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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.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is Montreal viewed from a hillside.
#2 and 4 are general views from a hillside.
#3 is looking across the St Lawrence to Montreal with the Jacques Cartier bridge in the distance.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral viewed from across the street with passing cars and a tram. The statue of Bishop Ignace Bourget is on the right.
#2 is a view across a small park to St George's Anglican…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a view across a river to a city.
#2 is a view across a river.
#3 is a statue of a soldier in front of a Palladian building. It is Les Braves, War memorial in Mercille Parke, Saint-Lambert, Quebec.
#4 is a…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is of distant large buildings with a river in the foreground.
#2 is a river with a forest in the distance.
#3 is a view from Kondiaronk Belvedere over downtown Montreal. Several skyscrapers are visible including…

Three photographs from an album.
#1 is the Kondiaronk Belvedere with a large flagpole and many pedestrians.
#2 is a large metal cross known as the Mount Royal Cross.
#3 is a view along a street towards the Architects' Building, a skyscraper.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is the Mt Royal Observatory with many pedestrians.
#2 is a horse and carriage for tourists.
#3 is the Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal.
#4 is several pedestrians at the Belvedere.

Three photographs from an album.
#1 is a snow filled street, signposted 'Riverside Drive'.
#2 is St Barnabas Anglican Church, Avenue. Lorne, Saint-Lambert surrounded by snow.
#3 is Victoria railway bridge.

Three photographs from an album.
#1 is a snow filled street with shops and parked cars.
#2 is Ron and a fellow trainee sitting on a concrete fence.
#3 is an iced over river with distant low hills.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a city park with a pond and several people sitting in the sun and walking. Captioned 'MAI 1942'.
#2, 3 and 4 are tree lined suburban streets. #2 and 3 have a group of military men marching.

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is two bisons lying in a field.
#2 is a house part covered in trees.
#3 is a driveway with trees and bushes at the side.
#4 is a view towards a bell tent and large buildings.

Three photographs from an album.
#1 and 3 are driveways running through wooded areas.
#2 is looking east from corner of Princess Avenue and 12th Street, towards Brandon Court House, Manitoba with shops, cars and a few pedestrians.