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Top left- view of street with buildings/shops either side an large snow covered mountain in the background. Captioned 'Banff main street, Mt Rundle in the background'. Top right - view of divided street with buildings/shops either side an large…

A view of Banff and the Cascade Mountains from the south end of the Bow Bridge. Captioned 'Town of Banff and Cascade Mountains'.

Additional information kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

Top left - view along railway track of mountains in the distance.
Top right - Banff view with buildings either side, St. Paul's Presbyterian church to the right.
Bottom left - view across a wide valley of open country with mountains in the…

Top left - trees with mountains in the background. Bottom left - trees with mountains in the background. Captioned 'From Hot Springs near Banff'. Top right - car parked on snow covered road with valley on the left and mountains behind. Bottom right…

Top - a large multistory hotel in a valley in the foreground with mountains either side and in the background. Annotated 'Bow river valley and Banff Springs Hotel'. Captioned 'In Summer'. Bottom left - car parked in deep snow with snow covered…

Top - view of swimming pool with bathers in water. Pool surrounded by buildings. Captioned 'Hot springs baths, Banff, Alta'.
Left - two airmen wearing flying jackets standing in woods. Captioned 'Doug and Dickie, Woolfox Lodge 43'.
Right - and…

Top - view across open country of snow covered mountains in the far distance. Captioned 'Foothills of Rockies'.
Bottom - view across town surrounded by trees, with lakes and snow covered mountain range in the distance'. Captioned 'Banff'.

Four photographs from an album, captioned 'Wild Bears No cages for these fellows'.
Photo 1 is an airman standing looking at a bear.
Photo 2 is a bear advancing to the camera.
Photo 3 is of two bears. Behind is a family of three adults and two…

A large building in the middle distance with mountains in the background. Captioned 'Banff Springs Hotel'.

Top right - an airman wearing uniform tunic and side cap standing in snow beside a woman and young child. In the background a hedge and part of a house. Captioned 'Mrs Sill and Roddy, Bashaw, Jan 1942'.
Bottom left - man on skis going down slope.…

Top right - view of town buildings. Captioned 'Bashaw Alberta'.
Bottom left - man on skis. Captioned 'Jack Ross'.
Bottom right - three women in winter clothes standing in line in snow with toboggan in front.
Top left - missing photograph…

Top left - view in poor visibility of a man on skis. Captioned 'Jock skiing'.
Top right - four airmen, one seated at table wearing tunic and three standing behind wearing overalls. Captioned 'Instrument section'.
Bottom left - two airmen wearing…

A full length portrait of Bob in uniform, walking along a street. Advertising reads: 'Ditto duplicating machine' and 'Gold stamping on leather goods'. Ligget’s drug store sign is partially visible.

In his memoirs the location is identified as…

River in the foreground with bridge in the distance. Hill either side and mountains in the far distance. Captioned 'Bow River bridge - Banff'.

Top - town street scene with buildings either side. Captioned 'Bowden'.
Bottom - view of town in snow from airborne aircraft. Captioned 'Bowden from a Tiger'.

Aerial view of Bowden Railway Station with grain elevators.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

An oblique aerial view of a railway bridge crossing a river.
In Bob's memoirs he identifies the bridge as over the North Saskatchewan River about 1.5 miles SW of Fort Saskatchewan looking in the general direction of Edmonton.

Photographs of Calgary, Alberta.
One of several small wooden buildings captioned 'Old Calgary',
One of a street scene captioned 'City lights in '42'.
One of a bridge captioned 'Over bow R'.
One of a street scene captioned 'Picture of…

Top - postcard showing bronco riding. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Jack Noyes on Indian Black'.
Bottom - postcard showing bronco riding with spectators and helpers. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Lone Breeze on Old Strange'.

Top postcard showing bronco riding with spectators . Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Stan Jackson Bucking Horse'.
Bottom - postcard showing steer wrestling. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Ed Hunter wild steer decorating'.

Top - postcard showing calf roping. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede, Art Alarneau calf roping'.
Bottom - postcard showing calf roping. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede, Irby Mundy calf roping'.

Top - postcard showing bronco riding. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Sammy Sissons on Tally Ho'.
Bottom - postcard showing bronco riding with spectators and helpers (some mounted). Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Ernie Ferguson on Try Me Out'.

Top - postcard showing bronco riding. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Roughouse Reeve on Bay Boy'.
Bottom - postcard showing bronco riding with spectators and helpers (some mounted). Captioned 'Calgary Stampede A K Lund on Pale Face'..

Top - postcard showing bronco riding with spectators. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Joe Fox on Re-Ride'.
Bottom - postcard showing bronco riding with spectators in background. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede "Doff Aber of North America Bucking Horse,…

Top - postcard showing bronco riding with spectators. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede Joe Fox on Re-Ride'.
Bottom - postcard showing bronco riding with spectators in background. Captioned 'Calgary Stampede "Doff Aber of North America Bucking Horse,…