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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 - Mrs. Alice Donahue, Mr. Nick Evasiuk, Mr. Tony Schinkinger, and Mr. Bob Richards discuss life and change in Athabasca following the end of World War II. The rebirth of the town, with veterans arriving back and settling into business with…

Audio - Mr. Todd Richards covers a wide range of topics while looking at photos taken in the early part of the twentieth century in the Athabasca area. Mr. Richards discusses panning for gold in the river as well as the names of those who lived…

Audio - Mr. Oscar Green gives a detailed account of life in Athabasca starting with his family's immigration from the United States in 1911. Mr. Green was a member of the Citizens Band and was also involved with Forrest Day's boxing…

Audio - Mr. Edwards discusses immigrating to Alberta due to segregation in the United States. He recounts the early history, leaders and locations of black settlements in Alberta. He reveals how Amber Valley got its name along with descriptions of…

Audio - Mr. Falconer speaks of life in Athabasca from 1910 on including transportation and settlements, the black settlers, immigrants from the Ukraine and Poland, RCMP officers and various others. He recounts freighting teams bringing goods to…

Photograph - Sunwapta Bungalow Camp, Jasper Park, AB. Main building, tea room and store with large stone fireplace

Photograph - Aerial view of the Athabasca golf course, Athabasca, Alberta

Photograph - Aerial view of the Athabasca golf course, Athabasca, Alberta

Booklet - A periodical published by the Edmonton YWCA with articles about the YWCA in Edmonton, AB, across the country, and worldwide (18 pages)

Photograph - Helen Petersen holding up a coyote pelt in either Manitoba or Ontario

Notes - This is a history of the Chapin-Anderson family written by Ordie Chapin-Anderson. The Chapin family moved from The USA to a homestead eight miles from Colinton, Alberta in 1910. Frederick Lewis Chapin and Ethel May Chapin arrived with their…

Photograph - Athabasca Landing Pool building, Athabasca, Alberta, was built in 1980

Baiba Kundrats (now Berzins) with a family friend on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River.

Photograph - Two boys on a sled. Athabasca, Alberta

Edmonton area ethnic Latvians acting on stage in a dramatic production ca 1952.

Latvian Women's basketball team visited Edmonton in 2005 and enjoyed an Imanta welcome.

Latvian Women's basketball team visited Edmonton in 2005 and enjoyed an Imanta welcome.

Uldis Delveris and friends in Germany.

Edmonton area ethnic Latvians acting on stage in a dramatic production ca 1952.

Linda Celmainis in Lake Louise, Alberta.

Photograph - A group of women standing in front of trees holding a cake, near Vermilion, AB. Pictured in the photograph left to right are: Julia Garnett, Evelyn Heningsen, Gladys Tovell, Susan Marthinsen, Mrs. Julia Farkash, Anne Farkash, Jenny…

Photograph - Library and High School signs

Booklet - Advertising programs offered by the Edmonton YWCA, program fees and how to register, Edmonton, Alberta. Fall, September-December 1984 (31 pages)

Janis "John" Dimitris with his Boy Scout troop in the Geestadth displaced persons camp, Germany, 1946.

Aleksandrs Kundrats in front of the Banff Springs Hotel in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta.

Ethnic Latvians, Augusts Gales, Rudy Vilks, Alex Stals, John Snepsts, unknown gentleman, and Voldemars Bruzis ice fishing on Lake Wabumun.

The Edmonton Latvian folk dance group, "Daina" performed for the 1971 Jani celebration in Lake Isle, Alberta.

The first Bruzis family Canadian vacation in 1957. They rented this cabin near Edson and ate the fish they caught in the nearby lake.

Dr. Anna Rudovics nee Gipters fishing at Jackfish Lake, Alberta, circa 1955.

Linda Celmainis and daughters, 1955.

Eddie and Karl Jones won a rowing trophy for their skills on Lake Isle.

Photograph - Lower portion of the skateboard in the Town of Athabasca

Newspaper Article - A notice placed in the Vermilion Standard newspaper about the Chatsworth Country Club picnic, Vermilion, AB

Photograph - Fall scene with leaves on the trail