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Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and her classes, grades three, four and five, at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Front row, left to right: Allen Fix, Ron Garton, Auld Galloway, Suzanne Godel, Esther Johnson, Don Lewis, Clarence…

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue and her grade two class at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. Front row: Daryl Goodwin, Howard McLeod, Rick Zelman, ....Budney, unknown, unknown, Brenda Guay, Pat Mackie, Tim King, Alice Kobzey. Middle…

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 Muehlenbachs, University of Alberta professor and researcher in the Faculty of Earth and Atmospheric Science.

Biruta Friemanis nee Tumshevic and Eduards Friemanis with their eldest son.

This is the staff of Ellscott school in its last year. From left to right, Ms. Alice Fodchuk, Mrs. Violet Kowalchuk, Mr. Gene Kowalchuk with his daughter Marjorie Kowalchuk

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 - Talked about schools. Came to Athabasca in 1968 as vice principal of the new EPC high school. Then later became principal. Talked about WW II and travelling

Audio - Education in India. Came to Canada in 1966 with wife Rita. Both were teachers at Edwin Parr School. School board trustee and chair. Alberta Multiculturalism Committee. Independence movement in India

Photograph - Mrs. DeFrain and students from Room 1, Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

Photograph - Teachers at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta

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

Photograph - Class photograph for grade 5 and 6 pupils at Perryvale Central School (District No. 3093). Perryvale, Alberta. ATS 26-63-23-W4

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.…

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)

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 - 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…

Notes - Violet Reynolds Carr writes fondly of her first posting as a teacher at Big Coulee School in Athabasca. Ms. Carr talks of the trustees who hired her, her students, and the local families with whom she boarded. The school supplies she found…

Notes - In this document, Amy Kathleen Stafford discusses her accounts of being both a student and a teacher in a one room school house. Many of her recollections are of her experiences as a teacher in the 1920s and 1930s. She describes school…

Photograph - Teacher Alice B. Donahue taught at Fair Haven School near Athabasca, Alberta and rode to the school in a cart with the Richards children. A note on back reads: Here is our summer travel. A student teacher rode with us (she was there for…

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

Notes - Freda Wood provides a brief history of her family, the Hauzenberqers, who immigrated to Alberta from Switzerland in 1912. Her father, Edward Hauzenberqer was born in Switzerland on April 22, 1883. Her mother, Frieda, was born on June 19,…

Photograph - Students, likely at Half Moon Lake School (District No. 2785) Near Waugh, Alberta. Teacher is P. Kowalski. ATS 4-59-23-W4