| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0478 | | TITLE: | Property Owners' Association of Edmonton fonds | | CREATOR: | Property Owners' Association of Edmonton | | DATE RANGE: | 1936-1958 | | EXTENT: | 0.14 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Property Owners' Association of Edmonton was incorporated as the Taxpayers' Protective Association of Edmonton under the Companies Act on June 30, 1936. Its objective was to protect the interest of owners of homes and other real property in Edmonton and to secure for them, by any legitimate means, relief from excessive and unjust taxation. It was a non-political organization affiliated with the Canadian Federation of Property Owners' Associations. The name of the association was changed to the Property Owners' Association of Edmonton sometime around 1946. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | The records of the Property Owners' Association of Edmonton were donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta as part of a larger group of records belonging to Edith Rogers, who had been secretary of the Property Owners' Association of Edmonton. Keith Chisholm, on behalf of Kathleen Redmond, Edith Rogers' cousin, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1986. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of the records of the Property Owners' Association of Edmonton and includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, minutes, cashbook, receipts and disbursements, and membership lists. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Also see the Alberta Federation of Property Owners' Associations fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history is taken from the Alberta Gazette and from the records.
This fonds was donated at the same time, and in the same accession as the following fonds: the Edith and William Rogers fonds (PR1477), the Alberta Federation of Property Owners' Associations fonds (PR0473), the Ponoka Social Credit Group fonds (PR0474), the Warner Women's Institute Girls Club fonds (PR0475), the Ponoka Woollen Mills, Limited fonds (PR0476), the Home Protective Association fonds (PR0477), the Ponoka Social Credit Auxiliary Group fonds (PR0479), and the Social Security League of Canada, Edmonton Branch fonds (PR0480).
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