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George Robert’s driving outfit in front of his partially completed barn at Bear Lake. Four men sit on the top log of the barn.

A group of men outside of the Dominion Lands Office in Grouard, around 1912. The photograph appears to have been contributed by H. W. Walker of Kinuso, who may also be in the photograph.

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”.

Mrs. Agnes Forbes (front row, middle) and several other ladies in the first motor car on the Grande Prairie.

A picnic party at the Wapiti River, May 24, 1913. Left to right: Cecil Sully, Sadie Crerar, Jack Depencier, Elizabeth Dunlop, Anna Patterson, Mamie Moore, Bill Innes, Luella Patterson, Bernard Sully, Jack Oatway, Delmer Pratt, Ed Crerar, and Jim Crerar. Young Garnet Pratt is sitting in the front and Mrs. William Pratt and Mrs. Ed Crerar are standing in the back.

Students and nuns at the Mission School at Peace River view the first automobile they’ve every seen, December 1913.

The Deep Creek baseball team in 1913, part of the Twilight League. Left to right: Neil Vance, Rupert Carveth, Lyman Johnston, Cecil Johnston, Boody Sprague, Wylie Sawyer, Eric Anderson, Rae Hegler, and Wes Bentley.

One of the captions on the back reads: “One of the first cars to come over the Trail. Mrs. James Scott can be seen in the front seat on the left side. It was in 1913.” The photograph was taken outside the old Grande Prairie post office. The photograph was contributed by Mrs. Jack Fitzpatrick.

Settlers crossing the Athabasca River on a make-shift raft surrounded by ice floes on their way to the Peace River country.

Arthur S. McLean (first land agent), George Balmer, Luella Patterson, and William Caldwell in the box of a sleigh pulled by a large ox. This is identified as Grande Prairie’s first taxi service. The photograph may have been contributed by Mrs. V. C. Flint of Beaverlodge.