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Postcard labeled “Bear Creek Grande Prairie”. The bridge in the photo appears to be the first government bridge on the trail from Grande Prairie to Flying Shot Lake. In the background can be seen a row of telegraph poles which mark the main road into Grande Prairie from the west (now 100th Avenue).
John A. (Jack) Crerar Family fonds
The fonds consists of four photographs and two documents. The photographs are of Jack Crerar in 1924 and Doug Crerar ca. 1940, Bear Creek Bridge ca. 1915, and a Winter Carnival ca. 1924. The documents are a program for the “First Annual Banquet of Grande Prairie Conservative Association at the Empire Hotel Monday, January 17, 1916”; and a program for the “Third Annual Peace River Musical Festival on May 25 and 26, 1927 at Grande Prairie Alberta.” There is also a legal sheet of paper containing a short history of the Alexander and Sarah Crerar family produced ca. 2000.
John A. (Jack) Crerar Family
John Alexander Crerar in front of Crerar Confectionary in Grande Prairie.
Large crowd of people on Richmond Avenue (100th) in front of Bell-Flemming Hardware and Grande Prairie Hotel. Event is identified on the back of the photograph as the Winter Carnival.
