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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…

Booklet - Though titled a Brief History by Anne B. Cook, this is a complete and extensive history of St. Alban's Church with a less detailed mention about the Women's Auxiliary of South Athabasca. Details such as who donated the money and…

Notes - Letters and postcards primarily from Helen and Fred Bentley in Saskatoon, SK, to Thorwald and Mary Petersen in Dike, Iowa; includes the birth announcement of Ann Bentley in June (85 pages)

Notes - Letters and postcards exchanged amongst members of the Petersen family in Iowa, United States, primarily from Helen Petersen to her parents, Thorwald and Mary Petersen (64 pages)

Book - Anne Pringle's handwritten school workbook from a cooking class taken in Chatsworth, Ont. (75 pages)

Notes - This is a brief history of the Alexander Lennie family. Alexander's father, William Lennie, was born on July 19, 1870 at Fort Edmonton. He married Dinah Sophia Anderson on July 21, 1896. The Lennie family moved to Beaver Hill Lake, and…

Notes - Freda Wood provides a brief history of her family, the Hauzenberqers, who immigrated to Alberta from Switzerland in 1912. Her father, Edward Hauzenberqer was born in Switzerland on April 22, 1883. Her mother, Frieda, was born on June 19,…

Notes - Ms. Emma Miller discusses her family's travels and early life in Athabasca. She talks of her parent's first jobs (working at Mr. Ike Gagnon's mill) and of living on rabbits and beans in the winter as ""money for meat…

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…

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)

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…

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…

Booklet - 'The Story - Book 7' - Biography of Esther Nelson, compiled by her niece, Nancy Vose (161 pages)

Newspaper Articles - The Drumheller Mail listing teacher assignments and teacher retirements (2 pages)

Notes - Letters and postcards primarily from Helen and Fred Bentley in Saskatoon, SK, to Thorwald and Mary Petersen in Dike, Iowa. Mary Petersen visited the Bentleys in February, and wrote to Thorwald while in Saskatoon (101 Pages)

Notes - Millie Glick summarizes the purpose of and some major accomplishments of the Mennonite Voluntary Service Unit during 1955-1969 in Calling Lake, Alberta. Approximately 60 Mennonites came from the USA to serve in the Voluntary Unit. The Unit…

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 - A history of the Ursuline order in Calgary, Alberta (7 pages)

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…

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)

Notes - A history of the Ursuline order in Rockyford, AB from 1921 to 1981 (4 pages)

Notes - The many committees and communities that Alice B. Donahue was involved with in her life in Athabasca are listed in this document. It begins with a short history of her life and her career as a teacher and continues with an extensive list of…

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 - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 2) with Mr. Joe Martynek. He discusses his life in Athabasca in the 1930s and 40s. He talks of difficulties with the weather, farming, and his wife's health. Many details of daily life in…