| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1915 | | TITLE: | Amelia E. McCrum fonds | | CREATOR: | McCrum, Amelia E. | | DATE RANGE: | 1893-1943 | | EXTENT: | 89 postcards. – 23 photographs. – 0.01 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Amelia (Amy) Elizabeth Sarah Mellon was born March 19, 1897 in Strathcona, North-West Territories; she was the daughter of John J. and Emilie (Besler) Mellon. John and Emilie were married August 11, 1895 at Heimthal Church, near Ellerslie, North-West Territories. Amy was the eldest of four children; Alice Eveline was born July 9, 1899, John J. was born November 29, 1901 and Frederick was born January 3, 1904. Amy’s father John owned a number of businesses along Whyte Avenue, most notably the Royal Hotel. Amy’s mother Emilie died September 23, 1904 and her father died March 4, 1918. Amy married John (Jack) Richard McCrum on January 1, 1917; they had three daughters, Josephine (died 1945), Violet (Delany) and Beatrice (Nykipilo), and one son, John Richard. Amy died February 14, 1978. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | John R. McCrum, Amelia McCrum’s husband, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1978. The records were part of the estate of Amelia McCrum. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of images of early Edmonton and includes photographs of Edmonton and Strathcona, Edmonton hospitals, schools, brewery, train stations, streets (including Whyte Avenue), houses, buildings, ferry, bridges, a train derailment, Heimthal church (east of Ellerslie), the Stettler creamery, the Innisfail Hotel, the dining room of Royal Hotel, children swimming, canoeing, shaving, and a bear, and postcards of the Royal Hotel, Diamond Hall (Ash Brothers (Bros.)), Edmonton bridges, an incline railway, buildings, views, streets, street cars, the Legislature, the University, views along the Athabasca River, hotels, buildings and banks in Wetaskiwin, Sylvan Lake, scouts, buffalo, bridge at Rocky Mountain House, first nations peoples, North Battleford (Saskatchewan), buildings, trolleys, bridges, and rivers in Calgary, mountains, glaciers, near Banff and Jasper, buildings, bridges in Banff, branding, and harvesting. The fonds also includes an Edmonton Orpheus Society banquet program, toast lists and menus for the Old Timers’ Association of Edmonton, a business card for the Royal Hotel, a Salvation Army Diamond Jubilee dinner ticket, a Christmas card, a Jasper House Christmas Day menu, Royal Hotel Christmas menus, and sheet music for song “The Emblem of Alberta” (words by Jeannette Forsyth and music by Gilbert Stirling). | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from the Edmonton Journal, from Vital Stats held at the Provincial Archives of Alberta, from South Edmonton Saga, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 So87 and from the records.
The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.2973 through A.3007. | | RELATED ITEMS: | A2973 (Wetaskiwin, Alberta)
A2974 (Heimthal Church)
A2975 (Sylvan Lake, Alberta)
A2976 (Rocky Mountain House, Alberta)
A2977 (Wetaskiwin, Alberta)
A2978 (Wetaskiwin, Alberta)
A2979 (Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A2980 (Hotel and Land Office, Innisfail, Alberta)
A2981 (Calgary, Alberta)
A2982 (Banff, Alberta)
A2983 (Hot Springs, Banff, Alberta)
A2984 (Sinclair Canyon)
A2985 (Radium, British Columbia)
A2986 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2987 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2988 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2989 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2990 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2991 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2992 (Parade on Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta)
A2993 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2994 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2995 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2996 (Strathcona, Alberta)
A2997 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A2998 (Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A2999 (Edmonton, Alberta)
A3000 (Dodge Car)
A3001 (Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A3002 (Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A3003 (Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A3004 (Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A3005 (Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A3006 (Royal Hotel, Strathcona, N.W.T.)
A3007 (Edmonton, Alberta)
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