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Jim Thompson was a real estate agent in Athabasca Landing, and later Mirror Landing, who was associated with Jim Cornwall. He took photographs and collected colour postcards of the area including Egge's Stopping House, the Thompson home at Mirror Landing, Saulteaux (Soto) Landing, SS Midnight Sun, SS Midnight Call, Athabasca Forwarding Company at Mirror Landing, E. S. Viens General Merchant and Cornwall Rooms at Mirror Landing, Jim and Hazel Thompson, Nollie Nicol and a pet moose. Photographs # 11532, 11534 - 11544. The colour postcards are from the N. T. Coy series.

Three aerial black and white photographs of the Town of Athabasca and area (including Athabasca University and Cornwall subdivision when applicable) taken after 1977, 1987 and 1992.

A need for an emergency support system in the Town of Athabasca and Athabasca County was identified and a society was created to research and fund raise for a support system. Scrapbook with photocopies of advertisements and minutes from the society's organizational meeting pasted into it and corner-stapled prints of materials relating to the annual Canada Day Canoe Race; 1987 and 1990.

Two certificates of appreciate to mark Athabasca, Alberta's 60th anniversary presented to Hildred Beeston.

A photograph of William James Dent standing on a scow during a flood beside his sawmill in 1925 and a photograph of William and Elizabeth Dent taken in 1942 in Squamish, B.C. Athabasca Archives' photos 18325 and 18326.

Fonds consists of administrative, financial, operational, and promotional material created, accumulated, and used by the Markerville Creamery in its activities as a creamery and as a tourist site.

Types of records include bills, invoices, receipts, reports, correspondence, envelopes, stationary, cheques, pamphlets, instructions, coupons, newspaper clippings, notebooks, tables, photographs, employment records, notebooks, inventories, and butter wrappers.

Maureen Harvey illustrated two children's books; "The Silver Chain" by Gerda Bako in 1973 and "Basky" by Dorothy Lane in 1999.

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.

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

The fonds consists of students' creative works, and records of reunions of former students.