Alberta On Record

Load going to Bear Lake

CA GPR 0001-2001.02.762
PiÃ¨ce
[1911]

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Settlers with their effects being pulled by a team of horses on the way to Bear Lake.

The Traveling Kitchen

CA GPR 0001-2001.02.761
PiÃ¨ce
[1911]

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Woman at the front of caboose being pulled by a team of horses.

Load going to Bear Lake

CA GPR 0001-2001.02.760
PiÃ¨ce
[1911]

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Load of settlers' effects pulled by a team of horses on the way to Bear Lake.

Bredin Party coming to Bear Lake

CA GPR 0001-2001.02.758
PiÃ¨ce
[1911]

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Party of 3 men, 2 women and 1 child beside a caboose on their way to Bear Lake.

Break-up of the Simonette River

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.192
PiÃ¨ce
1910

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

The early spring in 1910 resulted in rivers breaking up before the expected date. Incoming settlers, such as the Forbes and Argonaut party seen here, were forced to make rafts for transporting effects down river to the Grande Prairie townsite.

Stopping to Rest on the Edson Trail, Alberta

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.185
PiÃ¨ce
[ca. 1911]

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Spencer family stopping to rest cattle and horses on the Edson Trail, Alberta. Notice the heavy boiler in the background--every piece of heavy equipment brought in before 1916 came over the Long or Edson Trail.

Start of the Edson Trail

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.161
PiÃ¨ce
1911 c.

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Horses & teams suiting up on the main street of Edson to start out over the Edson Trail.

Dominion Land Office at Grouard

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.160
PiÃ¨ce
1910 c.

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Earliest applications for homesteads in the Peace River Country were made at Grouard Land Office.

Stack Threshing at the Anglican Mission

CA GPR 0001-2001.01.157
PiÃ¨ce
1913

Fait partie de Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

Syndicate outfit threshing at the Anglican Mission on the shore of Lake Saskatoon. This outfit was hauled all the way over the trail by teams from Edmonton. The Steam Engine had no tracks, so when separator and engine were moved, two teams of oxen or horses had to be used. Individuals in the photo include Frank Tesar.