Archival Material Digitized For Seeing With New Eyes

Archival Material Digitized for

“Seeing With New Eyes

A Journey into Blackfoot Knowledge”

Michael Gourlie, Executive Director

Archives Society of Alberta

July 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Introduction3
  1. List of Fonds
  1. James Brady fonds5
  2. Alfred W.R. Carrothers fonds6
  3. Muriel Clipsham fonds6
  4. Dr. Eung-Do Cook fonds7
  5. Selwyn Dewdney Petroglyph Tracings Project collection8
  6. David C. Duvall fonds9
  7. John C. Ewers fonds9
  8. F. Ross and Marie Gibney fonds10
  9. Glenbow Foundation. Archaeology Department fonds11
  10. Philip H. Godsell fonds12
  11. Esther Schiff Goldfrank fonds13
  12. George H. Gooderham fonds14
  13. Lucien and Jane Hanks fonds15
  14. Jessie & Robert Holmes fonds 16
  15. Hudson's Bay Company fonds17
  16. Gwilym Isaac fonds19
  17. Oscar and Ruth Lewis fonds19
  18. Joe Little Chief fonds20
  19. Canon Samuel Henry Middleton fonds20
  20. Mildred Richardson fonds21
  21. St. Albert Historical Society fonds22
  22. St. Joseph's Industrial School fonds23
  23. Claude E. Schaeffer fonds24
  24. Everett Soop fonds25
  25. University of Calgary Report collection26
  26. Valleyview & District Chamber of Commerce Millennium Photograph Collection26
  27. R.N. Wilson fonds28

1) Introduction

One component of the “Seeing With New Eyes – A Journey Through Blackfoot Knowledge” project was to digitize and make available online records created by and about aboriginal peoples in Alberta, primarily the Blackfoot of Southern Alberta but also other groups from other areas of Alberta. This document contains a list of all the people and organizations that created records digitized as part of this project, listed by the name of the records creator.

The list is made up of the fonds-level descriptions of the archival materials. The word “fonds” is an archival term meaning “all the records created or received by a person or organization during the course of their activities that are kept for future reference because they have ongoing value.” Archivists create these descriptions to help researchers find materials helpful to their research. Although the description provides just an overview of all the materials, it helps to narrow down the search. Usually, there is an accompanying document or webpage known as a finding aid that provides more detailed information as well as scanned documents or photographs.

There are two methods to find the digitized materials:

  • Go to the Archives Society of Alberta’s website ( and choose “Collections Online,” and then “ASA databases.” Choose the ANA (Archives Network of Alberta) database. Search the database using the name of the records creator in the “scan index” feature or a specific keyword in the “search for” field. When you’ve found the description (which is the same as the one that appears in this document), click on the red dot that appears at the bottom of the description to view the documents or photographs that are linked to that records creator.
  • Go to and choose “Collections Online,” and then “ASA databases.” Choose either Alberta InWord (for documents) or Alberta InSight (for photographs). You can search using a keyword from the description, or you can use the advanced search feature and search the project code field for the word “see.” The descriptions for both the documents and the photographs have a link to the description in the ANA database. Please note that, for the documents in Alberta InSight, you click on the hyperlinked page numbers below the descriptions to read the documents.

Please note that not every document in each fonds was digitized. While all documents from the David C. Duvall fonds were digitized, only Esther Schiff Goldfrank’s photographs, and not her field notes, were scanned.

To see the non-digitized materials (as well as the originals of the digitized materials in the database), you can visit the archival repository noted in the description. To find out more information about the repositories, visit and choose “Collections Online,” and then “Directory of Archives.” Most institutions also have a separate website, and the link to that website is located in the directory. In some cases, the archival institution has an online finding aid for the records that can provide further information located on its website.

For more information about the purpose, function and role of archival institutions, please visit the Archives Tutorial on the ASA website. If you have comments or questions about the databases and their use, please send them to .

2) LIST OF FONDS

a) Title: / James Brady fonds
Dates: / 1895-1967, predominant 1932-1967
Physical desc.: / 4 m of textual records. -- 1070 photographs
Bio/Admin History: / James Patrick Brady, 1908-1967?, was born near St. Paul, Alberta, the son of James Brady, Sr., an Irish immigrant, and Philomena Garneau, a Metis from Strathcona. Throughout his life he was an advocate of native rights, and a strong supporter of democratic socialism. He was a founding member of the Metis Association of Alberta, which worked to secure land for Metis squatters. He promoted cooperative ventures to give his people an economic base. In 1941 he became supervisor of the government-sponsored Wolf Lake Metis Colony. He fought overseas during the Second World War, and on his return moved to Saskatchewan where he worked for the CCF government's Department of Mineral Resources, establishing Metis cooperatives. He retired to La Ronge, Saskatchewan about 1950 due to differences with the CCF government. He disappeared in June 1967 while on a prospecting trip in northern Saskatchewan. For further information see The One-and-a-Half Men / Murray Dobbin. - Vancouver : New Star Books, 1981.
Custodial hist: / Most of the records (4609m) were deposited by Simonot and Hansen, barristers and solicitors, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on behalf of Allan Quant, executor.
Scope/Content: / The fonds consists of diaries (1944-1945, 1955-1967); general correspondence (1933- 1966); Metis Association of Alberta correspondence, minutes, reports, etc. (1932-1952); photographs of Metis settlements and personalities in Alberta and Saskatchewan (1900-1965); files on Metis, Indians, cooperatives, politics and mining (1932-1967); and 204 scrapbooks of political newsclippings (1934-1961).
RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Batoche, Beauval, Buffalo Narrows, Johnny Callihoo, W.J. "Bill" Callihoo, Chief Sittingstone, Cumberland House, P.G. Davies, Arthur K. Davis, Joseph F. Dion, T.C. Douglas, Gabriel Dumont, fisheries, forestry, fur trade, John Ferguson, Green Lake, Grouard, Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), hunting, Iroquois, Indian Association of Alberta, Justice Ewing, Lac La Biche, Albert Lacombe, La Ronge, League of Nations of North American Indians, Metis Association of Saskatchewan, National Indian Council, Malcolm F. Norris, H.C. Norwest, Omaha tribe, Papasschayo (Passpasschase), Prince Albert, Louis Riel, Morris C. Shumiatcher, Stony Rapids, Ross Thatcher, Peter Tompkins, and Wolf Lake.
Title source: / Title based on contents of records.
Acq. source: / Gifts of Marcel Simonot and Murray Dobbin, 1977-1978.
Language: / The material is in English.
Restrictions: / No restrictions on access.
Finding aids: / Inventory available. Please consult before requesting material.
Record No.: / M 125 ; PA 2218 ; NA 3432 ; NA 3517
Repository: / Glenbow Archives
b) Title: / Alfred W.R. Carrothers fonds
Dates: / 1945-1973, predominant 1960-1973
Physical desc.: / 1.9 m of textual records. -- 6 photographs : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm and 9 x 12.5 cm
Bio/Admin History: / Alfred William Rooke Carrothers (1924 - 1998) was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on June 1, 1924. He took his undergraduate education at the University of British Columbia, receiving a BA in 1947 and an LLB in 1948. He then attended Harvard Law School and earned an LLM in 1951 and a Doctorate of Juridical Science in 1966. Carrothers joined the Faculty of Law at UBC as a lecturer in 1948 and became a full professor in 1960. In 1964 he became Dean, Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and in 1969 was appointed President of The University of Calgary, a position he held until 1974. He was involved in numerous learned societies and public service groups including serving as president of the Association of Canadian Law Teachers (1966-1967) and as chair of the Advisory Committee on the Development of Government in the North West Territories (1965-1966). He and his wife, Jane, had three children. Alfred W. R. Carrothers died on May 4, 1998 in Victoria, British Columbia at the age of 73.
Scope/Content: / Fonds consists of Advisory Committee on the Development of Government in the North West Territories records (1964-1973) including terms of reference, final report, briefs and submissions presented to the Committee, financial statements, budgets, minutes, reports, correspondence, photos of Committee members and Northern views (1965), agenda and memos of public meetings held by the Committee, Carrothers' diaries describing his travels to the North and Committee meetings, and post-report discussions and House of Common debates. Includes Carrothers' reference material regarding the Committee and the North, correspondence with his wife, Jane (1965), and a speech.
Title source: / Title based on contents of records.
Acq. source: / Deposited by A.W.R. Carrothers.
Language: / English
Restrictions: / Unrestricted.
Finding aids: / File list available.
Record No.: / UARC 78.001
Repository: / The University of Calgary Archives
c) Title: / Muriel Clipsham fonds
Dates: / 1928-1935
Physical desc.: / 2 cm of textual records. -- 62 photographs
Bio/Admin History: / Muriel J. Greene, ca. 1908- , was born in the Verdant Valley district west of Drumheller, Alberta. In 1921 she moved with her family to Arnprior, Ontario where her father had grown up, and in 1925 she attended North Bay Normal School. The next year she followed her family back to the Drumheller area, and taught at Galarneauville, south of Hanna. She subsequently worked at one-year teaching posts at Creighton, Cassell Hill, Verdant Valley, Nordegg and Longsdale districts. In 1932-1933 she took domestic science at the Macdonald Institute, Guelph, Ontario and returned to Alberta in 1933 to teach at the Mount Carmel school near Michichi. In the summer of 1934 she worked at the Mountview Home for delinquent girls. She married Mr. Clipsham later that year and moved to Toronto. Her sister, Sadie M. Greene, worked as a nurse at the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve at Gleichen in the early 1930s.
Scope/Content: / The fonds consists of Muriel's reminiscences of her teaching career (1935); and photographs of nursing staff, hospital, and native personalities at the Blackfoot reserve at Gleichen; and Greene family photographs.
Title source: / Title based on contents of records.
Acq. source: / Gift of Muriel J. Clipsham, 1984.
Language: / The material is in English.
Restrictions: / No restrictions on access.
Finding aids: / No finding aid.
Record No.: / M 233 ; M 6956 ; PA 2634 ; NA 4716
Repository: / Glenbow Archives
d) Title: / Dr. Eung-Do Cook fonds
Dates: / 1967-1988
Physical desc.: / 3.10 m of textual records. -- 24 audio cassettes
Bio/Admin History: / Eung-Do (Ed) Cook was born on February 3, 1935 in Seosan, Chung-Nam Province, Korea. He attended Chung-Aung University from 1954-1961, majoring in the English language and receiving his B.A. and M.A. during that time. He earned an M.A. in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) from the University of Hawaii in 1965, and a PhD in Lingustics from the University of Alberta in 1968.
Dr. Cook joined the academic staff at the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in 1969, rising to Associate Professor in 1972 and to full Professor in 1975. From 1976-1985 he was Head of the Department of Linguisitics. He has been awarded many academic honours, including two Killam Fellowships, an annual fellowship with the Calgary Insitute for the Humanities, the Canadian Ethnic Studies Senior Fellowship and the Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Research Award. Ed Cook has been a prolific writer of books, articles, and conference papers.
Building on the work of Edward Sapir, Father Morice, and Fang-Kuei Li, Dr. Cook compiled a large amount of raw data on First Nations languages -- Chipewyan (Dene Suline) and Chilcotin in particular.
Dr. Cook retired from the University of Calgary as an Emeritus Professor in 2000. He married Myung-Sook Shin and they had two sons.
Custodial hist: / Dr. Cook left the records in his office when he retired in June of 2000. They were later transferred to the University Archives by administrative staff of the Department of Linguistics.
Scope/Content: / Fonds consists of audio cassettes, files, and index cards containing information on endangered First Nations languages, including Cebuano, Chilcotin, Chipewyan (Dene Suline), Morley Stoney (Siouan), Sarcee, and Witsuwiten. Amongst the records is a translation of the Chipewyan (Dene Suline) language to English on index cards which are being made available online.
Title source: / Title based on contents of the fonds.
Arrangement: / The index cards have been transferred into archival boxes with coloured index cards used to identify and space the different sections. Blue - beginning of new section; Pink - continuation of section in next box; Green - where dividers were in previous file drawers; Purple - notes; Yellow - used when Blue and Green cards ran out.
Language: / The fonds contains records in Athabaskan, Carrier, Cebuano, Chilcotin, Chipewyan (Dene Suline), English, Hare, Morley Stoney (Siouan), Sarcee, and Witsuwiten.
Restrictions: / Unrestricted.
Finding aids: / File list available.
Record No.: / UARC 2000.055
Repository: / The University of Calgary Archives
e) Title: / Selwyn Dewdney Petroglyph Tracings Project collection
Dates: / 1960-1963
Physical desc.: / 49 drawings
Bio/Admin History: / In 1960 Selwyn Dewdney, 1909-1979, of London, Ontario, already well known for his petroglyph work in eastern Canada, was commissioned by the Glenbow Foundation to record native rock art in western Canada. An art teacher by profession, Dewdney traced the petroglyphs onto rice paper using a special method he had developed. In the summer of 1960 he recorded sites primarily in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park and along the Milk River in southern Alberta. In 1962 he recorded sites in Alberta and Saskatchewan with Glenbow archaeologist Don King, as his assistant. During his final field season in 1963 he recorded sites primarily in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. For further information see Daylight in the Swamp : Memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney. -- Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1997.
Custodial hist: / The drawings were held in Glenbow's art and ethnology departments before being transferred to the archives in 1988.
Scope/Content: / The collection consists of drawings from tracings of petroglyphs and pictographs in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Title source: / Title based on contents of records.
Language: / The material is in English.
Other formats: / Photographic reproductions of all the drawings are available.
Restrictions: / No restrictions on access.
Finding aids: / Inventory available. Please consult before requesting material.
Record No.: / M 7848
Repository: / Glenbow Archives
f) Title: / David C. Duvall fonds
Dates: / Photocopied 1967 (originally created 1904-1912)
Physical desc.: / 18 cm of textual records
Bio/Admin History: / David C. Duvall, 1878-1911, was born in Montana, USA, the son of a Peigan woman and a French Canadian fur trader employed at Fort Benton. He was a blacksmith on the Peigan reservation at Browning. In 1903 he was engaged as an interpreter by anthropologist Clark Wissler who was collecting material for the American Museum of Natural History. He later collected narratives on facets of Blackfoot life and culture from older members of the Montana Peigan, and the Blood and Blackfoot (Siksika) in Alberta. He sent these accounts to Wissler in New York, who edited and published them in a series of AMNH anthropological papers.
Custodial hist: / The photocopies were acquired by the Glenbow Archives from the American Museum of Natural History in 1967.
Scope/Content: / The fonds consists of ethnological notes about Peigan, Blood and Blackfoot. Topics consist of a wide variety of societies, dances (including sun dance), games, bundles (including beaver), pipes, lodges and songs. The papers have been scanned and may be viewed via the link below.
Title source: / Title based on contents of records.
Language: / The material is in English.
Originals: / The originals are held by the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Anthropology Archives.
Restrictions: / No restrictions on access. Permission to publish, broadcast or exhibit this material must be requested in writing from the AMNH, Division of Anthropology.
Finding aids: / Inventory available. Please consult before requesting material.
Record No.: / M 4376 ; DC Duvall
Repository: / Glenbow Archives
g) Title: / John C. Ewers fonds
Dates: / Copied 2006 (originally created 1944-1972)
Physical desc.: / 25 cm of textual records
Bio/Admin History: / John Canfield Ewers, 1909-1997, was born in the USA. He studied under Clark Wissler at Yale University, and became an ethnologist who specialized in the Blackfoot (Blackfeet). In the early 1940s he helped establish the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana. After serving in the Second World war he was hired by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC as an ethnologist. In 1951 he undertook field work on the Blood reserve in southern Alberta. At the Smithsonian he became the director of what became the Museum of History and Technology, and subsequently worked as senior ethnologist. He retired in 1978. His books include Plains Indian Painting (1939), The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (1955), and The Blackfeet : Raiders on the Northwestern Plains (1958).
Custodial hist: / These photocopies were acquired by the Glenbow Archives from the Smithsonian Institution in 2006, on the specific request of Red Crow Community College on the Blood reserve.
Scope/Content: / The fonds consists of photocopies of Ewers' field notes while on the Blood reserve (1951), correspondence with Hugh Dempsey and Claude Schaeffer about Blackfoot research (1949-1958), and various subject and correspondence files related to Blackfoot research, the Blood Motoki (Matoki) Society, and the horse. Includes files about Blackfoot art and material culture at the Denver Art Museum, Museum of the Southern Plains Indians in Anadarko, and the New York Historical Society's Jarvis Collection. The 1951 field notes, Motoki (Matoki) Society notes, Dempsey correspondence, and Schaeffer correspondence have been scanned and may be viewed via the link below.
Title source: / Title based on contents of the fonds.
Language: / The material is in English.
Originals: / The originals are held by the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Restrictions: / There are no restrictions on access. Permission to publish, broadcast or exhibit this material must be requested in writing from the Smithsonian.
Finding aids: / No finding aid.
Record No.: / M 9141
Repository: / Glenbow Archives
h) Title: / F. Ross and Marie Gibney fonds
Dates: / 1870-1949, predominant 1917-1927
Physical desc.: / 20 photographs. -- 0.5 cm of textual records
Bio/Admin History: / Frederick Michael Ross Gibney, 1887-1943, was born in Ireland and came to Canada around 1912. He received his theology diploma in 1917 from Wycliffe College in Toronto and lived in Saskatchewan for several years. He married Marie Porter in 1919 and they had six children, William, Michael, John, George, Margaret (Dykes) and Agnes. They moved to Alberta ca. 1923 to take up a ministry at the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve. From 1930 to 1943 Ross was a minister and school teacher at the Sarcee (Tsuu T'ina) reserve. Marie, 1891-1984, was born in Port-o-Spain, Trinidad, raised in Scotland, and came to Canada in 1912. She was the organist at St. Peter's church in Regina before marrying Ross. She helped her husband in his ministries.