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Rod McCrimmon and others at a logging camp in the Belloy area.

A view of Beaverlodge’s main street. Numerous businesses are visible including hotels, a meat market, a laundry, and a drug store.

An aerial view of the riverfront settlement at Athabasca Landing.

A group of people assembled outside of the first church at DeBolt, constructed of logs. The photograph appears to have been contributed by W. G. Given.

Student in front of Flying School Lake School. Many of the students at the school were Metis.

Children outside of Elmworth school at its opening in 1920: Harry, Gladys, Helen and Pearl Chisholm, Ella, Juliana, and Florence Oakford, Bessie and Grace Brown, Ruby and Charley Mitchell, Wesley and Aldwin Miller, Bernice Brewer, Isabel Campbell. and Jimmie Ward.

An abandoned Catholic mission building near Fort St. John, British Columbia. The caption on the back of the photograph states: “The little old Catholic Misison Church at Old Ft. St John about 8 miles from (New) Ft. St John Town – on Alaska Highway at the Hudson Bay Trading Post — the 1st settlers in the early days of Canada.”

A man sitting huddled under a pile of robes at the Grouard Dominion Lands Office. There are two captions on the back of the photograph: “Pioneer Series 1/2. Man camping day and night at the Grouard land office to file, October, 1913. Photo by W. D. Albright.” “In the first years of Grande Prairie Settlement applications for Homsteads [sic] were made at the Grouard Land Office. Later Peter Tompkins and Harry Turton made, I believe, monthly trips to Lake Saskatoon to take applications and eventually an Office was opened in Grande Prairie. A. H. McQuarrie”.

A view of Lake Saskatoon with the lake in the background and a horse grazing in the foreground. The photograph appears to have been contributed by Mrs. L. Konshak of Wembley.

A view down the main street of Lake Saskatoon showing businesses including the Revillon Freres Trading Company Ltd. and the Royal Hotel. The back of the photograph indicates that the photograph was “Presented by H. P. Brown, Edmonton Original townsite of Lake Saskatoon Movie shown here with first non-inflammable films in April 1916 by H. P. Brown from University of Alberta, Dept. of Extension Silent films accompanied on piano by Mrs. F. Barber Smith just out from England”.