registers covering 1906 to 1919 Acton 155 1887 - 1918 Opened in 1887on the NW corner of 4-16-15 (J. M. Young farm). The first teacher was Harold Mitchell. The school was named by Mrs. Robert McCracken who had come from Acton, Ont. In 1903 this school was replaced by a new Acton School located on SE 5-16-15. This building was later moved to Eden and used as a community hall.
The Alfred Richardson fonds consists of a variety of certificates and letters concerning notification of military honours. The first two items are certificates of honour for outstanding service in the campaign in North West Europe during WWII from a Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War. The remaining items are letters concerning awards and medals for Richardson’s actions from various government departments including the United States Embassy, and a write up on what Richardson did to deserve these medals and awards.
Sous-Fonds consists of Photographs, loose and notebook bound minutes, financial records, membership lists, reports on the Guild's activities, documents relating to fundraising activities, documents detailing the history and major events of the Guild including newspaper clippings, correspondence and records from the Ladies Auxiliary of the Winnipeg Rh Institute and Lt. Melville Wood Guild.
Annie A. Bond Guild of the Children's Hospital, Winnipeg
A collection of articles and news clippings, books, photographs, and memoirs related to Nellie Letitia McClung and Wes McClung focusing especially on their lives from 1896 to 1911 when they lived in Manitou. The majority of these documents have been digitized and included on the Pembina Manitou Archive web site at https://pembinamanitouarchive.ca/.
268 registers, Arden 341 1887 – 1921/22 – 1983/84 The School district of Arden was formed 1n 1884 but it was not until June 1887 that the first school in Arden opened, with Mr. H. D. McCamis, formerly of Nova Scotia, as the first teacher. It was destroyed by fire several years later and a new 2-room one built in 1900.
The Armand & Florence Dupas collection consists of a newspaper clipping for the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, two cheques to A. Dupas from Transport Ltd., Town of The Pas tax land receipt from 1949, Priority Suit Purchase certificate, Mechanical Transport Drivers Identification Card, tax notices for the Town of The Pas for 1947 and 1952, a Canadian National Telegram from 1943, a bill from St. Anthony’s Hospital, and a discharge certificate.
The Ben Dembinsky Ltd collection consists of miscellaneous materials on the history of the Dembinsky/Trager building; bills, ads, notes, and a wage record book that lists names of employees with earnings, deductions and net pay, every two sheets being a payroll record for a different month.
The fonds consists of a University chemistry notebook (ca. 1930), a letter to Bert Hutton’s father (1909) and a letter from Sports Illustrated to Bert Hutton about an article he submitted to them on Ducks Unlimited (1957), an article written for The Beaver, and a seven page autobiography on the Hutton family (from after 1974).