Profiles of Alberta Women

Irene Parlby – Supporting Information

Archival records

Daily Life reel-to-reel audiotape interview with Hon. Irene Parlby. 1900-1957. Public Affairs Bureau sous-fonds. Provincial Archives of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

Famous Five Foundation fonds. Glenbow Library and Archives, University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Irene and Walter Parlby fonds. Glenbow Library and Archives, University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Parlby family fonds. Red Deer and District Archives. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

United Farm Women of Alberta fonds. United Farmers Historical Society Archives. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Awards and honours

1935 – Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Alberta

1966 – Person of National Historic Significance, Government of Canada

2009 – Honorary Senator, Senate of Canada

2019 – Parlby Way named in Alix, Alberta

Further reading

Cavanaugh, Catherine Anne. “In Search of a Useful Life: Irene Marryat Parlby, 1868-1965.” Doctoral thesis, University of Alberta, 1994.

Soltice, Alexis Ann. “Dried Apples, Victorian Ideals, and Organizational Works: The Private and Public Personae of Mary Irene Parlby.”  Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, 2005.

Writing and speeches

Parlby, Irene. Mimeographed transcript of address to the 1916 UFA Convention titled Women’s Place in the Nation. 1916. UF 2002.0036.20, Series 4, File 1. United Farm Women of Alberta fonds. United Farmer’s Historical Society Archives, Alberta, Canada.

Parlby, Irene. “The Great Adventure.” The Grain Growers' Guide 10, April 1927.

Parlby, Irene. “The Economic Status of the Married Woman.” Labour Annual, September 5, 1925.

Parlby, Irene. Handwritten rough draft of Rambling Memories. Parlby family fonds. Red Deer and District Archives, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. https://albertaonrecord.ca/iw-red-12. 

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