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

Notes - Letters and postcards primarily from Helen Petersen at University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Thorwald, Mary, and Vera Petersen in Dike, Iowa. This is also the year of Helen's engagement and marriage to Fred Bentley, and their…

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…

A descriptive of the Auzin's family three year stay ( 1945-1948) in DP Displaced Person's Camp Fischbach - located near Nuremberg Germany during WWII and the Soviet Occupation of Latvia.

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…

Transcript of audio interview - Raised in a small log home on a homestead west of Baptiste Lake, Larry reflects on early memories and challenges of rural farm life. After becoming a teacher, marrying and working around Edmonton, he returned to teach…

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…

Biography of Shirley Backstrom

Notes - This set of documents contains a variety of financial information on the Town of Athabasca Landing. The first document is a copy of a cancelled "coupon" written out to The Imperial Bank of Canada from The Town of Athabasca Landing…

Booklet - 'The Story - Book 7' - Biography of Esther Nelson, compiled by her niece, Nancy Vose (161 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 - A history of the Ursuline order in Calgary, Alberta (7 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)

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

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 - 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…

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)

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)