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PE002630 - Canada, 1930-1933
Item · 1930-1933
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

A personal photograph album recording the travels of an unidentified person from the United Kingdom [England or Scotland?] throughout Canada between 1930-1933, with a large focus on the time spent in Western Canada. Most photographs are neatly captioned in white ink.

Images include: steamship ["C.P.R. Duchess of Richmond", Canadian Pacific ocean liner] and the ocean journey from England [Liverpool] to Atlantic Canada [Newfoundland and Labrador]; trains and the railway journey across Canada; locations in Ontario; post office and rail yard in Alberta; cabins and personal dwellings in Alberta; a house fire [captioned "It lasted twenty minutes"]; landscapes; automobiles and roads; commercial street in Grande Prairie; a ferry boat; Hudson's Bay Company buildings; posed photographs of individuals; horses; dogs; dogsleds; wildlife; a bivouac; Indigenous people [identified in captions as "Beaver Indian" and "Cree Indian"]; individual identified as "Johnny Bremner"; camping; a trapper's cabin; trappers and animal furs; ship ["Northland Echo"]; fishing; canoes; seaplanes [captioned "Fire Ranger, Mail Carrier"]; sports [captioned "Football in the territories"; Royal Canadian Mounted Police [RCMP] officers; hunting; ice break-up on the Mackenzie and Liard rivers; and the return ocean journey [to Scotland].

Item · [ca. 1919]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Promotional brochure produced by the Peace River Development Corporation Limited to encourage tourism and settlement of the Peace River District.

Contents:
Steamer "D.A. Thomas" [Peace River to Vermilion Chutes and return; Peace River to Hudson's Hope, B.C. and return]; Fares; 1919 Schedule; Tourists; Sportsmen; Mining Engineers; Settlers and Farmers; Peace River Land District [Soil; Climate; Transportation; Mail Service; Markets; Schools; Churches; Fuel and Water].

Photographs:
Steamer "D.A. Thomas"; Plowing with dogs, Hay River Settlement, N.W.T.; The Gates of the Peace, eight miles below Hudson's Hope, B.C.; The Vermilion Chutes, Peace River; Musk ox, Twelve hundred miles north of Edmonton; Wheat field, Peace River district; Vegetable garden, Peace River; Typical farm on the Peace River; "Peace River Development Corporation, Limited, Steamship Line with Rail and Water Connections" [map].

Peace River Development Corporation Limited