Member Awards & Honours
The ASA celebrates its members with publications awards and lifetime memberships.
The ASA has the following honourary (lifetime) members:
- L.H. Thomas
- Sheilagh Jameson
- Alan Ridge
- Helen LaRose
- Georgeen Barrass
- Hugh Taylor
- Hugh Dempsey
- E.J. (Ted) Hart
- Trudie McLaren
- Jean Tener
- Michael Dawe
- Jo-Ann Munn Gafuik
- Don Bourdon
- Apollonia Steele
- Marlena Wyman
Alan D. Ridge Publications Award
The award is named in honour of Alan D. Ridge, Provincial Archivist of Alberta from 1968-1984. His active involvement in archives and records management in England, Canada, and the United States has provided leadership and stimulation to the archival community in Alberta and beyond.
This award recognizes excellence in the form of research, opinion, analysis, etc. on some aspect of archives studies, records management, the use of records, archival institutions, or the archival profession.
Recipients of the Alan D. Ridge Publications Award:
| 2011 | |
|---|---|
| Award of Merit - Print | Raymond Frogner, for "'Innocent Legal Fictions': Archival Convention and the North Saanich Treaty of 1852," Archivaria 70 (Fall 2010): 45-94. |
| 2010 | |
| Award of Merit - Other Media | MAA & PAA Theatre, for the plays "Letters from Battle River," "Respecting the Action for Seduction," and "The Unmarried Wife." |
| 2009 | |
| Award of Merit - Print | Karen Buckley for “The Truth is in the Red Files: An Overview of Archives in Popular Culture," Archivaria 66 (Fall 2008): 95-123. |
| Award of Merit - Other Media | Jewish Archives of Edmonton and Northern Alberta for its redesigned website, www.jahsena.ca, and its film, “Bittersweet Memories: The War Years.” |
| 2008 | |
| Special Award of Merit | Karen Simonson for "Memories Resurrected In Context: Gender and Remembrance in Charlotte Black's Scrapbook," Archivaria 62 (Fall 2006): 179-197. |
| 2007 | |
| Special Award of Merit | Provincial Archives of Alberta for An Administrative History of the Government of Alberta, 1905-2005. Edmonton: Provincial Archives of Alberta, 2006. |
| 2001 - 2006 | |
| Award not presented. | |
| 2000 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Karen Buckley for No Ordinary Prairie Town : A Researcher's Guide and Historical Inventory to the Towns of Southern Alberta. -- Calgary : Privately printed by author, 1998. Mary Nutting for From One Generation to Another: Historical Resources in the City of Grande Prairie and Surrounding Area. -- Grande Prairie, Alberta : Grande Prairie Regional Museum, 1999. Donny White for Geraldine Moody: An Inventory. -- Regina : Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 1999. |
| 1999 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Award was not presented this year. |
| 1998 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Elizabeth Denham and Donna Kynaston for A Framework for the Management and Disposition of Hospital Archives : The Alberta Medical Archives Survey. -- Toronto : Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1997. |
| 1997 | |
| Cash Award | Elizabeth Denham for "Dealing with the Records of Closing Hospitals : The Calgary Area Health Authority," Archivaria 41 (Spring 1996): 78-87. |
| Special Award of Merit | Lorraine Mychajlunow and Sharon Richardson for Directory of Nursing Archival Resources in Alberta. -- Edmonton : University of Alberta, 1996. |
| 1996 | |
| Cash Award | Rick Klumpenhouwer for "Private Sector Legal Archives in Canada: A Source of Concern" in Law, Society, and the State: Essays in Modern Legal History, edited by Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie. University of Toronto Press, 1995. |
| Special Award of Merit | Susan Kooyman for "RAD and the Researcher," Archivaria 37 (Spring 1994): 104-110. The City of Calgary for XV Olympic Winter Games inventories. University of Calgary. Libraries. Special Collections Division for Mapping the Territory: A Guide to the Archival Holdings, Special Collections, University of Calgary. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1995. University of Calgary. Libraries. Special Collections Division for The George Ryga papers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1995. Bryan Corbett for "Archival Education: The Experience of the Association of Canadian Archivists" in Archival Issues: Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference, vol.18, no.2, 1993. |
| 1995 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Brock V. Silversides, for The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871 - 1939. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1994. |
| 1994 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Award was not presented this year. |
| 1993 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Trude McLaren, Trevor Livelton and Bryan Corbett, University of Alberta Archives, for From the Past to the Future: A Guide to the Holdings of the University of Alberta Archives. Edmonton: University of Alberta Archives, 1992. Susan M. Kooyman and Bonnie Woelk, Glenbow Museum and Archives, for Glenbow Archives: A Guide to the Holdings. Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1992. |
| 1992 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Award was not presented this year. |
| 1991 | |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this year. |
| Special Award of Merit | Margery Tanner Hadley for Guide to Photographs: The Fonds and Collections of the Archives, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Lorraine Mychajlunow and Keith Stotyn for A Guide to the Archives of the United Church of Canada, Alberta and Northwest Conference. |
| 1990 | |
| Cash Award | Vicki Lemieux for "Towards an Integrated Approach to Public Records Legislation," presented at the 1989 Canadian ARMA Black Gold Conference and published in the conference proceedings. |
| Special Award of Merit | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Archives) for Guide to Manuscripts: The Fonds and Collections of the Archives, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections Division for Canadian Archival Inventory Series. |
| 1989 (First year for awards) | |
| Cash Award | Rick Klumpenhouwer and Hermina Joldersma for editing and translating Hans Booms' article, "Society and the Formation of a Documentary Heritage: Issues in the Appraisal of Archival Sources,"Archivaria 24 (Summer 1987): 69-107. |
| Special Award of Merit | Brian Owens and Claude Roberto for A Guide to the Archives of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Province of Alberta. Alberta Archives Council for Alberta's Archives Needs Assessment and Planning Study report. |
More information about the Alan D. Ridge Publications Award
Awards
Award of Merit (Print)
To recognize contributions via print resources (books, pamphlets, brochures, manuals, article in a peer-reviewed journal/periodical, etc.)
Award of Merit (Other)
To recognize contributions via other forms of dissemination (web sites, film, theatre, broadcasts, etc.)
Eligibility of Entrants
Open to any resident of the Province of Alberta with a knowledge of or interest in archives, records and historical resources (as relating to archives). Entrants may include but are not limited to: current or past employees or volunteers of archival institutions, students of archival studies, records managers and administrators.
Consideration may be given to non-residents who produce works on topics specific to Alberta. Heritage institutions and organizations may also apply if the project represents the efforts of several individuals within the organization.
Criteria for Eligibility
Works must have been published / disseminated in the preceding 24 months, prior to January 1st of the current year.
The judges will consider works using the following criteria:
1. scholarly content and quality of the work
2. impact on the profession
3. originality
4. depth of dissemination.
Administration of the Award
- The ASA Nominations and Awards Committee will accept nominations and/or submissions up to 31 December of the current year.
Click here for the nomination form for the Award of Merit - Print(PDF).
Click here for the nomination form for the Award of Merit - Other(PDF). - Works will be reviewed by an ad hoc Committee consisting of 1 past board member, 1 member of the current Board of Directors, and 1 member of the Nominations and Awards Committee.
- Judges cannot consider works which they have either written or to which they have given substantial direct assistance.
- Judging to be completed by 31 March of each year.
- Awards will be presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Archives Society of Alberta.
- Up to 3 awards may be given per year.