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Rev. Oddur Vigfus Gislason fonds

  • CA ATH ATH
  • Fonds
  • [1890]

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.

Rev. Oddur Vigfus Gislason

Pelluet family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1955
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1917

The fonds consists of newspaper clippings and material gathered for an article in the local history book "From Out of the Wilderness".

Pelluet

Edward Hauzenberger fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1883-1976

Includes information on farming and dairies. There are several memory pages with stories about: a badger, the ice house and the yoo-hoo phone. There are two pages taken from the St.Paul history book about Freda Gosselin teaching at Many Lakes School. The Hauzenberger family story is written about in this book, also.

Hauzenberger, Edward

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

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

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

Eileen Hendy fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2217
  • Fonds
  • 1985, 1991

The fonds consists of one article entitled "Athabasca Landing Ferry, (1906-1951)." The ferry service in Athabasca Landing began in 1906. In 1934 a cable cage system was installed as an auxiliary service to the ferry. When a bridge across the Athabasca River opened in 1952 the ferry service was discontinued. The article is illustrated with photographs, newspaper articles and crossing statistics. The cassette includes information on researching the history of the Town of Athabasca. A donation of seven books includes David Leonard's Peace River series: The Lure of the Peace Country 1872 – 1914, David Leonard and Victoria Lemieux: 1992. Delayed Frontier: The Peace River Country to 1909, David W. Leonard, 1995. The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914, David W. Leonard, 2005.
Margot Kindt, "The Town of Athabasca," 1986. Framed print.

Hendy, Eileen

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

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

The Dupilka family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2122
  • Fonds
  • [192-] - [197-]

The fonds consists of photographs depicting farm life, water drilling, a brush cutter, logging, homes and family groups. There is a programme for the Master Farm Family award, 1965, which was given to the Mike Dupilka family. Fonds also includes a copy of a cancelled cheque given to Josephine Dupilka for caretaking at Baptiste Lake School in 1927.

Dupilka (family)

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