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Patricia Skidmore fonds
Fonds · 2001-2007

Fonds consists of records collected and maintained by Professor Patricia Skidmore of Brescia University College, University of Western Ontario, in the course of teaching the College's History 471E course. Fonds includes sound recordings with indexed transcriptions of interviews conducted by various Brescia University College, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario students in fulfillment of History 471E course requirements. Subjects include the development and construction of the Port Stanley, Ontario, Arena and Community Centre, 1969-1972; student life at Alma College in the 1930s; and events leading to the closure of Alma College, 1988, and its subsequent disposition, from the perspective of students, teachers, administrators, Board of Management members and officers of the Alma College International Alumnae Association.

Skidmore, Patricia
Scott Studio fonds
Fonds · 1890-1981, predominant 1910-1955

Fonds consists of approximately 100,000 photographic negatives in glass-plate, nitrate and cellulose-acetate form. Most negatives correspond to Murray Scott's tenure with the studio between 1911 and 1955. Included within the few early negatives that do exist is perhaps the most famous photograph to come from St. Thomas and Elgin County, the death of Jumbo the Elephant shortly after being hit by a Canada Southern Locomotive in 1885. The Scott Studio was the official or unofficial photographer for a number of organizations within the community, including Elgin County Council, Alma College, the YMCA, the Elgin Regiment, local schools (such as St. Thomas Collegiate Institute) and the Technical Training School of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Railway photographs are particularly abundant within the fonds. The studio was commissioned to take photographs on behalf of the Pere Marquette Railway, Michigan Central Railway and New York Central Railway, including stations and crossings throughout the lines (and therefore extending throughout southern Ontario). The most abundant shots in this regards date to the 1930s and 1940s. The majority of the fonds (perhaps ninety per cent) consists of portrait photography of local weddings, special events and individuals.
The fonds consists of three series:
-Photographic negatives series, ca. 1890 - 1981 (predominant 1910 - 1955)
-Scott Family business records series, 1879-1955
-Sefton Family records series, 1878-1989

Scott, Thomas Hunter
Elda Mae Patterson fonds
Fonds · 1868-2000

Fonds consists of records on topics such as: Alma College, and other prominent buildings and institutions in Elgin County; the communities of Fingal, Frome, Port Stanley, Shedden, and Sparta as well as notable Elgin County citizens. Also included are clippings, photographs, and correspondence from relatives of the Kendall, Horton, and Galbraith families. Includes records pertaining to the economist J.K. Galbraith.

Patterson, Elda Mae
Elizabeth Raven Collection
Collection · 1931-2008

Collection contains material collected or maintained by Elizabeth Raven, former teacher and Chairman of the Board for Alma College. Material related to Alma College includes ephemera, newspapers and newspaper clippings regarding the fire, newspaper clippings and memorial booklets for Dr. Flora Sifton, a session calendar, Alma College Alumnae bulletins, volumes of Almafilians, and meeting minutes of the Alma Alumnae Auxiliary. Collection also includes a scrapbook that highlights the activities of the Tonti Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E), in which Elizabeth Raven was a member and served as First Vice-Regent.

Raven, Elizabeth
Powell Family Collection
Collection · 1885-1970

Collection contains miscellaneous material created, acquired and maintained by the Powell family, particularly Mary Kathleen Powell. Records include photographs of Mary Kathleen Powell's time spent at the Y.W.C.A. Camp Orendaga in Port Burwell, Ontario, 1923-1932, as well as photographs, notebooks and records reflecting her time as a student at Alma College in the 1920s. Records also include an Alma College autograph book created by Ella Theresa Dobbyn (later married John Henry Powell), who was Mary Kathleen Powell's mother.

Powell (family)
Rev. Robert Warner fonds
Fonds · 1879-1926

The Rev. Robert Warner fonds contains records created, collected and maintained by Rev. Dr. Robert Ironsides Warner during his tenure at Alma College in St. Thomas, Ontario, from 1881-1924. The fonds is arranged into the following series:

Sermons, Essays and Speeches series
Publications series
Notebooks series
Scrapbooks series
Miscellaneous Records series

Warner, Rev. Robert
Collection · 1928-2015

Fonds contains records created or collected by the Fritz family relating to Alma College. Includes personal records belonging to Betty Smith, a student from 1941-1945, and Mary Louise Fritz, a student from 1954-1955. Also includes a photograph album and photographic negatives compiled by Bernice Fritz (nee Eilber), who was a student from 1928-1930. Fonds also contains miscellaneous documents and ephemera relating to Alma College, ca. 1932-2015.

Fritz (family)