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What are we looking for?

The Hinton Coal Branch Archives is a repository of materials available for researchers to write histories and interpret our past. It is a collection reflecting the social memory of Hinton and surrounding areas.

We want to include documents created by people or organizations as they go about their usual activities. Examples of these types of documents are:

Correspondence - This donation could include letters, postcards, formal correspondence, greeting cards and telegrams.
Minutes of meetings - These would have additional interest with handwritten notes in the margins.
Contracts - Any legal documents as briefs, dispositions, inventories of estates or wills have archival value.
Financial records - These reflect the economic climate when they were created. Other examples include ledgers, journals, bank statements, cheques, bills and receipts.
Diaries - These are excellent records of social activities, perspectives and viewpoints. Memoirs and awards are also valuable. Scrapbooks are an excellent documentation of activities or events important to an individual.
Photographs - Photographs of events and private lives are full of information, both of the subject and the background. These donations can include slides, negatives, movie and video tapes.
Maps - Maps, charts and graphs define geography of a certain time.
Recordings - These can be in several formats including wax discs, cassette tapes and compact discs.
Printed material - Newspapers, flyers, brochures, proofs, programs and clippings all contain information to aid the researcher.
Digital age - Technology leaps ahead so we also must include digital records, pictures and video.

Thank you for considering adding your documents and collections to the Hinton Coal Branch Archives. What we are able to preserve will affect how people view and understand our past.

Marilyn Campbell, Archives Technician
(780) 865-6079

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