (1920-1934); Gleichen and its Stampede (1915-1924); Sundre Stampede (1924); Pekisko Ranch (1920s); and southern Alberta towns such as Turner Valley, Rockyford and High River (1907, 1920-1936). Includes photographs of Bird family (1900, 1920s, early 1940s).
Bird, Robert AlbertThe fonds consists of the R. Adair Oil Memorandum (with indexes).
Adair, Robert Nichols
The fonds consists of photographs of Calgary buildings, the Aldrich and Vickery families, local events, Calgary Gun Club, and a pamphlet and photograph of the Calgary Sanatorium.
Aldrich, Robert
The fonds consists of Riel Rebellion diary, postcards to family, letters from family and photograph of 90th Winnipeg Rifles (1885); civil service appointments and certificates (1881-1886); and homestead receipt, invitations and photographs of Allan. Includes a family tree and genealogical correspondence of daughter-in-law (1942).
Allan, Robert Kellock
The fonds consists of Robert's scrapbook compiled while mayor, personal letters and business papers (1906-1937); memorial tribute to Daisy (1968); and photographs of Marshall family and IODE events.
Marshall, Robert Colin
The fonds consists of an account of the McLeod's trip to Fort Edmonton, biographical information and newsclippings on the McLeod and Belcher families, and a description of their experiences at Portage la Prairie and Edmonton.
Belcher, Robert
The fonds consists of registers, photographs, and other records of the Wildwood Youth Hostels and the Canadian Hostelling Association.
Barnes, Robert
The fonds consists of personal correspondence, certificates, butter labels, photographs of butter sculptures, and miscellaneous financial records.
Merkley, Robert
The fonds consists of scrapbooks and reports about City of Calgary power, electricity and street railways, and Turner Valley oil; photographs Bowness Park; personal financial records of Mrs. Christina Brown; business records of United Oils and United Electric and Engineering Company.
Brown, Robert Arthur
The fonds consists of home movies of the Brown family and oil wells (nd); photographs of the R.A. Brown, Sr. and R. A. Brown, Jr., families; "With the Forces" broadcast (1949); cartoons of R.A. Brown, Jr. and diploma (1923).
Brown, Robert Arthur Jr.
Consists of album pages with mounted photographs and clippings as well as one framed certificate.
Tetrault, Robert Arthur
The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, and some constitutions of organizations in which he was involved. Also includes Atkin's personal correspondence, typed excerpts from his diary kept on the trip from Sheffield to Edmonton, newsclippings and pamphlets.
Atkin, Robert
The fonds consists of Robert's tax receipts, greeting cards, and photographs of farming in Blackie, Alberta.
Boulton, Robert
The fonds consists of photographs of churches, manses, and schools in towns where he served (1910s-1950s), of J.R. Brown and family, and Ontario relatives (1880s). Includes postcards to his mother and Ethel (ca. 1913-1915); script, song and stage sketch for Central United Church, Calgary centennial play (1975), and programs (1964-1975).
Brown, J. Robert
The fonds consists of photographs of Frank area and NWMP camp (1903), and NWMP detachment at Stand Off (1894, 1900).
Leard, Robert Bruce
The fonds consists of construction photographs (1911-1932) of the following: horse show building, grandstand, cattle pavilion, Bessborough building and ski jump at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede grounds (1911-1928); Cochrane fair grounds including a grandstand (1924); Alderson grain elevator (1917); corrals at the Lethbridge fair grounds (1919); Elbow River gravel washing plant (1919); Cassils school (1920); Nordegg houses (1922-1923); Calgary bungalows (1923); and a Mount Royal house (1920). Also consists of an album of photos of the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditoriun when first built (ca. 1957). Includes a ledger and contracts related to the company's connstruction work.
Burns familyThe fonds consists of an autobiographical manuscript about his service with the HBC, entitled "From Highlands to Fort Garry". Includes newsclippings about Robert Campbell and Glen Campbell.
Campbell, Robert
The fonds contains records and photographs pertaining to the military activity of Robert Carter during the course of his service in the Boer war and in WWI.
Carter, Robert