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The fonds consists of photographs which were selected from a collection of material from a number of sources including Midnight Twilight Tourism, Points North, Alberta North and Athabasca County Tourism. There are photographs of Baptiste Lake, Mike Cardinal, Mary Agnes Cardinal, Frank Ponto, Erica Haukenfrers, Darlene Zelman, Mike Zelman and Grand Rapids Wilderness Adventure cabins, Rob Lafamboise, Ann Wiselka, and the Athabasca River.

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.

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, lists of accounts, letterbooks, personal papers, correspondence, inspection reports, transportation modes and costs, inventories pertaining to the Hudson's Bay Company and its presence in Alberta and Athabasca, where it established a post from 1877-1924. Included are articles from the Beaver magazine: "Skippering a scow" on the Athabasca by N.A.Howland; "The Last of the Brigades" by Guy Blanchet; and "Inland Journey" by J.W.Chalmers (Treaty 8).

The fonds consists of six photographs from Canada Day 1998 commemorating the 100th anniversary of Klondikers passing through Athabasca Landing on their way to Alaska, 9 photographs from the February, 1999 Collections Display; two invitations and one publication (00.04) and 10 photographs from the Trans Canada Relay 2000 gathering on the Athabasca riverfront; 7 photographs of the Society's tent and scow, July 1, 2002; Canada Millennium Partnership Program application; October, 1999 Site Planning Workshop notes; Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife Reservation/Notation Application to protect the historical value of the Tomato Creek Settlement (grave sites) along the Peace River Trail, September 08, 1998; 1998 By-laws, 2008 By-laws, meeting minutes financial statements and correspondence for 1999-2006; and a newspaper clipping scrapbook, 1997-1999, a facsimile of newspaper "The Northern Light," Nov. 28 1908, and "Overland Route to the Klondike," 1998; 22.02, 23 watercolour sketches and notes for an indigenous plants signage series from Mike Gismondi via Paula Evans; 22.03 heritage signage program digital production files. 24.01: Friends of the Athabasca Train Station (FATS) research, history, correspondence, minutes, and grant applications. Trish and Charles Bazalgette were the primary authors.

The fonds consists of Carl Lahser's self-published paperback editions of Otto Lahser's diary: "Back Door to the Yukon"; Carl Lahser's 1998 trip diary: "Chasing the Enterprise, verification of a Klondike diary "; and Carl Lahser's poems: "Cryptic Romance".