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The Provincial Archives of Alberta provides access to still birth records that are 75 years or older (from the date of still birth).

Select the number of certified registrations you want to receive. Includes up to 30 pages per file + $1.00 per additional page.

This item includes the cost of certification of the registration documents. A certified copy would be used by clients that require true copies of the originals for legal purposes. If you do not require a certified copy, please see other vital statistics options.

Survival in Paradise: A Century of Coal Mining in the Bow Valley is both a story of how coal was mined in the region for nearly 100 years and a story of its four coal-mining towns.

Engineers and miners will be interested in the specifics of how coal was mined in the Rocky Mountains. General readers and those with a passion for history will appreciate how this book explores the development of each community and why three died and Canmore survived.

Author: Walter J. Riva

This 100% cotton tea towel features an excerpt from a heartfelt letter dated September 1908. A complete version of the letter, from Martin Frank Dunham to Edith Lillian Sauder, is currently on display at the Provincial Archives as part of our Love and Marriage exhibit.

Size: 23" H x 19" W

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In an approach that allows the writers of letters, reports, proposals and policy to speak for themselves, this book covers the critical decade of the 1930s in which the first definitive provincial Métis policy in Canada was produced. The review includes:

Alberta Métis-provincial (intergovernmental) policy relationships.

The first years of the Métis Association of Alberta.

The initial development of the Alberta Métis Settlements.

Roles of Alberta Métis leaders (Dion, Brady, Norris, Tomkins), politicians and bureaucrats in provincial Métis policy development.

Author: Denis Wall

June was a trying month for Lukas - a month of endless waiting. Once school was done for the year, Lukas would join his cousin KC on "The Farm," where his father and his Uncle Ben had grown up. Uncle Ben had just bought a new horse named Nugget. Now both KC and Lukas had a horse to ride, and a summer full of adventure beckoned.

But then KC told Lukas about something new. A "ghost train" had been sighted, running on the branch line not far from The Farm. And not just any ghost train. This was the Ghost Train, a train with ties to Lukas' very own family, a train long absent but now mysteriously reappearing when the moon was full.

Author: Stuart Adams

The terrifying Wîhtikow Rex takes centre stage in this exciting second book in The Lukas Encounters. The mysterious creature, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that Lukas and his cousin KC accidentally bring to life, is described in Cree mythology as a ravening monster that grows as it consumes its victims.

Author: Stuart Adams

Lukas already faces serious trouble when a grizzy bear attack sets off an entirely new round of dangers and difficulties in the exciting third book in The Lukas Encounters!

After a racial incident directed at his best friend - one in which Lukas failed to provide support - he hopes to gain inspiration to repair the damage by hiking a mountain named after his late grandfather's elite parachute battalion. But the hike is interrupted by the grizzly, which in turn is driven off by Baax, a dragon breathing icy 'coldfire'.

Author: Stuart Adams

ON SALE!

An assortment of greeting cards featuring stunning archival photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta's collection.

Each card measures 5" x 7" and comes with a coordinating envelope.

A handmade lapel pin to wear on a cap, bag or jacket. A tiny orange shirt honours survivors of residential schools and remembers the children lost.

A handmade lapel pin to wear on a cap, bag or jacket. A tiny red dress under a blue sky represents the missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two spirt persons.

Buffered storage materials are acid-free and lignin-free with a pH of around 8.5. This tissue is excellent for interleaving between pages of paper-based records that degrade and become more acidic over time, such as newsprint.

Unbuffered storage materials are acid-free and lignin-free and contain no additional alkaline reserve to raise the pH of the storage paper or the items in contact with it. These tissues are excellent for internal support of three-dimensional textiles (e.g., dresses, uniforms), layering of flat textiles for storage; and wrapping of leather objects. Blueprints and colour photographs should always be stored using unbuffered material (or inert plastics).

Buffered storage materials are acid-free and lignin-free with a pH of around 8.5. This tissue is excellent for interleaving between pages of paper-based records that degrade and become more acidic over time, such as newsprint.

Unbuffered storage materials are acid-free and lignin-free and contain no additional alkaline reserve to raise the pH of the storage paper or the items in contact with it. These tissues are excellent for internal support of three-dimensional textiles (e.g., dresses, uniforms), layering of flat textiles for storage; and wrapping of leather objects. Blueprints and colour photographs should always be stored using unbuffered material (or inert plastics).

The PAA can provide a typed transcription of information from a register. Registers cannot be photocopied.

PAA price list can be found at:

https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/sites/default/files/2025-07/Price%20List%20-%20July%202025.pdf

For all you cartophiles out there, this colorful item in the Achives Store is sure to please you! We have taken a bright map of Alberta from the PAA holdings and modified it to fit this urban tote bag. The image is repeated on both sides of the textured canvas exterior and is complemented by vegan leather straps and a brass magnetic closure. The cotton sateen lining and inside pockets make this convenient tote suitable for carrying school supplies, craft projects, or as an everyday carryall.

13" W x 16" H x 3" Gusset

Image GR1983.0470.0017, 1929 (altered)

This book is an assortment of stories about the glass milk bottle era and the home delivery of milk. It was inspired by the author's research of Western Canadian dairies and milk bottles from his own collection.

Author: Bob Snyder

ON SALE!

Sport your one of a kind water bottle featuring artwork from the Dominion Scientific Temperance Committee.This 20oz (600ml) water bottle comes with a built in infuser perfect to keep you refreshed all day long!

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A reprinted publication from the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications from the 1950s to 1970s. This board was part of the Alberta Government and was censoring comic books and magazines because they believed that children were being corrupted and turned towards crime.

This booklet was reproduced for pure enjoyment and a comical read that describes our history.

Image: GR1992.0197

Drawing on historic newspaper accounts, books and PR organization newsletters, and on recent secondary references, historian Tom Monto has pulled together an overview of the use of proportional representation in Canada.

This chronological history describes the drive for PR starting in the 1880s and its eventual success when by 1923, Single Transferable Voting had been adopted by 19 cities and two provincial governments.

This book presents an overview of STV's use in 17 provincial elections and 150 city elections in Canada. And how despite its effectiveness, it was successively discontinued, with the last Canadian STV government election happening in Calgary in 1971.

With increasing sentiment in favour of electoral reform, this affordable book is bound to provide speaking points and inspiration for today's debates on the subject.

Self-published by Tom Monto, of Edmonton. Monto, a published author, is creator of the electoral reform blogsite Montopedia.