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Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2170
  • Fonds
  • 1946-2015

The fonds consists of materials created by the Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives and its predecessors between 1946 and 2009.The fonds consists of bylaws, minutes, correspondence, financial records, fire insurance policies, account books, membership lists, accession and statistics books. Included in the photographs are: Violet (Mills) Aldridge, Kathy Begoray, Sandy Bulmer, Mike Cardinal, Lionel Cherniwchan, Louis DaCosta, Alice B. Donahue, Teddy Dunn, Frank Falconer, Judy Flax, Jane Gordon, Cynthia Graefe, Barbara Hunter, Joseph William Irwin, Doug and Heather Kariel, Jerry Little, Betty McDonald, Don McGladdery, Joseph Martynek, Marilyn Mol, Phylis Mort, Amanda and Erica Oldale, Viola Elizabeth Overholt (Jouston), Betty Pickett, Irene Robbins, Lydia Silkie, Kathleen Stafford, Linda Steppan, Robert Tannas, Kathy Traynor, David Yowney and Karen Zwarich. The students in a 1990/91 photograph of the Hutterite Colony School visiting the library are: Johnny, Rhoda, Debbie, Walter, Philip, Julia, Edward, Michelle, Steven, Aaron, and Albert Gross, Betty Stahl and Mrs. Phyliss Mort. Other materials transferred to the archives include an essay written by Nadine Molofy for the Correspondence School Branch in 1948-49 which also includes a photograph of W.H.Swift; the 1981 Canada census information on mother tongues spoken in the Athabasca area; and a program of the 3rd Spring Showcase of local talent library fundraiser in c2001. In 2003, photographs were taken when new carpeting was installed in the library and archives. A recent donation of planning materials for Athabasca Pottery Discovery Day, June 21, 2009 includes correspondence, budget, itineraries, media release, and poster proofs. Circulation records from October 1982 to November 2001.
Two CD-ROMs, Summer Reading Program 2012, and 2013

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Athabasca Archives Artifact Collection

  • CA ATH ATH AC
  • Collection
  • 1897

To date, 450 unique items specific to the local area, and spanning over a century, have been donated.

Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives

Athabasca Archives Audio/Video Collection

  • CA ATH AA A/VC
  • Collection
  • 1986 - Present

The collection includes cassette tape recordings of area residents' reminiscences, VHS tape recordings of street scenes, plays and other occasions, two record albums of music, and digital files of area events from 1961 to the present.

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Athabasca Archives Buildings collection

  • CA ATH ath-1989
  • Collection
  • 1912-1986

The collection consists of 98 photographs and 59 negatives of buildings in the Town of Athabasca. They have been described as a collection because they all pertain to buildings that are, or have been, located in Athabasca.

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Athabasca Archives Calendar Collection

  • CA ATH AATH 24.08
  • Collection
  • 1950 - Present

Athabasca Creamery Ltd. 1961
Colinton Lumber Company 1951
Shaw’s One-Stop Food Market 1970
Shaw’s One-Stop Food Market 1972
K. & P. Flynn General Merchants, Colinton 1950
Hunter Motors Ltd. 1967
Town of Athabasca 1998
Schinkinger’s Men’s Wear 1982
Schinkinger’s Men’s Wear 1983
Landing Motors 1959
Leed’s Dept. Store 1967
A.C. Hyde 1965
Colinton General Store 1988
Alberta Golden Jubilee Calendar, 1905 – 1955; two copies 1955
Athabasca: Back in Time with R. D. Preece; five copies 1999
The Millennium: Photographer R. D. Preece 2000
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2009
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2010
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar; two copies 2011
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2012
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2013
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2014
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2015
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar; two copies 2016
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar; two copies 2017
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2018
Archives Society of Alberta Calendar 2019
Athabasca and Area Calendar by Photopia; Bromley Chamberlain 2016
Mike’s Store Limited 1973
Mike’s Store Limited 1993
Mike’s Store Limited 1999

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Athabasca Archives Newspaper Collection

  • CA ATH NPC: 22.28
  • Collection
  • 1908 -

The Northern News:Northern News Printing and Publishing Co.; 1909-1915
The Northern Light:Mission Press, All Saints Anglican Church; Dec 1908, 19 Dec 1908, and 7 Jan 1909
Athabasca Times; 1913-1914
Athabasca Herald : H. Oxley, Editor and Publisher;1916-1921
Athabasca Echo:W. Conquest, Editor and Publisher; 1928-1986
Athabasca Advance: T. W. Pue; 1956-1957
Athabasca Call; 1976-1977
Athabasca Advocate: Great West Media; 1982-2020
Athabasca Advertiser: John Ollerenshaw; 1987-1989
The Athabaskan: John Ollerenshaw; 6 Nov 1989 – 12 Jun 1993
Colinton Clipper: T. W. Pue; 9 Jan 1952 – 21 Dec 1955
The Trail Blazer; 17 Oct 1994 – 13 Feb 1995
Town and Country This Week (Athabasca, Barrhead, Westlock): Great West Media; 2020 – Present

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Athabasca Archives Oral Interview Project collection

  • CA ATH AATH Oral
  • Collection
  • 1987 - 1988

Volunteers at Athabasca Archives, the public archives at Athabasca’s Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives, created an oral interview project to capture the memories of some of the area’s senior citizens. Vi Kowalchuk, Gene Kowalchuk and Annie Rypien were the interviewers and they recorded 30 cassette tapes and transcriptions of the seniors’ recollections.
Athabasca Archives cassette tapes #63 - 77, #107 - 116, #120, and #133 - 136

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Athabasca Archives Photograph collection

  • CA ATH ath-2136
  • Collection
  • [1890s] - 2010

The collection consists of photographs of the RCMP boat "Athabasca" based in Ganges, B.C. Six Mile Stopping Place on the Athabasca River; SS Northland Echo; loading scows; aerial view of Athabasca [1970s]; newspaper photographs of James Harris Wood, William Rennison, Isaie Gagnon, Louis Fosseneuve, and Hon. Justice R. Boyle; men at a tie camp (Paul Berkey, Mr. Koster, Mr. Jameson, Eugene Sale, Ole Strome, Joe Laflamme); 1937-38 Athabasca Boy Scout troop (Ralph Noddings, Bill Calder, Ken Cocke, John Birks, Allen Fell, Fred Meadows, Bob Garton, Frank Falconer, Dale Nelson, Jim Service, Budge Jones, Frank Bergeron, Verne Lewis, -- Webb, Alec Bergeron, Donald King, Reg Bayliss); Half Moon Lake School, 1936 (Josie Kunbah, Josie Kordyban, Alexandra Smerychinski, Marian Kowalski, Katie Kordyban, Maria Kordyban, Rosy Dowhaniuk, Stephanie Kushak, Olga Komarniski, Antonnette Komarniski, Maggie Shapka, Annie Kushak, Helen Zayezierski, Josie Gerla); Revillon Brothers Store, farm implement-reaper and horses, Terence John Shank, Elmer Norman Shank, Demonstration Farm barns and house (Experimental Farm barns), Leon Soudet farm, view of Athabasca from Century Villa condominiums dated Sept. 28, 1996; 1985 Tourist Information Booth volunteers (Hazel Rein, Pearl Baker, May Webb, Steve Wasel, Joe Bortnick, Alice Donahue, Charlie Senz, Dot Evans, Laura Green, and Muriel Senz); Chris and Lyandra Elkjer; the Athabasca train station in Nov. 1912, team driver is James A. Minns who was killed during WWI. Four postcards have been added which include an aerial photo of the town, a view from the bridge of the town lights, a painting by Larry Zornes and local citizens forming the number 99 in 2010 as they look forward to the 100th anniversary in 2011. There are two postcards published by the Northern Transportation Company :whitefish from Lesser Slave Lake and a homestead on Lesser Slave Lake, a ferry at Athabasca Landing, and two photos of William and Wilhelmina (Becker) Koerner. Perryvale Central School 1947 - 49. Dog team below the bridge. View of Athabasca from the east, 1990. 95.24: Six photographs donated by Doug Kariel of the historic mail run from Athabasca to Edmonton in February, 1995 to commemorate Edmonton's Bicentennial in 1995; photos #13633-13638. 96.42: Two postcards donated by Keith Randon, Leicestershire, Eng. of Athabasca Victoria Day celebrations, May 25, 1914, of the Athabasca Town Band and a larger view of the celebrations on Litchfield Street (50th Avenue) including the new Grand Union Hotel; photo s #14183 and 14184. Photos 18664 and 18665 donated by Jody Howells which show her father and uncle threshing in Saskatchewan c.1910; 21.07, Ted Langton-Adams slides # 20496–20622; 21-11, Athabasca fire at old Home Hardware building August 11, 2021, images # 20623–20678. 13.27: Two binders of photographs of the Grosmont Community Club Garden Walk, 1998 and 2005; the images are not numbered.

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Athabasca Archives Reference Book Collection

  • CA ATH ATH RBC
  • Collection
  • 1897

Athabasca Archives' reference book collection includes rural school district histories, fur trade and homestead references, Indigenous records, occasional papers, personal stories, NWMP/RCMP stories and records, Alberta histories and records, Canadian histories and records, and local authors.

Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives