Fonds 344 Frank Earnest Hardy fonds

66 photographs

2 postcards

Date: 1914-1919 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of digital copies (donated on a CD) of diaries from 1914 and 1917, a photograph log book, a letter from Floyd Van Schaick, and a souvenir Christmas card with list of students from Hermit Lake School in 1918.

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: 1911-1956 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of photographs, primarily of people and places in the South Peace.

Physical description: 66 photographs

2 photographs

Note:

Not all photographs on the CD were numbered and described.

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

A large field of stooked grain is seen behind a four-horse team and driver.

An eight-hitch plow is being used to break the land around a farm home.

A crew of men man a barge on a river.

A small boy sits on a tall pony.

A car is stopped on a wooden bridge and two men take a look at the view.

Two men stand on the top log preparing rafters for the roof.

A cabin in winter showing icicles along the roof edge.

Thought to be the first Anglican Church and Speke Hall in Grande Prairie

A newly built church in an open field

A cabin in winter with a dog watching the photographer.

A well established farmstead borders a lake in the background.

Three young women on their horses pose for a picture.

Two men and a woman display the birds they have killed.

Frank’s dog, Brownie, poses on a chair.

Frank is seen adjusting his camera as he stands in the woods behind a group of people.

Frank Hardy stands beside his sod roof cabin. Guns and drying shingles hang on the outside wall.

Frank Hardy in later years, standing in front of a trellis.

Frank Hardy in later years, with his wife Lillian.

Two threshing machines operating on the left and full loads waiting on the right. Oats stooks in the foreground. See diary for description.

A four-horse team pulls a binder cutting an oat crop.

Ox teams pull sleighs stacked with bundles in winter.

Frank Hardy’s homestead on Hermit Lake.

Hermit Lake School

Lake Saskatoon Mercantile Co. building with Buffalo Lakes Lumber Co. sign on the side. A man stands in the doorway.

Six men rest on a pile of logs while a team of oxen stand on the right.

Piles of lumber and buildings can be seen beyond small trees.

Piles of lumber and a team of horses pulling a load.

A team of oxen is winching logs from the river.

Van Horne Sawmill along the Wapiti near the mouth of Pipestone Creek.

A man drives his team and wagon across a field.

A man drives his team and wagon across a field.

A mountie squats and takes aim as he holds onto the reins of his horse.

A mountie appears to be talking to people around the teepee.

An oxen team stands ready to plow a furrow. A chicken and dog watch.

A team of oxen pulls a plow as the farmer holds the plow handles and the sod is turned into furrows.

Buildings on Lake Saskatoon’s main street.

Buildings on Lake Saskatoon’s main street.

Reverend Abbott, wife Marjorie, daughter Kathleen, and infant son.

A ferry transports a team and loaded wagon across a river.

Two chickens feed in the grass.

Two men in a rowboat on a river.

Large crowds watch from both the top and bottom of the creek bank as skiers prepare to jump.

Group dressed in winter parkas and mukluks posing in front of a building.

A barn raising on Herbert Van Schaick’s farm. Herbert, Bill Sharp, and Joe Jensen are seen on top and Foster and Clifton Van Schaick are seen in the doorway.

Nellie and Herbert Van Schaick with their sons Chester, Foster, Clifton, Glen, and Floyd.

Herbert Van Schaick’s farm located seven miles west and one mile north of Grande Prairie.

Herbert Van Schaick standing in a field with his team of horses.

Group of hunters posing with their guns and dogs.

Reverend F. W. Abbott, Anglican minister at Lake Saskatoon, with his two children on his lap.

Looking west down Richmond Avenue, with Thompson’s Hardware, John McCauley Fur Buyers, Owens & Johnson, and Imperial Bank of Canada the most visible buildings.

The mail from Edson arrives at the Grande Prairie Post Office, located in Patterson’s Store.