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Hythe High School students grades 9-12, teachers were Phillip Husby & Pat Jevne
L-R Back row - Ruby Wyant, Hazel Holland, Nola McCann, Eileen Seabrook, Jean Benson, Vera Hiogg, Ethel Hill, Irene Regier, Phyllis Larson, Zena Seabrook, Astrid Homme, Doreen Teulon, Walter Dron, Earl (Bud) Fowler

Row 2 - Pat Jevne, Edwin Homme, Glenn Smith, Bruce Prytuluk, Garry Smith, Jim Patterson, Bernard (Barney) Anderson, Gert Baker, LaVerne Bulmer, Dawn Hommy, Greta Henderson, Elaine Dennison, Gert Webb, Melvin Gass, Phillip Husby

Row 3- Bob Veldhuis, Ronald Stenvall, Joyce Stenvall, Irene McPherson, Frances Dzuira, Shirley Hajek, Ruby Tanchuk, Gloria Armsatrong, Rita Benson, Shirley K__, Peggy Dennison, Marge Lanctot.

Front row - Lyall Smith, Donnie Cowan, Wayne Howlett, Brian McAulay, Herbert Stubbs, Jack Henderson, Gordon Johnson, Rodney Reich.

Royal Canadian Army Cadets Hockey Team in 1949-1950. The team photograph shows, back row, Manager Frank Edmundson, Morris Nicholson, Albert Cave, Don Patterson, Roy Blais, Red Storey, Bruce Miller, Tom Leslie. Front row: Wally Haakstad, Lawrence Blais, John Listhaeghe, Don Miller, Bob Rigler, Vic Rigler, John MacMillan, Ed Click, Brian Nelson.

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1950 of Eric Rycroft and his daughter Heather with the Bad Heart mail truck in winter. Skiis have been attached to go under the front tires for easier movement on the snowy rural roads.

St. Joseph’s Academy and School on 102 Street, between 103 and 105 Avenue. The original school was built in 1937, with a later addition. In about 1950, the Academy was added as a boarding house for teaching nuns and girls from outside of the City. It also housed a business college.

Grande Prairie Looking East

In 1950, a new high school was built to replace the original high school built in 1929. This was the front of the school, facing west across what was to become Jubilee Park.

Christ Church Anglican on the corner of 102 Street and 99th Avenue in Grande Prairie.

Grande Prairie’s first swimming pool, built by the Kinsmen Club with volunteer labour and heated from the Canadian Utilities power plant east across the road.

“D” Company Hockey team which played for the 1949-1950 team included, back row: Wilf Blais, Bill Blais, Harley Patterson, Cliff Wright, Coach Ernie Ayers, Bob Kelly, Don Swanston, Bob Neufeld, Ernie Nelson. Front row: Walter Hiekkla, Bill Bessent, Bobby Pearson, Oscar Blais, Unknown

Grad photograph for Dorothy Beattie. Dorothy graduated from the University of Alberta in 1950. She was 21 years old. She was Dorothy May Murray at the time of her graduation and married Bill Beattie in December 1950. Dorothy worked in Mayerthorpe Hospital as a new graduate nurse. She then moved to Grande Prairie where she worked in ICU, specialized in cardiology (took another course at the University of Alberta) part time for 3 years. After this she worked part time in extended care the Grande Prairie General Hospital for 7 years. In 1977 Dorothy worked for the WW Cross Cancer Clinic in Grande Prairie. They were a traveling clinic at that time and Dorothy was one of the first nurses to work for them. She retired from nursing in 1987.