Donating to the Museum

Address: 10302-99 Street, Peace River, Alberta 
Phone: (780)624-4261 
E-mail: museum@peaceriver.ca
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Artifact Donations

The Peace River Museum is a Recognized Museum through the Alberta Museums Association ensuring that we maintain best practice standards.

Our Artifact Collections Mandate is to collect, preserve and make publicly accessible objects representative of the human and natural history of the Town of Peace River and Shaftesbury Settlement.

If you have items you wish to donate to the museum, please contact the museum in advance to discuss your donation. We are unable to accept artifacts from outside of our mandate area, but we are happy to connect you with a Museum in that location where possible.

Archival Donations

The Peace River Archives is an institutional member of the Archives Society of Alberta and as such, conform to a high standard of preservation.

Our Archival Collections Mandate is to collect, preserve and make publicly accessible the documentary history of the Town of Peace River and the North Peace Region. To this end, we will accept material from within the following municipalities: Town of Peace River, County of Northern Lights, County of Northern Sunrise, Clear Hills County, Municipal District of Peace and Municipal District of Fairview.

If you have items that you wish to donate to the Archives, please contact the museum in advance to discuss your donation.

Financial Support

The cost of running a museum, especially a growing museum, is a significant one. The Peace River Museum, Archives and Mackenzie Centre depends on the Town of Peace River, fundraising efforts from groups such as the Sir Alexander Mackenzie Historical Society, government grants, and from the generous donations of patrons.

If you would like to support our museum financially, or find out about our needs, please contact the Museum at museum@peaceriver.ca or 780-624-4261.

Charitable Donation Receipts for Income Tax purposes can be provided for monetary donations over $20.

Richardson/Campbell Museum Fund

The Town of Peace River is grateful to local donors Lorne and Melanie Campbell, for their establishment of a legacy fund to the Peace River Museum and Archives.

Ron Campbell in a formal pose wearing a navy suit with an ornate wooden panel background. background and a — Ron Campbell

The Richardson/Campbell Museum Fund is administered by the Town of Peace River through the Ron and Peggy Campbell Legacy Fund managed as a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) by the Edmonton Community Foundation. It was established by Lorne and Melanie Campbell in memory of Lorne’s father, Ron Campbell, and mother, Peggy Campbell, to honor their residence in Peace River and contributions to the Town. It also honors Peggy’s parents, Charlie and Mabel Blanchard Richardson, and Ron’s parents, Archie Campbell and Mary McDougall Campbell, all of whom resided in Peace River. Its purpose is to provide financial support to the Peace River Museum, Archives and Mackenzie Centre.

The Edmonton Community Foundation is a registered charitable public foundation. The Foundation assembles and administers permanent pools of capital so that the returns can be perpetually reinvested in charitable organizations.

Mabel Blanchard Richardson was born in 1895 at Fort Francis, Ontario. In 1910, Mabel traveled at the age of 15 on the Edson Trail to Lake Saskatoon, near present-day Grande Prairie, where the family homesteaded. Charles Richardson was known as Charlie. He was born in 1883 in Thorhild, Ontario. In 1908, Charlie traveled to the Peace Country. Charlie met Mabel in Lake Saskatoon, and they were married in 1915. They moved to Peace River in 1916, where Charlie was an Inspector for all Revillon Freres in Northern Alberta, requiring him to travel on the DA Thomas as far north as Fort Vermillion. Later, Charlie had an insurance/real estate business on Main Street in Peace River. Charlie served as Secretary Treasurer of the Peace River School Division and the Peace River Hospital. Charles and Mabel had two daughters: Peggy, who married Ron Campbell, and Eileen, who married Bill Skead. Charlie died in 1964, and Mabel died in 1988.

Archie Campbell was born in Scotland. He emigrated to Canada, first residing in Moosomin, Saskatchewan and then in Peace River, Alberta in 1929 where he was employed by the Peace River Hospital. Archie and his wife, Mary McDougall Campbell, had five children: Catherine, Agnes, Ron, Ed, and Les. Mary died of pneumonia in 1932, Archie was unable to care for the five children, and they all were sent to live and go to school from 1932 to 1937 at the St. Augustine Roman Catholic Mission, which was ten miles south of town where the provincial jail is presently located. The children returned to live with their father in 1937. The three boys served in World War II. Following World War II, Archie relocated to Vancouver and spent most of the rest of his life at Cultus Lake with his son, Ed. Archie died in 1976.

Donating to the Museum

Artifact Donations

Archival Donations

Financial Support

Richardson/Campbell Museum Fund

Richardson and Campbell Family History