| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | No.: | PR1396 | TITLE: | Margaret Gower fonds | CREATOR: | Gower, Margaret | DATE RANGE: | [ca. 1890]-1994 | EXTENT: | 21 negatives. – 7 photographs. – 0.01 m of textual records | ADMINISTRATIVE | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Margaret Gower was the daughter of Robin Steven Drant (Bob) Gibbons and Kathleen Margaret Graydon. Kathleen (1889-1964) was the daughter of William Charles Asprey (1860-1891) and Rosetta Woodward (1865-1945); after her husband’s death, Rosetta married George Hughes Graydon (1858-1940) on January 4, 1892. They moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1894 where George opened a drugstore on Jasper Avenue. On June 28, 1918, in Havre, Montana, Kathleen married Robin Steven Drant (Bob) Gibbons, the son of William Reynolds Gibbons, for whom Gibbons, Alberta was named, and Susannah Gibbons. Kathleen and Bob lived on a homestead on the banks of the Sturgeon River, near Gibbons, Alberta, until the early 1950s when they retired to Edmonton. Kathleen and Bob had four children: George William Stephen (Bill), Margaret Grace, Jack Graydon, and Kathleen Jane Rosemary (Galloway). Margaret married Don Gower in 1942. | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of images, originally dating circa (ca.) 1890 to ca. 1919, from Edmonton, Battenburg, Vermilion, and Mirror, Alberta of a ferry, a covered wagon, a church, a power generating station, tennis, stores, parades, train stations, cars, homes, hair cutting, farming, a horse and sleigh, Kathleen Graydon, Rosetta Graydon, George H. Graydon, Graydon family members, and Susannah Gibbons; photographs of George H. Graydon, the interior of George H. Graydon’s second drug store, the Graydon home in Edmonton, the Woodward family, the Gibbons home in Gibbons, William Reynolds and Susannah Gibbons and family, and a tractor and rider; a photocopy of a history about Rosetta Graydon and husbands William Charles Asprey and George Hughes Graydon, and copied newspaper clippings and information about George H. Graydon. | RELATED RECORDS: | A photograph of George H. Graydon’s first drugstore can be found in the Ernest Brown file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the number B.1523 | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is from the records, from Our Treasured Roots: A History of Gibbons & Surrounding Areas, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 Ou7t, and from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library Information File on George H. Graydon.
The photographs can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.10,925 to A.10,936, A.15,986 to A.15,991, A.19.838, A.20,216, A.20,328 to A.20,330, and in the Ernest Brown file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers B.1524 and B.10,590. | RELATED ITEMS: | A10925 (Jasper Avenue East, Edmonton.) A10926 (Edmonton Ferry) A10927 (Covered Wagons, Battenburg.) A10928 (Battenburg Church) A10929 (Madison River Power Company generating station.) A10930 (Operation in Progress) A10931 (Vermilion - Playing Tennis) A10932 (Roy Hardware Co. Store, Mirror, Alberta.) A10933 ("Alberta Free Homes for Millions" Banner in Edmonton.) A10934 (Edmonton - Parades) A10935 (Boxelder Railway Station) A10936 (Electric car with two women in front, Edmonton.) A15986 (First stopping house on Athabasca trail) A15987 (First stopping house on Athabasca trail) A15988 (Boy getting his hair cut on the Gibbons farm near Edmonton) A15989 (Building the C.N.R. rail bed by Gibbons farm near Edmonton) A15990 (George Hughes Graydon) A15991 (Rose Graydon)
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