Transportation - Landing Activities

Freighting Activities

Traders boats leaving Athabasca Landing
Provincial Archives of Alberta, B2980.

Upon reaching the crest of the hill overlooking the picturesque valley of the Athabasca, at its northward bend, we were greatly disappointed to behold the river still locked in the ice of winter. We were compelled to wait four days before it opened...A quarter of a mile up the river was the free trader's establishment, where a barge was being built to take down their summer outfit. Below the Company's wharf lay the "Athabasca", a stern wheel steamer, drawn out upon the bank for the winter. (Athabasca Historical Society 1986, 35)

	Interview clip with Hugo Carlson, describing how much freight came through Athabasca. Athabasca Archives, audio tape #153.
	Loading freight at Athabasca Landing, 1912.

Interview clip with C.J. Raynor Whitely, shares experiences as a freight handler. Athabasca Archives, audio tape #8, accession #85.285.

Ice in the Athabasca River

The Northland Sun at Mirror Landing.

Mirror Landing across the river from Smith

Mirror Landing

Revillon Frères boats at Athabasca Landing, 1907.

Athabasca Landing, view from across the river

Tug and scows on Athabasca River, Alberta, 1911.

Scows at Athabasca Landing, 1911.

Natives with Steamer taking on wood

Passengers on the Beaver (boat)

Landing Scows at Athabasca

Two NTC steamboats

Loading HBC scows at Athabasca Landing, Alberta, 1912.

Scows leaving Athabasca Landing

Athabasca Landing, September, 1907.

Loading boats at Athabasca Landing, September, 1906.

Athabasca Ferry, 1906

Superintendent Gilbert E. Sanders and party

Hudson Bay Company Scows at the Landing.

Mounted Police Patrol, Athabasca, Alberta.

Crowd on beach, Athabasca Landing, Alberta. 1911

Reindeer in corral at Stony Creek, Alberta, 1911.