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Typewritten life sketch from a Cardston newspaper, photograph of her family and family genealogical sheet.

Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the life and work of Charles Ora Card, and includes personal journals, letters, and office journals ranging from 1871 to 1903. They cover Card's responsibilities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints both in Logan, Utah and Southern Canada as well as construction of various canals, roads, and buildings. They also discuss his relationships in polygamy, the colonization of Alberta, Canada by Mormon pioneers including association with the Canadian...

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Handwritten diaries. Card lived in Logan and Salt Lake City, Utah and in Cardston, Alberta. He farmed and ran an insurance business. He held many positions in the Mormon Church including mission president of the Western Canadian Mission in Edmonton.

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An interview with Orson Rega Card dated 22 February 1983. He was interviewed by his niece, Zola Brown Hodson.

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Bound and printed history co-authored by Zina Alberta Woolf Hickman. Bates and Hickman talk about the founding of Cardston and vicinity. They emphasize the underlying theological principles of Mormon doctrine which motivated the settlers to endure many difficulties.

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Bound photocopy of a thesis for a Master of Science degree in history at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The thesis is on the early Mormon settlement in Cardston, Alberta.

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Contains photocopies of a few pages of Abbie Hannah Rice Kimball's diary, a complete typescript of Kimball's diary copied by her daughter, Abbie Kimball Kemp, in the 1960's, a geneological chart, and a few photographs of the Kimball family. Along with these photocopies, the collection likewise contains a selection of excerpts from Kimball's diary made by Elaine Gwilliam Jeffries.

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Photocopies of collected biographies, histories, genealogies, handwritten letters, and photographs of the Low family. Sylvester Low was a Scottish convert to the Mormon Church who married two women and settled in Canada after years in Smithfield, Utah.

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Gives a brief overview of his life, followed by journal entries dated August 1929-January 1934. Entries reflect his life as a Mormon teenager, focusing on farm work and school activities. There is a gap in the journal between 4 March 1930 and 6 September 1933; most entries were recorded after the latter date. Volume cover suggests that Richards lived in Cardston, Alberta, when he started writing. He moved to Calgary in 1933 to attend normal (teacher's training) school.

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104 personal histories contributed by the women in Cardston, Alberta, Third Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These were compiled by Ada Blackmore, Clara Matkin, Julie Kerr, Lila Cahoon, under the direction of the Relief Society President, Priscilla Hatch.