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Robert Ypres McDonald fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1929
  • Fonds
  • 1961, 1967, 2000

The fonds consists of 65 col. slides: 32 of Athabasca's Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration's parade and 33 of the 1967 production of the play "The Athabasca Story" . Bert wrote a letter to the Athabasca Archives in Oct. 2000 talking about his businesses and other activities carried out in Athabasca. Included was information about the town's 50th anniversary celebrations specifically "The Athabasca Story" play and it's author, John Havard.

McDonald, Robert Ypres

Robert William Tannas collection

  • CA ATH ath-2180
  • Collection
  • 1912-2010

The fonds consists of a copy of the 1938 poem "Yarn of the Howling Gale, Cameron Shipyards, Athabasca" by William Bleasdell Cameron; a photograph of Mrs. Katherine Flynn (O'Brien); 2 articles about the 1907-1914 journey of Norwegian reindeer via Newfoundland, through Athabasca Landing to Fort Smith, NWT; a piece of pottery made by Athabasca Clay Products; a large framed photograph entitled "laying water main at Athabasca" [over the Muskeg Creek] with the name Voldeng & Bolton, 255 Jasper East, Edmonton written in one corner; and a photo of a man holding a hat (possible connections to Amber Valley).

Tannas, Robert William

Robert William Tannas fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1964
  • Fonds
  • 1980-2010

The fonds consists of photographs taken at town events, theatre productions, library/archives events, Remembrance Day services, Agricultural Society parades, Meanook Biological Station (Dominion Observatory), Edwin Parr Composite Community School graduations (1988, 1989), Alberta Pacific Environmental Impact Assessment Review Board meetings (1989), and four scrapbooks of clippings about Athabasca. Bob took photographs of the town's 75th anniversary proceedings. In 2009 Bob took 76 photographs of buildings in the Town of Athabasca and of the demolition of the Athabasca Community Centre. 2010 photos include the inside of the former and the new Buy-Low Foods store, and the demolition of the former store.

Tannas, Robert William

Robert David Preece fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2086
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1965

The fonds consists of photographs about the following subjects: Athabasca baseball team (1948), Athabasca buildings and street scenes, the cable cage and ferry, Preece's store-The Marketeria, Edwin Parr High School, the curling rink and outdoor skating rink on 51st Street, the Greyhound Bus Depot, Daigneau's Feed and Livery Stable, Athabasca and District Municipal Hospital, aerial views of Athabasca (1950), Athabasca Jubilee Celebrations (1961), Baptiste Lake, Island Lake Dance Hall, aerial view of Lac La Biche (1952), Sandy Lake School (1957), Ellefson's Sawmill at Calling Lake, The Dominoes band, harvest scenes, Athabasca ski jump hill, Fairhaven baseball team (1948), Fowler's and Hale's H. Ross sawmills, and 2 calendars of Bob's photographs (1999, 2000) published by his daughter, Deb Preece Weber. People in the calendar photos include: Tom, John and Jerry Gorman, Harvey Rogers, Alex and Stan Byrtus, Jack Rhodes, Alex and Rudolph Kavulok, and Bob Richards, Mr. Talpash, George Weldon, Dr. Maurice Brand,Charles Fix Sr., Charlie Mah Chung, Ben Shaw, Rick Noel, Frank Falconer Jr., Waldemar Masciuch, Bob Berrea, Jake Bulmer, Jimmy Mutch, Kich McCallum, Arnold Gillis, Anton Aloisio, John Stychin, Ron Garton, Vince Preece, and bus driver Muldoon, Russell Thorne, Clifford Donahue, Steve Schinkinger, John Pacholok, Nestor Richel, Richard Hall, Tommy McLean, Mr. Smith, Dave Hunter, Harold Mann, Stan Richards, Buster Overacker, Abe Funk, Frank Prokopchuk, Pete and Vic L'Hirondelle, Joe Potvin Sr., Oscar Sundby, Nap Gullion, Vern Smallwood, Les Lang, Philip, Romeo and Charlie Potvin, Mickey Munson, Fred (Blackie) Paquette,George Tomlinson, Norman Ray, Bob Willie, Wayne Kremer, David Hyde, Earl Elkow, Jerry Bortnick, Willie Jacobs, Nurse Jahnke, Dr. Edwin Wright, and Fred Gingerich. The artifact is a small brown leatherette address book stamped The Marketeria, V.F.Preece.

Preece, Robert David

Royal Alberta Museum, Western Canada History Department fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2197
  • Fonds
  • 2008

The fonds consists of a draft copy of the results of Carrie-Ann's research: "The Athabasca Clay Products Company collection at the Royal Alberta Museum". A bibliography is also included.

Royal Alberta Museum, Western Canada History Department

Demchuk and Evasiuk family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2168
  • Fonds
  • 1941-2007

The fonds consists of Alberta provincial business licenses dated 1941-1979 (not complete); Town of Athabasca business licenses dated 1978-2007; bicycle sales records for 1956-1958, 1963-1976; and account books for July, 1937 to December, 2002. The photographs include Nick and Nettie's wedding, their children Gail and David, their house, Lena Demchuk's 102 birthday party in 1996, and Elizabeth Sieminski (Demchuk). The artifacts are a small red plastic piggy bank labelled "Mike's Store", two oil paintings by Nick and Nettie Evasiuk, a pair of Sealtred plastic overshoes in their box, a pair of Trramps black leather laced boots in their box, a men's Monarch Knit hose box, and a tube of Ampollina Dye. There is also a book entitled "Athabasca and the world, environmental verses" by Nick Evasiuk, 1989 and a photograph of Nick and his friend, George Ryga, taken in Mexico in 1980.

Demchuk, Michael and Lena

Dorothy Chartrand fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1890
  • Fonds
  • 1905, 1998; 1905 photograph copied 1998

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Dorothy Chartrand of St. Albert and dating from 1905 and 1998. The fonds consists of a photograph of the Bellerose Livery in the Town of Athabasca and a recording of an oral history of the Bellerose family's experiences in Athabasca conducted with Mrs. Chartrand in 1998 by Athabasca Archives archivist Marilyn Mol.

Chartrand, Dorothy

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