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Pioneers gathering outside Campbell Benson Stopping Place at Bear Creek include Harry Robertson, Ralph Brown, Campbell Benson, Mrs. Benson, Morton Emerson, George Lovering and Jake Weber. The cabin and 80 acres belonged to a French Canadian, Joseph Germaine, who sold the land to the Argonaut Company. These 80 acres were surveyed to create "Grande Prairie City."

A couple traveling over the Edson Trail by horse and caboose. A caboose was a small canvas covered sleigh which served as shelter and kitchen for the settlers on the long trip.

Horses are pulling a caboose sleigh on the snowy Edson-Grande Prairie Trail, 10 miles from Little Smoky River.

Men are doubling up a team of horses and oxen for the hill. The back of the photograph reads, "Six on this load and then they had all they could do." Little Smoky River had the longest hill on the Edson-Grande Prairie Trail.

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.

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

Buckskin Charlie driving the Mail Team across a river on the snowy Edson-Grande Prairie Trail.

Ferrying settler with horse and loaded wagon travel across the Big Smoky.

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.

Two buildings on the Rorem homestead; the original house is on the left, and the newer building is on the right.