File 04 - Land survey plan, legal and financial documents

• Textual record

.4 cm of textual records

This file primarily contains the legal and financial documents concerning the building and renovation of property at Sylvan Lake by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario. The Sisters purchased, built, updated, and repaired a cottage lake house in the Summer Village of Birchcliff during their western mission in the Archdiocese of Edmonton, Alberta. There are communications with the City of Red Deer, Edmonton House Builders’ Association about the construction of a house on the property, and legal letters to engage a contractor, Fekete Construction Co. Ltd. The certified land survey plan titled Sylvan Lake Plan Showing a Subdivision of Lot B by the City of Red Deer Land Surveyor, Mr. J. C. Horn, on July 2, 1974, is present. There are also two newsletters titled, The Summer Village of Birchcliff, one dated Fall 2001 and the other Summer 2002. The topics include the official election results of the new Mayor and Councillor, council meetings, estates subdivisions, shoreline restoration, and a septic system study and sewer inspection for the Birchcliff region. This file also contains a purchase of property legal record and financial documents on taxes for residential improvements. There is also the Santae Viae Crucis Erectio Canonica (The Canonical Erection of the Holy Way of the Cross), the blessing of the Sylvan Lake house chapel on July 4, 1966, conducted and signed by Monsignor James Alexander MacLellan.