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Photograph - Students from Rooms 1 and 2 at Athabasca Public School on a picnic at Sandy Beach, Alberta

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

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Left to right: T.W. Norden, J.D. McKim, Ruth Adamson, Alice B. Donahue, Irene Bucholz, Florence Lantinga, Miss Dodd, Jessie Rollings, unknown

Photograph - Students with sports equipment in front of a rural school, Alberta

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and her class at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

Photograph - Students from Edwin Parr School touring and conducting research in the Alice B. Donahue Archives. Athabasca, Alberta

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

Photograph - Teacher Miss Jean Young and her students at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

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

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

Transcript of audio interview - Born in India. Received BA and Diploma in Social Work. Talks about growing up, going to school, church, music. Learned to play violin at 6 years of age. Father owned a coffee estate. Sister joined a convent. Talks…

Audio - 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 child and other early memories. Mrs. Donahue's time in…

Audio - Mrs. Cloe Day discusses her life as a teacher including how difficult it was to teach home economics and shop class with no equipment and materials. She talks about games she played and how it was sometimes difficult to obtain food during…

Audio - This is a group discussion of early education with Mr. James Wood, Mrs. Jessie Rollings, Mrs. Alice Donahue, Mrs. A. K. Stafford, and Mrs. Muriel Schumacher. They discuss early school buildings, educational materials (magazines), student…

Audio - Mrs. Jesse Rollings gives a detailed account of life and work on the Athabasca River starting from 1922. She explains logging/lumbering and freighting on the river with great detail including: names of companies, ships, employees, and…

Audio - Born in India. Received BA and Diploma in Social Work. Talks about growing up, going to school, church, music. Learned to play violin at 6 years of age. Father owned a coffee estate. Sister joined a convent. Talks about arranged marriages.…

Audio - Mr. Gordon Vance discusses his personal history and life in Athabasca. He talks of the ferry and of his early teachers (Edith Chapman, Jean Falconer, Fred Meadows, Miss Plumley and Tiny Shaw- the Principal.) He discusses his friendships and…

Audio - Mr. Alex Lennie, Mrs. Barbara Ashacker and Mr. Frank Falconer reminisce about various Athabasca locals including: Bill Ross, the Rennisons, the Gosselins, Al Sharp's Blacksmith Shop, the Lessard's house and the Gullions. Mr. Lennie…

Newsletter - Published by Edmonton Working Women. This issue features lesbian teachers. February 1995 (12 pages)

Document - Teaching certification from Saskatchewan and Alberta (9 pages)

Photograph - Alice B. Donahue's class at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

1936 graduating class photograph of a teachers' college attended by Anna Rudovics nee Gipters in Latgale, Latvia, 1936. Anna fourth from left, second row from top.

Dr. Karlis Lesins, University of Alberta professor and cytogenetics researcher. Photo taken in 1976 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.