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Albert Strong fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1920
  • Fonds
  • 1957

The fonds consists of a 100th birthday congratulatory certificate from the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, a newspaper clipping, a coloured photograph from Albert's middle years, and four photographs of his 100th birthday party. The artifacts are a pair of brass studded leather gauntlets, a brass studded leather belt and a size 7 Smithbilt stetson made in Calgary.

Strong, Albert

Alexander Lennie fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2213
  • Fonds
  • 1983-1989

The fonds consists of information on: John Berg, Mr. Biault, Donald Booth, Floyd Calvert, Herb Calvert, Mark Ferguson, Russell Fodchuk, Steve Fodchuk, Gosselin family, Gullion family, Kinikinik Post Office, Kostiw family, Russell Kostyk, Lac La Biche Trail, Lessard's house, Mr. MacDonald, Overacker family, Rennison family, Amber Ross, Bill Ross; Frank, George,Matt and Tim Sauer; Jimmy Service, Al Sharp's blacksmith shop, Charles Shoubridge, Sgt. Herbert Thorne, Dr. Andrew Turnbull, Scott Willey, homesteading, income, machinery, roads-East Hill, and Athabasca. The textual records consist of genealogical information on the Lennie and Anderson families of Fort Edmonton. Mentioned are school districts MacKenzie School No.234 and Summer School No.1668.

Lennie, Alexander

Alexis Lafferty fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2212
  • Fonds
  • 1983

The fonds consists of an interview in which the following information is mentioned: Magnus Cromarty Brown, Captain Edward Benjamin Haight (1862- ), John MacLeod, Clementine Mercredi, Captain James William Mills (1859-1933), Georges Shank, John Shott, Captain Van Dusen, Charles Joseph Rayner Whiteley (1889-1978), a boiler pulled by horses, ferry, freighting, Grand Rapids railway, houses on the river flats, and tracking.

Lafferty, Alex

Allen Alfred Cramer fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1981, 1989

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.

Cramer, Allen Alfred

Amber Valley 100th Anniversary fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2196
  • Fonds
  • 2009

The fonds consists of the welcoming pamphlet, the registration form and the Sunday morning church songsheet. The artifact is a commemorative t-shirt featuring a sketch of Toles School.

Amber Valley 100th Anniversary

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Athabasca fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1893
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1986

The fonds consists of materials created by the Athabasca Diocese of the Anglican Church between 1934 and 1986. The fonds consists of a Missionary Society Church of England in Canada leaflet on the Athabasca Diocese, a 27 page booklet celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Diocese of Athabaska in 1949, handbills celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Diocese (1974), Thanksgiving Service 1944, the 50th Anniversary of St. Andrews Church (1986), and the retirement dinner for Bishop James Pierce in 1974.

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Athabasca

Antoinette (Nettie) Virginia Goodwin fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2131
  • Fonds
  • 1914

The fonds consists of a photograph view of Athabasca as seen from the north side of the river and a postcard view of Skinner Street in 1914. The postcard was sent by Nettie to her daughter Agnes Allen in Galesburg, ILL.

Goodwin, Antoinette Virginia

Archibald Joseph Gorman (family) fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2110
  • Fonds
  • 1910-[1940s]

The fonds consists of the following subjects contained in the photographs and the cassette tape: Athabasca's first train (1912), Bentley with dog team, Big Coulee Anglican Church, Tom Black, Art Cullen, Chester Reid Day (a.k.a. Buffal Bill) from Calling Lake, commercial fishing, Father Desmarais, education, entertainment, field crops-rye, Colin Fraser, Gorman family, Albert Alexander Greer, horse teams planting crop, Litchfield Avenue, lumbering, marine boiler on Strathcona Street [1912], men's club outdoor meal, Pioneer Curling Club (1911), Red Cross Society meeting at Thorne's, Runel Ryley, scow workers, sports, threshing machine (1925), and Robert Vance.

Gorman, Archibald Joseph

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

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