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Moodie family fonds
CA ACU GBA F1340 · Fonds · 1850-1990, predominant 1891-1957

The fonds consists of Frank and Lucy's personal papers including correspondence, financial and miscellaneous material; Frank’s business records related to the Rosedale Coal Mine (including reports from a Pinkerton detective he hired to work undercover at the mine during a time of labour unrest, the Winnipeg General Strike, and the One Big Union), Sentinel Oils, etc.; a recorded interview with Norman Moodie about his father’s career and his own career (1982); miscellaneous papers related to Maggie, including her notes on teaching; Marion's correspondence, poems, sheet music, artwork, and certificates and newspaper clippings related to her nursing career; miscellaneous recipe books, scrapbooks, greeting cards, etc. related to Frank and Lucy’s children and extended family; and extensive photographs of the Moodie family, Calgary General Hospital and early nursing, the Rosedale Mine and the Drumheller area, Sentinel Oils and the Turner Valley area, etc.

Moodie family
Parlby, Wilkins family fonds
CA ACU GBA F1446 · Fonds · 1850-1930, predominant 1884-1918

The fonds consists of Edward's correspondence, notebook and financial records; George Wilkins' correspondence, mining certificates and agreements; Francis' correspondence; and miscellaneous family correspondence, invitations, membership cards, certificates, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the ranch and Alix area.

Parlby family
Simmins family fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0143 · Fonds · 1850-2017

Fonds consists of correspondence to and from various members of the Simmins family, principally to Barbara Simmins, and Richard Simmins' photocards to Marjorie Simmins; material relating to B. Simmins' career, estate and financial matters; material relating to the death of Susette Simmins in 2007; drafts of B. Simmins' manuscript Should angels come: a letter to my daughter; articles by and about Philip Simmins, Richard Simmins and Geoffrey Simmins; daytimers and diaries written by B. Simmins (?) and Marjorie Mabel Beaufort Simmins; Karen Simmins' journals, poems, childhood drawings, stories and letters; photographs of members of the Simmins and Atkinson families, including several photo albums.

Simmins Family
Sam Livingston fonds
CA ACU GBA F1161 · Fonds · 1850-1931, predominant 1850-1898

The fonds consists of letters to family in Ireland (1849-1850), homestead documents (1885-1892), notebook (1890) and family photographs. Includes program for dedication of monument to Sam Livingston (1898) and a few letters about Howse family genealogy (1931).

Livingston, Samuel Henry Harkwood
Walter Hill Moodie fonds
CA ACU GBA F3200 · Fonds · 1851-2005, predominant 1891-1955

The fonds consists of his diaries, First World War letters, and photographs and albums related to family, South African War, First World War, surveying and his adventures.

Moodie, Walter Hill
CA ACU GBA F0179 · Fonds · 1852-1954, predominant 1852-1907

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
CA ACU GBA C0215 · Collection · 1854-1888

The collection consists of magazine illustrations documenting the 1870 and 1885 Riel Rebellions, Manitoba, the Red River Expedition, Lake Neepigon (Nipigon), First Nations, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), The North-West Territories (later Alberta and Saskatchewan), British Columbia, the Marquis of Lorne's and Princess Louise's visit to the West, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

de Volpi, Charles
Soper family fonds
CA ACU GBA F1707 · Fonds · 1855-1954

The fonds consists of a copy of an indenture transferring ownership of the foundry from Levi to Philo Hicock, biographical information on Addie, an article about the iron ore industry in Leeds, Ontario, and photographs of Battle Lake, Alberta.

Soper family
Beavers family fonds
CA ACU GBA F0170 · Fonds · 1855-1943, predominant 1902-1943

The fonds consists of correspondence with Lina's family in the USA (1912-1913), her personal diaries (1910-1913, 1936-1944), Gordon's departmental exams (1927- 1931), and all three sons' school reports (1918-1933). Includes Club Cafe menus, postcards, a proposed constitution for the American Woman's Club of Calgary, and journals from the Alberta Boys' Parliament. Also includes photographs of the Beavers and Shirley families (1855-1940s), Al Azhar activities, the Club Cafe, and various carnivals (1908).

Beavers family
Wyndham family fonds
CA ACU GBA F1972 · Fonds · 1855-1928, predominant 1890s, 1913-1923

The fonds consists of microfilm of Caroline's diary (1887-1891); Alfred's military certificates (1855-1882); Ernest's school notes and Alex' diary (1875-1876); and Mary Crocker Wyndham's diaries (1913-1915, 1919-1923). Also consists of photographs of Wyndham family and ranches (1884-1928); Fort Saskatchewan barracks (1890); Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve hospital (1890s); and Alfred, officers and camp at Fort Qu'Appelle (1885). Includes photocopies of Mary Wyndham Campbell's illustrated ghost story, Wyndham genealogical information, and microfilm of the memoirs of Jane Seymour, Caroline's cousin (1922).

Wyndham family