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

The two receipts, for $166.41 and personal effects are signed by Olive, Sam's widow.

Part 1. Explains delay in writing due to 48 hour pass which allowed him to go to new York. Describes activities there.
Part 2. On return was posted to air observers school and was packing to go. Arrive in Toronto and did tour including Niagara…

Two indecipherable names and addresses in Canada

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Two men wearing civilian clothes sitting in a filed with trees and a building in the background. On the reverse 'Chuck Pawlietza + Stan Mount at Dauphin Lake'.

Album page, captioned 'E.F.M. Expedition Force Messages'. Two EFM's to Keith from his family, an acknowledgement from Western union that the EFM Keith sent had been delivered, a Western Union flyer with pricing. Page annotated '3 phrases from a…

Photo 1 is of the University Bridge in Saskatoon.
Photo 2 is of the Traffic Bridge and the Broadway bridge with the Bessborough Hotel behind.

The two airmen are kitted up with parachutes, gloves and thick boots. On the reverse 'Canada'.

Five photographs from an album.
#1 is two airmen standing in the snow. One is wearing a greatcoat and the other has an Observers brevet
#2 is a snowy track.
#3 is the same two airmen, the one on the right is about to throw a snowball at the other…

An Anson in the snow with two airmen standing at the port engine. It is captioned 'L to R - C. Haines Finnell, Rus, Bar [rest missing] Brantford -1942'.

The three men are gathering firewood.

Two airmen sitting on a wooden fence.
On the reverse 'Moncton, Ontario [sic], Canada'.

Two airmen about to climb into an aircraft at RCAF Mossbank No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School. Both are fully kitted out in flying gear. One man is on top of the aircraft and another is on the wing. On the left is the instructor, Pilot Officer Ernest…

Two aircrew, the second obscured behind the first. The front man is carrying a parachute. In the background two Tiger Moths parked.

Two aircrew wearing flying suit standing by the rear cockpit of a Tiger Moth. The man on the left has on a parachute and the man on the right is wearing flying helmet.

To his parents written when in training in Canada at 31 ANS.

A station building captioned 'Rail station only rails there now 1983'.
Photogrpahs of street scenes with cars and a motor coach, people walking by a canal, a man in RAF uniform with training flash, a woman standing in a street, a field and two…

A group of pine trees with fence surround. Captioned 'Innisfail Alta'.

A messing bill for $4.40 from RAF Moncton

Class of cadets in five rows, some dressed in light coloured uniforms, some in dark, submitted with caption; “No 41 SFTS, Weyburn, Saskatchewan”

Several men standing in the snow as their train stops at Avola station.

Ten photographs taken during a crossing of Canada.
#1 is a view towards the steam engine across various coaches. There is a lot of snow by the tracks.
#2 is an arrivals board for the Canadian Pacific Railway at Chapleau.
#3 is the station at Fire…

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

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

Three views between Clearwater and Jasper taken from the train.

Tentative identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.