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Top - a group of native Americans in full regalia riding horses down a street with buildings on left and mountain in the distance behind. Captioned 'Indians in Banff'.
Bottom - view of distant snow covered mountain. Captioned 'Banff'.

Top left - an airman wearing tunic and side cap standing by a doorway. Captioned 'Jock Ross, Calgary'.
Bottom right - an Oxford parked on airfield with fuel bowser in front. Behind left a control tower. Captioned 'Penhold, Oct 1942'.

Top left - view from air of a lake with town. Captioned 'Sylvan Lake Alberta'.
Top right - three women in winter clothes riding on a toboggan.
Bottom left -three airmen wearing greatcoats standing by a car in front of a building with sign 'Uptown…

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 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.…

No 36 Service Flying Training School. RAF Penhold, Christmas dinner menu for 1942. Includes several signatures and named 'Sgt Price A.P'. at top. On the reverse, many more signatures.

During operation to Ludwigshaven. Gives account of rear gunner Flight Sergeant P Perehinski (of Vancouver) continuing to give evasive action to pilot despite being wounded. Also mentions lucky escape of George Bilton where a prayer book and…

Names of Sgt Sterrenberg RCAF at 51 OTU Cranfield and Mrs J F Sterrenberrg in Consort Alberta, Canada.

Two indecipherable names and addresses in Canada

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Four album pages, the first page is captioned 'No 31 E.F.T.S. R.A.F. De Winton, Alberta, Canada. September-November 1942'. It has five photographs.
The first has a Tiger Moth over snow covered expanse, captioned 'Tiger Moth about to take off'.…

Left - snow covered trail though trees.
Right - snow covered trail through trees with signpost. Captioned 'Trail to Sundance Canyon'.

Left - rocky valley with trees.
Right rocky cliff face on right. Captioned 'Sundance Canyon'.

Left - a deer in street with houses in the background.
Right - a deer on a snow covered road with trees in the background. Captioned 'Animal life in Banff'.

Left - view across valley to distant snow covered peaks.
Right - similar view with a figure in the snow.

Left - view across a valley with surrounding hills. Captioned 'A view from lower hot springs'.
Right - two airmen wearing greatcoats sitting in snow with mountains in the background.

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.

A man wearing swimming trunks standing by the ladder on side of a pool with a wall, trees and mountains in the background. Captioned 'A warm bath in cold surroundings'.

Identification information kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

Top - part of a building with mountains in the background. Bottom - a hot springs pool with two men in swimming trunks in the water at the bottom. Mountains in the background.

Snow covered road through pine trees. Captioned 'Road to Upper Hot Springs'.

Snow covered ground with pine trees. Captioned 'Trail to Upper Hot Springs'.

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

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

Full length image of an airman wearing tunic and wearing skis and holding ski poles standing on snow with building and trees in the background. Captioned 'Banff, Ski-ing on Mount Norquay'.

The upper photo is of 82 Ave facing West. Centre left, the Canadian Pacific Railway station Irvine; in the distance the North Saskatchewan River.
The lower photo is of North Saskatchewan River. The Low Level Bridge, the High Level Bridge, the…

The upper photo is an oblique aerial photographs of Low Level Bridge facing south. In the distance, the Old Walterdale Bridge, the High Level Bridge and the Alberta Legislature Building.
The lower photo is of Alberta Legislature Building, next to…