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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds |
| No.: | PR3285 |
| TITLE: | Bon Accord Local History Committee collection |
| CREATOR: | Bon Accord Local History Committee |
| DATE RANGE: | 1896-1969 |
| EXTENT: | 0.90 m of textual records. |
| ADMINISTRATIVE |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Bon Accord Local History Committee started in 1958 as a project devoted to writing the history of the Bon Accord Women’s Institute. The Institute disbanded in 1961 and the work expanded to writing a history of the Bon Accord area as a whole. The committee collected records and prepared a local history that was published in 1969 as Leaves of Yesteryear. |
| CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | The records were created and collected by Hilda Milligan and Mrs. W.J. Chubb until donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1970. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The collection consists of the minutes and financial records of the Bon Accord School District, the minutes and bylaws of the Bon Accord Literary Society, minutes of the Bon Accord Society of Equity, financial records of the Bon Accord and Sturgeon Valley Threshing Company, minutes and financial records of the Bon Accord Women’s Institute, family histories, and photographs of Bon Accord subjects. |
| LANGUAGE NOTE: | The material is in English. |