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Alberta Safety Council. Farm Safety Committee fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2065
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1962

The fonds consists of 4 certificates given to Grade 5-8 students in recognition of their first place essay in farm safety. These students are: Nina Tywoniuk, Diane Rypien, Adele Magera and Landa Elkjer.

Alberta Safety Council. Farm Safety Committee

Ludie Lewis fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2106
  • Fonds
  • 1953-1986

The fonds consists of the January, 1953, "Klondike Nights" activities which was a fund raiser for the Community Centre. Some participants were :Dennis Corness, Lois Ellefson (Bissell), Bob Garton, Terry Grainger, Inga Jorgenson, Nevis Labranche, Ludie Lewis, Verne Lewis, Dorothy Minns, Charles Parker, Lois Parker, Ethel Sauer, and Zinnia Tymchuk. There are also photographs from a play "The Legend of John Ware", 1953. There are 10 undated photographs of Athabasca parades and three parade photos from 1964. The collection includes a photo of the horse barn on the Dominion Experimental Farm.

Lewis, Ludie

The Dupilka family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2122
  • Fonds
  • [192-] - [197-]

The fonds consists of photographs depicting farm life, water drilling, a brush cutter, logging, homes and family groups. There is a programme for the Master Farm Family award, 1965, which was given to the Mike Dupilka family. Fonds also includes a copy of a cancelled cheque given to Josephine Dupilka for caretaking at Baptiste Lake School in 1927.

Dupilka (family)

Ovide and Rose Alma Boisvert fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2124
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1978

The fonds consists of photographs of the following subject headings : Boisvert family, harvesting, hayrack, horse and sled, road passage cut through snow, and well drillers. There is a brief family biography written by Alice Sale (Boisvert).

Boisvert, Ovide

Harold Puylaert fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2129
  • Fonds
  • [193-?]

The fonds consists of one photograph of Harold cutting crops using a tractor and combine.

Puylaert, Harold

Athabasca Archives Photograph collection

  • CA ATH ath-2136
  • Collection
  • [1890s] - 2010

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.

Athabasca Archives Photograph collection

Sheila Voaklander fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2144
  • Fonds
  • 2000-2006

The fonds consists of 3 photographs of the demolition of an Alberta Wheat Pool elevator in Athabasca on Sept. 20, 1994, 45 photographs taken at the Athabasca Royal Canadian Legion Veteran's Recognition Dinner on May 15, 2005 and 5 photographs taken of Millie Hay (Talpash), her doll collection and Adele Voaklander in 2006. In 2009 Sheila took 3 photos of the demolition of the Alberta Wheat Pool Buffalo B-2000 grain elevator in Boyle, AB.

Voaklander, Sheila

Parkhurst District collection

  • CA ATH ath-2154
  • Collection
  • 1913-1945

The fonds consists of newspaper clippings from local papers and photographs of St. Mary's Anglican Church, railway tie camps, the Parkhurst District, Archdeacon and Mrs. Little, Parkhurst School students in 1938, Highway 55 (E-W) through Athabasca, Eugene Sale, threshing, Mrs. Joseph Laflamme and family; Eleanor,Jim, Ruth, John, Bill and Lily Elliott; and the Athabasca Flying Club in 1977.

Parkhurst District

Jane Gerlach fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2181
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1966

The fonds consists of information about Dokeville School; 2 maps of the land owners in Dokeville School District from 1930s-1940s and 2010; names of homesteaders in that area; 3 poems by Cecil Turton; and numerous farm related booklets: Plows and Plowing, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, U of A, 1923; Wooded Soils and their Management, Dept. of Soils, U of A, 1948; DeLaval Cream Separators No.10; Farm Workshop Guide, pub. by The Country Guide, 6th ed. Goodyear Farm Handbook; Dr. George W. Bell's First Aid for Sick Animals; Fallout on the Farm, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture, 1961; Alberta Wheat Pool list of members and nomination paper, 1966, sub-district 701; and Report of the Legislative Committee on rural education, 1935.

Gerlach, Jane

Eileen Hanlan collection

  • CA ATH ath-2187
  • Collection
  • 1899-1984, predominant 1899, 1930s, 1984.

The fonds consists of two books relating to farming: "The Successful Stockman and Manual of Husbandry" published in 1899 in Springfield, Mass and most of a book on farming which has no cover. There are several small farm machinery parts catalogues, a 1930s bull service record book for Caribou Range, an article on the origins of the Athabasca Landing Trail published in the St. Albert Gazette in 1984 and a Canadian handbook dated about 1907.

Hanlan, Eileen

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