40 Archival description results for North-West Mounted Police

The fonds consists of photographs taken during Achilles Schmid's travels down the Athabasca River in 1912. The photographs feature images of Athabasca Landing, limestone, First Nations, rapids, Athabasca Valley, a moose hunt, a portage, boat travel, an oil derrick, Pelican Rapids, tar sands, Fort McMurray, the Athabasca Oil Company, Hudson's Bay Company scows, dog teams, wintery landscapes, Calling Lake, a school house at Lac La Biche, the Northwest Mounted Police Station at Lac La Biche, and settlers of Lac La Biche. The fonds also includes photographs and negatives copied by the Provincial Archives of Alberta for the purpose of displaying the material in the Achilles Schmid fonds.

The fonds contains 14 negatives of “Indian Days” at Fort Macleod in 1919-1920, which show numerous people in uniform (soldiers and NWMP) and in various styles of Indigenous regalia. There are also five undated negatives of military personnel and aircraft and one undated negative of the Prince of Wales Hotel under construction in Waterton Park (likely 1927). All of the negatives were taken by Alexander Cochrane Wright.

The collection also includes an envelope for a 1931 photo order from McDermid Drug Co. Limited (of Calgary, Alberta), and a photograph of the attendees of the NWMP Veterans’ Annual Banquet, held in Calgary, AB in 1925. The banquet took place in the Hudson Bay Company store dining room. This photograph was taken by Collins & Gillies.

Wright, Alexander Cochrane

Fonds consists of two letters from Emily Murphy, also known as Janey Canuck, to Inspector A. Moss.

The fonds consists of images, originally dating circa (ca.) 1920, of the Royal North West Mounted Police/Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at Fort Macleod, Alberta, including an image of the funeral of RCMP Corporal Usher and Alberta Provincial Police Constable Bailey, and images of North West Mounted Police and First Nations people at the Calgary Stampede in 1912.

Fonds consists of records compiled and/or produced by Sheehan during the course of her personal activities and research regarding pioneers and homesteading in Grand Prairie and the Beaverlodge area of Alberta, and includes copied oral interviews of Hugh W. Allen, dated 1966, and Gordon Sherk, Marley Sherk, Lulu Sherk Allen, Victor Flint, and Frances Flint, dated 1963, conducted by Beth Sheehan, and of J.R. Oliver, dated 1965, and conducted by Jack Soars. Fonds also consists of transcripts of oral interviews of Gordon Sherk, Marley Sherk, Lulu Sherk Allen, Victor Flint, Frances Flint, Everett Sheehan, George Stone, and Cletus Aloysius Sheehan, dating 1955-1969, transcripts of personal reminiscences by F.C. Falk, Hugh W. Allen, and Lulu Sherk Allen dating 1955-1970, transcripts of diaries belonging to Mrs. Maud Truax (nee Sherk), I.E. Gaudin, and Elizabeth Jane Sills Shishler dating ca. 1909, and transcripts of correspondence of G.V. Flint dating ca. 1909. Fonds also includes manuscripts about the Bull Outfit written by Madelon Truax, dating 1967, and by Isabel Loggie, transcripts of North West Mounted Police (NWMP) patrol reports in the Beaverlodge, Alberta area, a manuscript of the history of the Brekken family, written by Thea Brekken and edited by Beth Sheehan, dating 1968, transcribed excerpts from the minute book of the Bower Beaver Lodge School District No. 2812, and a copy of a burial register, dating 1911-1932. Fonds also includes a blank receipt from Gaudin and Drake Real Estate Brokers, newspaper clippings, transcripts of funeral eulogies, microfilmed photographs of Beaverlodge pioneers, and other photographs depicting various people and views in Grande Prairie and Fort Vermilion.

Sheehan, Beth Flint

The fonds consists of a newsletter and pamphlet promoting the Boundary Commission and North West Mounted Police Trail and Wagon Trek dating from 1997

Boundary Commission and NWMP Trail and Wagon Trek

The fonds consists of material documenting the operation of the Century Celebrations Committee and includes a communications proposal prepared by the advertising firm Vickers and Benson, correspondence pertaining to events hosted and organized by the Committee, and invitations to events.

Alberta. Alberta-RCMP Century Celebrations Committee

Fonds consists of photographs of the Writing-on-Stone NWMP detachment, the Kipp detachment, and Clare with Mr. and Mrs. R.N. Wilson.

The fonds consists of a copy of Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Robertson-Ross's diary while he surveyed the Canadian Northwest in 1872. The diary documents Col. Robertson-Ross's trip from Edmonton to Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, over a pass through the Rocky Mountains and to a location known as White Horse Creek in British Columbia.

Fonds consists of scrapbooks containing poems, newspaper clippings and magazine articles by and about various celebrities, musicians, and political figures. Fonds also includes photograph albums containing black and white and coloured photographs of Seattle, United States of America, Waterloo, Quebec and Mexico, as well as to Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia and various places in Alberta including Peace River, Athabasca, South Cooking Lake and Edmonton. A large portion of the photographs depicts houses, streets and building interiors in Edmonton, Alberta, but there are also photographs which depict log cabins, ships and boats, women, children, beaches, picnics and other recreational activities, gardens and flowers, bridges, churches, airplanes and float planes, automobiles, hospital, university and civic buildings, street views, parades, members of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP), a golf course, schools, sawmills, railroads, hotels, and members of the Royal family. Fonds also includes pictorial souvenir booklets of Banff and Calgary, Alberta, and photographic and mechanically produced postcards.

The fonds consists of images taken during David Neil Allison's trip up the Athabasca and Mackenzie Rivers in Alberta dating from 1912-1913. The fonds includes images First Nations Peoples, towns, settlements, missions, industry, and the North West Mounted Police. The fonds also includes correspondence related to the financial activities of the Appleton School District No. 2818, and a farmer's handbook dating from 1913 to 1924.

Allison, David Neil

Fonds consists of photographs depicting various people, buildings and events in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta including the Legislature buildings, Calgary Stampede, parades, a Sarcee reserve, the Western Ski Championship, an ice carnival, a reception for Lord Byng, Royal North West Mounted Police officers, First Nations men and women, and street views. Fonds also includes a photograph and obituary for Major Leon Charles Eckenfelder, a memorial article about Vernor W. Smith, and books of poetry written by W.V. Newson.

Fonds consists of copied photographs that date from circa (ca.) 1848-1922, predominantly 1901-1922, that depict various people, buildings, and views in Chipewyn, Sawridge, Slave Lake, Fort Vermilion, Athabasca Landing, and Fort McMurray, Alberta including a Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) officer, paddle steamers, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) boats, a government telegraph office, log cabins, street views, a sawmill, a cemetery, school teachers, and missionaries.

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Edgar E.C. Powell's career as a police officer with the RNWMP and APP and includes daily journals with information about cases he was working on, newspaper clippings about bank robber John Rowland, an identity card, an issue of The Canadian Police Gazette, and correspondence.

Powell, Edgar E.C.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting Alexander McCulloch and Hollis Clayton Freeman, a North West Mounted Police (NWMP) officer, and various family members. Fonds also includes a photograph of construction of the Archbishop's Palace in Edmonton, Alberta.

Fonds consists of the personal records of Ferd Seymour and includes correspondence, a postcard, and copied photographs dating 1904-1907 which depict street views of Claresholm, Alberta, and the NWMP barracks at Fort MacLeod, Alberta.

The fonds consists of photographs most likely primarily from the Macleod area of Alberta and includes images of First Nations men, women and children, teepees, horses, Royal North West Mounted Police, barracks, parades, as well as an image of Edmonton’s Main Street in 1907.

Schoonover, Frank E.

The fonds consists of a copy of Frederick George Topp's autobiography, "An Immigrant of '82". The autobiography recounts Topp's life in Calgary as well as politics, business, the North West Mounted Police, and railroad construction.

Topp, Frederick George

The fonds consists of a booklet "Classification Surveys of Northern Alberta, Specimens and Maps" published by the Department of Interior Topical Surveys Branch in 1922. The booklet contains topographical information on townships and surveyed areas in Northern Alberta, and 21 maps. The fonds also includes a site plan the Northwest Mounted Police townsite at Fort Macleod created circa 1920s by Frederick Moses. To complete the site plan, Frederick Moses interviewed pioneers of Fort Macleod.

Fonds consists of annotated photographs of various people, buildings and views mainly in Peace River, Alberta and includes school children and buildings, churches, weddings, street views, banks, businesses, hospitals, ferries, bridges, steam boats, missionaries and mission buildings, the Grouard Trail, agricultural exhibitions, agricultural scenes, livestock, an HBC trading post, a group of Dominion land surveyors, water falls, the Peace River, oil wells, sled dogs, automobiles, airplanes, women’s and men’s sports teams, and North West Mounted Police (NWMP) barracks. Fonds also includes photographs of Athabasca Landing and the Hay River Mission.

The fonds consists of photographs from the Milk River, Pendant d’Orielle and Coutts areas, including the Writing-on-Stone, Pendant d’Orielle and Wild Horse detachments (exteriors and interior), ranches, ranch camps, camp dinner, ranch buildings, ranch hands, horses, cattle, a quarantine station, many relating to the Milk River Cattle Company, houses, and postcards of Medicine Hat streets.

Fonds consist of a photograph depicting the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) barracks in Calgary, Alberta dated 1910, and an undated article entitled History of the Establishment of the Chief Parks along the Main Line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Waterton Lakes Park in Southern Alberta and Jasper Park along the Canadian National Railway in the neighbourhood of Yellowhead Pass in the Rocky Mountains, written by William Pearce.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting various scenes around Alberta in the early 1900s.

Fonds consists of records relating to Hubert Thorne’s career as an officer with the RNWMP and RCMP and includes copied correspondence, telegrams, patrol reports, a will, discharge papers, a biographical sketch, and articles from Radio Broadcast Advertiser, Canadian Aviation, and True Detective Mysteries dating 1911-1941. Fonds also includes copied photographs depicting various people and buildings, mainly in the Fort Yukon and Jasper Park areas of Alberta, including RNWMP and RCMP officers and barracks, First Nations people and camps, the Fort Yukon Hospital, Haly’s Roadhouse and the Maligne Canyon Tea Room. Fonds also includes a poem and daily journals containing patrol reports and personal observations.

The fonds contains a manuscript for The Last Refuge by J.G. Nelson. The text is composed mainly of a historical study of Indigenous peoples in the Cypress Hills area of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. The manuscript discusses history and settler activity in the area from 1690 onwards, and includes topics such as the Bow River Expedition, the fur trade, the decline of bison and beaver, NWMP and traders, and Fort Whoop Up. It includes text, maps, graphs and tables, and references to photographs and illustrations by Russell, Rindisbacher, Point, Remington, Ewers, Dawson, Hoffman, Audubon, and Wallace. The Last Refuge was first published in 1973.

In addition, the PAA holds two paper copies of the manuscript.

Nelson, James Gordon

The collection consists of copies of photographs taken in 1881, 1883, 1886 and 1900 by J.B. Tyrrell of locations in Alberta. The photographs feature Chipewyan, Hudson's Bay Company posts, Fort McKay, Red River carts, the Athabasca River, Smith's landing, Lac La Biche, Saddle Lake Mission, sled dogs, the Red Deer Settlement, Edmonton, Lorne Crossing, Blackfoot Creek, Bear Lake, Red River Carts, Calgary, Rocky Mountain House, Fort Pitt, Fort Saskatchewan, and Battle Lake.

The fonds consists of photographs, correspondence, certificates, and clippings pertaining to John Morehouse Stuttaford's service with the North West Mounted Police in Fort Macleod, genealogical searches conducted by Mable Perkins, daughter of John Stuttaford, on her father as well as clippings and photographs related to the Stuttaford/Perkins family and Fort Macleod.

John Stuttaford family

Fonds consists of material that was used for an RCMP centennial display at Penhold Air Base in Alberta and includes copied black and white drawings dated circa (ca.) 1937 by G.E.M. Elroy that depict officers and scenes of the North West Mounted Police in Alberta at Fort Whoop-Up, Fort Walsh, Fort Calgary, and Banff during the 1870s and 1890s.

The fonds consists of Maurice C. Sullivan’s research notes and correspondence about the Royal North West Mounted Police detachment at Sounding Lake. The purpose of his research seems to have been to have the site officially commemorated. The fonds also includes Maurice C. Sullivan’s union cards for the Edmonton Typographical Union No. 604.

Sullivan, Maurice C.

The fonds consists of one cirkuit print featuring the original (1874) Royal Northwest Mounted Police troop at the 1912 Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta taken by Milward Belmont Davis Marcell.

Marcell, Milward Belmont Davis

The fonds consists of material the Holmgrens acquired through their personal life as well as Eric Holmgren's employment at the Legislative Library of Alberta. The fonds consists of pamphlets, programs, photographs, clippings, booklets, publications, writings, and memorabilia documenting the history of theatre, opera, notable Albertan individuals, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Misericordia Hospital, North West Mounted Police, festivals, anniversaries, and Heritage sites in Alberta. The fonds dates from 1886- 1990.

Holmgren, Patricia and Eric

Fonds consists of photographs and copies of photographs of P.C.H. Primrose during his career with the Northwest Mounted Police and as Lieutenant-Governor. It also consists of other material related to his post as Lieutenant-Governor including a bible and letters patent appointing him Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta.

The fonds also includes two photographs that hung on the walls of the Primrose family home. The first of these images is a black and white photograph depicting Charles Coursolles McCaul sitting in a study with a dog, signed by McCaul with the following note, “Merry Xmas, 1918.” McCaul worked as an attorney largely out of Edmonton. The second image is a black and white image of a First Nation man holding an antler-handled walking stick and wearing a Treaty medal.

The collection consists of photographic postcards dating from the late 1890s to circa 1910 acquired by Peggy Wonnacott. The photographs feature the Hudson's Bay Company Fort, Douglas and Co. Ltd, Edmonton and Strathcona; Old Fort Edmonton, C.W. Mathers; Edmonton as seen from the South Side, C.W. Mathers; and The North West Mounted Police barracks at Fort Saskatchewan, C.W. Mathers.

The photograph from the production of the film “Policing the Plains” depicts about 15 people on horseback (some Indigenous and some police), with the nearer parts of the photo less blurry than the further. There is also a tipi in the background of the photo.

On the back of the photo is the following caption: “July 1924 Western Picture Co. Vancouver Motion Picture. ‘Policing the Plains. Director & Producer A. Kean, white shirt & cowboy hat. Next actor portraying Jerry Potts. Left policeman C. Edgar. Scene – taking main pole of Sundance Lodge from river bottom to the dance site.”

Policy the Plains, Western Pictures Company

Fonds consists of photographs and copied photographs taken by R.N. Wilson depicting petroglyphs in Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park in Milk River, Alberta, dated ca. 1895, and a copy of R.N. Wilson's diary dating 1881-1888.

The fonds consists of images dating from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th related to Samuel Trivett's work for the Anglican Church and features First Nations Burials, Samuel Trivett, St. Paul's Mission School and Residences, Crowfoot, Sitting on an Eagles Tail, Three Bulls, Jean L'Heureux, Red Crow, Sergeant W. Piercy, a tepee, the Sun Dance, and members of the Northwest Mounted Police.

The fonds consists of photographs dating 1909 to 1913 depicting Stephen Wiedeman’s career with the Royal North West Mounted Police, and includes images from Cypress Hills, Athabasca Landing, Josephsburg, Lethbridge, Irvine and Regina of the officers, horses, Christmas events, and shooting party.

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Hugo Viewegar and his son, Lute Vieweger. Of particular note are nine autochromes, 1913 - 1914, taken by Hugo Viewegar. The autochrome is a very rare early colour photographic process. The originals are 5"X7" and 3 1/2"X5" transparencies on glass plates. Copy negatives and prints have been produced from the fragile originals by the Provincial Archives of Alberta as reference copies. The subject matter is native people, Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP), family portraits, a house and a still life, all taken in Edmonton. Also by Hugo Viewegar are nine black and white photographs and four black and white negatives, 1913 - 1914, of homesteading, RNWMP, the City of Edmonton paddle steamer, and Edmonton scenes. Two of the prints are vintage albumen prints (RNWMP). The remainder are modern prints. Also included are five black and white photographs and four black and white negatives, [193-], by Lute Vieweger, of riverboats, airplanes and Fort Chipewyan. All five prints are modern prints. Also included is an audio reel recording of an interview with Lute Vieweger about his life, recorded in 1974.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting William Hastings McMahon and images of some of his cartoons. Fonds also includes a copy of the Edmonton Plaindealer newspaper.

McMahon, William Hastings