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The fonds consists of materials collected by the Archives Committee of the Lac Ste. Anne Historical Society throughout the 1950s for the publication of the local history West of the Fifth: a History of the Lac Ste. Anne Municipality. The fonds includes reminiscences, photographs, and correspondence collected by residents and former residents of the region dating from the 1915 and 1950s; and research materials such as maps, publications, clippings, pamphlets, and reports dating from the 1950s; and correspondence concerning the publication of West of the Fifth: a History of the Lac Ste. Anne Municipality dating from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The fonds consists of a photograph album belonging to Aristide Blais consisting of eighty black and white photographs featuring scenes of Edmonton, Alberta taken between 1906 to 1916.

The fonds consists of photographic postcards of the Peace River area, including views of Main Street, various buildings, a train, and views of the town; the images are by J. Martinos.

The fonds consists of photographs of the North Boundary Survey (1928). Survey party members included; Art Allen, Ken Allen, Frank Burstrom, Hank Hansen, Grant Hare, Al Lamonte (cook) and Jeremy Lomb.

The fonds consists of 12 photographs depicting Arthur Johnston and/or workers at a camp in Southern Alberta. The photographs show horses, buggies and other equipment used at the camp. The majority of the photographs use gelatin developing out paper. Seven of the photographs were used as postcards and have brief correspondence, addresses or identification on the back of the photographs. 5 photographs are mounted on cardboard stock.

This fonds consists mostly of Art Hughes photographs (1929-1964) including: the British Columbia/ Alberta Boundary Survey with A. O. Wheeler; guiding and outfitting with Stan Kitchen; road construction; Conscientious Objector camps; the Jasper Rodeo & Turf Club and several views of his family and friends. Fonds also includes textual records consisting of: a program from the Jasper Rodeo (1931); financial ledger (1927-1930) and a booklet "The Call of Untrodden Ways" (1923).

The fonds consists of: the personal diaries/daily journals (3) of Arthur Ion, a homesteader in the British Block (1912-1941); images of the Ion family.

The fonds consists of photograph albums with 191 photographs of receptions, events and trips as well as some newspaper clippings; newsletters; correspondence; a program; a pamphlet; and Béziers, a book about Béziers, France presented to Jean Fortier of the Association France-Canada de l'Alberta.

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.

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.