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Moose Portage, Athabasca River

CA GPR 0178-0178.02-0178.02.04
Item
1910 ca.

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

Moose Portage on the Athabasca River, taken during a McFarlane survey around 1910.

Ploughing Before the Days of the Tractor

CA GPR 0178-0178.03-0178.03.07
Item
1910 ca.

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

Ploughing before the days of the tractor was hard work for men and horses.

Prudhomme's Stopping Place

CA GPR 0178-0178.01-0178.01.31
Item
1905

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

Prudhomme's Stopping Place cabin at Stinking Lake, when it was visited by Henry Selby's 1905 survey crew.

Ready to Cross the Big Smoky

CA GPR 0178-0178.01-0178.01.43
Item
1905

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

Henry Selby's survey crew and their horses prepare to cross the Big Smoky River. In 1905 Selby (on the far right) conducted a survey of land west of the fifth meridian.

Rose Prairie

CA GPR 0178-0178.02-0178.02.09
Item
1910 ca.

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

"These are the Gardins of the Desert. June, Rose Prairie."

Slave Lake

CA GPR 0178-0178.01-0178.01.19
Item
1905

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post office at Slave Lake when it was visited by Henry Selby's 1905 survey crew.

Somerville Homestead House

CA GPR 0178-0178.03-0178.03.06
Item
1913

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

Jim Somerville's cabin on South Buffalo Lake where he lived until 1942.

South Buffalo Lake

CA GPR 0178-0178.03-0178.03.05
Item
1913

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

The South Buffalo Lake taken from McLean's. The Somerville cabin is visible in the distance.

Stinking Lake

CA GPR 0178-0178.01-0178.01.29
Item
1905

Part of Jim Somerville fonds

Charlie York and Prudhomme at Prudhomme's Stopping Place on Stinking (Wanagami) Lake, visited by Henry Selby's 1905 survey crew west of the fifth meridian.