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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0786 | | TITLE: | Raymond M. Lee fonds | | CREATOR: | Lee, Raymond M. | | DATE RANGE: | 1910-1949 | | EXTENT: | 4.08 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Raymond McFarlane Lee was born in western Canada circa (ca.) 1889. He graduated from the University of Alberta and established a law office in Provost, Alberta in 1914 shortly after his graduation. Lee served on the Provost City Council from 1920-1922 and held the office of Reeve from 1921-1922. He was also a member of the Provost Hospital Board from 1920-1949. During World War II he was chairman of eight Victory Loan Committees, and throughout his life he took an active part in the Boy Scouts and Air Cadet associations. Lee died in Provost on April 3, 1949. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Mr. R.W. Bradley, a lawyer in Edmonton, Alberta, deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1973. Mr. Bradley’s relationship to Raymond M. Lee is unknown. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of records pertaining to Raymond M. Lee’s law practice and includes case files, mainly regarding the settlement of estates, which contain agreements, correspondence, petitions, affidavits, land transfers and sales, mortgages, by-laws, wills, property inventories and lists of assets and liabilities, receipts, tax notices, financial records, notices, land descriptions, court records, certificates of title, newspapers, income tax returns, minutes, birth certificates, notes, marriage certificates, insurance policies and other records pertaining to the settlement of estates. | | ARRANGEMENT NOTE: | Most of the files in this fonds were arranged by the creator alphabetically, and the records within the files arranged chronologically, but in some cases alterations had to be made to the records in order to maintain this order. A group of 17 files, covering the letters C to T, that had been placed at the end of the collection have been incorporated into the main body of the records and are marked on the inventory with the prefixes A or B. Each individual estate has been given one item number, but where more than one folder had been kept for a single estate, or when, in the process of arranging, it became necessary to divide a thick file into two or more folders for the protection of the contents, these related items have been marked A, B, C, etc under the file number. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the records. |
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