Source IDs such as S34 identify individual references. They stay with the same source; dated entries are listed chronologically, so the IDs do not run in numerical order.
Dated records
Photographs use their catalogue or capture dates; documents use their publication dates. Website snapshots use the capture date. Date ranges are placed by their earliest year.
| Date | Source ID | Source | Subject and local copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | S29 | Galt: Land Rush For Homesteads In Del Bonita Area, 1912 | People queued at the Dominion Public Building. Photograph and provenance. |
| April 11, 1924 | S06 | Lethbridge Daily Herald, p. 5 | April 5 schoolhouse meeting, roads, a proposed bridge and wheat-pool concerns. |
| 1929-04-25 | S37 | Cardston News, printed p. 1 | Huey Gum buys a Fareham lot. Local record. |
| 1929-05-02 | S38 | Lethbridge Herald, printed p. 5 | A Woolford restaurateur prepares for Fareham. Local record. |
| 1929-06-13 | S39 | Cardston News, printed p. 2 | Gum moves to his Fareham restaurant. Local record. |
| June 28, 1930 | S30 | Galt: Thomas Helgeson | Portrait by de Jourdan’s Studio Ltd. Photograph and provenance. |
| 1930-10-02 | S40 | Cardston News, printed p. 1 | Gum’s former Woolford restaurant is refitted. Local record. |
| 1930-12-12 | S41 | Lethbridge Herald, printed p. 5 | Improvements to Gum’s Whiskey Gap premises. Local record. |
| 1930-12-18 | S42 | Cardston News, printed p. 8 | Huey Gum travels to China. Local record. |
| 1937-11-05 | S43 | Lethbridge Herald, printed p. 6 | A meal at Gum’s Whisky Gap restaurant. Local record. |
| August 11, 1938 | S16 | Federal Register, p. 1965 | Executive Order 7947 designated the United States customs port on August 9, effective thirty days later. |
| 1939 | S01 | Galt: Moving The del Bonita School | Accession 19841071011. Photograph and provenance. |
| 1945-11-02 | S44 | Lethbridge Herald, printed p. 11 | The Harkers manage Del Bonita’s store and post office. Local record. |
| 1950-01-07 | S45 | Lethbridge Herald, printed p. 5 | Hubert West becomes postmaster. Local record. |
| August 26, 1950 | S07 | Lethbridge Herald, p. 5 | Farewell to the Woods; work on the school and hall. |
| September 19, 1950 | S09 | Lethbridge Herald, p. 5 | Road gravel, school transport routes and harvest conditions. |
| December 27, 1950 | S08 | Lethbridge Herald, p. 5 | School concert and community names. |
| January 15, 1958 | S31 | Galt: Edward Newton In Del Bonita | Photograph by The Lethbridge Herald. Photograph and provenance. |
| 1963 | S46 | Hugh A. Dempsey: Historic Sites of Alberta, p. 34 | Whiskey Gap trail; sixth printing, Alberta Government Travel Bureau. |
| July 27, 1964 | S32 | Galt: Magrath–Del Bonita Highway Opening | Photograph by The Lethbridge Herald. Photograph and provenance. |
| 1974 | S33 | Galt: 100 Years Of Peaceful Border Patrols | Border cairn unveiling; builders Alva Bair and Lawrence Halmrast; original photograph owned by Albert and Bernice Robinson. Photograph and provenance. |
| 1979 | S34 | Galt: John’s Hardware, Hamlet of Del Bonita | Colour slide of the store. Photograph and provenance. |
| June 15, 1979 | S47 | Alberta Hansard, p. 384 | Whiskey Gap grain-buying closure reported as July 1978. |
| 1981 | S10 | Heritage of the High Country — University of Calgary Digital Collections | Del Bonita Historical Society; first printing 1981. ISBN 0-88925-190-8. Selected photographs: Whiskey Gap, printed pp. 46–48, 54 and 62; Shanks Lake School, p. 56. Book entry and reading links. |
| July 2000 | S35 | Darryl Christensen: A Case Study of the Magrath School Council 1995–2000 | Printed p. 3 records Del Bonita School’s closure between 1995 and 2000. Local record. |
| March 6, 2002 | S36 | Magrath News, p. 5 | Advertisement for two Del Bonita teacherages. |
| August 30, 2007 | S14 | Alberta Register: Hoyt Tipi Ring Site | Provincial designation date. Record 4665-1339 describes the site’s archaeological features. |
| September 2011 | S02 | Galt: Where are they now? | Belinda Crowson’s account of buildings relocated from Whiskey Gap. |
| September 1, 2011 | S04 | Matthias Süßen: Del Bonita storefront photograph | Original photograph and CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. Local record. |
| September 2012 | S52 | Montana Department of Transportation: Del Bonita Work Session | Page 1: the new U.S. customs building, border airport and joint July 7 fly-in and maintenance gathering. |
| October 5, 2012 | S48 | Iris Henry obituary | Thirty-three years at the Del Bonita General Store and Post Office. |
| April 2017 | S49 | Dale Speirs, Journal of Alberta Postal History, no. 12 | Fareham and Whiskey Gap, pp. 13–14. |
| 2018–2021 | S05 | Galt: Inqueeries — oral history interviews | Series date range. Accession 20211092004 includes an interview about growing up in Del Bonita; catalogue description preserved. |
| December 2022 | S12 | Dale Speirs, Journal of Alberta Postal History, no. 26 | Del Bonita naming story, postmasters and postal photographs, pp. 16–18; references p. 21. |
| January 29, 2024 | S28 | CHAT News Today: Travelling with Dan — Del Bonita | Written introduction and video report. Page and video preserved. |
| Spring 2024 | S21 | Community Foundation: spring grant recipients | Funding announcement for a Del Bonita Country Association washroom project. |
| September 5, 2025 | S03 | Galt: archive image request information | The museum’s information about requesting web-size images. |
| May 2026 | S53 | CBSA: Chief Mountain opens for the summer season | Seasonal operation of one of the six Alberta–Montana road crossings. |
Undated references
| Source ID | Source | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| S13 | Blackfoot Confederacy: Our Lands and Tribes | The Confederacy’s account of Kitaowahsinnoon and its member nations. |
| S11 | Vernon & District Family History Society library catalogue | Page 3 lists Heritage of the High Country as a 606-page volume. |
| S15 | littleghosttown.com: Ghost Town History | Labelled building photograph used to identify Huey Gum’s former restaurant and lodging building. |
| S17 | Canada Border Services Agency directory | Official border-service information. |
| S18 | Cardston County community profiles | The county’s Del Bonita community profile. |
| S20 | Cardston County Agricultural Services Board | County responsibilities, including the recreation area. |
| S22 | Milk River Watershed Council canoe sign series | List includes a Del Bonita campground sign. |
| S25 | Del Bonita Country Association on Facebook | Association updates and event announcements. |
| S26 | Del Bonita Store on Facebook | Store updates, description and contact information. |
| S27 | Del Bonita, Alberta — Facebook place page | Separate Facebook place page. |
Local preservation and attribution
Border-crossing references:
| Source ID | Source | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| S54 | CBSA: Alberta highway border offices | Six Alberta highway/land border offices; names and services. Underlying directory data preserved privately. |
| S55 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Del Bonita | U.S. port 3322, Highway 213 approach and current services. |
| S56 | Wikipedia: Del Bonita, Montana | The unincorporated Glacier County community, also called Port of Del Bonita. Secondary source. |
| S57 | Wikipedia: Del Bonita Border Crossing | Secondary source for the 1939 opening, Whiskey Gap closure and 1962 inspection station. |
| S58 | Oporto2: Del Bonita Crossing Canada | Canadian station photograph, CC BY-SA 3.0. Date unverified. Original-file provenance. |
| S59 | U.S. Department of Transportation: Montana crossing map | Paired Canadian and American port names along the Montana border. |
Photograph records in the archive retain the institution, catalogue and asset URLs, accession number, catalogue date, named creator, acquisition source, retrieval timestamp and SHA-256 checksum. Downloaded images retain their original bytes. Website captures have local replays, Markdown text and screenshots.
The Books section identifies the local histories used here and links to their digitized editions and library records. Photographs reproduced from a book carry its title and printed page reference.