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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0266 | | TITLE: | Floyd Baker fonds | | CREATOR: | Floyd Baker | | DATE RANGE: | 1910-1970, predominant 1935-1967 | | EXTENT: | 0.70 m of textual records. – 246 transparencies. – 61 photographs
The transparencies are lantern slides. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Floyd Milton Baker was born December 1, 1891 in Stevensville, Ontario to Meno and Diana (nee Haun) Baker. Floyd Baker was educated in Stevensville and then moved west to Fort Saskatchewan in 1905. In 1911 he began working in Edmonton and later bought a sheet metal business. During the First World War his business experienced a slump, so Baker moved to Spruce Grove and established a hardware store. He then returned to Fort Saskatchewan where he set up another hardware store. In August 1935, after twenty years in the hardware implement and oil business, Baker was elected to the Alberta Legislature. He served as a Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for thirty-two years and represented the Clover Bar Constituency. During this time Baker was also active on the Social Credit Board, the Social Credit League, and was a Superintendent of Sunday Schools. Baker married Stella Maude Sherwin on May 31, 1917. Together they had three children, Milton, Kenneth, and Stacia. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of records used by Baker during his time as an MLA with the Alberta Legislature and records pertaining to the Social Credit movement in Alberta. The records include correspondence, reports, photographs, transparencies, articles, brochures, newspaper clippings and published materials. The fonds has been divided into the following series: Political records; Social Credit literature; and Photographs and transparencies. | | RELATED RECORDS: | A taped interview with Floyd Baker conducted by the Provincial Archives of Alberta is located in accession PR1973.472. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information in the Biographical Sketch was obtained from the Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1967 and from the synopsis of the taped interview with Baker located in accession PR1973.472. |
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