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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)

Photograph - Clifford Donahue (with his hand on a horse) and other boys. Likely at the Manitoba Agricultural College, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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…

Photograph - A view of the Big Bay School (District No. 4817) building, Alberta. ATS 18-67-12-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…

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…

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

Photograph - A view of the Lahaieville Senior School (District No. 2637) building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS NW 12-67-24-W4

Photograph - A view of the Meanook School (District No. 3105) building. Meanook, Alberta. ATS 31-64-22-W4

Photograph - A school building. Alberta

Photograph - Students from Rooms 1 and 2 at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta at Sandy Beach

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

Photograph - A view of the Venice School (District No. 4102) building, Alberta. ATS 11-66-15-W4

Photograph - Alice B. Donahue's first school, Cora Lynn School (District No. 2012). Red Willow, Alberta. The Junior Room had 40 pupils and George Carter (later president of NAIT) is on far left wearing a white shirt

Photograph - A view of the Flatbush School (District No. 4833) building, Alberta. ATS 1-66-2-W5

Photograph - A view of Hylo Senior School (District No. 4101) building, Alberta. ATS SW 4-66-15-W4

Photograph - A view of the Willow Ridge School (District No. 3292) building near Perryvale, Alberta. ATS NE 36-63-24-W4

Dr. Karlis Lesins, University of Alberta professor and cytogenetics researcher. Photo taken in 1976 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.

Photograph - A view of the Peaceful School (District No. 3508) building near Tawatinaw, Alberta. ATS NW 19-60-23-W4