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Abstract: Pertains to the "Pioneer Families of Southern Alberta" publication compiled in 1995 - addendum for centennial with additional biographical information

Contents: Ascheson to Astley; Baille to Byers; Callaway to Cyr; Dalgleish to Dyke; Earl to Ewell; Faiery to Fullerton; Gaetz to Gunn; Haines to Hutchison; Ilugason to Irvine; Jack to Jukes; Kauntz to Kountz; Lacombe to Lyndon; MacDonald to Myers; Naessens to Norrish; O'Brien to Owens; Pace to Pullar; Quail; Ramsay to Ruers; Sample sto Sweinhurt; Talbot to Tyson; Vanwart to Vincent; Wakeford to Wright; York to Yuill; Zanoni; Illustrations - photos prepared by Robert (Bud) Vine

Notes: Addendum to 08.2 So8p

Accession Number: 2019.68

Call Number: 08.2 So8a

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Website for Southern Alberta Pioneers and their Descendants

Websites

http://pioneersalberta.org/

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Diary of a wilderness dweller

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19887

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Czajkowski, Chris

Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers

Call Number: 01.4 C11d

2 websites

Author: Czajkowski, Chris

Responsibility: Chris Czajkowski

Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers

Physical Description: x, 209 p. : ill., map, port. ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Wilderness areas; Pioneer life; British Columbia; Coast Mountains; Dairies; Biography; Natural history

Abstract: Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski begins: “It is two days since I left my truck at the end of a logging road twenty miles east of here. I have hiked through untracked forest and over a mountain, through country I have never seen before, to reach a point of land jutting into an un-named lake five thousand feet hight in the Coast Range of British Columbia. And yet, unbelievably, I now have rights, in our civilization’s laws, to adapt this uncompromising pile of boulders and its wind-weary trees to my own ends; I plan to build on it, single-handedly, two cabins, a business, and a life. I must be crazy” Thus wrote Chris Czajkowski as, aged 37 years old, she arrived at an un-named location that she later called Nuk Tessli. This book spans a period of three years where first Chris lived in a tent until she erected the first cabin, finding, falling, peeling and hauling all the logs alone, then moved under the first roof while she completed (more or less) the second. Contact with the outside world was via a long hike in summer and a 4-day snowshoe trip in winter. Crazy or not, Chris made this place work for her, and eventually lived there for 23 years.

Notes: The front inside cover of the book has been annotated by the author. The annotation reads as follows, “To Janet, All my best, Chris Czajkowski”; The abstract has been taken from the official website of the author, the URL can be found below

ISBN: 1551430592

Accession Number: 2019.60

Call Number: 01.4 C11d

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: The URL has been linked to the official website for the author, Chris Czajkowski. Contains information on the book, as well as additional information concerning the authors personal life.; The second URL is linked to the authors official website in which the abstract has been taken from

Websites

http://www.wildernessdweller.ca/

https://www.wildernessdweller.ca/all-book/diary-of-a-wilderness-dweller/

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Pioneer families of Southern Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19929

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1993

Author: Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants

Publisher: [Calgary] : Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants

Edition: 1st ed

Call Number: 08.2 So8p

1 website

Author: Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants

Responsibility: Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants

Edition: 1st ed

Publisher: [Calgary] : Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants

Published Date: 1993

Physical Description: 257p. : ill., ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Biography; History of Alberta; History; Pioneer life

Abstract: "A 'Pioneer,' for this account, is a person who was resident of that part of the Province of Alberta lying south of Township 40 on December 31, 1890 and a person who was resident in the three prairie provinces prior to December 31, 1890 who applied for and was admitted to membership in the Society [now Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants] between May 8, 1964 and October 25, 1967."--Introd.

Contents: Prologue - Pioneers Memories Treasured; Forward; Calgary Stampede; Introduction; Biography Index & Genealogical Information; Biographies; History; Past Presidents; Pioneer Photographs

Notes: Links to "A 2005 Centennial Addendum to the 1993 Publication" Call # 08.2 So8a

Accession Number: 2019.68

Call Number: 08.2 So8p

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Website for Southern Alberta Pioneers and their Descendants

Websites

http://pioneersalberta.org/

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