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A group of young northern Indigenous (Dogrib) boys sitting and standing in front of a wooden building [Hudson's Bay Company trading post] at Great Slave Lake.

A distant view across water of the Roman Catholic mission, trading forts and Loucheux Indigenous camp

Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear, centre) trading at Fort Pitt, 1884.

A view of two men and a young Indigenous girl standing by a large engine in front of a Hudson's Bay Company building at Cambridge Bay. Information on verso suggests that the store is part of the Canalaska Trading Company.

• View of a smiling Inuk girl wearing a parka and mukluks; an engine in front of the Hudson's Bay store is visible in the background.
• Similar to image EA-26-81

This work was painted by Agnes Teviotdale. Agnes Teviotdale was born in Strathcona to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson in 1893. She was a member of the first graduating class at the U of A in 1912. She worked for EPSB until 1918, then went to England where she worked as a nurses aid with the Voluntary Aid Division, returning to Edmonton in 1919, where she worked as secretary to the Dean of Arts at U of A. In 1922 she married David Teviotdale. At some point they moved to California, but when David died in 1940 she returned to Edmonton with her two children. She worked with others to create the Historical Map of South Edmonton (EAM-29). She wrote a book on her father in 1972 called “Vast Prospects and Splendid Songs: Harry Wilson Strathcona Pioneer of 1892” (920 TEV). She died in 1977.

Fort Edmonton; Hudson's Bay Company

View of Fort Edmonton from the river valley. Hudson's Bay Company

• Au verso:Fort Edmonton This elevation of the stockade was painted from the ground plain below (submitted by Malcom Grant, last steward of the Hudson's Bay Company) and from various descriptions offered by early citizens. Photographic views showing portions of the Fort during Sir Sanford Feming's [sic] inital surveys for the C.P.R. (1870-1) also helped to make the picture authentic.
• Largely built after the amalgamation of the North West and Hudson's Bay fur companies (1821), the Fort stood until demolished at the time of the erection on its grounds (1913) of the Legislative Building.

A view of wooden buildings, a teepee, and people in the community of Fort McPherson. The following is inscribed on front of the image: "It is on [Peel] River within the Arctic Circle, 2000 miles north of Edmonton. The midnight sun shines here for about two weeks. The Esquimaux quite frequently come as far south [as] McPherson to trade."