Cable Basket Crossing
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- Material Type
- Photograph
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession No.
- 20061045088
- Physical Description
- 1 black and white photograph
- Scope and Content
- Mr. and Mrs. Remington in a cable basket crossing Milk River at Writing-on-Stone. Cable and basket put in place by Hydrophers about 1912 to measure the flow of the river. Rhis basket was used by members of the RNWMP and others to get across the river from the detachment quarters at Writing-on-Stone…
- Material Type
- Photograph
- Description Level
- Item
- Creator
- Isreal C. Shank
- Physical Description
- 1 black and white photograph
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- History Biographical
- Compiled by Inspector I.C. Shank. Isreal Shank was born in Athabasca in 1911, the eldest of 15 children born to Eddie Jedeon Shank and Rosana Goulet. He attended the Olds School of Agriculture from 1928-1930 and worked at the Dominion Experimental Sub-station, Beaverlodge. He joined the RCMP in 1934 and retired in 1969 as a Chief-Superintendent. Mr. Shank died in 2006.
- Acquisition Source
- Barber, Ronald J. -Lethbridge, Alta.
- Scope and Content
- Mr. and Mrs. Remington in a cable basket crossing Milk River at Writing-on-Stone. Cable and basket put in place by Hydrophers about 1912 to measure the flow of the river. Rhis basket was used by members of the RNWMP and others to get across the river from the detachment quarters at Writing-on-Stone, located on the south side.
- Access Restrictions
- Public Access
- Accession No.
- 20061045088
- Collection
- Archive
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