| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0488 | | TITLE: | Nelson Nix fonds | | CREATOR: | Nix, Nelson | | DATE RANGE: | 1916-[Copied 1987] | | EXTENT: | 31 negatives. - 1 photograph | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Dr. Nelson Nix was born in 1915 in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of James Edward and Edna Mary (Leake) Nix. Mr. J.E. Nix had come to Edmonton, Alberta from Texas in 1909; he was a well-respected businessman as well as being one of the first trustees of Wesley United Church. Nelson’s siblings included brothers Harold, Charles Edward, and James Ernest, and sister Mabel. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of images from Edmonton, Alberta originally dating from about the 1920s, of a women’s bible class at Wesley United Church, the Wesley baseball team, group portraits, children, families, buildings and stores (exteriors and interiors) including grocery and butchers, home exteriors and interiors, automobiles, a ferry, the High Level Bridge and Legislature building, and people swimming. The fonds also includes a photograph of Alberta women attending Parliament during the passage of the Equal Rights Bill. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | For his brother's records, see the J. Ernest Nix fonds at the Glenbow Archives in Calgary, Alberta. As well, see the Annie Leake Tuttle collection at Maritime Conference Archives in Sackville, New Brunswick. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from Provincial Archives of Alberta Information File on J.E. Nix, from the Edmonton Journal obituary for Edna Mary Nix 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. 14,987 and A.15,007 through A.15,036.
| | RELATED ITEMS: | A14987 (Women's Bible Class, Wesley Church, Edmonton)
A15007 (Wesley United Church baseball team)
A15008 (Wesley United Church baseball team)
A15009 (Nellie McClung and R.W. McClung)
A15010 (Wesley United Church ladies' class)
A15011 (Edmonton Wesley United Church Choir at Calgary, Alberta - 7th annual Alberta Music Festival)
A15012 (Interior of homestead house of Charles and Charlotte Leake, Swallowhurst, Alberta)
A15013 (Women in bathing suits at Alberta Beach)
A15014 (Charles Edward Nix feeding the chicken's on his grandparent's (Charles and Charlotte Leake) homestead at Swallowhurst, Alberta)
A15015 (Charlie Leake leaving from the Nix home in Edmonton with supplies for the Leake homestead near Swallowhurst)
A15016 (Albert Somers and C.E. Leake working at the farm shop on the Leake homestead near Swallowhurst)
A15017 (Charlotte Leake and grandson Charles E. Nix on the Leake homestead, Swallowhurst, Alberta. House and barn in background)
A15018 (Group of people at Alberta Beach on a car rented from Twin City Taxi-Auto Ltd.)
A15019 (People in a car rented from Twin City Taxi-Auto Ltd. at Alberta Beach)
A15020 (Charlotte Leake with some friends dressed in bathing suits at Wabamun Lake, Alberta)
A15021 (The Epworth League, Wesley Methodist Church, Edmonton)
A15022 (City Grocery No. 3 at White Block, Whyte Avenue, Strathcona)
A15023 (White Block, Whyte Avenue, Strathcona)
A15024 (John Walter's Ferry, Edmonton to Strathcona)
A15025 (Edmonton High Level Bridge under construction)
A15026 (Charlie Leake and friend on High Level Bridge, Edmonton, during construction)
A15027 (Charlie Leake and friend on High Level Bridge, Edmonton, during construction)
A15028 (City Grocery Store No. 2, Edmonton)
A15029 (Interior of City Grocery Store No. 2, Edmonton)
A15030 (Interior of the meat market section of City Grocery Store No. 2, Edmonton)
A15031 (Employees and delivery horse at back of City Grocery Store No. 2, Edmonton)
A15032 (Delivery truck for the City Grocery Store, Edmonton)
A15033 (Interior of City Grocery Store No. 2, Edmonton)
A15034 (City Grocery delivery horses and wagons, Edmonton)
A15035 (City Grocery delivery truck, Edmonton)
A15036 (City Grocery No. 2 with delivery horse and wagon and delivery truck parked in front)
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