| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1770 | | TITLE: | Hazel and John Stewart fonds | | CREATOR: | Stewart, Hazel and John | | DATE RANGE: | 1906-1943 | | EXTENT: | 7 photographs. – 3 negatives. – 2 postcards | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | John Bown Stewart was born in 1924, likely in Edmonton, Alberta. He was the son of Emily Rachel Beatrice (Bown) and Alexander George Stewart. Emily Bown was the daughter of Phoebe (Miller) and John Campbell Ferrie Bown; J.C.F. Bown was a well known Edmonton solicitor who had come to Edmonton in 1891. Alexander Stewart was a prominent surveyor in Edmonton. John Stewart married Hazel Beatrice Overbo in 1954. Hazel was born in November 9, 1934, near Kinsella, Alberta. She was the daughter of Herman Johnson and Olga (Treichel) Overbo. She attended the McTavish Business School, becoming a stenographer. In 1988, Hazel and John were living in Vancouver, British Columbia. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of postcards with images of Edmonton residential streets, images of the J.C.F. Bown home in Edmonton, Jasper Avenue, soldiers and wives at the Canadian Mounted Rifles Edmonton Camp, the demolition of a house, a boy in Edmonton Eskimos hockey uniform, a bridal portrait (Emily Rachel Beatrice Bown in 1915), a portrait of J.C.F. Bown, and a Ernest Brown print of Jasper Avenue in 1890. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | Also see the John C.F. Bown fonds at the Glenbow Archives in Calgary, Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from Edmonton Journal obituaries, Hoofprints and Homesteading: A History of Kinsella and Area, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 H761 PAA and from the records.
Similar images to the Brown print can be located in the B (Brown) file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers B. 4758, 4759 and B.5537 through B.5540.
Included in accession PR1988.0434 are records belonging to the Edmonton Board of Trade fonds (PR1771) and the Edmonton Liberal Conservative Association fonds (PR1772). |
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