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St. Albert Public School District #5565

  • Corporate body
  • 1958

On April 1, 1958, the Alberta Minister of Education authorized the formation of the St. Albert Protestant Separate School District No. 6. The first trustees were Ronald Harvey (chairman), Jim Dobie, Ken Bird, Roy Hart, Frank Bell, and Harry Armstrong. On Nov. 22, 1958, the first school, Sir Alexander MacKenzie school, was opened. In 1961, Sir George Simpson Junior High school was opened. Other schools in this District include elementary schools Elmer S. Gish, Keenooshayo, Leo Nickerson, Lois E. Hole, Muriel Martin, Robert Rundle, Ronald Harvey, and Wild Rose; junior high schools Lorne Akins, Sir George Simpson, and W.D. Cuts; and high schools Bellerose, Outreach high school, Paul Kane, and St. Gabriel.

St. Albert Summer Games Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1979

St. Albert opened its doors to young athletes from across the province in 1979, when the city hosted the Alberta Summer Games on August 2-6. The Games featured "Festival '79", a cultural celebration designed to enhance the Games through the involvement of the cultural community. The Festival ran for 17 days, and included events such as a craft fair and sale, a fiddling competition, a backgammon tournament, plays, street dances, and a seniors' choir festival.

St. Albert Tigers Baseball Association

  • Corporate body
  • 1986-

The St. Albert Tigers Baseball Association is a Senior Men's AAA team for adults aged 19 years and older.

The following excerpt was taken from the St. Albert Tigers' website: "We are devoted to developing players into skilled and disciplined members within our team framework. Many of our players have or are currently attending colleges/universities in the United States and Canada trying to further their baseball careers. Our team has always been dedicated to providing high caliber baseball on the field. The Tigers compete in the Baseball Alberta Sunburst League during the regular season and playoffs. The Sunburst League is the highest quality of Senior Men's amateur baseball in Alberta and the winner of the league earns the right to represent Alberta at the Baseball Canada Senior Men's National Championships. Since being established in 1987, the Tigers have won 8 Provincial Championships with the most recent coming in 2007. Our relentless approach to excellence has lead to the St. Albert Tigers always having a goal of being the best team in Alberta year after year. Along with the 8 Provincial Championships, the Tigers team has also been crowned as the National Champions in 1999 and 2002. The Tigers also have two Silver Medals from the 1994 and 1998 National Championships and a Bronze in 1993, while also competing in the 2005 and 2008 Nationals. The St. Albert Tigers are not only one of the most decorated men's baseball teams in Alberta, but across Canada. With a firm commitment to helping baseball grow within the community of St. Albert, our goal is to continue to make history every year."

St. Albert Women's Institute

  • Corporate body
  • 1946-2004

The St. Albert Women's Institute was a branch of the Alberta Women's Institute. The Alberta Women's Institute was originally organized by private citizens in 1909, and established as a body within the Department of Agriculture in 1916. The institute was designed to improve social conditions in rural and other communities by studying home economics and child welfare. The Women's Institute is a non-political, non-sectarian, and non-racial organization. It is open to rural and town women over the age of sixteen.

The interest in forming a local chapter of the Women's Institute formed after the end of World War II. The women who had worked together in the local Red Cross sought another organization in which they could serve the community. The St. Albert branch of the Women's Institute was organized on 29 October 1946 at a meeting held in the St. Albert Community Hall. The local chapter was started by Mrs. Morton who at the time was the provincial president and the St. Albert chapter's first president was Susie Atkinson.

The group was responsible for many activities in the area including founding the St. Albert library, founding the first local scholarship, organizing the first blood donor clinic in 1947, and helping with medical services in St. Albert and Sturgeon County. They also regularly arranged flower shows and community fairs, distributed Christmas hampers, set up fitness classes for women, and provided landscaping services for public areas.

The St. Albert branch continued its activities until the membership, which by then only numbered eight, voted to disband on 2 December 2004.

Sturgeon Community Hospital

  • MHM
  • Corporate body
  • 1969 -

Sturgeon General Hospital opened in 1969 on McKenney Avenue, but efforts to bring an active treatment hospital to St. Albert began in 1962. As St. Albert and other surrounding communities were denied by the provincial government, a coalition was formed to request a regional hospital, which in 1965 was granted, creating the Sturgeon General Hospital District No. 100. The Sturgeon General Hospital officially opened in August 1970. The Sturgeon General Hospital building on McKenney Avenue was closed in 1992 following the construction of a new facility on the north edge of the city and then demolished in 1997 (beginning work on 6 Mar 1997). The old structure was full of asbestos and thus considered unsafe.

Sturgeon Toastmistress Club

  • MHM
  • Corporate body
  • 1970 - 1996

The International Toastmistress Clubs was founded in California, USA in 1938 to promote the public speaking and leadership abilities of women. The St. Albert local chapter, Sturgeon Toastmistress Club, formed its initial interim executive in 1970 and held its first organizational meeting on Feb. 26, 1970. The first official executive included Marian Ladell as President, Laurie Saunders as first vice-president, Marie Neidig as secretary, and Margaret Doepal as treasurer. Deputy Mayor John de Bruin signed a proclamation naming the week of Oct. 25-31, 1970 as “Toastmistress Week.” On Nov. 26, 1975, Ted Langford the first male member was inducted into the club, and he later became president. In 1981, And Mayor Richard Fowler recognized the club by proclaiming October as "Toastmistress Month." In 1985, the parent organization was renamed International Training in Communication or ITC. The St. Albert club was disbanded in 1996.

Vaugeois, Pauline

  • MHM
  • Person

Pauline Vaugeois moved to St. Albert with her parents, Maurice and Bernadette, in 1950. It was shortly afterwards that she began to work in the Girl Guide movement, a commitment that continued for over 50 years. Vaugeois was the Edmonton Area Girl Guides District Commissioner from 1969 to 1975. Her duties in this role included attending meetings, partaking in decision-making, liaising with the national and international Girl Guides organization, and organizing and attending events. Vaugeois was also a member of the Circle Francophone, and Secretary of C.U.P.E. in addition to being a student of psychology at the University of Alberta. She was named Citizen of the Year of St. Albert in 1977. She has also been a prominent member of the First Tamarac Area Council as well as the local level.

Walker, Ron

  • 2009.10
  • Person
  • n.d.

Ron Walker worked on renovations of the Vital Grandin Centre, also known as the Bishop’s Palace in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He supervised the restoration that was conducted in the old building which was originally erected in 1882.

Weiller & Williams Co. Ltd.

  • 2015.01
  • Corporate body
  • 11 Dec. 1925 -

Weiller & Williams Co. Ltd. of the North Edmonton Stockyards is one of the oldest cattle-commission firms in Canada. The company was chartered to buy and sell, import and export, and slaughter cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry and all other livestock and livestock products. As well, they acquired ranches and farms to carry on the trade of livestock rearing and manufacturing, and erected buildings necessary for the purposes of the company’s business.

In 1911, Leland Stanford Williams moved from New York to Edmonton to work for Swift & Company where he started in construction work, but later progressed to handle Swift’s livestock department. In 1916, Swift Canadian Co. transferred Williams to work in Winnipeg, where his talent in the livestock commission business was recognized by Henry Weiller. In 1917, Williams began working with Weiller in a livestock commission business named, Wood, Weiller & McCarthy in Edmonton. When McCarthy of the partnership resigned, the company was renamed.

Thus, on December 11, 1925, Weiller & Williams Co. Ltd. was co-founded by the two. Since the founding, Weiller and Williams built a strong relationship with Weiller responsible for the financial backing, and Williams on the livestock commission frontline. By 1927, in addition to the main stake in Edmonton, Weiller and Williams had opened offices in Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, St. Paul (Minnesota), and Chicago (Illinois). The company later expanded to additional branches in Lloydminster (Saskatchewan) and Fargo (North Dakota). When Weiller passed away in 1956, Williams took over as the principal of the company.

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