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City of Strathcona collection

  • CA PAA paa-9411
  • Collection
  • 1907

The collection consists of a map featuring City of Strathcona dating from 1907 illustrating road lines and subdivisions.

City of Strathcona

C.W. Youngs collection

  • CA PAA paa-7840
  • Collection
  • [between 1912 and 1916]

The collection consists of images from a surveying crew that worked in the Peace River area, and includes images of pack horses, camps, trees and crew.

Youngs, C.W.

Athabasca Archives Directories collection

  • CA ATH ath-2045
  • Collection
  • 1900-1929

The fonds consists of photocopies of pages relating to Athabasca from the 1900-1901 Lovells Directory of Manitoba, NWT; 1905,1907,1928-29 Henderson's Gazeteer and Directory; and the 1920, 1922 Wrigley's Directory. The archives also has a copy of the complete Henderson's Directory from 1914.

Athabasca Archives Directories collection

Brian Hubner Research collection

  • MED med-521
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1860]-2007

The fonds consists of two series:;Cypress Hills books. -- 35 cm textual records. -- 1986 - 2007. Series consists of adminsitrative records regarding the project to write both editions; Cypress Hills: The Land and its People and Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself as wells as copies of numerous resources dating from the 1830s to 1990s used in researching the books. Other Projects. -- 27 cm of textual records and other materials. -- 1979 - 2006. Series consists of administrative records and research materials copied and collected for researching various articles, book reviews, and reports regarding late ninteenth and early twentieth century Canadian Plains history.

Hubner, Brian

Beaumont History Book Committee Photograph collection

  • CA PAA paa-7516
  • Collection
  • Copied 1982-1984

The collection consists of images, originally dating 1893 to 1982, of the Beaumont, Alberta area, featuring schools, churches, houses, farms and ranches, sawmills, service stations, post offices, blacksmith/garage, stores, bands, baseball teams and parks, statue installation, landmarks, celebrations and weddings, farm and construction machinery, harvesting and threshing, automobiles, horses, tobogganing, wells, a tug-o-war, families and local pioneers, and views of Beaumont.

Beaumont History Book Committee

Athabasca Archives book excerpt collection

  • CA ATH ath-2200
  • Collection
  • 1879-1977

The fonds consists of excerpts from published books was used for research in the writing of the book "Athabasca Landing: an illustrated history". 1) excerpt from "Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure" compiled by Colonel Henry Inman, 1899. 2) excerpt from "Northland Echoes" by Doris Neeley Haralson. 3) excerpt from "The Legend of John Hornby" by George Whalley, 1962. 4) excerpt from "Ploughman of the Moon" by Robert W. Service, 1945. 5) excerpt from "Land of the Muskeg" by Somers Somerset, 1895. 6) excerpt from "Fire Canoe, Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited" by Theodore (Ted) Barris, 1977. 7) excerpt from "Grande Prairie: Capital of the Peace" by Isabel Campbell. 8) "Report on an exploration from Port Simpson on the Pacific Coast, to Edmonton on the Saskatchewan" by George M. Dawson, 1879.Geological Survey of Canada. 9) excerpt from "Lands Forlorn" by George A. Douglas, 1914. 10) excerpt from Canadian Pacific Railway Report by Sandford Fleming, 1880.Appendix 6, 13 "The Physical Character of the Prairie Region obtained from authentic sources". 11) excerpt from "A Hatchet Mark in Duplicate" by Rev. A.C.Garrioch. 12) excerpt from "Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada" by David Hanbury, 1904. 13) excerpt from "The Barren Grounds of Nothern Canada" by Warburton Pike, 1892. 14) excerpt from "Explorations in the Far North" by Frank Russell, 1898. 15) excerpt from" David Thompson's Narrative of his explorations in Western America, 1784-1812". Edited by J.B.Tyrrell, 1916. 16) excerpt from "Tar on the Floats" by Margaret McDougall. References to Art Schumacher and Earl Wright. 17) excerpt from "Son of the North" by Charles Camsell, 1954. 18) excerpt from "In Search of a Polar Continent, 1905-1907" by Alfred H. Harrison. References to Loutit family and Von Hammerstein. 19) excerpt from "The Arctic Prairie" by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1911.

Athabasca Archives book excerpt collection

Charlie Gathercole Map Collection

  • GPR gpr-2771
  • Collection
  • 1915-1964

The fonds consists of 30 survey blueprints and town plans of Benville, Sexsmith, Laglace, Valhalla, and Buffalo Lakes; one 1928 Department of the Interior and four 1917-1922 Surveyor General maps of the Peace River District; one Prairie Farm Assistance Act map from 1955; and three blueprints of houses from the 1950s, one of them produced by the Veterans Land Act department. Maps are stamped with C.R. Gathercole, Real Estate & Insurance, Sexsmith, Alberta.

Gathercole, Charlie

Plamondon Municipal Library Photograph Collection

  • CA PAA paa-7723
  • Collection
  • 1900-1959 (Copied 1982-1987)

The images are of Plamondon, originally dating circa 1900 to the 1950s, and include students, canoe-building, store interiors and exteriors, buildings, post offices, houses and house building, horses, automobiles, churches, baseball teams, funerals, families, nuns, picnics and other social gatherings and views of Plamondon and area.

Plamondon Municipal Library

Musee Heritage Museum Art Collection

  • CA MHM mhm-1833
  • Collection
  • 1790, 1870, 1880, 1930-1994

The collection consists of pen and ink drawings, water colours, oil paintings, a tapestry, an engraving, pencil sketches, numbered prints, an acrylic, a lithograph and a colograph. The pictures depict the St. Albert mission, old and new buildings, grain elevators, religious motifs, Father Lacombe and Hector Gervais. The works are by Doug Barry, Keith Bell, Ludo Bogaerdt, Robert Briskie, Carol Brown, Danny Burns, Loren Chabot, G. Chevillet, Brian Clark, Ted De Jong, Robert Hursey, Alexander Loemans, William Stock, Vandenburg and Emilie Petitot, OMI.

Musee Heritage Museum Art Collection

J.T. Nichols collection

  • MED med-319
  • Collection
  • 1931-1978

The collection consists of: maps (11) including: the province of Alberta (1931), Scarborough's Map of Judicial Districts of Alberta (undated), land ownership map-leased land around Medicine Hat (1966, 1970), County of 40 Mile (1966, 1978), St. Mary's and Milk River Development (undated), and Southern Alberta (1918).

Nichols, J.T.

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