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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…

Photograph - A school teacherage. Alberta

Notes - This is a transcript of an interview (Tapes 34 and 35) where Mr. Valentine Breckenridge and Mr. Charlie Senz discuss details of farming life in the early to middle part of the twentieth century in Athabasca. They discuss, the price of eggs,…

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…

Photograph - High school students at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

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

Card - Prayer card with picture and prayer for the Sisters of Charity of St. Louis, Medicine Hat, AB (2 pages)

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

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 (…

Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 115) where Mr. Douglas Hay and Mrs. Millie Hay discuss their personal history up to the current day. They discuss their children and their children's careers as well as recounting a few…

Notes - Cancelled cheques from Imperial Bank of Canada for the District of Grosmont, Auditor's Financial Statement for Grosmont Division No. 668, Colinton, and Athabasca School Division No. 42 (41 pages)

Notes - Vi Overholt was adopted by Harry and Mabel Overholt in 1923. The Overholt's ran the post office in the Sawdy District, east of Athabasca. Vi recalls attending Youngville School as a child, which was a half mile walk away. She also…

Photograph - A school building. Alberta.

Photograph - A view of a school building. Alberta

Notes - Memoirs by Ella Rita Zakariasen focusing on her childhood in Sutherland, SK, her teaching career, her family, and her retirement (9 pages)

Photograph - Students at Greyville School (District No. 3836), Athabasca, Alberta. Back Row: Arthur Kowalchuk, Gene Kowalchuk, Frank Kowalchuk, Annie (Doroshenko) Yowny, Mary (Kowalchuk) Gislason. Front row: Olga (No Suggestions), Mike Saley and…

Photograph - The Tremblay School building, a single room schoolhouse, Crystal Springs, Saskatchewan

Photograph - An interior view of the Forfar West School (District No. 4105) building with homemade desks, near Forfar Alberta. ATS SW 28-65-24-W4. Forfar West School later combined with Forfar East School to become Forfar School District

Notes - Ms. Kathy Pickett writes of the creation of the Athabasca School District from the community created one-room school houses to the system currently in place (1992). Names of school inspectors and superintendents are listed along with the…

Photograph - A view of the Grosmont School (District No. 3696) building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS NE 9-69-24-W4

Audio - Mrs. Violet Rein discusses her life in Athabasca from the 1920s on. She recounts the time that her husband shot a bear trying to get into their house at night to get the Irish cranberries she had picked during the day. She recounts the…

Photograph - A view of the Rodger's Chapter School (District No. 3159) building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS NE 5-66-22-W4

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

Photograph - A view of the Forest School (District No. 3171) building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS 33-66-21-W4