Showing posts with label Alberta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alberta. Show all posts

Monday, 21 August 2017

Farewell

This is a bittersweet day: I am saying goodbye to History in Photos. I've been at this for five years and have put a lot of time and effort into finding historical photos that - to me, and hopefully to you - are interesting, educational, and have something to say about the human condition. Other priorities are now calling, but it has been a vastly interesting - and occasionally obsessive - journey for me. I never did this for page views but I hope it has been interesting for you as well. 

I end, somewhat symbolically, with the final set of photos from the 1954 road trip taken by the four Canadian ladies.

Audrey James and Marg Thompson with a dog in the back 
of a truck, De Winton, Alberta, August 12, 1954
  
Helen Salkeld, Anna Brown, Audrey James, Rosemary Gilliat and the 
Thompson family stopping for lunch, Kananaskis, Alberta, August 15, 1954
 
Billy Thompson and Helen Salkeld, Kananaskis, Alberta, August 15, 1954
 
Anna Brown in the Rockies, Kananaskis Road, Alberta, August 15, 1954
 
Rain, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, August 19, 1954
 
Helen Salkeld eating in her tent near Fraser River, British Columbia, August 19, 1954
 
Anna Brown and Rosemary Gilliat writing and reading by candlelight 
at a camp near Fraser River, British Columbia, August 19, 1954
 
Anna Brown eating by a tent at a camp site in Garibaldi 
Provincial Park, British Columbia, August 23, 1954
 
Pipe band playing on ferry near Bowen Island, 
Howe Sound, British Columbia, August 21, 1954
 
After the rain all belongings are spread out to dry in 
Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, August 25, 1954
 
Helen Salkeld and Anna Brown erecting tents near 
Copper Mountain, British Columbia, August 27, 1954
 
Anna Brown and Rosemary Gilliat erecting a tent, 
possibly Belmont Lake, Ontario, September 5, 1954
 
 Source: BiblioArchives/LibraryArchives Canada

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Vintage Alberta

Eleven women in a play, Wetaskiwin, 1930
  
Helen McCalla with squash, August 29, 1915
 
Last Harvesters' Excusion Train
 
Making sheaves for harvest, Little Smoky, Alberta, 1946
 
McCalla family in skates on log in ravine near Edmonton, 1914
 
Woman with rifle, ca. 1915
 
Christmas at the Bamber home, December 1919
 
Christmas sleigh ride, Fort McMurray, 1926
 
Schofield family Christmas, Mountain Park, 1933
 

Friday, 11 August 2017

Road Trip 1954

On July 31, 1954, freelance photographer Rosemary Gilliat and her girlfriends, Anna Brown, Audrey James and Helen Salkeld, packed up Helen�s Plymouth station wagon and began their 12,391-kilometre road trip across Canada. During the next 38 days, they crossed five provinces and four states, travelling through Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, and returning to Ottawa on September 6. This is part two of the road trip photos.

Who likes washing dishes anyway...Kenora, Ontario, August 4, 1954

Makeshift bath in Prairies. Audrey James washing up, 
Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba, August 5, 1954

Helen Salkeld and Anna Brown feeding pigs, 
Portage-la-Prairie camp, Manitoba, August 5, 1954
  
Anna Brown, Audrey James, Helen Salkeld and two 
cowboys, Brandon, Manitoba, August 6, 1954
 
 
 Anna Brown getting dressed at a campsite, vicinity of 
Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, August 7, 1954
  
Main street in a small town in the Prairies, Saskatchewan, August 7, 1954
  
Audrey James walking on a bridge 
in southern Saskatchewan, August 8, 1954
  
Anna Brown at the Salkeld family farm, 
Eston, Saskatchewan, August 9, 1954
  
Anna Brown and ferry operator Mr. Weekes on Lancer Ferry, 
South Saskatchewan River, August 10, 1954
  
Saskatchewan Prairie town, August 10, 1954
  
Helen Salkeld, Anna Brown and Audrey James setting up 
their camp by the Oldman River, Alberta, August 10, 1954
  
Audrey James and Anna Brown by the 
Oldman River, Alberta, August 11, 1954

Source: BiblioArchives/LibraryArchives Canada

Friday, 4 August 2017

Vintage Alberta

Ballet dancers, Vermillion Lakes, Alberta, July 1957
  
Banff, Alberta, 1952
 
Lunch overlooking the mountains, Alberta, 1953
 
Mrs. C. Hamill paints a scene from roadside 
in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, 1952
 
Queen Elizabeth at Lake Louise, Alberta, July 1959
 
RCMP constable Wright and police dog named 
Rough, Calgary, Alberta, August 1948
 
Students paint the scenery, Banff national park, Alberta, July 1957
 
Water skiing at Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, August 1961
 

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Robert McKay Brebner

Alan, Mary, and Robert Brebner, ca. 1900. Spruce Grove, Alberta
  
Brebner children, ca. 1900
 
Brebner family members and friends on the Brebner homestead 
with bear skin and sleigh, ca. 1900. Spruce Grove, Alberta
 
Horse-drawn buggy, Brebner homestead, ca. 1900
 
Two men with a horse-drawn sleigh, ca. 1900
 
Unidentified woman with a horse, ca. 1900
 

Saturday, 15 April 2017

Godby Family Collection

Beulah Godby and friends in costumes, Mountain Park, Alberta, 1934
  
Formal dinner with unidentified family, ca. 1930
 
Group portrait, Lovett, Alberta, 1916
 
Man playing horseshoes, possibly in Saskatchewan, 1916
 
People at Mountain Park ice rink, ca. 1920
 

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