The fonds consists of returned cheques, payroll records, bills of lading, and the envelope used in 1949 to transfer the records to UFA Central Co-op.
Administrative History
The Beaverlodge U.F.A. Co-op began operations in Beaverlodge (or Beaver Lodge), Alberta in 1948. It sold building supplies to its members. Mr. Helgie Holmberg was its first manager.
File consists of an envelope addressed to Helgie Holmberg of Beaverlodge.
Names
Beaverlodge U.F.A. Co-op
Holmberg, Helgie
Places
Beaverlodge
Date
1949
Notes
Handwritten annotations on the envelope read " Beaverlodge Building / Holmberg Records," indicating this envelope contained the records of Helgie Holmberg in his role with the Beaverlodge UFA Co-op.
The fonds consists of the Society's newsletter for 1944 and 1947-1951.
Administrative History
In March 1944 a group of five UFA Co-op employees began publishing a monthly staff newsletter, provisionally titled You Name It?? By 1946 the newsletter was titled UFA Sco-ops, and it was the official organ of the U.F.A. Staff Co-op Society. Doug Thornton of the Educational Department of UFA Co-op served as its editor during most of its history. The Society organized social and recreational activities and produced the newsletter. In 1949 the Society's name was changed to U.F.A. Co-op Staff Society and the newsletter's title was changed to Sco-ops. In 1951 the Society disbanded and the newsletter ceased publication. A later staff social and recreational association known as ECHO (Employees of the Co-op Head Office) existed from the 1970s onward.
Custodial History
The newsletters had been collected by Doug Thornton.