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Photograph - The Gullion School (District No. 3487) building located on Athabasca Trail. Athabasca, Alberta. ATS SW 36-59-24-W4

Notes - A history of the Ursuline order in Calgary, Alberta (7 pages)

Audio - Raised in a small log home on a homestead west of Baptiste Lake, Larry reflects on early memories and challenges of rural farm life. After becoming a teacher, marrying and working around Edmonton, he returned to teach in Athabasca and lives…

Photograph - Students at Greyville School (District No. 3836). Athabasca, Alberta. Back row: Frank Kowalchuk, Gene Kowalchuk, Annie (Doroshenko) Yowny, Mary (Kowalchuk) Gislason. Front row: Doris Kiel, Florence Kiel, Gloria (Saley) Hebein, Olga…

Audio - Mr. Percy Ward and Mrs. Marion Ward discuss their family history, particularly Mrs. Ward's family (Lewis) as they were one of the original families in the Perryvale area. They discuss how Perryvale got its name (it was originally called…

Photograph - Five Ursuline Sisters dressed in their habits stand in front of a building, Drumheller, AB. Pictured in the photograph are: Mothers Paschal Cassin, Bernice Byne, Genevieve Williams, Hyacinthe Rensonet and Fabian Goldhawk

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)

Notes - A typed speech, 'On Presentation of a Tea Pot', by N. J. Paterson (Alberta). Note on back: A funny letter from my brother George, fifty years ago. An address given to the Sunday School children in 1940 by F. Jameson, Byemoor, AB (3…

Audio - Mrs. Jesse Rollings gives a detailed account of life and work on the Athabasca River starting from 1922. She explains logging/lumbering and freighting on the river with great detail including: names of companies, ships, employees, and…

Newspaper Article - Newspaper clippings about the four Sisters of Charity of St. Louis killed in a car crash, and the services that the sisters have provided to the community, Alberta (15 pages)

Book - Students MSS Book, Richard Jameson's school workbook, (Byemoor, Alberta). There are eight pages of penciled school work written by Fanny Makepeace Jameson's son (10 pages)

Audio - This is a group discussion of early education with Mr. James Wood, Mrs. Jessie Rollings, Mrs. Alice Donahue, Mrs. A. K. Stafford, and Mrs. Muriel Schumacher. They discuss early school buildings, educational materials (magazines), student…

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…

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…

Notes - Letters and postcards primarily from Helen and Fred Bentley in Saskatoon, SK, to Thorwald and Mary Petersen in Dike, Iowa. Mary Petersen visited the Bentleys in February, and wrote to Thorwald while in Saskatoon (101 Pages)

Detail of Banff School of Fine Arts 1970 Catalogue featuring ethnic Latvian art instructor, Ilda Lubane.

Photograph - A view of Richmond Park School (District No. 4280) building. Richmond Park, Alberta. SW 19-68-21-W4

Photograph - A view of the Edwin Parr Composite Community School. Athabasca, Alberta

Notes - Ms. Emma Miller discusses her family's travels and early life in Athabasca. She talks of her parent's first jobs (working at Mr. Ike Gagnon's mill) and of living on rabbits and beans in the winter as ""money for meat…

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 - A view of the Silver Fox School (District No. 3273) building near Boyle, Alberta. ATS 32-65-20-W4

Booklet - 'The Story - Book 7' - Biography of Esther Nelson, compiled by her niece, Nancy Vose (161 pages)

Photograph - A view of the Boyle School building. Boyle, Alberta

Photograph - A view of Ferguson School (District No. 4573) building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS 24-66-21-W4