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Alexander Family at the Bent, Laurencekirk, Scotland, about 1866. Back row, left to right: Tom, Jean, William Sr. (father), Maria, Jessie (mother)? holding Maggie, Jim, and Jessie. Front row, left to right: Willie, Mina (Willamina), Ack (Alexander), Lizzie, Euphemia, and Charles.

Left to right: Ed, Art, William (father), and Bill Alexander.

"This is a photo of our little Spirit River girls taken on the first of July." Left to right: Oma Tomson, Mag. Tomson, Peace Brooks, Jean Alexander, Florence Brooks, and Maggie Alexander.

The Alexander family on their farm near Rycroft with a slaughtered pig. Left to right: Art, Emilie, Maggie?, Jean?, Bill or Ed?, William Alexander, and Mr. Leslie.

Jean and Maggie at their mother’s reed organ.

A group of six men traveling by horse and wagon from Grande Prairie to Athabasca. Alex Wishart, the teamster driving the horses, is taking the other five to enlist with the R.N.W.M.P. at the beginning of World War I. From left to right they are Harley Conrad, George Balmer, Jack McKenzie, Delmar Pratt, Alex Wishart, and Chester Carman Miller. The five joined the force on September 9, 1914.

Postcard labeled “Bear Creek Grande Prairie”. The bridge in the photo appears to be the first government bridge on the trail from Grande Prairie to Flying Shot Lake. In the background can be seen a row of telegraph poles which mark the main road into Grande Prairie from the west (now 100th Avenue).

Ed and Bill Alexander in their World War I uniforms.

Students and teachers gathered on the front steps of Montrose School in Grande Prairie, November 26, 1917, for the first day in the new school.

Students and teachers gathered on the front steps of Montrose School in Grande Prairie, November 26, 1917, for the first day in the new school. The photograph appears to have been contributed by Edith Mair.