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Photograph - Several First Nations people resting on shore near a canoe, Lake of the Woods, Ontario. Written on the back: "A picture my father took of the Indians at 'Lake of the Woods' - the end of the (still) - where he taught…

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and students inside the classroom at Fairhaven School (District No. 3044) near Athabasca, Alberta

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and her class at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. It is the 'Stucco School'

Photograph - A group of students in front of the Narrow Lake School (District No. 4546) building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS 4-65-24-W4

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and her class at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Back row, left to right: Gerald Shank, Janet McLevin, John Smith, Victor Oakes, Shirley Shank, Scott MacLeod, James Sale, Brenda Marsten, Johnny…

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Back row, left to right: Beatrice Parr, unknown, Mary Dwernychuk, T.W. Norden, Rob Burwash(?), Ruth Adamson(?), Alice B. Donahue, unknown, Irene Bucholz. Front row, Ethel Dodd,…

Photograph - Students, likely at Forest Grove School (District No. 4209). Grassland, Alberta

Photograph - Alice B. Donahue (teacher) and grade four boys from Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

Transcript of audio interview - Talked about schools. Came to Athabasca in 1968 as vice principal of the new EPC high school. Then later became principal. Talked about WW II and travelling (20 pages)

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Back row, left to right: Mary Pelak, Jean Young. Third row, left to right: Nancy Zygash, Josephine Huberdeau. Second row, left to right: Hazel Hopps, Mary Olson. Front row, left…

Photograph - A group of grade 9, 10, and 11 students at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. A note on the front reads: Principal: Hedley Graham Shaw (Tiny); Centre back: John Schulte

Photograph - A teacher and pupils standing in the doorway of the Greyville School (District No. 3836) building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS 15-67-23-W4. Teacher, John Watkinson; Standing left to right, Annie Fodchuk, Peter Kowalchuk, unknown, Leon…

Alice B. Donahue (teacher) and grade four girls from Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta.

Letter - To Dr. E.K. Wright from Ms. Gertrude McLaughlin and Mr. Fred J. Marshall, In 1961 replying to photos send about stage operations from Edmonton to Athabasca. Ms. McLaughlin talks briefly about her time teaching in Athabasca in 1913, as well…

Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview where Mrs. Cloe Day continues her discussion of homesteading and being a teacher and a mother in Athabasca in the 1930s and 1940s. She talks of Sunday School, the Junior Red Cross and other…

Photograph - H.H. Hall, school teacher, playing tennis with Revillon Brothers building in the background. Athabasca, Alberta

Photograph - Travelling in a cart from the Richards farm to Fair Haven School District No. 3044. Athabasca, Alberta. Jim, Agnes, Helen, and Grace Richards are in the front of cart. Bob and Allen Richards, Alice Donahue and a student teacher are in…

Correspondence - Forms and official correspondence related to Ella Rita Zakariasen's teacher training, career, and retirement (13 pages)

Photograph - Class photograph for grade 3 and 4 pupils at Perryvale Central School (District No. 3093). Perryvale, Alberta. ATS 26-63-23-W4

Photograph - Students inside the classroom at Fair Haven School (District No. 3044). Artie Laporte, Agnes Byrtus, Grace Richards, Eileen Overhold and Jim Richards with student teacher

Photograph - Students and a teacher inside school building, Alberta

Notes - This collection of documents all relate to the creation of the Winding Trail School District in the Municipal District of Grosmont in 1931. Included are: a pencil sketch of the proposed site, funding requisition forms, poll books, public…

Photograph - Pupils at a school concert at Blueberry Ridge School (District No. 4562) near Rochester, Alberta. Left to right: Teacher, Miss Taylor, and students, Ethel Hurley, Ruby Hicks, Arnold Knott, Ann Lukeski, Ruth Ward, Mary Wilson, Alex…

Schoolchildren in Riga, Latvia, 1940. Janis Dimitris second from left, back row.