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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds |
| No.: | PR2430 |
| TITLE: | Lac Ste. Anne Historical Association |
| CREATOR: | Lac Ste. Anne Historical Society. Archives Committee |
| DATE RANGE: | 1915 - 1978 |
| EXTENT: | 0.36 m of textual records. -- 8 photographs. -- 1 map
Some of the material is torn and brittle. |
| ADMINISTRATIVE |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Lac Ste. Anne Historical Society was incorporated in 1957 with the goal of preserving the history of the Lac Ste. Anne region. In 1959, the Archives Committee of the Lac Ste. Anne Historical Society produced a local history documenting the history of the Lac Ste. Anne region entitled, West of the Fifth: a History of the Lac Ste. Anne Municipality. The local history includes reminiscences recalling the development of the region written by residents and former residents of the region. |
| CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | In 2008, Anne G. Lightfoot donated the material to the Provincial Archives of Alberta. She received the material from her aunt, Anna Walker, a member of the Archives Committee of the Lac Ste. Anne Historical Society. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of materials collected by the Archives Committee of the Lac Ste. Anne Historical Society throughout the 1950s for the publication of the local history West of the Fifth: a History of the Lac Ste. Anne Municipality. The fonds includes reminiscences, photographs, and correspondence collected by residents and former residents of the region dating from the 1915 and 1950s; research materials such as maps, publications, clippings, pamphlets, and reports dating from the 1950s; and correspondence concerning the publication of West of the Fifth: a History of the Lac Ste. Anne Municipality dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. |
| RELATED RECORDS: | See the Anna May Walker fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. |
| GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the fonds.
A copy of West of the Fifth is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference library under the no. 971.233 L11901.
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