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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.

A description of finding Indigenous points on a property 12 miles south and east of Athabasca, Alberta at the intersection of TWP 652 and Rng Rd 220 which was originally homesteader in 1908. Ted Pitman picked up arrow heads from a site where an Indigenous sweat lodge was located and there are descriptions of some of the points. The collection of points has been lost. Little Pine Creek runs through the property.

The fonds consists of the following topics: Lawrence Rye, moving reindeer by train, building Highway 2 in 1925, aboriginal pilgrimage to Lac St. Anne, Perryvale (Lewiston) , Lewiston School, Miss Howlett, wild game, Sandy Creek, Athabasca Landing Trail, Rein family, scows, grain elevators and medical doctors.

The fonds consists of genealogical charts for Fosseneuve, Ladouceur and Auger families; scrip applications at Lac La Biche for Louison Fosseneuve (July 19, 1886); Fort McMurray Banner newspaper from May 28, 1965 with obituary of Joseph Shott; Canadian Geographical Journal, Feb, 1932 contains the article" Scow brigade on the Athabaska" by F.J.Alcock; the 1985 English 30 paper by Ben Heslop named "The untold legend of Captain Shot"; copies of newspaper articles including (Aug.24, 1899 Edmonton Bulletin), (March 26, 1914 Athabasca Times reprint of Emerson Hough's Saturday Evening Post article re: Running the Grand Rapids), (May 21, 1914 Athabasca Times and May 22, 1914 Northern News re: Fosseneuve's death); excerpts from 1908 and 1911 Oblate annals and four photographs of Louison, his son Joseph, and Joseph's family.
"A Tale of Two Brothers - Louison & Francois Fosseneuve: Descendants of Jean-Baptiste Fosseneuve," 2016

The fonds consists of 6 sheets of the history of the Mennonite Voluntary Service units in Calling Lake written by Millie Glick and Hilda Crawford (Eby). A list of the personnel is included.

The fonds consists of a 16 page typed biography of Peter Erasmus by an unidentified author; correspondence between Peter Erasmus and lawyer A.H.Gibson regarding homestead applications and Alberta Old Age Pension; A.H.Gibson correspondence with D.E.Cameron, librarian at the University of Alberta, and Rev. W.H.Day of Goodfish Lake re: photographs for a MacLeans magazine article on Peter Erasmus; and a letter of condolence to David Erasmus on the death of his father, Peter, from A.H.Gibson. The photographs are of A.H.Gibson and his wife in Whitehorse in 1957, and Peter Erasmus and a dog dated Oct.23, 1929. There are 4 newspaper articles from the July, 1985 Vancouver Sun regarding George Erasmus being elected grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Unrelated correspondence is between lawyers A.H.Gibson, W.J.Shortreed, and Harold Dean.

The fonds consists of materials created by Ken Sutton of Calling Lake, Alberta between 1968 and 1994. The fonds consists of photocopied pages of Mr. Sutton's diary concerning a 1968 forest fire, and personal reminiscences of events that occurred during his work life. There is also a photograph of a McCormick-Deering threshing machine taken on Ken's father's farm west of Alcomdale in the 1920s. Other photographs were taken at Calling Lake and include Treaty Day 1964, the first Sutton home, the Mennonite Church, the Post Office, Moose Horn Market, and the aftermath of the 1984 tornado in the Big Coulee area. Doris Sutton took a photograph of the 1966-68 archeological dig at Calling Lake which was headed by Dr. Gruhn. She also made postcards of some of her photographs, and molded animals from Athabasca clay.

The fonds consists of 2 articles from the RCMP Quarterly and a patrol report by Constable Thorne dated Dec. 1914; copies of 113 B&W photographs and negatives taken during his years of service with the RCMP in the North West Territories and 60 original negatives, from a Kodak negative album, including negatives for 2 photographs taken in 1922 of people during the Nahanni Gold Rush (including Alvah and Hubert Thorne and Poole Field) , scenes at Mud Lake, George Bremner, Thorne at the Edmonton RNWMP barracks, photographs of Fort Simpson and Rae, airplanes, children at the Roman Catholic mission at Providence, and a group of mounties at Jasper.

The fonds consists of the report of the Joint Metis-Government Committee to review the Metis Betterment Act and Regulations.

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