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"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"

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]"

PE002630 - Canada, 1930-1933

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].

PE002997 - The Peace River - A Great Waterway of the North West

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