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A. S. Thomson fonds

  • PAA paa-7328
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1973

Fonds consists of copies of photographs taken by A. S. Thomson while working as a surveyor on the Inter-provincial Boundary Commission dating circa (ca.) 1913-1921 and includes rafts, packhorses, mountains, ice fields, surveyors and surveying camps and equipment.

Thomson, A. S.

Abel Weekes fonds

  • PAA paa-8496
  • Fonds
  • 1936

The fonds consists of an unfinished account of Abel Weekes' journey to the Klondike. The account details transportation, diet, disease, climate, encounters with First Nations Peoples, and geography.

Weekes, Abel

Achilles Schmid fonds

  • PAA paa-9123
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1967 (originally created 1912)

The fonds consists of photographs taken during Achilles Schmid's travels down the Athabasca River in 1912. The photographs feature images of Athabasca Landing, limestone, First Nations, rapids, Athabasca Valley, a moose hunt, a portage, boat travel, an oil derrick, Pelican Rapids, tar sands, Fort McMurray, the Athabasca Oil Company, Hudson's Bay Company scows, dog teams, wintery landscapes, Calling Lake, a school house at Lac La Biche, the Northwest Mounted Police Station at Lac La Biche, and settlers of Lac La Biche. The fonds also includes photographs and negatives copied by the Provincial Archives of Alberta for the purpose of displaying the material in the Achilles Schmid fonds.

Schmid, Achilles

Alberta and Great Waterways Railway collection

  • PAA paa-8513
  • Collection
  • 1922

The collection consists of a schedule and map for the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway dating from 1922.

Alberta and Great Waterways Railway

Alfrey family fonds

  • PAA paa-8793
  • Fonds
  • 1910-2007

Fonds consists of nine colour, silent 8mm films of the Alfrey family's home movies filmed by the father, Dar Alfrey. Subjects include views of Alberta communities such as Carstairs, Edmonton, Wetaskiwin, Banff, Medicine Hat, Taber, Calgary, Claresholm, and Jasper. They also include such subjects as the sugar beet factory in Taber, the Calgary Zoo, Storyland Valley Zoo in Edmonton, the Al Oeming Game Farm, and Alfrey family events such as birthdays, weddings, vacations and Christmas. These films start from the time the family was living in Bow Island in 1957 and end after their return to Edmonton in 1968. Fonds also includes family photographs, family papers, records from Dar Alfrey's activities in the Edmonton Rotary Club, and teaching records of Martha Alfrey.

Alfrey (family)

Andrea Spalding Fonds

  • PAA paa-8635
  • Fonds
  • [1895- 1915]

The fonds reflects Andrea Spalding's activities with the Heritage and Agriculture Society in Stony Plain at the Multicultural Heritage Centre. The fonds consists of 5 photographs of individuals and the Stony Plain area dating from [1895-1915].

Spalding, Andrea

Angela E. Harris collection

  • PAA paa-7900
  • Collection
  • 1983

The collection consists of a copy of "The Cookson Memoirs," which contains photocopies of John W. (Jack) Cookson's diary from his voyage from Liverpool, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1890 as well as notes about his early days in Tofield, Alberta. The collection also includes copies of photographs relating to Jack Cookson and the Cookson family in Tofield.

Harris, Angela E.

Archie McMullen fonds

  • PAA paa-8291
  • Fonds
  • 1925-1984

The fonds consists of logbooks, Archie McMullen's Second World War pilot's license, correspondence, certificates, Archie's Canadian Pacific Air Lines employment record, air route data, a wedding invitation, a Christmas card, a diary, scripts, newspaper clippings about the Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited Club (CAVU), McMullen family genealogy, photographs of planes, destinations, Archie McMullen, friends and family, a broadcast about Archie McMullen's career, and films of Archie's travel in the North and a family holiday to the Rocky Mountains which includes some footage of the 1939 Royal Visit.

McMullen, Archie

Athabasca Heritage Society Fonds

  • PAA paa-8527
  • Fonds
  • 1998

The fonds consists of a booklet produced by the Athabasca Heritage Society in 1998 entitled, "The Overland Route to the Klondike via Athabasca Landing."

Athabasca Heritage Society

Augustus Clements Finley fonds

  • PAA paa-6982
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1910

Fonds consists of an annotated photograph album entitled "Surveying and prospecting for coal in the wilds of Western Alberta, Canada and British Columbia, during the Spring, Summer and Fall of 1909" containing photographs which depict the survey party led by Augustus Clements Finley. Also included is a list of members in the party and an itinerary compiled by Finley.

Finley, Augustus Clements

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