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Facing pages from a memory book gifted to a departing member of the Edmonton Women's Press Club, showing prominent member Miriam Green Ellis' contribution. It includes a formal portrait and a handwritten farewell passage. Murphy was notable not only…

A group portrait of the Edmonton Women's Press Club. Miriam Green Ellis is at the far right.

"Doc" Griffin, a steam wheeler cook, holds two fish caught near the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The fish are incorrectly identified as trout in the caption. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured…

A portrait of Captain Bucey, at the helm of his steam wheeler, possibly the 'Distributor'.

A portrait of Laura, an Inuit woman travelling to Edmonton for trial. She is said to have beaten her husband. Miriam Green Ellis did not comment on the circumstances of the altercation, but did report that Laura was sent back home without a…

A First Nations man poses with a pipe in Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

Portrait of a young Inuit man, Alikomiak. He was arrested, along with fellow Inuit hunter Tatimagana, for the murder of four Inuit at Coronation Gulf in 1921. Alikomiak shot and killed an RCMP officer, W.A. Doak, and an employee of the Hudson's Bay…

A portrait of a Fort Norman man, McCleary. Originally from Pittsburg, McCleary suffered from gangrene during a particularly long, hard and isolated winter and was forced to amputate his own toes with a jackknife. He survived alone for over four…

Bishop Grouard, an Oblate missionary, at the Edmonton train station, June, 1922. He oversaw the vicariate of Athabasca-Mackenzie, and was active in the North for half a century. Bishop Grouard is credited with bringing the first printing press to…

A portrait of Laura, an Inuit woman travelling to Edmonton for trial. She is said to have beaten her husband. Miriam Green Ellis did not comment on the circumstances of the altercation, but did report that Laura was sent back home without a…