Alberta On Record

Unfinished log cabin on the Edson Trail, Alberta.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.087
Item
1911

Part of Campbell family fonds

Partial log cabin on the banks of a river, possibly along the Edson Trail route.

Edson Trail Inspection Tour.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.089
Item
1911

Part of Campbell family fonds

Inspection party at Baptiste River (now Berland), from left: Jim Cornwall, Mrs. Emmerson and John Stocks holding child.

Smoky River Bridge Opening, Alberta.

CA GPR 0032-0032.06-0032.06.03
Item
1949

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"

The McQuat Snowplane.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.060
Item
1937

Part of Campbell family fonds

Jack Alloway, Mr. & Mrs. McQuat and daughter beside their snowplane on the Wapiti Trail. This early form of the snowmobile, made by George McQuat, was used for such emergencies as taking doctors to patients (or vice versa) or entire hockey teams to a game when the roads were drifted.

Interior of the McQuat snowplane.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.063
Item
1937

Part of Campbell family fonds

Interior of the snowplane, showing passenger room in the back.

Portrait of Alex Monkman.

CA GPR 0032-0032.08-0032.08.07-0032.08.07.067
Item
1937

Part of Campbell family fonds

Head and shoulders portrait of Alex Monkman, first storekeeper at Lake Saskatoon and discoverer of the Monkman Pass. In 1937, a group of volunteer labourers was in the process of building the Monkman Pass Highway.