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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

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

The fonds consists of periodical articles was used as research material for the book "Athabasca: an Illustrated History". 1) Outing, an international illustrated monthly magazine of Sport, Travel and Recreation. Oct-Dec, 1895. Includes a 4 part article titled "A Woman in the MacKenzie Delta" by Elizabeth Taylor. 2) Canadian Geographical Journal. May, July and August 1961. "Voyageurs Highway; the geography and logistics of the Canadian fur trade" by Eric Morse. 3) Alberta Transportation. Oct 1981. "A short history of Alberta's Riverboats" by Andy Turnbull. 4) Saint John's Edmonton Report. Aug. 2, 1976. "One man drownded, another floats". 5) Canadian Geographical Journal. Jan. 1947. "Athabasca River Transport" and "Athabaska Trail" by S.C.Ells. 6) The Trustee; Alberta School Trustees Association. 1907-1982. "My favorite trustees" by William H. Swift. He discusses Toles, Smith and Parkhurst Schools and Mr. Edwin Parr. 7) Forest Landscape: a newsletter published by Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Sept. 2, 1993. "Homesteading's freedom carried a price" by Lillie Hagelund. 8) Royal Geographical Society. Nov. 1883. "On the Athabasca District of the Canadian North-West Territory" by Rev. Emile Petitot. Includes information on First Nations inhabitants. 9) Alberta Trails Task Force, Research Section, Historic Sites Service, Alberta Culture, 1975. "Historic Trails Report" by Anne Carscallen. 10) "The Klondyke Trail from Edmonton" by Harold Fryer. 11) Canadian Cattlemen. Nov. 1953. "Old Trails and New, from sternwheeler and pack-train to "Iron Horse" and Aeroplane" by Phillip H. Godsell. 12) New Trail, U of A. Winter, 1951. "The Athabasca Trail" by James MacGregor. 13) "Report on the drainage area of the Peace & Athabaska Rivers" by Wm. Pearce, 1908. 14) The Alberta Gold Rush News, Alberta Gold Prospectors Assoc. Spring, 2009. "Devil's Canyon Gold Mine,1918" by Mark Hayward. 15) Food For Thought. Fall, 2007. "The Rice Stuff, wild rice from farmer Wayne Ptolemy" by Wes Lafortune. 16) Canadian Geographical Journal. February, 1964. "My Home Town" by Charles Camsell. Drawings by S.C.Ells.

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.

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 fonds consists of a brief history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta; the origins of the Athabasca Detachment; 1901 report of Superintendent Constantine; 1915 report of Superintendent Albert Edward Crosby McDonell; biographies of Deputy Commissioner George Leslie Jennings, ex-Inspector Kristjan Fjeldsted Anderson, and ex-Superintendent Arthur Howard Llewellyn Mellor; 1961 booklet "A National Police Service" and 1962 copy of "The Police Act". Other officers mentioned include: Sgt. S. Hetherington and Sup't Gilbert E. Sanders.

The collection consists of:;1) Western People, a supplement to the Western Producer newspaper. May 27, 1999. "Hard Bargains, the Making of Treaty 8" by Jeffrey S. Murray. 2) University of Alberta. New Trails. "The Making of Treaty 8" by Jodeen Litwin. 3) The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties.Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1978. "The Spirit and Terms of Treaty Eight" by Richard Daniel. 4) Research Branch, Corporate Policy, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981. "British Columbia Indian Treaties in Historical Perspective" by Dennis Madill. The books are titled:;1)Through the MacKenzie Basin by Charles Mair, 1908. 2) As Long as this Land shall Last by Rene Fumoleau, 1975. 3) On the Trail North, the Treaty 8 Diary of O.C.Edwards, 1998. 4) Treaty 8 Revisited: selected papers on the 1999 Centennial Conference, 2000. 19.02; Certified Copy of Treaty 8

Interviews of local seniors were conducted by various people in the Athabasca area: Louis Baron, Irene Boisvert (Seyfried), Helen Brauer (Aloisio), Eileen Chamberlain (Barker), Wilma (Jim) Cooke (Galloway), Judy Edwards (Ryan), Rosie Foster (Gladue), Bob Garton, Jean Golonka (Fowlie), Doug Harper, Myn Hursin (Holowchak), Steve Kamelchuk, Alex Krawec, Nick Kucher, Tony Kuster, Anne Kuzyk (Jorgensen), Katie Kuzyk (Bahry), Bert Lachman, Cecil Lewis (McKelvey), Vera McConaghy (Duval), Doreen Mickelsen (Harper), Rosemary Neaves (Howe), Katherine Nelson (Chilak), Jack and Shirley Nixon (Chick), Mary Olsen (Buxton), Dorothy Overacker (Lennie), LeRoy Overacker, Nick Pacholok, Roxena (Rocky) Patry (Johnston), Norma Robocon (Barrett), Nina Rys (Kapitaniuk), Betty Sale (Knittle), Annemarie Schmittroth (Waha), Irma Semrock (Molzahn), Charles Sequeira, Rita Sequeria (D’Souza), Edith Smiley (Bishell), Bessie Speers (Silverthorn), Ken Stafford, Ann Stiles (Alberts), Alma Swan, Ted Turkawski, Anne Vincent (Pollmann), Harry Waschuk, William Waschuk, Barb Wilkinson (Hargrave), and Albert Wurfel.

The fonds includes financial records, names of the executive and membership, names of the art courses offered, and some notes on fundraising activities.