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This file consists of a VHS copy of "Strathcona: A Stroll Through History." The video was created as part of the Old Strathcona Foundation's mandate to promote and preserve the history of Strathcona through educational work. This VHS was digitized on 2022 December 1.

This painting was used as the frontispiece for Ella May Walker's book of historical fiction "Fortress North" (1947).

Robert Campbell was born in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1883 and moved to Canada in 1906, where he homesteaded near the town of Minden. Campbell began painting in 1916 under the watercolourist Victor W. Burnard, after returning to England during the First World War. After the war he moved to Edmonton, where he worked as a dental technician and continued his artistic endeavors. He was a charter member of the Edmonton Art Club and the Artists Society of Alberta. He was also one of those responsible for founding the Banff School of Fine Arts. Robert Campbell died in 1967.

Joseph van der Gracht was born in the Netherlands in 1880. He married Florence Ethel Ross, and joined the Edmonton Art Club in 1929. He moved with his family to Vancouver around 1933. He died in 1959.

This painting was included in the Edmonton Art Club 1933 exhibition.

Robert Smith Forrest (1871-1943) was a Scottish portrait painter and etcher who exhibited between 1908 and 1934.