Fonds 281 Wales family fonds

31 photographs

1 postcard

Date: ca. 1920-2002 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of 18 photographs of the Ross Wales homestead and family, logging with horses, Somme School, the Charles Wales family, and a portrait of Marilyn Wales as City Queen. There are also photographs relating to a tribute to Sam Steele (an ancestor of the Wales family) and one of Charlie and Peter Goertzen.

Physical description: 23 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Conditions governing use:

All photographs in this series other than 2007.037.11 were donated as copies. The 2003.011 photographs were donated as low-quality physical copies and are not suitable for reproductions. The 2007.037 photographs were donated as digital copies and are not suitable for reproduction larger than 8×10 in.

Publication status:

Published

Copies of photographs showing a commemorative stone dedicated to the memory of Sam Steele, “Canada’s Greatest Police Officer.”

Copy of a photograph showing the Glen Leslie Church, the Somme School, and the Glen Leslie cemetery.

Copy of a photograph showing Charles Wales and Peter Goertzen, curator of Grande Prairie Museum, standing by the entrance to the museum.

Charlie sitting in front of a tractor with his wife Alta at far left, daughter Marilyn in the middle, and Mary, Alta’s sister, next to him.

Charlie Wales and his daughter, Joyce, stand in his garden beside a sunflower loaded with blooms.

Charlie Wales and his daughter Marilyn stand in front of a barbed wire fence and a candlestick pine tree.

Charlie Wales daughters Marilyn and Debbie stand together in front of a pine tree.

Three horses in front of farm buildings.

Men stand in front of a building loaded on skids. Several teams stand hitched and ready to move the log building.

A team of six horses pull harrows in a farm field. Another team follows.

It took six horses hitched in pairs to pull this wagon through the snow.

Three loads of saw logs on sleighs pulled by teams of horses follow a winter trail to Moon’s Sawmill.

Two teams hauling loads of saw logs on the Wapiti River in winter on their way to Moon’s Mill. Drivers stand or sit on the loads. Another man and team is on the bank.

A studio portrait of Marilyn Wales as the first City of Grande Prairie Queen. Marilyn attended Somme School.

Gerald Carveth, Secretary, and Charlie Wales, President, Old Timers Association.

A field of potatoes bloom in front of the Wales’ homestead house.

The homestead house of Ross Wales, built in 1913. Children are Alfred, Charles, Jack, and Betty.

Ross and Ann standing with their children Charles, Betty, Jack, and Alfred.

Ross Wales is shown with his four sisters and his mother, Alice.

A group photograph of the Wales family.

Charlie Wales and Allen Drysdale cross country skiing together.

Date: 1914-2006 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of a history of Somme School, a photo of Somme School students and some of its early teachers, the Glen Leslie Ball Team, and Glen Leslie Cemetery Register of Burials. Also included is a certificate of recognition from the Alberta Federation of Rural Electrification Associations Ltd. presented to Charles Wales for his work with the Grande Prairie East REA for 35 years (1949-1984).

Physical description: 0.5 cm textual records

8 photographs

1 postcard

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Conditions governing use:

Photographs were donated as digital copies and are not suitable for reproduction larger than 8×10 in.

Publication status:

Published

Miss Marion Morrison was the first teacher at Somme School in 1918.

Marion Morrison’s first class of students on the steps of Glen Leslie Church. Classes for Somme School students were held there from 1918 to 1928, except for 1919, the year of the Influenza epidemic.

Miss Keyho was the second teacher at Somme School. She taught in 1920, after there had been no classes for a year because of the influenza epidemic.

Students on the steps of Glen Leslie Church. Classes for Somme School students were held there from 1918 to 1928, except for 1919, the year of the Influenza epidemic.

Miss Turner was the third teacher at Somme School.

Miss Dorothy Morrison, the fourth teacher at Somme School.

Glen Leslie Presbyterian Church was built in 1915. It was used as the school house for Somme School from 1918 to 1928.

Somme School was built in 1928 for the Glen Leslie area east of Grande Prairie.

Deep Creek Ball Team in 1915, with a list of players included on the back. The caption on the back reads: “Left to right: seated Pat Carveth, bat boy. First unknown. Ray Hegler, Cecil Johnston, Eric Anderson. Standing left to right: Wylie Sawyer, Rupert Carveth – pitcher, Neil Vance, Boody Sprague, Wes Bentley.”

Date: 1995 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of a draft of a license agreement between the City of Grande Prairie and the Grande Prairie Lawn Bowling Club and a copy of the Commonwealth Lawn Bowling Club rules of the game.

Physical description: 0.5 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1997 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of a booklet, “From Candles to Computers and Beyond” produced by the Alberta Federation of REAs to celebrate their 50 years of farm power.

Physical description: 0.5 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published