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Athabasca Archives Fonds Family and personal life
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Rev. Spencer Bardsley Baron family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2095
  • Fonds
  • 1915-2008

The fonds consists of 7 photographs of Rev. Baron, Daisy and Noel Peter taken in Athabasca and Cambridge, and a photograph of Rev. Noel Peter Baron and his wife, Mary. The cassette is a recording of some Baron family history and a homily by Rev. Baron upon his visit to Athabasca in 1994. The textual records concern priestly residents of the Anglican rectory and funeral service booklets for Peter Baron and Ursula Alexander who both died in the spring of 2008. An email from Dr.Robert Baron contains more family information.

Baron (family)

Ken and Doris Sutton fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1909
  • Fonds
  • copied 1998 (originally created 1915-1994)

The fonds consists of materials created by Ken Sutton of Calling Lake, Alberta between 1968 and 1994. The fonds consists of photocopied pages of Mr. Sutton's diary concerning a 1968 forest fire, and personal reminiscences of events that occurred during his work life. There is also a photograph of a McCormick-Deering threshing machine taken on Ken's father's farm west of Alcomdale in the 1920s. Other photographs were taken at Calling Lake and include Treaty Day 1964, the first Sutton home, the Mennonite Church, the Post Office, Moose Horn Market, and the aftermath of the 1984 tornado in the Big Coulee area. Doris Sutton took a photograph of the 1966-68 archeological dig at Calling Lake which was headed by Dr. Gruhn. She also made postcards of some of her photographs, and molded animals from Athabasca clay.

Sutton, Ken and Doris

Lewis Hay Irving Wood fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2111
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1938

The fonds consists of photographs of : freighting, Lee Goodwin, Athabasca Hudson's Bay Co. manager's house, Muskeg Creek, Tex Palmer and dog team, Pelican Wells (1920), sawmill, Richard Secord's trading post, Whiskey Trail,and Wood's log house.

Wood, Lewis Hay Irving

Joseph William Irwin fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2130
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1972

The fonds consists of material containing the following subject headings: airplanes, Hans Birkigt, Chester Reid Day, farm machinery, Jake Gislason, Grande Prairie Flying Service crest, Abner Hingley, Irwin family, Walter Kielbauch, David Keir, 1873-1957; Monty Kirkpatrick, James McIntosh, 1885-1960, and Art Schumacher.

Irwin, Joseph William

Hugo and Mary Coli fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1996
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1967

The fonds consists of photos of the 1959-60 Athabasca baseball team, 1948-49 Harvest Queen candidates, and Bill Blacklock and Hugo Coli by Athabasca Funeral Home; a 1962 list of electors for Pelican Portage; 2 reels of 8mm film taken when Hugo delivered ballot boxes in the Pelican area in [1955]. There is also a certificate for 10 shares purchased in Athabasca Clay Products in November, 1967.

Coli, Hugo Frank

Irene Arabella Robbins fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2133
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1937

The fonds consists of photographs with the following subject headings: Max Beeton, Curtiss Store, Island Lake, Clifford and Evelyn McCue's house, Dora McCue's house, Bert Robbins, Irene Robbins, sawmill, Emanuel Schadeck's barn, and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie (Buzz) Simmons. There is also a framed photograph of the ferry road on the north side of the Athabasca River.

Robbins, Irene Arabella

George Charles Marrinier fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2203
  • Fonds
  • 2007, 2009

The fonds consists of two books written by George Marrinier entitled "How I Remember Amber Valley" and "How I Remember Donatville" which includes maps, photographs and lists of settlers in these areas.

Marrinier, George Charles

Herman Leicht fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2015
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1980

The fonds consists of some of Mr. Leicht's mayoralty correspondence, materials on the relocation of Athabasca University, statistics on Athabasca, Alberta's 75th Anniversary, blueprints and plans for Athabasca Terraces, information on Athabasca history including: letters regarding Captain Charles Dufferin Allison Barber, Athabasca's 1915 Agricultural Fair, and the Northern Transportation Company steamboat registry. The subjects of the photographs include: Trail North Foundation June, 1978 trip down the Athabasca River, Kurt George (Dick) Naumann, Upper Wells, Herman Leicht, Lee Melsness, German Cabin, 1952 construction of the Athabasca Bridge, 1940's flood, Feb., 1966 Klondike Karavan trip, Friends of Athabasca University: Ken Chapman, Dr. Sam Smith, Doreen Leicht and MLA Frank Appleby, Egge's Stopping House (1906), York boat on Athabasca River (1906), Athabasca Landing (1906), boat "The Beaver", steamboat, Slave Lake (1912), and the Big Smoky River. Also included are the 1976 and 1977 programs for the Athabasca and District Music Festival and an Athabasca Creamery calendar for 1943.

Leicht, Herman E.

Frederick Lewis Chapin family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2116
  • Fonds
  • 1910 - 1941

The fonds consists of the following subject headings: Doug Anderson family, Harry Anderson family, Jake Benton, Chapin family, The Collegians Orchestra, Crackle family, Bob Gilmore, Mrs. Greer, Alvah Hays, Mrs. Rebecca Heacock, Dorothy Hershberger, Joe McCoy, Giles Oakes, Walter and Eunice Oakes, Ilah Peterson, H.G.Shaw, Stocks store and post office, Percy Taylor and Art Vaugeois. There is also a brief family history.

Chapin, Frederick Lewis

Family and Community Support Services fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1934
  • Fonds
  • 1981-1985, 2011

The fonds consists of the FCSS Handbook: an administration and planning guide; and the 1985 Alberta FCSS Directory. In 2011 the FCSS Centennial Volunteer Appreciation Dinner laminated a placemat with photographs from the Athabasca Archives.

Family and Community Support Services

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