Archival Material Digitized for “Seeing With New Eyes A Journey into

Archival Material Digitized for “Seeing With New Eyes

A Journey into Blackfoot Knowledge”

Michael Gourlie, Executive Director Archives Society of Alberta

July 2006

Archival Material Digitized For Seeing With New Eyes

Seeing With New Eyes ~ A Journey Through Blackfoot Knowledge Page 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction 3

2. List of Fonds

a. James Brady fonds 5 b. Alfred W.R. Carrothers fonds 6 c. Muriel Clipsham fonds 6 d. Dr. Eung-Do Cook fonds 7 e. Selwyn Dewdney Petroglyph Tracings Project collection 8 f. David C. Duvall fonds 9 g. John C. Ewers fonds 9 h. F. Ross and Marie Gibney fonds 10 i. Glenbow Foundation. Archaeology Department fonds 11 j. Philip H. Godsell fonds 12 k. Esther Schiff Goldfrank fonds 13 l. George H. Gooderham fonds 14 m. Lucien and Jane Hanks fonds 15 n. Jessie & Robert Holmes fonds 16 o. Hudson's Bay Company fonds 17 p. Gwilym Isaac fonds 19 q. Oscar and Ruth Lewis fonds 19 r. Joe Little Chief fonds 20 s. Canon Samuel Henry Middleton fonds 20 t. Mildred Richardson fonds 21 u. St. Albert Historical Society fonds 22 v. St. Joseph's Industrial School fonds 23 w. Claude E. Schaeffer fonds 24 x. Everett Soop fonds 25 y. University of Calgary Report collection 26 z. Valleyview & District Chamber of Commerce Millennium Photograph Collection 26 aa. R.N. Wilson fonds 28



1) Introduction

One component of the “Seeing With New Eyes – A Journey Through Blackfoot Knowledge” project was to digitize and make available online records created by and about aboriginal peoples in Alberta, primarily the Blackfoot of Southern Alberta but also other groups from other areas of Alberta. This document contains a list of all the people and organizations that created records digitized as part of this project, listed by the name of the records creator. The list is made up of the fonds-level descriptions of the archival materials. The word “fonds” is an archival term meaning “all the records created or received by a person or organization during the course of their activities that are kept for future reference because they have ongoing value.” Archivists create these descriptions to help researchers find materials helpful to their research. Although the description provides just an overview of all the materials, it helps to narrow down the search. Usually, there is an accompanying document or webpage known as a finding aid that provides more detailed information as well as scanned documents or photographs. There are two methods to find the digitized materials:

• Go to the Archives Society of Alberta’s website (www.archivesalberta.org), and choose “Collections Online,” and then “ASA databases.” Choose the ANA (Archives Network of Alberta) database. Search the database using the name of the records creator in the “scan index” feature or a specific keyword in the “search for” field. When you’ve found the description (which is the same as the one that appears in this document), click on the red dot that appears at the bottom of the description to view the documents or photographs that are linked to that records creator.

• Go to www.archivesalberta.org, and choose “Collections Online,” and then “ASA databases.”

Choose either Alberta InWord (for documents) or Alberta InSight (for photographs). You can search using a keyword from the description, or you can use the advanced search feature and search the project code field for the word “see.” The descriptions for both the documents and the photographs have a link to the description in the ANA database. Please note that, for the documents in Alberta InSight, you click on the hyperlinked page numbers below the descriptions to read the documents.

Please note that not every document in each fonds was digitized. While all documents from the David C. Duvall fonds were digitized, only Esther Schiff Goldfrank’s photographs, and not her field notes, were scanned. To see the non-digitized materials (as well as the originals of the digitized materials in the database), you can visit the archival repository noted in the description. To find out more information about the repositories, visit www.archivesalberta.org, and choose “Collections Online,” and then “Directory of Archives.” Most institutions also have a separate website, and the link to that website is located in the directory. In some cases, the archival institution has an online finding aid for the records that can provide further information located on its website. For more information about the purpose, function and role of archival institutions, please visit the Archives Tutorial on the ASA website. If you have comments or questions about the databases and their use, please send them to [email protected].



2) LIST OF FONDS a) Title: James Brady fonds

Dates: 1895-1967, predominant 1932-1967

Physical desc.: 4 m of textual records. -- 1070 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

James Patrick Brady, 1908-1967?, was born near St. Paul, Alberta, the son of James Brady, Sr., an Irish immigrant, and Philomena Garneau, a Metis from Strathcona. Throughout his life he was an advocate of native rights, and a strong supporter of democratic socialism. He was a founding member of the Metis Association of Alberta, which worked to secure land for Metis squatters. He promoted cooperative ventures to give his people an economic base. In 1941 he became supervisor of the government-sponsored Wolf Lake Metis Colony. He fought overseas during the Second World War, and on his return moved to Saskatchewan where he worked for the CCF government's Department of Mineral Resources, establishing Metis cooperatives. He retired to La Ronge, Saskatchewan about 1950 due to differences with the CCF government. He disappeared in June 1967 while on a prospecting trip in northern Saskatchewan. For further information see The One-and-a-Half Men / Murray Dobbin. - Vancouver : New Star Books, 1981.

Custodial hist: Most of the records (4609m) were deposited by Simonot and Hansen, barristers and solicitors, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on behalf of Allan Quant, executor.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of diaries (1944-1945, 1955-1967); general correspondence (1933- 1966); Metis Association of Alberta correspondence, minutes, reports, etc. (1932-1952); photographs of Metis settlements and personalities in Alberta and Saskatchewan (1900-1965); files on Metis, Indians, cooperatives, politics and mining (1932-1967); and 204 scrapbooks of political newsclippings (1934-1961). RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Batoche, Beauval, Buffalo Narrows, Johnny Callihoo, W.J. "Bill" Callihoo, Chief Sittingstone, Cumberland House, P.G. Davies, Arthur K. Davis, Joseph F. Dion, T.C. Douglas, Gabriel Dumont, fisheries, forestry, fur trade, John Ferguson, Green Lake, Grouard, Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), hunting, Iroquois, Indian Association of Alberta, Justice Ewing, Lac La Biche, Albert Lacombe, La Ronge, League of Nations of North American Indians, Metis Association of Saskatchewan, National Indian Council, Malcolm F. Norris, H.C. Norwest, Omaha tribe, Papasschayo (Passpasschase), Prince Albert, Louis Riel, Morris C. Shumiatcher, Stony Rapids, Ross Thatcher, Peter Tompkins, and Wolf Lake.

Title source: Title based on contents of records.

Acq. source: Gifts of Marcel Simonot and Murray Dobbin, 1977-1978.

Language: The material is in English.

Restrictions: No restrictions on access.

Finding aids: Inventory available. Please consult before requesting material.

Record No.: M 125 ; PA 2218 ; NA 3432 ; NA 3517

Repository: Glenbow Archives



b) Title: Alfred W.R. Carrothers fonds


Physical desc.: 1.9 m of textual records. -- 6 photographs : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm and 9 x 12.5 cm

Bio/Admin History:

Alfred William Rooke Carrothers (1924 - 1998) was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on June 1, 1924. He took his undergraduate education at the University of British Columbia, receiving a BA in 1947 and an LLB in 1948. He then attended Harvard Law School and earned an LLM in 1951 and a Doctorate of Juridical Science in 1966. Carrothers joined the Faculty of Law at UBC as a lecturer in 1948 and became a full professor in 1960. In 1964 he became Dean, Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and in 1969 was appointed President of The University of Calgary, a position he held until 1974. He was involved in numerous learned societies and public service groups including serving as president of the Association of Canadian Law Teachers (1966-1967) and as chair of the Advisory Committee on the Development of Government in the North West Territories (1965-1966). He and his wife, Jane, had three children. Alfred W. R. Carrothers died on May 4, 1998 in Victoria, British Columbia at the age of 73.

Scope/Content: Fonds consists of Advisory Committee on the Development of Government in the North West Territories records (1964-1973) including terms of reference, final report, briefs and submissions presented to the Committee, financial statements, budgets, minutes, reports, correspondence, photos of Committee members and Northern views (1965), agenda and memos of public meetings held by the Committee, Carrothers' diaries describing his travels to the North and Committee meetings, and post-report discussions and House of Common debates. Includes Carrothers' reference material regarding the Committee and the North, correspondence with his wife, Jane (1965), and a speech.


Acq. source: Deposited by A.W.R. Carrothers.

Language: English

Restrictions: Unrestricted.

Finding aids: File list available.

Record No.: UARC 78.001

Repository: The University of Calgary Archives

c) Title: Muriel Clipsham fonds

Dates: 1928-1935

Physical desc.: 2 cm of textual records. -- 62 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

Muriel J. Greene, ca. 1908- , was born in the Verdant Valley district west of Drumheller, Alberta. In 1921 she moved with her family to Arnprior, Ontario where her father had grown up, and in 1925 she attended North Bay Normal School. The next year she followed her family back to the Drumheller area, and taught at Galarneauville, south of Hanna. She subsequently worked at one-year teaching posts at Creighton, Cassell Hill, Verdant Valley, Nordegg and Longsdale districts. In 1932-1933 she took domestic science at the Macdonald Institute, Guelph, Ontario and returned to Alberta in 1933 to teach at the Mount Carmel school near Michichi. In the summer of 1934 she worked at the Mountview Home for delinquent girls. She married Mr. Clipsham later that year and moved to Toronto. Her sister, Sadie M. Greene, worked as a nurse at the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve at Gleichen in the early 1930s.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of Muriel's reminiscences of her teaching career (1935); and photographs of



nursing staff, hospital, and native personalities at the Blackfoot reserve at Gleichen; and Greene family photographs.


Acq. source: Gift of Muriel J. Clipsham, 1984.



Finding aids: No finding aid.

Record No.: M 233 ; M 6956 ; PA 2634 ; NA 4716


d) Title: Dr. Eung-Do Cook fonds

Dates: 1967-1988

Physical desc.: 3.10 m of textual records. -- 24 audio cassettes

Bio/Admin History:

Eung-Do (Ed) Cook was born on February 3, 1935 in Seosan, Chung-Nam Province, Korea. He attended Chung-Aung University from 1954-1961, majoring in the English language and receiving his B.A. and M.A. during that time. He earned an M.A. in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) from the University of Hawaii in 1965, and a PhD in Lingustics from the University of Alberta in 1968. Dr. Cook joined the academic staff at the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in 1969, rising to Associate Professor in 1972 and to full Professor in 1975. From 1976-1985 he was Head of the Department of Linguisitics. He has been awarded many academic honours, including two Killam Fellowships, an annual fellowship with the Calgary Insitute for the Humanities, the Canadian Ethnic Studies Senior Fellowship and the Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Research Award. Ed Cook has been a prolific writer of books, articles, and conference papers. Building on the work of Edward Sapir, Father Morice, and Fang-Kuei Li, Dr. Cook compiled a large amount of raw data on First Nations languages -- Chipewyan (Dene Suline) and Chilcotin in particular. Dr. Cook retired from the University of Calgary as an Emeritus Professor in 2000. He married Myung-Sook Shin and they had two sons.

Custodial hist: Dr. Cook left the records in his office when he retired in June of 2000. They were later transferred to the University Archives by administrative staff of the Department of Linguistics.

Scope/Content: Fonds consists of audio cassettes, files, and index cards containing information on endangered First Nations languages, including Cebuano, Chilcotin, Chipewyan (Dene Suline), Morley Stoney (Siouan), Sarcee, and Witsuwiten. Amongst the records is a translation of the Chipewyan (Dene Suline) language to English on index cards which are being made available online.

Title source: Title based on contents of the fonds.

Arrangement: The index cards have been transferred into archival boxes with coloured index cards used to identify and space the different sections. Blue - beginning of new section; Pink - continuation of section in next box; Green - where dividers were in previous file drawers; Purple - notes; Yellow - used when Blue and Green cards ran out.

Language: The fonds contains records in Athabaskan, Carrier, Cebuano, Chilcotin, Chipewyan (Dene Suline), English, Hare, Morley Stoney (Siouan), Sarcee, and Witsuwiten.

Restrictions: Unrestricted.

Finding aids: File list available.



Record No.: UARC 2000.055


e) Title: Selwyn Dewdney Petroglyph Tracings Project collection

Dates: 1960-1963

Physical desc.: 49 drawings

Bio/Admin History:

In 1960 Selwyn Dewdney, 1909-1979, of London, Ontario, already well known for his petroglyph work in eastern Canada, was commissioned by the Glenbow Foundation to record native rock art in western Canada. An art teacher by profession, Dewdney traced the petroglyphs onto rice paper using a special method he had developed. In the summer of 1960 he recorded sites primarily in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park and along the Milk River in southern Alberta. In 1962 he recorded sites in Alberta and Saskatchewan with Glenbow archaeologist Don King, as his assistant. During his final field season in 1963 he recorded sites primarily in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. For further information see Daylight in the Swamp : Memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney. -- Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1997.

Custodial hist: The drawings were held in Glenbow's art and ethnology departments before being transferred to the archives in 1988.

Scope/Content: The collection consists of drawings from tracings of petroglyphs and pictographs in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.



Other formats: Photographic reproductions of all the drawings are available.



Record No.: M 7848




f) Title: David C. Duvall fonds

Dates: Photocopied 1967 (originally created 1904-1912)

Physical desc.: 18 cm of textual records

Bio/Admin History:

David C. Duvall, 1878-1911, was born in Montana, USA, the son of a Peigan woman and a French Canadian fur trader employed at Fort Benton. He was a blacksmith on the Peigan reservation at Browning. In 1903 he was engaged as an interpreter by anthropologist Clark Wissler who was collecting material for the American Museum of Natural History. He later collected narratives on facets of Blackfoot life and culture from older members of the Montana Peigan, and the Blood and Blackfoot (Siksika) in Alberta. He sent these accounts to Wissler in New York, who edited and published them in a series of AMNH anthropological papers.

Custodial hist: The photocopies were acquired by the Glenbow Archives from the American Museum of Natural History in 1967.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of ethnological notes about Peigan, Blood and Blackfoot. Topics consist of a wide variety of societies, dances (including sun dance), games, bundles (including beaver), pipes, lodges and songs. The papers have been scanned and may be viewed via the link below.



Originals: The originals are held by the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Anthropology Archives.

Restrictions: No restrictions on access. Permission to publish, broadcast or exhibit this material must be requested in writing from the AMNH, Division of Anthropology.


Record No.: M 4376 ; DC Duvall


g) Title: John C. Ewers fonds

Dates: Copied 2006 (originally created 1944-1972)


Bio/Admin History:

John Canfield Ewers, 1909-1997, was born in the USA. He studied under Clark Wissler at Yale University, and became an ethnologist who specialized in the Blackfoot (Blackfeet). In the early 1940s he helped establish the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana. After serving in the Second World war he was hired by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC as an ethnologist. In 1951 he undertook field work on the Blood reserve in southern Alberta. At the Smithsonian he became the director of what became the Museum of History and Technology, and subsequently worked as senior ethnologist. He retired in 1978. His books include Plains Indian Painting (1939), The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (1955), and The Blackfeet : Raiders on the Northwestern Plains (1958).

Custodial hist: These photocopies were acquired by the Glenbow Archives from the Smithsonian Institution in 2006, on the specific request of Red Crow Community College on the Blood reserve.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of photocopies of Ewers' field notes while on the Blood reserve (1951), correspondence with Hugh Dempsey and Claude Schaeffer about Blackfoot research (1949-1958), and various subject and correspondence files related to Blackfoot research, the Blood Motoki (Matoki) Society, and the horse. Includes files about Blackfoot art and material culture at the Denver Art Museum, Museum of the Southern Plains Indians in Anadarko, and the New



York Historical Society's Jarvis Collection. The 1951 field notes, Motoki (Matoki) Society notes, Dempsey correspondence, and Schaeffer correspondence have been scanned and may be viewed via the link below.



Originals: The originals are held by the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Restrictions: There are no restrictions on access. Permission to publish, broadcast or exhibit this material must be requested in writing from the Smithsonian.


Record No.: M 9141


h) Title: F. Ross and Marie Gibney fonds


Physical desc.: 20 photographs. -- 0.5 cm of textual records

Bio/Admin History:

Frederick Michael Ross Gibney, 1887-1943, was born in Ireland and came to Canada around 1912. He received his theology diploma in 1917 from Wycliffe College in Toronto and lived in Saskatchewan for several years. He married Marie Porter in 1919 and they had six children, William, Michael, John, George, Margaret (Dykes) and Agnes. They moved to Alberta ca. 1923 to take up a ministry at the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve. From 1930 to 1943 Ross was a minister and school teacher at the Sarcee (Tsuu T'ina) reserve. Marie, 1891-1984, was born in Port-o-Spain, Trinidad, raised in Scotland, and came to Canada in 1912. She was the organist at St. Peter's church in Regina before marrying Ross. She helped her husband in his ministries.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of photographs (1870, 1919-1927) of the Porter and Gibney families, Anglican clergy, Blackfoot, and views of Old Sun Industial School. Includes miscellaneous certificates of Marie and Ross (1917, 1919 and 1949).


Acq. source: Gift of Margaret Dykes, 1986.




Record No.: M 7469 ; NA 5022


i) Title: Glenbow Foundation. Archaeology Department fonds

Dates: 1950-1968

Physical desc.: ca. 7250 photographs. -- 1 m of textual records. -- 3 audio reels. -- 1 audio cassette

Bio/Admin History: The Glenbow Foundation became interested in archaeological sites in Alberta in 1955. The Director of the Foundation was Dr. Douglas Leechman, a Canadian archaeological pioneer.



An agreement was made with Dr. Hannah Marie Wormington of Denver, Colorado, USA, Dr. William Mulloy of the University of Wyoming and Dr. E. Mott Davis of the University of Texas to assemble data on the archaeological potential of Alberta. Several excavations were undertaken and a variety of early collections photographed. In the fall of 1956 the foundation hired Dr. Richard G. Forbis and an Archaeology Department was formed. From 1957 on the department's main objective was to investigate the late prehistoric sites in southern Alberta. In the summer of 1957 Forbis, assisted by David H. Quapp and Timothy J. O'Leary, undertook excavations at Grassy Lake Cairn and the Ross Site on the Oldman River northeast of Lethbridge. In the summer of 1958 and 1959 Archaeology Department field parties, under the direction of Don R. King, Quapp, and Tyler Bastian, excavated buffalo jumps south of Calgary, especially Old Woman's Buffalo Jump. Other excavations carried out in subsequent years included Cluny Earthlodge Village on the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Castor Creek site, and the Rumsey cairn, FM Ranch site, British Block cairn near Medicine Hat, the Fletcher site east of Lethbridge, and the Kenney site west of Fort Macleod. Petroglyphs were also discovered and studied at sites including Writing-On-Stone Park and Zephyr Creek. In 1963 the Archaeology Department's attention turned to historic sites and the fur trading post of Rocky Mountain House was excavated under William Noble of the University of Toronto. Dr. Brian O.K. Reeves led a field party in excavations around Alberta in 1964. The Archaeology Department closed in 1969 when Forbis joined the University of Calgary to form an archaeology department. For further information see An Introduction to the Archaeology of Alberta, Canada / H.M. Wormington and Richard G. Forbis. - Denver, Colorado : Denver Museum of Natural History, 1965.

Custodial hist: These records were transferred to the Archives from the Archaeology Department in 1968.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of slides and photographs of archaeological sites, excavations, field camps and artifacts from Glenbow Foundation Archaeological Department surveys and excavations in Alberta, and of private artifact collections. Also includes correspondence, site survey work sheets and reports, field notes, manuscripts, articles and papers related to the department's surveys and excavations. Includes recording of an archaeological convention held by the Glenbow Foundation (1960), radio broadcast by Don King on Alberta archaeology (1962) and scrapbook on archaeology in Alberta. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Jane Askey, bison, William Byrne, Castor Creek site, Crystal Spring site, Armin Dyck, Clive Elliott, Sandy Ervine, A.M. Erwin, funeral rites and ceremonies, Ron Getty, J. Hubert, Russell Johnson, H.P. Lewis, pottery, E. Richards, Norman Richards, Royal Ontario Museum, Maynard Shute, Kenneth Smith, J.A. Spencer, stone circles, and tipi rings.

Title source: Title based on provenance of records.




Associated/related: The original negatives and archaeological collections are held by the University of Calgary.

Record No.: M 1982 ; M 1984 ; M 1988 ; M 2105 ; M 3677 ; M 3678 ; M 3679 ; M 3680 ; M 3681 ; M 3684 ; M 3685 ; PD 29 ; PD 87 ; S 3 ; S 27 ; RAT 3 ; RET 7 ; NA 2360


j) Title: Philip H. Godsell fonds


Physical desc.: 5.25 m of textual records. -- 2594 photographs. -- 1 film reel. -- 1 audio disc. -- 1 microfilm



reel

Bio/Admin History:

Philip Henry Godsell, 1889-1961, was born in Wolverhampton, England. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and arrived at York Factory, Manitoba in 1906. He worked for the HBC until 1929, during which time he worked in the Keewatin, Lake Superior, Mackenzie River and Western Arctic districts. He worked as an auditor in Winnipeg, 1929-1936, then full time as a writer and journalist, 1936-1941. He was an auditor for the government during the Second World War, and later for Canadian Pacific Airlines. He joined the Glenbow Foundation in 1956 as a historical researcher. For much of his life he was a prolific writer, and he produced many books, short stories, radio broadcasts and articles, predominantly about his experiences as a fur trader and Arctic traveller, and about Indians, Inuit, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and pioneering. His published books include Arctic Trader, Red Hunters of the Snows, and They Got Their Man. His short stories were published in a wide variety of journals and newspapers. In 1920 he married Jean Turner, also an author.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of correspondence related to the HBC (1919-1931), his literary and broadcasting activities (1932-1961), and his Glenbow Foundation work (1956-1961); manuscripts of his books, short stories, radio broadcasts, articles and reports; bound volumes of his unpublished works; scrapbooks of reviews and newsclippings; and extensive photographs and slides of northern Indians and Inuit, plains Indians, HBC posts, the 1920 HBC Red River Pageant, fur trade, northern transportation, and the Godsell family. Includes a recorded CFAC broadcast of Godsell's "Christmas on the Frozen Frontier" (1957), and a film fragment of an Indian camp. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Alaska Highway, Aklavik (NWT), James Anderson, John Bearspaw (Stoney), Frederick Burt-Johns, Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, Mrs. Gerald Card, Cpl. Clay, Con Farrell, Poole Field, Colin Fraser, William Haney, Frank Hartley, W. Herman, Wop May, Col. J.D. Moodie, Frank Moran, musk ox, Nahanni, polar bears, Beryl Rowland, St. Laurent (Saskatchewan), Isaac O.Stringer, Samuel A. Tomlinson, and Yukon Territory.


Acq. source: Gift of Philip H. Godsell and his estate, 1956-1978, and Ralph Robinson, 1979.


Other formats: "Christmas on the Frozen Frontier" is also available on an audio reel.



Record No.: M 423 ; M 424 ; M 425 ; M 426 ; M 427 ; M 428 ; M 429 ; M 430 ; M 431 ; M 432 ; M 433 ; M 3957 ; M 4500 ; M 4514 ; M 8872 ; PA 2614 ; PB 644 ; PD 12 ; PD 20 ; PD 91 ; NA 725 ; NA 1146 ; NA 2563 ; NA 4201 ; NB 40 ; S 41 ; S 67 ; F 45 ; RBD 1 ; RCT 39 ; RET 34 ; Microfilm Godsell


k) Title: Esther Schiff Goldfrank fonds

Dates: 1939

Physical desc.: 1 microfilm reel (562 pages). -- 52 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

Esther Schiff, 1896-1997, was born in New York City, USA and educated there at the Ethical Culture School and Barnard College. She was married twice: first to Walter S. Goldfrank in 1922, and then to Dr. Karl Wittfogel in 1940. She carried out anthropological field work in New Mexico, 1920-1924, and on the Blood reserve in southern Alberta as part of Ruth Benedict's field project out of Columbia University, 1939. She taught in New York City, and published numerous studies including Changing Configurations in the Social Organization of a Blackfoot Tribe During the Reserve Period (The Blood of Alberta Canada) / Esther Schiff Goldfrank. - New



York : J.J. Augtin, 1945.

Custodial hist: Esther Goldfrank loaned the notebooks to Glenbow for microfilming before she donated all of her anthropological papers to the Smithsonian.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of microfilm of field notes regarding trip to Alberta, and a photograph album of a Blood sun dance.


Acq. source: Gift of Esther Schiff Goldfrank, 1964-1968.


Originals: The original field notes are held by the Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, Washington, DC.



Record No.: PD 90 ; BD Goldfrank




l) Title: George H. Gooderham fonds


Physical desc.: 3.88 m of textual records. -- 254 photographs. --10 audio cassettes

Bio/Admin History: George Hamilton Gooderham, 1889-1977, was born on the Poorman reserve in Saskatchewan where his father, John H. Gooderham, 1859-1919, was an Indian agent. He studied at McMaster University, then worked for the Toronto Transportation Commission until 1916. During First World War he was an officer of the Imperial Artillery. His father died in late 1919, after 41 years of service for the Indian Department, and George succeeded him as Indian agent of the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve at Gleichen, Alberta, 1920-1946. He was promoted to Regional Supervisor of Indian Agencies in Alberta and NWT in 1946, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. From 1955 until shortly before his death he worked as a historian for the Glenbow and Riveredge Foundations. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary in 1973. He married Mary Kentner in 1920 and they had three children, G. Kent, 1927-2003, Elizabeth (Robinson), and Eleanor (Crawford).

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of diaries (1920-1976); personal correspondence (1920s-1970s); five volumes of illustrated biographies of Blood, Peigan, Blackfoot (Siksika) and Sarcee (Tsuu T'ina) individuals; manuscripts of his articles, predominantly about the Blackfoot, Blood and Peigan; reference files related to Glenbow/Riveredge work (1950s-1970s); photographs of the Blackfoot and their reserve; and sound recordings of his reminiscences and 'oral essays'. Includes J.H. Gooderham's diaries as Indian agent (1901, 1903-1907). RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Elizabeth Barrett, Beaupre family, Jessy Beery, Black Fever, Blackfoot coal mine, Ma Brainard, Austin Brown, "7U" Brown, Bull Bear, Calf, Calf Old Woman, Joe Calfchild, Carlstadt (Alderson), M.J. Coldwell, Crazy Catt, Crooked Meat Strings, Chief Crowfoot, Joe Crowfoot, Doukhobors, Duck Chief, Campbell Evans, First World War, Harry Garbett, Fat Horse, Joe Galibois, Hoot Gibson, Gleichen Canadian Club, Bill Henry, Louie Hong, Gordon Ironsides, Father Levern, Daniel Little Axe, Little Skunk, Lt. Col. Littleton, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Herbert Lawrence, Little Light, Allan J. MacDonald, Mrs. Many Bears, Jack Morton, Thomas Murphy, Fred Niven, Old Sun, Mary Owl, Spencer Owl Child, Charlie Parks, Bill Petit, physicians (on reserves), Billie Playfair, Pretty Young Man, Rapid City, Raw Eater, Joe Red Blanket, Robert Rose, Jim Running Wolf, Ralph Scalplock, Dr. Duncan Campbell Scott, Slow Coming Over the Hill, Henry Smith, Mary Starlight, sun dance, B.H.J. Thoms, tipis, Three Suns, Treaty 7, Weasel Calf, White-Headed Chief, White Pup, Teddy Yellow Fly, and Yellow Horse.


Acq. source: Gifts of George H. Gooderham and Mrs. J. Crawford, 1957-1977.


Other formats: Gooderham's article on Austin Brown was published as "Memories of the Early Days" in Alberta History. -- vol. 50, no. 3 (Summer 2002), p. 24-25.



Associated/related: Additional 'oral essays' and interviews conducted by George Gooderham are in the Riveredge Foundation collection (RCT 911).

Record No.: M 439; M 3850; M 3974; M 3975; M 4333; M 4350; M 4385; M 4738; M 4843/90; RAT 7; RCT 934; PA 1; PA 32 ; PA 49; PA 50; PA 59; PA 63; PA 112; PA 232; PA 247; PA 271; PA 287; PA 300; PA 301; PA 335; PA 368; PA 491; PA 494; PA 557; PA 619; PA 963; PA 1220; PA 1225; PB 4; PB 21; PB 24; PB 28; PB 36; PB 57; PD 40; NA 9; NA 13; NA 19; NA 27; NA 165; NA 189; NA 375; NA 384; NA 486; NA 617; NA 661; NA 731; NA 807; NA 872; NA 877; NA 1329; NA 1542;



NA 1849; NA 1954; NA 2505; NA 2628; NA 3178 (1 - 3); NA 3223; NA 3325; NB 1


m) Title: Lucien and Jane Hanks fonds


Physical desc.: 56 cm of textual records. -- 366 photographs. -- 2 audio cassettes. -- 5 film reels

Bio/Admin History: Lucien Mason Hanks, Junior (nicknamed "June"), 1910-1989, was born in Wisconsin, USA. He obtained a PhD in psychology from Columbia University in 1936, and taught at the University of Illinois, 1937-1942. He subsequently specialized in Southeast Asia Studies, and worked for Bennington College, the Washington Office of Strategic Services, the US Education Foundation in Thailand, and the Cornell Centre in Bangkok. In late 1938 he married Jane Richardson. Jane Richardson, 1908- , was born in California, USA. She received a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1939. She too later specialized in Southeast Asia, and worked for Bennington College and Cornell University. The Hanks undertook a research project on the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve in Southern Alberta during the summers of 1938, 1939 and 1941. In 1950 they published the results of their research in Tribe Under Trust : A Study of the Blackfoot Reserve of Alberta. -- Toronto : University of Toronto Press.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of field notes of Jane and Lucien Hanks, written during their ethnological research among the Siksika; photographs and films of Siksika people, events, ceremonies, the Blackfoot reserve, tipis, Gleichen, and Sun Dances; letters from friends on the reserve; and a sound recording of Jane Hanks describing many of the photographs. THE FONDS CONTAINS INFORMATION PROVIDED BY AND ABOUT THESE INDIVIDUALS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: A Young Man, Mrs. Axe, Francis Black, Jim Black, Mrs. Black, June Black, Pete Black, Martin Breaker, Earl Calf Child, Norman Calf Child, Calf Flying, Ben Calf Robe, Tony Crane Bear, Crooked Meat Strings, George Crowchief, Joe Crowfoot, Albert Cutter, Drunken Chief, Jim Drunken Chief, Duck Chief, Mrs. Duck Chief, Gooderham, He Will Be Black, Heavy Shield, Hind Bull, Imitena, Kippie James, Jack Kipp, Little Back Bone, Little Light, Paul Little Walker, Mrs. Low Horn, Many Bears, Linden Many Bears, Many Guns (includes a winter count), Phillip Many Guns, Mrs. George Many Shots, Howard McMasters, Tom McMasters, Emil Medicine Traveller, Lawrence Night Chief, Old Bull, Cyril Old Woman, One Gun, Peanuts, Pitoxpikis, Ponoka, Pretty Young Man, Harry Red Gun, Buck Running Rabbit, Benedict Sitting Eagle, Sleigh, Spotted Eagle, Spumiapi, Storm Sun Shoe, Sun Calf, Mrs. Take Gun Himself, Matthew Tallow, Turned Up Nose, Olive Turning Robe, Water Chief, Mary White Elk, Joe White Fat, White-Headed Chief, Mrs. White Headed Chief, Paul Wolf Collar, Wolf Leg, Jack Wolf Leg, Gordon Yellow Fly and Teddy Yellow Fly.


Acq. source: Gift of Dr. Jane Richardson Hanks, 1996-1997.




Associated/related: The Canadian Museum of Civilization holds other original Hanks papers. Glenbow holds photocopies of some of this material (M 8078). Library and Archives Canada holds the original films (F 172). Glenbow's copies are for reference only.

Record No.: M 8458 ; M 8078 ; M 4387 ; PA 3385 ; F 172




n) Title: Jessie & Robert Holmes fonds

Dates: 1876-1925

Physical desc.: 2 cm textual records. -- 38 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

On August 7, 1902, Robert and Jessie Holmes and their eighteen month old son George left Liverpool, England to travel to the Peace River Country in Canada’s Northwest Territories. They traveled on the SS Tunisian of the Allan line to Montreal, arriving about mid August, and then continued by train to Edmonton. At Edmonton, they purchased furniture for their home in the north, provisions enough to last six months and a shooting outift (guns). Then they traveled over the Athabasca Trail by rented wagon and driver and down the Athabasca and Slave Rivers and across Lesser Slave Lake by York Boat. They arrived at the English mission on the shores of Slave Lake on September 18, 1902, 42 days after leaving England. The Holmes lived in the old log mission house in the compound and Robert was in charge of the farm and gardens while Jessie assisted with activities at the school. Here their daughter Eunice was born and they learned the Cree language. In 1904 they moved to Christ Church Mission on the Shaftesbury Trail 18 miles from Peace River, where there were farms and a boarding school also. Their stay at Shaftesbury was marked by measles and whooping cough epidemics as well as many experiences with the native people. In 1907 the Holmes returned to England for a furlough and brought back with them Knott Haversoll, Jessie’s father. Settlers were starting to file on land in the area and more church services were added to their responsibilities: Peace River Landing, Griffin Creek and Waterhole as well as Shaftesbury Trail. Three more children were born during years they remained at Shaftesbury after the furlough. In 1914 the family moved to Peace River Crossing and in 1915 they became the senior missionary at Lake Saskatoon. By then they had been joined by Jessie’s sister May who came to help take care of Mr. Hothersal as he had suffered from a stroke. He passed away in the spring of 1916 and was followed three months later by Robert Holmes, who died of a massive heart attack in July of 1916. Jessie took out a homestead near Lake Saskatoon, and with the help of kind neighbours, family and church bursaries raised and educated her children.

Custodial hist: The memoirs were preserved by the descendants of Robert and Jessie Holmes. Copies of the memoirs, letters and photographs were donated to Grande Prairie Regional Archives by their grandson Aubrey Harrold in 2004.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of a copy of Robert Holmes’ memoirs concerning the trip made from Liverpool to the mission on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake in 1902; a copy of Jessie Holmes’ memoirs of the same trip, of their work and experiences at Slave Lake, Shaftesbury Trail, and Lake Saskatoon; 8 letters written by Jessie, Robert, Lizzie and George, dated 1902 to 1912; and 38 photographs of the family and scenes at their homes and missions.



Restrictions: There are no restrictions on access.

Notes: Title based on the contents of the fonds. Accession No. 2003.4 ; Photographs are low resolution copies on a CD. Item descriptions of photographs included in finding aid.

Record No.: 157

Repository: South Peace Regional Archives



o) Title: Hudson's Bay Company fonds

Dates: 1834-1863


Bio/Admin History:

The Hudson’s Bay Company was formed as “The Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudsons Bay” on May 6, 1670. One of the partners was Prince Rupert, cousin to the King of England at the time, and to this company Charles II gave all the land whose rivers drained into the Hudson Bay, the land becoming known as Rupert’s Land. As early as 1718, Cree traders from the Peace were making the long journey to Hudson’s Bay with furs to barter for European goods. In 1788 the North West Company established Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca, and at about the same time traders started building posts on the lower portions of the Peace River. Alexander Mackenzie made his famous trip up the Peace River in 1793, and the North West Company founded Dunvegan in 1805 to serve local traders and act as a provisioning post supplying bison, moose and garden produce for their employees and traveling brigades. Fort Dunvegan was a substantial post for its time, surrounded by a stockade with corner bastions. The compound included a large officers’ house, smaller houses for the men, an ice house, blacksmith shop, warehouse, trading shop, and powder magazine. Dunvegan also had value as a staging post for the North West Company's plans to develop the trade beyond the mountains in the interior of British Columbia (New Caledonia). In 1821, after a period of destructive competition, the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company joined forces, retaining the H.B.C. name. York Boats brought supplies into the Forts at Dunvegan and Ft. St. John from Eastern Canada. They came via the Churchill River, over the Methy Portage to the Clearwater River, then to the Athabasca River and up the Peace River. There was an amazing amount and variety of goods at a Fur Trade Post such as Dunvegan—everything from drugs to sewing materials to fancy clothing. Dunvegan was the trading centre for much of the Peace Region, the nearest other posts being at Ft. St. John and the Forks of the Smoky and Peace Rivers near Peace River Crossing. Chief Factors at the post kept daily journals and financial ledgers, recording accounts of purchases made and furs brought in by individual trappers and traders. The ledgers also recorded inventories at the post and goods transferred from one post to another. Although the Hudson’s Bay Company records were kept in English, many of the traders were Metis, and French was their language of choice. When they could, they transcribed the hunters and trappers name in the native tongue (e.g. Testawitz, ). When the name was too gutteral to sound out, the traders would give them a descriptive name in French, such as L’Eau, Tranquille, and La Glace. Often trappers were identified by their relationship to other trappers (e.g. L’Eau’s 2nd son), or by their occupation (e.g. L’Oeil Blanc, Voyaguer), nickname (e.g. Hofs alias Chocolat), nationality (e.g. Une Ois, Slave Indian) or dual names (e.g. Nesplatte 3rd Son, Ah neh thir say).

Custodial hist: The ledgers originated from the trading post at Dunvegan, but were moved at some point to Fort St. John. The documents were discovered in the summer of 1942 by Clarence Anderson in a dilapidated building which had been part of the Hudson's Bay Company trading post at Fort St. John. At the time, Clarence was a member of the Canadian construction crew on the Alaska Highway, and when the US Army ordered the demolition of the old buildings on the river flat south of present day Fort St. John, Clarence rescued the ledgers and brought them to his home in LaGlace. In 2002 he deposited them in the Grande Prairie Regional Archives.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of two fur-trade ledgers which detail transactions between the Hudson's Bay Company at Dunvegan and individuals trading with this post, including Tranquille, La Glace and L'Eau, who were leaders of the Beaver First Nation from the Grande Prairie. The first ledger (8

x 13" and 160 pages) dates between 1834 and 1840, and the second ledger (9 x 14" and 160 pages) is from 1861-1863. The ledgers disclose what goods were on hand at Dunvegan at the time and the kinds of furs being trapped in the area.




Physical desc. note:

Documents are fragile and access is limited. Portions of certain pages on the first ledger have been eroded (possibly by vermin), and both ledgers have suffered some water damage. Otherwise the script is legible


Restrictions: Fragile. No photocopying.

Finding aids: A finding aid is available.

Accruals: No accruals expected.

Notes: Accession No. 2002.63.

Record No.: 134


p) Title: Gwilym Isaac fonds

Dates: Copied 1964-1984 (originally created 1915-1919)

Physical desc.: 77 photographs. -- 0.5 cm of textual records

Bio/Admin History:

Gwilym Isaac was born in England and trained as an Anglican clergyman. He came to Canada under the auspices of the Archbishop's Western Canada Fund to work in Alberta. He was first based in Cardston and worked in the Coutts/Warner region and among the Bloods and Peigan. In 1918 he transferred to Lac la Nonne in the northern part of the province. He was married and had at least one daughter, Mrs. P. Botsford. He later returned to England. For further information see David Carter's article "Archbishop's Western Canada Fund" in Alberta History. - vol. 16, no. 1 (Winter 1968), p. 10-17.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of photographs of Gwilym and of Coutts, Cardston, Lac la Nonne, and the Blood reserve; and Gwilym's reports (1915-1917).



Originals: The originals are held by Mrs. P. Botsford and Winifred Isaac.



Record No.: M 6922 ; NA 1293 ; NA 4611


q) Title: Oscar and Ruth Lewis fonds



Dates: Photocopied 1996 (originally created 1939-1942)


Bio/Admin History:

Oscar Lewis, 1914-1970, was born in New York City, USA. In 1937 he married Ruth, 1916- , who was educated in psychology and special education. In 1939, as a Columbia University graduate student, Oscar undertook field work on the Peigan reserve at Brocket, Alberta as part of a project organized by Professor Ruth Benedict to study the Blackfoot. Ruth accompanied him and helped with the research. He received his Phd in anthropology from Columbia in 1940, and subsequently taught at Washington University and the University of Illinois. Ruth, also an educator, was still a research associate of the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1996. For further information see The Effects of White Contact Upon Blackfoot Culture / Oscar Lewis. - New York : J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1942.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of field notes kept during the 1939 Brocket study, including information from these informants: Lil Girl, Charlie Crow Eagle, Joe Scott, Bad Boy, Chief Yellow Horn, Charlie Strikes With Gun, and Mrs. Running Eagle. The notes relate largely related to "manly-hearted women". Also consists of letters from Ruth Benedict (1939-1949), Oscar's articles on Blackfoot economics and social structure (1942), and letters from various anthropologists about Oscar's work.



Originals: The originals are held by Ruth Lewis.



Record No.: M 8462


r) Title: Joe Little Chief fonds

Dates: 1956


Bio/Admin History:

Joe Little Chief was a Blackfoot (Siksika) from Cluny, Alberta. His Blackfoot name was Pe-ta-kis-kis-na-ma, meaning White Eagle. Although he had only a grade six education, he hoped to publish a record of Plains Indian life, and to this end put down on paper tales told by old people, accounts of ancient ceremonies, and stories of people, battles and events.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of articles and legends about the social, religious and warrior life of the Blackfoot and Cree. Includes his winter count for 1830 to 1913. Many of his articles were published in Canadian Cattlemen.


Acq. source: Purchased from Joe Little Chief, 1956.


Restrictions: Originals are restricted due to fragile condition. The stories have been scanned and may be viewed via the link below.


Record No.: M 4394




s) Title: Canon Samuel Henry Middleton fonds

Dates: 1911-1963

Physical desc.: 1.55 m of textual records. -- 6 microfilm reels. -- 327 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

Samuel Henry Middleton, 1884-1964, was born in Burton-on-Trent, England, and came to Alberta in 1905 to take up ranching east of Pincher Creek. He became an Anglican missionary and Bishop Pinkham offered him the position of headmaster of St. Paul's Anglican Residential School on the Blood reserve. In 1911, he was ordained by the Bishop of Calgary, became Bishop's Chaplain in 1916, and was made Canon of Calgary Cathedral in 1924. From 1924 to 1939, he was Rural Dean of Lethbridge and in 1943 was Archdeacon of Lethbridge. While on the reserve, he studied the Blackfoot language and produced literature on both Blood and Blackfoot (Siksika) history and culture. Aided by his wife, Kathleen Underwood, a new St. Paul's School opened on the reserve in 1925 under his direction. The Middletons had three children, Charles Samuel, Sophie (Allison), ?-1999, and Verdun (Hunt). He was also an active Rotarian, involved with the Masonic Society, a leading figure in the creation of the International Peace Park at Glacier and Waterton in 1932, and an honorary Kainai Chief of the Bloods. He retired from St. Paul's in 1949, and from the church in 1951. For further biographical information, see Chief Mountain : The Story of Canon Middleton / Roberta Jean Forsberg. - Whittier, California, 1964.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of diaries (1928-1948); general correspondence (1916-1963); notes for addresses and sermons; scrapbooks (on microfilm); publications; and photographs of St. Paul's Anglican School and Mission (1900s-1950s) and the Blood reserve. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Muriel Burton-Watkins, Rev. G.R. Calvert, Roberta Forsberg, George H. Gooderham, Everett W. Hill, Historical Society of Alberta, John Samuel Frazier Hunt, Kainai Chieftainship, M.H. Long, E.R. McFarland, James D. MacGregor, Canon W.J. Merrick, Missionary Society of the Church in Canada, Albert Mountain Horse, Frank Rasky, Rev. Ralph L. Sherman, Harwood Steele, Te-Ata (Chickasaw), and Milfred V. Thornton.


Acq. source: Purchased from James Zieffle and gifts of S.H. Middleton, Charles Middleton, Lily Middleton and Sophie Allison, 1961-1996.


Originals: The original scrapbooks are held by Sophie Allison.



Record No.: M 839 ; M 6113 ; PA 604 ; PA 605 ; PA 1146 ; PB 109 ; NA 769 ; NA 1400 ; NA 1811, 23-75 ; NA 3910 ; NA 4429 ; NA 5550 ; AC Middleton


t) Title: Mildred Richardson fonds

Dates: Copied 1985 (originally created 1955-1957)

Physical desc.: 77 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

Mildred Richardson was a teacher at Old Sun Residential School on the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve in southern Alberta from 1955 to 1957. She retired to Woodstock, Ontario.



Scope/Content: The fonds consists of photographs of pupils, buildings and staff of Old Sun School.



Originals: The originals are held by Mildred Richardson.



Record No.: NA 4817


u) Title: St. Albert Historical Society fonds

Dates: [188-?]-1987, predominant 1890-1940

Physical desc.: 1300 photographs. -- 1.5 m textual records

Bio/Admin History: The St. Albert Historical Society was incorporated in 1972, originating in initial volunteer efforts in 1969 to restore the Lacombe Chapel, which it subsequently administered as the Father Lacombe Museum. The aims of the Society are to encourage an appreciation of the history of St. Albert, to acquire and preserve information pertaining to the settlement and development of St. Albert and to support the objectives and activities of a civic museum and civic historic sites management. The Society was also responsible for the establishment of the Albert Lacombe Historical Foundation in 1978 with purpose to sponsor, establish and administer a historical complex including the Father Lacombe Chapel and the Mission House of Bishop Grandin on St. Albert’s Mission Hill. When the Alberta Provincial Government took over administration of the Chapel and Mission House in 1981, the Foundation dissolved. The Society was extensively involved in the planning and development of St. Albert Place, the city’s civic, cultural and administrative complex. The Society’s activities include publication of St. Albert: A Pictorial History (1978) and The Black Robe’s Vision: A History of St. Albert and District (1985), which commemorated the 125th anniversary of the founding of St. Albert as a settlement. The collection was in part developed as part of this publishing activity. The Society functioned as the St. Albert Heritage Society from 1998 to 2005, when it returned to its original incorporated name.

Custodial hist: Initially collected from community sources and maintained by the St. Albert Historical Society, the collection was transferred to Musee Heritage Museum & Archives in 2003.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of photographic images obtained by the St. Albert Historical Society in its work to acquire and preserve information pertaining to the settlement and development of St. Albert. This work included publication projects of the Society, which used fond material, particularly in the publication of The Black Robe’s Vision: A History of St. Albert and District (1985). The images are of families who resided in St. Albert and district from its establishment in 1861 to 1945. Other districts include Villeneuve, Ray and Volmer. The images date from ca. 1890, but the fonds includes general photographic material on St. Albert to 1987, with material from 1890-1940 predominant. Much of the material was collected from family sources from 1974-1986. The records are arranged in year of



accession and listed in a title and date database.


Physical desc. note:

Includes negative and print reproductions of images with some originals

Acq. source: St. Albert Historical Society was the sole custodian of the material until its transfer to the Musee Heritage Museum and Archives, St. Albert.

Arrangement: Material is arranged in file folders, each containing a single item or record.


Originals: Concerning family images, originals in possession of contributing families.

Other formats: Digitized TIFF or JPEG file format

Restrictions: Subject to permission and copyright through Musee Heritage Museum & Archives.

Finding aids: Material may be searched through database or through subject binders with copies of material.

Associated/related: Fonds include related St. Albert material held in Provincial Archives of Alberta, including images from the Oblate archives. Permission for use or copyright of that material must be obtained from those organizations.

Record No.: P974-P986

Repository: Musee Heritage Museum

v) Title: St. Joseph's Industrial School fonds

Dates: 1884-1909

Physical desc.: 1.33 m of textual records. -- 3 photographs

Bio/Admin History: St. Joseph's Industrial School, commonly known as Dunbow School, operated from 1884 to 1924. It was built by the Canadian government, east of High River, Alberta and was operated by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate as a Catholic residential school for Blackfoot children. It was one of the first three Indian residential schools in western Canada. The principals of the school were Father Albert Lacombe (1884-1885), Father E. Claude (1885-1890), Father A. Naessens (1890-1907), Father J. Riou (1907-?) and Father J.A. Demers (?-1924). The Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Regina and the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Ottawa supervised the operations of the school. For further information see Brian Titley's article, "Dunbow Indian Industrial School : An Oblate Experiment in Education", in Western Oblate Studies 2 / Raymond Huel editor. -- Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of eight volumes of letterbooks: five of the principals' general correspondence and reports (1884-1907); one of letters to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Ottawa (1897-1909); and two of business letters, orders, deliveries, etc. pertaining to the daily operations of the school. Also includes incoming letters (1892), primarily from Hayter Reed, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Father E. Claude, John Delaney, Vital Grandin, and 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion).


Acq. source: Gift of L.C. Hunter and Charles Knight, 1957-1960.


Other formats: The letterbooks are also available on microfilm.





Associated/related: Further records of the school are part of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate records at the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

Record No.: M 2019 ; M 2020 ; PB 94 ; NA 492 ; BI St. Joseph's




w) Title: Claude E. Schaeffer fonds

Dates: 1934-1969

Physical desc.: 2.87 m of textual records. -- 409 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

Claude Everett Schaeffer, 1901-1969, was born in Ohio, USA. He received his BA from the University of Washington in 1927 and worked for the family firm until beginning graduate work at Yale in 1931. In 1934 he worked as a field investigator under Clark Wissler, for the American Museum of History. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1937 and received his PhD in anthropology in 1940. Dr. Schaeffer was assistant state archaeologist for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1940-1947, and director of the Museum of the Plains Indians in Browning, Montana, 1947-1954. He resigned due to poor health, but on his recuperation was curator of the Klamath County Museum, 1955, and of the Oregon Historical Society, 1956-1959, before regaining his old post in Browning. He remained at the Museum of the Plains Indians until his retirement in 1966. He was a productive scholar, and devoted much of his life to gathering field data from the Flathead, Kootenay and Blackfoot. On his retirement, he planned to develop much of this material into books and articles, but he died before this could be achieved.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of anthropological field notes, manuscripts and photographs regarding the Flathead, Kootenay and Blackfoot cultures. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: beaver bundles, berdache, bison drives, Blood, buffalo stones, childbirth, conjuring practices, ethnology, fur trade, Kutenai Pelly (Kootenay Indian), medicine pipes, Hugh Munro, Nupika, Peigan, Sata (Blackfoot), shaking tent, Spokan Garry (Spokane Indian), sun dance, David Thompson, tobacco, and winter counts.


Acq. source: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Claude E. Schaeffer, 1960-1972.


Other formats: Also available on microfilm.



Record No.: M 1100 ; M 1101 ; M 4111 ; M 4436 ; PA 556 ; PA 1094 ; PA 1124 ; PA 3087 ; NA 1903 ; NA 1957 ; NA 1996 ; NA 3324 ; NA 5213 ; NB 47 ; AC Schaeffer




x) Title: Everett Soop fonds

Dates: 1967-1987

Physical desc.: 2 m of textual records. -- 2018 cartoons. -- 2 photographs

Bio/Admin History: Everett Soop, 1943-2001, was born on the Blood reserve in southern Alberta. From a young age he was incapacitated by muscular dystrophy. He studied at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary in 1964, then spent a year at Brigham Young University, Utah, USA. He then studied journalism at Calgary's Mount Royal College, and spent two years at the University of Lethbridge, during which time he took summer courses at the Banff School of Fine Arts. In 1968 he was hired by the newly-launched Kainai News newspaper to draw political cartoons and write columns. From 1976 to 1982 he wrote a regular column called "Gitskenip" (You Know). He served on the Blood Tribal Council from 1982 to 1986. He was unemployed and in poor health from 1986 to 1989, but in 1990 briefly resumed working for Kainai News. His cartoons and writings are noted for satirizing not only government agencies and their treatment of natives, but also the foibles of his own people. Three books of his works have been published, the first a selection of his cartoons, Soop Take a Bow / Everett Soop. - Stand Off, Alberta : Indian News Media Society, 1979; Another Bowl of Soop; and the last a selection of both his columns and cartoons, I See My Tribe is Still Behind Me / Everett Soop, edited and intro. by Hugh A. Dempsey. - Calgary : Glenbow Museum, 1990. See also the documentary Soop on Wheels /Two Wheels Production. - Toronto : Ashland, 1998.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of cartoons drawn for publication in Kainai News (1968-1983)and two portrait photographs of Soop. The fonds also consists of records related to his Blood Tribal Council work (1982-1986), including Band Council minutes, band membership reports, financial statements, and committee records for the Constituion, Economic Development, Education, Health, Land, Public Works, Recreation and Parks, and Social Development Commmittees. Includes submissions and reports related to First Nations self-government and to amendments to the Indian Act to restore status to First Nations women who married non-natives.


Acq. source: Gift of Everett Soop, 1988-1992, and Hugh Dempsey, 2004.




Associated/related: Library and Archives Canada holds 125 of Everett Soop's cartoons. There are photographs of Everett Soop, taken September 4, 1979, in the Calgary Herald fonds at Glenbow (NA-2864-36294).

Record No.: M 7959 ; M 9028 ; PA 3686




y) Title: University of Calgary Report collection

Dates: [1960]-2006

Physical desc.: 15 m of textual records

Bio/Admin History: The collection was initiated in 1989.

Scope/Content: Fonds consists of reports.


Acq. source: Reports are duplicates and are withdrawn from other accesssions.

Arrangement: Reports are added to the collection as they arrive.



Accruals: Further accruals expected.

Record No.: UARC Report collection


z) Title: Valleyview & District Chamber of Commerce Millenium Photograph Collection

Dates: 1907-1994

Physical desc.: 817 photographs

Bio/Admin History:

Sturgeon Lake, near where the town of Valleyview exists today, was a favoured fishing and hunting base for First Nations people, first for their own food supply and later for supplying the fur trade posts around Lesser Slave Lake with meat and furs. The land was inhabited first by the Beaver First Nation. They were joined by the Cree, and after 1870 by an influx of Metis of various ethnic origins, including Cree, Iroquois and Assiniboine. The first fur trade post at Sturgeon Lake was established by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1877. By 1879, when George Dawson came through the area via an established Indian trail across the Wapiti and Smoky Rivers, a settlement had been establised there with a few log homes and several gardens containing barley, potatoes, turnips, carrots, beets and onions. The settlement increased substantially in the early 1880s and by the time the NWMP conducted their first inspection tour in 1897, there were about 40 homes and 4 fur trade posts, including the Hudson's Bay Company compound of shop, fish house and factor's home. After Treaty No. 8 was signed in 1899, Sturgeon Lake Indian Reserve #54s was established beside the Lake. Sturgeon Lake Settlement was surveyed in 1907, with lake-front property granted to the HBC, the RNWMP, the Roman Catholic Mission and Revillon Freres Trading Co. Metis families living in the settlement prior to 1907 were also granted 40 acres each. That same year, the Residential School was established at St. Xavier Mission on the lake shore. The Oblate fathers had been visiting the area since 1884, and built a church in 1905. They also added a Mission Farm on the south-east shore of the lake, where they produced grains, garden crops and raised livestock. The Residential School accepted day students, such as the Kerr and Williamson children, as well as the Metis and First Nations children. Metis families, such as Eli and Eva Badger and their two sons, Paul and Dan, were among the area's first settlers. They were experts at building log cabins, craftwork such as snowshoes, and gardening. They raised the first crops, about 1905, on the land which became the Valleyview townsite and supplied hay for travelers coming in over the Edson Trail in 1911. Paul's wife was known to be the area's midwife. In 1916 the first European homesteaders, such as Dan McMillar began to arrive, with the Williamsons and Adolphsons coming in 1918. Some land was settled through Soldiers Settlement Board after World War I, but the main influx of settlers began to



arrive in the late 1920s. The community's first post office opened in 1929 along with the Red Willow Creek Store. It was with the renaming of the post office and store that Red Willow Creek became "Valleyview." Also in 1929, the Calais School District was organized, and in the summer of 1930 the first resident nurse, Jessie Hyde, arrived. A temporary nurse residence and office-dispensary was set up in David Williamson's original homestead cabin. Later in the 1930s a new home and office for Nurse Hyde was built. The initial medical fees were along the following lines: house-calls $1.00, visit to the office $0.50, and maternity care (including pre- and postnatal care) $10.00. Fishing, hunting and trapping remained prodominent in the Valleyview area, where there were bear, moose, martin, fox and beaver whose furs were valuable. Traditionally in the First Nation and Metis communities, women were in charge of preparing fish, activities which included cleaning, frying, and smoking fish, saving them for months to come. In the 1930s a major winter commercial fishery was developed at Sturgeon Lake. The fish market was based on supplying eastern Canadian and American markets with whitefish, which were considered as the finest whitefish in Alberta. In the 1950s this market disappeared with the establishment of inspection proceedures and the Federal Fish Marketing Board. Sawmills were another source of jobs and income. Burrough's Mill operated north of Sturgeon Lake operated with a crew of fifty men, and supplied lumber for the High Prairie market as well as their own. Also, Sturgeon Lake continued to be a focal point for the Valleyview area. As early as 1920, there were "resorts" and cabins for rent around the lake to provide for recreational time. By 1949 Valleyview was expanding with the completion of a new ten room hotel, a beer parlour, and a restaurant. In September, 1950, the Pacific Petroleum Company stuck oil about seven miles north-east of the tiny hamlet. As a result of the discovery, Valleyview boomed. In only one year, 1955, the community went from hamlet to village to town status.

Custodial hist: The photographs were gathered by Mary Ellen MacGregor and Sandra Whittacker for a photograph display sponsored by the Valleyview and District Chamber of Commerce, "Journey to the Millenium", in 2000. Digitized images of the privately owned photographs was donated to the Grande Prairie Regional Archives in 2003.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of a binder containing scanned copies of photographs, articles and maps with photographs; a CD containing digital images of 500 photographs used in the "Journey to the Millenium" display chronicalling the growth of the Valleyview and Sturgeon Lake area; and a CD containing digital images of a 1910 Fur Trade Ledger from the Revillon Freres Trading Post at Sturgeon Lake operated by the Williamson family.



Originals: Original photographs retained by donors


Finding aids: A finding aid is available.

Accruals: No accruals are expected.

Record No.: 175


aa) Title: R.N. Wilson fonds

Dates: 1890-1897

Physical desc.: 9 cm of textual records. -- 132 photographs

Bio/Admin History: Robert Nathaniel Wilson, 1863-1944, was born in Ontario. He joined the North-West



Mounted Police (NWMP) and served in Fort Macleod, Alberta and Fort Pitt and Battleford, Saskatchewan, 1881-1884. He then ran a trading post on the Belly River near Stand Off, Alberta. In 1888 he married Lila Hillier, 1868-1939, who was originally from England. He was the Indian agent at the Peigan Indian Agency, 1898-1903, and on the Blood reserve, 1904-1911. During these years he recorded ethnological information about the Blood, Blackfoot (Siksika) and Peigan. He also purchased native artifacts on behalf of the Field Museum of Chicago and other American museums, ca. 1893-1905. He wrote several scientific articles for the Royal Society of Canada. In 1911 he returned to his trading post at Stand Off.

Custodial hist: Most of R. N. Wilson's papers were destroyed shortly after his death by the executor of his estate. A few papers were saved by a Fort Macleod resident and were given to Glenbow. Mounted Police historian J. P. Turner had some of Wilson's papers in Ottawa and he deposited Wilson's diary at the National Archives.

Scope/Content: The fonds consists of articles and ethnological notes on Blackfoot legends and customs (1897); two bound volumes of R.N. Wilson's ethnological writings on the Blackfoot and Blood (1890-1897), transcribed and edited by Philip H. Godsell on behalf of the Glenbow in 1958, including information about customs, Red Crow, sun dance, moon dance, Horn Society, Running Wolf, Scalp Roller, sacrificial ceremony, and a Blood winter count (these volumes have been scanned and may be viewed via the link below); and photographs of the Blood and Peigan reserves, Blood personalities and ceremonies, tipis, Writing-On-Stone and NWMP.


Acq. source: Gift of Philip Godsell, Paull Sharron, Charles Middleton, Barney Reeves, Donough O'Brien and purchased, 1958-1985.


Originals: The original manuscripts upon which the edited volumes are based are held by the RCMP.

Other formats: Also available on microfilm.



Associated/related: Wilson's diary (1881-1888) is held by Library and Archives Canada; other Wilson records are in the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

Record No.: M 4421 ; M 4422 ; PA 706 ; NA 668 ; NA 2075 ; NA 4461 ; ND 34 ; AC Wilson
