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Item is an image showing a monument dedicated to Canadian participation in the Boer War. Located in Montreal at the corner of Ste-Catherine and Metcalfe (Dorcester Square), the monument is nine metres high topped with a life-size bronze statue of a rearing horse and a cavalryman leading it by the reins while holding a pair of binoculars (indicating his role as a pathfinder) in the other hand. A rolled up blanket is shown attached to the horse's saddle. The lower part of the monument resembles a typical cenotaph and includes at the four corners inscriptions of the names of the Canadian regiments that participated in the conflict. Image shows the west side of the monument that is inscribed "To commemorate the heroic devotion of the Canadians who fell in the South African war and the valour of their comrades.” West side also includes a relief depicting the Battle of Paardeberg, where Boers surrendered to Canadian infantry.

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.

John Cameron with his daughter Agnes in an "Anderson Cart" and pulled by Major, their horse.

Items are images showing threshing machines and straw blowing onto haystacks with steam tractors and horses in use; numerous unidentified labourers at work are visible.

A man on a plough drawn by horses on the Eugène Gervais farm near Alida. 1926.

Captain John French on horseback. Montreal.

Item is an image showing a First Nations man plowing a field with a two-horse team on a reserve in western Canada.