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Morley - 07-71 Tepee - Joe Beaulieu (right), Jim Erasmus (second from left), Harry Quitte (left)

Morley - 07-71 Tepee - Joe Beaulieu, Jim Erasmus, Harry Quitte

Morley - 07-71 Tepee - Joe Beaulieu, Jim Erasmus, Harry Quitte

Morley - 07-71 Drummer - Handgame - Harry Martin (left, with drum), Morris Sangris (right, with drum)

Morley - 08-75 Indian Ecumenical Conference - Tepee

Morley - 08-75 Indian Ecumenical Conference - Tepee

Morley - 08-75 Indian Ecumenical Conference - Tepee

Morley - 08-75 Indian Ecumenical Conference - Tepee

Morley - 08-75 Indian Ecumenical Conference - Meals

Morley - 08-75 Buffalo - Butchering - Judith Bugghins, Elizabeth Beck

At the Fort Chipewyan Post Office with the first Official Air Mail. Left to right - Wop May, Pilot, T. Woodman, Postmaster, C. Becker, Pilot. [Note the Bureau de Poste sign on the left of the building's front.]

Ice scenes during the breakup season on the Athabasca River at Fort McMurray in 1930. For about one month in the spring there is no delivery of mail due to the river conditions.

[An airplane on a sleigh. Its wings have been removed and strapped to the fuselage. Photograph taken in Fort McMurray, Alberta.]

Ft. McMurray. Bringing back crashed plane from Chipewyan. [An airplane on a sleigh. Its wings have been removed and strapped to the fuselage. A team of horses are being used to moved the plane. One man drives the horses while another rides inside the plane.]

[Fort] McMurray. Alta. [?] Nadin. June. Dawn Cruikshank.

[Fort] McMurray. Alta. [?] Nadin. June. Dawn Cruikshank.

Edmonton. "Pops". Vi. Mother May. [Alex, Violet and Elizabeth May.]

Rudy Heuss. [Rudy Heuss, the Canadian Airways Limited engineer (front?) and friend, who is seated in a City of Edmonton plane.]

CAL plane delivering merchandise at Ft. Fitzgerald. Mrs. Woodman and daughter. [Mrs. Woodman inspects mail packages on a dock. A Canadian Airways Limited floatplane is in the background.]

Men Famous in the North No. 3 Mr. R.W. Hale, District Superintendent of Postal Service, Edmonton, Alberta. Mr. Hale made the first trip with the Air Mail to Aklavik in 1929.

Return to Edmonton on January 1930 after first official flight "Mackenzie Air Mail Service". [left to right] F.B. Watt (Press), G.H. Rocke (Postmaster, Ft. McMurray), Tim Sims (Mechanic), C. Becker (Manager), R.W. Hale (P.O.I.) [Post Office], F.X.J. Leger (Dist. Supt.), "Wop" May (Pilot), Mr. Soloway.

McMurray. Cassie Owens [left.] Andy Cruikshank [holds baby.] [A family with small children and a husky dog pose in front of a floatplane at Fort McMurray.]

May 21, 1929. [left to right:] Pilot Spradbrow, Wop [May], G.H. Brudger P.M., [unidentified woman], Perraton. P.O. Supervisor Edmonton.

Flight to Ft. Vermilion. Peace River. Wop. Vic Horner. [Wop May and Vic Horner sit in a Commercial Airways Avro Avian open-cockpit airplane, which is still on the ground.]

This post [Fort Fitzgerald] is 250 air miles from Fort McMurray. It is the first terminal of the Hudson's Bay steamers in the summer time. There is a 16 mile portage necessary to negotiate the river at this point on account of the rapids. Below is a picture of Pilot Gilbert taking off with mail for the north. [A plane with skis sits on a frozen body of water.]