The Master Surname Index (not online) (mostly burials in Alberta cemeteries) of the Alberta Genealogical Society lists some 10 Botsfod and 15 Bryden names among then is;

Grace Helena BOTSFORD, 1888 - 22 Dec 1944
buried in the Beechount cemetery at Edmonton. No Haold listed.

For further research please contact the AGS Research Services Committee of the Edmonton Branch,
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/abgensoc

The Edmonton Branch
http://agsedm.edmonton.ab.ca

You can find Local History Books at these next three sites.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canab/index.html

Local Alberta History Book Collection.
and go to the bottom of this - “Search For Keyword” and type in the surname.
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/

Also Local History Books. Go to the bottom - “Search Full Text” and type in the surname.
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/search.asp

Alberta Vital Statistics
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/services/vpe/index.cfm
You can order death papers, however when ordering this you are given 2 options - the Certificate,
or a "Certified Photographic Print of the Registration of Death" which usually gives more information than that fancy Certificate.

Harold Botsford in not in the Homesteads (Wetern Canada Landgrants) Canada National Archives
http://www.archives.ca/02/0201_e.htm

Government Genealogical Information
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/information/vs/genealogy.cfm

Government Services Costs
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/information/vs/cost_non_res.cfm

The Edmonton City Archives
http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/comm_services/city_op_attracti...

Peter
for the AGS