The Alberta Story, 1960
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- Fonds / Collection
- Periche
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- 1974 - 1974
- Accession Number
- 2013.89
- Scope and Content
- Presented by Gainers Limited
- Fonds / Collection
- Periche
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds Number
- 259-13
- Item Number
- 24
- Accession Number
- 2013.89
- Date
- 1974 - 1974
- Physical Description
- 8.5" x 11" Soft cover booklet
- Physical Condition
- in good condition
- History / Biographical
- Collected and catalogued by Marion Thompson
- Don Periche found these in a box of books while cleaning out his late father's basement
- Name Access
- Don Periche
- Harry Periche
- Subject Access
- History
- Scope and Content
- Presented by Gainers Limited
- Prepared by Hal Martin, Statistics from the Government of Alberta, 1960
- Photos courtesy Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta Ernest Brown Collection
- Notes
- The purpose of sponsoring the publishing of this most interesting collection of data or historical review about our province was to satisfy the desire of the old established firm of Gainers Limited to mark the occasion of their 70th Anniversary.....
- The Hon. E.C. Manning extended his good wishes on the inside cover
- Contents include: The First White Men, Alberta's Early Forts, The Missionaries, The Alberta Field Force, An All-Alberta Company, Inauguration of a Province, Early Trails in Alberta, Agriculture was First, Alberta's Forest Products, Wealth Below Ground, Alberta Industries, Transportation and Communication, The People of Alberta, Divisions of Administrations, Education is Big Business, Everything for Holidayers, An Era of Improvements, Facts About Alberta, Transportation, Production Figures