Description Level

Series

Creator

Vern Decoux, Gini Decoux

Physical Description

Close to 100,000 photographic images, predominantly negatives

History Biographical

Vern (Vernon) Decoux was born January 18, 1920 in Blairmore, Alberta. During WWII, he served in the #13 District as a sergeant instructor and was stationed in Camrose and Calgary. He also served with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry (commando rifles). On December 26, 1942, Vern married Florence (nee Taggart) in Hillcrest, Alberta. Vern and Florence had three children, a son Bruce, and 2 daughters, Gini and Susan. Vern was the Crowsnest Pass correspondent with the Lethbridge Herald from 1950 to 1985. He did news stories, took photographs, dealt with circulation, sold advertising, and looked after all of the region’s newspaper carriers. Throughout the years, he was an active member of a variety of clubs and organizations in the Crowsnest Pass. He was a member of the Elks for 48 years, acting as Exalted Ruler with the club for many years. He was also a member of the Lions Club (and received the Melvin Jones Fellow Award), the Knights of Columbus, and the Blairmore Legion. He was also a member of the Alberta Professional Photographers Association. Vern was also a Roman Catholic.

Custodial History

The vast majority of the images were created by Vernon Decoux, donor’s father, in a professional capacity as a photographer and owner of a photographic studio in Blairmore. After Vern’s death in April 2000, the materials were kept in his wife’s residence. In 2015, when Florence Decoux passed away, the materials came into the possession of their son, Bruce Decoux.

Scope and Content

294 Houses and train Tracks From Above/School Buses No Date 295 Townsite of Hillcrest, AB From Above No Date 296 Train at Coal Mine No Date 297 Lower Duffryn Collieries, Aberdare, South Wales No Date 298 Kline: Farm/Mrs. Jones: Aerial of Town No Date 299 Copied November 1978 for Olive Rossi - Houses Near River - Possible Flooding/Timber House and Farm Building - Horses and People Visible/Aerial Townsite/Farm From Above No Date 300 Looking Down on Unidentified Town No Date 301 No. 288 Meyer Photo Seattle - Dr. Steel's Hospital Fort Yukon 1897/Men With Lean-To and Stove No Date 302 Porter - Farm Buildings No Date 303 Unidentified Wood Sided House No Date 304 Interior of Shop - Man and Woman at Counter, Men Sit Along Wall, Advertisement for Singer Sewing Machines/Blairmore United Church/Pencil Drawing of Stone Barn, No Roof No Date 305 Plan for Town of Coleman No Date 306 Street Scene - Main Street, Coleman by Evan Gushul/Blairmore Public School No Date 307 "Pipeline Picture (Dutch)" No Date 308 "The Western Mercantile Lyd. Lille Frank, Blairmore"/"Isometric View Hydraulic Mining System Coleman Collieries Ltd." No Date 309 "Copy of Tipple and Franks and Bohmer Girl"/Frank Before Slide and 1st Train Thru Frank After Slide - Both by Marks and Buchanan, Frank/Blairmore NWT 1901 by O. W. Player No Date 310 Fillipuzzi(?) Home No Date 311 Mining Equipment/Structure No Date 312 Crowsnest Pass Health Care Centre Model No Date 313 F. M. Thompson's Store No Date 314 A. V. Lang's Cash Store, Frank AB/Mine Buildings and Worker's Housing No Date 315 Mine and Boarding Houses No Date 316 Unidentified Copies - Plowing Train Tracks; Lumber Mill; Mine; Fire at Corbin Tipple July 1928 No Date 317 Unidentified Copies: Includes Pincher Creek Cenotaph; Train Station; Piece of Mail to Mrs. Florence M. Hannen; History of Bellevue No Date 318 Appear to be Placemats for CNP Businesses: Bellevue Hotel; Alberta Hotel; Mar on the Grocer; Blairmore Livery; Blairmore Hotel; The Grand Union Hotel; Frank Sanitorium No Date 319 For R. Petrone - Possible Mining Operations No Date 320 Barn - For Father Connelly No Date 321 Teams of Horses and Wagons Lined Up With "Lake of the Woods Milling Co. Ltd." and "Alexandra Hotel" in Background ca. 1900? 322 Postcard: "Victoria Street, Blairmore, Alberta" No Date (1900s?) 323 "Home Built in Blairmore in 1905" Family Outside House 1905 324 F. M. Thompson Co. General Store - Timber Building Before 1910 325 Large Group of People Lined Up Near Church - Many Cars and Houses Also Visible (Possibly Holy Ghost Church) - Comments in Polish in Bottom Corner Dated August 16 1918 Coleman Alberta September 16 1918 326 Laidlaw Hardware - 4 Men in Front/Laidlaw's Grocery - 2 Men in Front Before 1930 327 House in Winter - Dog(?) in Front Yard No Date (1930s/1940s?) 328 1 Story House - Young Couple at Threshold No Dates (1940s/1950s?) 329 Coleman Schools No Dates (1940s/1950s?) 330 Bridge Construction No Dates (1940s/1950s?) 331 Possible Bridge or Dam Construction No Dates (1940s/1950s?) 332 Road grading/Construction No Dates (1940s/1950s?) 333 "Sleepee Teepee" Cabins No Date (1940s/1950s) 334 Street in Winter - Main Street Blairmore December 1949/Looking Down on Houses/Moose Near Snowy Cabin/Interior of Church - Altar No Date (1940s/1950s) 335 Roadways in Country and in Town No Dates (1940s/1950s?) 336 Bellevue Public Library/Service Station/Addition on a School? No Dates (1940s/1950s?) 337 "Turtle Mountain Hotel" - Lists Dining Room Hours, Lions Meeting Time, Amenities Available/Local Business Advertised as Well Including: Texaco; Blairmore Greenhouses; Union Tailors and Cleaners; Crowsnest Ceramics; Thornton and Sons; Gray's Drug Store No Date (1950s?) 338 Geo. H. Scougall Truck No Date (1950s?) 339 "Back to God Chapel", Near Bellevue No Date (1950s?) 340 Shack in Woods With Stone Chimney/Stone Barn Without Roof (Coal Mine Building)/Shack on the Plains No Date (1950s?) 341 Single Storey Houses Winter/Truck From R. Gauthier Transport, Bellevue/Blairmore Sawmills Ltd; Bachrich Kiln/Hillcrest Hotel/Hillcrest Savings and Credit Union Ltd./Street Scene: Morency Plumbing and Heating; Fats Chop Suey/Sleepee-Teepee Motel No Date (1950s) 342 Ski Hill - No Snow No Date (1950s?) 343 Houses in Winter - Very Deep Snow - 2 Children Digging Tunnel in Snow - Dog Walks Thru Tunnel/Main Street in Winter - F. M. Thompson No Date (1950s?) 344 Turtle Mountain Hotel No Date (1950s) 345 Cattle - Lundbreck No Date (November 1950s?) 346 Single Spopey House/Green House No Date (1950s?) 347 Pipe Line No Date (1950s?) 348 Coleman Road Cut No Date (1950s) 349 S. Troni Jewellers Watch Window Display - "West Clox Week" No Date (1950s) 350 Exterior and Interior of Bakery - 2 Young Men in Kitchen and With Woman at Front Counter - From Envelope Marked "Mayor McKay" No Date (1950s) 351 Road Construction - Some Photos Have Writing on Reverse: "Debris on Road at Crows Nest"; "Clearing Debris"; "Cleaning Up Rock 1/4 Mile West Lundbreck"; "Old Lundbreck Bridge and New One Under Construction"; "Road Completely Blocked"; "Where 64 000 Cu Yards Rock Dumped to Widen Road at Crowsnest Lake"; "Before" No Date (1950s?) 352 House Construction - Possibly New Subdivision No Date (1950s?) 353 J. M. Chalmers Jewellers/Small Restraunt(?)/Large 2 Storey House No Date (1950s?) 354 "Greenhill Hotel Morgan CNP" No Date (1950s) 355 2 Storey House - Multiple Elevations No Date (1950s?) 356 Cameron School/Unidentified Building No Date (1950s?) 357 Single Storey House No Date (1950s?) 358 Town Dam and Council (Under Construction and After) No Date (1950s?) 359 The Empire Hotel No Date (1950s) 360 Campground (Office Looks Like a Wagon, Teepees in Background) No Date (1950s?) 361 Cabin in Winter - Possible Ski Hill? No Date (1950s?) 362 Two Trucks at Large Well No Date (1950s?) 363 Summit Line Works/Lyons Creek/Blairmore Dam No Date (1950s?) 364 Blairmore Hardware Interior - Joe Kubic No Date (1950s?) 365 Interior - Showing Pile of Goods - Includes: 4 Arm Chairs; 4 Electric Kettles, 4 Suitcases; Stools, Blankets; Etc. No Date (1950s?) 366 Interior - Possible Shelter or Bus Converted to R.V. No Date (1950s?) 367 West Canadian Collieries/Bellevue Mine No Date (1950s?) 368 Street Scene Near DeCoux House in Rain No Date (1950s?) 369 Lumber Yard Near Train No Date (1950s?) 370 "Blairmore Main Street With Water" No Date (1950s) 371 Small Single Storey Home - Man Stands on Plank Across Stream in Foreground No Date (1950s) 372 3 Men in Bed of Small Dumptruck/Interior of Nearby Train Car/Canadian Pacific Rail Car No Date (1950s) 373 Crowsnest Pass Municipal Hospital/C.P.R. Cars at Collieries (Possibly Coleman?)/Possible Farm Buildings From Across Field No Date (1950s) 374 Snowy Street Scene No Date (1950s?) 375 "First Coleman Coal for Japan" - Train Car Being Filled at Mine/2 Men With Team of Horses and Plough No Date (1950s) 376 Construction of New Bridge No Date (1950s?) 377 Interior Blairmore Arena No Date (1950s) 378 Sleepee Teepee - Winter and Summer/Large 3 Storey Brick Building Nearing Completion (Blairmore Federal Building?)/Installing Large Anetenna on House No Date (1950s) 379 Windsor Hotel/Small 2 Storey Structure - Small Walkway Comes From Out of Frame to 2 Doors on 2nd Floor No Date (1950s) 380 Taborski House No Date (1950s) 381 Miners Service Station Bellevue 1952 382 "Blairmore Dam Cleaning" May 1st-12th 1952 383 Main Street - Paton's Baking Service Van on Street - Freeman's Department Store in Background/Main Street - M. Kubik Meats, S. Trone, F. M. Thompson are Some of the Visible Stores - "Blairmore Main Street 10 a.m. January 12"/Main Street - Catonio's Grocery, Texaco, Reids Men's Shop No Date (1953?) 384 "Before Federal Building Up" Summer 1954 385 Blairmore Arena - Interior and Exterior 15-Jun-55 386 May 26th, June 2nd, June 20th (Later Larger Format) ca. 1955 May-June 387 Blairmore Arena 4-Jun-55 388 St. Luke's Anglican Church ca. 1955 389 Crowsnest Consolidated School District No. 78 ca. 1955 390 House Damaged by Wind - Sentinel - Interior and Exterior ca. 1955 391 Contains 2 Buildings - May Include: West End School; Old Blairmore School; I.S.S. School ca. 1955 392 "Building 36" Gas Pipeline ca. 1955 393 Snowy Street Scene ca. 1955 394 Winter Street Scene - Mrs. Van Donk Apr-55 395 Loading Logging Truck 1956 396 Construction of Tower - Views From Tower Site/Group of 5 Men With Truck (Planted 1956) ca. 1956 397 Arena Interior/Initial Construction ca. 1956 398 Blueprints - Copy - "The Lauderdale Property Detailed Sections of Coal-Seams"/Generator Welding Supplies Near By ca. 1956 399 Rock Cut - Roadway/Unidentified Man in Office ca. 1956 400 "Old Sawmill Allison Creek" No Date (1957?) 401 Salvaging Old and Building New Blairmore Arena - May Include: Baman(?); Brown; DeCoux; Gray. ca. 1957 402 "Cattle Round Near Turtle Mountain ca. 1958 403 "Phillips Cable Loading" ca. 1958 404 "Building Blairmore Town Shop" ca. 1958 405 Horace Allen High School/Hillcrest Savings and Credit Union Ltd. ca. 1958 406 View of Backyards/Houses in Winter/Bulldozing a Field/Row of Houses in Michel (35mm) ca. 1958 407 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce/House trailers/Row Houses ca. 1959 408 Swinging Bridge Over Stream/Crowsnest Sculpture/Welcome Sign at Blairmore/Single Storey House - 3 Elevations/Shed and Houses/Winter - Houses/Storey and Half Wood Sided House/Construction - Possibly Installing Pilling for Bridge No Date (1960s?) 409 Hillcrest School (Built 1921)/Construction Equipment (Winter)/Large Tower - Appears to Have an Elevator Car/Pilings on One Side of Road Tower Opposite No Date (1960s?) 410 Texaco Station and Canada Paint; Marx Building Supplies/Large Spools of Wire, Large Turbines, and Large Electrical Panel No Date (1960s?) 411 Texaco, Truck - A. Dero, Hi-Way Service and Motel - Station, Hotel, and Mileage Marker/Hillcrest School (Built 1921)/Large 2 Storey School/Side of Wood Sided Building (Church?) With Small Shed Behind/Blairmore Crows Nest Statue No Date (1960s?) 412 Large Building (Possibly Isabelle Sellon School)/Horace Allen High School/Hospital/Outdoor Pool No Date (1960s?) 413 Royal Bank of Canada/Unknown Construction Site/Overwaitea/Strip Mall (Superior TV and Appliances; Landromat; Penne-Edsyl Fashions; Kowell's Shoes and Repair; Delfont Family Store; Marshall Wells; G & M Foods) No Date (1960s?) 414 Buildings in Snow: Small Church (Possibly Orthodox); Houses; Dealership; Sleepee Teepee Hotel; Street With Kids and Tire Tracks in Snow No Date (1960s?) 415 Edmonton Street Scence - Jasper Ave at 103 Street Looking West - Wener Shoes (Tom Kat Shoes in 2015) Located at 10336 Jasper Ave/Industrial Building and Parking Lots/Texaco Exploration/City Hall Edmonton/Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Dept. of Education/Low Rise Apartments/6 Storey Brick Buildings - Apartments or Offices No Date (1960s?) 416 Unidentified Buildings/Excavator Near Train Tracks No Date (1960s?) 417 Sawmill No Date (1960s?) 418 Coleman Collieries (May Contain Revelstoke Lumber Mill) No Date (1960s) 419 Revelstoke Lumber Mill (May Contain Revelstoke Lumber Mill) No Date (1960s) 420 Family of 3 Outside House/Family of 4 Outside House/House in Winter (4x5 neg)/House in Winter (35 mm neg)/May Include: Lee Batke House; Henry Zak's House; DeCoux House No Date (1960s) 421 St. Paul's United Church Sign/Rear of Single Storey School House/Shack and Series of Brick Cullverts Thru Field/Men Cleaning Up Stream (Possibly Near Dam) No Date (1960s) 422 "Church Fence in Coleman" (Fence Partially Knocked Down)/"Sulphur Plant Machines"/Preparing Field for Construction/Coal Mining Buildings/Man on Road Near I.S.H.S. No Date (1960s) 423 Map of Cemetery No Date (1960s) 424 Construction of Large Building - Various Stages No Date (1960s?) 425 Rangeland Motor Hotel/Coleman Hotel/"Flame Master" in Window, Beside Zak's No Date (1960s?) 426 House Exterior - 2 Elevations/Snow Covered Street - 2 Kids in Street No Date (1960s?) 427 Coal Mining No Date (1960s?) 428 Halls Funeral Home No Date (1960s?) 429 GM Diesel Engines Waterous Interior and Exterior Shots/Men Working on Heavy Diesel Equipment No Date (1960s?) 430 Townsite From Above - Possibly Frank No Date (1960s?) 431 McGillivary Creek Coal Cleaning Plant/1st Train Load of Coal to Leave McGillivary in 1909 (Copy)/Colliery Along River (Copy)/More Modern Looking Colliery (3 negs) No Date (1960s?) 432 Coleman Collieries - Trains (6 Men Pose with Coal Cars Marked "Coleman - Port Moody") No Date (1960s?) 433 Coleman Collieries - Heavy Equipment Working on Surface No Date (1960s?) 434 Coleman Collieries - Men's Machinery in Underground Tunnel No Date (1960s?) 435 Construction of Pipeline(?) No Date (1960s?) 436 Caterpillar 583 Pipelayers in Snow/One Pipelayer is on its Side No Date (1960s?) 437 Unknown Construction Project (in Winter?) Possibly Clearing Land and Installing Service for New Subdivision? No Date (1960s?) 438 Back of Church - From Parking Lot No Date (1960s?) 439 Altar of Church Domed Ceiling/2 Storey Home No Date (1960s?) 440 Variety of Buildings/Houses Including the Tent Park No Date (1960s?) 441 Excavator Digging Trench for Water Pipes/Man in Trench, 2 Others Looking On No Date (1960s?) 442 Coleman Collieries, Scenes of Tippie No Date (1960s) 443 "Calgary Power Fire or Explosion" No Date (1960s?) 444 "Eaton's (Rex Café)" Exterior and Interior Shots of Rex Café No Date (1960s?) 445 Becker Manufacturing "Big Tractor" No Date (1960s) 446 Industrial Site - Possibly Coleman Colleries No Date (1960s?) 447 "Thompson's The Family Clothing Store"/"Blairmore Savings and Credit No Date (1960s?) 448 Miscellaneous Buildings or Houses No Date (1960s?) 449 Various Houses - Also 3 Story Stone Building No Date (1960s?) 450 Credit Union Building No Date (1960s?) 451 Eaton's Order Office No Date (1960s?) 452 Bohomoleo(?) Ranch No Date (1960s?) 453 Residential Street Scape No Date (1960s?) 454 Men at Work No Date (1960s?) 455 Large Building - Possibly a Hospital No Date (1960s?) 456 Enterance of Tunnel in Hill/Possible Landslide on River Bank/Installation of Rodio Tower - 2 Men Near Top/Blairmore Train Station/Construction of Bridge at Crowsnest River No Date (1960s?) 457 Davidson Block/War Surplus Store (Billboard for Calgary) No Date (1960s?) 458 Large Complex - Possibly a Refinery? No Date (1960s?) 459 Houses and Stores From Across Snowy Field Crowsnest Mountain in Background/Road Construction and Piece of Big O./Poole Construction/Civic Automotive Centre and Gas Station No Date (1960s?) 460 Gazebo/St. Paul's United Church/Small Unidentified Church - Possibly Orthodox/Barn with Crowsnest Mountain in Background/Large Buildings with Crowsnest Mountain in Background No Date (1960s) 461 Vicary Mine Jan-60 462 Church - Maybe: St. Anne's Church or Burmis Church/Possible Site of R.C.M.P. 1960 463 Miss Higg's Home Jan-60 464 Sleepee Teepee - "Max Brown Cabins" ca. 1960 465 House Decorated for Christmas/May Contain: X-Mas House in Coleman or Martin Kubik House X-Mas May-05 467 Blairmore Tipple/"Steve Gresl Window" (Watch Display)/"Snowman" (Plowing Sidewalk)/Harper House 1960 468 Dobek's Store Interior/Interior of Store Under Renovation/Backroom of Store - Rubber Boots Hang From Ceiling/Interior of Store - Clothing - Possibly Kubik's ca. 1961 469 Single Storey House/"Tracks in Snow" With Chevy Truck and Single Storey House/"Quick Way" Excavator in Snowy Field ca. 1961 470 House 1961 471 Houses Under Construction at Sentinel (Possibly West Canadian Houses)/Single Neg "Ranch Pictures" - View of Crowsnest Mountain ca. 1961 472 Coleman High School/Large 2 Storey School With Bell Tower/Interior Shots of a School ca. 1961 473 Small 1.5 Storey House With Wood Siding/Possible 1.5 Storey Duplex/Large 2 Storey Building/May Include: Duplex With End; Birds? Visaac? Residence ca. 1961 474 Blairmore United Church/Alberta Brewers' Agents Ltd; HQ of 31st Tech. Sqn, Rceme (Building Next to Brewers' - Sign Starts "Speed") ca. 1961 475 Coleman Hotel, Exterior 1961 476 Tower with Mountains in Background/Canvas Topped Structures with Mountains in Background 1961 477 Interior Coleman Hotel No Date (1961?) 478 Construction of Building Near the Greenhill Hotel/Large Building Possible Factory/Large Building Under Construction (Possible School)/Houses Near a Small Stream/Several Buildings - Stone Building, Large Woodsided Building (Looks Like a Barn)/Houses From Slightly ABove/May Include: Osberg Construction ca. 1962 479 "Isometric View. Hydraulic Mining Systems at Vicary Creek Mine Coleman Collieries Ltd." ca. 1962 480 Robinson Stores/Dobek's (Convenience Store)/Union Meat Market/Marx's Building Supplies and Texaco Gas Station.Truck-A-Dero, Hi-Way Service, Texaco and Motel/Grand Union Hotel ca. 1962 481 "Oil Well Equipment Moved on CPR" 1962 482 Bellevue Inn/Pass Electric Services/Eaton's order Office/AGT Tower on Mountain ca. 1962 483 Rangeland Motor Hotel ca. 1962 484 Houses/Aerial Photos (Unidentified)/Blueprint of Subdivision/House Construction/Field Grading in Preperation for Construction ca. 1962 485 Coleman Esso Imperial Station ca. 1962 486 Construction - Appears to be Road Resurfacing in Front of "Trono's Jewellers", "Morency Plumbing and Heating", and "Fat's Chop Suey 1962 487 Street Scene: Includes "Vet's Insurance", "J. M. Chambers Jewellery and Appliances", "Bruno's"/Brick Building Under Construction/Houses in Winter/Houses with Mountain in Background 1962 488 Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway Train Cars ca. 1962 489 "Coleman Collieries Black Hole" ca. 1964 490 Horace Allen High School/Small Garage/Man and Construction Equipment Near Large Tower/Large Crane or Well?/Lundreck Trading Co. Ltd. and Esso Station/Interior of Restraunt or Lounge/Large Spools of Wire (Philips Cable?)/Blueprints of "Proposed Swimming Pool Complex for Crows Nest Pass Development Association ca. 1964 491 Blairmore United Church ca. 1964 492 Roadway/Signs for "North Fork Tomber Co." and "3 Miles to Lost Lemon Park" ca. 1964 493 "R.C.M.P. Stairway and Hall" ca. 1964 494 Men with Drilling Truck ca. 1965 495 Ostash Furnace and Pipes ca. 1966 496 Philips Cable: Men Working andWire Spools in Train Car ca. 1966 497 A.G.T. (Alberta Government Telephones) Office ca. 1966 498 Blueprints for Renovations to Blairmore Hospital 1966 499 DeCoux House, X-Mas 1967/"Maple Leaf Old School"/Interior of Unknown Building(s)/Advertisement in Window for "Annual Hose Laying Competition" ca. 1967 500 "Large Cement Block and Brick Building Possibly I.S.H.S. in Blairmore, from Behind?" ca. 1967 501 Nut Grove Motel, Chilliwack, B.C. (Slide)/Interior Restraunt or Lounge Unidentified ca. 1967 502 Poruing Platform at Blairmore Locomotive/W. Dancy, Lundbreck, AB is Contractor on Site 1967 503 Imperial Esso Service Station and Pontiac, Buick, GMC Dealership/Man Stands with Car in Front of Station/"Garage" 2 Storey Building on Corner, Near Honda, The Pass Herald Commercial Printers, and Barber Shop/May Include: Charlie Sartoris and Garage ca. 1967 504 Construction of 1.5 Storey Office(?) Building ca. 1968 505 C.P.R. Engine, Blairmore/C.P.R. Coleman-Port Moody "Box Cars Coal" ca. 1968 506 "Train Coleman Collieries" ca. 1968 507 Becker Manufacturing (Drills) Ltd. Working on Truck with Drill (Possibly for Oil or Water) on Back ca. 1968 508 United Church Coleman ca. 1968 509 Split Level House, Multiple Elevations/Damages to House - Hole in Roof and Effects Indoors/May Contain: "Spatuks House" 1968 510 "Building Sulphur Plant"/May be Saratoga Processing Plant in Coleman, Opened 1916 (As of 2015 AKA Devon Energy Corp.) ca. 1968 511 Street Scene, Blairmore, Visible Stores Include: Honda Sales and Service; United Steel Workers; The Pass Herald Commercial Printers; Eaton's; Legion Branch #7/Graham's General Store/Woodsided Church/House with Christmas Decorations No Date (1960s/1970a) 512 Back to God Chapel with Altar End of Church Wall Missing/Byron Creek Collieries Ltd. Sign/Recently Constructed Houses Winter No Date (1970s?) 513 Men at Tunnel Opening - Heavy Machinery No Date (1970s?) 514 Crane with Large Pre-Fabricated Piece of Metal/C.N.P. Golf and Country Club Proposal No. 1" - Plans for Golf Course No Date (1970s) 515 Industrial Site - Colliery? No Date (1970s?) 516 Crowsnest Pass School Division Building with Scaffolding that Obscures the Division #/Construction of Apartment Buildings (Pile of Lumber)/Convenience Store Exterior and Interior/Views of Town from Helicopter No Date (1970s) 517 4 Men in a Building Under Construction-Renovation/Interior and Exterior of "Frank Gift Shoppe"/Installation of Street Light Near Blairmore Train Station No Date (1970s) 518 Various Buildings Around Town: IGA Grocery Store; Robinson at Crowsnest Mall; Suzuki Dealership; R.C.M.P. Offices; Large Split Level House; Coleman Collieries Ltd.; Residential Street - Bungalows and Split Level Houses No Date (1970s?) 519 Rancher's Auto Centre - Chevrolet-Oldsmobile Dealership Exterior and Interior Shots/Man Fueling Sedans/Office Workers at Desks/Cars on Display Inside and Out No Date (1970s) 520 Leslie Owen Clothing Exterior/Unidentified Farm No Date (1970s?) 521 Side Split Home with Extensive Roof Damage Interior and Exterior Shots/Town as Seen From Above No Date (1970s?) 522 Horse Farm - Small Log Cabin and Small Barn/Dumptrucks, Excavators, and Blasthole Drill in Open Pit Mine (Drill=Gardner Denver RDC 30 Crawler Mounted Rotary Blasthole Drill) Maybe Part of Coleman Collieries/Freight Train/Small Cabin in Woods/Gravel Roads and Houses in Town No Date (1970s?) 523 Mountain View Vocational Institute No Date (1970s?) 524 Demolition of Building Between an Esso Gas Station - Pass Tire and "Millar and Brown Ltd. Freight Lines"/Single Storey Cement Block Building Under Construction (Appears to be Nearly Completed) No Date (1970s?) 525 Passenger Train Moving Thru Mountains/Graham's General Store No Date (1970s?) 526 Tour of Coleman Collieries Ltd./Man and Castle/Men Working Under Bridge No Date (1970s?) 527 House Trailer Park - At Least 2 Trailers Are Off Foundations - One Trailer is on its Side on Top of a Truck and Camping Trailer - Front End Loader at Work No Date (1970s) 528 Exterior B.P.O.E. Building - Van From "Sven Ericksen's Family Restraunt" Parked Outside/Group of Men with Shovels - Truck From a Dewinton Area Contractor - Man with Manual Cement Mixer No Date (1970s) 529 Model - Coleman Collieries Ltd. - Structure Section Model of Tent Mountain No Date (1970s) 530 Car Dealership or Garage - Interior and Exterior - Unidentified No Date (1970s) 531 Elk Ford Square Shopping Centre/Large Building Under Construction (Apartment Building?)/Houses in Snow/Man and Woman in Butcher Shop - Man is Grinding Meat/Street Scene: Pass Bottling Co. Ltd.; Blairmore Radio and TV, Cleaners and Tailors; Shoe Clinic No Date (1970s) 532 Wood Travel Offices (Possibly in a Mall) - Exterior and Interior Shots/Excavator and Front End Loader at Work No Date (1970s?) 533 2 Houses on Blocks 1km Outside Blairmore - Larger of 2 Houses Appears to Have Sign: "Speedy House Movers"(?) - Possible Road Expansion - Need to Move Houses No Date (1970s?) 534 Bulldozers in Fields - Possible Preparation for Building or Road No Date (1970s?) 535 Installation of Electrical Generator or Electrical Power Station No Date (1970s?) 536 Multiple Elevations of 1.5 Storey House for Sale No Date (1970s) 537 George's Burger N' Things No Date (1970s?) 538 Unidentified Construction Project No Date (1970s) 539 Construction of Large Building with Multiple/Garage Bays/Electrical Substation No Date (1970s?) 540 Aftermath of Snow Storm in Blairmore No Date (1970s) 541 Furniture Display at Taks - Salesmen Pose in Front of Rolls of Carpet - 2 Women in Front of Wallpaper No Date (1970s) 542 Unknown Mining Site? No Date (1970s) 543 Phillips Cables - Interior and Exterior/Coleman Savings and Credit Union - Interior and Exterior No Date (1970s) 544 Coleman Collieries Tipple No Date (1970s?) 545 Locomotive - Near Greenhill Hotel - Locomotive is Being Pushed on Track by Bulldozer No Date (1970s?) 546 Crowsnest Pass Bolindry Markers (With Listing of Service Clubs) at Frank/Sign and Building for (Lost) Lemon Park (Blairmore) No Date (1970s?) 547 House in Winter No Date (1970s?) 548 Coleman Collieries - Buildings/Large Group of Men Outside - Next to Sign for Coleman Collieries (35mm film) No Date (1970s?) 549 Cement Truck at Construction Site (Building Foundation Made of Cement Bricks)/Sierra Interiors - Interior and Exterior/Drawings of Crowsnest Pass Motor Hotel/Blairmore Train Station/Steamroller Inside Arena? No Date (1970s?) 550 Dam at Coleman (Under Construction)/Gazebo No Date (1970s?) 551 A-1 Used Car Dealership and Salesmen No Date (1970s) 552 Scotia Bank Interior and Exterior (in Mall)/Robinson's at Mall No Date (1970s) 553 "Kaiser Shovel"/Excavator at Work on Graduated Hillside No Date (1970s?) 554 Unknown Construction Project Near "Satelite Restaurant" No Date (1970s?) 555 Coleman Main Street Including: Sum's Tire Shop; Graham's General Store; Celli's Building Supplies; Grand Union Hotel; Ron's Billards and Arcade; Legion; Driftwood Confectionary; Leslie Owen Clothing; Coleman Journal; CIBC; Zak's Grocery; Link Hardware; Huffman's Beauty and Barber Shop; Admiral Appliances and TV; J. M. Chalmers; Holyk's Grocery; St. Paul's United Church No Date (1970s?) 556 Royal Bank Interior and Exterior at Mall No Date (1970s) 557 C.P.R. Train with "Bangor and Aroostook" Car/2 Churches/Cement Truck No Date (1970s) 558 Cars and Houses in Snow - Likely to be Blairmore No Date (1970s) 559 "Crows at End of Town" - Crow's Nest Town Sign-Marker No Date (1970s) 560 Construction Near A1 Used Cars No Date (1970s) 561 Harrington Place Apartment Building No Date (1970s?) 562 "Writing on Frank Slide Rocks Pozzi Etc." - E. J. Pozzi, Builder - Monogram Oil is Best/Copy - Houses in Frank, AB No Date (1970s?) 563 Residential Road Construction No Date (1970s?) 564 Trailer Park-Campground Along River/Single Storey Building in Field No Date (1970s?) 565 Holy Ghost Catholic Church/Texaco Station with Apartments Above/Small Trailer Park (Contains 8 Trailers)/Large 2 Storey Building - Possibly a School? No Date (1970s?) 567 Muddy Roads in Town - Winter/Coleman Collieries Tipple and Plant No Date (1970s?) 568 Pass Specialty Shoppe; Paint and Supplies Hardware/Bill White, Insurance and Real Estate No Date (1970s?) 569 Gulf Gas Station - Winter/Construction on Bridge - Large Crane - Winter/Excavator on Railroad Tracks (Laying New Tracks?)/Small Worker Sized Tent on Utility Pole No Date (1970s?) 570 Sallis' Fashion Shop/The Pass Printers/A. Wakaluk Welding Ltd./Log House/Kaiser Resources Ltd. Mine Office Facility/Blairmore R.C. Legion #7 and Blue Prints of Building/Man at Door #2828 - Unidentified Garage/Interior Furniture Store - Man Holds Arm Spread Wide/Crow's Best Sports/1 Storey House - Attached Garage/Frame of Large Building/Lost Lemon Campground SIgn/Sherman Building Supplies/Fabric Boutique; Dr. R. F. Oler, Optometrist; Thomas Dudley, Denture CLinic No Date (1970s?) 571 Logging - Trucks Being Loaded - Bulldozers Moving Stumps and Earth - One Truck is From "Tuck's Trucking, Ltd. Hillcrest, AB" No Date (1970s?) 572 Various Construction Projects - Large Brick Building (Coleman School?) with Windows Boarded Up - Man with Wires on Roof of Small Building - Bulldozer Along Side of Road/Large Wood Sided Building Under Construction (Church and/or School?)/Garage (Unidentified)/Installation of New Utility Pole-Wiring on Pole, Blairmore No Date (1970s) 573 Grande Resource Management (Safety)/Large Pit with Dumptruck and Excavator/Men in Offices at Desks - Men Surveying Pit/Mn at Desk with Model of Hydraulic Crane No Date (1970s?) 574 Bulldozing Old Houses No Date (1970s?) 575 Interior - Machine Shop - Large and Small Vehicles to be Worked on (Including Ambulance Station Wagon From Fernie, B.C.)/Large Boilers and Machinery No Date (1970s?) 576 Interior and Exterior Sulfur-Sulpher Gas Plant/Structure Under Construction - Has Silos, a Large Round Building Foundation and Rectangular Building Surrounded by Scaffolding No Date (1970s?) 577 Large Wire Spools and Large Generators - Man is in some frames No Date (1970s?) 578 House/Cars Parked Near Houses/Bulldozer Outside C.N.P. Hospital No Date (1970s?) 579 "Opening Soon HandiMart Convenience Store"/"Penny's Place"/Large Metal Sided Building (Part of Mine?) with Damage - Perhaps Building is Being Torn Down?/"Macleods' Store" No Date (1970s?) 580 Inspection of Power Lines-Poles - Calgary Power Ltd. No Date (1970s?) 581 3 Unidentified Buildings/Storefronts: Coleman Enterprises; Sallis' Fashion Shop/2 Storey House/3D Model of Blairmore Senior Citizens Apartments/Pickup with Wagon Wheels Parked in Front of Muntz and Barber Shop/Store Fronts: Royal Canadian Legion Branch #7 (Blairmore); Pass Hotel, Pass Discount Foods No Date (1970s) 582 Bow Copters - The "Foothill's Lady"/C.F.C.N Radio and Television - Men Posed in Front of Helicopter and Truck/Helicopter Flies with Barrel Hanging Below/Various Views From Helicopter No Date (1970s?) 583 Interior Grocery-General Store - Man at Counter and in Office - Unidentified No Date (1970s?) 584 House and Main Street in Winter - Very Snowy No Date (1970s?) 585 Interior of Bakery - Woman Helps Customer No Date (1970s) 586 Construction of Building Near Hospital No Date (1970s?) 587 Men and Machinery in Tunnel - Coal Mining No Date (1970s?) 588 Close Ups of Machinery - Appears to be a Drill Press No Date (1970s?) 589 "The Cookie Box Bakery" Exterior and Interior No Date (1970s?) 590 Interior of Home - Living Room and Kitchen No Date (1970s?) 591 Houses in Snow No Date (1970s?) 592 Construction of Large Building Into Small Hill - Various Stages of Project/Various groups shots No Date (1970s?) 593 Miscellaneous Farm - Timber Frame Buildings No Date (1970s?) 594 Street Scene (Blairmore)/Train No Date (1970s?) 595 Snowstorm Clean Up - Streetscape (Includes Sieglaar's Furniture) No Date (1970s?) 596 R.C.M.P. Building No Date (1970s?) 597 Campaign Headquarters for Fred Bradley/Snowy Parking Lot of I.G.A. and "Big-E-Nuf Food Services"/Workers Fixing Street Light No Date (1970s) 598 "Phillips Cables, Crowsnest" No Date (1970s) 599 Siska 50th Anniversary No Date (1970s) 600 May Contain: Vanderlinden Farm - "Scenes, Sheep at Lundbreck and Crows Nest Mountain No Date (1970s) 601 Machinery - Unknown Locations/Ingersoll-Rand Generator/I.W.C. Collieries Co. Ltd. - Generator/Large "H and P" Control Panel - 2 Men in Front/Electrical Cabinet/"Westing House" Generator ca. 1970 602 Fixing United Church Coleman/"Michel Row Houses and Hospital 35 mm"/Several Houses Location Unknown ca. 1970 603 Corbin Coal and Coke Company ca. 1970 604 Unknown Building Site ca. 1970 605 Becker Drilling Truck with 2 Men ca. 1970 606 "Microwave Tower" Construction 1970 607 Town Sites From Above 1970 608 Electricity Transformer Under Construction 1970 609 1.5 Storey House - Multiple Elevations 1970 610 School with Children Outside at Recess 1970 611 Possibly Revelstoke Mill 1970 612 1 Storey Brick Building - Truck in Front has Writing on Roof (Illegible) 1970 613 Texaco Station Beside Triple S Motors Ltd./Small Cement Block Building - Clorination Plant? ca. 1970 614 F. M. Thompson Co. Ltd. Clothing/Grant Hall Rexall Pharmacy Interior and Exterior 1970 615 Blairmore Arena and Curling Club/Unidentified Single Story House ca. 1971 616 Street Scenes Blairmore/Blairmore Federal Building and Blairmore Motors/Blairmore Motors; Cookie Box Bakery; Graf's Hardware and Thorton and Sons Hardware/Pass Hotel; Morency Plumbing and Heating; Fat Chop Suey, Robinson Stores; Morency Meats (F. M. Thompson Barely Visible)/F. M. Thompson; Credit Union Building; Theatre; Calgary Power (Simpson-Sears Barely Visible)/Simpson-Sears; Twilite Confectionary; Blairmore Sawmills Ltd; Eugene's Shoe Clinic/West Canadian Collieries Ltd.; Blairmore Radio and TV; Allied Distributors; Crows Nest Pass Motors/Cars Parked on Snowy Street - Sign for Pass Hotel ca. 1971 617 Isabelle Sellon School ca. 1971 618 Road Construction - Large Hole Beside Roadway ca. 1971 619 "Coleman Collieries Tipple" ca. 1971 620 Installation of Modular Homes from "Kainain Industrial Ltd., Box 150, Standoff, Alta" ca. 1972 621 Construction of Large Building - Built into Small Hill - Pickup in Frame Plated for 1972 ca. 1972 622 Office Workers and Manufacturing Floor at What Appears to be Phillips Cable 1972 623 Senior Citizens Home/Royal Bank/Town of Blairmore Municipal Offices and Library 1972 624 "John Gibos Blairmore Dam Silt" - Cleaning Blairmore Dam 1973 625 "Horseshoer Blacksmith Wheelwright" Blairmore/2 Views of Blairmore Main Street/2 Views of Single Story House/Architectural Rendering of Elkford Recreation Centre 1973 626 Air Monitoring Laboratory - Pollution Control Division - Man named Fred Setting up Equipment 1974 627 2 Small Houses 1974 628 Houses Decorated for Christmas ca. 1974 629 Garage Collapse ca. 1974 630 Farm From Above/Dam Construction copied 1974 631 "Helicopter Putting up Microwave Tower, Frank" 1974 632 Excavator Digging Trench Near Park/Park with Picnic Shelter/May be: "Nez Perce Park and Shelter" 1974 633 Interior of Hotel and Banquet Hall 1974 634 Unidentified Church - Mountain in Background 1975 635 Large Tracked Piece of Heavy Equipment Marked "P and H" ca. 1975 636 Townsite Across Lake ca. 1975 637 Maplevue Community Hall ca. 1975 638 3 Houses in Winter ca. 1975 639 Possible Railroad Bridge Construction - Heide's Pizza, Burgers, and Things in Background ca. 1975 640 River and Bridge Near Pass - Bottling Co. ca. 1975 641 Installation of Crows Nest Statue at Blairmore ca. 1975 642 Byron Creek Collieries Ltd. - Roof Appears to Have Been Damaged by Wind ca. 1975 643 Santa on Street - Twilite Confectionary Behind Santa ca. 1975 644 House Trailer Off Foundation ca. 1975 645 Road Construction ca. 1975 646 Elks Hall (BPOE) at 21st Ave and 30th Street ca. 1975 647 Muntz Radio Shack ca. 1975 648 Hospital at Bellevue or Coleman(?)/School Buses and Pre-1930 Car at Possible Heritage Gas Station(?)/Large 3 Storey Brick Building Factory(?)/Industrial Site with Stripped Smoke Stack/Log Cabin in Snow ca. 1975 649 Crowsnest Mountain and Mine 1975 650 Rancher's Auto Centre ca. 1975 651 Advertisemnet Painted on Roack (Faded): "Monogram Oil is Best Accepted No Substitute" ca. 1975 652 "Bank of Commerce" Interior and Exterior ca. 1976 653 Unidentified Industrial Site - Red and White Smoke Stack/2 Dump Trucks on Road ca. 1976 654 Construction Site - Envelope Marked: "Devco Negs" ca. 1976 655 3 Unidentified Houses May Include: Congdon House/"Copy of Farm" Unidentified ca. 1977 656 Agriculture: Barrels of Herbicide; Seed Stories; Seeding Trucks; Plant Growth - Unknown Locations August-October 1977 657 Speers House 1977 658 Motel/Mrs. Stelter Scenes ca. 1977 659 Elevators at Cowley 1978 660 Henry Zak Display 1978 661 Byron Creek Collieries ca. 1978 662 Henry Zak Cigarette Display 1978 663 "View of Office Building and Factory" 27-Nov-79 664 Pincher Creek Co-Op Opening 1979 665 Building Before Fire and During Fire - Helen Maxwell No Date (1970s? 1980s?) 666 Graham's General Store No Date (1980s?) 667 Stu King and Old Building No Date (1980s?) 668 Interior Glass-Ceramic-China Shop No Date (1980s?) 669 Men with Drilling Machine in Tunnel - Wooden Structure Built Onto Hill - Possible Mine No Date (1980s?) 670 Men Working at What Appears to be a Mine - Building in a Couple of Frames Appears to Have Sustained Damage - Could Also be Constructing a Tunnel No Date (1980s?) 671 York Creek Lodge No Date (1980s?) 672 Mathieson Yard No Date (1980s?) 673 Stop Inn Motel No Date (1980s?) 674 Else Van Delft House Interior No Date (1981?) 675 John Irwin Farm No Date (1981?) 676 Sandulak Door No Date (1981?) 677 Greenhill Hotel/Streetscape/Architectural Drawing of Blairmore Senior Citizens Home No Date (1981?) 678 Saratoga Plant No Date (1981?) 679 Rancher's Auto Supply No Date (1981?) 680 Pincher Creek Co-op "Herbie Newton - Copy" No Date (1981?) 681 "Houses for John"/"Our House - 1982" No Date (1982?) 682 Installation of Large Generator (?) Unknown Location No Date (1982?) 683 Trailer Home Fire - Shigehiro No Date (1982?) 684 Holy Ghost Catholic Church Coleman/St. Anne's Church Blairmore/Back to God Chapel Near Passburgh/House in Winter/Houses with Mountain in Background/"Welcome to Crowsnest Pass" Map ca. 1982 685 Filafilo - Don Filafilo Dump Truck 1984 686 "House - Jeff" 1984 687 Gigaboo House 1984 688 Historical Society (Gushel Studio) 1984 of 1985 689 Blairmore Legion Building 1985 690 Bellevue Garage, Auto Repairs, J. H. Green/Hardware Store, 2 Wagons with Horses and Men in Front/Town Site from Above No Date 691 Blairmore Legion No Date (B/N 1985-1990) 692 Manor Pole - Ski Jill at Mount Tecumseh Jan-86 693 Construction of Crows Nest Pass Hospital January to June 1986 694 Construction of Crows Nest Pass Hospital July to December 1986 695 York Creek Lodge 1986 696 "P. J. Toole and Cote - Philips Plant"/Street Scenen at Distance "Mohawk" Sign Visible 1986 697 Hillcrest School No Date (1987?) 698 "Mine Clean-Up" 1987 699 Single Storey, Large Round Holding Tank Sep-88 700 Mr. Block's Farm 1988 701 Louis Zak - T.V. Scrambler 1988 702 Blairmore Radio and T.V. - Louis Zak (Storefront) 1988 703 Frank Hotel with 3 Men in Front/Copied for Joe Chabillon: "Epicerie Comptoer" with Man and Woman in Front No Date 704 "Guest Ranch C. Nest" 1989 705 Shielak - Town Site From Above - Possibly Sentinel, AB - Possibly Atlas Lumber 1996 (copied) 706 Mooger's Fast Food Restraunt 1996 707 Turtle Mountain Hotel Apr-97

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