| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR3335 | | TITLE: | Marie-Anna Adèle Roy fonds | | CREATOR: | M-A Adele Roy | | DATE RANGE: | [1960-1964] | | EXTENT: | 0.03 m of textual records (108 p.): transcript. - 35 photographs. - 3 maps | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Marie-Anna Adèle Roy was born at Saint-Léon, Manitoba, January 30, 1893 (1898 according to other sources). She finished her secondary education at Institut collégial Saint-Joseph at Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. Marie-Anna continued her education at École normale in Winnipeg, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where she earned her BA in 1934. She taught for 35 years in rural schools in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, but quit teaching when a fire in her house left her badly burned. She then settled on a homestead at Tangent, in north-western Alberta, where she devoted herself to writing, novels at first, then, from the 1960s, works of historical research. She died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in April 1998, aged more than 100 years. Marie-Anna Adèle was sister of the writer Gabrielle Roy. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | One of three copies of the manuscript was handed by Marie-Anna Roy to the Gravelbourg College, Saskatchewan. It came later in the possession of Richard Lapointe, from the Language Institute of University of Regina, Saskatchewan, who donated it to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1997. There is no information about the other two copies. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of the typewrite manuscript of Le rayonnement d'une œuvre dans le nord albertain by Marie-Anna Adèle Roy. The manuscript has 108 pages of text, and 35 photographs and 3 maps illustrating the text. The manuscript is inscribed: "Collège de Gravelbourg, Section historique. En hommage!" It is composed of two parts: one, of 20 pages, with the title "Aux missionnaires et aux pionniers de La-Rivière-La-Paix", which locates the region, explains the origin of its name and tells the settling story of this part of Alberta; the other, called "Tangent", is the history of the village with the same name, founded in 1927, 300 km North-West of Edmonton. The manuscript ends the evocation of pioneers' life with the narrative of the 50th anniversary's ceremonies of the neighbour parishes Fahler, Donnelly and Girouxville on the 23rd of June, 1963. | | LANGUAGE NOTE: | The material is in French. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Other material regarding Marie-Anna Adèle Roy can be found at the Société Historique de Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Montreal, and at the Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. | | GENERAL NOTE: | For the French version of this description, click here.
Information for the biographical sketch is from Dictionnaire des artistes et des auteurs francophones de l'ouest canadien (Gamila Morcos; 1998) and from Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec (Montréal : Fides, 1982). | | RELATED FONDS: | SL3335 (Fonds Marie-Anna Adèle Roy)
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