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Jane Gerlach fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2181
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1966,1971, 1979, 1989, 2004, 2007

The fonds consists of information about Dokeville School; 2 maps of the land owners in Dokeville School District from 1930s-1940s and 2010; names of homesteaders in that area; 3 poems by Cecil Turton; and numerous farm related booklets: Plows and Plowing, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, U of A, 1923; Wooded Soils and their Management, Dept. of Soils, U of A, 1948; DeLaval Cream Separators No.10; Farm Workshop Guide, pub. by The Country Guide, 6th ed. Goodyear Farm Handbook; Dr. George W. Bell's First Aid for Sick Animals; Fallout on the Farm, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture, 1961; Alberta Wheat Pool list of members and nomination paper, 1966, sub-district 701; and Report of the Legislative Committee on rural education, 1935. An addition to this fonds includes five calendars: Mike's Store, Athabasca 1979, 2004, 2007: Shaw's One Stop Food Market, Athabasca, 1971, and Tom Pryma & Sons, Texaco, Athabasca, 1989.

Gerlach, Jane

Cloe Irene Day fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1930s, 1988, 1989

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.

Day, Cloe Irene

Jessie Rollings fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2171
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1984

The fonds consists of photographs including: Albert Draeger's house; Sam Ball's house; the Theo Haggith dairy barn; the James Minns' house; the Davis Bentley house; Athabasca Pottery Club in 1983, 1984 including George Weston, Pennie Hunter, Lillian Bretzlaff, Tami Okimara, Lucien and Rosie Guay, and Verna Guay; the cable cage over the Athabasca River; the Athabasca River in flood June 18, 1944; 1944-45 Athabasca Public School staff: Lilliam Bloom, Irene Buckholz, Alice Donahue, Miss Dodd, Mrs. Emmet, Mrs. McClelland, Mr. Tennyson Nordon, Jessie Rollings; Martin Hitchins, Jenkins Lake, Dr. Joseph Olivier, Hallowe'en party in Stucco School before it was attached to the Brick School, newspaper ads for: Fundy Fox Co., A.C.Bradley's honey, Athabasca Creamery, Phillipy's Store, dance at Winding Trail School, Tutty Lumber Co., C.A.J. Sundby's Wood Yard and Feed Mill, Mme Veronneau's music and language lessons, R.C.Knowlton Jeweler and Optician, Hees and Goupil, G.H.Leng-blacksmith, and Peace River Blacksmith; a copy of the article "The Old Peace River Trail" by Philip H. Godsell; a copy of the March 21, 1930 provincial Unemployment Relief act; the Athabasca Echo newspaper of March 26, 1947 story of the drowning deaths of Wilma Harps and her sister Thelma Donald; the names of the Grosmont post masters from 1912 to 1970; a program for the Vets' Vaudeville Show-May 25, 1931 and a 1962 edition of a booklet "Survey of Athabasca" prepared by the Industrial Development Branch of the Alberta Department of Industry & Development. The audio cassettes contain information on the Bissell family, logging operations and personnel.The artifact is a heart-shaped pottery ashtray, with brown and blue glaze, manufactured by Athabasca Clay Products.

Rollings, Jessie

Arthur Haskell Thomson fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2149
  • Fonds
  • 1966, 1979, 1982

The fonds consists of Vol.2, No.1, March 1966: Alberta Folklore and Local History Collection; A Project Study of Athabasca and District for a Planned Heavy Water Plant, 1966; Grade 3-6 teaching guides for Our Place in the Province; and library book #176 which is a 1970 U of A MA thesis: The Process of Rural Settlement in the Athabasca Area, Alberta by Donald Norman George Stone. The CD was recorded in 1979 by the band "The Gemtones," which included Nadine Kiselyk, Art Thomson, Frank Bubel, Duane Workman, and Moe Breckenridge.

Thomson, Arthur H.

Brian Loxam and Robert Lines fonds

  • Fonds
  • [1970s]

The four people interviewed were Jettie O. (Day) Willey (1887-1978), Rosanna (Goulet) Shank (1892-1981, Hugo Carlson (1890-1977) and Rev. Bruce Rathbone. The first three interviewees discussed teaching, power companies, MacLeod's Creamery, the 1913 fire, Isaie Gagnon, Smith and Wood sawmill, commercial fishing, raising foxes, livery stables and theatres.
Rev. Rathbone, rector of All Saints Anglican Church, discussed the history of the Anglican Church in Athabasca, the first printing press, the diocese bishops, the satellite churches in the area, the St. Mary's Hostel for Girls and the Bishop Young Memorial Boy's Hostel.

Brian Loxam and Robert Lines

Edwin Parr Composite High School oral history collection

  • Collection
  • 1977, 1992

Four interviews were conducted in 1977 as part of a social studies project. Nine interviews were conducted in April,1992 by an English 20 class. Thirteen people were interviewed by eleven students regarding their arrival in Athabasca, their careers, their values and retirement. Interviewees include: Todd Richards, Hugo Carlson, Jettie Willey (Day), James (Jim) Appleby, Mary Donald (Miller), John Guay, Stefani Baldwin (Staszewski), Ted Matijohn, Annette Weinrich, Pearl Matijohn (Solomon), Anna Eherer (Kroneder), Nellie Onyschuk (Dac), and William Doerkson.

Edwin Parr Composite High School

Athabasca Heritage Days collection

  • CA ATH Ath 85.287
  • Collection
  • 1980

Three audio tapes recordings of local histories to commemorate Alberta's 75th anniversary.

Athabasca Heritage Days

Marion (Lewis) Ward fonds

  • CA ATH 05.08
  • Fonds
  • 1981

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.

Marion (Lewis) Ward

Christine Nelson fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1981, 1988-2009

The fonds consists of the 1995 EBA Engineering Consultants environmental assessment report on the CN land in Athabasca; Athabasca Heritage Society minutes, financial statements and correspondence from 2007-2009; art work for the 1991-1995 Athabasca Chamber of Commerce fun map; original pen sketches of cartoons drawn for newspapers:The Athabasca Advertiser from Aug.1988 to Dec.1989 and The Athabaskan from Jan.1990 to June 1993. Also included are the following calendars: Farmers' Market 1981-82; Jones' Shop-Easy 1996; and Macleods True Value 1997.

Christine Nelson

County of Athabasca No.12 Board of Education fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2034
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1995

The fonds consists of school registers for Athabasca 1958-1990, Boyle 1961-1988, Ellscott 1961-1965, Grassland 1959-1980, Hutterite Colony 1966-1989, Lahaieville 1965-66, Perryvale Central 1966-1977, Rochester 1971-1990, and Smith 1960-1990. There is also a 1986-87 and 1994-95 school opening bulletin and Board of Education strategic plan.

County of Athabasca No.12 Board of Education

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