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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0140 | | TITLE: | Robert K. Peck fonds | | CREATOR: | Robert K. Peck | | DATE RANGE: | 1945-1958 | | EXTENT: | 0.07 m of textual records
| | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Reverend Robert Key Peck was born on December 8, 1872 in the small town of Grays, Essex, England to Joseph and Hannah (nee Stoneman) Peck. His father was a minister with the Primitive Methodist church, an offshoot of the Wesleyan Methodists. When he was 16 years old, Robert Peck spent six months as an apprentice in the watch making trade. In 1892, at the age of 19, he travelled to Newfoundland under the Mission Board of the Methodist Church of Canada. He attended Sackville University in New Brunswick in September 1896, and after graduation was appointed to a mission in Manitoba. Around 1904 Peck moved to Alberta and became the first ordained minister in Claresholm. He was also a pioneer farmer and in 1910 was appointed secretary of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA). The following spring he helped to organise the first cooperative retail business for farmers in Alberta, which later developed into the UFA Co-operative Association. When the prohibition campaign was organised Peck was appointed associate secretary of the Temperance and Moral Reform league and oversaw the organisation’s work throughout a large portion of the province. At the successful close of the campaign he took over the business management and editorial work of the Review-Advertiser. In 1921 he left Claresholm and headed north. During the 1930s he had a pastorate in Rocky Mountain House, during which time he was active in the organisation of the community’s first hospital. He died around 1961 or 1962. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | The records in this fonds were deposited at the Provincial Archives of Alberta by Dorothy Dahlgren on July 15, 1965. They were given to her by Peck’s daughter, Mrs. Taylor.
| | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of notes by Rev. Peck and related documents on his life history, including newspaper clippings, drafts of correspondence and narratives written by the creator. | | ARRANGEMENT NOTE: | The records have been maintained in the order in which they were received. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Some of the information in the Biographical Sketch came from a newspaper clipping dated October 28, 1921 taken from a Claresholm newspaper. |
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