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CA ACU GBA F0549 · Fonds · 1885-1919
  • The fonds consists of ranch employees wage book (1886-1895); stock record book (1885-1903), including ranch manager's diary (1886-1887); Evelyn's diaries (1902-1907); photographs of the family and ranch; and miscellaneous family letters, greeting cards, newspaper clippings and recipes.
Cochrane, William Edward "Billy"
CA ACU GBA F0432 · Fonds · 1885-1959, predominant 1906-1954
  • 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).
Canada Land and Irrigation Company
CA ACU GBA F0548 · Fonds · 1881-1892

The fonds consists of Frank White's ranch notebook (1881-1882) recording livestock inventories, livestock brands, Kerfoot's employment contract, beef sales contracts, and cattle purchase contracts; W.F. Cochrane's diary (1885) and ranch business letterbooks (1884-1885); and photographs of Senator Cochrane and the British American Ranch Co. (1882-1892).

Cochrane Ranche Company
CA ACU GBA F0630 · Fonds · 1900-1977

The fonds consists of memorandum of association, minutes, business correspondence, catalogues and photographs of A.B. Cushing Mills, its predecessors, and other Cushing family companies.

A.B. Cushing Mills
Earl G. Cook fonds
CA ACU GBA F0572 · Fonds · 1918-1947

The fonds consists of personal correspondence and correspondence related to agricultural, political, cooperative, and Pincher Creek matters. Includes notes for speeches, patent for "shockers" he invented, diary of farm activities (1927-1932), and newspaper clippings.

Cook, Earl Goodwin
Edgar Dewdney fonds
CA ACU GBA F0673 · Fonds · 1861-1926, predominant 1861-1903

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, appointments, newspaper clippings, etc., pertaining to the Dewdney Trail and his early career in British Columbia; correspondence, speeches, diaries (1879, 1882-1883, 1885-1886, 1888), reports and newspaper clippings related to his duties as Lieutenant-Governor and Indian Commissioner of the North-West Territories; appointments and correspondence as Minister of the Interior; some correspondence as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia; and a series of personal correspondence of Blanche Dewdney (1914-1926).

Dewdney, Edgar
EP Ranch fonds
CA ACU GBA F0701 · Fonds · 1920-1973, predominant 1931-1956

The fonds consists of EP Ranch committee minutes (1933-1936); business correspondence, including Alick Newton's (1931-1950); general ledgers and financial statements (1920-1956); correspondence about disposal of the ranch; EP Ranching Company minutes and shareholders' records (1956-1958); photographs of the Prince, EP and Bar U ranches, Hoot Gibson movie, and local personalities; and newspaper clippings.

EP Ranch
CA ACU GBA F1265 · Fonds · 1841-1969, predominant 1858-1944

The fonds consists primarily of the papers of the Reverends George and John McDougall, related to their work as Wesleyan Methodist missionaries in Alberta. George McDougall's records consist of appointments; correspondence mainly regarding Methodist missionary work; mission administrative records including a baptism register; and a small amount of his writings and sermons. John McDougall's records consist of appointments; letters written to his wife while attending Methodist conferences and during the 1885 Riel Rebellion; official correspondence regarding his missionary work; mission administrative records including baptism and marriage registers; and his writings, sermons and talks. The fonds also contains the writings, speeches, and scrapbooks of John's wife Elizabeth, and the First World War letters of David L. McDougall. Included in the fonds are small amounts of papers for these family members: Eliza Hardisty, Augusta Mathieson, George M. McDougall (junior), John B. McDougall, Lillian E. Graham, Douglas J. McDougall, John E. Graham, and William Graham.

McDougall family
CA ACU GBA F0969 · Fonds · 1874-1974, predominant 1950-1974

The fonds consists of J.B. Cross' administrative papers (1950- 1965); reference files about displays and daily activities (1960-1974); records of collections (1962-1974); curator's reports and acquisition correspondence (1973-1974); various historical documents collected by the organization (1624, 1837, 1916-1969); and extensive photographs of North-West Mounted Police, the Calgary Brewing and Malting Company, Calgary Stampede events and champions, and Calgary (1874-1973).

Horseman's Hall of Fame
O.S. Longman fonds
CA ACU GBA F1172 · Fonds · 1885-1964

The fonds consists of his autobiographical manuscript, "Pioneers and Pioneering in Western Canada" (1963); correspondence, notes and reports he compiled for Glenbow related to Alberta agriculture and irrigation (1894-1964); films related to a wide variety of agricultural topics (ca. 1920-1955); photographs of agriculture and agricultural personalities (1884-1959); and excerpts from the 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion) diary of his father, Charles Longman.

Longman, Oliver Stanley
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
Ranchmen's Club fonds
CA ACU GBA F1522 · Fonds · 1891-1986, predominant 1891-1913

The fonds consists of microfilm of minutes (1891-1913), photographs of members and Calgary (1890s-1920s), architectural blueprints for the club building (1913), and miscellaneous programs (1950-1986).

Ranchmen's Club