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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds |
| No.: | PR1779 |
| TITLE: | Adrien Clément La Rivière fonds |
| CREATOR: | La Rivière, Adrien Clément |
| DATE RANGE: | 1904-1917 |
| EXTENT: | 0.01 m of textual records. – 1 photograph |
| ADMINISTRATIVE |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Joseph Jules Adrien Clement La Rivière was born February 14, 1877 in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba; he was the son of Alphonse A. La Rivière and Marie Bordeau. In 1909, Adrien became a clerk for the Hudson Bay Company at Dunvegan, Alberta; he had previously been employed at Lesser Slave Lake. He was a director of the Edmonton Stock Yards Company Limited. He served as Mayor of Grouard, Alberta. Adrien was a lieutenant in the 233rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (North-West French-Canadians unit during the First World War). He and wife Ernestine had two daughters, Marcelle (Rumpf) and Carmeline (Kirkland). Adrien died May 15, 1949. |
| CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Carmeline Kirkland deposited records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1988 and Glen Kirkland deposited records in 1988 and 1994. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The material consists of records from the estate of Adrien Clément La Rivière and includes a share certificate for the Dunvegan Townsite Company, Limited, a contract agreement between Adrien and the Hudson's Bay Company, correspondence and reports about railways for Grouard, prospecting for the Edmonton Stock Yards Company, Limited, a Grouard Board of Trade pamphlet, cheques, financial statement for the town of Grouard, notes, a letter from secretary-treasurer of Grouard, a nominal roll of recruits from Edmonton for the 233rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and a photograph of Peace River at Dunvegan with Adrien in foreground. |
| LANGUAGE NOTE: | The material is in English. |
| GENERAL NOTE: | For the French version of this description, click here.
Information for the biographical sketch is taken from Edmonton Journal obituaries and from the records.
The image can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the number A.16,379.
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| RELATED FONDS: | SL1779 (Fonds Adrien Clément La Rivière)
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| RELATED FILES: | Display FileList |
| RELATED ITEMS: | A16379 (Peace River at Dunvegan)
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