Fonds 116 DeBolt & District Pioneer Museum Society fonds

Across the Smoky is the history of the early settlers “who passed ‘Across the Smoky’ and were brave enough to stay long enough to leave their mark” in the district from Smoky River to Sturgeon Lake, comprising those areas served by the post offices of Goodwin, DeBolt, Crooked Creek, Clarkson Valley and Sturgeon Heights. Accounts include individual and family histories by date of arrival, poetry, post offices, schools, churches, entertainment, roads, floods and rivers, armed forces, and the Smoky River Bridge. Artwork is by Flora Mehlum and Alice Wilde. The book was edited by Winnie and Fran Moore and printed by Friesen Printers in 1978. A second printing was made in 1996.

The series consists of correspondence regarding the writing and printing of the book: the original, hand-written, first person accounts of the settlers or their descendents sent in specifically for this publication; accounts of community organizations compiled from research or memory; a series of township plans showing who was living in the district; lists of photographs and captions used in the publication; a codilith of a drawing used as the cover of the book; and a published copy of the book. Included with the original first person accounts is the Memoirs of Bill Sargent. There is also one unidentified photograph of a man playing a violin.

Edson to Grande Prairie Trail is a well-researched history of the pioneer trail which was opened as a quick route to the Peace Country in 1911. The trail was a project of some urgency because of the attraction the Peace Country had as the “Last Best West.” It was engineered by A.H. McQuarrie, and completed in a few short months in 1911. The book was written for the 75th anniversary of the Edson Trail in 1986, edited by Fran Moore and printed by Friesen Printers in 1988.

The series consists of the original manuscript and the research files used to create this publication: copies of diaries and personal stories from people who came in over the Edson Trail; copies of a series of stories written by A.H. McQuarrie from 1954 to 1966; copies of articles from the Edson Leader, the Edmonton Bulletin, and miscellaneous papers and magazines; and a series of maps and township plans of the Trail and families along it. There is also a correspondence file regarding planning, writing, financing and printing; one photograph of Edna Agar’s trip on the trail used in advertising; and a published copy of the book.

DeBolt Country Club & Agricultural Society was compiled for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the DeBolt Country Club and Agricultural Society. The DeBolt Country Club was formed as an Agricultural Society in 1929. Its predecessor was the DeBolt/Goodwin Development Club organized in 1925 to put on social events in the area and to be a medium through which prospective settlers could learn something about the area. The DeBolt Country Club served as the social center of the community for sports, social and community events. The book was a joint project between the Ag Society and the DeBolt & District Pioneer Museum, researched from minute books, local newspapers and private collections. It was printed by Friesen Printers in 1989.

The series consists of research files regarding the executive records and the activities of the club, the original manuscript put together in 1989, and a published copy of the book.

“Sawmills Across the Smoky” was researched by Stella Loewen and Fran Moore and written by Joan Bowman. Although it was initially printed as an individual coil-bound booklet, it was published in 2001 as the last chapter in Bridges to the Past.

The series consists of research, first draft (including photographs) and final textual draft of the “Sawmills Across the Smoky” chapter in Bridges to the Past. Histories, stories and photographs are included of the following mills: Airth, Bartel, Bickell, Binks, Burroughs, Chapman, Croken, Dana, Dascalo, DeBolt, Jantz/Diemert, Dorscheid, Enns, Gerwatoski, Giesbrecht, Gitzel, Haldin, Halwa, Hystad, Isaac, Isaac/Esau, Jantz, Loewen, Big 6, We 3, Maile, Pete Moon, C. Moon, Newman, Nilsson, Norton, Nowry, Perry, Reimer, Scott, and Smith, with minor notes on other mills in the area. There are also notes on interviews with Gene & Grace Dana, Art & Marion Loewen, and Sam & Mabel Jantz.

The series consists of the history book committee minutes, original family story submissions, histories of organizations, schools and businesses, correspondence and grant application, planning and organizational documents.

The series consists of personal documents and photographs belonging or relating to Ernst Gustaf Berg, Ruth Chapman, the Clarkson Family, George and Virginia DeBolt, Elbert and Laurie DeBolt, DeBolt and Bickell Sawmill, DeBolt Farmers Savings and Credit Union, Peter & Konstantine Elaschuck, Katherine Margaret Fehr, Lindsay family., Belle Matlock Swann, Robert Mehlum, Edna Stevenson, Garnet Summers, Jean Wilson, and Ellis Ross Turner.

Ernst Gustaf Berg was born May 19, 1903 in Sweden. He was a merchant seaman in his youth. In 1928 he emigrated from Sweden to Canada, sailing on the Drottingholm from the Swedish American Line and landing first in New York and then in Halifax. He travelled to Wiinnipeg on CN Rail and hoped to obtain farm work. He eventually came to Debolt area where he worked as a labourer on brushing crews and the like. A bachelor all his life, he lived in the DeBolt hotel during his entire stay in the hamlet. He eventually retired to the Red Willow Lodge in Valleyview and died in 1982.

The sub-series consists of a photograph of Gust Berg’s home in Sweden, immigration papers, a newspaper clipping with the announcement of the death of Konrad Karlsson, some cards written to Gust in later life when he was resident at Red Willow Lodge and his memorial card from 1982. The immigration papers are mostly in Swedish and include an official document when he was 18 years old, his immigration ticket to sail on the Swedish American Line on Sept 8, 1928, a ship surgeon’s certificate, immigration identification card, and a Canadian National Railways pass stating he is looking for farm work.

Ruth Chapman was enrolled in her teacher’s training in the Edmonton Training School in September, 1942. Two-thirds through her training, her class was offered a long list of available schools in Alberta needing teachers. Her father advised her to go north so early in October, Ruth and several classmates boarded the train for Sturgeon Heights. She disembarked at High Prairie to catch the mail truck to go cross country to Sturgeon Lake. She taught and lived at Sturgeon Heights School for two years, returning to Edmonton to finish her training and then coming back to Sturgeon Hieights for the 1943-44 term. In the summer of 1944, Ruth married Bill Chapman and lived at Moon’s Sawmill where Bill was the foreman. She had a three mile walk to her school at Clarkson Valley. In 1946-47 term a new teacherage was built at Clarkson Valley and Ruth and Bill moved there with their infant son, William. The family moved to their permanent home on the farm in Crooked Creek in July, 1947. Lewis Lee was born in March, 1948. Farming and trucking kept Bill busy. In 1952, Ruth returned to teaching in Ridgevalley School and remained there until her retirement in 1976, with the exception of 2 years at Edson Trail School.

The sub-series consists of the typewritten memoirs of Ruth I. (Baughn) Chapman, a teacher in the East Smoky School Division, and covers the period of 1942-1979. Also included is a history of the Ridgevalley School District #4563 presented at the 1979 Ridevalley Reunion.

Originally from New Brunswick, Martin Clarkson with his wife and five children: Albion (Slim), Gladys, Jennie, James and Douglas and his brother Thomas moved to the Peace country in 1919. Martin purchased the SW 4-72-4 W6, known as the Gilmore homestead in the Crystal Creek area, while Thomas took a homestead on the west slope of what is now known as Clarkson Hill near Sturgeon Lake. Martin subsequently purchased the SE 8-72-4 W6 and in 1926, his son , James purchased the NE-5-72-4 W6 in 1926. He married Gertrude Rumohr; Gladys married Gerald Carveth; Jennie married Jock McDonald. Doug married Emma Altenhof in 1935 but there is no records of their life together and he farmed in the Crystal Creek area on the original homestead most of his life known as a bachelor. He contributed greatly to the Grande Prairie Agricultural Society and was largely responsible for getting the fairgounds moved from the city to its county location at Evergreen Park. He also helped establish and was a curator of the Grande Prairie Pioneer Museum. Mrs. Martin Clarkson died of diabetes in1949 at age 74 and Martin died in 1960 at age 91.

The sub-series consists of correspondence from The Soldier Settlement Board of Canada in 1926 regarding insurance on his buildings on NE 5-72-4-W6; tax notices and receipts from the M.D. of Grande Prairie from 1923-1926; a 1927 agreement with the Grande Prairie District Co-operative Livestock Marketing Association; receipts and communications from the Alberta Co-operative Wheat Producers (Wheat Pool) from 1925-1927 showing how many trips and much grain Mr. Clarkson delivered in the winter; and miscellaneous items dating from 1919-1965: receipts from C.A. McDonald Co., E.D. & B.C. Railway and Thompson & Tooley at Grande Prairie; correspondence from Weights and Measures, Trust & Loan Co. and Midlandvale sales; and a poster for Forrest & Edith Falk’s Auction. Also included is an over-sized wedding certificate from the marriage of Douglas Wilson Clarkson and Emma Altenhof in 1935, and a 1954 accounts book recording farm income and expenses for that year.

Virginia Baker was born in Virginia but migrated with her family to Washington state where she met George whom she married in 1911. George DeBolt’s parents also moved west to Washington and George took out a homestead there. In May, 1919, George DeBolt, his brother, Elbert and George’s wife, Virginia, arrived in the Peace country and George filed on the NW-12-72-1 W6 which later George returned to his former home in Washington in February, 1920, but became very ill with the flu and didn’t return with the carload of goods and animals until June, 1920. George and Virgie ran a stopping place for ten years and by the mid 1920s George had become a road foreman, a job he held until his retirement. Virgie, for over forty years was Debolt’s weekly news correspondent for the Grande Prairie Herald. George passed away at his home in 19611 at the age of 77 and Virgie sold their farm to grand-nephew, Maurice Moore, and retired to Pioneer Lodge in Grande Prairie. She was a member of the Debolt United Church and a life-long member of the Debolt United Church Women. She served on the Nursing Association board, the school board, the church board, the Debolt Country Club and participated in the Debolt Curling Club She received congratulations from the premier Peter Lougheed on her 100th birthday in 1982. She died a year later.

The sub-series consists of a few copied pages of a diary, 1948-1951, with notes about climate in those years; 1961 story and articles about George and Virginia DeBolt; two certificates from the Province of Alberta on the occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1961; an Easement Agreement for widening a road onto his land, for which he was paid $1.00 in 1961; and an article and certificate for Virginia’s 100th birthday in 1982.

In 1920, Laura (Bickell) DeBolt followed husband and brother-in-law, Elbert and George from Adrian, Washington, to the Peace country bringing children, Winnie, 7, Dorothy, 5, and Dale, 7 weeks. In 1921 the family moved to their homestead, now the hamlet of Debolt. From 1922 on the DeBolts operated a post office and store in their home until they built a new home in 1933. Four more children were born: Jack, Clifford, Frances and Georgia. Elbert worked as a land agent and a blacksmith. The two DeBolt families were active in community organizations. As their homestead became a hamlet, they leased land to a store, a hall, a sawmill, and a church. In 1941 the Elbert DeBolt family, with the exception of Winnie, moved to Spirit River. Elbert worked as a land assessor and then was an MLA for the Spirit River area for 12 years.

The sub-series consists of Transfer of Land document for the transfer of Lot 20, Blk 3, Plan 1273 HW in DeBolt from Elbert and Laurie DeBolt to the DeBolt United Church for $1.00 in 1948. There is also a certificate from the Province of Alberta on the occasion of their 50th Anniversary.

Not long after Laura and Elbert DeBolt had moved to the DeBolt area, Laura’s father, Richard Bickell, visited the area and came back to Washington where he had already set up a sawmill, with glowing reports. Richard’s son, John, with wife Nettie and young children, Charlotte and Richard, decided to make the move from Aberdeen, Washington, in 1928. John’s father, Richard, had already chosen a homestead for himself and John. John’s Uncle Elbert took hin to view the timer on his property and they were soon in the sawmill business. It was located at Altenhof Lake near SW 9-72-26 W5. A few years later they relacated to the Elbert homestead, which is now the hamlet of DeBolt, near what is now the Legion Hall. They located their steam outfit close to the creek. Lumber was sawed for homes, barns, grain bins, planks for floors, birch for building and repairing wagons and sleighs and slabs for fences and for firing the steam engine. Planer shaving were utilized for insulation in walls and ceilings and saw dust for insulation in ice houses. In 1937-38, John purchased Elbert DeBolt’s interest and moved the mill to the Bickell farm SW 13-72-1-W6. about one mile north of DeBolt. The mills consisted of a sawmill, planer mill and shingle mill. Grandfather Bickell lived one-quarter mile from the mill and did blacksmith work and repaired harnesses. As the log haul became longer, horses were replaced with trucks pulling heavy sleighs. About 1942-43, the old steam mill was closed and a new mill was built just east of the old one, powered by a farm tractor and then by a diesel power unit. As WWII was on, the demand for lumber was increasing and army issue trucks were available to haul the luimber. In 1945, the farm sawmill was closed and relocated east into the timber area and eventually Bickells bush mills came into being and the Big Six sawmill and Enns sawmill to saw lumber for Mr. Bickell. John Bickell formed a partership with Norman Swallow of Grande Prairie and they operated as Bickell and Swallow Lbr. Co. Ltd. In the early 1950s, Bickell and Swallow and the Crooked Creek Lumber Co. put up funds to build a placer mill in Grande Prairie to plane lumber for all the mills. In 1952 Bickell, Charlie Moon and Hector Morrison formed Northern Plywood Co. and in 1954, Canadian Forest Products Ltd. became involved with the partners.

The sub-series consists of one “Record book of all sawing done at the Saw-mill of DeBolt and Bickell erected on SW 12-72-1-W6 between May 5, 1935 and August 7th, 1935. The book also includes a “Notice to Operators of Saw-Mills” re: timber regulations; a blank Affadavit form; and a blank Application for a Settler’s Timber Permit. Note on front of book says “M.B. 893 Expires 31st March 1936.”

The DeBolt Farmers Savings and Credit Union was incorporated June 5, 1943. R.F.T Stevenson was Chairman of the Credit Committee in 1952.

The sub-series consists of the original Certification of Incorporation for The DeBolt Farmers Savings and Credit Union in 1943 and a Summary of Examinations for Credit Unions in Alberta for 1951.

Peter and Konstantine Elaschuk homesteaded in DeBolt during the Depression, filing on the N 1/2 of Section 2-71-25-W5. They were known to their neighbours as hard working and cheerful young men. Each lived on his own farmstead and brushed enough land by hand to become self-sustaining. They built log buildings, rail fences, farmed with horses, raised cows, pigs and chickens. They had root cellars for vegetables and even did some canning. They left the area during the war and are still living in B.C.

The sub-series consists of two Romanian passports for the two Elaschuk brothers, Peter and Constantine; an immigration certificate for Constantine dated March 27, 1924; two 1928 Canadian Pacific Express Company receipts made out in Winnipeg for money sent home to Ivan Elaschuk in Bukowina, Roumania; a bank book from the Royal Bank in Grande Prairie from 1933-1939; a credit note from the Alberta Department of Municipal Affairs giving credit against taxes for doing road work in 1934, a 1943 letter sent from K. Elaschuk to his brother while he was in the Mental Hospital in Ponoka, Alberta; and eight photographs showing them as young men in Romania with their wives, dressed to travel to Canada; then as men with friends and in work camps in Canada.

Katherine Fehr was the daughter of Mary and Jake Fehr who moved to the Peace country in 1928 from the Sunny Slope district. They went by train, the father first with the livestock and household goods and the family came ona later train. Katherine was one of six children: Bernard (Ben), Jacob (Jake), Ernes, Anna, Katherine and Mary. The family first moved into the George Tilley homestead shack. Jake Junior’s homestead was NW 35-71-1 W6 and brother Ben homesteaded SW 35-71-1 W6.Their father took the homestead just south of Ben’s and built a good sized log home there by standing the logs on end as that was the only way he imagined being able to do it by himself. Later he built a better log home. The two oldest boys worked out in the winter to help support the family. In 1934 Anna passed away and the same fall Katherine was married to Sven Carlson. She was eighteen years old. They trapped animals in the winter and rode horseback to herd their cattle across the Smoky to Kleskun Lake for the winter feeding grounds and back again in the spring. Getting the cattle to swim the river twice a year was always an difficult venture. They also used dogs to carry supplies from cabin to cabin on the trapline. In 1944, their only child, Elaine, was born. But by the time she was four yearsold, they had moved to Beechy, Saskatchewan, and the marriage was over. Katherine went out to work – as a telephone operator, and a housekeeper. In 1949, her father passed away and she and Elaine moved to Red Deer and lived with her mother and adopted sister, Erna, for a few years. For a time they all moved to Brantford Ontario where her brother lived and she worked in the Simcoe Mitt and Glove factory. The in 1954, she answered an ad in the paper which resulted in her becoming Mrs. Jack McGillvray with an added family of one son and five daughters, but the oldest four were starting careers and away from home mostly. Jack made a stab at farming but was not healthy and in 1957 died from a heart attack. By 1959, Katherine was working for the Singer Sewing Machine Co.in Calgary and Elaine became a secretary. At the age of fifty, Katherine took training to become a Practical Nurse. She eventually monved to BC where her married daughter and grandchildren lived.

The sub-series consists of an autobiography of Katherine Margaret Fehr tracin her life from 1916-1997.

The sub-series consists of a certificate of confirmation for Isabella May Lindsey from St. Paul’s United Church in Goodwin in 1945; a “Catechism with Order of Confirmation” from the Church of England, undated; and a “Co-op News” Magazine from 1964.

Miss Belle Crider taught in her first school from 1918-1921. During this time she met and married Albert Matlock. She came to the Peace country with her husband, Albert, in May, 1930 after a hail storm had ruined their crop on their rented farm. Albert’s two older brothers had homesteaded in the Debolt area already. They got together with other families heading north and loaded two freight cars with animals, household effects and some of the cars and four days after the freight left with Albert accompanying the freight, the rest of the group loaded into two vehicles for the long road journey. They homesteaded the quarter NW 8-72-26-W5. They lived in a bachelor’s log shack for over a year until they could get the logs out for a log house. Later they lived in Albert’s parents house which was beside the highway then. Their children were Harold, Donald, Barbara Turner, Eula Miller, and Dean. From 1940-1956 Belle taught in area schools and in 1959 she went south to teach for a few years. Her husband died in 1960 and she sold their land to her son, Harold. She came back north in 1962 and spent two years in High Prairie, then settled in north Goodwin. Duringr her retirement, she married Mr. Tom Swann and they spent winters in BC.

The sub-series consists of a typed record of Mrs. Matlock’s teaching years, a cheque stub from her teacher’s salary (1955), a church envelope from Debolt United Church (1980), and a certificate from the Debolt Museum honoring her as “pioneer extraordinary” in 1980.

Ed and Pearl Mehlum were established on a homstead in Adrian, Washington, when their son Robert was born in 1916. In 1919 the Mehlums and the BeBolt brothers came to the Peace country and took out homesteads in the DeBolt area. Ed filed on SE 13-72-1-W6 and also filed by proxy for his brother, John. The men returned to Washington and in September loaded their livestock and settlers’ effect on the rain for the long trip north. Pearl and Robert came in December. By 1923, the Edson Trail School District N0. 4082 was organized and a one room school built. Ed, Pearl and Robert continued to live on their original homestead throughout their life. Robert took over the farming operation in 1964. Robert hired housekeepers to help him during spring and fall work. Flora Hensrud was hired in 1969 and in in 1970, she became Mrs. Robert Mehlum. Robert was active in the DeBolt Country Club,the Agricultural Service Board, the Edson Trail School District, and later the East Smoky School Division.

The sub-series consists of Robert’s school exercise scribbler for writing class (1930), a violin self-instruction music book, a Junior Red Cross Health Game record (1929), a 1970 booklet celebrating 38 years of the United Church in DeBolt, a package of Departmental Examinations for Grade 8 in 1929-1931, a written history of John Mehlum’s Log Barn built in the 1930s,and an Alberta Government Telephones booklet advertising multi-party sevice in 1966.

Edna Abbott was born in 1899 in Quincy Massachusetts. Three years later she moved with her parents to Prince Edward Island. At seventeen she was engaged to Frank Stevenson who enlisted for service in WWI. Frank read wonderful descriptions of the Peace country while he was overseas and when the War was over decided to check it out. Meanwhile Edna had gone to New Jersey and trained as a nurse. After graduating Frank and Edna met and were married in Edmonton in1927. As she arrived at the homestead she found a threshing crew expecting her to cook for them. When the community found out she was a nurse, her job started. She delivered many babies, and bandaged patients sometimes transported on stone boats or sleighs. The Stevenson’s had five children over the next ten years: Frank, Robert, Alice, Lloyd and Edna. All married and lived in the district. In 1943, Edna went to work full time as district health nurse and her district was from Smoky River to Sturgeon Heights. In 1947, Frank drew up plans for a new house and in1949 they moved in. Edna retired from nursing in 1973 after a total of 54 years of country nursing, the last 30 as a paid district nurse. Frank died in 1974.

The sub-series consists of a copy of two page memoir of Edna’s early years as a nurse in the DeBolt area. (See biographical sketch)

Garnet Forrest Summers was born in 1902 in Winchester, Ontario. He attended Winchester High School, and at the age of 20 headed west to Iley, Saskatchewan to help on a harvest excursion. He returned to Ontario and got a certificate as chief cheesemaker from the Dept. of Agriculture and in 1923 was hired by the Burns Company to run the cheese factory in Round Hill, Alberta, near Camrose. He married Stella Marguerite Bosmans in 1923 and had two children: Merle Gordon in 1924 and Marguerite Stella in 1925. Stella died in 1932 after a long-standing illness. Garnet remarried to Marjorie Louise Black and had three more children. After Round Hill, Garnet was employed by Woodland Dairies in Ryley until 1939 when they moved to Crooked Creek, Alberta. Garnet was the first cheese-maker at the Ridge Valley Cooperative Association Cheese Factory. This Association was formed on April 8, 1939 to provide a milk market for the farmers in the Ridgevalley and DeBolt areas. The factory was located beside Deep Creek, on the southern edge of the SW14-71-26-W5. Over the next 10 years or so, the Summers family lived at Crooked Creek off and on. The cheese factory closed for a year in 1940, and from 1942-1944 the family was in Raymond. Returning to Crooked Creek in 1944, they also purchased land and did some farming. Merle joined the air force in February 1943 and trained as an air gunner. After the war he returned to Crooked Creek to help his father in cheese making and farming, and spent the winter in a lumbercamp in Crooked Creek. He graduated from the U of A with an Agriculture Degree from the U of A, married and farmed southeast of Calgary for the remainder of his life. Marguerite married an American Serviceman in 1942 and lived in the U.S. Garnet was a master cheese-maker and achieved first place ribbon success at fairs throughout western Canada. He died on October 5, 1972.

The sub-series consists of two 1919 report cards from Winchester High School, a 1932 telegram on the death of his wife, personal correspondence, score cards and clippings for prize-winning cheeses. There is also a letter addressed to K258434 AC2 Summers, MG in care of the RCAF in Edmonton.

Jean Dolly Pearl Sutley was born September 20, 1919 and was a resident of the Clarkson Valley area from 1932 to 1951, and after military postings in Edmonton and Vancouver with her husband, Elmer Wilson, the couple retired to DeBolt in 1971. After ther husband’s death, Jean lived in a seniors’ apartment in Edmonton. Jean passed away in 1990 and is survived by her daughter, Jean Plaquin, her sons Ben and Milton and and brother Ben Sutley.

The sub-series consists of a notice of her funeral, an obituary and a registration certificate for the electoral district #223 and Polling Division 54 in 1940.

Ellis Ross Turner was born July 31, 1906, in Calgary, the son of Sam and Agnes Turner. In 1920, at age 14, he moved with his parents, Sam and Agnes, and brother, Albert, to the Peace country and they settled at the old Bezanson townsite. Three years later they moved to DeBolt. A sister,Ethel, came up in 1920 and taught for time at Glen Leslie. In December, 1940 Ellis married Barbara Matlock. They had three daughters: Joan (Mrs. Wayne Bowman), Linda (Mrs. Howard ManDonald), and Valerie (Mrs. Michael Peterson) and a son, Bill (Mona). Ellis farmed three quarters of land after spending three years in the RCAF during WWII. He was community minded, serving on the BeBolt & District Pioneer Museum Noard, the Cemetery Board, the Royal Canadian Legion, and 26 years on the Grande Prairie Hospital Board. Ellis died in 1995.

The sub-series consists of a copy of the eulogy for Ellis’ funeral, and two letters from Alberta Lands and Forests concerning roadways affecting Williamson Provincial Park in 1974.

The series consists of paper artefacts preserved by the DeBolt and District Pioneer Museum Society. They include calendars from the Grande Prairie Garage Co. Ltd., Joe’s Corner Coffee Shop, and James Drug Store; programs for the DeBolt Stamped, Slave Lake Winter Games, and the opening of Red Willlow Lodge in Valleyview; Canadian Junior Red Cross certificates, and counter sales slips from the Crooked Creek General Store.

The series consists of a series of 10 Alberta Road Maps from 1958-1983; Game Regulation maps from 1977-1981; and a tourism map showing early trails in Northern Alberta.

The series consists of 635 historical photographs and 1068 negatives produced from historical photographs gathered from a variety of families and individuals, primarily for use in the various publications produced by the DeBolt and District Pioneer Museum, and 385 negatives of old buildings in the Goodwin, DeBolt, Crooked Creek, and Clarkson Valley/Sturgeon Heights areas. The series is divided into two sub-series: General Files and Old Building Project.

The sub-series consists of photographs and negatives produced from photographs. The images were gathered from a variety of families and individuals, primarily for use in the various publications produced by the DeBolt and District Pioneer Museum ( “Across the Smoky”, “Bridges to the Past”, “Edson to Grande Prairie Trail”, and “DeBolt Country Club and Agricultural Society 60th Anniversary Book”). The sub-series is divided into two files: General Files – Negatives and General Files – Photographs to reflect how the images were originally maintained. There is some overlap of images between the two files.

The file consists of negatives produced from historical photographs gathered from a variety of families and individuals, primarily for use in the various publications produced by the DeBolt and District Pioneer Museum ( “Across the Smoky”, “Bridges to the Past”, “Edson to Grande Prairie Trail”, and “DeBolt Country Club and Agricultural Society 60th Anniversary Book”. The negatives were originally arranged in topically (Family Names, Businesses, Bridges, Children, Churches, Farming, Forests, Home-Building, Museum, Nature, Special Events, Social Affairs, Stampedes, Sports Day, Transportation, Vehicles, Edson Trail, DeBolt Country Club) with each negative numbered individually, and arranged in number order. The original order has been retained by the Archivist and duplicate and strongly similar or unrelated images have been discarded. Many of the images also exist as prints in the “General Files – Photographs” file under different numbers.