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This item consists of copies of three films created in the 1940s and later donated to the Prince Albert Historical Society from the estate of Myrtle Strangways, an educator and amateur cinematographer. The content of the films includes: black bears, squirrels and birds in the forest and at a campsite; ski jumping and downhill skiing; cross-country skiing; several parades, including military personnel, Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel, horseback riders, and children; an Athlone I.O.D.E. pet parade; a convoy of Bombardier snow machines and military personnel carrying skis; a McCormick farm implement in use during harvest; a team of farm horses; an aerial demonstration of two Royal Canadian Air Force yellow chipmunk planes; a float plane; rapids; and sightseeing in the Canadian Rockies and Niagara Falls.

Item is a mounted image from the southern Alberta badlands showing a First Nations person standing beside a horse, next to two men (possibly Northwest Mounted Police [NWMP] officers) on horses (one in profile, one shown from the rear). Scrub plant growth is in foreground of image and rocky outcrops (hoodoos) in background.

Image appeared in Canadian Illustrated News, May 22, 1875 (volume XI, number 21, p. 324).

Captain John French on horseback. Montreal.

Item is a framed lithograph of an attack by First Nations' warriors on Fort Pitt. Scene is shown from the perspective of the First Nations' warriors looking towards the defensive wall and buildings (including flag pole) of Fort Pitt, as well as surrounding hills. Muzzle flashes are visible from a couple of First Nations' subjects (one seated on a horse and another using a horse as a barrier).

Items are two stereographic cards depicting scenes on the Ball farm.

(1) Item is entitled "Bell Farm, Plowing" and depicts a series of sulky plows along the top of the image breaking the land with the remainder of the image showing unbroken prairie.

(2) Item is entitled "Binders. Bell Farm" and depicts sulky plows in the background and persons harvesting bundles of grain stalks (stooks) from the field.

Items are four photographs depicting scenes from the William Robert Bell farm:
(1) Item is an image of the round stone barn, portable wooden granaries, sulky plows, and a wagon. Standing on proper left of image is a man wearing a dark jacket, identified as William Robert Bell. Two additional subjects are visible in image, but are unidentified; first subject is position between the portable granaries and the second is in the doorway of the barn.

(2) Item is an image of a horse and six men in front of the stone headquarters house on the Bell farm. Lone figure positioned on proper left of image is identified as William Robert Bell.

(3) Item is an image of a First Nations young woman with a wooden barn on the proper left of the image.

(4) Item is an image of First Nations man standing in front of a teepee (tipi), with an additional teepee on either side of the image. Beside the teepee on the proper right of image is a Red River cart.

Willow Creek roundup horses at Cottonwoord Creek, Alberta.