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1860-1900 Expeditions: Overlanders and CPR Survey

"These records cover the early expeditions into the Yellowhead area from 1860 to 1900, including the Overlanders group of settlers and early surveys by the Canadian Pacific Railway to expand the railroad through this area and into western Canada. This series contains newspaper articles, photocopies of books and journal articles, photographs, transcripts of documents, and handwritten notes of commentary and research.
This series consists of the following files:

  1. Milton & Cheadle 1863
  2. Overlanders 1862
  3. Dr. John Rae’s Telegraph Survey Edmonton-Yellowhead to Quesnel 1864
  4. CPR Survey T.W. Trutch Present conditions of trails 1821
  5. Fleming, Sandford Ocean to Ocean
  6. Pierre Berton The Railway Pathfinders chapter 4 Moberly disobeys orders
  7. 1872 Walter Moberly - Diary (Dave Suttell) Wood River Trail
  8. Moberly - Columbia River 1871-1872 Building Scene
  9. Moberly - Walter Blazing the Trail Through the Rockies
  10. Moberly, Walter and the Northwest Passage by Rail - Daphne Sleigh
  11. Reports to Sandford Fleming Jan 13? 1873
  12. Walter Moberly petition for compensation 1875
  13. Klettl, Shirley Sept 12 1973 depot location
  14. Cook, Ken 1990-92 re Memories of a building structure in upper Whirlpool River
  15. Moberly, Walter 1872 Ross Cox Creek Building T. Peterson record of finding locations
  16. CPR Survey 1873 Temporary Storage Area opposite Wabassa campground
  17. Moberly, Frank
  18. Rylatt, RM 1871-73 Memories of a CPR Surveyor
  19. Athabasca Depot
  20. Green, Ashdown diary 1872-73-74
  21. Thomas Trapp general information
  22. 1876-77 Trapp, T J Journal
  23. CPR Surveys - E.W. Jarvis and C.F. Hanington
  24. Railroad Searching for a Seaport Author James Sirios
  25. Canadian Pacific Railway Report on Program rep to January 1874 Sandford Fleming
  26. 1877-78 Two Excursions H Percy & Mrs. Percy Jasper Area
  27. 1899 NW Mounted Police Patrol Edmonton-Jasper-Jasper House
  28. Maps of Jasper"

Archaeology and early history of Yellowhead County

These records cover the history of the Yellowhead County region, including modern archaeological digs, details of voyageur expeditions through the area, and Aboriginal settlement. This series contains newspaper articles, photocopies of books and journal articles, photographs, handwritten notes of commentary and research, and a text essay on DVD.
This series consists of the following files:

  1. The Geological Story of Jasper National Park
  2. Archaeological Student Research - Devona, Talbot Lake - Program Palisades
  3. Recent Archaeological finds in the Robb Area and Brule (2005)
  4. Recent Archaeological finding in the Rockies & JNP
  5. Pre-Historic Snake Indian & Iroquois Archaeological Report Jack Elliot 2009
    Devona Caves exploration
    Henry House expeditions: Ottos, Work, Simpson, Moberly, Trapp, Smith
    The Trail Through the Pembina Valley 1790-1912 by W.G.P. Allen and Henry House
    David Thompson and First Nations
    Outfitting, Surveying, and Exploring the Athabasca Region
    David Thompson’s Good Shed and Hudson’s Bay Company
    Misc. Reaching the Pacific includes 1812-13 use of Athabasca Pass opening trail system to Caledonia
    David Thompson modern scholarship and publicity
    The Journal of Daniel Williams Harmon 1808-1814 Special Information of living standards of Indians of Rockies
    Gabriel Franchère 1819 A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America
    Ross Cox 1817 The Columbia River
    John Work
    Aemilius Simpson - diary 1826
    Calder family history
    George Edward Camp
    Calder family history comments and Fort Langley: Outpost of Empire
    Calder family research references
    Smallpox epidemic c. 1870

Beth Sheehan, Historian

The sub-series consists of an index of material collected from pioneers in the Peace Country of Alberta by York University; a source list of material compiled in the Provincial Archives of Alberta on the Grande Prairie area before 1982; lists of archival material donated by Beth Sheehan to the Provincial Archives and the Grande Prairie Public Library; and cards with the names of Clairmont residents prepared for the 1978 Census.

Chepi Sepe - History Book Committee Records

The series consists of the History Book Committee records which include planning documents, financial records, minutes and correspondence, and original and/ or edited copies of submissions to the Spirit River history book Chepi Sepe. Subseries 4-13 record the history of the region and the Spirit River Settlement area, the coming of settlers and the growth of agriculture, businesses, industries, municipal governments, schools, churches, medical facilities, and the history of cultural and recreational groups. Also documented are the area's veterans of WWI and WWII, The main body of the records, subseries 13, contains original and/or edited copies of over 630 family histories arranged in files in alphabetical order by surname.