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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR2311 | | TITLE: | Michael Maccagno fonds | | CREATOR: | Maccagno, Michael | | DATE RANGE: | 1920 - 1988 | | EXTENT: | 0.80 m of textual records. -- 122 photographs. -- 103 negatives. -- 25 slides. -- 3 films.
The fonds also includes 103 negatives, 122 photographs, 25 slides, 3 buttons, 1 plaque, and 3 films. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Michael Maccagno was born in Italy in 1914 to Tomaso Maccagno and Joanne Calligio. The family immigrated to Canada after World War I, and settled in Lac La Biche, Alberta in 1921. In 1935, he married Valentine Lebas of Lac La Biche. For several years, Maccagno and his father operated a mink farm.
Maccagno was elected on June 29, 1955 to the constituency of Lac La Biche for the Alberta Liberal Party. Throughout his political tenure with the Alberta Liberal Party, he served on Standing Committees on Agriculture, Colonization, Immigration, and Education; Municipal Law; Municipal Law and Law Amendments; Private Bills; Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing; Public Accounts; Public Affairs; and Railways, Telephones, and Irrigation. In 1964, he became Leader of the Opposition. In 1968, he resigned his seat in the Alberta Legislature to pursue federal politics and ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal Candidate in the Riding of Athabasca.
After his political career ended, Maccagno worked for the National Parole Board in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but he eventually returned to Lac La Biche. He also helped establish the historical designation for the Lac La Biche Mission. His son, Tom Maccagno, also an activist for the Lac La Biche region, served as Mayor of Lac La Biche from 1990 to 1995. Michael Maccagno also authored Lac La Biche and the Early Fur Traders in 1991. He passed away in Lac La Biche in November of 2000.
| | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | In 2006 and 2008, Michael Maccagno's son, Tom Maccagno donated the material to the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of material used, maintained, and created by Michael Maccagno concerning his provincial political career dating from 1961 to 1968 including speaking notes, correspondence, photographs, films, plaques, a print of the Alberta Legislature Building by Stephen Osler, and clippings; photographs and a film detailing the development of natural gas service to Lac La Biche dating from 1958 to 1960; a photo album featuring images from Maccagno's tour of the Peace River while a Member of the Legislative Assembly in 1959; a daily planner dating from 1984; and images, correspondence, and certificates documenting Maccagno's personal life. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Please see the Liberal Party in Alberta fonds and the Tom Maccagno fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta for related records. A taped interview with Maccagno's father can be found in GR1973.0289. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the fonds and the following:
Legislative Assembly Reports, http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/annual_reports/report2000/AR2000_section4.pdf (Accessed March 12, 2008).
Lac La Biche: Yesterday and Today, Lac La Biche Heritage Society, 1975.
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