| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1022 | | TITLE: | Rowland family fonds | | CREATOR: | Rowland Family | | DATE RANGE: | [1870]-1939 | | EXTENT: | 100 photographs. - 9 negatives. - 0.01 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | William Colin Rowland was born on July 15, 1855 in the Peace River District, Alberta. He later moved to Edmonton, Alberta and took up a homestead at Township 53, Range 24, West of the 4th Meridian (53-24-W4). Rowland worked hauling mail and freight to Athabasca Landing and was also a scout in the Riel Rebellion. Circa (ca.) 1883 he married Margaret Ann Reid, who was born July 2, 1863 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and together they had three children, Jane Adeline (1894-1911), George (born 1889), and Napoleon (born 1891).
George Rowland married Cora Grierson on June 12, 1912 and together they had three children, Vera Janet (born 1914), Gordon (born 1915), and Ivan (born 1917). The family lived in north Edmonton, Alberta and George Rowland operated a livery stable and shipped Caterpillar tractors and sleighs to northern Alberta.
Napoleon Rowland lived on a farm on 82nd Street in Edmonton, Alberta.
| | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of personal records belonging to members of the Rowland family and includes a funeral notice, photographic and mechanically produced postcards, wedding invitations, correspondence, greeting cards, homestead records, grocery receipts, a pamphlet entitled Clover Bar Celebration: Fifty Years of Homesteading, and a biographical sketch of the Rowland family. Fonds also includes photographs, including tintypes and an ambrotype, depicting members of the Rowland family and their friends, as well as various people, buildings, and views in Edmonton, Peace River, Camrose, and Lac La Biche, Alberta including railroad bridges, Camrose Normal School, Peace River Creamery, camps, ice-houses, horse-drawn carriages, houses, the Royal Alexandra Hospital and Hopital de la Misericorde, dog teams, agricultural machinery, G. Rowland Livery and Feed, students of Turnip Lake School District No. 386 and a panoramic photograph of the Low Level Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Some photographs from this fonds can be found in A File under location numbers A.9283-A.9301.
Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the records.
The location of William Rowland's homestead is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system.
| | RELATED ITEMS: | A9283 (Camrose Normal School)
A9284 (Peace River Creamery)
A9285 (Peace River - Views)
A9286 (Peace River - Views)
A9287 (Peace River - Views)
A9288 ("Scona" with coal barge)
A9289 (Lac La Biche. Putting up ice for the fish house.)
A9290 (Peace River - Bridge)
A9291 (Funeral)
A9292 (Three girls with toys and dog)
A9293 (Road grading)
A9294 (G. Rowland Livery, Edmonton)
A9295 (Edmonton bridges - Low Level)
A9296 (Misericordia hospital)
A9297 (Grierson, Herbert family. Birdcage on tent pole, baby in high chair.)
A9298 (Louise Ried in white, Grandma Wm. Rowland's friend and niece with travelling salesman's truck)
A9299 (Portrait - Colin Fraser, Jeremy Mercredy, Rodrick Fraser, Mary Millar)
A9300 (Turnip Lake School Division Number 886)
A9301 (G. Rowland Livery, Edmonton)
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