The journey undertaken by this group is described in Cheadle and Milton’s book The Northwest Passage by Land: Being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific (1865)
Chief Little Fox, Cree, as identified in pencil on verso
The location is identified as Banff in a handwritten note on verso
(same as IP115). The subject is identified through a story in The Winnipeg Tribune, 5 May 1962
Brother of Star Blanket, c. 1930, as identified and dated in handwritten notes on verso of the frame (postcard PC002998 in Peel’s Prairie Provinces database). This is one of a set of six hand-coloured photographs
With the exception of the phrase “Indian Mission School,” much of the handwriting on the verso is undecipherable
The photograph is captioned “Souvenir of the North-West.”
Handwriting on verso indicates that the occasion was a picnic at Rolling River Reserve in August 1905
This is one of a set of six hand-coloured photographs
Handwriting in pencil on verso identifies the subjects and offers a date range of 1894-8
James Irvin, Métis, sitting on his Red River cart, Winnipeg, c.1875 (same as IP246). The subject is identified through a story in The Winnipeg Tribune, 5 May 1962
Pincher Creek, 1895, in what is now southern Alberta
Wikaskokiseyin (Sweetgrass), Chief of the Plains Cree, with Father Lacombe in St Boniface
Photo of Many Shots and White Headed Chief. A typed note on verso indicates that they are burning buffalo grass, a Blackfoot ceremony held on the first full moon in June
Identified, located, and dated in pencil on verso of the frame
The item may be an early carte de visite affixed to a thin cardboard mount
Handwriting on verso identifies S.S. Simpson Bakery and Battleford Industrial School (Residential School)
(Same as IP154). The photograph is dated June 1889 in handwritten notes on verso
A handwritten note on verso identifies Dumont as “Louis Riel’s chief of staff” in 1885
As identified in a handwritten note on verso
Handwriting on verso of frame (housed separately) identifies the subject and locates him in Morley, in Alberta. The photograph is accompanied by a colour postcard with a caption that identifies Chief Hector Crawler and Juliette Gaultier de la Vérendrye
Handwriting on verso locates the group in the foothills of Cascade Mountain, Banff National Park
As identified in a handwritten note on verso. The photograph is one of a series of three photographs from the estate of Sergeant Fred Bogart, a supply officer at Fort Qu’Appelle in 1885
The subject is identified in a handwritten note on verso. The photograph is one of a series of three photographs from the estate of Sergeant Fred Bogart, a supply officer at Fort Qu’Appelle in 1885. Identification written on verso
in headdress. The subject is identified in handwritten notes on verso of photograph. This is one of a set of six hand-coloured photographs
Published as a post card, see IP233
The photograph is dated 1896 in pencil on verso
Including Alone Walking Buffalo (third from left), Walking Buffalo (fourth from left), Chief White Head (center), Wolf Teeth (ninth from left), and Savage Hunting Buffalo (right)
(Image is the same as IP234). It is captioned on verso: “Along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.”
Indigenous community and their church on a reserve in Kamloops, BC
The handwritten notes on verso are difficult to decipher, but they mention WWI and partially identify individuals
The photograph is captioned “The old, old wish.”
According to a handwritten note on verso
