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Notes - Memoirs by Ella Rita Zakariasen focusing on her first teaching assignment at Tremblay School, Crystal Springs, Saskatchewan (12 pages)

Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview where Mrs. Cloe Day discusses homesteading near Jackfish Lake. Mrs. Day talks about her daily life and recounts many anecdotes about the residents of Calling Lake, Athabasca, Richmond Park, etc. She…

Notes - This is a transcript of an interview (Tape 63) where Mrs. Viola Overholt discusses her early life in Athabasca (1912). Farming life, homesteading, social activities, businesses and residents of Athabasca are discussed at length. Topics…

Notes - King's Hall Compton school yearbook. Letter and pay stub from Montreal General Hospital. Mufty Mathewson's 1954 graduation speech from McGill University, Diploma of Physio and Occupational Therapy (111 pages)

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…

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,…

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

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…

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

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…

Notes - Mr. Jim Wood tells the story of his father-in law, Martin Hansen. Mr. Hansen's life begins in Denmark with his birth on February 13, 1888. He talks of his early farming career where he was made a foreman on a neighbour's farm at…

Notes - A history of the Ursaline order in Drumheller, AB from 1935 to 1985 (2 pages)

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…

Notes - This is a transcript of an interview (Tape 64) where Mrs. Viola Overholt discusses all aspects of her life in Athabasca. Farming life, homesteading, social activities, businesses and residents of Athabasca are discussed at length. Topics…

Notes - Correspondence between the Bentley household in Edmonton, AB, and the Petersens in Dike, Iowa, and between the Bentleys and Vera Petersen in New York; includes a telegram from Fred Bentley to Vera Petersen announcing Ted's birth in…

Notes - This is a detailed collection of events written as a story about the extended Soper family. The author uses her aunt's diary as well as her own excellent memory to detail life in Athabasca from 1910 onwards. Some of the chapters in this…

Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 133) where Mrs. Alice Donahue speaks of her early life in Red Willow, Alberta and her eventual move to Athabasca in 1937 following her marriage. She discusses the curriculum she studied as a…

Document - Here is a copy of documents from the Office of the Fire Commissioner in Edmonton, to the Athabasca School District. The documents concern an inspection that was completed in the two room brick school house on May 22, 1944. The report…

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

Notes - Mr. Appleby was a teacher at the Winding Trail School in 1933 (west of Baptiste Lake), the Tawatinaw School (five miles SE of Athabasca) and at the Lahaieville School. He talks about his time teaching, the curriculum, trustees, politics and…

Book - Correspondence published by Ella McClelland's daughter, Rose M. MacLeod. Letters written to McClelland in Chatsworth, Ontario, from her niece Anne Pringle Hemstock, who moved from Chatsworth to Hanna, AB, and then to Calgary, AB (207…

Notes - Correspondence amongst the Petersen and Bentley families: Letters from Helen and Fred Bentley in Edmonton, AB, to Thorwald and Mary Petersen in Dike, Iowa, and to Vera Petersen in New York; letters from Estelle (?) in Edmonton, AB, to Mary…