Telling Our Stories
The Hines Family Album
Image: Three unidentified game farm employees ride on camels while another unidentified man rides a much smaller goat-like animal in front of them, ca. 1908.
Image: Three unidentified game farm employees ride on camels while another unidentified man rides a much smaller goat-like animal in front of them, ca. 1908.
Image: Hockey team practicing on one of the outdoor rinks in the Bear Creek Valley, ca. 1950 (SPRA 1969.59.318) The following transcription is from the
Image: Dora’s Ground Observer Certificate (SPRA 006.01.02.01) Dora Koberg arrived in the Peace Country in 1918, with the Thomas family from St. Paul’s, Minnesota. She
Image: Barrel race at the Sturgeon Lake Sports Day at Calais. Donald Williamson is on the front barrel – he eventually won the race. n.d.
Above: O. H. “Rutabaga” Johnson and his rutabagas, ca. 1920 (SPRA 362.02.12.13) Oliver Hiram Johnson was born on August 16, 1856 in Capron County, Illinois
Above: Patients and nurses at a World War I convalescent hospital in 1918 (SPRA 1969.59.331) Following the end of the First World War, numerous ships
Image: “Foster and Crossley with hives, 1934.” Photograph by W.D. Albright (SPRA 362.02.03.06) The Archives are buzzing with information about bees! Both archival collections and
Above: A diagram drawn by Kay showing “revised castering” on a bicycle. (From SPRA 438.02) This post is continued from Kay Trelle, Missile Man: Part I,
Above: Kay Trelle and Rex Ford, another first year engineer from Douglas Hall, in front of the Engineering building at Queen’s University in December 1940.
Image: I.O.D.E. member, Ann Watson, with Meals on Wheels, 1981 (SPRA 111.04.110) Scattered throughout the Archives’ collections, we see evidence of communities in the South