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

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

Catherina Goodwin is standing by a teacher from Ellscott School, Ms. Mary Sawchyn. Ms. Sawchyn boarded with Mrs. Goodwin while teaching at Ellscott

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 - 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)

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

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

The Brown family lived and farmed in Meanook alongside the Tawatinaw creek. Farm work was very important, and so too were family and community activities like dancing, playing pool, 4-H and music. With a school teacher mother and bus driver father,…

Photograph - Students standing in front of Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Also in the photo are Miss Snow (principal), Mrs. Falconer and Mrs. Greer

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Left to right, Charlotte McClelland, Margaret Emmett, Alice B. Donahue

Photograph - Athabasca Public School class of 1936, Athabasca, Alberta. Teacher Mr. Dave Cooney. This picture was presented to the Archives by Charles Patry, October 22, 1986. The Town had a Homecoming Weekend and 22 members of this class were…

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

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Back row, left to right, Charlotte McClelland, unknown, T.W. Norden (Principal), unknown, unknown, unknown, Alice B. Donahue. Seated, left to right: Ruth Adamson, unknown, Irene…

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)

Students at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta The "Stucco School" can be seen at the right side of the photograph.

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