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1950-2001 (Creation)
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- St. James Parish (Edmonton, Alta.)
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36cm of textual records.
75 slides: colour.
22 photographs.
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St. James parish was created on January 1, 1951. Prior to the establishment of the parish mass was celebrated by the Oblate Fathers of St. John College in St. James School on the corner of 91 street and 79 avenue. Construction began on St. James church in 1951 with Father Drouin, OMI, supervising the excavation work. The basement was completed in the summer of 1952, and the first mass was celebrated in the basement of the church in the summer 1952. The church was blessed on December 14, 1952 after construction was completed. Rev. Joseph Burke was the Pastor of St. James that year. A rectory was completed in the fall of 1957 and was officially opened in February 1958.
St. James parish merged with Assumption parish in June 2000.
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Fonds includes records which document the activities of St. James parish and its parishioners and includes correspondences, minutes of the meetings of the parish council and minutes of the meetings of the Finance Council, bulletins, slides, photographs, and other miscellaneous records.
The fonds is arranged into the following series:
- Correspondence (1986-2000)
- Parish Pastoral Council (1967-2000)
- Finance Committee Records (1998-2000)
- Parish Bulletins (1950-2000)
- Miscellaneous Records (1970-1994)
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Three bankers boxes of material were received in the archives in August 2001. That material was first sorted in August 2006. In July 2011, 12 boxes of financial records were taken out the storage area. Minutes of the Parish Pastoral Council (1967-1982), found among the financial records, were kept.
In October 2009, two large photo albums (1991-2000) were brought to the archives.
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See also the parish file in the Archdiocese of Edmonton records.
Accruals
Accruals are not expected at this time, but it is not impossible that more documents could be found at Assumption Parish when they undertake their parish archives project.