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Teaching

Series document's Paterson's work as a speech arts and drama instructor and adjudicator, and also documents Paterson's appointment as Coordinator of Speech Arts at Mount Royal College. Series consists of programs, newspaper articles, correspondence, schedules, photographs, audio and video recordings, lists of students, cards, scripts, tickets, course outlines, invitations, and brochures.

Professional activities

Series documents Paterson's adjudication and attendance at festivals, her work with Mount Royal College's Readers Theatre, and her involvement with a number of Canadian and American speech associations. Series consists of festival programs and syllabi, speeches, correspondence, workshop pamphlets, and minutes.

International Paralympics Committee (IPC)

Series documents Steadward's involvement in the formation, organization, and administration of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Series also documents the activities, policies, and procedures of IPC committees, sub-committees, task forces, and Executive Committee members, and reflects the IPC's involvement and interactions with other disability sport organizations and leaders.

Series contains correspondence, minutes, meeting notices, agenda, reports, handbook sections, financial statements, job descriptions, bylaws, rules, procedures, agreements, press releases, news articles, brochures, notes, event schedules, newsletters, survey results, and motions.

The Popish Plot

Series consists of pamphlets and one book relating to the fictitious conspiracy known as the "Popish Plot" (1678-1681). The Popish Plot was a fake conspiracy invented by clergyman Titus Oates and spread through polemical pamphlets like these, which alleged that Catholics were conspiring to assassinate Charles II and take control of England. The Plot inspired a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria in England, and numerous prosecutions of accused plotters on false charges, resulting in the executions of at least 22 men and the punishment of many others.

College/University administrative and reference documents

Series documents records that were produced by Mount Royal College/University and distributed to the MRFA and faculty members for informational or review purposes. Series contains one subseries, Financial statements and budget planning, contains financial records for Mount Royal College/University. Series also contains reports, discussion papers, reference manuals, survey results, policies, campus trends and statistics, legislation, and bylaws.

Liturgical books

Series consists of leaves from liturgical books (also known as service books), which were used by the clergy in the celebration of Christian public religious worship. Types of liturgical books in the series include breviaries, antiphonals, psalters, hymnals and gradual processionals.

Field/travel/work notes

Series contains field notes from geological sites across Canada, the United Kingdom, and France; travel notes from attending geological and mineralogical conferences, workshops, seminars, and meetings across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, China, and Japan; work notes from developing the MinIdent software/database, testing geological samples and equipment, and consulting with colleagues in the United Kingdom, China, and Japan.

Football

Series documents Canadian football at the professional, senior amateur, junior amateur, and varsity/collegiate levels. Series relates to Canadian leagues (especially those in Western Canada) as well as international leagues in which Canadian teams played. Series consists of programs, brochures, tickets, magazines, yearbooks, schedules, media guides, trading cards, and photographs, as well as promotional objects including decals and patches.

Documented professional leagues include: the Canadian Football League (1960-2018, including Grey Cup finals and all-star games), Ontario Rugby Football Union (1940-1960), Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union (1945-1959), Western Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union (1945-1959), Ontario Rugby Football Union (1945-1960), American Football League (1960-1969), National Football League (1933-1999), United States Football League (1983-1987), World Football League (1974-1975), and World League of American Football (1990-1992).

Senior amateur leagues include: the Ontario Rugby Football Union (1906-1915), Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union (1907-1940), Alberta Rugby Union (1919-1936), Ontario Rugby Football Union (1919-1939, Manitoba Rugby Football Union (1930-1935), Western Inter-provincial Football Union (1936-1941), Eastern Canada Armed Services Football (1941-1944), and Western Canada Armed Services Football (1942-1944).

Junior and varsity/collegiate leagues include the Calgary High School Football League (1912-1999), Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (1919-1966), Canadian Junior Football Final (1925-1999), Western Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (1927-1948), Saskatchewan Junior Football Union (1946-1952), Alberta Junior Football League (1950-1975), Manitoba-Saskatchewan Junior Football League (1953-1975), Prairie Junior Football Conference (1976-1999), Western Canada Intercollegiate Athletic Union (1959-1966), and NCAA Football (1950-1999).

Administration

Series documents the administration and organization of the Department of Nursing. Series contains memoranda, correspondence, office assignments, equipment specifications and inventories, copyright documentation, policies, workload forms, campus plans, and reports.

Institutional reports

Series contains reports prepared by the Department of Institutional Analysis & Planning and other college departments which were received by the School of Nursing. Series contains reports, surveys and questionnaires, institutional development plans, correspondence, memoranda, and enrollment data.

Student notebooks

Series contains Smith's student notebooks on the subjects of geology, geological maps, paleontology, chemical analysis, and x-ray determinations.

Natural history of New York : Palæontology

Series consists of books published by the Geological Survey of the State of New York on the topic of fossils from the phylim Mollusca that are found in New York state. The books contain descriptions and detailed illustrated plates of the fossils. The text and illustrations were created to be used by students and educators.

Hockey

Series documents Canadian hockey at the professional and amateur (junior, intermediate, and senior) levels. Series relates to Canadian leagues (especially those in Western Canada) and international leagues in which Canadian teams took part. Series consists of programs, yearbooks, media guides, tickets, magazines (including Blueline Hockey Monthly, Hockey Pictorial, and National Hockey Annual), photographs, schedules, trading cards, calendars, as well as promotional objects including patches and decals.

Documented professional leagues include: the National Hockey Association (from 1909 to 1917), Pacific Coast Hockey Association (1911-1924), Western Canada Hockey League (1921-1933), Western Hockey League (1925-1926, 1948-1974), Prairie Hockey League (1926-1928, 1971-1972), Canadian-American Hockey League (1926-1936), Canadian Professional Hockey League (1926-1930), American Hockey Association (1926-1942), Pacific Coast Hockey League (1928-1931), International American Hockey League (1929-1936), North West Hockey League (1933-1936), Pacific Coast Hockey League (1936-1941), International Hockey League (1945-1951), United States Hockey League (1945-1951), Quebec Hockey League (1953-1959), Eastern Professional Hockey League (1959-1963), World Hockey Association (1972-1979), National Hockey League (1917-2017, including Stanley Cup finals and all-star games), and the Super Series (1975-1992).

Senior and intermediate amateur leagues include: the West Kootenay Hockey League (1922-1946), Ottawa City Senior Hockey League (1923-1945), Montreal Senior Group Hockey League (1927-1937), Northern Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1927-1938), Southern Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1927-1938), Edmonton District Senior Hockey Association (1928-1936), Southern Alberta Senior Hockey League (1928-1936), Alberta Senior Six Hockey League (1936-1938), Quebec Senior Hockey League (1937-1953), Alberta Senior Hockey League (1938-1941, 1965-1971), Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1938-1942), Manitoba Services Hockey League (1939-1945), Halifax Senior Hockey League (1940-1946), Alberta-British Columbia Hockey League (1941-1942), Pacific Coast Hockey League (1941-1948), Western Canada Intermediate (1941-1947), Lower Mainland Senior Hockey League (1942-1943), Vancouver Island Hockey League (1942-1943), Alberta Services Hockey League (1942-1945), Southern Alberta's Inter-station Hockey League (1943-1944), Northern Alberta Inter-service Hockey League (1944-1945), Camp Borden Hockey League (1944-1945), Okanagan Mainline Amateur Hockey League (1945-1951), Western Canada Senior Hockey League (1945-1951, 1965-1968), Big Six Hockey League (1945-1960), Maritime Amateur Hockey League (1946-1950), Cape Breton Senior Hockey League (1946-1951), Western International Hockey League (1946-1988), Maritime Major Hockey League (1950-1954), Okanagan Senior Amateur Hockey League (1951-1970), Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1951-1971), Central Alberta Intermediate Hockey League (1952-1965), Alberta-Montana Hockey League (1953-1955), and the Alberta Senior Hockey Exhibition (1964-1965). Documented senior amateur tournaments include: the Allan Cup (1908-1999), World Amateur Hockey Championships (1920-1976), and the Alexander Trophy (1951-1954).

Junior leagues include: the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (1936-1966), Manitoba Junior Hockey League (1940-1960), Edmonton City Junior Hockey League (1945-1950), Southern Alberta Junior A Hockey League (1946-1948), Western Junior Hockey League (1948-1956), Alberta Junior Hockey League (1964-2010), Canadian Major Junior Hockey League (1966-1967), Western Canada Junior Hockey League (1967-1968), Western Canada Hockey League (1968-1978). The Canadian Olympic team is also documented for the years 1968-1988.

External Relations photographs

Series consists of photographs created or commissioned by the Department of External Relations for marketing and communications purposes (some were published in college publications including the academic calendar, MRC handbook, and MRC News. Photographs depict Mount Royal facilities, faculty, staff, students, and events

Digital media

Series consists of CD and DVDs containing digital photographs, articles, and web page images created by Fast Forward Weekly's staff for the newspaper.

Audio recordings

Series mostly consists of audio recordings of interviews conducted by Linda Many Guns as part of the Ten Grandmothers Project. Series also contains recordings of Blackfoot language lessons, songs, speeches, and presentations.

Negatives and slides

Series documents the construction of the Lincoln Park Campus, including the initial groundbreaking, laying of the foundation, installation of walls and flooring, and the addition of design elements. Also included are aerial photographs of Lincoln Park Campus, Old Sun College, and Churchill Park Campus (now Bow Valley College). Series also contains photographs of various board and committee members touring the campus during construction.

Academic calendars

Series contains Mount Royal College and Mount Royal University academic calendars, including calendars for specific departments and special programs, as well as calendar supplements. Calendars contain program descriptions and requirements, registration procedures, information about faculty and campus resource centers, and general information about the college/university, campus, and residences.

Scrapbooks

Series consists of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, poems and other documents collected and assembled by Leona Paterson.

Chapbooks

Series contains chapbooks, which are small inexpensive pamphlet-like booklets that were popular from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Chapbooks typically consisted of current events, news, nursery rhymes, riddles, jokes, songs, and occasionally longer stories such as adventure tales, coming-of-age narratives, fairy tales, or traditional folk tales. While they were not originally produced for, or marketed to children, chapbooks became a popular form of children's literature and helped to usher in literature created specifically for children. Series contains moralizing chapbooks produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, collections of fairy tales, nursey rhymes, and ballads.

Productions files

Series documents Tom Besse's direction, production, and promotion of plays put on by Mount Royal College's Department of Fine and Performing Arts. The series is arranged by theatre production into files, which generally contains correspondence, programs, production notes, cast and crew lists, and news releases.

Teaching

The series documents a wide range of MacMillan's teaching activities relating to her roles as an educator and librarian. The series consists of teaching notes, assignments, project proposals, presentations, statements of projected learning outcomes, and a training video on researching for academic papers.

Collective bargaining

Series documents the collective bargaining and negotiation process between the MRFA and the Board of Governors of Mount Royal University. Series illustrates the work of the MRFA and its committees related to developing negotiation positions, engaging with membership, and representing the Association's interests during negotiations. Series contains one subseries containing draft and finalized collective agreements. Series also contains statements of negotiation interests, draft article amendments, agendas, meeting notes, correspondence, memoranda, tables summarizing faculty workloads, salary statistics and comparisons with other institutions, grid adjustment calculations, surveys and survey result summaries, budget and revenue figures, consumer price index figures, negotiation updates, and draft proposals.

Adjudication

Series documents Paterson's work as an adjudicator for various Canadian music, speech, and performing arts festivals. Series consists of festival programs, correspondence, schedules, regulations, and poetry selections.

Letters

Series consists of Hunter's personal and professional correspondence and contains letters, postcards, and greeting cards from friends, family members, fellow authors and poets, and publishers. Series also contains some poems, short stories, royalty and title-earning summaries, newspaper articles, obituaries, forms, student essays, contracts and agreements, and event notices and posters.

Branch Teachers Association

Series documents the history of the Branch Teachers Association's relationship with the Mount Royal Conservatory. The Branch Teachers Association was an informal (non-incorporated) organization of musical instructors that provided music lessons to students unable to travel to the Mount Royal campus in Calgary. Branch Association teachers were affiliated with the Mount Royal College Conservatory, but were self-employed and worked under renewable contracts. Series contains: association meeting minutes, faculty and student recital programs, Conservatory and Association correspondence, and student scholarship information.

History project interview recordings

Series contains audio recordings of interviews conducted by Stephen Wilks and Robert MacDonald with former Mount Royal College students, faculty, staff, and administration as research for the Mount Royal History Project.

Japanese woodblock printing

Series contains volumes and prints that were created using Japanese woodblock printing techniques. Woodblock printing was introduced to Japan during China's Han Dynasty but didn't become widespread in Japan until the Edo period (1603-1868). Woodblock printing became particularly popular among ukiyo-e artists. The process involved applying water-based coloured ink to relief carvings.

Series contains senso-e war prints, manga books, and an educational book for children.

University of Alberta and the Research and Training Centre for Athletes with Disabilities

Series documents Steadward's work at the University of Alberta as a professor and founder of the Research and Training Centre for Athletes with Disabilities in Edmonton, Alberta. Series also documents athletes, coaches, athletic teams, and researchers accessing the programs, services, training, and testing facilities at the Research and Training Centre for Athletes with Disabilities.

The Research and Training Centre for Athletes with Disabilities was established by Steadward in 1978. It was later renamed the Rick Hansen Centre in 1987, and finally the Steadward Centre for Personal & Physical Achievement in 2000. The centre is an internationally-renowned disability research centre within the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta, and continues to support sport and fitness of people experiencing disability.

Series mainly consists of photographs, slides, and negatives of athletes participating in various disability sporting events and using training equipment and facilities. Series also contains video and audio recordings, presentation notes, manuals, guides, and annual reports.

Learning Resource Centre

Series documents the services, activities, and structure of the Learning Resource Centre under the directorship of Dyment. Series contains correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, policies, newsletters, project proposals, and job postings and descriptions.

English Civil Wars

Series consists of pamphlets, books, and periodicals produced during the English Civil Wars (1642-1652), about the wars' causes, events, political and religious debates, and effects, from the perspective of both Royalists and Parliamentarians.

Photographs

Series consists of photographs of various Mount Royal sports teams and student athletes in action and sporting events. Includes some photographs that are mounted on plaques. Series is arranged into three subseries: photograph binders, photographs (prints), and mounted photographs.

Home nursing handbook

Item is a Canadian home nursing handbook intended to act as a guide for family members providing in-home illness or injury care.

The general practise of physick : containing all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident unto them, even from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. Also by what means (with the help of God) they may be remedied : very meet and profitable, not onely for all physitians, chirurgions, apothecaries, and midwives, but for all other estates whatsoever ; the like whereof as yet in English hath not been published

Item is a medical book by the German physician Christopher Wirtzung and translated and expanded by Jacob Mosan. The book methodically describes and explains the function of every part of the body, and discussing diseases and treatments. Instructions are given for diagnosing and distinguishing the causes of various conditions, and a wide variety of treatments are recommended and explained. Treatments discussed include Galenical compounds such as decoctions, pills, powers, and syrups, and other therapies such as enemas, baths, bloodletting, cupping, plasters, oils, lifestyle and dietary advice, and animal and mineral based remedies.

Galenus de ossibus ; De usu partium corporis humani

Item contains two medical texts written by the ancient Greek physician Galen bounded into one volume. The first work, Galenus de ossibus (On bones for beginners), was translated by the Italian physician and humanist Ferdinando Balami was published in 1549. The second book, De usu partium corporis humani (On the use of the parts of the human body) was translated by the Italian scientist Niccolo da Reggio was published in 1550.

Item has a German pigskin binding. The front cover has an impression of a personification of Justice, and an impression of on the legendary Roman woman Lucrece on the back cover.

The natural history of birds

Item is volume four from the nine volume set: The natural history of birds (Histoire naturelle des oiseaux). This set was part of a larger collection Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi, which contained 36 volumes in total covering a range of subjects including: material science, physics, chemistry and technology, as well as the natural history of animals. Item was printed by A. Strahan and T. Cadell.

The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes

Item is the second edition of a botany book written by John Gerarde and illustrated by John Payne. The second edition was enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson. The first edition was written in 1597 and was re-printed several times because of its widespread popularity. Item contains descriptions of the characteristics, growing conditions, and uses of plants alongside over 2700 woodcut illustrations. The work is divided into three books:
Book 1: Containing grasses, rushes, reeds, cones, flags, and bulbous or onion-rooted plantes
Book 2: Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs, for meat, medicine, or sweet-smelling use, & c.
Book 3: Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of trees, shrubs, bushes, fruit-bearing plants, rosins, gums, roses, heath, mosses, some Indian plants, and other rare plants not remembered in Proeme to the first book. Also mushrooms, corall, and their seurall kindes, & c.

The dinosaurs of North America

Item is a book which is one part of the United States Geological Survey's 16th Annual Report for 1895. The item is a brief description of fossils of dinosaurs found in North America, and contains illustrated plates.

Cambrian brachiopoda

Item is a textual description of the phylum Brachiopoda. The book has three main categories: historical data, geological data, and zoological discussion. Item was published by the Government Printing Office.

Lamellibranchiata II : text and plates containing descriptions and figures of the Dimyaria of the Upper Helderberg, Hamilton, Portage and Chemung Groups.

Item is a book containing textual descriptions and illustrated plates about species of molluscs having both anterior and posterior adductor muscles. The book concentrates on molluscs that are found in the state of New York. Item was published by Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons.

Lamellibranchiata I : text and plates containing descriptions and figures of the Monomyaria of the Upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Chemung Groups.

Item is a book containing textual descriptions and illustrated plates about species of molluscs having one adductor muscle. The book concentrates on molluscs that are found in the state of New York. Item was published by Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons.

Plates containing figures of the gasteropoda, pteropoda and cephalopoda of the upper Helderberg, Hamilton, Portage and Chemung groups.

Item is an illustrated description of the phylum Mollusca including species from classes gasteropoda, pteropoda and, cephalopoda. The item is intended to supplement Vol. V, Part II. Text. The book concentrates on species that are found in the state of New York. Item was published by Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons.

Text containing descriptions of the gasteropoda, pteropoda and cephalopoda of the upper Helderberg, Hamilton, Portage and Chemung groups.

Item is a book containing a textual description of the phylum Mollusca including species from classes gasteropoda, pteropoda and, cephalopoda. The book concentrates on species that are found in the state of New York. The item is intended to supplement Vol. V, Part II. Plates. Item was published by Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons.

The fauna of the lower Cambrian or Olenellus zone

Item is a book which is a part of the United States Geological Survey's 10th Annual Report for 1890. Page 515 lists the scope of the item as "(1) a list embracing titles of the more important books and papers related to the subject ; (2) a historical review of the work done on the rocks and fossils now included in the Olenellus Zone ; and (3) the general results of the study of the fauna by the geologist and paleozoologist, or its physical and biological history and character as far as known."

Appley Dapply's nursery rhymes

Item is a children's collection of nursery rhymes by Beatrix Potter, the creator of the Peter Rabbit series. This edition features new illustrated reproductions from the original 1917 edition.

Appley Dapply's nursery rhymes

Item is a first edition of Beatrix Potter's collection of nursery rhymes for children, and is accompanied by a booklet advertising Potter's other books and Peter Rabbit merchandise.

Tom, the piper's son

Item is a chapbook containing short nursery rhymes for children printed by J. Kendrew.

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