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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)

Ernest William Bavin fonds

  • CA ATH 04.12
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1917

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.

Bavin, Ernest William

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

  • CA ATH ath-2199
  • Collection
  • 1883-2009

The fonds consists of periodical articles was used as research material for the book "Athabasca: an Illustrated History". 1) Outing, an international illustrated monthly magazine of Sport, Travel and Recreation. Oct-Dec, 1895. Includes a 4 part article titled "A Woman in the MacKenzie Delta" by Elizabeth Taylor. 2) Canadian Geographical Journal. May, July and August 1961. "Voyageurs Highway; the geography and logistics of the Canadian fur trade" by Eric Morse. 3) Alberta Transportation. Oct 1981. "A short history of Alberta's Riverboats" by Andy Turnbull. 4) Saint John's Edmonton Report. Aug. 2, 1976. "One man drownded, another floats". 5) Canadian Geographical Journal. Jan. 1947. "Athabasca River Transport" and "Athabaska Trail" by S.C.Ells. 6) The Trustee; Alberta School Trustees Association. 1907-1982. "My favorite trustees" by William H. Swift. He discusses Toles, Smith and Parkhurst Schools and Mr. Edwin Parr. 7) Forest Landscape: a newsletter published by Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Sept. 2, 1993. "Homesteading's freedom carried a price" by Lillie Hagelund. 8) Royal Geographical Society. Nov. 1883. "On the Athabasca District of the Canadian North-West Territory" by Rev. Emile Petitot. Includes information on First Nations inhabitants. 9) Alberta Trails Task Force, Research Section, Historic Sites Service, Alberta Culture, 1975. "Historic Trails Report" by Anne Carscallen. 10) "The Klondyke Trail from Edmonton" by Harold Fryer. 11) Canadian Cattlemen. Nov. 1953. "Old Trails and New, from sternwheeler and pack-train to "Iron Horse" and Aeroplane" by Phillip H. Godsell. 12) New Trail, U of A. Winter, 1951. "The Athabasca Trail" by James MacGregor. 13) "Report on the drainage area of the Peace & Athabaska Rivers" by Wm. Pearce, 1908. 14) The Alberta Gold Rush News, Alberta Gold Prospectors Assoc. Spring, 2009. "Devil's Canyon Gold Mine,1918" by Mark Hayward. 15) Food For Thought. Fall, 2007. "The Rice Stuff, wild rice from farmer Wayne Ptolemy" by Wes Lafortune. 16) Canadian Geographical Journal. February, 1964. "My Home Town" by Charles Camsell. Drawings by S.C.Ells.

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

Blanchard family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1916
  • Fonds
  • 1900,1913

The fonds consists of photos of the Joseph Blanchard family, three generations of Joseph Blanchards celebrating weddings on July 3,1900 and Charles Edouard Blanchard's orchestra, August 1913 at Arctic Center, Rhode Island.

Blanchard (family)

Iola George fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2081
  • Fonds
  • [1912]

The fonds consists of four B&W photographs of Athabasca scenes in ca. 1912 including: boatbuilding, ferries, Northern Transportation Company and the steamboat: Northland Sun.

George, Iola

Jack and Frank Cassidy (families)

  • CA ATH ath-2190
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1923

The fonds consists of photographs of the 1908 Cassidy tent home, 1910 log homestead house, twelve men and three teams hauling short log pieces used for making shingles, nineteen men in a threshing crew, and Frank's daughters Nell and Kathleen in 1923.

Cassidy, Jack and Frank (families)

James Minns fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2029
  • Fonds
  • 1905

The fonds consists of an interim homestead receipt for NE6-66-22-W4.

Minns, James

John Ernest Appleby fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2073
  • Fonds
  • [194-] - [196-]

The fonds consists of some of Jack Appleby's poetry; some is in his hand writing. The photographs are of the Athabasca ski jump hill taken about 1949. "Literary Works of Ted Appleby, " April 1951 includes poetry, essays and short stories; an assignment for teacher Janet Martin who taught in Athabasca in the 1940s.

Appleby, John Ernest

Melton family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1902
  • Fonds
  • 1979-1993

The fonds consists of materials collected or created by the Melton family of Amber Valley between 1979 and 1993. The fonds consists of three family photographs, copies of two newspaper articles, a history of the Melton family from Katie Melton's perspective, and a university essay written by Jimmy Robert Melton in 1993 entitled "Amber Valley: A Black Enclave in Northern Alberta, Canada."

Melton (family)

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