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Magnus Cromarty Brown family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2162
  • Fonds
  • 1909-2004

The fonds consists of genealogical charts, clippings from Athabasca newspapers, and a Hudson's Bay Company service record. One photograph shows an elderly Magnus Brown, the other is a photograph of Magnus' grandson, George Magnus Wright (1910-1976).

Brown, Magnus Cromarty

Louison Fosseneuve family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2167
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1985

The fonds consists of genealogical charts fror Fosseneuve, Ladouceur and Auger families; scrip applications at Lac La Biche for Louison Fosseneuve (July 19, 1886); Fort McMurray Banner newspaper from May 28, 1965 with obituary of Joseph Shott; Canadian Geographical Journal, Feb, 1932 contains the article" Scow brigade on the Athabaska" by F.J.Alcock; the 1985 English 30 paper by Ben Heslop named "The untold legend of Captain Shot"; copies of newspaper articles including (Aug.24, 1899 Edmonton Bulletin), (March 26, 1914 Athabasca Times reprint of Emerson Hough's Saturday Evening Post article re: Running the Grand Rapids), (May 21, 1914 Athabasca Times and May 22, 1914 Northern News re: Fosseneuve's death); excerpts from 1908 and 1911 Oblate annals and four photographs of Louison, his son Joseph, and Joseph's family.

Fosseneuve, Louison

Ken and Doris Sutton fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1909
  • Fonds
  • copied 1998 (originally created 1915-1994)

The fonds consists of materials created by Ken Sutton of Calling Lake, Alberta between 1968 and 1994. The fonds consists of photocopied pages of Mr. Sutton's diary concerning a 1968 forest fire, and personal reminiscences of events that occurred during his work life. There is also a photograph of a McCormick-Deering threshing machine taken on Ken's father's farm west of Alcomdale in the 1920s. Other photographs were taken at Calling Lake and include Treaty Day 1964, the first Sutton home, the Mennonite Church, the Post Office, Moose Horn Market, and the aftermath of the 1984 tornado in the Big Coulee area. Doris Sutton took a photograph of the 1966-68 archeological dig at Calling Lake which was headed by Dr. Gruhn. She also made postcards of some of her photographs, and molded animals from Athabasca clay.

Sutton, Ken and Doris

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

Robert Emmet Delaney fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2097
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1986

The fonds consists of photographs of Dr. Delaney, Tony and Edward Delaney in 1913, Tony in Athabasca in 1986, Frog Lake massacre cairn and John Delaney grave.

Delaney, Robert Emmet

Shannon Loutitt fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2161
  • Fonds
  • 2004-2009

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.

Loutitt, Shannon

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

Athabasca Archives Treaty 8 Commission collection

  • CA ATH ath-2174
  • Collection
  • 1908-2000

The collection consists of:;1) Western People, a supplement to the Western Producer newspaper. May 27, 1999. "Hard Bargains, the Making of Treaty 8" by Jeffrey S. Murray. 2) University of Alberta. New Trails. "The Making of Treaty 8" by Jodeen Litwin. 3) The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties.Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1978. "The Spirit and Terms of Treaty Eight" by Richard Daniel. 4) Research Branch, Corporate Policy, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981. "British Columbia Indian Treaties in Historical Perspective" by Dennis Madill. The books are titled:;1)Through the MacKenzie Basin by Charles Mair, 1908. 2) As Long as this Land shall Last by Rene Fumoleau, 1975. 3) On the Trail North, the Treaty 8 Diary of O.C.Edwards, 1998. 4) Treaty 8 Revisited: selected papers on the 1999 Centennial Conference, 2000.

Athabasca Archives Treaty 8 Commission collection

Calling Lake Interagency Meeting fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1882
  • Fonds
  • 1981-1983

The fonds consists of materials created by the Calling Lake Interagency Meeting between 1981 and 1983. The fonds consists of minutes of the Calling Lake Interagency Meeting, correspondence, and newsletters (1982-1983) of Education North, a cooperative project between teachers and community residents to develop activities to meet the needs of children in northern communities.

Calling Lake Interagency Meeting

Joe and Margaret Logan fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2211
  • Fonds
  • 1980 -1991

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.

Logan, Joe

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