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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0094 | | TITLE: | Harold A. Stepney fonds | | CREATOR: | Harold A. Stepney | | DATE RANGE: | 1910-1998 | | EXTENT: | 1.3 m of textual records and other material
Also includes 59 photographs, 11 diagrams, 8 cards, 3 models, 2 posters, 1 35mm filmstrips, 1 audio cassette and 1 chart. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Harold Stepney was born in Edmonton in 1917. He began working for the Northern Alberta Railway (NAR) in 1942 after receiving a medical discharge from the Canadian army. Starting as a worker in the dining car, he later became a front-end brakeman, fireman, and then a locomotive engineer. He mostly worked out of Dunvegan yards, although he also worked at Dawson Creek, Waterways, Peace River and McLennan yards. He held membership with the local Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, but never served a union representative. In the early 1960s, he became a Rules and Safety Instructor for NAR. He retired from the NAR 1982. Harold Stepney passed away in 1999, survived by his wife, Eleanor, and their son, Phil. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Phil Stepney, Harold Stepney's son, brought this collection in to the Provincial Museum of Alberta on his mother, Eleanor Stepney's, behalf. The Museum's Government History programme accepted the artifacts under accession number H00.72. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of correspondence, journals and reports created during the course of Harold Stepney's employment with the Northern Alberta Railways Company. The fonds also includes records of his involvement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The records pertain to his career as an engineer, as a Rules and Safety Inspector, as well as his education to become an engineer, or engineman. The fonds also contains newsclippings and articles highlighting some of Harold Stepney's own personal interests, including elections, the 11th Commonwealth Games and Centennial celebrations. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Please see the Northern Alberta Railways Company fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta for more information on Harold Stepney's employment with NAR. |
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