| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1917 | | TITLE: | Ethel Broderson fonds | | CREATOR: | Broderson, Ethel | | DATE RANGE: | [Copied 197-] | | EXTENT: | 0.01 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Ethel Hastings was likely born in Ruthven, Iowa; she was the daughter of Charles William and possibly Sarah (Wright) Hastings. Ethel came to the Taber, Alberta area with her mother and brother Ordelle in 1911; her father and brother Harry had come to the area in 1909 where they homesteaded the southeast quarter of Section 4, Township 13, Range 17, West of the 4th Meridian (4-13-17-W4). Ethel had taught school in Iowa, and continued to teach once in Alberta. She married John Broderson December 9, 1913. John and Ethel farmed near Retlaw, Alberta until moving to Ryegate, Montana in 1916. Ethel died December 18, 1970. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Carol Newman, granddaughter of Ethel Broderson, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1978. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a transcribed copy of Ethel Hastings’ 1911 diary, and a copied newspaper article about Ethel and John Broderson’s 55th wedding anniversary. The fonds also includes one page with a transcription of a few entries for May 1912 from the diary of Sarah Wright Hastings. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from From Tank 77 to Taber Today: A History of Taber, Its District and Its People, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.234 F925 PAA, the Montana State Death Index, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtlcgs/mtmsgs/mtdeath70B.htm, accessed September 20, 2006 and from the records.
The homestead is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system. |
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