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10509 -- 100th Avenue collection

  • CA PAA paa-9259
  • Collection
  • 1965

The collection consists of four photographs of a building located at 10509- 100th Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta taken by an unknown photographer.

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Alberni District Historical Society Archives map collection

  • Collection
  • 1886-1993

The collection consists of settlement maps (including townsite and subdivision plans), land use maps, street maps, logging and forest road maps, mineral claim maps, railroad and rights-of-way maps, real estate maps, recreational maps (including parks), and other maps of communities and areas in the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District.

Alice Whitfield collection

  • CA PAA paa-6708
  • Collection
  • Copied 1971-1973

Collection consists of an undated townsite map and lot pricelist for the Townsite of Lignite, Alberta, a newspaper clipping about Tail Creek, Alberta dated 1953, an undated pamphlet published by the Alix Board of Trade, and photographs depicting various people and views of Alix, Alberta dating 1905-1976.

Whitfield, Alice

Andrij Baziuk collection

  • CA PAA paa-9751
  • Collection
  • 1922-1951

<p>The collection consists of films used in an itinerant picture show that toured through rural Saskatchewan, particularly through Ukrainian communities around Regina, during the 1930s-50s. The films include episodes of popular series such as Tarzan of the Apes, Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, and Hopalong Cassidy; full-length genre films including Westerns and melodramas; comedy shorts; compilations of trailers for Hollywood features; episodes of Canadian Movietone News for 1950-51; a documentary about Inuit life in the 1940s; and two feature-length Ukrainian films that were made in North America. Both of these films were produced by Ukrainian-Canadian Vasile Avramenko. The first is entitled Cossacks in Exile (Zaporozhets za dunaem) (Edgar L. Ulmer, 1938), while the second is entitled Marusia (Leo Bulgakov, 1938). These films are in the Ukrainian language with English subtitles, were specifically made for the expatriate Ukrainian community in North America, and are rare examples of Ukrainian commercial filmmaking in North America.</p>;<p>Many of the films are fragments of larger works, but it is unclear if the complete films were ever shown as part of the travelling picture show.</p>;<p>The collection also contains a poster for Cossacks in Exile and an original cardboard box used to house one of the film reels.</p>

Baziuk, Andrij

Annette Krygier collection

  • JHSE jhse-231
  • Collection
  • 2003

The fonds consists of an article written by Ms. Krygier's granddaughter, Tal Hyman, about their trip together to Washington, D.C. to attend the 10th anniversary tribute to Holocaust Survivors at the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2003. There are also 3 photographs from the trip.

Krygier, Annette

Annie and Charles Johnston collection

  • CA PAA paa-9391
  • Collection
  • 1969

The collection consists of transcripts of interviews with Annie and Charles Johnston recalling their life in Bowden, Alberta at the beginning of the 20th century typed by Abe Sawatsky of the Bowden Historical Society in 1969.

Johnston, Annie

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

Athabasca Archives Directories collection

  • CA ATH ath-2045
  • Collection
  • 1900-1929

The fonds consists of photocopies of pages relating to Athabasca from the 1900-1901 Lovells Directory of Manitoba, NWT; 1905,1907,1928-29 Henderson's Gazeteer and Directory; and the 1920, 1922 Wrigley's Directory. The archives also has a copy of the complete Henderson's Directory from 1914.

Athabasca Archives Directories collection

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