Alberta Golden Jubilee Parade - Video Format, 1955 - Sylvan Lake & District Archives

Scope and Content: Film footage captures the 1955 Alberta Golden Jubilee Parade, starting with the Sylvan Lake Hotel in the background with the parade turning from Main Street onto Lakeshore Drive; then showing the parade going south on Main Street, passing the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in the background

Physical Condition: good quality - film footage from 1955 converted from movie to DVD format

History / Biographical: Collected and catalogued by Marion Thompson; Priscilla had this film / video footage shot by her dad, Herbert G. Stevenson, converted to DVD at Costco and loaned this to the Archives for copying; Her original is to be returned to Priscilla and a site visit arranged to review other pictures and documents of their home at Third Point; Her granddad, Henry Malcolm Stevenson, bought land from the Reid's / Reeds (1904 Homestead at Third Point); Priscilla has some additional photographs and documents, including a homestead document from Mr. Louquet who homesteaded the very tip of Third Point); Her family had enough of severe winters and windstorms so when a new buggy and barn were damaged, the family moved to Nanaimo, BC (1920's / 1930's ?) but maintained a summer residence on their property at Third Point; Priscilla even attended school here periodically; After her mother's passing, a sizeable donation was made to H.J. Cody School for the Performing Arts Centre and another donation made for a field house at Four Seasons Park; Her dad's sister, Aunt Florence, went to Kuusamo School with Roy Mattson's mother and her Granddad Taylor in Red Deer and her brother who was Chief of Police formed the first Boy Scout Troop as he had served in the Boer War with Lord Baden-Powell

Name Access: Priscilla Gullon; Priscilla Stevenson; Henry Stevenson; Catherine Stevenson

Scope and Content: Film footage captures the 1955 Alberta Golden Jubilee Parade, starting with the Sylvan Lake Hotel in the background with the parade turning from Main Street onto Lakeshore Drive; then showing the parade going south on Main Street, passing the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in the background

Notes: Float entries include: The Lions Club; Tendersweet Meats; Lane's Clothing; I.O.D.E.; two open floats with the wording "We Were Here in 1905" - one had men seated on the float; the other has ladies in period clothing; Vincent Garage; Gram's Club - We Serve Others; Green and yellow float with men with long rifles and an occupied outhouse on the back; Horse-drawn Creamery Wagon with "We've Been Here" and a cow tethered behind the wagon; Alberta Golden Jubilee Caravan; Yellow School Bus; Decorated Bikes and children's parade; both adults and children dressed as Cowboys and Indians; Legion members; Pipe Band, Marching Band; covered wagons and Alberta Wheat Pool; Individuals recognized: Jacob Smith and Anna Jaminette; RCMP members; I.O.D.E. = Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire; We've been There Ladies include: 2nd left / front row Saima Mattson (Roy's Mom) and Mrs. Stenlund in the white dress