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A priest from the Catholic Mission at Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories poses with a covered wagon. The wagon is drawn by large dogs by necessity rather than eccentricity, due to the absence of horses and other more typical draft animals so far…

The mission cache at Salt Springs in the Northwest Territories.

Miss Patterson, on the boardwalk in Lac La Biche. On this day, Miss Patterson was travelling to be married.

Miss Christine Gordon poses in her garden near Fort McMurray, Alberta. She acted as postmistress for the community until the Hudson's Bay Company took over administering the mail. Miriam Green Ellis visited with Miss Gordon to follow up on her doings…

Miscellaneous Objects as Seen With and Without the Microscope predates the introduction of photography. The visual notes it contains depend entirely on the artist's ability to not only record their observations, but to also remember what was seen…

Miriam Green Ellis' scratch notes, detailing the order of slides for one of her magic lantern shows. The note is written on a stationary envelope from the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, Canada.

The front cover of Miriam Green Ellis: Champion of the West by Dr. Patricia Demers. This volume is the catalog to the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library's Miriam Green Ellis collection exhibit, on display beginning March 14, 2013.

The back cover of Miriam Green Ellis: Champion of the West by Dr. Patricia Demers. This volume is the catalog to the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library's Miriam Green Ellis collection exhibit, on display beginning March 14, 2013.

An image of Miriam Green Ellis with Henry House and painter Henry George Glyde, taken at the Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield in the Alberta Rockies. This image resides in the Glenbow Museum's collection, in Calgary, Alberta.