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[Fort Smith]
TL 540 D53 C64 1.1.7.55 · File · 1927
Part of Clennell 'Punch' Dickins fonds

sepia ; 18 cm x 23 cm print, aerial photograph of Fort Smith, detailing buildings and road, low altitude, caption reads "Fort Smith NWT 1927"
sepia ; 18 cm x 23 cm print, aerial photograph of Fort Smith, detailing landscape, shoreline, buildings and roads, low altitude, caption reads "Fort Smith N.W.T. looking NW"
sepia ; 18 cm x 23 cm print, aerial photograph of Fort Smith, detailing shoreline and boats, low altitude
sepia ; 18 cm x 23 cm print, aerial photograph of Fort Smith, detailing landscape, shoreline, buildings and roads, low altitude, caption reads "Fort Smith NWT looking N.W."
sepia ; 18 cm x 23 cm print, aerial photograph of Fort Smith, detailing buildings and road, low altitude

TL 540 D53 C64 2.1.130 · File · 1929
Part of Clennell 'Punch' Dickins fonds

Envelope labelled "First mail flight from Edmonton Fort Simpson via Fort McMurray - Chipewyan - Fort Smith - Fort Resolution - Hay River Fort Providence - Fort Simpson - on the McKenzie [sic] River - Jan 1929", contains:
b&w ; 9 cm x 14 cm print of group of men, sleds, and dog teams next to aircraft in snow, registration G-CASN, caption reads "Fort Resolution, Resolution 1929"
b&w ; 9 cm x 15 cm print of group of men next to aircraft, one standing out of cockpit, caption reads "Getting started - after over night temperature of -56˚F - below zero. CHD in cockpit with top section of engine cover. Crew man mechanic on ground with lower section" [has negative]
b&w ; 9 cm x 11 cm print of dog team pulling man and sled from aircraft, caption reads "On the river Fort Simpson Jan 1929" [other prints appear in 6-140] [has negative]
b&w ; 9 cm x 14 cm print of group of people around aircraft in the snow, mail bags beside, one man stands out of cockpit, caption reads "Fort Resolution NWT, Jan 25th 1929 first flight with mail. [Insp. Reilly]"

Item · [ca. 1946]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Personal typewritten letter addressed to a Mr. and Mrs. Thorson, signed by "Nancy" [no last name given].

Topics include general updates regarding travel [by railway from Edmonton to Waterways; aboard the S.S. Athabasca River until Fort Smith; the S.S. Mackenzie River at time of writing]; working on the ship; complaints about other workers on the ship being messy; recreation activities [playing cribbage; "gabbing" with men]; and a request to "drop me a line if you have time".

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].