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The Forty-Niner Association’s Recognized Museum Program. This program has been spearheaded by Director Terry Allison and museum association board member Chuck Marshall who have been reviewing countless financial records and museum policies. Both of these programs will go a long way in accrediting the museum, providing professional development advertisement opportunities and access to grants. and enthusiasm to further the museums work will be missed by all staff and volunteers at the museum. Terry continues to serve the museum as Minister of War and Finance filling the roles of executivedirector, treasurer and vice-president of the museum board association. Further roles include almost all museum administration, technical support, liaison with the City, grant application and anything involving the proverbial red tape. He also makes a pretty good cup of coffee. Terry can often be found at the museum on Tuesdays. Should you need to reach him, he kindly requests that you contact him in advance to arrange a meeting as it would likely contravene our collections policy to use artifacts for crowd-control. In all seriousness and as inglorious as administration can be, Terry’s dedication and patience continue to prove essential to the daily operations of the museum. The museum said goodbye to one of its most enthusiastic volunteers in spring of 2011. Sandy Kamminga has moved to Calgary. After inquiring about the service of father and grandfather in 2010, Sandy began volunteering with the museum regularly. She accumulated over 800 hours of service! Sandy’s technical savvy was crucial in helping volunteer genealogist Ted Howard complete his archival work, research requests and database projects. She also assisted Kathleen in preparing artifacts for accession into the collection and cataloguing new donations, as well as, helping set up exhibits, supporting the summer camp and museum tours and events. Sandy’s grandfather was a 49er, her father served in the Eddies and died in WWII in Italy. Sandy felt she had a personal duty to help the museum preserve the history and memory of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. Her motivation 42 Museum volunteers, Sandy Kaminga (R) speaks with Craig Nash about German propoganda documents in the archives collection. The story about the document follows this article. Our unofficial museum genealogist and regimental personnel researcher, Ted Howard, continues to use the museum as a base of operations on Thursdays to carry out regimental database research and genealogy work. He continues to scan, transcribe and curse modern technology. Microsoft permitting, he will soon have all the obituaries, newspapers, 49er’s and WWI/WWII orders and war diaries indexed into a monolithic research tool. Should you be interested in researching the service of family member, he can be contacted by emailing the museum or filling out a research request form on the website. While there have been some new faces around lately, Dan Rose, student and staff, is fast becoming an artifact himself at the museum. Dan joined the museum staff as a summer student while in high school in 2006 and has continued to work at the museum full time in the summers and part time throughout the school year. Dan’s work has progressed from data entry and gallery maintenance to more advanced projects involving reconciling the bookroom containing a collection
The Forty-Niner of over 4000 books and manuals, conservation and archiving, researching personnel and artifacts, public programming, communication, museum administration and exhibit installation. The museum held a successful annual casino in 2011 with great help of volunteers from the association, unit and museum. The museum website glitches have been sorted out by volunteer Don Miller. The feedback has been very positive. In another step towards the 21 century, the museum has joined Facebook. Feel free to check out both, and “like” the museum page to follow the goings-on, keep in touch and get news from the front. The revamp of the website has proved invaluable as the museum has greatly expanded its reach, connecting with other organizations and military museums in Canada, to those as far away as Italy, England and the Netherlands. As the recent conflict in Afghanistan comes to a close, it will be important for the regimental museum to have tangible objects to remember the contributions and sacrifices made by Canadian Forces to ISAF operations in Afghanistan over the past 10 years. If you have served overseas in Afghanistan and have any interesting souvenirs from camp or the locals, memorabilia, equipment, photos or archival material that you would like to see on display in the future or have kept safe in the museum collection, we encourage you to get in touch via the museum website email or drop by the office during the week. The museum would be very interested in personal items that help tell the story of your service. The weekly office roster remains as follows: Monday – John Matthews Tuesday – Terry Allison Wednesday – Tom Reaume Thursday – Hans Brink Friday – Don Miller Alternate – Lem Mundorf Many thanks again to the continued support from our volunteers: Maurice and Elsie White, Eva McPhee, Ken Dilley, Ted Howard, David Haas, Jim Hodson, Craig Nash, Aiden Geurra, Jordan Hupka, Ryan Dinsdale and Don Shaw. Donations to the Museum Robleen Gorman-Poppy, British Made Kathy Matheson-Vimy Commemorative Medal Tom Court-Collar Dogs, 202,63,101,89,51 Bns WW1 Marty Clavette-Rosary WW1 Bob Chapman-Hon Col Robert Chapmans’ Uniforms (L Col Retd) B Nehring-PPCLI Grey Waistcoat Shelly Bouska-Inf Sword and scabbard Col J.R. Stone (L Col Retd) Grant Maclean-Documents and CF manuals Warren Bard-1966 Jr NCO Grad Photo Grant McCrady-Photo post cards and Service Book WW1 Robert Donnick-Photo album WW1 Brian MacDonald-War Diaries WW2 Peggy Boyd-70’s Uniforms Sonny Eadon-Uniform, Brief Case documents (Bill Teleske) Anne Mae Gibson-Book, Medals, Uniforms Shawn McCready-German WW2 travel documents (Occupied Poland) John Matthews-Books Ryan Shundra-Various uniform headress Maurice White-Shoulder Badge 1 st SSF (L Col Retd) Lee Ahlstrom-Documents, photos WW2 (L Col Retd) Hans Brink-CF Tac Vest Cad Pat Ann & Peter Stepa-Medals Alan Scholer-Uniforms, Medals WW2 Eric Lindstrom-Drivers viewers scope M113 Valli O’Reilly-Medals, docs, photos WW2 43
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