Research Resources

Historic Photograph Collection

Our historic photograph collection is available online through the Archives Society of Alberta's Alberta on Record Site.

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Tales & Trails of Millet

Volume I and II

Our local history book The Tales & Trails of Millet (1977) is available online through the University of Calgary. These pdf copies are searchable using the Magnifying Glass icon at the top of the document.

Go to Tales & Trails of Millet Vol. I

Go to Tales & Trails of Millet Vol. II

Fonds Listing

Below are the fonds listings - a description of the contents of each archival collection - for each of our fonds. With the exception of the A42.1: Historic Photograph Collection these fonds are not digitized. Please call 780-387-5558 or use the online form below for any additional questions.

A1: Town of Millet

The fonds consists mainly of records of the former Village of Millet. It includes Council Minutes (1904-1939, 1953-1957), By-Laws (1917-1956), voters' lists, general correspondence and correspondence relating to the Alberta Department of Municipal Affairs, annual financial statements, tax assessment rolls, cash books, cheque stubs, receipts, and invoices, and other records. It includes records of the Cemetery Board, the Recreation Board, the Volunteer Fire Brigade and other town organizations. The records have been grouped into 29 series on the basis of their function.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A2: Millet School District.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A3: Millet School.

A4: Millet Women's Institute

The fonds consists of the Charter of the Millet Women's Institute, minute books, financial records, correspondence, resource books for the cub troop sponsored by the WI, photographs and miscellaneous materials. The archivist has supplied some file titles. Some annual reports of the provincial and federal Women's Institute organizations have been integrated with the Tellim Women's Institute fonds.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A5: Beth McNaughton.

A6: Tellim Women's Institute

The fonds consists of the Charter of the Millet Women's Institute, minute books, financial records, correspondence, resource books for the cub troop sponsored by the WI, photographs and miscellaneous materials. The archivist has supplied some file titles. Some annual reports of the provincial and federal Women's Institute organizations have been integrated with the Tellim Women's Institute fonds.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A7: Sunbeam Rebekah Lodge No. 112

Click here for the link to the fond level description for A8: Victor C. Rowley.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A9: Millet Board of Trade

A10: Hillside Community Club

The fonds includes minutes, correspondence annual reports, and financial records of the Hillside Community Club. It includes the record book of the Wide Awake Junior United Farmers of Alberta, which was active in the Hillside district from 1924 to 1933. It includes one 1934 issue of The Hillside Times, a handwritten newspaper. It includes pages from the school register (1913-1914) of the Grand View (or Grandview) School District No. 941. Some of the file titles were supplied by the archivist.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A11: Municipal District of Big Stone

Click here to access the fond-level description for A12: Millet Ladies Curling Club

Click here to access the fond-level description for A13: Mulhurst Water Safety Club

Click here to access the fond-level description for A14: Coal Lake School District

Click here to access the fond-level description for A15: Wiesenthal School

A16: Hillside School District

The fonds consists of the Hillside School District's Minute Book (1902-1935), correspondence, Board of Trustee and Inspectors’ reports, financial records, Agreements with Teachers and the daily attendance registers of the school (1903-1950). Items enclosed with the registers, such as school censuses, transfer cards, and notes from parents, have been filed in separate folders.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A17: Wiesenthal Rural Mutual Telephone Co.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A18: East Millet Mutual Telephone Co.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A19: Townline Mutual Telephone Co.

Click here to access the fond-level description for A20: Millet West Mutual Telephone Co

Click here to access the fond-level description for A21: Millet 4-H Garden Club

Click here to access the fond-level description for A22: Millet Curling Club

Click here to access the fond-level description for A23: Returned Soldiers' Reception Committee

Click here to access the fond-level description for A24: Glen Platt

Click here to access the fond-level description for A25: Wetaskiwin School Division

Veterans

We hold the personal service records of Millet & district veterans of the First World War, and of those killed in action during the Second World War. Service records from the Second World War remain sealed but we hold photographs and basic history based on family/community memory for WWII veterans.

Cemetery Records

Millet is home to the Millet Community Cemetery & the adjacent St. Norbert's Catholic Cemetery. There are also multiple rural church cemeteries in our district. These cemeteries can be searched using the Find a Grave Website.

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Below is the Millet Community Cemetery Plot veteran's listing. A plot map is included.

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