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Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a pilot at the controls of his aircraft.
#2 is a navigator plotting a course.
#3 is two airmen standing on steps.
#4 is an airman standing outside a wooden building with a sign for 'White River'.
They are…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a trainee airman standing in a greatcoat in front of a building with snow on the ground..
#2 and 4 are four trainees in greatcoats sanding by a fence.
#3 is three trainees in greatcoats walking along a…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is four trainee airmen at the top of an escape slide.
#2 is the four trainees sliding down the slide.
Both are captioned 'AVR 1942'.
#3 is three trainee airmen in khaki at St Flavie the St Lawrence
#4 is two…

Three photographs from an album.
#1 is a view of barracks at the camp.
#2 is a view with the camp in the distance.
#3 is four trainees on bikes, crossing a bridge.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a view across field to low hills.
#2 is a similar view looking across field to low hills.
#3 is a small building.
#4 is a small house.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a view across a small river.
#2 is a two span bridge across a river.
#3 and 4 are houses and the Catholic Church at Saint Flavie, Quebec taken from the jetty/pier looking across the shore line of the St…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a road winding down a hill with houses in the distance.
#2 is a road heading towards a forest.
#3 is a river, trees and low hills.
#4 is the Mitis river outfall into the Saint Lawrence river.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is an area of cut down trees.
#2 is a sawmill processing the cut down trees.
#3 is three houses at Ste Flavie on the St Lawrence.
#4 is a dinghy with two houses behind at St Flavie, St Lawrence.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 and 2 are similar views looking across a lake at a distant low hill.
#3 has a man walking along a beach with the lake behind.
#4 is Leggatt’s point taken from Point Leggatt village, the cove is Anse des Mortes,…

Four photographs from an album.
#1, 2 and 3 are views of the parish church of Sainte-Flavie by the roadside and from the Saint Lawrence River.
#4 shows the church of St-Rémi-de-Métis in Price.

Identification kindly provided by Michael Paré of…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is three houses seen from a bridge.
#2 is four houses viewed from a jetty.
#3 is a street scene with houses down one side.
#4 is houses at the side of a river.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a road leading to some distant houses.
#2 is a road leading to houses.
#3 is a view across fields to a distant farm.
#4 is a view across fields to a small settlement.

Three photographs from an album.
#1 is a bridge over a stream.
#2 is a river and trees.
#3 is a group of thirteen trainees in two rows in front of a Battle aircraft. The image is annotated 'Course 45 [indecipherable]' and each man is identified.…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is an air-to-air view of a Battle, starboard side, in flight.
#2 is a steam locomotive passing a water crane.
#3 is a Canadian street scene.
#4 is a 2nd Avenue, Rivers, Manitoba, looking east.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 s looking North up Main street, Rivers, Manitoba. The church in the distance is the Rivers United church.
#2 is looking East along 2nd Ave, Rivers, Manitoba, in the distance is the peaked building on Main…

Three photographs from an album.
#1 is the town hall, a small building with a tower.
#2 is the post office with a flag pole.
#3 is an airman using a sextant to observe a sun shot.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is an airman observing a sun shot using a sextant.
#2 is three airmen playing golf.
#3 is the Rivers United Church on corner of Main Street and 4th Avenue at the side of rail tracks.
#4 is four airmen…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is the memorial at 5 Ave, Rivers, Manitoba.
#2 is Ron in trainee khaki uniform.
#3 and 4 is a golfer practising his swing.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is three airmen practising their golf.
#2 is South Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
#3 is the Federal Building in Winnipeg.
#4 is a close up of the entrance to the Federal Building in Winnipeg.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a view of the corner of Main Street and Portage Avenue Winnipeg, looking north, with Canadian National ticket office, the McIntyre Block and shape of the Union Bank building further down.
#2 is Main Street…

Two photographs from an album.
#1 is Ron being awarded at a parade.
#2 is 23 airmen in two rows in front of an Anson. Ron is back row, second from right.

Front and rear album covers.

30 airmen arranged in three rows in front of an Anson. Ron is marked with a post-it, bottom row, extreme right.
It is annotated with 'Course 45 No 9 Air Observer's School St Johns PQ Canada June 1942'.
There is a second copy, almost identical, but…

Four views of Victoria Bridge bridge across St. Lawrence

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is an iced river.
#2 is a large house surrounded by snow.
#3 is a different house surrounded by snow.
#4 is a snowy road with ploughed snow at the edges.