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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

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

Don Borowicz collection

  • CA ATH ath-2126
  • Collection
  • [1912]

The fonds consists of photographs of the steamer Athabasca River and an unidentified steamer being built.

Borowicz, Don

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 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

Joseph Bortnick collection

  • CA ATH ath-2165
  • Collection
  • [1880s] to [1920]

The fonds consists of photographs of tracking on the Athabasca River, the Grand Rapids, Alfred von Hammerstein's camp on the House River, a loaded scow on the North Saskatchewan River,rapids on the Slave River, and a team of horses in winter blankets.

Bortnick, Joseph

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

  • CA ATH ath-2199
  • Collection
  • 1883-2009

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.

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

Athabasca Archives book excerpt collection

  • CA ATH ath-2200
  • Collection
  • 1879-1977

The fonds consists of excerpts from published books was used for research in the writing of the book "Athabasca Landing: an illustrated history". 1) excerpt from "Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure" compiled by Colonel Henry Inman, 1899. 2) excerpt from "Northland Echoes" by Doris Neeley Haralson. 3) excerpt from "The Legend of John Hornby" by George Whalley, 1962. 4) excerpt from "Ploughman of the Moon" by Robert W. Service, 1945. 5) excerpt from "Land of the Muskeg" by Somers Somerset, 1895. 6) excerpt from "Fire Canoe, Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited" by Theodore (Ted) Barris, 1977. 7) excerpt from "Grande Prairie: Capital of the Peace" by Isabel Campbell. 8) "Report on an exploration from Port Simpson on the Pacific Coast, to Edmonton on the Saskatchewan" by George M. Dawson, 1879.Geological Survey of Canada. 9) excerpt from "Lands Forlorn" by George A. Douglas, 1914. 10) excerpt from Canadian Pacific Railway Report by Sandford Fleming, 1880.Appendix 6, 13 "The Physical Character of the Prairie Region obtained from authentic sources". 11) excerpt from "A Hatchet Mark in Duplicate" by Rev. A.C.Garrioch. 12) excerpt from "Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada" by David Hanbury, 1904. 13) excerpt from "The Barren Grounds of Nothern Canada" by Warburton Pike, 1892. 14) excerpt from "Explorations in the Far North" by Frank Russell, 1898. 15) excerpt from" David Thompson's Narrative of his explorations in Western America, 1784-1812". Edited by J.B.Tyrrell, 1916. 16) excerpt from "Tar on the Floats" by Margaret McDougall. References to Art Schumacher and Earl Wright. 17) excerpt from "Son of the North" by Charles Camsell, 1954. 18) excerpt from "In Search of a Polar Continent, 1905-1907" by Alfred H. Harrison. References to Loutit family and Von Hammerstein. 19) excerpt from "The Arctic Prairie" by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1911.

Athabasca Archives book excerpt collection

Edson Archives Canadian National Railway collection

  • CA EDSON edson-4
  • Collection
  • 1911-1996

Collection consists of items pertaining to Canadian National Railways. Items include a blueprint for the new lunchroom addition at the old station, various railway paperwork and forms, financial paperwork, history of the Big Eddy bridge and the new employee lodge, report on the "Mountain Divisional Point" at Jasper and plan for western transcontinental passenge train service.

Canadian National Railway

Northern Rivers Photographs collection

  • CA GLEN glen-1767
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1910-1920]

The collection consists of photographs of boats, individuals and posts on northern rivers. Includes views of the Cariboo and Prince Rupert, British Columbia and Mirror Landing and Grouard, Alberta.

Northern Rivers

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