| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0471 | | TITLE: | R.P. Cull fonds | | CREATOR: | R. P. Cull | | DATE RANGE: | 1907, 1957 | | EXTENT: | 0.02 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Richard Perly Cull was born January 6, 1883, the son of Richard Cameron and Nancy Helen Cull. Originally from the Stanstead County, Quebec, Perly was employed by the A.E. Howse Company Limited in Nicola, British Columbia in early 1906. In March of that year, he left British Columbia and returned to Edmonton, Alberta. In May, Perly and Arthur Hovey, recently arrived from Sherbrooke, Quebec, set out for White Whale Lake (now Wabamun Lake), Alberta, where Perly had filed for a homestead, the northwest quarter of section 16, Township 53, Range 5, West of the 5th Meridian (16-53-5-W5) on April 14, 1906. In 1907, together they opened a general store and later added a post office which was given the name Seba; Perly was the first postmaster. In 1910, Arthur and Perly sold sixty acres of lakefront property to Ernest Chauvin for a townsite. When the Summer Village of Seba Beach was incorporated in 1920, Perly served on the first village council. He married Mary Atkinson in 1920, and they had one son, Richard Henry. R.P. Cull died January 18, 1967. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Lorna Cowley, of the Seba Beach Heritage Society, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1986. It is not known how she came to have the diary. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of R.P. Cull’s diary, with daily recordings from January through to early August 1907 along with account records, and a 1957 study of the clay at Seba Beach. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | Also see “History of Seba Beach” by R.P. Cull, part of the Alberta Folklore and Local History Collection, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta; the “History of Seba Beach” is available on the World Wide Web. | | RELATED RECORDS: | See also PR1968.0127 (part of the Mildred Grace Atwell fonds) for a copy of a letter from R.P. Cull to Dr. H.R. Wood about the history of Seba Beach.
See also the Seba Beach Heritage Society photograph collection (PR0470). | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from Culls’ Edmonton Journal obituaries, from the Alberta Genealogical Society Cemetery Database and from the records.
The homestead is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system.
Lorna Cowley also deposited the records in the Seba Beach Heritage Society photograph collection.
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