| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1708 | | TITLE: | Morinville Historical and Cultural Society Museum Committee photograph collectio | | CREATOR: | Morinville Historical and Cultural Society Museum Committee | | DATE RANGE: | [ca. 1915]-1987 | | EXTENT: | 23 negatives. – 9 photographs. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Morinville Historical and Cultural Society operates the Morinville Historical and Cultural Centre, which is housed in the former Notre Dame Convent, a 100-room facility that was the Provincial House of the religious order of “Les Filles de Jésus.” The building was declared a Provincial Historical Resource in August 1978 and is now used for community, cultural, educational and recreational purposes. It is also home to the District Museum and Archives. The museum has rotating displays of historical significance to Morinville and the district. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The collection consists of images of Morinville, Alberta, originally dating circa (ca.) 1900 to ca. 1920, and includes images of streets, buildings, stores, banks, hotels, restaurants, interior of a saloon, hearse, a religious procession, horses, sleighs, wagons, delivery wagons, trains, the Cardiff Coal Mine, a church service, tennis players and a marching band and Byron-May Company, Limited photographs of buildings and views along Morinville’s main street. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Most of the copied images can be found in The Morinville Book of Pictorial History (L'histoire picturale de Morinville) compiled by the Morinville Heritage Society, which can be found in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 M825 PAA. The Morinville Historical and Cultural Society also deposited microfilmed copies of minutes of the Town of Morinville and the Thibault Roman Catholic Public School District No. 35 in accession PR1981.0405. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history is taken from the Town of Morinville website, http://www.town.morinville.ab.ca/Community/community.htm, accessed February 23, 2006.
The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.15,460 through A.15,482 and A.16,273 through A.16,281.
| | RELATED ITEMS: | A15460 (Procession of Christ the King (Corpus Chrstie), Main Street, Morinville)
A15461 (St. Jean-Baptiste Day parade, Morinville)
A15462 (Morinville hearse driven by Eddie Lefebvre)
A15463 (Arthur Roy, Watkins products salesman, with his team of mules and cart, Morinville)
A15464 (Mr. and Mrs. Gadoury in horse drawn cutter)
A15465 (Morinville Tennis Club)
A15466 (St. Jean Baptiste Day mass outdoors beside the rectory, Morinville)
A15467 (Steffes & Hittinger General Store and Pool Room, Morinville)
A15468 (Arthur Loiseau's Clothing and General Dry Goods Store, Morinville)
A15469 (P.S. Gaudette's Store, Pool Room, Restaurant and Barber Shop building, Morinville)
A15470 (Amédée Brochu's carriage shop, Morinville)
A15471 (Flour mill, Morinville)
A15472 (Harry Ward's Dry Goods Store, Morinville)
A15473 (Children in cart hooked up to a dog, Morinville)
A15474 (Arrival of C.N.R. train in Morinville)
A15475 (Alberta Hotel, Morinville)
A15476 (Alberta Hotel bar interior, Morinville)
A15477 (Joseph Perras' Livery and Feed Stable, Morinville)
A15478 (Cardiff Coal Mine)
A15479 (Royal Bank of Canada, Morinville)
A15480 (J.D.F. Morin's restaurant and store, Morinville)
A15481 (Morinville Store Co., Morinville)
A15482 (Alphonse and Louise Brissette's house and Louise Brissette's Millinery Store, Morinville)
A16273 (Morinville Church)
A16274 (Armoury, Morinville.)
A16275 (Morinville - Main Street)
A16276 (Morinville - Main Street)
A16277 (Morinville - Main Street)
A16278 (Morinville Hotel, Morinville.)
A16279 (Morinville - Main Street)
A16280 (Morinville)
A16281 (Morinville)
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