Fonds 049 Forrest Falk fonds

142 photographs

128 slides

42 negatives

2 cards

Date: 1895-1980 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of correspondence, naturalization certificate, and copies of certificates regarding the birth and citizenship of John Frederick and Forrest Clinton Falk. There are also four turn of the century cards from Edith Paige Falk’s family and the 1967 memoirs written by Forrest Falk for “Pioneers of the Peace”.

Physical description: 2 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1912-1965 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of receipts for work done, land, livestock and machinery; transfers and leases of land between Forrest, his father and neighbours; sale agreements and loan agreements; and a small cash book listing prices of items purchased for grubstake in 1912, as well as later purchases and records of work done for area farmers. A 1965 Auction Poster advertises the farm sale when the Falks retired.

Physical description: 2 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Related material:

25 photographs had two sets of reference codes in the old Access database: one linked them with this series, and the other with series 0049.04. They now are described only in series 0049.04.

Publication status:

Published

2 copies of the 1965 Auction Poster which advertised the farm sale when the Falks retired.

Date: 1917-1933 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of communications from the war department regarding the “wounded in action” of Forrest Falk, and the resultant compensation; dismissal papers such as the enlistment record and soldier’s affidavit; and a small diary used while at the American Red Cross hospital, with addresses and records of the treatment of his injury. There is also a large certificate of honorable discharge for Private Frederick Paige.

Physical description: 1 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1890-1973 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of Falk family photographs, covering various activities including family portraits, immigration, homesteading, animals, family and friends, hunting and exploration, farming at Clairmont, and retirement.

Physical description: 141 photographs

128 slides

42 negatives

2 cards

Note:

Some slides are copies of photographs described in this series, while other slides are unique. Not all slides are individually described.

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Retirement home of Forrest and Edith Falk. There are sparsely forested hills in the background, and a wagon wheel fence in front of the house.

The first train into Grande Prairie in 1916.

Forrest Falk’s car pulled off onto the side of the road on a trip from Grande Prairie to Pouce Coupe, B.C.

A work train building into Grande Prairie in Mar. 1916

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Ogden, homesteaders, enroute from Everretts to Bingly with oxen and wagon in 1910. They were originally from Boston.

Two Harmon Boys along with Cliff & Frederick Falk repaired roads in the Peace River Country about 1915.

Setting up camp in the bush on the journey into the Peace River Country.

The Montana style gate used for access into the Falk farmyard from 1918-1926.

Plowing at the Falk farm in 1926. The farmyard is in the background

Forrest Falk with steel-wheeled tractor and binder harvesting a crop.

Forrest Falk immigrated to the Peace Country over the Edson Trail in 1911. He is shown here with horse and lariat.

Forrest Falk at the age of 18 on “Mike”, the saddle horse he rode over the Edson Trail. Photograph taken on Tom Cochrane’s farm.

Forrest Falk on “Mike” the saddle horse he brought over the Edson Trail. The saddle is now in Grande Prairie Museum.

A new barn being built at the Falk farm about 1920-21. The roof is yet to be installed.

A new barn being built at the Falk farm about 1920-21. The roof is yet to be installed.

Horse-drawn seed drill on the Falk farm, south-east of Clairmont.

Forrest Falk upon his return from the First World War, with family or friends in Butte, Montana.

Falk frame house on the farm in the early 1920s.

One of the outbuildings on the Falk farm storing wood for the coming winter.

Image shows Edith Falk with a foal, standing in front of a tractor. Title is taken from the caption beneath the photograph in the display.

Image shows Edith Falk with a foal. Title is taken from the caption beneath the photograph in the display.

A sow with piglets and several chickens roam the yard on the Falk Farm in the 1920’s.

Forrest Falk hauling grain across Clairmont Lake with a six horse team pulling two wagons.

Floyd Totten and Forrest Falk traveling to the new homestead with borrowed transportation from Robert Cochrane in May 1912.

A six horse plow on the Forrest Falk farm in 1922.

Edith Paige Falk, the new bride, in the grainfield outside her farm house.

Forrest Falk with the two Hammond boys and their family in April, 1920.

Arthur Gunn’s log house and new frame house.

Threshing the 1940 crop on Forrest Falk’s farm south-east of Clairmont, Alberta.

Two teams of horses hauling grain to the elevators at Clairmont, Alberta in the winter.

Pigs in front of their shelter on the Forrest Falk Farm near Clairmont in 1920’s.

Cutting hay with two horses and a horse drawn mower on the Falk farm in 1925.

Falk cattle in front of a dilapidated log building in the late 1920’s.

Horses in front of a barn at the Falk farm near Clairmont in the 1920’s.

Two copies of a photograph showing Forrest Falk on his horse “Mike” with his dog “Major” on behind.

Forrest Falk homestead outbuildings, with garden in the foreground.

Forrest Falk’s Horse “Mike” with a dog in the 1892 saddle in the early 1920’s.

Breaking land with a steel wheel tractor on the Falk farm in 1925.

Forrest Falk at the age of 18 on “Mike”, the saddle horse he rode over the Edson Trail. Photograph taken on Tom Cochrane’s farm.

Margo Falk poses in front of a cutter hitched up to two horses.

Image shows a gate that appears to be a Kentucky gate on Forrest Falk’s farm. Title and date range taken from the caption beneath the photograph in the display.

There is 8 inches of snow on these stooks at the Forrest Falk Farm on Sept. 13, 1936

Forrest’s father, John Falk, standing next to his horse.

A threshing outfit and straw pile at the Falk farm near Clairmont in 1917.

The straw stack towers above horses and wagon on the Falk farm in 1930.

Image shows two cars and a threshing machine in a field. Title taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Mr. Stewart’s steam tractor, used for threshing by local farmers, was located near Bezanson.

Stewart’s Threshing Outfit at Bezanson.

A photo showing a steam tractor, thresher, teams, and wagons at threshing time on a Peace River Farm

Four horses pull a plow at the Falk homestead near Clairmont.

Horse-drawn McCormick binder in operation.

A team of six horses with screens around their muzzles to protect them from the nose fly.

Worker with a team of eight horses harrowing the land on Falk farm.

A team of horses working in a field on the Falk farm.

A team of six horses pulling a seeder for the spring planting.

Constructing haystacks on the Falk farm in 1923.

The original log house on the Falk farm. The roof was raised to make a loft for a barn in 1920-1925.

Threshing at the Falk farm in the late 1940’s. At this point tractors have rubber tires rather than steel wheels.

A steel wheel McCormick Deering tractor was used to break land on the Falk farm in 1925

Revillion Freres store and Beaverlodge Post Office at Saskatoon Lake.

Unknown persons at the Hudson’s Bay Company Post at Lake Saskatoon

Richmond Avenue, from the 99th Street intersection, looking west.

Granny Beard lived on the next quarter to Forrest Falk.

Kleskun Hill Ball Team pose for a group photo

Image shows the members of the Kleskun Hill ball team in their uniforms. Title is taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Pioneer award from the Grande Prairie and District Old Timers Association given to Forrest C Falk

Portrait of Forrest Falk’s family of origin, taken in the United States at the turn of the century. Front Row: Charles, Elizabeth, Grandma, Eva. Back Row: Leonard, age 16, John Frederick (father of F.C. Falk), Will, George. F.C. Falk was born in 1893. Grandmother passed away in 1891 or 1892. The photo was originally in a frame constructed from wood taken from John Frederick’s homestead cabin built in 1912, 8.5 miles NE of Grande Prairie.

Two matted aerial photographs of the Falk farm, one in colour and the other in black and white.

Framed photograph of the Forrest Falk farmstead near Clairmont, Alberta.

John F. Falk and Mary E. Falk, with their son Forrest C. Falk, born 1893 in Sumner, Iowa.

Eight slides showing individual portraits and a gravesite.

Forrest Falk plowing with a two-horse team on his farm near Clairmont.

Forrest and Edith Falk homestead near Clairmont.

These slides show images of various livestock, including pigs, cows, and horses, as well as pets, including cats and dogs.

Note:

Some of these slides are copies of photographs on the yellow display, while other images are unique. Some of these images have been digitized, while others have not.

Forrest and Edith Falk with daughter Mary and an unknown friend or relative.

Mary Falk as a young child in front of the huge pile of wood which was the winter wood supply on the Falk farm.

Mary Falk and friend beside the car and wagon used for family transportation.

Edith Falk making ice cream with a hand-turned ice cream maker.

Forrest and Edith Falk standing in a shoulder-high crop of oats on their farm near Clairmont.

Forrest and Edith Falk with a young piglet outside of the new barn on their farm near Clairmont.

Forrest Falk and daughter Mary in front of the binder and crop.

Forrest and Edith Falk and daughter Mary in front of the family car, on the lane out of the farm near Clairmont.

Forrest and Edith Falk in front of the shelterbelt on their farm near Clairmont.

Forrest Falk and Hazel Beard at the Smoky River, celebrating their first crossing of it in 1911.

Forrest Falk and Hazel Beard at the Smoky River, celebrating their first crossing of it in 1911.

Close-up of sign “Our First Crossing of the Smoky River Sept. 2, 1911 (Ferry)”

Forrest Falk (on right) driving wagon with two horse team.

Hand-painted and enlarged copy of a photograph of the Falks team and wagon coming through the bush on the Edson Trail.

Note on the back of the photograph identifies this as “New Mexico 1908.”

A steam driven tractor from the early 1900’s

Revillion Freres store and Beaverlodge Post Office in 1910 at Saskatoon Lake

A postcard of “Uncle Bert’s daughter” in a stroller. The postcard was mailed to Edith Page.

Men and horses gathering and loading loose hay during haying season.

George Breeden’s Hotel was one of the first buildings on the future site of Grande Prairie City.

Looking westward down Richmond Avenue in Grande Prairie about 1915

Looking eastward down Richmond Avenue in Grande Prairie in 1915

Forrest Falk poses on horseback in front of a log barn.

The original log house on the Falk farm. The roof was raised to make a loft for a barn in 1920-1925.

Men and equipment thresh on the Forrest Falk farm in the late 1920’s.

Image shows a team of horses plowing a field, with a house and barn in the background. Title is taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Image shows buildings on the Falk farm with a field in the foreground.

Frame farm house & log outbuildings on Falk Farm.

Forrest Falk moving a granary with his steel-wheeled tractor in a field of heavy snow.

The Forrest Falk farm buildings and corrals during winter.

Falk farm in the distance, behind a field of stooked oats.

Image shows four people and a car in an oat field.

Edith Falk and daughter in the center of a field of oats on Falk farm.

A September snowfall covers the crops on Falk farm.

Rear view of horse-drawn seeder behind a team of six horses.

Image shows a team of four horses pulling a sleigh loaded with hay. Title taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

New frame house on the Forrest Falk farm in 1925.

Forrest Falk moving a granary with his steel-wheeled tractor in a field of heavy snow.

Image of a child and a dog posing in front of a root pile. Title is taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Image shows a man standing in front of a tractor in a field being cleared of trees. Title is taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Preschooler Mary Falk with her father’s seeding outfit and horses.

A threshing outfit on the Falk farm showing equipment, granary, and straw pile.

Image shows a cat, a pig, and a dog eating together from a food dish. Title is taken from the caption beneath the photograph in the display.

Oat stooks on the Falk farm in the south Peace River country.

Machinery and truck used during threshing on Falk Farm.

Image shows a team of horses hitched to a seeder. A small girl and a dog are posing in front of the horses.

Edith Falk and her daughter Mary beside a McCormick-Deere binder.

Team of eight horses pulling a harrows over the field.

Steam Tractor running the threshing machine at Falk farm in the 1940s.

A threshing outfit on the Falk farm showing equipment, granary, and straw pile.

Image shows a threshing machine operating in a field. Title is taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Preschooler Mary Falk poses next to a spruce tree in front of her farm house.

Image shows a garden with a house and outbuildings in the background. Title is taken from the caption beneath the photograph in the display.

Threshing crew gathers at Oatway’s farm. Vehicles are parked to the left.

Track-laying engine building the train track into Grande Prairie in March 1916

Image shows a house and several outbuildings after an early snowfall. Title is taken from the caption written on the back of the photograph.

Image shows Hazel Beard at the Smoky River with the bridge in the background. A note on the back of the photograph reads “opening of Smokey River Bridge – 1973”

Image shows Forrest Falk and Hazel Beard at the Smoky River with the bridge in the background. A note on the back of the photograph reads “Opening of Smokey River Bridge – 1973”

A dog on the Forrest Falk farm resting on the grass.

The best horse on Falk Farm

A September snowfall covers the crops on Falk farm.

Steel-wheeled tractor being used for field work on the Falk farm.

Trumpeter swans rescued as cygnets in the Clairmont area and raised as pets.

A woman, possibly Edith Falk, stands in the doorway of the new white frame farmhouse built on Falk farm. A dog is climbing the steps up to the house.

New outbuilding on Falk farm under construction.

Winter scene of more modern outbuildings on Falk Farm.

Image shows a new barn built on Forrest Falk’s farm. Title is taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Image shows the house and several outbuildings on Forrest Falk’s farm. Title is taken from the caption below the photograph in the display.

Forrest Falk and friend riding horses.

Seven man threshing crew at the mobile threshing bunkhouse on Falk Farm.

Forrest Falk, his horse Mike, and the Saddle as they came over the Edson Trail.

Bird’s eye view of town of Peace River.

A horse on the Forrest Falk farm in 1920. The ca. 1892 Saddle is in the Grande Prairie Museum

Field ready for seeding on Falk Farm.

A dog and piglet eat out of the same dish on the Forrest Falk farm near Clairmont.

Image shows horses hitched to a cutter.

Oat crop at Forest Falk’s farm.

Faded outdoor wedding photograph in star-shaped frame decorated with embroidery floss.