First Plane To Land In Grande Prairie
- CA GPR 0024-0024.01-0024.01.09.46
- Item
- 1920 c.
Part of Holroyd Drugs fonds
Wop May was the first pilot to land in Grande Prairie.
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First Plane To Land In Grande Prairie
Part of Holroyd Drugs fonds
Wop May was the first pilot to land in Grande Prairie.
Smoky River Bridge Opening, Alberta.
Part of Campbell family fonds
Image shows a group of men, including two Indigenous men wearing regalia, at the opening of the Smoky River Bridge in 1949. The back of the photograph says "Note tom tom"
Smoky River Bridge Opening, Alberta.
Part of Campbell family fonds
Photograph taken at the opening of the Smoky River bridge in the summer of 1949. View of the bridge from the shoreline.
Smoky River Bridge Opening, Alberta.
Part of Campbell family fonds
Photograph of the Brewer-Campbell family taken at the opening of the Smoky River bridge in the summer of 1949. The ferry previously in use is visible on the far left of the photograph.
Part of Campbell family fonds
Wapiti Mines vehicle trail leading through the pines down to the Wapiti River.
Part of Campbell family fonds
A six-horse team pulls a sled full of coal up Wapiti Hill, with the driver perched on top of the "caboose" at the front of the sled.
Part of Campbell family fonds
Frontal view of six-horse team pulling a sled of coal up Wapiti Hill. The driver is directing the horses from the top of his "caboose" at the front of the sled.
Part of Campbell family fonds
Roy Campbell's coal wagon, on the highway west of town, bringing a load of coal into Grande Prairie. The sleigh has a built-in caboose on the front to protect the driver.
The first air-mail flight, Alberta.
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.
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.