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Audio - Great grandparents came to Canada from USA in early 1800s. Family homesteaded in Athabasca in 1894. His father got his own homestead in 1917. Mother became a teacher. Ken went to Vermilion School of Agriculture. In 1969 he took over the…

Moved to Peace River. Learned to blacksmith, worked on railroad. Married Alice. Moved to Sawdy area in 1960. Talked about clearing land, milking cows, training and selling horses. Worked in logging camps, drove grader for the county. Kept farming…

Audio - Came to Canada from the Ukraine 1929. Talked about voyage on the ship from the Ukraine. Life on the homestead, breaking land, building school house, how the farm grew as the years went on. Also mentions his Dad buying a horse-drawn wagon…

Audio - Married at 19, Bessie and her husband Roy homesteaded and had eight children, including five delivered at home. A daughter with celiac disease died at age 3. After fire destroyed their home, the family lived in a granary. Her husband died at…

Audio - Arrived in Canada from Denmark with family in 1949. Talked about homesteading in the Athabasca area, going to school, life on the farm

Audio - On their way to Peace country, Irene’s parents chose Athabasca. Irene grew up in a mixed farming community in Grosmont. Received teaching certificate from University of Alberta. Married Joe Boisvert and had 5 children in 7 years. Taught…

Audio - Dad immigrated from the Ukraine. Parents moved from BC to Alberta, buying land for $10. Talks about growing up on the farm, school and box socials. Married Earl and farmed homestead, cooked in camps. Catered for 40 years

Video - Moved to Peace River. Learned to blacksmith, worked on railroad. Married Alice. Moved to Sawdy area in 1960. Talked about clearing land, milking cows, training and selling horses. Worked in logging camps, drove grader for the county. Kept…

Audio - Has 3 children: Bob, Lyle, and Mark. Talks about her husband’s family, her dad, Archie Ryan, her mother, Doreen, homesteading in Bald Hill area, growing up, school years, family. Her husband George talks about farming, working off the farm

Audio - Father's family were immigrants from Italy. Homesteaded in Perryvale. He worked on railroad, in the mines, and farmed. Father was MLA for Athabasca. Mother's family moved from USA to Canada, and also homesteaded in Perryvale.…

Audio - Born in Poland in 1928. Came to Canada when he was 1½ years old. Talks about his father in WWI, homesteading, school years. Recited a poem he wrote. Worked on oil rigs, lumber camps, Diefenbaker Dam

Audio - Steve's dad came from the Ukraine to Canada in 1914 and his mother, in 1929. Mother assisted midwives. The family had 4 boys. Married Helen in 1960. Talked about life on the homestead, school years. Went to University of Alberta for…

Audio - Father came from Yavoriv, Gnojniece, Poland, which is now Hlynets, Ukraine. Talked about life on the homestead, school years, and clearing land

Photograph - A log cabin covered in snow. Athabasca, Alberta

Cynthia Jones shows an old bird's nest in an antique bowl that was left among the ruins of original farm buildings. Lake Isle, Alberta.

1928 correspondence addressed to John Jones from the Dominion Lands Administration regarding his request to purchase, in addition to his homestead, one of the islands in Lake Isle, Alberta.

Aerial photograph of the Mutzeneek home in Darwell, Alberta. The house was originally used as the second schoolhouse building in Lake Isle. Mr. Mutzeneek renovated the schoolhouse in 1949.

Video - Stella describing what she recalls about her trip from Poland to Canada at the age of 6

Antique tools hung on the side of an aging farm building on the historic Jones' family farm in Lake Isle, Alberta.

Aerial photo of the Jones' farm in Lake Isle, Alberta. 1990.

Cynthia Jones, descendent of one of the first Latvian settlers to Alberta, showed her glorious begonias of Lakeshore Gardens on the historic Jones family homestead in Lake Isle. The Jones family have lived on the Lake Isle property since its…

Ruins on the Jones farm. Lake Isle, Alberta.

Audio - Immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine in 1930 at 5½ months of age. Had seven siblings. Parents bought 160 acres for $10. Talked about coming to Athabasca, homesteading in the Deep Creek area, clearing land, school years, trapping. Married…

Transcript of Audio Interview - Arrived in Canada from Denmark with family in 1949. Talked about homesteading in the Athabasca area, going to school, life on the farm (17 pages)

Notes - Letters and telegrams written in Danish by Uncle Nis during the gold rush and his search for land in Canada (70 pages)