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The fonds consists of photographs of Helene Lagasse and two of her sisters, Annie Vance attending Athabasca Public School [1912], Annie and Ernest Bulman-Fleming, Annie and her children, and Louis Menard and Helene. The genealogy of the Lagasse, Vance and Bulman-Fleming families is incuded as well as Ernest Bulman-Flemings's service records as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WWI. The recording includes Gordon and Alan Vance reminiscing with Frank Falconer and Barbara Ashacker in 1983 about Athabasca, teachers, school friends, etc.

Includes: farming, machinery, rural electrification, Shaw's Locker Plane, school bus system, roads, fish from Calling Lake and school boards.

Photographs in the Town of Athabasca including the cage, an EPC 1949 drama presentation, building the Athabasca Bridge 1952, curling bonspiel 1975, hospital staff farewell party for Dr. Taylor 1976, grain elevator fire nd, Athabasca Municipal Hospital fire 1980, Athabasca Municipal Hospital temporary trailers under construction 1980, opening Athabasca Healthcare Centre 1984, Athabasca Healthcare Centre events c. 1986.

The fonds includes hand-written notes by Wasyl Panisiak dated March 27, 1987, Athabasca of his history with Aksana and Sophie who both predeceased him, (no obituary for Aksana on record), souvenir items from Red Star Line, a George VI Coronation Souvenir, May 12th, 1937, small black and white photos of Aksana, and Wasyl and Aksana, Wasyl’s birth and baptism certificate and Affidavit to that effect, Polish passport, immigrant identification card, and naturalization certificate. Aksana’s CPR travel documents, Sophie Stolarz’s birth certificate, certificate of Canadian citizenship, documents in Polish, land purchase and sale documents, CNR/GTR timetable booklet which includes trans-Atlantic steamship sailings tables, correspondence, and various farming receipts.

A letter from Salome Monson to a Mrs Twitchelle, which was suggested by Mrs. Donahue, describes a brief history and life at the Calling River telegraph station. A separate item is a photocopy of a biographical sketch of George Thomas Monson from Glenbow Archives, (M4106).

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 recordings contain information on homesteading, Thomas Bury, John Byrtus, Cloe Day, Charles Gora, George Ryga, medical care, and Richmond Park, AB.

The fonds consists of the following topics: immigrating to Canada, Big Coulee School, teaching in rural schools, Calling Lake, Richmond Park, Chester Reid Day (a.k.a. Buffalo Bill), 1882-1951; James McIntosh (1885-1960), Crawfords, box socials, Mrs. Mary Conquest, Mickey Monson family, Chrusch family, Bilidas and Mary Soluk. A book "Glimpses of Canada by Young Canadians", a Junior Red Cross project, discusses a Metis family at Sandy Lake, Jake Gislason at Calling Lake, and Richmond Park School. There is also information on the 1930s Depression Era and school sports.

The recordings include information on homesteading, liquor laws, scows, steamboats, trapping, Pelican Portage, Grand Rapids Island, freighting, Percy Cross, James Kennedy Cornwall, Ed Gamber, Kurt George (Dick) Naumann, Ernst Feuereisen, Herman Beiber, and Keith Smith.

Printed email correspondence responding to the Report of the Review Board for the Alberta-Pacific EIA. Consecutively arranged beginning March 4, 1990, ending on March 17, 1990