Fonds 252 Kathryn & Leo Auger fonds

100 photographs

21 slides

1 postcard

1 sound recording

Date: 1920-1950 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The fonds consists of 35 photographs, copies of family history records, 2 Social Credit brochures “Keep Alberta in the Lead”, a booklet and a newspaper on the history of Catholic Education “The First Fifty Years”, one placemat featuring the Edson Trail and one showing the history of St. Joseph’s School in pictures.

Physical description: 1 cm of textual records

36 photographs

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

The Lanctot house on Bear Creek taken in October after a heavy snowfall. Grandma Lanctot helped look after the 3 Auger grandchildren after their mother Dolly died in 1936.

Mary was married to John Auger and they operated a stopping place on the Edson Trail for a short time before taking a homestead near Grande Prairie. John died in 1913 and Mary Auger applied for a homestead in 1914. When she gained title in 1919 she was married to a second husband, Mr. Sauroil.

The Roman Catholic Mission cemetery showing several tombstones and fence in the background.

A group of men stand beside a cart loaded with gear. They have stopped to eat and the man on the far right has a pot boiling over a fire. Emile Auger with hat on is third from the right.

Dredges working on the Peace River.

Hudson Bay boat on the Peace River.

Emile Auger, born 1900, married “Dolly” Lanctot in 1928.

Railroad Camp on the CNR, Jasper

Shows the rushing waters under the bridge with houses shown in the background both on the hill and in the valley.

Shows the rushing waters under the bridge with buildings shown on either side of the creek.

People line the street while watching a team of horses pull a skier.

Emile Auger as a young unmarried man posing on the bridge with homes shown in the background.

Emile and Dollie Auger as a young couple standing in front of a house.

Dolly Lanctot as a young girl, standing beside a house and holding a camera.

Dolly Lanctot as a young girl, standing with her four girl friends including Velma Macklin.

Dolly Auger, second from the right, pictured at a skating party.

Dolly Auger and Syd Cookshaw stand in an entrance.

Syd Cookshaw (left) poses with an unidentified man.

Portrait of the bride, Dolly Auger (nee Lanctot).

Image shows a portion of the front of the Auger home on 102 Ave in Grande Prairie in 1930.

Photo of Dolly Auger as a young woman. On the back of the picture is written “Such a silly picture I make with my face full of cake and my hand too. Feb 6, 1930.”

Four men stand in front of a bus labelled, “Northwest Service Command Bus Ltd.” Emile Auger is the shortest man.

The hired girl stands in front of the Auger home in College Park in the mid 1930s.

Dolly Auger standing in a doorway with her son Leo in her arms.

Leo Auger sitting in his yard

Eilene and Norma Auger standing and saluting with cousin Donny McDermot.

Norma Auger, Patsy Bjerke, and Florence Pachnoski standing by the entrance to the high school.

Norma Auger and Florence Pachnoski standing by a telephone pole in the winter.

Norma Auger photographed with her father, Leo.

Lanctot grandparents (in the background) Eilene and Rene Duquette in foreground.

Looking east down Richmond Avenue (100 Ave.) from the corner of 101 St. seeing angle parked cars and Emil Auger’s delivery truck in the intersection. Signs visible include Simpsons, drug stores, Royal Café.

St. Joseph’s Catholic School class assembled outside for a photo.

St. Joseph’s Catholic School class assembled outside in front of the school.

Students in Grades 1-4, St. Joseph’s Catholic School pose for a photograph in a classroom.

Students in Grades 1-4, St. Joseph’s Catholic School pose for a photograph beside the school.

Emile Auger standing outside with his two oldest children, Leo and Eilene, in front of him.

Date: 1911-1975 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The fonds consists of photographs, negatives, a postcard, and a newspaper article.

Physical description: 81 photographs

21 slides

1 postcard

1 newspaper article

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

•                Textual record (documentary form)

The Walter and Dulcie Medlock homestead on Crystal Lake, labelled “town residence” referring to the tents. This is now part of a subdivision in north-east Grande Prairie.

Walter and Dulcie Medlock in front of their home in north-east Grande Prairie with daughter, Dorothy.

Walter and Dulcie Medlock’s homestead in north-east Grande Prairie, complete with fence

Ike Nelson homesteaded west of Walter Medlock’s place. He was the partner in Nelson and Archibald store.

Image shows a group of people enjoying a picnic in the forest. The back of the photograph reads “family picnic,” “mom,” and “Gosney or Newsome?”

Walter Medlock’s second wife Agnes (Stewart) with Dorothy Medlock, Agnes’s daughter, Marguerite, and Hazel Medlock.

Walter Medlock building a boat in his yard.

Walter Medlock sitting in a boat on Crystal Lake.

Walter Medlock with Hazel and Marguerite in his boat on Crystal Lake.

Al Turner standing on a hill top with houses behind him.

Lucy & Enock Lundblad having a ride in a row boat at Sturgeon Lake.

Image shows a marshy looking area. The back of the photograph reads “Rose Bush Is. Sturgeon Lake.”

High School Class picture taken in front of the Grande Prairie High School. Hazel (Medlock) Evenrude is eighth from the right.

Army trainees parading down 100 Ave. The troops are passing Alberta 5 cent to $1.00 store and the Royal Café.

Army trainees parading down 100 Ave led by Sergeant Major Jack Mantle. The troops are passing Alberta 5 cent to $1.00 store and the Royal Café.

Magnus Evenrude (first left) and two other army trainees perform a training exercise with a machine gun dug in along the sidewalk. A child watches and the courthouse is seen in the background.

Peter Campbell in his WWII uniform outside the St. Regis Hotel in Edmonton. The photograph is taken by a street photographer.

Medlock’s home at Crystal Lake photographed just before they moved to Vancouver.

Medlock’s home and outbuildings at Crystal Lake.

The class of grade 2 students at Montrose School. Back Row – Mrs. Ward, Jim Gammon, Keith Godsman, ?, Terry Gorman, Bruce Logan, John Braseth, DerekMiddle Row – Sandra Stanton, ? Pat Smith, Shirley Nellis, Louanne Vagt, ? Clarice Mayo, Alexandra, Kathryn Evenrude, Gail Anderson? Front Row – Iris ? , Judy Stelmaker, Barbara Hnatiuk, Carole Donaldson, Gail Croft, Betty & Jean Borowski, Carol White, (Joyce?), ? , Opal Kimmerley, ?.

Kirk Evenrude sitting on his soapbox car with “The Herald-Tribune” painted on the front. More information about this event was in the Daily Herald Tribune on June 3, 1955 p. 10.

Kirk Evenrude standing inside the trunk of a very large tree in August 1955.

Kirk Evenrude standing inside the trunk of a very large tree in August 1955.

Myrtle Medlock standing by a blooming pear tree.

Sisters Hazel Evenrude and Dorothy Rankin, daughters of Walter and Dulcie Medlock, sitting for a picture in Vancouver surrounded with beautiful flowers. August 1955.

Brother-in-laws Art Rankin and Magnus Evenrude are relaxing in a garden in Vancouver in August, 1955.

Kathryn Evenrude wearing her Girl Guides uniform in March 1956.

Hazel and Magnus Evenrude sitting inside their home on 107th Ave, in Grande Prairie.

The Evenrude family standing outside their home on 107th Ave., Grande Prairie, L-R Kirk, Kathryn, Magnus and Hazel, March 1956.

Tom Massee and his wife standing outside in the snow. Mrs. Massee has a fur coat on and is holding a camera. There is also a slide of Mrs. Massee standing alone and another with her and Marguerite Stewart in March, 1956.

Carol and Tommy Magnusson in March 1956.

A series of photographs from a girl guides camp at the Wapiti in July 1957 showing the tents, the Wapiti ferry, and the various activities the girls participated in. People in identified in the photographs include: Mary Figgures, Peg Anning, June Cottrell, Mrs. Dean. Maureen Pronovost, Claire Allen, Barb MacNeil, Peg Brown, Doris Dinzey, Sharon Paquette, Kory Sluymers, Kathryn Evenrude, Mrs. Boucher, Sharon Crerar and ____ Farnsworth.

The Medlock family in Vancouver. Back – Kathryn, Kirk, Magnue Evenrude, Allison & Art Rankin. Front – Dorothy Rankin, Hazel & Myrtle Medlock in August 1957.

The Medlock family on the banks of Stanley Park. L-R Magnus Evenrude, Kirk Evenrude, Hazel Evenrude, Agnes (Munn) Medlock, Kathryn Evenrude, Ole and Agnes Evenrude. Ole and Magnus were brothers.

Students of Central Park School including Pat Smith, Bonnie McKnight, ____ McKee and Gail Croft.

A meeting of the 4-H Club in Grande Prairie, February 1958. Back row – Linda Voth, Kathryn Evenrude, Isabel Richards, ? Tofer, Kathleen East, Jody (?) Farnsworth, Alice Patterson. Front row – Mary McKeeman, ? Kimble, Ann Sutherland, Jean Girvan, ? Kimble (?).

The cast of the Grande Prairie High School play the Wizard of Oz in 1959. The actors identified as Karen Compton, Donna Davis, Sandra Stanton, Donna, Kohalyk, Carole Donaldson, Donna Leschert, Gloria Remple, Hazel DeWinter, Jackie Lidster, Mary Figgures, Judy Stellmaker, ?,?, Mary Lalonde, Loretta Doering, Gail Croft, Gloria Fredrickson, Kathleen East, Janet Matheson, Gloria Crerar, Diane Brown, Gloria Leishman, ?, Donna Gammel, Darlene Berg, Kathryn Evenrude, ?, Ann Carr, Marlene Moore, Beverly Hillman.

Some of the cast members of the play the Wizard of Oz that was put on by the drama students of the Grande Prairie High School in 1959. The actors identified as Janet Matheson, Mary Lalonde, Darlene Berg, Kathryn Evenrude, Loretta Doering, Donna Gammel, Carole Donaldson, Gail Croft, Hazel DeWinter, Gloria Crerar.

The grad dance for the class of 1960 at the Grande Prairie High School. Some of the attendees identified as Betty Voss, Ritchie Iwa, Mary Lalonde, Bob Robinson, Kathryn Evenrude, Rosimond Wilson and teacher Edmund Dale.

The Grande Prairie High School students who received honors are: seated Evelyn Peters, Jackie Lyon, Gail Anderson, Helen Steiner, Kathryn Evenrude, Lyla Horneland. Standing – Bruce Logan, Roger Repka, Dale Anderson, Arnold Blomke.

Eileen & Helmer Magnusson, Eileen’s maiden name was Rooney and the family was from Grande Prairie, March 1961.

Harry and Nora Watcher waving good-bye as their boat the Chusan departs, May 1961.

A view of Crystal Lake in July 1964.

Hazel and Magnus Evenrude in Grande Prairie, October 1966.

Magnus and Myrtle Evenrude outside their home in Grande Prairie with their daughter Kathryn and grandson Kela, October 1966

A successful duck hunting trip. Magnus and Kirk display their success from a duck hunting trip, October 1966.

Marguerite Stewart graduating from McGill.

Leo Auger displaying the steelhead fish he caught in Duncan, B.C.

Seated on a couch, Wilfred & Marguerite (Stewart) Gruber and Leo and Kathryn (Evenrude) Auger, in Duncan, B.C. in June 1974.

An aerial postcard of Grande Prairie in 1954.

Snow rollers after a wind storm in front of the Anderson house in Wembley,. This house served as an airport house, and now belongs to the Wembley Arts, Culture and History Society

This photograph depicts Allison on the knee of a department store Santa. The caption reads, “Dear Janice & Bryan. This is Allison with Santa Claus. Doesn’t she look funny? Love & kisses, Dot.”

This artefact is a full page article dated Saturday, October 15, 1955, which contains a brief biography of Art Rankin, including personal history, as well as photographs.

Date: 1920-1984 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

Photographs collected by Kathryn and Leo Auger.

Physical description: 5 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

The view of a barn from the fence line, captioned Bert Cooke’s farm Grande Prairie.

Eddie Caran standing beside an old vehicle.

A winter scene with horse on the road beside Porteous Hardware.

Bob Rigler in his Athletics hockey gear ready to shoot a puck. Photographer is Art and Craft, Grande Prairie.

Bob Rigler in his Athletics hockey gear ready to shoot a puck. Photographer is Art and Craft, Grande Prairie.