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Transcript of audio interview - Parents came from Kansas, USA. Taught school from Grades 1 to 8. Married James Smiley. Talked about school years, family, farm, moving to Colinton. Husband worked for Flin's Store in Colinton (8 pages)

Transcript of audio interview - Played junior football. Boxing career 1947–1961. Moved to Amber Valley in 1952. Worked for a farmer. Had three children: Debra, Rhonda, and Wade. Won the heavyweight championship of Western Canada. In 2017 received…

Obituary of Alfred Douglas Harper (1 page)

Audio - Immigrated to Canada in 1954. Talks about the trip over. First worked in a machine shop in Edmonton, then Canada Packers and Sundance Power Plant. Also had a farm south of Stony Plain where they raised pigs. Married Lynn in 1969. Moved to…

Audio - World War II made Herman very aware of his German descent and the risk, if outspoken, of being taken to a concentration camp. Along with his brother-in-law, he brought refrigerators and TVs to Athabasca. Herman contributed to civic life in…

Moved to Peace River. Learned to blacksmith, worked on railroad. Married Alice. Moved to Sawdy area in 1960. Talked about clearing land, milking cows, training and selling horses. Worked in logging camps, drove grader for the county. Kept farming…

Audio - Parents immigrated from the Ukraine. Talks about working on the farm, clearing land, playing ball with other communities, school years. Worked for his brother John as a mechanic, operated a cat, building roads and in the oilfield, among…

Audio - Came to Canada from the Ukraine 1929. Talked about voyage on the ship from the Ukraine. Life on the homestead, breaking land, building school house, how the farm grew as the years went on. Also mentions his Dad buying a horse-drawn wagon…

Audio - Talks about his family. Wife was a school teacher. Ran a recycling business; sons still run the business. Sold the weather-stripping business in 2003 and moved to Athabasca. In 2016, sons built a batting and pitching cage, plus a place to…

Audio - Came to Clyde, AB by covered wagon. Talked about school years, farm and family life, museum

Audio - Great-grandfather came to Canada in 1883 and worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Barb went to University of Alberta and took Bachelor of Science in Nursing. While working in Westlock, met Robert and married in 1958. Moved to Athabasca in…

Audio - Family came to Canada in 1925 from England under the Soldiers' Settlement Board. Dad operated the ferry and cage over the Athabasca River in 1939. Went to West Athabasca and Athabasca Brick Schools. Worked at the Athabasca Municipal…

Audio - Arrived in Canada from Denmark with family in 1949. Talked about homesteading in the Athabasca area, going to school, life on the farm

Audio - Born in 1917 in Sawridge (old name for Slave Lake, AB). Moved to Athabasca in 1929. Talked about working different jobs. Met husband Doug in Busby, AB. Talked about places they lived, children, siblings, and travelling. Talked about a…

Audio - Parents came from Kansas, USA. Taught school from Grades 1 to 8. Married James Smiley. Talked about school years, family, farm, moving to Colinton. Husband worked for Flin's Store in Colinton

Audio - On their way to Peace country, Irene’s parents chose Athabasca. Irene grew up in a mixed farming community in Grosmont. Received teaching certificate from University of Alberta. Married Joe Boisvert and had 5 children in 7 years. Taught…

Audio - Dad immigrated from the Ukraine. Parents moved from BC to Alberta, buying land for $10. Talks about growing up on the farm, school and box socials. Married Earl and farmed homestead, cooked in camps. Catered for 40 years

Audio - Talks about war and what life was like growing up in the Ukraine. Witnessed Jewish lives lost. Talked about 1948 trip over to Canada on ship/train. Arrived in Athabasca, then moved to Edmonton. Married in 1950, moved to Athabasca in 1956.…

Audio - Grandparents came from Nova Scotia in 1911. Grandfather and neighbours built church and school in South Athabasca. Wilma’s Uncle Sim worked at the telephone office. Uncle Ray managed the Union Hotel. Mother taught school before she married.…

Audio - Grew up in Wabasca. Had 14 siblings. School was taught by nuns. Talked about learning to do beadwork. Mother would sell moccasins and other leather work at Treaty Days. Lived in High Prairie, where she worked at the Youth Assessment Centre

Audio - First teaching job in South Athabasca. Married Carl in 1952. Offered private kindergarten in basement of the United Church. Returned to complete B.Ed. degree, majoring in English, in 1976. Taught all levels of school. Retired in 1988. Taught…

Audio - Told the story of her mother, Julianna, who came to Canada in 1931. Talked about how Julianna grew and sold vegetables to pay hospital bills. Mother worked in Burns Packing Plant. She moved to Baptiste Lake with daughter Amelia (Myn) in 1994

Audio - Father came from Ontario. Raised in Saskatchewan. Took nursing in Ottawa. Worked as a nurse in the Athabasca Hospital. Retired in 1984

Audio - Has 3 children: Bob, Lyle, and Mark. Talks about her husband’s family, her dad, Archie Ryan, her mother, Doreen, homesteading in Bald Hill area, growing up, school years, family. Her husband George talks about farming, working off the farm

Audio - Married Thomas, had 2 sons, Ron and Dick. Talks about the town of Athabasca, the Depression in 1929, Colinton. Went to Plum Lake School. Her father and a partner started a general store in Colinton. Talks about schools in Colinton, Perryvale…