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Show off your archival style and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 with a new non-medical mask featuring an image from the Provincial Archives of Alberta! These pleated, durable, three layer fabric masks have adjustable ear loops and a flexible nose piece. Grab one (or one of each image) and show off your unique mask wherever you go!  

Show off your archival style and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 with a new non-medical mask featuring a vintage Christmas image from the Provincial Archives of Alberta! These light weight, double knit polyester masks will make your holidays bright. Grab one (or one of each image) and show off your unique mask wherever you go! (PR1971.0356.0048a) 

Add some colour to your wardrobe with a scarf.  This beautiful piece features a floral image from the McCalla photo collection.  The gorgeous flower print will turn heads everywhere you go.

Add some colour to your wardrobe with a scarf.  This beautiful piece features a floral image from the McCalla photo collection.  The gorgeous flower print will turn heads everywhere you go.

Add some colour to your wardrobe with a scarf.  This beautiful piece features a floral image from the McCalla photo collection.  The gorgeous flower print will turn heads everywhere you go.

Add some colour to your wardrobe with a scarf. This beautiful piece features a floral image from the McCalla photo collection.  The gorgeous flower print will turn heads everywhere you go.

These Provincial Archives of Alberta-branded flash drives with attached keychain feature 16GB of memory in a compact size that is perfect for your research needs. The flash drives have black translucent coloured trim on the brushed silver base and a snap-on cap for added protection.

The ideal tool for lifting delicate paper, applying paste to small areas and removing staples. Overall length is 8".

While drinks are not allowed inside of the Reading Room at the Provincial Archives of Alberta, you can now enjoy your favourite hot drink inside of a mug that features an image of the Reading Room! The 12oz (354 mL) ceramic latte mug is both dishwasher and microwave safe and comes in a gift box, which makes it the perfect present for any archives enthusiast.

These multi-purpose boxes can be used to store virtually any collectible. All are acid and lignin free and buffered.

In 1899, the Counterfeit Circulation Company Limited is formed to forge Canadian $2.00 notes in Boston, Massachusetts and transport them to Nova Scotia for distribution. In Halifax, Laura Davis begins her litany to her daughters to never marry an Englishman, as a result of her husband Lewis' complicity in the counterfeiting scheme and his affair with another woman. Drawn into the illegal enterprise by his financial and marital difficulties, Lewis William Davis finds himself as the principal of the Boston group formed to print the 1897 Canadian banknotes. Using the daily notes of United States Secret Service agent Owen Owen, which were uncovered by the popular television show Ancestors in the Attic, as well as newspaper accounts of that time period, "Never Marry an Englishman" tells the story of Lewis William Davis' attempt to become richer from his counterfeiting skills and of agent Owen Owen's attempt to capture him.

No Corner Boys Here is the story of two families caught up in a swirl of political, economic, and social dramas not of their own making. The author, Jean Crozier, uncovers forgotten or little-known facts about these people who bore the brunt of global happenings.

The Unexpected Life of a Czech Family in India (1938-1977)

In 1938, when faced with a decision to work at a shoe company in India or stay in Czechoslovakia and wait for another war, Miki Hruska's newly married parents opted to move, thinking they would return home in a few years. But they would not be able to return home for another four decades; instead, home became Calcutta, where they raised their family and established a business during a parade of turbulent social and political events. The ill-planned departure of the British from India and their bungled attempts at Partition engendered riots and killings that brought bloodshed to the family s front door. And when the Communists took over the government of West Bengal, they brought labour disruptions that made it next to impossible to operate the family business. This riveting family memoir is set during the cataclysmic events of WWII and its aftermath, giving a harrowing yet heartwarming portrait of life for a migrant Czech family and showing how perseverance and love can sustain people through the darkest of times.

"Old Strathcona: Edmonton's Southside Roots" by Monto is an extensively researched chronological history of southside Edmonton, once the separate city of Strathcona, from its start as a scattering of Metis/Indian pioneer cabins in the 1870s to a bustling commercial/industrial/residential section of the City of Edmonton prior to the downturn of the 1930s. Bound together with "Metis Strathcona" by Lawrence, a ground-breaking essay on the roots of Strathcona, which delineates the Metis identity of many of its earliest pioneers and the Metis pioneers' connection with the area's Papaschase Indian band, which was subsequently thoroughly dispossessed.

These oversized binders will fit most standard and oversize preservers. The archival binders are completely covered in a durable buckram material with an acid and lignin-free white lining.

These lanyards have a metal lobster clip, quick release clip and break-away clasp. Available in green, blue, pink or orange.

Featuring a hand-coloured photo of the Columbia Icefield from 1964 (Photo PR1991.0374.0617) on one side and a black and white image from the 100th Anniversary of the Edmonton Police Force in 1992 (Photo PR1996.0404.0001) on the other, this bookmark celebrates the panoramic photo collection from the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

Featuring an archival photo of Calgary from the 1940s (Photo P4720), this trinket tray is as lovely as it is functional.

This Archival quality acid-free paper is perfect for printing and writing on. Each package contains 500 unbuffered pages.

Pen-touch metallic ink pens are great archival quality pens. They are chemically stable, waterproof, and fade resistant.