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The fonds consists of 51 photographs taken by Ernest William Bavin, RNWMP, and others of Athabasca, the Athabasca River, Fort McKay, Fort Chipewyan, Lac La Biche, the Peace River, Grouard, Sawridge, Fort Vermilion, steamboats and Rev. Alfred Speechly White of the Anglican Church.

The fonds consists of the following topics: early settlers, local dances, weather, and freighting to Athabasca.

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 a 1976 university assignment on the Richmond Park District, photographs relating to the November 1994 launching of the history book "Reflections from across the River", and photographs of the February 1995 dog-sled postal run from Athabasca to Edmonton to commemorate Edmonton's bicentennial. There are also 9 photographs taken in 1992 of the Alberta Pacific Forest Industries mill site. There are photocopies of the Township Register for Twp 65 Range 21 and 22, and for Twps 66, 67 68 Range 22 stored in the oversize cabinet. There is a 7 page list of "Old Timers" with their date of arrival in Athabasca (possibly from the 1967 Canadian Centennial).

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 a 31 page booklet entitled:" The Homestead", which is William Pearson's autobiography as told to Ted Pitman.

The fonds consists of a 1922 letter from the Grosmont Municipal District regarding quarantine regulations for scarlet fever: two store receipt books for 1947-1948; and municipal tax receipts for 1955, 1956 and 1959. There are four calendars from local stores and the Aug.4, 2005 issue of Western Producers Western People which has an article on the Major family "100 Century Farm". Allan James tax receipt for 1927 is included.

The fonds consists of photographs of: Thomas Russell Sr., Janet Burns, May Russell and her husband Dollard McKendrick, Dr. Thomas Russell, Cassie and Jessie Russell, Arda Russell and her brother who were children of William Russell of Chicago, and a childhood photo of Effie, Mary and William Arthur Russell. Photographs of S.G.Stephens, Stephen's children Dora, Gladys and Ethel, and Euphemia Tweddie are from the same studio as a Russell family photograph so are possibly related. Photographs of Dr. Tina Head and three photographs of unidentified people are included but are not numbered.

The fonds consists of photographs which include: Daniel Goodwin, Katherine Haub, Walter Haub, Sofia Kawulok, Andrew, Paul, Pearl,and Sam McKelvey, Rudy Polok, Mrs.S.Polok, and the first school bus from north of the Athabasca River in 1944.

The fonds consists of photographs of : Athabasca River ferry in 1906, Athabasca River flood in April, 1904; scow building, Mrs. Gullion, Mr.H.Mullins with a baby in a cradleboard, and views of Athabasca Landing in 1904 and 1913.