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A Lovat Scout beside a snow hut.

JAS jas-2573-is-jas-pa 25-26
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Jasper Yellowhead Historical Society Lovat Scouts photograph collection

Taylor, W.C.

A Nissen hut at camp number two on the Columbia Icefield, AB

JAS jas-2623-is-jas-69546
Item
[Reproduced 1997?] (originally created 1942)

Part of Norman C. Lindhjem fonds

Lindhjem, Norman C.

[A not so secret recruiting service.]

GLEN glen-1283-is-glen-3426
Item
December 4, 1982

Part of Tom Innes fonds

Innes, Tom, Calgary, Alberta

A Planer Mill

CA GPR 0291-0291.01-0291.01.04
Item
[1942-1943]

Part of Ray Menard Alaska Highway collection

A planer mill in operation showing a pile of lumber, the planer shed and men working. A farm can be seen in the distance.

A Remembrance Day Service in Jasper, Alberta.

JAS jas-2562-is-jas-pa 43-39
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of Jasper Yellowhead Historical Society Historian's photograph collection

unknown

A riverside camp in Exercise Sweetbriar, Yukon.

CA GPR 0165-0165.02-0165.02.08
Item
1950

Part of Roland Pivert fonds

Tents set up beside a river in Exercise Sweetbriar. Exercise Sweetbriar involved 5,300 Canadian and American soldiers and airmen. The scenario was that an enemy had seized Alaska and the combat team was assigned to secure the Alaska highway and its airfields from Whitehorse to Northway in Alaska.

A Sense of Humour

CA GPR 0294-0294.06
Item
1942

Part of Lee Pooler fonds

Copy of an original photograph. The Repeater Station personnel took great delight is scaring the new weather station personnel when they were in the outhouse, by shooting at the building. They took care not to shoot through the roof, as they did not want to be dripped on when they were in the outhouse.

A T 17E1 Staghound armoured car in the Prairie Command Display.

CA GPR 0165-0165.03-0165.03.09
Item
1952

Part of Roland Pivert fonds

A T 17E1 Staghound armoured car on exhibit with the Prairie Command Display. Reg Riddle is in the turret. In the summer of 1952, Roland Pivert accompanied the Prairie Command Display, a collection of military technology and equipment, through Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.