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Notes - Mr. Oscar Swenson's grandson has chronicled his grandfather's life from his birth (Stettler, AB) and childhood (Athabasca Landing, AB) to his work, married, and retired life in Minnesota. Mr. Swenson shares many anecdotes including…

John Kowal made these 400 bundles by hand and stooked them so they would dry. In the fall he put them in the barn loft for feed. To his surprise, when he wanted to use the feed the oat grain was gone as the mice ate it all. Only the straw remained

Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 114) where Mr. Douglas Hay and Mrs. Millie Hay discuss their personal history, including their wedding, social activities, sports and entertainment. Farming, including the hiring of help in…

Notes - Tape #29. This is a summary of an interview where Mr. Tom Gorman discusses farming life and its hardships from 1919 on. He discusses individuals who lost their entire crops and what to do if you ran out of feed for your horses (a two-week…

Photograph - A group of men with a team of oxen cutting grain on the Blanchard farm, Athabasca, Alberta

John Rosich loading grain with an auger mounted engine

Booklet - United Grain Growers was built in 1917-1918 in Athabasca as a grain delivery point. In order to build an elevator, early organizational work was done by share-holders of Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company. In 1917, Alberta…

This was a pure angus prize bull

Audio - Mr. Frank Falconer and Mr. Todd Richards discuss stories from their personal history. Mr. Richards was a pioneer farmer who arrived in Athabasca in 1911, his uncle, David Keir built a dance hall in Athabasca. Mr. Falconer tells the story of…

Joe Rosich on a 55 MH tractor using a Case 133 baler

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,…

Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 3) with Mr. Joe Martynek. Mr. Martynek discusses life in the Athabasca area in the 1940s including working in a lumber camp and buying his first car. He talks of parcels of land bought and…

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 - I. C. Shank recalls the old plow that his father used while farming in Alberta from 1907-1940. It was pulled by a team of four horses. His father had set it up so that the children could operate it. They would attach themselves to the seat…

Gordon Walker farm. Gordon walker discusses his life, family, and Boyle

Photograph - A man (Jack Irwin) standing beside a Model 20-40 Case steam tractor. Vulcan, Alberta

Notes - Mrs. Vi Kowalchuk writes of rural electrification following her interview with B. Loiselle, the contractor responsible for building the one hundred miles of power lines in the area over an eleven year period. Mrs. Kowalchuk writes of the…

Ernie Hall put up lots of hay to sell and for the cattle. Gwen Hall would take lunch and a card table and chairs out to Ernie and they'd have a picnic

This was the farm's first self propelleed combine - a 1953 model

Hall's cows

In the picture there is Mane and George Radmanovich on the machine and Bob Marich on the rack pitching bundles

The picture on the left hand side shows how the Hall's watered cattle in the begining by pumping the water from the creek with a pump that they hauled from the house each day. In 1988 the Hall's had a good well drilled. The right hand…

Photograph - John Kowal paid $25 for this good running tractor to break his field of willows. The breaking plow is a Massey Harris that Betty Kowal inherited

Photograph - Men and horse-drawn wagons. Manitoba

Verna Davis, Doris Hanson, Joe Rosich and George Rosich stoopped for lunch during harvest