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Hand-coloured lantern slides to promote William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are portraits, including (1)-(2) William Pearson.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of the Valeport, Saskatchewan properties of the Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd., including (1) the Valeport bridge, (2)-(3) the Summer Resort Pavillion, (4) the Lake Ridings Ranch building, and (5)-(7) a large Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd. Props building with garden.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during a William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursion to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of: (1) a sailboat on a lake; (2) a ferry or boat full of people; (3) landseeker carriages travelling through grass; (4) landseekers standing in a field (wheat?); (5)-(6) men with a car standing in front of a settler's house; and (7)-(8) landseekers standing in a partially harvested field (wheat?).
Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during a William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursion to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. image shows landseekers in carriages on the prairie.
Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during a William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursion to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of landseekers (1)-(2) in carts on the prairie, and (3) standing in front of a house.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during a William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursion to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of (1) landseekers in a harvested field and (2) a farmhouse and barn.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are (1) a group of unidentified men standing by a lake, (2) men holding rhubarb, (3) four men sitting on rocks, (4) two men walking (possibly at the Pearson Valeport Properties), and (5) a man in a coat and hat.
Hand-coloured lantern slides likely taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of students and a priest possibly in front of an Indian Residential School.
Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of four grain elevators at Holdfast, Saskatchewan with the note that "over 400,000 shipped last year from this point."
Item is an image of six people outside a pioneer's home. The house was built using sods, logs, lumber and plaster. Taken during one of the William Pearson Company's landseekers excursions to the Last Mountain Valley.