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ALEXANDER MAY fonds

  • CA CPA 1989.286
  • Fonds
  • [1890-1900]

Fonds consists of black and white photographs showing the A. E. May & Co. with personnel and a residence on Simcoe Street in Carberry.

May, Alexander, [1863]-1932

ALLEN HORTON fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.140
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1915

Fonds consists of black and white photographs showing the Maple Leaf Hockey Club (1907-1908), and the Horton residence, all taken by Joseph Paynter.

Horton, Allen, 1881-1972

Alma Criddle fonds

  • CA CPA 1990.55, 1993.07, 1994.60, 1994.81
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1978

Fonds consists of photocopied pages on Mary Ann (Alabaster) Criddle from the 1981 "Index to Artistic Biography", and the 1976 "Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs", a list of paintings by Mary Criddle shown with the Royal Academy of Arts between 1837-1848, and a biography. Other textual material includes correspondence, biographical information on the family, Henry Criddle's will, a certificate for Prairie Patron for Alma Criddle, 7 partial maps showing the Aweme area, and an introduction for the Criddle display in Brandon City Hall. Black and white photographs show Norman Criddle, aerial views of St. Alban's, Aweme (1942-1958), Bald Hills and the Punch Bowl of Spruce Woods Provincial Park (1942). Coloured photographs are by Barbara Criddle of an unspecified place taken in 1971 of the Spruce Woods Provincial Park sandhills.

Criddle, Alma, 1924-2001

BALFOUR FAMILY fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.80, 1988.190, 1990.60, 1991.59, 1992.41
  • Fonds
  • 1899-[197-?]

Collection consists of a certificate of 25 years service to William N. Balfour from the Home Insurance Company (1953), Rip Chords programme ([ca. 1944]), Coronation service programme (1953), letterhead for Balfour Insurance. Black and white photographs show Spears Ranch (1948), Balfour and Balfour Gents Furnishing Store, a threshing outfit, other businesses, and travel.

Balfour, Effie Alida May

BANISTER FAMILY fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.78, 1988.125, 1988.198
  • Fonds
  • 1876-1913

Fonds consists of certificate accepting H. Banister into the Free and Accepted Mason's Lodge (1876), black and white photographs of the Western Hotel, Carberry Fire Brigade, Intermediate Hockey Club (1906), Carberry Juvenile Hockey Team (1899), Maple Leaf Football Club (1896), personnel of Rural Municipality of North Cypress and town of Carberry (1907, 1912-1913), Carberry Baseball Club (1901), threshing outfits.

Banister, Henry Charles David

BENJAMIN W. CALDWELL fonds

  • CA CPA 1990.143, 1996.23
  • Fonds
  • 1928-[ca. 1950]

Fonds consists of two papers signed by Caldwell when he was sworn in as Mayor (1945), and black and white photographs of a Grade IX class (1928), and of Caldwell's general store (ca. 1950).

Caldwell, Benjamin W., 1881-1968

BERT SEAMAN fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.86
  • Fonds
  • 1980

Fonds consists of a photocopy of "Jottings of the Past", dated 1974, 1976, 1980 as told by Bert Seaman. Details describe the Edrans village development beginning near the turn of the century, two murders in 1912 and 1914, local personalities, curious events, community entertainment, economic development, the cyclone of 1901, Ridge Road, the big brushfire of 1903, the 1920 blizzard, the influenza epidemic of circa 1920, deep snow of 1959, and building bees.

Seaman, Bert, 1887-[after1982]

BESSIE GRAHAM fonds

  • CA CPA 1994.95
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1970

Fonds consists of loose (140 black and white and 3 colour) photographs, mostly of identified family members and possibly friends, taken across Canada and in England. Album holds 84 photographs. Includes two postcards, a letter, and a pamphlet for the School Trustees Convention in Winnipeg (1939).

Graham, Bessie (Comstock), 1890-1991

CARBERRY NEWS-EXPRESS fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.285, 198.298, 1988.307, 1989.67, 1990.08, 1990.51, 1990.100, 1990.112, 1990.124, 1991.51, 1992.311992.50, 1994.118, 1995.38, 1998.04, 1999.07, 1999.26, 2001.05, 2002.01, 2004.03, 2004.10, 2005.03, 2006.06, 2007.18, 2008.02, 2011.06
  • Fonds
  • 1940-2008

Fonds consists of the photographs depicting the visual history of the town of Carberry, Manitoba, and the Rural Municipality of North Cypress. There are 6715 black and white photographs, 58 colour photographs, 511 black and white negatives, 7 colour negatives, and 6 colour slides. Of note is a photo of the Carberry Epworth League (1900). Textual material consists of ten pamphlets of the Carberry Curling Bonspiel (1927-1939 not inclusive), volumes of newspapers (1903, 1858, 1975-2007 inclusive), "Progressive Carberry and North Cypress" - a 1913 booklet on history of Carberry, Brookdale, Wellwood, Oberon, Edrans, Ingelow, Petrel, Harte, Gregg, and Fairview. Also copies of posters and other job printing done by the newspaper circa 1950-5. 2006.06 consists of a bound photocopied copy of the fragile and restricted 1903 Holiday Number of the Carberry News. 2011.06 consists of a large book of printing samples dating from the early 1900's available from the newspaper office, plus copies of books entitled "The Carberry Plains: 75 Years of Progress"; "Around the Cracker Barrell"; "Olmstead Family Reunion: First Reunion, Carberry, Manitoba-1983;" "Wartime Souvenir of Carberry"; "Brookdale Community 1878-1967"; "Kerfoot United Church Diamond Anniversary"; "Pioneers of New Brunswick" all printed by the Carberry News-Express, and a book entitled "The Story of Manitoba's Weekly Newspapers" by Major A.M. Pratt.

Carberry News Express

CARBERRY PLAINS ARCHIVES fonds

  • CA CPA 2009.12,2010.06,2010.08,2010.09,2010.20,2011.09,2012.01,2013.26
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1976

Series 1 consists of records created and/or received by the Carberry Plains Archives in the course of its management, including plans, policies, procedures, correspondence, funding applications, and financial statements. Series 2 consists of single records collected by the Archivist, as well as miscellaneous, anonymous, and undocumented donations. Includes maps of Carberry (1971, 1976), 93 black and white photographs, 41 coloured photographs, and 12 black and white negatives showing streets of Carberry, CNR and CPR stations, public school, Grant Trunk Pacific railway, Carberry Flour Mill, Western Hotel, churches, Town Hall, local businesses and other buildings (extant and defunct), banks, museum and airport. One colour photograph is of Main Street during the filming of the movie "For The Moment" (detached from the Carberry Lions Club calendar 1993-1994).

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