| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Collection | | No.: | PR2696 | | TITLE: | J. Ernest Nix collection | | CREATOR: | Nix, James E. | | DATE RANGE: | 1904-1933 | | EXTENT: | 8 postcards. – 1 photograph | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | James Ernest (Ernie) Nix was born in August 10, 1920 in Edmonton, Alberta to James Edward and Edna Mary (Leake) Nix; his father had come to Edmonton in 1909. Ernie graduated from the University of Alberta in 1946 and from St. Stephen's College at the University of Alberta in 1947. He was ordained by the Alberta Conference of the United Church of Canada in 1947. He served in Barrhead, Alberta (1947-1950), Lamont, Alberta (1951-1955), Winnipeg, Manitoba (1956-1957), Calgary, Alberta (1958-1967), and Westmount, Quebec (1970-1977). He completed a Master’s in Arts at McGill University in Montreal in 1978; his thesis was entitled “John Maclean’s Mission to the Blood Indians, 1880-1889.” He worked as Deputy Archivist at the United Church Archives in Toronto, Ontario from 1978 to 1980. Ernie authored Missions Among the Buffalo: The Labours of the Reverends George M. and John C. McDougall in the Canadian Northwest, 1860-1876. He also edited Hillhurst's First Sixty Years, 1907-1967. Ernie Nix died in Kitchener, Ontario January 21, 2013. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | The Provincial Archives of Alberta received the materials from J. Ernest Nix in 1990, 1992, and 1993. The items were primarily collected or purchased from Toronto dealers. Prices paid for the postcards in PR1993.0320 can be found on the backs of the postcards. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The collection consists material acquired or purchased by J. Ernest Nix and includes the following C.W. Mathers postcards: “The beginning of Better Things” (sod house with bison bones), “A Typical Indian Camp near Edmonton, Alberta,” “Saskatchewan River at Edmonton,” Queen’s Avenue Public School,” “Early Edmonton Days,” “Old Fort Edmonton” and two different postcards of “Some of Edmonton’s Residences.” The collection also includes a photograph of the Oliphant-Munson Collieries Ltd. in Edson, Alberta taken between 1916 and 1930 by an unidentified photographer. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | For more material on J. Ernest Nix’s family please see, the Annie Leake Tuttle collection at Maritime Conference Archives in Sackville, New Brunswick.
See also the J. Ernest Nix fonds at the Glenbow Archives. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Pioneers, Patriots and Missionaries: An Appraisal of the Work of the Rev. George Millward McDougall and Reverend John McDougall in the Canadian North-west, 1860-1876 (287.671 N651p PAA), Mission among the Buffalo (287.671 N651) and John Maclean's mission to the Blood Indians 1880-1889 [microform] (266.71 N651 PAA) are available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library.
See also the Nelson Nix fonds.
For more information on C.W. Mathers, please see the C.W. Mathers fonds and the Ernest Brown fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the records, from United Church Ministers by Douglas Walkington, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta’s Reference Library (287.92 W154 vol. 2), and from James Ernest Nix’s obituary in The United Church Observer, March 2013.
The image of the Oliphant-Munson Collieries can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the number A20336. |
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