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Alice and Clifford Donahue fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1884
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1988

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Alice and Clifford Donahue of Athabasca, Alberta between 1924 and 1988. The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs and clippings of Alice and Clifford Donahue relating to their lives and activities in Athabasca. It includes files pertaining to community organizations and committees which the Donahues served on, business records; files pertaining to Alice Donahue's career as a teacher; scrapbooks; maps; and photographs.

Donahue, Alice

Amber Valley Community Association fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1980
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1987

The fonds consists of reprinted newspaper articles, a list of electors for 1938 and 1958, a few unidentified photocopied pictures and 10 photographs; also the booklet "Memoirs of the Official Opening of the Amber Valley Community Centre, June 28, 1975". The photos include: W.G. and Alice Cromwell, Columbus Bowen, Bob Jamerson, and Williams and Kinamore families. The booklet "Rural Women in Focus" was printed by the Amber Valley Community Association to celebrate the United Nations 1975 International Women's Year. Included is information on Lydia Williams, Marjorie Logan, Nancy Appleby, Amber Valley pioneer women, Athabasca Art Club, Martha Edwards and Palma Lennie. Two photographs from the Athabasca Archives collection include: Georgia Toles and an unknown woman. The map is a hand drawn Amber Valley Heritage Map, 1987, showing the present and former land owners in Township 66, Range 20, W4M. As well as the names of farm families, the map locates two stores, two post offices, the school and the cemetery.

Amber Valley Community Association

Constance Jukes Sanders fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2210
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1911

The fonds consists of the diary of Constance Jukes Sanders kept from August 27, 1910 to April 6, 1911. There is both a hand written and a typed copy of the diary. Mentioned in the diary are the Bannerman family, Captain Charles Barber, Ruth Barber, Mrs. Blackwell, Captain Bowker, Mr. Box, Sofie Brazeau, Osburne Brown, James Cornwall, Mr. Cote, Mrs. Cull, Egge's Stopping House, Mrs. Falkner, Mr. Farrell, Mr. Fraser, Mrs. Gauthier, Mrs. Greer, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Hautin, Holmes girls, Mr. Jackson, Setty Johnstone, Mrs. Keith, Miss Lang, Mr. Liss, Mrs. McDonnell, Judge McGuire, Ethel McKernan, Irene McKinley, Mrs. McKinnan, Mathilda McLeod, Mr. Martingale, Mrs. Mills, Dr. Milne, Cecil Milne's wedding to Ted Herbert, Miss Osler, Patry's Stopping House, Mr. Pearson, Mrs. Pollett, Mrs. Rennison, Archdeacon and Mrs. Robins, Anne Robinson, Mr. Royds, Mrs. Sawle and Bonny, Mr. Selby, Sgt. Shurer, Mr. Smith, Mr. Stanton, Miss Waghorn, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr. Waugh, Rev. Mr. White, Rayner Whiteley, Rev. Mr. Winch, Mrs. James Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wood, Lewis Wood, and Nell Young. Activities described include church attendance, a boating trip, dances, tennis, cards, house work, horseback riding,and a trip to England to visit Jukes relatives.

Sanders, Constance Jukes

Dr. Josephine Mary Brown fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1984
  • Fonds
  • [1930s] - 2005

The fonds consists of 1 audio cassette recorded in 2001, 4 Depression glass plates, a plaque from the Trail North Foundation naming Dr. Brown Deputy Trail Master, 1980; a vase purchased from Mrs. George Kasper Johnson and a 1978 Athabasca dollar (a souvenir of the May 27-29, 1978 trip to the Grande Rapids). Added in 2005 is a booklet and a plaque naming Dr. Brown as one of the 100 Physicians of the Century in Alberta. There is a framed photograph of Dr. Brown while she was in practise and photos taken at the 2005 award ceremony.

Brown, Josephine Mary

Evelyn Rita Rogers fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1870
  • Fonds
  • 1916, 1946, 1952-1980

The fonds consists of materials created by Evelyn Rogers between 1940 and 1980. The fonds consists of Evelyn Rogers' membership certificates for various organizations and photographs of Athabasca and various events including: a tug-of-war at the Athabasca Fair in 1916; the executive of The Northern Alberta Baseball League - Jack Mackie, Jeff Edwards and Byron Bellamy; Fairhaven baseball team in 1946; Amber Valley baseball team in 1946; crowd in Athabasca Community Centre in [1955]; and 6 photos of the opening of the Athabasca Bridge in 1952 which include Byron Bellamy, Nick Doroshenko, Hon. Gordon Taylor, and Jean Baptiste Gambler. These 6 photographs were taken by Bob Preece's Photo Shop. The artifacts include: Hugo Carlson's pocket watch, Byron W. Bellamy's tie clip, a radio, a hat pin, and printing plates for the Athabasca Public Library.

Rogers, Evelyn Rita

Franklin Robert Fowler McKitrick fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2134
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1902

The fonds consists of photographs of the following subjects: bachelor's house in 1902, Ella A. Baldwin, Cecilia Bell, Baptist Church gathering, berry picking, boxing, breaking prairie sod, Christopher Carruthers, a church building, cook house and mess tent, Edmonton on July 1, Excelsior School, garden, hay wagon pulled by oxen, interior of a house, Jasper Avenue, Jessie Russell McKitrick, Jessie's house near Namao, Methodist church meeting, Norwood School, oat field in 1901, Presbyterian church meeting, raft building, threshing, Timney's herd, and Wilson's Bridge over the Sturgeon River.

McKitrick, Franklin Robert Fowler

Hans Arno Birkigt family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2119
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1978

The fonds consists of photographs with the following subject headings: Mrs. Alchorn, Clifford Bell, Herman Bieber, Hans Birkigt, Rita Birkigt, Walter Bruchhausen, Ernst Feuereisen, furs, Joe Gill, Earl Kay, Charlie Linders, Fred Meyer, Kurt George (Dick) Naumann (1901-1978), Old Trading Post store, trucking, and Paul Wickers. Rita Birkigt lists the names of other trappers, and mink and fox ranchers, in a seven page article. Other material includes correspondence with Monica Cardinal, Clifford House, May McIntosh, and C.B.Olson; tax receipts and fur licenses, and an article about Rita published in the Jan.1, 1987 edition of Western People, a supplement to The Western Producer. There is a financial statement for the Athabasca Curling Club for the year ending April, 1970. Rita also handled funeral expenses and dispersement of property for Ernst Feuereisen, Abraham Funk and Adeline Logan. The artifact is a snuff can opener.

Birkigt, Hans Arno

Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire, Athabasca Chapter fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1865
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1949, 1964

The fonds consists of administrative materials created by the Athabasca Chapter of the IODE and includes minutes, correspondence, and financial statements from 1940 to 1949.

Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire. Athabasca Chapter

James William Mills family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2163
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1925, 1959, 1995

The fonds consists of 54 photographs which include subjects: northern river transportation and steamboats (SS Athabasca River, SS Slave River, SS Fort McMurray, SS Nipawin, Grahame, SS MacKenzie River, SS Wrigley II, SS Distributor and the D.A.Thomas), transporting a steam boiler on the Athabasca Landing Trail, then on scows and finally portaging overland to Fort Smith; George Lewis family, Captain Charles D.A.Barber, Captain Haight, J.Bird, P.Patmore, Wm.Hay, A.F.Fugl, J.Irvine, J.Sutherland, W.Johnson, Marion (Gill) Little, George Mills, Colin Fraser, B.Herschel, Hubert Thorne, Mr. McSwiney, Walter Mackie, E.G.Royds, N.Wilson, Mr. Ross, J.I.Case, Mr.and Mrs.Hayward; Mr. and Mrs.E.J.Gordean and sons Isadore and Jack; Dr. John Howard W.Moore (dentist), I.D.M.Latta and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Depew, J.D.Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lavell, Cecile Juneau, Miss Sinclair, Edith Haight, RNWMP Sgt. Arthur Howard Llewellyn Mellor and wife Mary (Fraser), members of Captain Mills family and their house on Skinner Street, Strathcona Street in Athabasca on Dominion Day, 1913; reindeer (at Boiler Rapids), tracking, curling, First Nation camp at Calling River; and Big Cascade, McDermot's Rock and Grand Rapids on the Athabasca River. There is also the text of a speech made by Louisa (Camsell) Mills in 1948 to the Historical Society of Edmonton recounting her early days at Fort Simpson, a 1959 newspaper article about Julian Mills, captain of the Northern Transportation Company tug Radium Prospector on Lake Athabasca, and the 1914 program for the entertainment held in the Star Theatre to officially open the Athabasca Public School (now known as the Brick School). Photographs of the school board members are in the program. The audio cassette was recorded at the Athabasca Archives in August, 1995 in a discussion between Violet Aldridge, Marilyn Mol and Bob Tannas and includes talk of the boats Captain Mills built and captained, the funeral of the "Lost Patrol" at Fort McPherson, friends in Athabasca Landing and schooling.

Mills (family)

John Leonce Lessard family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2113
  • Fonds
  • [1910]-1943

The fonds consists of photographs of: Athabasca High School classes (1943), boiler being rolled from Edmonton to Athabasca, John Patrick Crowe, Charles and Antoinette Daigneau, dog team on Litchfield Avenue; First Communion, 1931, at St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church; First Nations women, G.G.Fowler, Archie and Mary Gorman, Ethel Lessard beside "Welcome to Athabasca" sign on Landing Trail, views of the 1929 Lessard house, views of the 1928 Lessard Store, Malcolm McDonald, interior views of the first St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church, Mrs. Scott, scows on the Athabasca River, trucks on the Alaska Highway near Athabasca, and Alma Waite. The textual record is notes on a conversation between Marilyn Mol and Patsy Voaklander (Lessard).

Lessard, John Leonce

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