People & Places

At the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery Archives, processing of the Southeast Alberta Regional Planning Commission records has begun. Recent archival acquisitions include the personal and business papers of H. C. Yuill, founder of several important industrial and broadcasting businesses; the Charles Thompson papers, a collection of 1960s-1980s material related to gay and lesbian issues; and addenda to the Alberta Linseed Oil Co. Ltd. fonds, the Rotary Club of Medicine Hat fonds, CHAT TV/Orv Kope collection, and the Chamber of Commerce fonds.

The Provincial Archives of Alberta has four students this summer working at various projects. A Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions student is working on a review of audio visual accessions in order to standardize and update them. A Summer Temporary Employment Program (STEP) employee is researching administrative histories of major government departments in order to complete an administrative history register. Two Summer Career Program (SCP) students are employed, one working on the Oblates of Mary Immaculate records, and the other developing archival programs for elementary school children.

Northern Alberta Historian Dave Leonard reports that Alberta's next archival institution is soon to be established in Grande Prairie. The City of Grande Prairie has accepted a consultant's feasibility study that recommended the establishment of a regional archives for the southern Peace River country. The Archives will be the repository of records of the City and the County of Grande Prairie, and will also collect private records and personal papers from the region.

The University of Alberta Archives has been assigned lead responsibility for implementation of Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPP) requirements at the University, and has been given additional resources for ensuring University compliance. Currently the Archives is recruiting two information and privacy advisors. The Archives recently acquired the personal and professional papers of anthropologists Edward Rogers and Mary Black-Rogers. Both are acknowledged as leading authorities on Canada's northern Cree.