| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1902 | | TITLE: | Raymond Martin fonds | | CREATOR: | Martin, Raymond | | DATE RANGE: | 1931-1962 | | EXTENT: | 16 maps. – 0.04 m of textual records. – 2 photograph albums | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Raymond M. Martin was born January 21, 1900. From 1933 to 1935, he worked at the Eldorado Mine near Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories. On July 29, 1935, he married Viola Burton, whom he had met while passing through Waterways, Alberta in 1933. A son, Marlo Raymond, was born July 31, 1936. After living in Conklin, Alberta and Ferguson, British Columbia, where Ray worked in Assayer for a mining company, the Martins returned to Alberta Beach, Alberta, when the mine in Assayer closed. Ray then sought work in the United States, eventually finding work in California. While away, his daughter Marlene Helen was born in Edmonton, Alberta on February 10, 1939. Ray then found work at a mine in Idaho, and Viola and the children moved to Kellogg, Idaho in December of 1939. The Martins later lived at various locations in California and in Victoria, British Columbia. Vi and Ray eventually moved to Florida. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of mining-related records of Raymond Martin and includes a diary of his journey from Waterways to Great Bear Lake and transcript of the diary, photograph albums with images taken by Raymond Martin of his journey to Great Bear Lake as well as images relating to the people at and operations of Eldorado Mine on Labine Point, a notebook with map sketches of mining claims at Hottah Lake, Northwest Territories, and maps indicating his route traveled from Waterways to Great Bear Lake. The fonds also includes a Mines Branch report, brochures about Great Bear Lake, Jasper and Edmonton, an issue of The Saint Paul Letter and "The Facettes of Burtonsville and Brightbank, Alberta and their descendents" complied by Ray Martin. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from Spirit and Trails of Lac Ste. Anne, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 Sp48 PAA and from the records.
The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.7239 through A.7244.
Included in accession PR1978.0194 are records belonging to the following fonds: the Viola Martin fonds (PR1901) and the Alberta Patterson fonds (PR1903); and the following discrete item: a painting of Viola and Ray Martin's cabin at Cameron Bay (PR1904). |
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