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Athabasca Archives Women
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Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire, Athabasca Chapter fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1865
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1949, 1964

The fonds consists of administrative materials created by the Athabasca Chapter of the IODE and includes minutes, correspondence, and financial statements from 1940 to 1949.

Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire. Athabasca Chapter

Evelyn Rita Rogers fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1870
  • Fonds
  • 1916, 1946, 1952-1980

The fonds consists of materials created by Evelyn Rogers between 1940 and 1980. The fonds consists of Evelyn Rogers' membership certificates for various organizations and photographs of Athabasca and various events including: a tug-of-war at the Athabasca Fair in 1916; the executive of The Northern Alberta Baseball League - Jack Mackie, Jeff Edwards and Byron Bellamy; Fairhaven baseball team in 1946; Amber Valley baseball team in 1946; crowd in Athabasca Community Centre in [1955]; and 6 photos of the opening of the Athabasca Bridge in 1952 which include Byron Bellamy, Nick Doroshenko, Hon. Gordon Taylor, and Jean Baptiste Gambler. These 6 photographs were taken by Bob Preece's Photo Shop. The artifacts include: Hugo Carlson's pocket watch, Byron W. Bellamy's tie clip, a radio, a hat pin, and printing plates for the Athabasca Public Library.

Rogers, Evelyn Rita

Order of the Eastern Star. Athabasca Chapter No. 17 fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1876
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1999

The fonds consists of materials created by the Order of the Eastern Star, Athabasca Chapter No. 17 between 1914 and 1999. The fonds consists of a summarized annual history from 1914-1999 and a history of properties. Subjects of photographs include Kizzie Dallas; Catherine Falconer (MacIntyre); Mary Van Dusen; Isabel Minns; Halla Crawford; Florence Mills; Edna Nancekivell (Cull); Sarah Ladell (McKernan); Rebecca Heacock; Margaret Redden; Alice Fell; Annie Meadowcroft; Nina Watt; Mary Shoubridge (Watt); Hattie Phillipy; Elizabeth Mutch; Katherine Galloway (Lewis); Jean Bolton (Falconer); Jettie Willey (Day); Anne MacLeod (Day); Lucy Ward; Ardath Olsen; Barbara Parker; Grace Grant; Helen MacLean (Leicht); Mary Masciuch; Hazel Hopps; Hazel Hall (Hoge); Eva Jack; Marion Montgomery (Nancekivell); Katherine Shaw; Laura Scott; Joan Ward; Edith Rehm (Whiteley); Beatrice Parr (May); Linda Breckenridge (Ward); Irene Ramey; Norah Zwicker; Anne Cook; Dyann Breckenridge; Esther Iverach; Lily Dupilka (Gora); Laurine Jones; Dorothy Nielsen(Budd); Joy Hayward (Puylaert); Signe Genoud; Ingrid Buerfeind; Barbara Wilkinson; Roxanne Gill (Breckenridge); Joan Duma; Mary Ellis (Willey); Horace Lowe; Charles Nancekivell; Frank R. Falconer; Charles Dallas; Julius Crawford; Robert Mahood; James Minns; Ken Heacock; George Watt; George Meadowcroft; Charles Shoubridge; Ray Phillipy; Sid Ward; Arthur Hopps; Ron Ramey; Orval Breckenridge; Victor Genoud; Aaron Jones.

Order of the Eastern Star. Athabasca Chapter No. 17

Meanook Women's Institute fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1878
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1983

The fonds consists of materials created by the Meanook Women's Institute between 1942 and 1983 and consists of minutes, financial records, guest books, brochures and copies of the newsletter: Home & Country.

Alberta Women's Institute. Meanook Branch

Alice and Clifford Donahue fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1884
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1988

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Alice and Clifford Donahue of Athabasca, Alberta between 1924 and 1988. The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs and clippings of Alice and Clifford Donahue relating to their lives and activities in Athabasca. It includes files pertaining to community organizations and committees which the Donahues served on, business records; files pertaining to Alice Donahue's career as a teacher; scrapbooks; maps; and photographs.

Donahue, Alice

NOW (New Opportunities For Women) fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1977
  • Fonds
  • 1987-1992

The fonds consists of the mission statement; 1990-1991 schedule of activities; membership lists; minutes; correspondence ; newspaper clippings; and May 1990 presentation to the Board of Education.

NOW (New Opportunities For Women)

Amber Valley Community Association fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1980
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1987

The fonds consists of reprinted newspaper articles, a list of electors for 1938 and 1958, a few unidentified photocopied pictures and 10 photographs; also the booklet "Memoirs of the Official Opening of the Amber Valley Community Centre, June 28, 1975". The photos include: W.G. and Alice Cromwell, Columbus Bowen, Bob Jamerson, and Williams and Kinamore families. The booklet "Rural Women in Focus" was printed by the Amber Valley Community Association to celebrate the United Nations 1975 International Women's Year. Included is information on Lydia Williams, Marjorie Logan, Nancy Appleby, Amber Valley pioneer women, Athabasca Art Club, Martha Edwards and Palma Lennie. Two photographs from the Athabasca Archives collection include: Georgia Toles and an unknown woman. The map is a hand drawn Amber Valley Heritage Map, 1987, showing the present and former land owners in Township 66, Range 20, W4M. As well as the names of farm families, the map locates two stores, two post offices, the school and the cemetery.

Amber Valley Community Association

Dr. Josephine Mary Brown fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1984
  • Fonds
  • [1930s] - 2005

The fonds consists of 1 audio cassette recorded in 2001, 4 Depression glass plates, a plaque from the Trail North Foundation naming Dr. Brown Deputy Trail Master, 1980; a vase purchased from Mrs. George Kasper Johnson and a 1978 Athabasca dollar (a souvenir of the May 27-29, 1978 trip to the Grande Rapids). Added in 2005 is a booklet and a plaque naming Dr. Brown as one of the 100 Physicians of the Century in Alberta. There is a framed photograph of Dr. Brown while she was in practise and photos taken at the 2005 award ceremony.

Brown, Josephine Mary

Lloyd and Eileen Chamberlain fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2013
  • Fonds
  • 1955-2009

The fonds consists of photographs of Athabasca houses and commercial buildings, Baptiste Lake, Cub Scouts, a 1956 play "Grand National Night", and aerial views of the Athabasca area. Also included is information on the Sacred Heart Hospital, a 1947 Gas Application and Contract between Fred Mills and Alberta Utilities, the buildings where Lloyd practiced law, a 1968 National Geographic river expedition that passed through Athabasca, 1977 Alberta Hospital Association newsletter, a sheet of Town of Athabasca letterhead from the 1980's, and 2 audio cassettes of interviews that Lloyd conducted with Charles Joseph Rayner Whiteley and Jefferson Davis Edwards in 1961. Subjects included on the Edwards cassette are: Amber Valley, Blacks, Entertainment, Farming, Freighting, J.W.Murphy, Pine Creek District, Pastor Sneed, and Toles School. Subjects included on the Whiteley cassette are: Amber Valley, Crown Lumber Co., John Philip Evans, Falconer's Store, 1904 Flood, Freighting, Toby Gyte, David Hay Sr., George Hees, Hislop and Nagel, George Leng, Billy Loutit, Chester McCutcheon, Richard McDougall, C.B.Major, William Harper Minns, Perryvale, Tom Plumley, Sandy Creek, Jack Secord, William (Billy) Smith, Ernest Sparr, telegraph lines, Dr.Thorndyke, Whiteley's Stopping Place, Lot Scott Willey, and Lewis Hay Irving Wood. In 1998, Eileen interviewed Viola Elizabeth (Jouston) Overholt. In 2009 Eileen Chamberlain interviewed two British war brides who came to Athabasca after WW11: Sheila (Boyce) Jackson and Maggie (Thorpe) Smith.

Chamberlain, Lloyd Chester

John Leonce Lessard family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2113
  • Fonds
  • [1910]-1943

The fonds consists of photographs of: Athabasca High School classes (1943), boiler being rolled from Edmonton to Athabasca, John Patrick Crowe, Charles and Antoinette Daigneau, dog team on Litchfield Avenue; First Communion, 1931, at St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church; First Nations women, G.G.Fowler, Archie and Mary Gorman, Ethel Lessard beside "Welcome to Athabasca" sign on Landing Trail, views of the 1929 Lessard house, views of the 1928 Lessard Store, Malcolm McDonald, interior views of the first St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church, Mrs. Scott, scows on the Athabasca River, trucks on the Alaska Highway near Athabasca, and Alma Waite. The textual record is notes on a conversation between Marilyn Mol and Patsy Voaklander (Lessard).

Lessard, John Leonce

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