The novel was intended for young adult audience and tells the story of two young men growing up in the ranching country of southern Alberta: "the wild freedom and carefree courage of the romantic days." The author suggests that the book is a "Tom Sawyer-Huckleberry-Finn characterization set in a wi…
Edward Fredrick "Teddy" Hagell was born June 20, 1895 in Coaldale, Alberta. His father, Edward Hagell, arrived in Lethbridge from England in about 1890. He started the first newspaper called “Lethbridge News”. He came with his wife, who died with the birth of her first child, Cora. Edward and Ellen (2nd wife) had four children: Violet, Freda, Albert, and Edward Fredrick “Teddy”.
Growing up in southern Alberta, Hagell roamed the prairies sometimes working as a cowboy, indulging his love of horses and the prairie. Thoughout his life he pursued passion of visual art and writing. The major artistic themes in his work were the prairie landscape, animals and the pioneer era of western Canada. He studied in New York and Los Angeles, and lived in Vancouver and on a farm near Toronto before returning to southern Alberta in 1952 to live in Pincher Creek. During his lifetime Ted Hagell produced about 1,500 works of art, wrote poetry and short stories, and published one book.
He began writing in 1930. His first works was a collection of poems and short stories. Later a chapter book entitled “When the Grass was Free…” published in January 1954. The "Harker of the Fiddleback" has never been published.
The manuscript was created when the author lived in Ontario.
Custodial History
Donated by Dalton Hagell
Scope and Content
The novel was intended for young adult audience and tells the story of two young men growing up in the ranching country of southern Alberta: "the wild freedom and carefree courage of the romantic days." The author suggests that the book is a "Tom Sawyer-Huckleberry-Finn characterization set in a wilder western range land."
Political cartoons drwn by Ted Hagell and appeared in the Calgary Herald
7 sepia-toned photographs. View of Galt Gardens and Opera House from 5th Street & 3rd Avenue corner; 6 views of the Frank Slide. "Case Lethbridge" is printed at the bottom of ech image.
Biography of Edward Hagell typed and wr…
Edward Fredrick "Teddy" Hagell was born June 20, 1895 in Coaldale, Alberta. His father, Edward Hagell, arrived in Lethbridge from England in about 1890. He started the first newspaper called “Lethbridge News”. He came with his wife, who died with the birth of her first child, Cora. Edward and Ellen (2nd wife) had four children: Violet, Freda, Albert, and Edward Fredrick “Teddy”.
Growing up in southern Alberta, Hagell roamed the prairies sometimes working as a cowboy, indulging his love of horses and the prairie. Thoughout his life he pursued passion of visual art and writing. The major artistic themes in his work were the prairie landscape, animals and the pioneer era of western Canada. He studied in New York and Los Angeles, and lived in Vancouver and on a farm near Toronto before returning to southern Alberta in 1952 to live in Pincher Creek. During his lifetime Ted Hagell produced about 1,500 works of art, wrote poetry and short stories, and published one book.
He began writing in 1930. His first works was a collection of poems and short stories. Later a chapter book entitled “When the Grass was Free…” published in January 1954. The "Harker of the Fiddleback" has never been published.
Custodial History
Donated by Dalton Hagell
Scope and Content
Political cartoons drwn by Ted Hagell and appeared in the Calgary Herald
7 sepia-toned photographs. View of Galt Gardens and Opera House from 5th Street & 3rd Avenue corner; 6 views of the Frank Slide. "Case Lethbridge" is printed at the bottom of ech image.
Biography of Edward Hagell typed and written page
2 loose scrapbook pages regarding Edward Hagell and events in 1953-1954
Notes
The scrapbook pages are separated from the donation and placed in the grey boxes due theri size
The story unfolds in the Rocky Mountain Forest Reserves of Western Canada. Most of the action takes place in the North Fork Gap of the Oldman River and in the McGillvray and Allison valleys of the Crownest Pass. The main character, Rad Harker, raised in the cow country of southern Alberta, makes li…
Edward Fredrick "Teddy" Hagell was born June 20, 1895 in Coaldale, Alberta. His father, Edward Hagell, arrived in Lethbridge from England in about 1890. He started the first newspaper called “Lethbridge News”. He came with his wife, who died with the birth of her first child, Cora. Edward and Ellen (2nd wife) had four children: Violet, Freda, Albert, and Edward Fredrick “Teddy”.
Growing up in southern Alberta, Hagell roamed the prairies sometimes working as a cowboy, indulging his love of horses and the prairie. Thoughout his life he pursued passion of visual art and writing. The major artistic themes in his work were the prairie landscape, animals and the pioneer era of western Canada. He studied in New York and Los Angeles, and lived in Vancouver and on a farm near Toronto before returning to southern Alberta in 1952 to live in Pincher Creek. During his lifetime Ted Hagell produced about 1,500 works of art, wrote poetry and short stories, and published one book.
He began writing in 1930. His first works was a collection of poems and short stories. Later a chapter book entitled “When the Grass was Free…” published in January 1954. The "Harker of the Fiddleback" has never been published.
The manuscript was created when the author lived in Ontario.
Custodial History
Donated by Dalton Hagell
Scope and Content
The story unfolds in the Rocky Mountain Forest Reserves of Western Canada. Most of the action takes place in the North Fork Gap of the Oldman River and in the McGillvray and Allison valleys of the Crownest Pass. The main character, Rad Harker, raised in the cow country of southern Alberta, makes living as a ranch hand. He leaves his first good job for the 2-bar-reverse-K outfit in the Milk River Ridge country because of the "bold infatuation" on the part of the foreman's daughter. After making his way west, he finds job at the Fiddleback ranch, where he is hired by the Honeysett brothers. Rad developed affection for the owners' daughter - Iris Honeysett who return from their college schooling for the summer vacations. The story develops into a contest between quiet unassuming Harker and the boastful unprincipled Sam Parks for the heart of Iris. When Parks is exposed and defeated, Harker leaves the ranch believing he has nothing to offer to a ranch owners' daughter but eventually, with the help of friends, the young people find their happiness.
2014.1042/001 Lethbridge Water Works & Sewerage Works, 1903-1904
2014.1042/002 “The Science and Art of Mining” handbooks for Mining Students and Colliery Managers
Volume 1, 1904
2014.1042/003 Engineering pamphlets , Canadian Engineering Standards Association
a: Standard Specification for …
James Haimes worked in the City of Lethbridge’s engineering department for 40 years, beginning as the city’s field engineer in 1911. Haimes oversaw many projects while with the engineering department, including the hard surfacing of city streets, the expansion of the waterworks and sewer system, and the expansion of the electric department. He served three years during the First World War, enlisting with the Canadian Field Artillery in 1915. In 1928, Haimes was appointed City Engineer and remained in this post for 22 years before retiring. In 1951, his final year working for the city, he acted as an advisory engineer.
Scope and Content
2014.1042/001 Lethbridge Water Works & Sewerage Works, 1903-1904
2014.1042/002 “The Science and Art of Mining” handbooks for Mining Students and Colliery Managers
Volume 1, 1904
2014.1042/003 Engineering pamphlets , Canadian Engineering Standards Association
a: Standard Specification for Concrete & Reinforced Concrete, Second Edition, 1942
b: Standard Specification for Portland Cement, Third Edition, 1940
2014.1042/004 Engineering pamphlets, American Water Works Association
a: Standard Specifications for Coal-Tar Enamel Protective Coatings for Steel Water Pipe, 1953
b: Tentative Standard Specifications for Installation of Cast-Iron Water Mains, 1953
2014.1042/005 Engineering pamphlets
a: Questions and Answers on Water Works Operation, no date
b: Swimming Pools & Other Public Bathing Places, 1936
2014.1042/006: Water Conditioning Handbook, 1943
2014.1042/007: Engineering plans for the waterworks, substation, traverse trunk sewer (Arctic Refinery
Property), 1931-1962
2014.1042/008 Reports of the City Engineer to Council, 1943-1955
2014.1042/009 Estimates regarding public works and waterworks projects, taxes levied for paving,
1915-1950
2014.1042/010 Various reports for city services including: airport, asphalt, golf club, flooding, irrigation,
sewers, swimming pools, water consumption and rates. Contains 1 photograph. 1915-1962
2014.1042/011 Photo Album, construction of Lethbridge Waterworks and railway construction around
5th Ave N & 13th St. N. Contains 128 photographs [1920?]-[1955]
2014.1042/012 Engineering notebooks, newspaper clippings, 1 photograph. 1925-1953
2014.1042/013 Engineering notebooks and pocket calendar, 1952-1954
2014.1042/014 Engineering notebooks, 1956