Alberta On Record

[“Metis Heritage” Heritage Fair Display]

CA GPR 0001-0001.08.06.04.02.04.33
Item
[2000]

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Image shows a group of students posing in front of their Heritage Fair display titled “Metis Heritage.”

1918 Maxwell Touring Car

CA GPR 0001-1969.33.2
Item
1918

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

At the Cutbank Lake farm of James McFarlane--from first carload shipped into South Peace by Albert and Lorne Smith of Lake Saskatoon.

A gathering of settlers.

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.151
Item
1930

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Group of well-dressed settlers in front of log building. Photograph is incorrectly labelled as Halcourt Church.

A Social Gathering

CA GPR 0001-1986.60.2y
Item
1915 c.

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

A social gathering of settlers in the Grande Prairie area includes: Dick Martin; Vilda Cowan; Wm. Cowan; Rupert Carveth; Mrs. Bev Cowan & children.

Aerial Ferry

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.100
Item
1930 c.

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

The aerial ferry over the Wapiti River.

Aerial Ferry Across the Wapiti

CA GPR 0001-1986.60.2k
Item
1952

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

The McCullough brothers aerial ferry, which was worked by hand, served the settlement across the Wapiti when the river was impassable during the spring thaw freeze up.

Aerial Photo of Grande Prairie

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.080
Item
1970

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Aerial Photo of Grande Prairie in 1970, with the Grande Prairie Museum in the foreground.

Agnes Sorrel Forbes

CA GPR 0001-1994.58.02b
Item
1910 c.

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Portrait of Agnes Sorrel Forbes who came to the Grande Prairie area as Presbyterian missionaries with her husband, f Dr. Alexander Forbes,in 1910.

Air Mail Inaugural Flight

CA GPR 0001-1998.08.05
Item
1937

Part of Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

The inaugural flight of the Edmonton to White Horse airmail route refueling on a lake near Grande Prairie on July 5, 1937, watched by a crowd on the shore.