| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1329 | | TITLE: | Sidney A. Smith fonds | | CREATOR: | Smith, Sidney A. | | DATE RANGE: | [ca.1914]-1944 | | EXTENT: | 23 photographs. – 16 photographic postcards | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Sidney A. Smith was a manager at Canadian Fairbanks Morse and R.E. Spear of Canada, both in Edmonton, Alberta. He was married to Della. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of photographs of the First World War trenches in France, an unemployment march in Edmonton, the Edmonton Municipal Airport, the around the world trips of Captain W.V. Gorneau and Wiley Post, buildings burning, a Dawson Creek, British Columbia fire, and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their 1939 Royal Visit and postcards of the 1939 Royal Visit including the 19th Dragoons, the parade, the Royal Car, decorated Edmonton streets and the Legislature, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Alaska highway construction and the Rossington flood. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is from the records and from the Henderson's Edmonton, Alberta, City Directory.
The photographs can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.9024-A.9046.
The fonds was deposited at the same time and in the same accession as the Stuart McRae fonds.
| | RELATED ITEMS: | A9020 (Trench and bombed areas, France)
A9021 (Trench and bombed areas, France)
A9022 (Trench and bombed areas, France)
A9023 (Trench and bombed out areas, France)
A9024 (Trench and bombed out areas, France)
A9025 (Unemployed Rally, Market Square, Edmonton)
A9026 (Unemployed Rally, Market Square, Edmonton)
A9027 (Unemployed Rally, Market Square, Edmonton)
A9028 (Around the World Flight, Captain Wolfgang Von Gorneau at Lac La Biche)
A9029 (Around the World Flight, Captain Wolfgang Von Gorneau at Lac La Biche)
A9030 (Around the World Flight, Captain Wolfgang Von Gorneau at Lac La Biche)
A9031 (Around the World Flight, Captain Wolfgang Von Gorneau at Lac La Biche)
A9032 (Around the World Flight, Captain Wolfgang Von Gorneau at Lac La Biche)
A9033 (Around the World Flight, Captain Wolfgang Von Gorneau at Lac La Biche)
A9034 (Around the World Flight at Edmonton.)
A9035 (Around the World Flight at Edmonton)
A9036 (Edmonton Municipal Airport. First hangar.)
A9037 (Racetrack barns burning, Edmonton)
A9038 (19th Alberta Dragoons, Royal Visit escort)
A9039 (Royal Visit)
A9040 (The Royal Visit)
A9041 (Royal Visit, 101 St.)
A9042 (Royal Visit, Jasper Avenue)
A9043 (Royal Visit, CNR station)
A9044 (Royal Visit, Legislative Buildings)
A9045 (Royal Visit, Kingsway Avenue)
A9046 (Rossington Flood)
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