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Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview where Mrs. Cloe Day continues her discussion of homesteading and being a teacher and a mother in Athabasca in the 1930s and 1940s. She talks of Sunday School, the Junior Red Cross and other…

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and her classes, grades three, four and five, at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Front row, left to right: Allen Fix, Ron Garton, Auld Galloway, Suzanne Godel, Esther Johnson, Don Lewis, Clarence…

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

Notes - Freda Wood provides a brief history of her family, the Hauzenberqers, who immigrated to Alberta from Switzerland in 1912. Her father, Edward Hauzenberqer was born in Switzerland on April 22, 1883. Her mother, Frieda, was born on June 19,…

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and her grade two class at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Front row: Daryl Goodwin, Howard McLeod, Rick Zelman, ....Budney, unknown, unknown, Brenda Guay, Pat Mackie, Tim King, Alice Kobzey. Middle…

Photograph - Students inside the classroom at Fair Haven School (District No. 3044). Artie Laporte, Agnes Byrtus, Grace Richards, Eileen Overhold and Jim Richards with student teacher

Photograph - Pupils at a school concert at Blueberry Ridge School (District No. 4562) near Rochester, Alberta. Left to right: Teacher, Miss Taylor, and students, Ethel Hurley, Ruby Hicks, Arnold Knott, Ann Lukeski, Ruth Ward, Mary Wilson, Alex…

Notes - This collection of documents all relate to the creation of the Winding Trail School District in the Municipal District of Grosmont in 1931. Included are: a pencil sketch of the proposed site, funding requisition forms, poll books, public…

Photograph - Mrs. DeFrain and students from Room 1, Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

Newspaper Articles - The Drumheller Mail listing teacher assignments and teacher retirements (2 pages)

Photograph - Class photograph for grade 5 and 6 pupils at Perryvale Central School (District No. 3093). Perryvale, Alberta. ATS 26-63-23-W4

Notes - Violet Reynolds Carr writes fondly of her first posting as a teacher at Big Coulee School in Athabasca. Ms. Carr talks of the trustees who hired her, her students, and the local families with whom she boarded. The school supplies she found…

Photograph - Class photograph for grade 3 and 4 pupils at Perryvale Central School (District No. 3093). Perryvale, Alberta. ATS 26-63-23-W4

Photograph - Students and a teacher inside school building, Alberta

Notes - In this document, Amy Kathleen Stafford discusses her accounts of being both a student and a teacher in a one room school house. Many of her recollections are of her experiences as a teacher in the 1920s and 1930s. She describes school…

Document - Employment Agreement issued by the Saskatchewan Department of Education for Ella Rita Croteau's first teaching assignment at Tremblay School, Crystal Springs, SK (4 pages)

Photograph - Students, likely at Half Moon Lake School (District No. 2785) Near Waugh, Alberta. Teacher is P. Kowalski. ATS 4-59-23-W4

Notes - Memoirs by Ella Rita Zakariasen focusing on her first teaching assignment at Tremblay School, Crystal Springs, Saskatchewan (12 pages)

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and students at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

The Brown family lived and farmed in Meanook alongside the Tawatinaw creek. Farm work was very important, and so too were family and community activities like dancing, playing pool, 4-H and music. With a school teacher mother and bus driver father,…

Photograph - Students standing in front of Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Also in the photo are Miss Snow (principal), Mrs. Falconer and Mrs. Greer

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Left to right, Charlotte McClelland, Margaret Emmett, Alice B. Donahue

Photograph - Athabasca Public School class of 1936, Athabasca, Alberta. Teacher Mr. Dave Cooney. This picture was presented to the Archives by Charles Patry, October 22, 1986. The Town had a Homecoming Weekend and 22 members of this class were…

Photograph - Students from Edwin Parr School touring and conducting research in the Alice B. Donahue Archives. Athabasca, Alberta

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Back row, left to right, Charlotte McClelland, unknown, T.W. Norden (Principal), unknown, unknown, unknown, Alice B. Donahue. Seated, left to right: Ruth Adamson, unknown, Irene…