Vic Nordquist and men from his garage working on a car on a farm.
- MIL A42.1-is-mil-1-157
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- Copied [ca. 1978] (originally created [1923]).
Part of Millet and District Historical Society Photograph Collection
Vic Nordquist and men from his garage working on a car on a farm.
Part of Millet and District Historical Society Photograph Collection
Station Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.
Part of Millet and District Historical Society Photograph Collection
Photo shows group of men, boys, and horses posing in front of barn, and two young girls watching from upper window. Photo has been retouched with the inscription "Elder & D. Hougestol, props." Tom Elder is at the far right. The livery barn was located.
Gathering on Alberta Street in front of the Arlington Hotel, Millet, Alberta.
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Photo shows gathering of people with horse-drawn buggies and wagons. The first part of the Arlington Hotel (to the left) was built in 1902 by Jonas Johnson. In 1906 H. Gregoire bought the hotel and built the second part (to the right). the house next to the hotel was built in 1901 by P. J. Mullen. Later the Stickney family bought it. Later Grant Wolf bought it and operated the telephone office from it, as did the Threadgold family, the Easterbrook family, and the Pogue family. Hence, it became known as the Telephone House.
Intersection of Alberta Street and Railway Street looking west, Millet, Alberta.
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Buildings featured prominently include Karr Bros. store, Arlington Hotel, and Imperial Bank of Canada. Several shoppers with their horses and buggies or wagons are in the street.
Street scene, Millet, Alberta.
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Photo shows gathering of farmers with their horse-drawn sledges or wagons at the corner of Railway Street and Alberta Street (50 Street and 50 Avenue). The store on the corner was built by B. A. Van Meter and Fred Blades (back part) in 1901. They built the front part in 1903. Fred Blades ran the store. He was a son-in-law of Van Meter. In 1907 W. A. Robertson took over the store and in 1909 J. W. Mullen and P. J. Mullen bought it, and it became known as the Mullen Bros. Store. They sold it in 1911 to the Farmers' Co-operative. The Millet Mercantile store in the background was built by John West in 1903.
Group gathered on the porch and balcony of the Arlington Hotel, Millet, Alberta.
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Photo shows the front facade of the hotel, with a team and farmers' wagons in the foreground. The boy nearest the horses' heads is Ernie Blades. The man with the hat by the door could be P. J. Mullen.
Maple Leaf Petroleum Ltd. service station, Millet, Alberta.
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Photo shows the Maple Leaf Garage, with a tractor in its parking lot, and the Alberta Wheat Pool elevator in the background. The service station was built in 1928 for Imperial Oil by Pettigrew & Scott. Jim Carney was the first proprietor (1928-1938). Maple Leaf Petroleum's first agents were Oakley Reynar and his brother Doug Reynar (1938-1942). They built a wood and stucco addition on the building in 1938 (after the picture was taken). They managed the service station in association with United Farmers of Alberta Central Co-operative Association Ltd. Subsequent agents were Henry Buchak (1942-1944), Alfred Moll (1944-1951), Norman Rose (1948-1967), Albert Grant and Eleanor Grant (1967- ), Earl Anderson (Joe Anderson).
[Bamber Studio]
Automobile being towed into Vic's Garage.
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Vic Norquist is shown at the wheel of the wrecker. The man standing is unknown. Vic's Garage was built in 1928 after fire destroyed his first garage on the east side of Main Street (50 Street) in October of 1927. The new garage was located at the corner of Main Street and Edward Street (48 Avenue), Block 3, Lots 1 & 2.
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Picture shows two men posing with team and wagon load of lumber in lumber yard. Bill Johnson is driving and Oliver Van Voorhis is standing at the back of the wagon. Rowley's Lumber Yard was located east of the CPR tracks and north of Highway 616. Now an industrial area, the area was the sports ground from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Main Street, Millet, Alberta looking north.
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Photo is taken from the west side of Main Street (50 Street) midway between the intersections with 448 Avenue and 49 Avenue. It shows service stations and grain elevators on the east side of the street.