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Athabasca Archives Fonds
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Ovide and Rose Alma Boisvert fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2124
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1978

The fonds consists of photographs of the following subject headings : Boisvert family, harvesting, hayrack, horse and sled, road passage cut through snow, and well drillers. There is a brief family biography written by Alice Sale (Boisvert).

Boisvert, Ovide

Northland School Division fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2089
  • Fonds
  • 1985

The fonds consists of vol.12 no.2 of the Canadian Journal of Native Education published by the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. This special issue featured an article entitled "Northland: the founding of a Wilderness School System" by John W. Chalmers, which chronicles the formation and first years of operation of this division. The Mennonite Service Organization, headquartered in Indiana, recruited young college graduates to serve as missionaries in underdeveloped parts of the world. A number of them taught in the Northland School Division.

Northland School Division

James Minns fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2029
  • Fonds
  • 1905

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

Minns, James

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)

William Myron Curtis fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2159
  • Fonds
  • 1922, 1947-1948, 1955-1959

The fonds consists of a 1922 letter from the Grosmont Municipal District regarding quarantine regulations for scarlet fever: two store receipt books for 1947-1948; and municipal tax receipts for 1955, 1956 and 1959. There are four calendars from local stores and the Aug.4, 2005 issue of Western Producers Western People which has an article on the Major family "100 Century Farm". Allan James tax receipt for 1927 is included.

Curtis, William Myron

William Pearson fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2043
  • Fonds
  • [1970s]

The fonds consists of a 31 page booklet entitled:" The Homestead", which is William Pearson's autobiography as told to Ted Pitman.

Pearson, William

William St. Jean (family) fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2107
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1944

The fonds consists of photographs of : William, Robert and Ovila with their musical instruments, the 1944 flood with the G.G.Fowler sawmill under water, Alfred (Al) Cramer's store at Calling River, St. Jean sawmill at La Biche River, and a buckboard wagon and horses at Cramer's Store.

St. Jean, William

Wendy de Candole fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1990
  • Fonds
  • 1985, 1986

The fonds consists of 11 photographs of Athabasca buildings, and 1 audio cassette of the Fiddler's Contest, 1985, sponsored by the Whispering Hills Country Music Association.

de Candole, Wendy

William Arthur Walker fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2114
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1914

The fonds consists of photographs of the following subjects : Charles Corbrie, Charles A. Dallas, E. Fishenden, Isaie Gagnon, A. Hamilton, Hudson's Bay Co. warehouse on Morgan Ave., Athabasca Imperial Bank of Canada (1913), A.M.Nichol, Ralph Pelluet, William Rennison, S.Sutherland, W. Viger, James Harris Wood, and WWI.

Walker, William Arthur

Rotary Youth Development Association fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2011
  • Fonds
  • 1989

The fonds consists of the final report of the Job Entry Program Feasibility Study and Employer's Labour Needs Survey for the County of Athabasca and the Hamlet of Smith.

Rotary Youth Development Association

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