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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR3332 | | TITLE: | Radio-Edmonton Ltd. fonds | | CREATOR: | Radio-Edmonton Ltd. | | DATE RANGE: | 1947-1973 | | EXTENT: | 0.11 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | In 1944, the Radio Committee of the Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta (ACFA) started the fundraising for a completely French radio station in Alberta. Radio-Edmonton Ltd. was incorporated on September 25, 1947, with Bishop Ubald Langlois, Leon Omer Beauchemin, Louis Phillippe Mousseau and Alphonse Brosseau as initial directors. Under the auspices of ACFA and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, its objective was to obtain the license for a radio frequency and to inaugurate and operate a French radio station at Edmonton. The license was granted on May 12, 1948 to establish a private commercial broadcasting station at Edmonton, Alberta, with a power of 5000 watts on the channel 680 KC. Paul-Émile Breton acted as secretary of Radio-Edmonton and Roman LeClair was hired as manager of the radio station. The first program of Radio CHFA (680AM) was broadcast November 20, 1949 from Garneau Theatre, Edmonton, after 15 years of arduous lobbying. CHFA continued to broadcast under the auspices of Radio-Edmonton Ltd. and ACFA until April 1, 1974, when the radio station was sold to CBC / Société Radio-Canada. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Roger Motut, last president of Radio-Edmonton Ltd., gave the documents from the accession PR1981.0147 to the History Salon at Edmonton, which in turn donated the records to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1981. Lisette Vienne, communications agent at CHFA, deposited the documents from the accession PR1985.0438. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The records consist of minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual reports and resolutions that document the activities of Radio-Edmonton Ltd. toward the opening and the management of Radio CHFA, and also CRTC regulations, administrative and financial papers, financial reports and a list of programs. | | LANGUAGE NOTE: | The material is in French and English. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Other records related to Radio-Edmonton Ltd. can be found in the Association Canadienne-Française de l'Alberta fonds (PR0015), accession PR1980.0226, files 1094 to 1229, and in the Missionary Oblates, Grandin Province fonds, accession PR1971.0220, at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | For the French version of this description, click here.
Information for the administrative history is from the records and from Écoutez, vous verrez. CHFA de 1949 à 1999, available at the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 385.54 L481.
The accession PR1985.0438 includes records from the Théâtre français d'Edmonton fonds (PR1574). | | RELATED FONDS: | SL3332 (Fonds Radio-Edmonton Ltée)
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