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Lee Mack / Risdale fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2205
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1973

The fonds consists of a book "Bowtell Tales...to 1976."There are 5 photographs including a class from Bowtell School, and Velma, Jean and Jimmie in 1936 in Moose Jaw. There are two photographs of Guy Mack and the 1949-50 Rochester Rockets boys baseball team, a 1950-51 certificate for the Rochester Boxing Club, 1950-1954 business licenses for Mack's Coffee Bar, and a ledger book dates 1948-1955. 20 photos of Lee Mack and Edward Risdale, Ed's brother Kenny and Dorothy Risdale and their four children, the LeGrand Store, CNR section house, Searle elevator and other Rochester, Alberta buildings; 18094-95, 18278-18297. There are CNR waybills for furniture shipped in 1959, 1959 and Edward Risdale's 1968 Alberta Social Credit League membership cards. The funeral home record for Guy Mack is also included.

Risdale, Edward J.

Winifred Maud Ball fonds

  • CA ATH ATH-97.25, 97.33, 98.07, etc.
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1960

The fonds consists of letters dated 1910 and 1912 from Richard Owens to his brother Robert, a 1926 letter from Dick Owens encouraging his brother, Robert, to emigrate to Canada; 1927 letters from Canada. Dept. of Immigration and Colonization; a label from the White Star Line 3rd class on the S.S. Doric, Canadian immigration cards dated April 25, 1927 for the Robert Owens family, 1927 Dominion Lands receipt for $10.00 for Baptiste Lake lot 6; Government of Alberta Dept. of Lands and Mines 1932-1933 correspondence re: clearing land on lot 6; M.D. of Grosmont No.668 tax assessment for 1928, 1930; M.D. of Grosmont No.668 financial statements for 1930, 1932; Athabasca Municipal Hospital District No.13 recepits for credit toward fees; birth certificated for Robert and Martha Owens and their marriage certificate, a letter to Ralph Ball from Mrs. W.E.Nobles; map of Baptiste Lake Sunset Beach-1934, map of Lot 6-1960, and map of Summer Village of Sunset Beach-1978; photographs include the following: Fanny Mary (Tench) Appleby (1871-1973), Frank, Jack, Jim, Nancy and Ted Appleby, Elizabeth (Harriett) and James Mutch, Martha (Edwards) Owens (1882-1948), Robert Cyril Owens (1883-1971), Richard Owens, Maud and Ralph Ball, Bedford Thompson, Jeanie (McAllister) Thompson, John (Jack) Thompson (1907-2001), Lenora (Scott) Thompson, Margaret Thompson (?-1971), Noble Thompson, the congregations at Bethel Church, Paxson, AB, Dapp Camp and Rochester Camp, Jack and Ruth Blizzard; the artifact is a black plastic wall-mount style, dial telephone ca. 1950s.

Ball, Winifred Maud

William St. Jean (family) fonds

  • CA ATH ATH-85.363, 87.16
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1944

The fonds consists of photographs of : William, Robert and Ovila with their musical instruments, the 1944 flood with the G.G.Fowler sawmill under water, Alfred (Al) Cramer's store at Calling River, St. Jean sawmill at La Biche River, and a buckboard wagon and horses at Cramer's Store.

St. Jean, William

William Pearson fonds

  • CA ATH ATH-04.09
  • Fonds
  • [1970s]

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

Pearson, William

William Lewis Rice Wood

  • Fonds
  • 1980

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.

William Eusby Whiteley fonds

  • CA ATH ATH-97.21, 09.42
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1933

The fonds consists of the Perryvale Store and Sheldon Apartment ledger books, Mrs. Whiteley's account book with the store, a record of the number of board feet cut each day at the mill, and the Perryvale Post Office record book. Page 4 of the Stratford Beacon-Herald newspaper of January 30, 1924 contains an article about the accidental shooting death of Gertrude Whiteley.

Whiteley, William Eusby

Wendy de Candole fonds

  • CA ATH ATH-86.14
  • Fonds
  • 1985, 1986

The fonds consists of 11 photographs of Athabasca buildings, and 1 audio cassette of the Fiddler's Contest, 1985, sponsored by the Whispering Hills Country Music Association.

de Candole, Wendy

Walter Steinle fonds

  • CA ATH ATH-06.35
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1952

The fonds consists of photographs which include: Ilene Harps and Clayton Watt at their wedding with attendees Gordon Harps, Walter Steinle and June Harps; pictures of machinery and bridge construction, Larry Bush,chief engineer; and Ed Ryason, the cook. The five sheets of text are Walter's recollection of the construction camp and men and two stories of events that he experienced.

Steinle, Walter

Virginia Perry fonds

  • CA ATH ATH-99.33
  • Fonds
  • 1999

The fonds consists of three photographs of Virginia Perry on a trip to Athabasca in 1999 as well as an accompanying letter.

Perry, Virginia

Violet Kowalchuk fonds

  • CA ATH 87.10
  • Fonds
  • 1976-1995

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).

Kowalchuk, Violet

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