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Men lining up in front of the new land office, Grande Prairie, Alberta. One man is lying on the ground.

A group of men are waiting for the new land office to open on Bear Creek (Grande Prairie). From the Edmonton Bulletin in 1911, "the Grande Prairie Agency of the Dominion Lands opened here July 15. A.S. McLean, formerly assistant of the Edmonton Land Office is in charge." James Lowe is on the extreme left in the front row, Mr. Carveth Sr. is in the white hat in the second row. George Burke, George Lovering and Hugh Ferguson are also in the picture.

A group picture with J.O. Patterson, the postmaster whose caboose housed the first post office in Grande Prairie.

Two men are unloading mail bags from a float plane onto a small pier . CF-BKV is written near the tail.

Nineteen municipal firefighters, with their chief and tools of their trade, pose in front of the new fire hall.

A man is camped on the wooden sidewalk outside the Dominion Land Office in Grouard waiting to file. The land office was first located in Grouard. A land office opened in Grande Prairie later on.