Telling Our Stories
Sweet Smell of Bannock
Image: Barrel race at the Sturgeon Lake Sports Day at Calais. Donald Williamson is on the front barrel – he eventually won the race. n.d.
Image: Barrel race at the Sturgeon Lake Sports Day at Calais. Donald Williamson is on the front barrel – he eventually won the race. n.d.
Above: O. H. “Rutabaga” Johnson and his rutabagas, ca. 1920 (SPRA 362.02.12.13) Oliver Hiram Johnson was born on August 16, 1856 in Capron County, Illinois
Above: Patients and nurses at a World War I convalescent hospital in 1918 (SPRA 1969.59.331) Following the end of the First World War, numerous ships
Image: “Aunt Jo” Haakstad, 1956. (SPRA 2009.122.03) The name “Johanna Haakstad” often elicits smiles and nods. For many of Johanna’s “grandbabies,” this kind woman not
Image: “Foster and Crossley with hives, 1934.” Photograph by W.D. Albright (SPRA 362.02.03.06) The Archives are buzzing with information about bees! Both archival collections and
Above: A diagram drawn by Kay showing “revised castering” on a bicycle. (From SPRA 438.02) This post is continued from Kay Trelle, Missile Man: Part I,
Above: Kay Trelle and Rex Ford, another first year engineer from Douglas Hall, in front of the Engineering building at Queen’s University in December 1940.
Image: I.O.D.E. member, Ann Watson, with Meals on Wheels, 1981 (SPRA 111.04.110) Scattered throughout the Archives’ collections, we see evidence of communities in the South
Image: A group of six men traveling by horse and wagon from Grande Prairie to Athabasca to enlist with the R.N.W.M.P. at the beginning of
Image: Wanham’s Main Street in 1931 (SPRA 018.03.50) The following excerpt was taken from the diary of Maria Wozniak. Maria’s diary was originally written in