Oslie, Muriel
Teacher, Farmer, Merchant
1904-

Muriel Oslie was a school teacher before settling down as a 
farmer in Weyburn, Saskatchewan in 1931.  In 1937 she moved
to the Peace River District of Alberta, where she operated a trading
post in Martin River until the early forties and a store in Three
Creeks until 1969.  Mrs. Oslie recorded interviews with Peace River
residents, and together with her detailed diaries, she has preserved
a personal history of frontier life in northern Alberta.

Multiple media, 1931-1990, 0.14 m

Diaries, 1931-1969

Interviews, 1966-1978 
Memoirs of neighbours in the Peace River country (5 sound  
tape reels, 5 sound tape cassettes).

Memoirs, 1978 
Recorded on three sound tape cassettes.

Photographs, 1938-1941 
Life and work in northern Alberta (7 images).

Publications, 1990
Copy of self-published book, Oslie Trade Post, Martin River,
Three Creeks.

Access: Restricted