Fonds 0. 01 Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie & District fonds Click Here To Order Photos Click Here To View Videos. Back to Finding Aids. Biographical Sketch. The Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie & District was formed in 1. Mel Rodacker, with Miss Isabel Campbell as secretary. With funds raised through Life memberships, canvassing, radio bingos and sports pools, a building was constructed on land donated by the City of Grande Prairie in 1. Grande Prairie Museum was officially opened in 1. A shop and front foyer were added to the main building between 1. The primary objective of the Pioneer Museum Society is to acquire, preserve, interpret, and exhibit the human and natural history of Grande Prairie and surrounding areas of the Peace River Country. To carry out this mandate, there are the following departments: the Board of Directors is responsible for setting policy and membership; Administration oversees planning, personnel, volunteers, finances, and the physical plant; Collections acquires artifacts, stores and maintains them to ensure their integrity, maintains the Heritage Village, and sets up displays for the public; Programming plans and carries out school programs and special events; and the Archives preserves archival materials and makes them available to the public. As part of its mandate, the society established a Heritage Village with wooden boardwalks and telegraph poles, and acquired the following buildings: Tempest House, a two- story log house/post office from Kleskun Lake in 1. Mc. Queen Presbyterian Church; the 1. Hermit Lake school; the Big Mountains forestry cabin in 1. Edson Trail caboose in 1. Campbell Cabin, which was home to Miss Isabel Campbell as a child; the 1. Pipestone Creek Store; and a 1. The first curators of the Grande Prairie Museum were volunteers Mel Rodacker and Bert Tieman. In 1. 98. 4, Alice Fortier became the first permanent, full- time staff. She was succeeded by Peter Goertzen, Administrator/Curator in 1. In the late 9. 0s, the society began an aggressive funding campaign which resulted in the start of an archives program, a second Heritage Centre showcasing the entire Peace River Country, and an expansion of the main museum. The Society is a founding member of the Alberta Museums Association and a member of the Spirit of the Peace and Canadian Museums Association. Scope and Content. The fonds consists of the records of the Board of Directors; Administrative planning documents, financial and personnel records, information on the physical plant, and subject and correspondence files; photographs and information on Collections. Completing the collection are brochures and books published by the society, associated organizations; and photographs, scrapbooks and guest books from the Grande Prairie Museum. Notes. Title based on the contents of the fonds. These are the records of the agency administering the Grande Prairie Regional Archives. This article is a list of songs written by Irving Berlin. It is arranged in alphabetical order, but can be rearranged in chronological order by clicking at the top of. Physical Description: The fonds also includes 5. Table of Contents. Series 0. 01. 0. 1Board of Directors series. Major fundraising drives are also overseen by the Board. The series consists of legal documents, minutes, annual reports, financial statements and membership records. Sub. Series 0. 01. Switzerland is a train-lover's paradise, a rocky enclave where rail lines spear through mountains. And the most spectacular is surely the Glacier Express. Legal Documents sub- series. There are also some lists of donors. Sub. Series 0. 01. Society & Museum Logos. There are 1. 4 financial ledgers in oversize storage. The subject files cover topics such as the history of the museum, advertising, gift shop inventories, raffle and cookbook fund- raisers, Alaska Highway Rendezvous, Elderhostel, Forest Capital of Canada, T. The grants include those made on behalf of the Spirit of the Peace Museums Network; those received from the Alberta Museums Association; Provincial grants such as the Community Initiatives Program, the Community Facilities Enhancement Program, and the Wild Rose Foundation; and Federal Grants. There are also a couple of files regarding bequests made to the Grande Prairie Museum. Sub. Series 0. 01. Physical Plant sub- series. Four sets of blueprints are for the original building, drawn in 1. Two blueprint plans (1. Location: 0. 00. 1. Featuring early 20th century American music (1900-1922) from the Dover Publications' 'Favorite Songs of the Nineties' and 'Song Hits from the Turn of the Century.'. Coney Island - Rides & Shows List The material is copyrighted . Revised June 3, 1998 This ride list was begun by Professor Manbeck in 1995. Featuring Springtime of Love Valse (1919) by James Scott and other waltzes from the. Proposed Museum for Grande Prairie, . This is the design that was actually built. Location: 0. 00. 1. Pioneer Museum, 1. Front elevation of the pioneer museum in Grande Prairie. Location: 0. 00. 1. Pioneer Museum Plot Plan, 1. Grande Prairie pioneer museum site plan. Location: 0. 00. 1. Pioneer Museum, 1. Anchor Bolt Layout Plan for Butler Building used as the Grande Prairie Museum. Location: 0. 00. 1. Pioneer Museum, 1. Floor plan and cross section of the Grande Prairie Museum. Location: 0. 00. 1. Pioneer Museum, 1. Electrical plan for the Grande Prairie Museum. Location: 0. 00. 1. Existing Museum, . It includes lists of volunteers who set up and operated the museum until 1. Christmas dinner; job descriptions, benefit packages and papers related to paid staff. This last file is restricted. Sub. Series 0. 01. Financial records sub- series. Fourteen financial ledgers are housed in oversize storage. One file of financial correspondence concerns a court case and is therefore restricted. There are also some statistics reports filed with the 1. General Ledgers. Sub. Series 0. 01. 0. 2. Correspondence sub- series. Common correspondents are the City and County of Grande Prairie, the Province of Alberta and MLAs, the Alberta Travel Bureau, the Grande Prairie Chamber of Commerce and area businesses, service clubs and organizations, other museums and Museum Associations, suppliers for materials, and donors of artifacts or funds. Sub. Series 0. 01. Subject files sub- series. Included is material used to create the Alberta Wheat Pool interpretive video for the Elevator display and a copy of the video. Alberta Wheat Pool Movie, 2. Audio Visual. Copies of the complete film, clips of which were used to create the Alberta Wheat Pool Interpretive Movie for the 2. Grande Prairie Museum display. The originals were 8 mm home movies loaned by Henry Forcier, son of Jean Luc Forcier, the filmer. The film was converted to beta tape and then edited by Ian Forbes of the GPRC Arts Department to create the interpretive movie. The interpretive text and then the sound recording was provided by elevator agent Howard Mc. Pherson and Henry Forcier. The project was spearheaded by Archives staff at the request of Collections staff. Copyright was retained by Henry Forcier. Location: 0. 00. 1. Sub. Series 0. 01. Temporary Displays sub- series. One of the most popular and well- received series of displays was the Pioneer Family of the Month which saw individual families creating temporary displays with their own family artifacts, supplemented by museum artifacts. Back to Table of Contents Series 0. Programming series. Programs included scavenger hunts, pioneer experience (making butter, washing clothes, building cabins, carding and spinning wool, grinding grain for bread, making rope, etc.), and interpretive kits for school use. Sub. Series 0. 01. Special Events sub- series. Some of their events included Fashion Shows, Fiddler. Meetings with stakeholders began in 1. County of Grande Prairie. In conjunction with the survey, the Archives Society of Alberta did a feasibility study for a regional archives in the south Peace. The Grande Prairie Regional Archives opened as an interim project by the Grande Prairie Museum in 2. City of Grande Prairie, the County of Grande Prairie, and the Municipal District of Greenview. The series consists of correspondence files, minutes, the final and published reports of the archival records survey, and the feasibility study completed by the Archives Society of Alberta. Sub. Series 0. 01. Proposed Area Archives sub- series. As well, the society was involved with projects through the efforts of volunteers: Early Settlers in the Grande Prairie District, a listing of homesteaders for each quarter in the Grande Prairie and Spirit River area was prepared by Charlie Wales; Homesteader. Mac. Gregor for the Pioneer Museum Society; and From Dinosaurs to Pioneers was designed for the Grade 3 Social Studies Curriculum by Joan Yates, the program coordinator at the time. All of these books were sold in the Museum book store. The series consists of brochures and newsletters, as well as copies of the books produced for the museum. The only original manuscript is “Homesteaders. Mac. Gregor. Sub. Series 0. 01. 0. 6. Brochures sub- series. The book was commissioned by the New Horizons Homesteaders Trails Committee (of the Pioneer Museum Board) to cover the Trails by which pioneers entered the Peace Country before rail transportation arrived, and written by J. G. There are several additions to the back of the book: Photographs and story about the Tonsil Clinic at Pipestone Creek; musical score and words for the . Macklin written in the south Peace to his wife Nellie in Toronto. There are some copies of the photographs used in the book. Bales of Valuable Furs, 1. Exporting “bales of valuable furs,” part of Peace River’s winter harvest, by rail. Location: 0. 00. 1. St. Vermilion, 1. St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Ft. Vermilion, built by A. C. Garrioch and assistants in 1. Location: 0. 00. 1. Dog Team Transporting Furs, 1. Dog team and snowshoes being used to transport goods and furs in winter. Location: 0. 00. 1. Red River Cart, Beaverlodge, 1. An original Red River ox cart used by the Bull Outfit when they came to Beaverlodge from Ontario. Location: 0. 00. 1. Boat Building At Athabasca Landing, 1. Boats being built at Athabasca Landing to take goods and settlers up the Athabasca River into the Peace Country. Location: 0. 00. 1. Fort Chippewyan, Alberta, 1. Fort Chippewyan, on the shore of Athabasca Lake, was one of the earliest communities in Alberta. Location: 0. 00. 1. EJ Lawrence And His Children, 1. Erasmus J Lawrence with his daughter Susan and son Fenwick. Location: 0. 00. 1. Peace River Harvest Display, 1. Two old timers, Mr. Alex Mackenzie , with a display of locally grown produce. Location: 0. 00. 1. Cantaloupe Field, Shaftesbury Settlement, 1. Visitors admiring Mr.
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