| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0876 | | TITLE: | Louis Llewyllen Lent fonds | | CREATOR: | Lent, Louis Llewyllen | | DATE RANGE: | 1910-1918 | | EXTENT: | 0.02 m of textual records. – 4 maps. – 17 photographs | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Louis Llewyllen Lent was born June 4, 1889, in Cobourg, Ontario, the eldest son of David Harmon Lent and Annie Eleanor Francey. David Harmon Lent, a teacher and missionary, and his family came to Alberta in 1898, settling at the Gleichen Indian Mission on the Kainai First Nation Reserve east of Calgary. In 1900, he was sent to the Indian Mission at Duffield, east of Edmonton. In 1902, the family filed for a homestead, SW4 Township 53, Range 3, West of the 5th Meridian (53-3-W5). During the First World War, specifically in 1916, Louis enlisted in the 202 Battalion from Edmonton, and was transferred to the 31 Battalion after arriving in England. He was wounded in 1917, and returned home in the spring of 1919. He worked for many years as a steam engineer in the coal mines of Alberta, and married Orlo Pullar in 1932. Louis died December 13, 1971, at the age of eighty-two. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Ms. Ada A. Lent, the sister of Louis Llewyllen Lent, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1980. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a war diary from 1918, photographs of soldiers, bridges, and outposts, and maps of Belgium (Namur, 1910, Liége, 1912 Valenciennes, 1916), and North West Europe, 1915. | | PHYSICAL CONDITION: | The photographs are tightly rolled and somewhat brittle. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the records and from "Hills of Hope", which is located in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 H559.
The homestead is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system.
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