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Loutit family fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1918
  • Fonds
  • 1914-[1966]

The fonds consists of 10 photograhs including Billy and Agatha's wedding, their children, the 1919 Fort McMurray Board of Trade, running the Grand Rapids, the SS Athabasca River in 1937, and the SS Northland Echo. There is also an audio cassette taped in 2003 of a conversation with Billy's daughter, Ellen Bishop; her daughter, Carol Yayechnick; and a nephew, William Loutit. The family were in Athabasca to assist in the first Billy Loutit Triathlon.

Loutit (family)

Alexander Francis Kelsey fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1979
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1914

The fonds consists of 28 original black and white photographs, 7 photographs developed from negatives, and two pages of excerpts from letters written to his fiance. The excerpts are filed with the photographs. The photos include: Athabasca, Grand Rapids and tramway, House River, oil well drilling rigs, Pelican gas wells, and steamboats.

Kelsey, Alexander Francis

Senior Grain Transportation Committee fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2008
  • Fonds
  • 1985-1987

The fonds consists of the final report of High Cost Branch Line Study, 1985; and Studies of Six Selected High-Cost Grain-Dependent Branch Lines, 1987, including Athabasca.

Senior Grain Transportation Committee

Harry Wilt collection

  • CA ATH ath-2104
  • Collection
  • [1910]

The fonds consists of four photographs of Colin Fraser leaving Athabasca for Fort Chipewyan in [1910]. Colin was the nephew of Simon Fraser. The last photograph is of a paddlewheel steamboat being built in Athabasca.

Wilt, Harry

Christopher Johnston (family) fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2108
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1922

The fonds consists of photographs of the Johnston family, William R. (Bill) Day's moose team, the Johnston house and bakery, and cattle boarding the ferry to cross the river. Daisy Gooding (Johnston) wrote a brief family history which includes information on the 1913 fire, 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, and life as a ferryman.

Johnston, Christopher

Lewis Hay Irving Wood fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2111
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1938

The fonds consists of photographs of : freighting, Lee Goodwin, Athabasca Hudson's Bay Co. manager's house, Muskeg Creek, Tex Palmer and dog team, Pelican Wells (1920), sawmill, Richard Secord's trading post, Whiskey Trail,and Wood's log house.

Wood, Lewis Hay Irving

Barbara Ashacker collection

  • CA ATH ath-2112
  • Collection
  • 1910-1933

The fonds consists of photographs of : 1933 aerial view of Athabasca, Alberta & Great Waterways Railway (1927), Athabasca view from across the river [1910], cable cage, ferry, scows, and Vance house.

Ashacker, Barbara

C. Barnott fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2117
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1923

The fonds consists of photographs of: All Saints Anglican Church Sunday School picnic; Athabasca Public School, Grade 8 class [1919]; Cecil, Jack, Laura, Marjorie, and Sid Barnott; CGIT group on a picnic, ferry in 1923, ferry shack, Cecil Fowler, Katherine Lewis, Grace Mills, Muskeg Creek bridge in 1923, Alice Pratt, Margaret Rennison, and swimming in the Athabasca River.

Barnott, C.

Pat Rourke fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2121
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1956

The fonds consists of photographs of Athabasca with the following subject headings: Athabasca view east to west, gas well, grain elevator, Imperial Lumber Co. Ltd., Del Lang, Loiselle Transport truck, Plains Western Gas & Electric Co. Ltd. truck, plowing snow from train tracks, trucks on Highway 2 north of Clyde, and the water tower on the Athabasca River front.

Rourke, Pat

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