| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1071 | | TITLE: | Emil Skarin fonds | | CREATOR: | Emil Skarin | | DATE RANGE: | 1908-1961 | | EXTENT: | ca. 354 photographs and other material
Fonds also includes 10 negatives, 2 maps, and 0.01 m of textual records. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Emil Skarin and his wife Ada lived in Edmonton, Alberta, and had at least one daughter, Elna. Skarin was the manager, and later president, of Crown Paving Company from circa (ca.) 1919-1959, and the owner of North Star Coal Company. In 1924 he served as a Swedish consul in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1960 Skarin was the president of Alberta Concrete Products, and he retired ca. 1964. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Mrs. Elna Clarke, a daughter of Emil Skarin, deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1975. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of records pertaining to Emil Skarin's employment with Crown Paving Company, and includes photograph albums and photographs depicting road surfacing and construction, mainly on Edmonton, Alberta streets and at the Edmonton airport, and includes images of work crews, paving equipment and machinery, houses, street views, automobiles, horses, airplanes, building interiors, and work camps. Fonds also includes photographs depicting road surfacing in British Columbia, Lethbridge, Ponoka, Banff, Blackfalds, and Calgary, Alberta, and paving company buildings and equipment in the United States. Included in this fonds are photographs depicting coal mining equipment, machinery, employees and buildings, a souvenir booklet of images from the Calgary Pageant in 1908, four mechanically produced reproductions of photographs that depict First Nations chiefs, and maps depicting northern and southern Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Some photographs from this fonds can be found in A File under location numbers A.2372-A.2378, A.10,091-A.10,099 and A.10,110-A.10,114.
Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the records.
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A10104 (Paving Edmonton Streets, Crown Paving Company Limited)
A10105 (Paving Edmonton Streets, Crown Paving Company Limited)
A10106 (Paving Edmonton Streets, Crown Paving Company Limited)
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A10112 (Road Surfacing, Banff National Park, Crown Paving Company Limited.)
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