Fonds consists of administrative records for the St. Albert Historical Society. These records include meeting minutes, reports, by-laws, financial records, committee information and events and activities in which the group was involved. Founder’s Walk information, signage planning, Homecoming Event and involvement with various other organizations are documented in the material. Information on the administration of the Father Lacombe Chapel Museum is included. The research and layout for the published works are included in the fonds. Additionally, various card catalogues, manuals and information on museum practices pertaining to the management of the museum and artifacts are included. Significant to this fonds are photographs and oral histories from St. Albert families that SAHS collected. Series include 1. St. Albert Historical Society minutes, 2. By-laws and policies, 3. Executive lists, 4. Correspondence, 5. Reports, 6. Financial, 7. Albert Lacombe Historical Foundation, 8. Further Education Council, 9. Interclub Council, 10. Midnight Twilight Tourist Association, 11. Arts and Heritage Foundation, 12. Associations and museum information, 13. Father Lacombe Chapel Museum, 14. Civic Centre building museum planning and construction, 14. Photograph collection, 15. Collections management, 16. St. Albert Historical Society events and activities, 17. Bells, 18. Archival survey, 19. Homecoming, 20. Spicer Commission, 21. Scholarships, 22. St. Albert – Then, Now, and Forever, 23. St. Albert Echoes, 24. St Albert: A Pictorial History, 25. The Black Robe’s Vision: A History of St. Albert and District, 26. A Week in the Life of St. Albert, 27. Historical information catalogs, 28. Historical information resources, 29.
Research reports, essays and articles, 30. Oral histories, 31. Newspapers, 32. Maps, 33. Historic sites
Series consists of photographs collected by the St. Albert Historical Society and some photographs from St. Albert Historical Society and City of St. Albert events.
Image depicts a view of Mission Hill, looking north on a dirt road that is roughly leading to where Perron Street is today. The inscription on the verso of the copy print indicates that after 1887 - 1st convent demolished and before 1892 - centre portion of convent added.
Ross Portrait and Landscape photographer, Calgary, Alta.
Image depicts the street car used on the Edmonton to St. Albert inter-urban railway which operated between 1913 and 1914. The train entered St. Albert near the present day Grandin Road, turned onto St. Michael Street to the present Bank of Montreal. Image used in The Black Robe's Vision on page 319.
Image of two men standing in the doorway of the St. Albert hardware & lumber store, located in the Dawson Block on the northeast corner of St. Anne Street and Perron Street (constructed in 1906, burned down in 1928). The store was owned by W. Veness and Saunders.
Third residence of Bishop Vital Grandin, OMI, known as the Bishop's Palace, constructed between 1883 - 1887. Covered with brick veneer in 1922.
Image taken at the site of the grist and sawmill which served St. Albert from 1878 to 1889. The dam was 100 feet long and 10 feet high.
Image depicts the grist mill stone lying in the ground with four men in the foreground. The stone is 4 feet in diameter and 10" thick. Left to right: Angus Kennedy, Joe Simard, Henry Cunningham and unknown man. N.B. the second man from the left was later identified as Aldoma Labelle.
Image depicts a large steam tractor which has gone off the Piron Street bridge (present day Perron Street) and overturned in the water. Mr. McCauley was pinned under the engine and died.