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Photograph of a group of boys looking over a fence at Fort Good Hope.

Group portrait. [First Row: third from left, Dodman, assigned to Fort Good Hope with E. R. Gowen, third from right, John Melven, assistant manager; far right].

Photograph of J.A.R. Balsillie and his family at R14. [Fort Fitzgerald?].

Photograph shows Lamson & Hubbard Canadian Co. post at Fort McPherson. Lamon & Hubbard was on of the largest raw fur buyers in the United States when it moved operations into northern Alberta in 1918. The company set up a transportation network to rival the Hudson's Bay Company. This transport system included stern wheelers, a steam tug and barges. It evolved into the Alberta and Arctic Transportation Company in 1921. This company employed Romanet as an agent in 1923.

Photograph depicts Lamson Ltd. Raw Furs trading post. Lamson and Hubbard numbered amongst the largest buyers of raw furs in the United States. Their 1917 move into the fur trade in Norhern Alberta represented a change in the international fur market as British companies suffered instability and the American market expanded. Lamson and Hubbard established their own transport system which evolved into the Alberta and Arctic Transportation Company. This firm employed Romanet in 1923.

Photo depicts "C.T. (Tim) Gaudet".