Telling Our Stories

Telling Our Stories

Reflecting On Sports History

Image: Hockey team practicing on one of the outdoor rinks in the Bear Creek Valley, ca. 1950 (SPRA 1969.59.318) The following transcription is from the

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Dora Koberg Lozeron, Plane Spotter

Image: Dora’s Ground Observer Certificate (SPRA 006.01.02.01) Dora Koberg arrived in the Peace Country in 1918, with the Thomas family from St. Paul’s, Minnesota. She

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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.

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The Buzz on Beekeeping

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

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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.

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Serving Up Kindness

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

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The Sawdust Fusiliers

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

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