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Executive [photos]
Table of contents
Dedication
Forgotten echoes
Message : Premier Lougheed
Message : Bud Miller
Introduction
In the beginning
History
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Blackfoot prayer
Legends
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Interesting discoveries
Settling the land
Pioneers
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Typical township
Barr colonists
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Purser's list of SS Lake Manitoba
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Further immigration
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Women, where are you?
Transportation and communication
Prairie winds
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Canadian Pacific Railway
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From trails to blacktop
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Lloydminster Airport
Stringing the early telegraph line
Newspapers in Lloydminster
Blackfoot and the telephone
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Blackfoot Mutual Telephone
Madresfield Mutual Telephone Co.
Millardale Mutual Telephone Co.
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CKSA Radio and Television
Churches
Those who came before
Churches of the area
St. Mark's, Blackfoot
St. Luke's, Northminster
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Church life in the Millerdale district
Church service in Myrtle Hill
Schools
The little white schoolhouse
Blackfoot S.D. No. 1623
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Eva Lang
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Kitscoty and district early childhood kindergarten
Durness S.D. No. 1806
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Alfred Matthews scholarship
Flowerdale S.D. No. 1726
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Millerdale S.D. No. 1764
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Teaching at Millerdale
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Myrtle Hill S.D. No. 3942
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A sojourn in Myrtle Hill School District
My years at Myrtle Hill
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A teaching experience
Staplehurst S.D. No. 3511
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Eric Dunstan scholarship
Charles Robinson
Kathleen Springford Franks
Westdene S.D. No. 1874
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Westminster Park S.D. No. 4489
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Correspondence school branch
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Community
The coal oil lamp
The North west Mounted Police
Dr. G.L. Cooke
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Millerdale
Major-General Sir Sam Hughes
Henderson's Alberta Directories
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Town well
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Remembering Blackfoot 1905-1940
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Blackfoot community Hall
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Blackfoot Ladies Community Club
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Blackfoot Lions Club
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Curling at Blackfoot
Early sports stories
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Blackfoot hockey
Blackfoot Jets, ladies softball club
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Devonia rural electrification
Blackfoot homecoming
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Staplehurst reunion and homecoming
Country fair
A 1914 Christmas party
Agriculture
Down on the farm
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United Oilseed Products Ltd.
Bawlf, Alberta Pacific and Federal Grain Co.'s
Alberta Wheat Pool
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Staplehurst elevator
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Hi-Gain Custom Feedlot
The Vee Tee Feedlot
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Blackfoot 4-H Clubs
Durness 4-H Clubs
Blackfoot United Farmers of Alberta Union #76
Blackfoot Livestock Protective Ass'n
Gopher pest
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Oil
Salt water hauler's lament
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Enhanced recovery
Husky Oil Operations Ltd.
Canadian Hunter, now Home Oil Co.
Oil slick
Surface rights
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Echoes of this and that
The good old days
The log house
Dirty Thirties
Hard winter
Threshing crews
Soap making
Whist
Picking berries
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Memorial page
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Twenty-third Psalm
Family histories
Tell me, Old Man
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Cover
image 0002
image 0003
image 0004
Title page
Executive [photos]
Table of contents
Dedication
Forgotten echoes
Message : Premier Lougheed
Message : Bud Miller
Introduction
In the beginning
History
11
12
13
14
Blackfoot prayer
Legends
17
Interesting discoveries
Settling the land
Pioneers
21
22
Typical township
Barr colonists
25
image 0030
image 0031
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
Purser's list of SS Lake Manitoba
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
Further immigration
45
Women, where are you?
Transportation and communication
Prairie winds
49
50
51
52
Canadian Pacific Railway
54
From trails to blacktop
56
57
58
Lloydminster Airport
Stringing the early telegraph line
Newspapers in Lloydminster
Blackfoot and the telephone
63
Blackfoot Mutual Telephone
Madresfield Mutual Telephone Co.
Millardale Mutual Telephone Co.
67
CKSA Radio and Television
Churches
Those who came before
Churches of the area
St. Mark's, Blackfoot
St. Luke's, Northminster
74
Church life in the Millerdale district
Church service in Myrtle Hill
Schools
The little white schoolhouse
Blackfoot S.D. No. 1623
80
81
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image 0087
image 0088
Eva Lang
86
Kitscoty and district early childhood kindergarten
Durness S.D. No. 1806
89
90
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Alfred Matthews scholarship
Flowerdale S.D. No. 1726
97
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100
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102
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Millerdale S.D. No. 1764
105
106
107
108
109
Teaching at Millerdale
111
Myrtle Hill S.D. No. 3942
113
114
A sojourn in Myrtle Hill School District
My years at Myrtle Hill
117
A teaching experience
Staplehurst S.D. No. 3511
120
121
122
123
124
Eric Dunstan scholarship
Charles Robinson
Kathleen Springford Franks
Westdene S.D. No. 1874
129
130
131
132
Westminster Park S.D. No. 4489
134
135
136
Correspondence school branch
138
Community
The coal oil lamp
The North west Mounted Police
Dr. G.L. Cooke
143
Millerdale
Major-General Sir Sam Hughes
Henderson's Alberta Directories
image 0151
Town well
149
Remembering Blackfoot 1905-1940
151
152
153
Blackfoot community Hall
155
Blackfoot Ladies Community Club
157
158
Blackfoot Lions Club
160
Curling at Blackfoot
Early sports stories
163
Blackfoot hockey
Blackfoot Jets, ladies softball club
166
Devonia rural electrification
Blackfoot homecoming
169
Staplehurst reunion and homecoming
Country fair
A 1914 Christmas party
Agriculture
Down on the farm
175
176
United Oilseed Products Ltd.
Bawlf, Alberta Pacific and Federal Grain Co.'s
Alberta Wheat Pool
180
Staplehurst elevator
182
Hi-Gain Custom Feedlot
The Vee Tee Feedlot
185
Blackfoot 4-H Clubs
Durness 4-H Clubs
Blackfoot United Farmers of Alberta Union #76
Blackfoot Livestock Protective Ass'n
Gopher pest
191
192
193
194
195
196
Oil
Salt water hauler's lament
199
200
Enhanced recovery
Husky Oil Operations Ltd.
Canadian Hunter, now Home Oil Co.
Oil slick
Surface rights
206
Echoes of this and that
The good old days
The log house
Dirty Thirties
Hard winter
Threshing crews
Soap making
Whist
Picking berries
216
217
218
Memorial page
220
221
Twenty-third Psalm
Family histories
Tell me, Old Man
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Armed Forces
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Index
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