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Photograph - Students in costume at a school concert. Athabasca, Alberta. Left to right: Delphine Armstrong, Lorna Fowler, Betty Broboski, Suzanne Godel, Phyllis Conquest, Anne Jorgenson, Marie Stardub and Pat Gullion
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Brochure - A musical produced by Athabasca Concert Party, directed by Nancy Appleby. A musical in three acts; 'Sonia The Girl From Russia', this brochure explains about the musical and gives best wishes from local businesses (4 pages)
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Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 114) where Mr. Douglas Hay and Mrs. Millie Hay discuss their personal history, including their wedding, social activities, sports and entertainment. Farming, including the hiring of help in…
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Notes - Tape #29. This is a summary of an interview where Mr. Tom Gorman discusses farming life and its hardships from 1919 on. He discusses individuals who lost their entire crops and what to do if you ran out of feed for your horses (a two-week…
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Photograph - A man and woman who may have been part of a Wild West Show performed in Athabasca, Alberta in 1913
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Program - First Annual North-central Alberta Music Festival held in Athabasca, April 3-5, 1974. The program includes greetings from the mayor of Athabasca: Jack Sturges, and the festival president, The Rev. R. A. Rathbone. The program lists…
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Notes - This is a transcript of an interview (Tape 65) where Mrs. Viola Overholt discusses all aspects of her life in Athabasca from 1912 through to present day (1988). Farming life, homesteading, social activities, businesses and residents of…
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Brochure - Advertising the 1951 Provincial Interscholastic Track and Field Championships, sponsored by Athabasca and District Board of Trade and Athabasca Sub-Local A.T.A. Sanctioned by the Alberta Branches of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada…
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Notes - This is a transcript of an interview (Tape 63) where Mrs. Viola Overholt discusses her early life in Athabasca (1912). Farming life, homesteading, social activities, businesses and residents of Athabasca are discussed at length. Topics…
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Program - This is a program for the Athabasca Public School (Brick School) production of "The Pied Piper of Hamlin" performed for the school opening in 1914. Photos of the "old" and "new" schools as well as individual…
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Notes - This is the Entertainment Committee's report (minutes) on activities for 1953 Coronation Day celebration. A newspaper article is also included with plans for a parade, services at the cenotaph, pageantry, and sports at the Baseball park…
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Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview where Mrs. Cloe Day concludes her discussion of homesteading and being a teacher and a mother in Athabasca in the 1930s and 1940s. She tells many anecdotes about her students and her teaching life (…
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Program - This document is the Athabasca and District Agricultural Association's Prize List for their 1914 Exhibition. The program contains the rules and regulations for entering the exhibition, including specific rules for entries, livestock,…
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Brochure - Advertising the Boxing Championships '48 Wrestling, sponsored by the Athabasca Branch of the Canadian Legion. There are many advertisements from local businesses along with the names of wrestlers, boxers, and local volunteers (18…
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Letter - This is a letter written to The Athabasca Baseball Club confirming Erwin Schumacher will be performing aerobatics, a parachute jump, and giving airplane rides in Athabasca on July 1, 1933. Schumacher was to be paid fifty dollars for the…
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Audio - Mrs. Alice Donahue, Mr. Nick Evasiuk, Mr. Tony Schinkinger, and Mr. Bob Richards discuss life and change in Athabasca following the end of World War II. The rebirth of the town, with veterans arriving back and settling into business with…
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Audio - Mrs. Nancy Appleby talks about her life in Athabasca starting with her arrival at Baptiste Lake in 1944. Mrs. Appleby discusses the first Klondike Night in the basement of the Athabasca Community Centre organized by her and Hazel Hall. Can-…
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Audio - Mrs. Viola Overholt discusses all aspects of her life in Athabasca from 1912 through to present day (1988.) Farming life, homesteading, social activities, businesses and residents of Athabasca are discussed at length. Topics touched on range…
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Audio - Mr. Tom Gorman and Mr. John Gorman discuss their lives in Athabasca including Tom's birth on April 3, 1917, the first night that Dr. Meyer arrived in Athabasca. Early farming, fishing, freighting and railway stories are discussed in…
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Photograph - Pupils doing a sword dance at Blueberry Ridge School (District No. 4562) near Rochester, Alberta. Back row: Ruby Hicks, Lois Baker, Ethel Hurley. Front row: Ruth Ward, Joan Cumbleton, Viola Hicks, Gwen Baker
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Notes - This is a transcript of an interview where Mrs. Alice Donahue, Mr. Nick Evasiuk, Mr. Tony Schinkinger, and Mr. Bob Richards discuss life and change in Athabasca following the end of World War II. The rebirth of the town, with veterans…
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Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 4) with Mr. Joe Martynek. Mr. Martynek discusses life in the Athabasca area in the 1940s including the price and availability of goods in that era. He talks of his current hobbies (reading,…