| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0494 | | TITLE: | Victor Verstrepen fonds | | CREATOR: | Verstrepen, Victor | | DATE RANGE: | Copied 1987 | | EXTENT: | 65 negatives | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Victor Verstrepen was born April 26, 1938, the son of Victor Augustus and Denise Ghislaine (Ragan) Verstrepen. Victor and Denise, both Belgian immigrants, had met while in Inverness, Nova Scotia and were married April 27, 1918. In 1920, Victor along with his father-in-law and brother-in-law found work at the mine at Rosedale, Alberta. Their wives and children came out the following year. In 1942, the family, which included Victor, Denise and children Leonie (born March 29, 1919), Diane (born July 28, 1932) and Victor moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia. They returned to Rosedale in 1946. Victor attended Rosedale school, and joined the Boy Scouts and the Sea Cadets. He was also a member of the Bronc hockey team. Victor married Delores (Sue) Steel; they have one son, Kevin. They lived in Nacmine, Alberta, near Drumheller. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of images from the Wayne and Drumheller areas, originally dating from the 1910s through to the 1940s, and includes images of window advertisements and displays, parade floats, buildings (including those for Imperial Oil Limited), sports teams, some with their winning trophies, automobiles, performers and casts, funerals, swimming pools, schools, horses, trains and train stations, and general street scenes. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from The Valley of the Dinosaurs: Its Families and Coal Mines, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta, 971.233 H644, 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.15,037 through A.15,091 and A.15,266 through A.15,275. | | RELATED ITEMS: | A15037 (Remains of the Waldorf Hotel, Drumheller, after the fire)
A15038 (Remains of the Waldorf Hotel, Drumheller, after the fire)
A15039 (Theatre stage, Drumheller, with advertising signs for various local businesses)
A15040 (Theatre stage, Drumheller, with advertising signs for various local businesses)
A15041 (Grocery stre front advertising soaps, Drumheller)
A15042 (Store window display, Drumheller)
A15043 (Horse drawn wagon for Drumheller Meat Market, Drumheller)
A15044 (Imperial Oil Ltd. bulk station, Drumheller)
A15045 (Imperial Oil Ltd. bulk station, Drumheller)
A15046 (Curling team with two trophies, [Drumheller])
A15047 (Soccer team with trophies, Drumheller)
A15048 (Tug-of-war team with trophy from Miner's Labour Day Sports Committee, Drumheller)
A15049 (Tug-of-war team competing at Miner's Labour Day Sport Meet, Drumheller)
A15050 (Hockey team, [Drumheller])
A15051 (Curling team with a trophy, [Drumheller])
A15052 (Valley Bus Taxi Service vehicles and drivers, [Nacmine])
A15053 (Actor in Oriental costume, [Drumheller])
A15054 (Actor and four actresses in Oriental costume, [Drumheller])
A15055 (Four actresses in Oriental costume with musical instruments, [Drumheller])
A15056 (Four actresses in Oriental costume with musical instruments, [Drumheller])
A15057 (Four actresses in Oriental costume with parasols, [Drumheller])
A15058 ([Girls with Whirling Log symbols on dresses, Drumheller])
A15059 (Funeral outside Ukrainian Hall, Drumheller)
A15060 (Group of people at a mine shaft, [Drumheller])
A15061 (Theatre cast for the play H.M.S. Pinafore, [Drumheller])
A15062 (Group of people and car in front of the Whitehouse Hotel, Drumheller)
A15063 (Group of people in front of the Concert Orchestra Theatre, [Drumheller])
A15064 (People dining at a restaurant, [Drumheller])
A15065 (Men's society dinner, [Drummheller])
A15066 (Theatre cast for a play, [Drumheller])
A15067 (Theatre cast for a play, [Drumheller])
A15068 (Canadian Legion Memorial Hall, [Drumheller])
A15069 (Man beside car in street, [Drumheller])
A15070 (Drumheller Rotary Swimming Pool)
A15071 (Drumheller street)
A15072 (Drumheller High School)
A15073 (Opening of the Drumheller Rotary wading pool)
A15074 (First entrance to Wading Pool - Drumheller Rotary Swimming Pool)
A15075 (Window of store front, Johnston's Drug Co, [Drumheller])
A15076 (Meat market in [Drumheller] decorated for Christmas)
A15077 (Window display of safety razor sharpeners in a stationery store, Drumheller)
A15078 (Leach Block, [Drumheller], store windows of a confectionery and a shoe store)
A15079 (Interior of [The Merchant's Bank of Canada, Drumheller]; teller area)
A15080 (The Merchant's Bank of Canada, [Drumheller])
A15081 (The Merchant's Bank of Canada and J.H. Kerr Tailor Shop, [Drumheller])
A15082 (Memorial Hall, [Drumheller])
A15083 ([Drumheller] - Views)
A15084 (Street, [Drumheller])
A15085 (Street, [Drumheller])
A15086 (Residential area, [Drumheller])
A15087 ([Drumheller] view)
A15088 (Residential area, [Drumheller])
A15089 (Residential area and mine, [Drumheller])
A15090 (Group of people in front of Ukrainian Hall, [Drumheller])
A15091 (Train wreck, [Drumheller])
A15092 (Soccer team with trophy, Drumheller)
A15266 (Power House, Drumheller)
A15267 (Drumheller street scene)
A15268 (Home built car in front of Gibb, Brown & ODell Ltd. Store, Drumheller)
A15269 (Bank of Montreal, Drumheller)
A15270 (General Hospital, Drumheller)
A15271 (Coal mine, Wayne)
A15272 (Coal mine, Wayne)
A15273 (Wayne street)
A15274 (Wayne train station)
A15275 (Drumheller street)
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