Fonds 165 Roland Pivert fonds

296 photographs

176 slides

277 negatives

4 video recordings

Date: [ca. 1935]-1949 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of personal papers dating from Roland’s teen-age years in boy scouts and at St. Joseph’s High School. The records include letters from Gerald Gardner, a pen pal from Mississippi, Flying Shot Lake Boy Scouts Troop certificate and booklets, two issues of St. Joseph’s Troubador, one of which tells the story of the death of Shirley Miller, photographs and negatives taken during Roland’s time at St. Joseph’s High School, including the Student Council and several of friends, two images in frames decorated with silk, and a collection of religious cards and artwork, likely assembled primarily when Roland was a child.

Physical description: 1.5 cm textual records

27 photographs

18 negatives

Access points:

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Arrangement:

The records have been arranged by the Archivist according to topic and type.

Publication status:

Published

A portrait, likely of St. Joseph’s High School Student Council or Student Union. Standing, left to right: Roland Pivert, Eugene Blais, Father ?, and ?. Seated: ?, ?, and Shirley Boucher (graduated 1947).

A portrait of Roland Pivert.

A portrait of Carol Lynn.

A casual photograph of Roland Pivert and Carol Lynn. A house is visible in the background and a dog in the foreground.

A casual photograph of Carol Lynn and a friend. A house is visible in the background and a dog is lying beside the girls.

Carol Lynn and a dog, standing outside a school building.

An unidentified man, possibly in uniform, standing in a field.

An unidentified school building, possibly in Grande Prairie. A church with a pointed steeple is visible in the background.

An unidentified school building, possibly in Grande Prairie.

A landscape view of a hill and the valley below, taken through a break in trees and brush.

Carol Lynn seated in front of the Mile 0 marker post of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia.

Carol Lynn dressed in formal clothing with a corsage.

Carol Lynn dressed in formal clothing with a corsage.

Carol Lynn standing on the railway tracks. The town of Grande Prairie is visible in the background.

Carol Lynn standing in front of some bushes.

A group of young people seated outside at a picnic table, including Roland Pivert and Carol Lynn (front).

Carol Lynn standing on a driveway in the country. A house is visible in the distance.

Carol Lynn sitting in a tree.

Carol Lynn sitting on the ground in a forest clearing.

Carol Lynn and Roland Pivert (?) sitting under a tree, presumably during a picnic.

An unidentified man, possibly Roland Pivert, standing in a tree.

An unidentified girl, possibly a student at St. Joseph High School, standing beside a tree and fence.

An unidentified girl and boy, possibly students at St. Joseph High School, standing beside a tree and fence.

Carol Lynn (right) and an unidentified girl, likely students at St. Joseph High School, standing beside a tree and fence.

Roland Pivert (left) and an unidentified boy, likely students at St. Joseph High School, standing beside a tree and fence.

Roland Pivert and Carol Lynn standing beside a tree and fence.

Carol Lynn standing beside a tree and fence.

Date: 1949-1950 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of a small diary kept by Roland Pivert detailing his actions during the exercise, some daily reports from Roland’s duty as the water truck driver, a 1950 magazine article from The Standard with photographs and text about Exercise Sweetbriar, and 25 snapshots of soldiers, camps, equipment and scenery. There is also a copy of a transcription of Roland’s diary.

Physical description: 0.5 cm textual records

25 photographs

25 negatives

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Exercise Sweetbriar involved 5,300 Canadian and American soldiers and airmen. The scenario was that an enemy had seized Alaska and the combat team was assigned to secure the Alaska highway and its airfields from Whitehorse to Northway in Alaska. The images show soldiers, scenery, buildings, and equipment.

Date: 1952 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of the itinerary the Prairie Command Display Team followed on its tour, several attraction passes, a news clipping, and 33 photographs of the team members and the display in parades, in parks and amphibious portions on beaches. The series includes a photo of Roland beside the poster advertising the display, and one of his aunt and uncle in Sedley, Saskatchewan, one of the towns they passed through.

Physical description: 0.5 cm textual records

34 photographs

34 negatives

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

In the summer of 1952, Roland Pivert accompanied the Prairie Command Display, a collection of military technology and equipment, through Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

Jean-Louis Gervais & Marie-Claire Marcil and their five children: André b. 1937; Arnold b. 1940; Edmond b. 1942; Jeannine b. 1943; Laurette b. 1945; and Denis b. 1950.

Memorial Arena in Sedley, Saskatchewan, the home of Jean-Louis Gervais and his family.

Date: 1953-1954 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of a map of Korea and Japan; newsletters published on board the U.S. Navy Service ship General C.C. Ballou; three postcards of the Ballou; a booklet from “The Crown News” for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953; and some information regarding how soldiers should spend their leaves in Tokyo, including some Japanese tourist information and postcards. The subjects of the slides and photographs are the peacekeeping soldiers and camp life in Korea, Korean village life, entertainment in the camps and visits to Japan on leave.

Physical description: 2 cm textual records

142 photographs

142 negatives

62 slides

Access points:

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Images of life in the camp of a Peacekeeping mission in Korea showing camp buildings, equipment, soldiers, and events.

Images of life in the camp of a Peacekeeping mission in Korea showing camp buildings, equipment, soldiers, and events.

Images showing soldiers of the Princess Patricia Regiment No. 25 in Korea on peacekeeping duties, including one of a Canadian Red Cross station.

Note:

0165.04.041-053 and .068-070 exist only as negatives.

People, villages, and landscape surrounding 23 WKSP, the camp of Princess Patricia Regiment No. 25 in Korea.

Entertainment troops, some of which are identified, visited Korea to entertain the soldiers.

Canadian Peacekeepers in Korea spent most of their leaves in Japan. Images show soldiers traveling and buildings, people, street scenes, and water scenes in Japan.

Note:

0165.04.119-142 exist only as negatives.

Images of life in the camp of a Peacekeeping mission in Korea showing camp buildings, equipment, soldiers, and events.

Korean people working and performing at the Canadian Peacekeepers’ camp.

Four slides showing scenes of a USO camp show entertaining the peacekeeping troops in Korea.

A trip to Vancouver, possibly at the end of Roland’s tour of duty in Korea. Scenes include the interior and exterior of the airplane, the Vancouver airport, and a downtown building.

Date: 1947-1954 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of records relating to Roland’s military service in the Canadian Army. The records include an Application for Service in Canadian Army (Active Force), a Canadian Army Certificate of Service, a Clothing and Equipment Card and List from 1952, a Soldier’s Service and Pay Book from Korea, passes and receipts, a clothing and equipment statement upon his return from Korea, an information leaflet on the Maple Leaf Club in Tokyo, a Release Certificate dated October 18, 1954, an income tax return from 1949. The records also include travel postcards collected on trips in Eastern and Western Canada during his time with the army, photographs, and pamphlets on the 1952 Funeral Ceremony of the Late King George VI, Information Regarding Mounting and Wearing of Decorations, Campaign Stars and Medals, and a 1954 Programme of Competitions for Rifle and Pistol Shooting. The photographs are Roland’s formal coloured army portrait, taken after he had enlisted in 1951, a group photograph of his unit taken at Basic Training, a photo of Roland and two friends in uniform, five snapshots of his barracks and room during basic training, 13 of training exercises on the Alaska Highway ca. 1952, two taken while he was on leave in Grande Prairie, and four taken on a trip to New York while Roland was in training in Kingston.

Physical description: 4.5 cm textual records

29 photographs

21 negatives

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Official army portrait of Roland Pivert – head and shoulders, in uniform.

Regimental photograph of Roland Pivert and his Basic Training Unit of the Princess Patricia Regiment at the RCEME school in Kingston, Ontario.

Regimental photograph of Roland Pivert and his Basic Training Unit of the Princess Patricia Regiment at the RCEME school in Kingston, Ontario.

Casual portrait of Roland Pivert and two army mates in Korea.

“This is 228 WKSP. The building to the right is the auditorium, to the left is the mess hall, and those in the background are the hangers.”

Note written on back by Roland Pivert says, “The top row of windows is my room.”

Roland Pivert’s room in the military barracks at the RCEME School in Kingston, Ontario.

Roland Pivert’s closet in his room in the military barracks at the RCEME School in Kingston, Ontario.

Princess Patricia Regiment soldiers attending a parade in Hamilton, Ontario.

Roland Pivert’s army buddy, Peter, with a School Bus called “The Duck” at Fort Churchill, Manitoba.

Vehicles and soldiers in uniform on the Alaska Highway.

Roland Pivert, in uniform, at the front door of the Pivert family log home in Flying Shot Lake, and the Christmas Tree inside the house that Christmas.

Scenes of New York City taken when Roland took a trip there while he was training in Kingston.

Date: 1960-1976 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of correspondence with the Department of Veterans Affairs and associated records (including summaries of evidence, notifications of hearings and decisions, certification of VLA qualification legal agreements, and certificates of title) relating to benefits Roland was entitled to receive due to his military service. Topics addressed include Veterans Insurance, Re-establishment Credit, Pension, and Veterans’ Land Act.

Physical description: 1 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Arrangement:

Although the records of all benefits have been combined in one file by the Archivist, original order has essentially been maintained since the records were mostly chronological and application for different benefits date from different time periods.

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1944-[ca. 1960] (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of records relating to Roland’s work, primarily as an electrician in the 1950s. The records include a receipt book for the R. J. Pivert Wood Work Shop (1944-55), a 1956 Contract of Apprenticeship, a 1956 Apprenticeship Board qualification report, a newspaper clipping about the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a letter from the Federal Electric Corporation regarding a job, an undated Residential and Farm Wiring Permit, a blank application form for the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires, and photographs, negatives, and slides showing the construction of the Hinton mill, the Grande Prairie Hospital, the Dunvegan Bridge, and the Wapiti River Bridge, and work at a forestry bush camp and George Stephen’s Sawmill.

Physical description: 1 cm textual records

40 photographs

89 slides

37 negatives

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Arrangement:

The records have been arranged in chronological order, as far as possible, by the Archivist.

Publication status:

Published

Four photographs showing various stages in building the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton.

Images taken in Jasper National Park, including scenery, a waterfall, a car at a viewpoint, Miette Hot Springs, the town of Jasper, and wildlife, while Roland was working on the North Western Pulp and Power Mill construction project in Hinton.

Note:

0165.07.06, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 20, and 21 exist as both negatives and photographs. The other items exist only as negatives.

Images showing various stages in the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co., and some of the workers on the project.

Note:

0165.07.023 exists as both a negative and a photograph; 0165.07.022 exists only as a negative.

Street scenes of an unidentified town, possibly Hinton, taken while Roland was working on the North Western Pulp and Power Mill construction project.

Images showing various stages in the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co., and some of the workers on the project.

Note:

0165.07.30, 31, 32, 36, 38, and 41 exist as both negatives and photographs. The remaining items exist only as negatives.

Image showing the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co.

A street scene of an unidentified town, possibly Hinton, taken while Roland was working on the North Western Pulp and Power Mill construction project.

Images showing various stages in the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co.

Aerial photographs showing various stages in the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co.

Aerial photographs showing various stages in the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co.

Slides showing various stages in the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co., and some of the workers on the project.

Four slides showing various views of an unidentified dam (or possibly two different dams). The dam may or may not be related to the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co.

Three aerial views showing a town (possibly Hinton), a river, and a city (possibly Grande Prairie).

Two slides of groups of men sightseeing in the Jasper-Hinton area, likely in connection with the building of the North Western Pulp and Power Mill in Hinton, a project Roland worked on as an employee of Standard Electric Co.

An exterior view of part of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, in an unidentified location.

Slides showing forestry operations including cutting and transporting trees, a bush lumber camp, and a scenic view of mountains.

Slides showing forestry operations at George Stephen’s sawmill in winter.

One exterior view and four interior views depicting the construction of the Grande Prairie Hospital. Roland worked on the project as an electrician.

Four slides showing the Wapiti River valley and the construction of the Wapiti River bridge at O’Brien Park.

Interior views of the completed Grande Prairie Hospital. Roland worked on the construction project as an electrician.

Roland Pivert standing beside an electrical panel at the Grande Prairie Hospital. Roland worked on the hospital construction project as an electrician.

Norman Cookshaw standing beside an electrical panel and equipment at the Grande Prairie Hospital.

Five slides showing the construction of the Dunvegan Bridge over the Peace River. Two were taken from a distance, two from the bridge deck, and one possibly of the underside of the deck.

Date: 1959-1981 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of correspondence and associated records, including forms, notices, agreements, Grazing Lease Regulations, caveats, permit and release forms, and a drill shift report, relating to land owned or leased by Roland or the Pivert family. Topics addressed include grazing leases, easements, and geophysical operations.

Physical description: 0.5 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Arrangement:

The records are arranged in chronological order, essentially their original order.

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1949-1978, 2005 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of Roland and other Pivert family members including his father Andre, mother Jeanne, and brother Paul. The records include correspondence, invoices and receipts, 1953 list of County of Grande Prairie Public Sales of Lands Under the Tax Recovery Act, calfhood vaccination certificates, purchase agreements and contracts, land titles search letter, income tax return for 1961, a copy of Roland’s 1965 will, slides of family, friends, and community events, and a funeral card and obituary announcing Roland’s death in 2005.

Physical description: 0.5 cm textual records

25 slides

4 video recordings

Access points:

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

•                Moving images (documentary form)

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Arrangement:

The records have been arranged in chronological order by the Archivist.

Publication status:

Published

A view of the audience and several views of the performers at a Christmas Concert at Dimsdale Hall in the 1950s.

Four unidentified young people sitting on the steps of a stuccoed house.

Three unidentified young people and Roland Pivert (right) sitting on a couch looking at a magazine.

An unidentified couple dancing in a house.

A low, white footbridge spanning Bear Creek in Grande Prairie. A house is visible in the background.

Four views of water activities at Lake Saskatoon. The slides show people water skiing, in boats, on the beach, and in the water.

An unidentified woman and older man sitting on a chair inside a house.

A young woman and an older woman standing outside a stuccoed house.

A young couple and a baby on the grass outside a house and beside a picket fence.

A a small girl plays with a cat in a garden.

An aerial photograph of Grande Prairie showing the refinery.

An overall aerial view of the City of Grande Prairie.

A group photograph, presumably of nuns and other teachers, taken in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Catholic schools in Grande Prairie.

The film shows scenes of the Pivert farm including the barn, house, cattle, and deer feeding, a historical museum/village in an unidentified location, Roland and Betty Pivert’s wedding, and their honeymoon in Hawaii, including two commercial films “Pele Goes Wild at Puna” (volcanic eruptions) and “Kodak Hula Show” (hula dancing).

Digitized May 2015. View a digitized copy here.

The film shows scenes of a landscape garden, tentatively identified as the Japanese Garden in Lethbridge, baby Kurtis Pivert in a Jolly Jumper, and an unidentified landscape.

Digitized May 2015. View a digitized copy here.

The film shows scenes of an excavation project using a backhoe, steam machinery at Pioneer Days including steam engines and a threshing machine, and a band with a parade.

Digitized May 2015. View a digitized copy here.

The film shows scenes of chuckwagon races and Pioneer Days, including steam engines, a threshing machine, and a sawmill.

Digitized May 2015. View a digitized copy here.