Series 0178.03 - Homesteading

Jim Somerville and Friend Viking Homestead Jim Somerville Shack Bringing in Supplies, 1912 South Buffalo Lake Somerville Homestead House Ploughing Before the Days of the Tractor Threshing the Stacks, Viking Ed and Eva Gummer Jim and Eva Somerville

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Homesteading

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CA GPR 0178-0178.03

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  • 1904-1968 (Creation)

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7 photographs
3 postcards

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(1882-1971)

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The series consists of photographs taken from 1904 to 1968 showing Jim Somerville's original homestead in Viking, a community in Southern Alberta, his trip to Grande Prairie in 1911, and his homestead at Buffalo Lake where he lived until his death in 1971. There is also a photograph of Jim and Eva Somerville and their good friends Ed and Eva Gummer, taken in 1968. An accrual of paper records include a Riley & McCormick cowboy equipment catalogue (1925); 6 small booklets recording activities and purchases (1912-1948), bank account (1926-1944), and a diary (1927); land tax documents(1920-1932),a notice of caveat (1949); gasoline ration coupons (1943), correspondence concerning the Buffalo Lakes Swine Improvement Association and a letter from J.B. Oliver; 4 personal cards, 2 pages of accounts with R.G. Maclean, assorted financial records (1913-1949), and a Buffalo Lakes newspaper article.
Under accural in 2016.02 a book titled "Experimental Farms Vol. II".

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0178.03

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South Peace Regional Archives

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