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South Peace Regional Archives
The series consists of 58 photographs relating to Alberta Forest Service, forest fire fighting, and family life. It also contains 43.5 cm of textual material that includes: travel records and statments of remittance and earnings from Dave’s time as a forest ranger; daily journals pertainting to forestry; handbooks and manuals; a WWII supply book, and 9 maps. This series is divided into five sub-series: NAR (1924-1980); Forestry (1933-2000); WWI and WWII (1914-1946); Personal (1934-2005); and Miscellaneous ([1942?]-1955)
Revised by TD on July 28, 2020
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This sub-series consits of handbooks and news publications from Northern Alberta Railway (NAR) as well as various employment records belonging to Dave Schenk.
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This file contains NAR publications such as time table handbooks for use by employees; a handbook for the mehanical examination of firemen; and 5 editions of NAR’s newspaper “The Headlight”.
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This file contains NAR paystubs belonging to Dave Schenk; an enginemen’s trip report; a list of NAR staff engineers, firemen, conductors, and brakemen; two NAR staff seniority lists which list Dave’s brother (F. J. Schenk); a railway employees timebook; and a 50 year veteran certificate from the United Transportation Union.
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This sub-series contains documents relating to Dave Schenk’s employment in Forest Service with the Alberta Energy and Natural Resources Department. The sub-series consists of 56 photographs, 9 maps, and 34.5 cm of textual material including attendance records, daily journals, handbooks and manuals, documentation books, land use summaries, employment finances, and location research.
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This file contains 56 photographs from Dave Schenk’s time working for Alberta Forest Service. The photographs are of the Pipestone Creek ferry, the Kakwa area, forestry road work, forestry cabins, tower sites, ranger stations, fire fighting, and game patrol.
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Dave Joachim. Dave Schenk, Carlin Schenk and Christine Schenk stand in front of the Shuttler Flats cabin.
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Francis Schenk stands on the porch of Sherman Meadows Cabin at the airstrip.
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Otto Sourly stands with Christine Schenk on the Grovedale ferry.
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Dave Schenk stands in front of entrance to a coal addit dug 150' into the mountain.
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A Nahanni helicopter lands near the forest fire at Adelaide Creek.
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Ed Moberly with Francis Schenk at Ed's cabin, Moberly Flats, south of Two Lakes.
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Sherman Meadows Cabin with family.
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Paul Wyniandi shows the children his rat root, a highly regarded native medicinal plant root.
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Snowmobile used in coal exploration in Saxon Creek, March, 1977.
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Kakwa Falls from above the falls.
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Ole Overland's Cabin on Line 5, south of the Wapiti in 1977.
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Forestry Cabin at Two Lakes in 1977.
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Forestry cabin at the old towersite on Nose Mountain.
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Sarah Hubert, Christine Schenk, Bill Henderson, Jack Mc Cullough, David Schenk (on Bill's lap)
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Mike Malony, Assar Vicklund, Bill Henderson, Sarah Hubert, Francis, Christine and Celia Schenk.
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Bill Henderson and Sarah Hubert at Bill's farm in South Wapiiti, July, 1948.
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Bill Henderson and Sarah Hubert operated the Pipestone Creek Ferry for a time.
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Bill Henderson and a team of men work to get the Pipestone Creek Ferry into operation in the spring.
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Carl Brooks was killed in this crash in the fall of 1945 near Kakwa Lake.
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Ed Moberly on his horse in the Kakwa area.
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Ed Moberly checking his cache in the Kakwa area
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L-R Pete Comeau, Sherman Head, John Miller, Ole Overland, and George Kalischuk stopping for lunch at the side of the road they are working on.
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Paul Wyniandi, District Ranger Bert Varty (sitting) and Dale Landry take a break from road work.
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Doug Howarth, Ole Overland, Sherman Head, and Johnny Miller take a break during road construction.
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Ole Overland, District Ranger Bert Varty, Doug Howarth, and Johnny Miller cook a meal on a portable stove.
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District Ranger Bert Varty working on his jeep along the road being constructed.
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Ray Smuland (in tent) and Sherman Head (in caterpillar) working in a forestry camp.
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Dave Schenk's kitchen; doing forestry work in the Kakwa area.
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The cook shows off his offerings for a forestry road work crew. Group includes Dave Joachim, Doug Howarth, Ray Smuland, Ole Overland.
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Ray Smuland, Forest Superintendant, sawing logs for building a forestry cabin at Musreau Lake.
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Sam Fomuk, tower man and Dave Schenk, Ranger, at the Nose Mountain Tower cabin, September, 1957.
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Prairie Provinces Annual Forestry Film Tour with Dave Schenk and Greg Stevens flanking Bertie the Beaver.
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Grovedale ferry on the Wapiti April, 1956, Claud O'Keefe is standing on the approach.
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Porcupine Cabins and Porcupine Airstrip.
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Camp of Ole Overland and Dave Schenk at Nose Mountain Tower site, Sept. 1957
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Griff James, Dick Bacon, Dave Schenk (Ranger), and Francis Schenk standing by the cabin at Porcupine airstrip, 1958.
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The new house at South Wapiti Ranger Station was built in 1957. The original cabin on the left was moved to Two Lakes.
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Dave Schenk at the Copton Lookout site --closed down in 1959.
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First Rainbow Trout Plant at Two Lakes showing Curly Wren from Brooks Fish Nursery.
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The opening of the Nose Mountain Tower site showing pilot, Lloyd Anderson in a 47J Chopper.
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Fire fighting crew brought into the South Wapiti Forest District by Doug Clarkson (in plaid).
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Henry McCullough and Dave Schenk on the extreme south end of the Wapiti forest district in the Sheep Creek area. Part of forestry work was to monitor the hunting of game.
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Dave Schenk and Henry McCullough in Dead Horse Meadows.
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Dave Schenk and Henry McCullough near the B.C. border.
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Dave Schenk and Henry McCullough set up a shelter and camp on the trail near the B.C. border. Snow covered mountains in the background.
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Ed Moberly and Carlin Schenk sit outside a teepee at Nose Creek
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Prairie Provinces Annual Forestry Film Tour visits the students at South Wapiti. Bertie the Beaver is used as an instructional aid.
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Harvie Trace beside his 47J Helicopter and Carlin Schenk standing in front. Taken in the spring of 1966 at the opening of the Tower, South Wapiti Ranger Station.
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Dave Joachim and Paul Wyniandi with Carlin Schenk (the child) stand in front of their teepee.
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This file contains land use summary memorandums from forest officer Dave Schenk to the forest superindentent R. Smuland. These reports describe seismic activities and oil operations in the area.
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This file contains books used by Dave Schenk for documentation purposes during his time working for Forest Service Alberta including three copies of an Alberta Forest Service Fire Control Service book, a Fire Report notebook, a Fire Removal ticket book, a Seized Items record book, and an Engineers Field Book.
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This file contains an assortment of handbooks and manuals relating to forestry and Forest Service Alberta including two Forestry Course Textbooks; an air operations manual for Forest Service Alberta; three glosseries of forest fire control terms from 1963, 1970, and 1980; a Alberta Union of Provincial Employees handbook, and a Fire Line handbook.
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This file includes Dave Schenk’s monthly attendance records from his time working as a Forest Officer for the Department of Energy and Natural Resources- Forest Service division.
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This file has the monthly travel expenses Dave Schenk incurred during his time as a Forest Officer for Alberta Forest Service.
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This file contains statements of remittance issued to Dave Schenk from the Government of Alberta- Lands and Forests and Energy and Natural Resources depatments.
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This file contains statements of earnings (payslips) for Dave Schenk from the Government of Alberta for his work as a Forest Officer for Alberta Energy and Natural Resourses- Forest Service.
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This file contains statements of earnings (payslips) for Dave Schenk from the Government of Alberta for his work as a Forest Officer for Alberta Energy and Natural Resourses- Forest Service.
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These files contain 22 journals that were used by Dave Schenk to document his daily work activites as a forest officer. There is one book per year from 1966-1987.
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This file contains information pretaining to burial records discovered by Dave Schenk while doing forestry work in the Kakwa area. This file has access restrictions until the material has been reviewed.
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This file contains 9 maps, many of which were produced by the Province of Alberta for Alberta Forest Service. There is one set of four maps that were used for Alberta Forest Service and contain different overlays pertaining to their Air Operations. The maps cover various areas including all of Alberta, the Wapiti region, and the Kakwa region. They are from 1964, 1973, 1975, 1995, 2000, and 2004.
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This sub-series contains 4cm of textual material relating to WWI and WWII including a supply book, a field service book from the United States, a newspaper from the Honolulu Star Bulletin announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor, and WWII ration books belonging to the Schenk family.
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This sub-series contains one Robert Guest artwork gifted to Dave Schenk, one holiday card from Bob and Myrtle Guest, two family photos, and one newspaper clipping.
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Dave Schenk’s Grandparents in a boat out on the water. The photo was originally located in a frame which had “Grandparents [?] getting $1 a day to muskrat” written on the back about this photo.
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Dave and Francis J Schenk with their grandparents on a porch. Dave is the socond from the left (standing) and Francis J is the third from left (sitting). There is a description on the back of the photo that reads “Boys! Can you remember that time we took this pickture? Grande Ma.” and it is dated as “Sept. or Oct. 1934”. The back of the frame the photo was stored in has more writing that says “Grandmother, Grandfather, Dave, + Brother Francis”.
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This sub-series contains one grocery price list notebook; a standard field tables book from the United States Department of the Interior; an Alberta Liquor Board price list from 1955; and a Soundack fur auction sales bulletin.