| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1995 | | TITLE: | George Turner fonds | | CREATOR: | Turner, George | | DATE RANGE: | Copied 1970 | | EXTENT: | 133 negatives | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | George Turner was born March 9, 1895 in Folkestone, Kent; he was the son of John Richard and Margaret Turner. The Turner family, John, Margaret and sons John (Jack) Richard and George came to Edmonton, Alberta in about 1913. While in Edmonton, George worked as a painter. He enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914. After the war, he worked as a painter before working for the Canadian National Railway Express. He was president of the Edmonton Red Chevron Club. George and wife Dorothy (Hannley) had one son, Edwin, and one daughter, Margaret Rose (Adamson). Dorothy died February 24, 1970. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of images of early Edmonton, North Edmonton and Strathcona dating from about 1906 to about 1917, taken by the Byron-May Company and includes images of businesses, saw mills, companies, churches, schools, hotels, buildings, and the post office. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the Henderson’s Edmonton, Alberta, City Directory, from Edmonton Journal obituaries, from George Turner’s attestation papers, http://data4.collectionscanada.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=turner&s2=george&s3=&Sect4=AND&l=20&Sect1=IMAGE&Sect2=THESOFF&Sect5=CEF6PEN&Sect6=HITOFF&d=CEF6&p=1&u=http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02010602_e.html&r=8&f=G, accessed January 3, 2007 and from the records.
One image can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the number A.18,698.
George Turner also donated the records in the Edmonton Red Chevron Club fonds (PR1994). |
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