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The journal consists of diary entries made by Annie York Secord between 1 January 1916 and 12 January 1917, describing daily life and events of family, friends, and community.

The journal consists of diary entries made by Annie York Secord between 1 January 1917 and 13 November 1918, describing daily life and events of family, friends, and community.
Note: 1-12 January 1917 copied from 1916 Journal (f. 5).

Notes, poems, and dedications to Annie York from various friends and family, includes: L.C. York, L.L. Hill, R. Lawson, Angie York, Nellie Robertson, C.A. Durno, Ida Howe, D. Lawson, Annie, Thos. Sawson, James Short, John York, Joseph McGill, Jessie, G.M. McBride, Mary Bromwell, Kate Kirtcel, Ida McGill.

Robert Smith Forrest (1871-1943) was a Scottish portrait painter and etcher who exhibited between 1908 and 1934.

Richard H. Secord's daily journal includes notes on his business transactions in the fur trade, agriculture and store, his social activities including his marriage to Annie York in August 1891, as well as events in the Edmonton community.
Note - some entries written by his wife Annie Secord.

The filelist is a transcript of selected entries from the journal - it is not a complete transcription of the entire journal.

This painting was used as the frontispiece for Ella May Walker's book of historical fiction "Fortress North" (1947).

Photograph album from Isobel Secord's time working as a nurse at Groot Schurr Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa throughout World War II.

Joseph van der Gracht was born in the Netherlands in 1880. He married Florence Ethel Ross, and joined the Edmonton Art Club in 1929. He moved with his family to Vancouver around 1933. He died in 1959.

This painting was included in the Edmonton Art Club 1933 exhibition.

Robert Campbell was born in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1883 and moved to Canada in 1906, where he homesteaded near the town of Minden. Campbell began painting in 1916 under the watercolourist Victor W. Burnard, after returning to England during the First World War. After the war he moved to Edmonton, where he worked as a dental technician and continued his artistic endeavors. He was a charter member of the Edmonton Art Club and the Artists Society of Alberta. He was also one of those responsible for founding the Banff School of Fine Arts. Robert Campbell died in 1967.