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Arthur Johnston fonds

  • PAA paa-8509
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1909 -- 1911]

The fonds consists of 12 photographs depicting Arthur Johnston and/or workers at a camp in Southern Alberta. The photographs show horses, buggies and other equipment used at the camp. The majority of the photographs use gelatin developing out paper. Seven of the photographs were used as postcards and have brief correspondence, addresses or identification on the back of the photographs. 5 photographs are mounted on cardboard stock.

Johnston, Arthur

Association France-Canada de l'Alberta fonds

  • PAA paa-7351
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1983

The fonds consists of photograph albums with 191 photographs of receptions, events and trips as well as some newspaper clippings; newsletters; correspondence; a program; a pamphlet; and Béziers, a book about Béziers, France presented to Jean Fortier of the Association France-Canada de l'Alberta.

Association France-Canada de l'Alberta

Athabasca Archives Amber Valley Reference Library

  • CA ATH ath-2188
  • Collection
  • 1972-2007

The collection consists of nine books in the Athabasca Archives reference library that contain information on Black settlement, Amber Valley, and families who settled there. The collection includes a video tape: "We Remember Amber Valley," by Selwyn Jacobs

Athabasca Archives

Athabasca Archives book excerpt collection

  • CA ATH ath-2200
  • Collection
  • 1879-1977

The fonds consists of excerpts from published books was used for research in the writing of the book "Athabasca Landing: an illustrated history". 1) excerpt from "Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure" compiled by Colonel Henry Inman, 1899. 2) excerpt from "Northland Echoes" by Doris Neeley Haralson. 3) excerpt from "The Legend of John Hornby" by George Whalley, 1962. 4) excerpt from "Ploughman of the Moon" by Robert W. Service, 1945. 5) excerpt from "Land of the Muskeg" by Somers Somerset, 1895. 6) excerpt from "Fire Canoe, Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited" by Theodore (Ted) Barris, 1977. 7) excerpt from "Grande Prairie: Capital of the Peace" by Isabel Campbell. 8) "Report on an exploration from Port Simpson on the Pacific Coast, to Edmonton on the Saskatchewan" by George M. Dawson, 1879.Geological Survey of Canada. 9) excerpt from "Lands Forlorn" by George A. Douglas, 1914. 10) excerpt from Canadian Pacific Railway Report by Sandford Fleming, 1880.Appendix 6, 13 "The Physical Character of the Prairie Region obtained from authentic sources". 11) excerpt from "A Hatchet Mark in Duplicate" by Rev. A.C.Garrioch. 12) excerpt from "Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada" by David Hanbury, 1904. 13) excerpt from "The Barren Grounds of Nothern Canada" by Warburton Pike, 1892. 14) excerpt from "Explorations in the Far North" by Frank Russell, 1898. 15) excerpt from" David Thompson's Narrative of his explorations in Western America, 1784-1812". Edited by J.B.Tyrrell, 1916. 16) excerpt from "Tar on the Floats" by Margaret McDougall. References to Art Schumacher and Earl Wright. 17) excerpt from "Son of the North" by Charles Camsell, 1954. 18) excerpt from "In Search of a Polar Continent, 1905-1907" by Alfred H. Harrison. References to Loutit family and Von Hammerstein. 19) excerpt from "The Arctic Prairie" by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1911.

Athabasca Archives book excerpt collection

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

  • CA ATH ath-2199
  • Collection
  • 1883-2009

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.

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

Atkinson, Seibert family fonds

  • CA MHM 2011.18
  • Fonds
  • 1917 -- 1967

The fonds consists of the journals of Jeremiah Seibert and Thomas Atkinson. Also included are photographs of the family as well as receipts, certificates and correspondence which were tucked into the journals.

Atkinson, Seibert family

August Oscar Fisher fonds

  • GLEN glen-948
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1920

The fonds consists of land sale documents and tax assessments.

Fisher, August Oscar

A.W. McVittie collection

  • GLEN glen-3939
  • Collection
  • 1883-1920

The collection consists of brief biographies of Barrie, Ontario architects and surveyors, written by Steve Otto (1980), which includes information about McVittie and firms for which he worked, and photographs of McVittie and his log house.

McVittie, Archibald Westmacott

B. H. Wilson Farm fonds

  • CA MHM mhm-2038
  • Fonds
  • 1931 - 1950

The fonds consists of records relating to the B. H. Wilson farm in St. Albert (river lot 45 and 46). Included are records of the farm purchase, lease and sale agreements; farm accounts, income tax records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, brochures, and photographs. The records consist of a single series B. H. Wilson Farm.

B. H. Wilson Farm

Baltzan family fonds

  • JHSE jhse-12
  • Fonds
  • 1897- 1999

The fonds consists of materials created by the Baltzan family of Edmonton from 1897- 1999. The fonds consists of these series: 1. Jacob Baltzan (1897 -- 1996) The series includes correspondence, photographs, a monograph entitled, "Memoirs of a Pioneer Farmer in Western Canada", a copy of "Our House in Leova," in Yiddish and partial English translation, and other materials created by or related to Mr. Baltzan. 2. Hy Baltzan (191-? -- 1999) The series consists of correspondence, oral histories, photographs, newspaper clippings, booklets, and other materials created by or relating to Hy Baltzan.

Baltzan, Jacob

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