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CA ACU GBA F0069 · Fonds · 1920-1984, predominant 1920-1954

The fonds consists of photographs of company mining activities and the town of Alexo, and a company history.

Alexo Coal Company
Austin de B. Winter fonds
CA ACU GBA F1950 · Fonds · 1908-1959

The fonds consists of law firm client files (1914-1947) and clients' accounts (1930-1938); personal papers and correspondence (1907-1940); correspondence, speeches, articles, and newspaper clippings pertaining to game birds and game conservation (1908-1959). Includes correspondence of the Alberta Fish and Game Association and its predecessors (1909-1946). Also includes photographs of the Winter family and Calgary.

Winter, Austin de B.
Bankhead Mine fonds
CA ACU GBA F2719 · Fonds · 1904-1931

The fonds consists of technical drawings of the coal seams and tunnels, machinery, coal storage bins, a miner’s cottage, the breaker, machine shop, lamp house, hose house, garage, wash house, and time office. Includes drawings of two CPR subways (underpasses) in Calgary, the CPR viaduct (high level bridge) at Lethbridge, and Imperial Oil well logs from wells near Lethbridge where coal seams were found.

Bankhead Mines Ltd.
CA ACU GBA F2136 · Fonds · 1916-1960

The fonds consists of business agreements with the Blue Diamond Coal Company and employees, unions, and Canadian National Railways. Also included are business ledgers from the company. There is also a short history of the town of Brule.

Blue Diamond Coal Company
CA ACU GBA F0329 · Fonds · 1911-2007
  • The fonds consists of constitution and rules (1911); minutes (1913-1924, 1927-1928, 1947-1957, 1959-1964, 1970-1999); correspondence (1913-1921); office files (1952-1958, 1978-2007); financial records (1954-1990); scrapbooks (1950-1983); and photographs (1921-1970).
Calgary and District Labour Council
Canmore Mines Limited fonds
CA ACU GBA F0472 · Fonds · 1886-1987

The fonds consists of Canadian Anthracite Coal Company records: incorporation documents, bylaws, minutes (1886-1954), correspondence (1886-1909, 1937-1938), director's reports (1923-1939, 1942-1944), annual statements (1938-1952), agreements, mortgages, transfers, engineering plans (1891-1946), stock subscription book (1886), financial records (1886-1893, 1924-1952), schedule of salaries (1942), and miscellany. Also consists of Canmore Mines Ltd. records: administrative and operational records (1910s-1980s), minutes (1961- 1969), president's correspondence (1926-1973), financial statements (1958-1967), letterbooks of mine manager James J. Morris (1911-1913, 1917), and photographs of office building construction (1962). Includes Canmore Coal Company records on microfilm: employee registers (1897-1918), letterbooks (1912-1919), tonnage book (1907-1935), deductions for offences book (1934-1940) and financial records (1911-1937).

Canmore Mines Limited
Century Coals Ltd. fonds
CA ACU GBA F0506 · Fonds · 1932-1984, predominant 1943-1979

The fonds consists of records about all aspects of operations at Century Coals, including purchase and maintenance of mining equipment, accidents in the mines, financial and statistical reports of operations, inventories of equipment, payroll and time sheets for employees, labour negotiations, complaints from customers re coal delivery shortages and other problems, houses for employees, and leases of land. Includes records of Drumheller Coal Operators Ltd.

Century Coals
CA ACU GBA F0544 · Fonds · 1906-1990

The fonds consists of correspondence, contracts and wage agreements, minutes, reports, reference material and financial records; photographs of coal mining operations and conferences, and of individuals prominent in the industry; recorded interviews with L.C. Stevens and Mike Vitalli about the history of coal mining in the west; and an address by Lieutenant-Governor MacEwan to the 24th Canadian Conference on Coal.

Coal Association of Canada
CA ACU GBA F0555 · Fonds · 1904-1976

The fonds consists of reference files regarding Coleman Collieries and its predecessors (1904-1976); bathhouse plans for International Coal and Coke Co. (1907); building plans of various Coleman buildings and Alberta Railway and Irrigation Co. tipple in Lethbridge (1909-1910); and McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke Co. circulars (1909); shareholder and accounting records (1952, 1964-1974).

Coleman Collieries
CA ACU GBA F0706 · Fonds · 1948-1971
  • The fonds consists of correspondence regarding timber permits and berths; forest conservation unit guides; press releases regarding board activities; and proposed development reports.
Eastern Rockies Forest Conservation Board
CA ACU GBA F0717 · Fonds · 1934-1942

The fonds consists of lease agreements, financial statements, deeds of trust and mortgage, and insurance policies.

Elgin Coal Company
CA ACU GBA F0771 · Fonds · 1928-1947

The fonds consists of incorporation documents; business correspondence; agreements; annual returns; mortgages; and deeds of trust pertaining to H.A. Ford's coal mining leases, Ford Coals Ltd. and Ford Highwood Collieries Ltd. Includes files on Highwood Western Railway Company, Prudential Trust Company Ltd. and Patrick Burns.

Ford Coals Limited
Kleenbirn Collieries fonds
CA ACU GBA F2158 · Fonds · 1944-1957

The fonds consists of mine plans (1949-1957), and a coal sales ledger (1944-1946).

Kleenbirn Collieries
Midland Coal Company fonds
CA ACU GBA F2129 · Fonds · [ca. 1920-1951]

The fonds consists of photographs of the mine, and a meeting in honour of Jesse Gouge, prominent Drumheller personality.

Midland Coal Company
CA ACU GBA F1336 · Fonds · [ca. 1920-1960]

The fonds consists of business records of the Monarch Coal Mining Company, including records of North American Collieries. Includes Eric A. Lovett's business records regarding Royalties Oil and Share Corporation Ltd., Southern Irrigated Farm Lands Ltd., Prairie Coal Lands Ltd. and other investments.

Monarch Coal Mining Company
Pat Burns fonds
CA ACU GBA F0315 · Fonds · 1882-1985, predominant 1896-1960

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
CA ACU GBA F1451 · Fonds · 1825-1975, predominant 1845-1946

The fonds consists of Murdoch McPherson's diary (1834), McPherson family correspondence (1845-1895), and miscellaneous family and HBC papers (1825-1893); and Patrick family correspondence (1878-1946), Alfred Patrick's diary (1833), and various family certificates, genealogical charts and newspaper clippings. Includes Lillian Morrison's nomination of A.P. Patrick as Calgary's Citizen of the Century (1975).

Patrick family
CA ACU GBA F0622 · Fonds · 1885-1967, predominant 1900-1949

The fonds consists of estate, property and defence papers. Includes some personal papers of Joseph T. Shaw (1921-1946) and Frederick Mayhood (1922-1937).

Cumming, Spencer
CA ACU GBA F1730 · Fonds · Photocopied 1978 (originally created 1912-1917)

The fonds consists of minutes (1912-1916), correspondence (1915-1917) and cashbook (1913-1915).

Standard Coal and Development Company
CA ACU GBA F1844 · Fonds · 1902-2002

The fonds consists of constitutions and bylaws, minutes of the District Executive Board, proceedings of conventions, general correspondence, records of Workmen’s Compensation and Unemployment Insurance appeals, correspondence of District officers, correspondence with mine operators and Local Unions, financial records, membership records, reports and briefs to commissions of inquiry and legislators, records of negotiations and labour disputes, collective agreements with employers, records of Local Unions, newspaper clippings, collected miscellany, photographs, and an oral history interview. Records of the Welfare and Retirement Fund include minutes, decisions, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, reports, agreements, mine operators’ employment records, and case files of Welfare and Retirement Fund beneficiaries.

United Mine Workers of America. District 18