| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1254 | | TITLE: | Folk, Hodgson Family fonds | | CREATOR: | Folk, Hodgson Family | | DATE RANGE: | 1904-1939 | | EXTENT: | 17 photographs and other material
Includes 0.01 m of textual records, 8 postcards, 3 photographic postcards, and 1 map. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Dee C. Folk was born in 1896 in Ohio, and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Folk and sister Mary, came to Carmangay, Alberta in 1910. Dee served in the Canadian Army during the First World War. When he returned, he attended the Claresholm School of Agriculture, intending to be a farmer, but instead discovered an interest in teaching. He married Beryl Crow, who had arrived in Carmangay from Oregon with her parents and siblings in 1915. Dee taught in many places throughout Alberta, including Hola, Markerville, Dapp, Westlock, Manyberries, Etzikom, Bow Island, and Drumheller and at the Vermilion Agricultural School. He died in 1961. Beryl had taught music before her marriage; she died in 1972. Dee and Beryl had one daughter, Dorothy, born in Innisfail, Alberta in 1925. Dorothy taught piano before her marriage to Ernest Hodgson on July 18, 1951. Ernest also taught in Alberta, in Grand Prairie and Red Deer, and was later a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Dorothy and Ernest Hodgson deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta between 1976 and 1996. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a Christian Catechism for the Use of School Children and Young People booklet in Ukrainian and English for the Independent Greek Church in Canada, prescription receipts, other receipts, Christmas cards, a road map of Alberta and British Columbia, photographs of a wedding, the Markerville band, the Claresholm School of Agriculture graduating class, the Edmonton Normal school graduating class, members of the Edmonton Saddle Club, the Royal visit in 1939, the Earl of Bessborourgh's (Governor General) visit, and photographic postcards of Westlock including a farmer's field, hospital and Main Street, and postcards of Edmonton buildings and land marks, including the Court House, the train station, the High Level Bridge, McDougall Church, the Post Office, the MacDonald Hotel, the Royal Alexandra Hospital and a view of Jasper Avenue. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is from the records and from Manyberries Chinook: a History of the Communities of Glassford Manyberries, Minda, New Home, Orion, and Ranchville, which can be found in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.234 M319 PAA.
The photographs can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A4859-A4869, A4936-A4946, A7915, and A14074.
Included in accession PR1976.0058 with the Christian Catechism for the Use of School Children and Young People booklet is a letter added at a later date by a Provincial Archives of Alberta employee providing some background information about the booklet.
One photograph from accession PR1977.0025 of the 1922 Summer Session students at the University of Alberta was transferred to the University of Alberta Archives; it was assigned accession number 77-23.
| | RELATED ITEMS: | A14074 (Markerville Band)
A4859 (Westlock, Alberta)
A4860 (Westlock, Alberta)
A4861 (Westlock, Alberta)
A4862 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4863 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4864 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4865 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4866 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4867 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4868 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4869 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A4936 (Staff and Students of the Edmonton Normal School, Edmonton, Alberta)
A4937 (Graduating Class of the Claresholm School of Agriculture, Claresholm, Alberta)
A4938 (Members of the Edmonton Saddle Club, Edmonton, Alberta)
A4939 (Visit of George V, Edmonton, Alberta)
A4940 (Visit of George V, Edmonton, Alberta)
A4941 (Visit of George V, Edmonton, Alberta)
A4942 (Guard of Honour at the Legislative Opening, Edmonton, Alberta)
A4943 (First Visit of Earl of Bessborough to Edmonton, Alberta)
A4944 (First Visit of Earl of Bessborough to Edmonton, Alberta)
A4945 (First Visit of Earl of Bessborough to Edmonton, Alberta)
A4946 (First Visit of Earl of Bessborough to Edmonton, Alberta)
A7915 (Markerville Band)
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