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Waiting for the first air mail.

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.

The McQuat Snowplane.

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.

The first air-mail flight, Alberta.

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

Smoky River Bridge Opening, Alberta.

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.

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.

Roy Campbell's Coal Wagon.

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.

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