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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

Rotary Youth Development Association fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2011
  • Fonds
  • 1989

The fonds consists of the final report of the Job Entry Program Feasibility Study and Employer's Labour Needs Survey for the County of Athabasca and the Hamlet of Smith.

Rotary Youth Development Association

George Charles Marrinier fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2203
  • Fonds
  • 2007, 2009

The fonds consists of two books written by George Marrinier entitled "How I Remember Amber Valley" and "How I Remember Donatville" which includes maps, photographs and lists of settlers in these areas.

Marrinier, George Charles

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

Robert William Tannas collection

  • CA ATH ath-2180
  • Collection
  • 1912-2010

The fonds consists of a copy of the 1938 poem "Yarn of the Howling Gale, Cameron Shipyards, Athabasca" by William Bleasdell Cameron; a photograph of Mrs. Katherine Flynn (O'Brien); 2 articles about the 1907-1914 journey of Norwegian reindeer via Newfoundland, through Athabasca Landing to Fort Smith, NWT; a piece of pottery made by Athabasca Clay Products; a large framed photograph entitled "laying water main at Athabasca" [over the Muskeg Creek] with the name Voldeng & Bolton, 255 Jasper East, Edmonton written in one corner; and a photo of a man holding a hat (possible connections to Amber Valley).

Tannas, Robert William

Robert William Tannas fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1964
  • Fonds
  • 1980-2010

The fonds consists of photographs taken at town events, theatre productions, library/archives events, Remembrance Day services, Agricultural Society parades, Meanook Biological Station (Dominion Observatory), Edwin Parr Composite Community School graduations (1988, 1989), Alberta Pacific Environmental Impact Assessment Review Board meetings (1989), and four scrapbooks of clippings about Athabasca. Bob took photographs of the town's 75th anniversary proceedings. In 2009 Bob took 76 photographs of buildings in the Town of Athabasca and of the demolition of the Athabasca Community Centre. 2010 photos include the inside of the former and the new Buy-Low Foods store, and the demolition of the former store.

Tannas, Robert William

Cercle des Canadiens Francais de la Paroisse de St. Bruno fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2025
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1927

The fonds consists of a register containing the regulations of the association adopted Dec.11, 1921, a list of the members and meeting minutes from Dec.11, 1921 to Mar.4, 1922; correspondence. This material is in French. The revised regulations adopted Dec.11, 1927 are in English.

Cercle des Canadiens Francais de la Paroisse de St. Bruno

John Edwards fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2191
  • Fonds
  • 1970

The fonds consists of one school essay on Amber Valley, AB.

Edwards, John

Joseph Arthur Daigneau fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2084
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1911

The fonds consists of a 1909 photograph of the Romeo C. Farrell General Merchant store with Lance Smith, Louis Menard, Romeo Farrell, Athela (LaRue) Farrell and Ray Varin; a photograph of the interior of the Farrell and Daigneau store with Hamel, J.A. Daigneau, Jim Demers, Moise Hogne and Romeo Farrell; and a membership certificate to the Union Saint Joseph du Canada dated June, 1906.

Daigneau, Joseph Arthur

Amber Valley 100th Anniversary fonds

  • CA ATH ath-2196
  • Fonds
  • 2009

The fonds consists of the welcoming pamphlet, the registration form and the Sunday morning church songsheet. The artifact is a commemorative t-shirt featuring a sketch of Toles School.

Amber Valley 100th Anniversary

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