The fonds consists of information relating to Michael Gismondi's tenure on the council of the Town of Athabasca and on the Athabasca Riverfront Design Committee and FOTA (Friends of the Athabasca Environmental Association). Topics covered include: Athabasca General Municipal Plan 1981; FOTA meeting minutes 1993-1998; Riverfront Design Review Committee information relating to Home Hardware 1996-1998, Community Centre renovations 1994-1995, Grand Union Hotel 2003, CN Station grounds 1999, 2005; A&W blueprints 1998; Ken-Mar Whispering Hills Golf Course 2002; Woudstra Group tourism 1999; Great Northern Heritage Trail 2001-2002; Cornwall Subdivision 2006; Whispering Hills Daycare Society 2006; Alberta Municipal Government Act, 1994, with amendments as of April, 1998; Pleasant Valley Lodge plans, Communities in Bloom 2004 (includes a heritage tree inventory); Athabasca Municipal Heritage Inventory 2005 and Athabasca Historic Management Plan 2006; Athabasca Regional Waste Management Services Commission 2003; Athabasca Regional Economic Development Association (AREDA) 1995-1997; Athabasca Town and County community profile 2001 census; Industrial and Business Development Athabasca/Boyle Region 2001; Town of Athabasca council/manager review 1993; Town and County of Athabasca cost sharing 1995, amalgamation meeting 2002, joint council meeting 2004; Town of Athabasca Business Plan 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005-2007; Community Economic Development workshop 2004, 2005; Town of Athabasca budgets 2005, Policies and Procedure Manual 2004; Town of Athabasca meeting minutes 2006; town bus transportation 2006; and materials relating to the planning, fundraising and tendering of the Athabasca Regional Multiplex Project 2003-2006. This includes the 2005 Alberta Centennial Legacies Grant application. There are also 8 photographs: the CNR station and land, Dennis Jacobs painting the mural on the Royal Canadian Legion building in 1999, and the Athabasca River. There are mock-ups of historic signage that has been placed on buildings and on bases on the riverfront that interpret Athabasca's history.

The fonds consists of an oral history of the Wabasca area including George Arnold, Chief Bigstone, Father Desmarais, Adam Gladue, the Grand Rapids, David Grandbois, Peter Grandbois, George Hees, the Hudson's Bay and Revillon Freres companies, Indian Treaty and Halfbreed Scrip Commission, 1899; Frank Lafferty, Norbert Piche, Canon William Grove White (1894-1934), boxing, fishing, freighting, lime industry, and the mission school. Two more cassettes were recorded in the early 1980s with Margaret Logan speaking about early First Nations people living near Baptiste Lake, AB. She mentions her family, Pat Laroque, Sarah LaFleur. origin of name of Baptiste Lake, and the Nipshank family.

The fonds consists of periodical articles was used as research material for the book "Athabasca: an Illustrated History". 1) Outing, an international illustrated monthly magazine of Sport, Travel and Recreation. Oct-Dec, 1895. Includes a 4 part article titled "A Woman in the MacKenzie Delta" by Elizabeth Taylor. 2) Canadian Geographical Journal. May, July and August 1961. "Voyageurs Highway; the geography and logistics of the Canadian fur trade" by Eric Morse. 3) Alberta Transportation. Oct 1981. "A short history of Alberta's Riverboats" by Andy Turnbull. 4) Saint John's Edmonton Report. Aug. 2, 1976. "One man drownded, another floats". 5) Canadian Geographical Journal. Jan. 1947. "Athabasca River Transport" and "Athabaska Trail" by S.C.Ells. 6) The Trustee; Alberta School Trustees Association. 1907-1982. "My favorite trustees" by William H. Swift. He discusses Toles, Smith and Parkhurst Schools and Mr. Edwin Parr. 7) Forest Landscape: a newsletter published by Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Sept. 2, 1993. "Homesteading's freedom carried a price" by Lillie Hagelund. 8) Royal Geographical Society. Nov. 1883. "On the Athabasca District of the Canadian North-West Territory" by Rev. Emile Petitot. Includes information on First Nations inhabitants. 9) Alberta Trails Task Force, Research Section, Historic Sites Service, Alberta Culture, 1975. "Historic Trails Report" by Anne Carscallen. 10) "The Klondyke Trail from Edmonton" by Harold Fryer. 11) Canadian Cattlemen. Nov. 1953. "Old Trails and New, from sternwheeler and pack-train to "Iron Horse" and Aeroplane" by Phillip H. Godsell. 12) New Trail, U of A. Winter, 1951. "The Athabasca Trail" by James MacGregor. 13) "Report on the drainage area of the Peace & Athabaska Rivers" by Wm. Pearce, 1908. 14) The Alberta Gold Rush News, Alberta Gold Prospectors Assoc. Spring, 2009. "Devil's Canyon Gold Mine,1918" by Mark Hayward. 15) Food For Thought. Fall, 2007. "The Rice Stuff, wild rice from farmer Wayne Ptolemy" by Wes Lafortune. 16) Canadian Geographical Journal. February, 1964. "My Home Town" by Charles Camsell. Drawings by S.C.Ells.

The fonds consists of minutes and financial statements for 1947-1968, and registration and Buy-Laws completed in 1952.

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.

The fonds consists of 14 photographs including Marilyn Mol, Joanne and Robin Welwood, Judy and Herb Flax, Cynthia Graefe, Ruth Bulmer, Mary Ellen Ryland, Linda Steppan, Helen Hyde, Phyllis and Mike Mort, Alex and Helen Krawec, Doug and Heather Kariel, Kathy Traynor, Don McGladdery, Mike Cardinal, Lionel Cherniwchan, Colleen Dube, Judith Van Duren, Judy Stady, Walt Talmey and Bob Tannas. There are also photographs of the Athabasca General and Auxiliary Hospital (later renamed the Athabasca Healthcare Centre), Hunter Motors Ltd., Duniece Centre, and the Athabasca Golf & Country Club.

The fonds consists of articles in Shout (Jan.2006), the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Wind Speaker (June, 2007),the Eagle Feather News (May, June 2007) regarding Shannon Loutitt and Tom Longboat; 2 articles by Shannon regarding preparing for her first marathon in 2004 and running the Boston Marathon in 2007; and a letter from the executive director of the Havard University Native American Program (April, 2007). Material from 2008 includes a poster advertising Athabasca's triathlon and posters advertising Shannon's 100 mile journey as well as an article in Canadian Running magazine (Nov/Dec.2008) and Reader's Digest (Oct.2009). The video is the statement of a Saskatchewan MLA on the Loutit story and the DVD is a recording from the National News on the Boston Marathon. The artifacts are a six point Hudson's Bay Company white striped blanket and a framed letter donated to the Loutit family on the occasion of Shannon's 2008 run to Athabasca.

The fonds consists of photographs of the Athabasca Figure Skating Club's annual Krystal Karnival for 1973, 1975-1980,and 1982. The collection also includes photographs of hockey teams, individual players and award presentations for 1926, 1936-1938, 1948, 1961-1983 and 1985-1986.

The collection consists of photographs of the RCMP boat "Athabasca" based in Ganges, B.C. Six Mile Stopping Place on the Athabasca River; SS Northland Echo; loading scows; aerial view of Athabasca [1970s]; newspaper photographs of James Harris Wood, William Rennison, Isaie Gagnon, Louis Fosseneuve, and Hon. Justice R. Boyle; men at a tie camp (Paul Berkey, Mr. Koster, Mr. Jameson, Eugene Sale, Ole Strome, Joe Laflamme); 1937-38 Athabasca Boy Scout troop (Ralph Noddings, Bill Calder, Ken Cocke, John Birks, Allen Fell, Fred Meadows, Bob Garton, Frank Falconer, Dale Nelson, Jim Service, Budge Jones, Frank Bergeron, Verne Lewis, -- Webb, Alec Bergeron, Donald King, Reg Bayliss); Half Moon Lake School, 1936 (Josie Kunbah, Josie Kordyban, Alexandra Smerychinski, Marian Kowalski, Katie Kordyban, Maria Kordyban, Rosy Dowhaniuk, Stephanie Kushak, Olga Komarniski, Antonnette Komarniski, Maggie Shapka, Annie Kushak, Helen Zayezierski, Josie Gerla); Revillon Brothers Store, farm implement-reaper and horses, Terence John Shank, Elmer Norman Shank, Demonstration Farm barns and house (Experimental Farm barns), Leon Soudet farm, view of Athabasca from Century Villa condominiums dated Sept. 28, 1996; 1985 Tourist Information Booth volunteers (Hazel Rein, Pearl Baker, May Webb, Steve Wasel, Joe Bortnick, Alice Donahue, Charlie Senz, Dot Evans, Laura Green, and Muriel Senz); Chris and Lyandra Elkjer; the Athabasca train station in Nov. 1912, team driver is James A. Minns who was killed during WWI. Four postcards have been added which include an aerial photo of the town, a view from the bridge of the town lights, a painting by Larry Zornes and local citizens forming the number 99 in 2010 as they look forward to the 100th anniversary in 2011.

The fonds consists of material found in the former Anglican Church rectory. It consists of a photograph and article on Mrs. Rhoda Mainsford Hanney of England who assisted with the Anglican Boys Hostel in the late 1930s; a photograph and article on Miss Jane Clough of England who gave money to help build the Boys and Girls Hostels in Athabasca, and a photograph of the First Athabasca Wolf Cub Pack in [1959]. The Cub leaders were : J. Dexter Champion and Rev. Jack Gibbons. The cubs are : Jim Ashacker, ? Bidwell, Donald Champion, Bob Evans, Jim Evans, Boyd Hall, Bruce Hall, David Hyde, Gerald Labrie, Billy Luker, Colin McGuire, Wayne McLean, Larry Parker, Richard Pitman, Thomas Rogers, Stephen Schinkinger, Wayne Schinkinger, Kenny Walker, Kenny Wilson, Richard Wilson, Ronnie Wasylyk, and Ron Watson.