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Athabasca Archives Athabasca Pottery Discovery Day collection

  • CA ATH ath-2148
  • Collection
  • 2009

The fonds consists of newspaper articles, magazine articles, e-mails between Conrad Biernacki and Marilyn Mol, financial information, a press release, bookmarks, the event program which contains historic information, and thank-you letters. The magazine articles, written by Conrad Biernacki, are in the May/June and July/August 2009 editions of Discovering Antiques edited by Jan Mather. The posters were designed by Jen Luckay, an employee of Athabasca University. The artifacts include bricks and brick pieces and a shard from a turned pot from Claude Thillett's Brickyards (1912-c1919). The potter was probably Ewald Walden.

Athabasca Archives Pottery Discovery Day collection

Alfred Messerli fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2150
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1966

The fonds consists of photographs taken between the years 1964 and 1966 and include: Remembrance Day, Litchfield Avenue in the winter, the building used for Athabasca Clay Products, the electric kiln, the potting wheel and finished products, and Alfred Messerli.

Messerli, Alfred

Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2170
  • Fonds
  • 1946-2003

The fonds consists of materials created by the Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives and its predecessors between 1946 and 2003.The fonds consists of bylaws, minutes, correspondence, financial records, fire insurance policies, account books, membership lists, accession and statistics books. Included in the photographs are: Violet (Mills) Aldridge, Kathy Begoray, Sandy Bulmer, Mike Cardinal, Lionel Cherniwchan, Louis DaCosta, Alice B. Donahue, Teddy Dunn, Frank Falconer, Judy Flax, Jane Gordon, Cynthia Graefe, Barbara Hunter, Joseph William Irwin, Doug and Heather Kariel, Jerry Little, Betty McDonald, Don McGladdery, Joseph Martynek, Marilyn Mol, Phyliss Mort, Amanda and Erica Oldale, Viola Elizabeth Overholt (Jouston), Betty Pickett, Irene Robbins, Lydia Silkie, Kathleen Stafford, Linda Steppan, Robert Tannas, Kathy Traynor, David Yowney and Karen Zwarich. The students in a 1990/91 photograph of the Hutterite Colony School visiting the library are: Johnny, Rhoda, Debbie, Walter, Philip, Julia, Edward, Michelle, Steven, Aaron, and Albert Gross, Betty Stahl and Mrs. Phyliss Mort. Other materials transferred to the archives include an essay written by Nadine Molofy for the Correspondence School Branch in 1948-49 which also includes a photograph of W.H.Swift; the 1981 Canada census information on mother tongues spoken in the Athabasca area; and a program of the 3rd Spring Showcase of local talent library fundraiser in c2001. In 2003, photographs were taken when new carpeting was installed in the library and archives.

Alice B. Donahue Library and Archives

Jessie Rollings fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2171
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1984

The fonds consists of photographs including: Albert Draeger's house; Sam Ball's house; the Theo Haggith dairy barn; the James Minns' house; the Davis Bentley house; Athabasca Pottery Club in 1983, 1984 including George Weston, Pennie Hunter, Lillian Bretzlaff, Tami Okimara, Lucien and Rosie Guay, and Verna Guay; the cable cage over the Athabasca River; the Athabasca River in flood June 18, 1944; 1944-45 Athabasca Public School staff: Lilliam Bloom, Irene Buckholz, Alice Donahue, Miss Dodd, Mrs. Emmet, Mrs. McClelland, Mr. Tennyson Nordon, Jessie Rollings; Martin Hitchins, Jenkins Lake, Dr. Joseph Olivier, Hallowe'en party in Stucco School before it was attached to the Brick School, newspaper ads for: Fundy Fox Co., A.C.Bradley's honey, Athabasca Creamery, Phillipy's Store, dance at Winding Trail School, Tutty Lumber Co., C.A.J. Sundby's Wood Yard and Feed Mill, Mme Veronneau's music and language lessons, R.C.Knowlton Jeweler and Optician, Hees and Goupil, G.H.Leng-blacksmith, and Peace River Blacksmith; a copy of the article "The Old Peace River Trail" by Philip H. Godsell; a copy of the March 21, 1930 provincial Unemployment Relief act; the Athabasca Echo newspaper of March 26, 1947 story of the drowning deaths of Wilma Harps and her sister Thelma Donald; the names of the Grosmont post masters from 1912 to 1970; a program for the Vets' Vaudeville Show-May 25, 1931 and a 1962 edition of a booklet "Survey of Athabasca" prepared by the Industrial Development Branch of the Alberta Department of Industry & Development. The audio cassettes contain information on the Bissell family, logging operations and personnel.The artifact is a heart-shaped pottery ashtray, with brown and blue glaze, manufactured by Athabasca Clay Products.

Rollings, Jessie

Royal Alberta Museum, Western Canada History Department fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2197
  • Fonds
  • 2008

The fonds consists of a draft copy of the results of Carrie-Ann's research: "The Athabasca Clay Products Company collection at the Royal Alberta Museum". A bibliography is also included.

Royal Alberta Museum, Western Canada History Department

George Ryga fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2198
  • Fonds
  • 1949-1989

The fonds consists of a notice for the 1989 Playwright's Workshop Montreal Ryga retrospective; photocopies of tributes and letters to Mrs. Norma Ryga on the death of George; photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles and Dr. David Gregory's nomination of George Ryga for a posthumous Honorary Doctorate at Athabasca University; poem: "The settler 1900-1950", copy of the short story "Smoke" published in The Correspondent 1924-1949 which was the newsletter for the Correspondence School Branch; and audio cassettes of interviews and productions of George Ryga's poetry, plays, choral pieces and stories.

Ryga, George

Whispering Hills Country Music Association fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2202
  • Fonds
  • 1985-2007

The fonds consists of a copy of the incorporation certificate and by-laws; 1985-2003 meeting minutes, financial statements, membership lists and correspondence; 1988 Fire Trust Fund to assist families who were burnt out in the Ferguson area fire; 1991, 1993-1995, 2004 and ? VHS tapes and 2003-2007 DVCs of the Harvest Gold Fiddle Contest.

Whispering Hills Country Music Association

Athabasca Pottery Club fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2208
  • Fonds
  • 2011

The fonds consists of a model of a scow and a photograph of the model.

Athabasca Pottery Club

Margot Kindt fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2216
  • Fonds
  • 1970s

The fonds consists of one framed oil on masonite painting by Margot Kindt painted in the 1970s.She took an art class in Athabasca. The subject of the painting is Sarah Taylor, widow of James Herbert Taylor, who moved to the Athabasca area in 1913. James died in 1930 and Sarah in 1983.

Kindt, Margot

Bernard Wiese collection

  • CA ATU atu-2
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1937 to ca. 1989]

Collection consists of a pair of Athapaskan hide beaded gauntlets, white with beading (pink and red flowers with green stems) and light green interior, two Athapaskan beaded hide jackets with fringe, and a folk art carved wooden statue depicting a cowboy on a horse roping a calf.

Wiese, Bernard

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