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Robert William Tannas collection

  • CA ATH ath-2180
  • Collection
  • 1912-2010

The fonds consists of a copy of the 1938 poem "Yarn of the Howling Gale, Cameron Shipyards, Athabasca" by William Bleasdell Cameron; a photograph of Mrs. Katherine Flynn (O'Brien); 2 articles about the 1907-1914 journey of Norwegian reindeer via Newfoundland, through Athabasca Landing to Fort Smith, NWT; a piece of pottery made by Athabasca Clay Products; a large framed photograph entitled "laying water main at Athabasca" [over the Muskeg Creek] with the name Voldeng & Bolton, 255 Jasper East, Edmonton written in one corner; and a photo of a man holding a hat (possible connections to Amber Valley).

Tannas, Robert William

South Peace Regional Archives Photograph collection

  • GPR gpr-2809
  • Collection
  • [1880]-2003

The collection consists of photographs relating to the history of the South Peace River Country of Alberta. These photographs were donated by various donors to South Peace Regional Archives after it was established in 2000, and are not associated with a fonds. Photographs range in date from [1880] to 2003 and cover a range of subjects.

South Peace Regional Archives, collector

Reynoldston Research and Studies collection

  • CA PAA paa-9442
  • Collection
  • Copied 1972

The fonds consists of a copy of a transcript of an interview with Alfred George Gray, a homesteader in Alberta during the early part of the 20th century, created by Reynoldston Research.

Reynoldston Research and Studies

Richard Awid collection

  • EDM edm-1868
  • Collection
  • 1973 - 1999

This fonds consists of material collected by Richard Awid regarding Muslims in the Edmonton Area, including social invitations and correspondence, cultural, religious and educational information. There are a number of leaflets, newspaper articles including:;Muslims in Canada - A century of achievement, Malmo Elementary School Arabic-English Bilingual program, A Salute to the Arab Pioneers of Northern Alberta and The bulletin - published by Canadian Arab Friendship Association of Edmonton.

Awid, Richard

Richard Baker collection

  • CA ATH ath-2128
  • Collection
  • [1910]-[191-?s]

The fonds consists of 22 post cards, from an original group of 25, in the series : Mid Snow and Ice printed in France by The Oblates of Mary Immaculate. There are two other photographs of early Athabasca. The photo subject headings are : Athabasca River rapid, Bishop Breynat, Brother Girard, Canadian Northern Railway depot in Athabasca, Colin Fraser, Chesterfield Inlet, Cree woman, dog team, Monseignor Grouard, first airplane in north, Fort Providence, Fort Resolution, Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, igloo, Inuit, kayak, and MacKenzie River ice breakup.

Baker, Richard

Medicine Hat District Surveyor's Plans collection

  • CA PAA paa-9533
  • Collection
  • [between 1911 -- 1912]

The collection consists of surveyor's plans created between 1911 and 1912 by Dominion Government surveyors for the Medicine Hat district including plans for the subdivisions of Rosemount Medicine Hat, Suffield, Fairview, Arlington, Burrell, Kenilworth, north Redcliff, Broadway Extension, and Parkview.

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Donaldson family collection

  • GPR gpr-2688
  • Collection
  • 1930-1980

The fonds consists of a reel of 16 mm silent film taken in the Eaglesham area and on the Lassiter Project in the 1950s; an Election Proclamation Poster for the 1930 Alberta Election, an enumeration booklet for the 1930 election of Subdivisions 50 and 97 of the Constituency of Grande Prairie; a Canada Elections Act List of Electors poster; some letters from Eaglesham settlers written to Anne for the Eaglesham Reunion in 1980; and two booklets written by Anne Donalson: As We Remember the Early Days on the North Eaglesham Project, written in 1976; and Homestead Memories, written in 1985.

Donaldson, Anne

Gathering of Veterans 1998 collection

  • CA RED red-2774
  • Collection
  • 1940, 1998

Collection consists of various manuscript drafts and published accounts (1998), and a photograph (1940).

Gathering of Veterans

Héritage Franco-albertain collection

  • CA PAA paa-7173
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1895]-1975

The collection consists of some of the records collected through the Héritage Franco-albertain project in effort to preserve Franco-Albertan songs, dances, recipes, autobiographies, histories, and photographs. The collection includes a biography of Alphonse Corbière, a photocopy of a 1910 letter from Alexandre Mahé, photocopies of a poem and traditional songs collected by Henri Hétu, an autobiography of Joseph O. Tremblay, a photocopied history of François-Xavier Gauthier's family, photocopied financial reports from the Legal, Alberta parish and photographs from a number of different individuals: Bertha Lafrance, M. and Mme. Olivier Lafleur, Zéa Piquette, Maurice Langlais, Sister Antoinette Trudel, Monseigneur Raymond Roy, Diane Rémillard, M. and Mme. Adrien Pelletier, Ladislas Messier, Paul Montpetit, Jeanne Bilodeau, Jos L'Heureux, Aldège and Thérèse Arcand, M. and Mme. Ferrier Laflamme, Thérèse Beaudain, Yvette Laflamme, Carmen Maisonneuve, Lucienne Baril, Angélina Gobeil, Annette Bérubé, Alouisia Dansereau, Elizabeth Royer, Soeur Emile Hermary, Aimé Auger, Joseph Brosseau, Sarah Charest, Léopold Magnan, M. and Mme. Maurice Magnan, Alexina Zrion, Germaine Hurtubise, Thérèse Richard, Renée Labrecque, Jeanne Pivert and Marguerite Audet. The images, both original and copied, date from circa (ca.) 1895 to 1951, feature Beaumont, Bonnyville, Edmonton, Falher, Legal, Plamondon, Spirit River, Slave Lake, Girouxville, and the Grand Prairie, Red Deer and Lethbridge areas, as well as a few from Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and are of schools, churches, stores, houses, trades, automobiles and trucks, sports, farming, agricultural machinery, families, weddings, rites and ceremonies, musicians, children and town views.

Héritage Franco-albertain

Fort Chipewyan collection

  • CA PAA paa-9685
  • Collection
  • 1989

The collection consists of photographs of various sites and people around Fort Chipewyan, Alberta during winter. All of the locations and some of the subjects are identified.

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