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This fonds consists of a magazine article containing biographical information about the life of Rev. Oddur Gislason in Iceland and in Canada. The article has been translated from the Icelandic language.

The fonds consists of newspaper clippings and material gathered for an article in the local history book "From Out of the Wilderness".

The fonds consists of the proceedings of the 13th session of Alberta Loyal Orange Lodges; a list of Orange Lodges in Alberta in 1919; newspaper articles and 1 sheet of information regarding the Strathcona Orange Lodge building. The artifact is the seal of the Midnight Sun Loyal Orange Lodge in Athabasca. The seal is affixed to a 20cm wooden handle.

Includes information on farming and dairies. There are several memory pages with stories about: a badger, the ice house and the yoo-hoo phone. There are two pages taken from the St.Paul history book about Freda Gosselin teaching at Many Lakes School. The Hauzenberger family story is written about in this book, also.

Photographs of tracking on the Athabasca River, First Nations life, and the Klondike Gold Rush. Artifacts #155, 156 are a pair of buffalo winter driving gloves and a set of brass harness bells. Artifact #51 is a spear tip made of tuffaceous clinker, a mineral found only in the Norman Wells area of the NWT.

This cassette is a taped letter to the Athabasca Archives by D. Torquil MacDonald of Roswell, New Mexico, relating the story of his foster sister, Sadie Marcella Gervais. One side of the cassette relates to Mr. MacDonald's life story and to family genealogy.

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.

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.