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First Post Office, Grande Prairie

CA GPR 0024-0024.01-0024.01.09.13
Item
1911

Part of Holroyd Drugs fonds

A group picture with J.O. Patterson, the postmaster whose caboose housed the first post office in Grande Prairie.

Man Camping Outside the Grouard Dominion Land Office

CA GPR 0024-0024.01-0024.01.09.18
Item
1913

Part of Holroyd Drugs fonds

A man is camped on the wooden sidewalk outside the Dominion Land Office in Grouard waiting to file. The land office was first located in Grouard. A land office opened in Grande Prairie later on.

Mail Plane Landing At Bear Lake

CA GPR 0024-0024.01-0024.01.09.45
Item
1920

Part of Holroyd Drugs fonds

Two men are unloading mail bags from a float plane onto a small pier . CF-BKV is written near the tail.

Early Grande Prairie Firemen

CA GPR 0024-0024.01-0024.01.09.47
Item
1920 c.

Part of Holroyd Drugs fonds

Nineteen municipal firefighters, with their chief and tools of their trade, pose in front of the new fire hall.

The first air-mail flight, Alberta.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.058
Item
1937

Part of Campbell family fonds

On the occasion of the first air-mail flight into Grande Prairie. Left to right:;Postmaster Cameron, Postal Inspector T.J. Reilly (of Edmonton), Barney Phillips (assistant manager of United Air Transport), Earnie Kubicek (pilot), P.J. Tooley and L.C. Porteous

Waiting for the first air mail.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.059
Item
March 17, 1937

Part of Campbell family fonds

Postmaster A.W. Cameron, aviation promoter P.J. Tooley, and business men Frank Donald and Billy Salmond waiting for the first air-mail flight into Grande Prairie on March 17, 1937.

Edson Trail Inspection Tour.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.074
Item
1911

Part of Campbell family fonds

John Stocks (Deputy Minister) and McEwan (packer) on the Edson Trail.

Edson Trail Inspection Tour.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.084
Item
1911

Part of Campbell family fonds

Travelling the Edson Trail on the banks of Sturgeon Lake with John Stocks, Deputy Minister of Public Works in April, 1911, are: Dr. R.N. Shaw, Mosier, E.E. Davidson and Harvey Switzer.