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A Sense of Humour

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.

Alaska Highway Convoy Truck

Copy of an original photograph. A convoy truck, bound from Edmonton to Dawson Creek and the Alaska highway, stopped in front of the temporary weather station and behind the Repeater Station at Little Smoky.

Brown's Stopping Place

Copy of an original photograph. The Brown's Place at Little Smoky River on the Old High Prairie Road. Sid and Margo Brown and their family lived there from 1932-1945. All the Army convoys to Alaska passed right by the little store by the old bridge.

Crossing the Little Smoky Bridge

Copy of an original photograph. Lee Pooler's jeep crossing the bridge at Little Smoky. Supplies, such as gasoline and groceries for the Repeater Station and Weather Station at Little Smoky were brought in from High Prairie.

Grande Prairie, AB

Copy of an original photograph. Seargent Lee Pooler delivered hard copies of the weather reports to headquarters at the Grande Prairie Airport once a month. Margaret Wilson, a teacher at GP, is touring him around the town.

Lee Charles Pooler

Copy of an original photograph. Lee Charles Pooler graduated from College, and in 1941 enlisted in the United States Army Air Force.

Little Smoky Repeater Station

Copy of an original photograph. The Little Smoky Repeater Station at Little Smoky was segmented for the various activities. From the south end on the right of the photo the building contained a maintenance room, the operation center for generating electricity, electronics room for the teletypes and phones, sleeping barracks, kitchen, and double doors for weather protection.

Little Smoky Repeater Station

Copy of an original photograph. The long low log building is the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Repeater Station at Little Smoky during the second World War. Behind it is the maintenance building, and the weather station.

Maintenance Building

Copy of an original photograph. The maintenance building on the Canadian Signal Corps station at Little Smoky, Alberta, was located behind the main Repeater Station building. It contained all the stores as well as the maintenance equipment.

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