S.S. Distributor Leaving Fort Wrigley

Northwest Territories


18 Oct 2013

395 visits

S.S. Distributor Leaving Fort Wrigley

A Camera Products Co. card showing a steamer in the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories. Hand coloured real photo image, probably from around 1930. Unused. Noted as having been "Published for the Mackenzie River Transport". The S.S. Distributor sailed from 1920 into the 1940s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboats_of_the_Mackenzie_River

19 Oct 2013

725 visits

Looking west, Calgary, N.W.T.

September 10, 1905 postmark, a few days after Alberta became a province. Addressed to Miss Bell, 1 Aurs Road, Barrhead, Scotland. Warwick Bros. & Rutter card no. 380, with an ink-stamp (see top of card) of D. J. Young & Co of Calgary.

28 Sep 2013

359 visits

Branding Cattle - Medicine Hat.

Mailed to Miss Jessie M. Oakes of Dundas, Ontario. Cancel is Moose Jaw & Calgary R.P.O., date indistinct but the Hamilton transfer (above) and Dundas receiver are both March 17, 1905. Back is undivided with the common "Private Post Card" in the arched banner, although with an unusual "Souvenir" printed above the banner.

28 Sep 2013

268 visits

John Hawk's Farm, Near Medicine Hat, N.W.T.

Posted June 16, 1907 at Winnipeg, this is by C. S. Co. as indicated. Mailed without a message to Mr. H. H. Simmons, 21 Eagle St., Schenectady, New York.

17 Jan 2016

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6138. Interior view of chancel, the Cathedral Church of All Saints (Anglican) Aklavik, N.W.T.

Postcard showing the interior of the Anglican church at Aklavik, N.W.T., in the Mackenzie delta. The town was subsequently moved and became Inuvik.