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Miriam Green Ellis and Wilfred Reid ("Wop") May pose with one of May's airplanes at the Lacombe airfield in 1920.

Florence, Miriam Green Ellis, Wilfred Reid ("Wop") May and Tubbie, at the Lacombe airfield in 1920.

Miriam Green Ellis, posing in front of an airplane at the Lacombe airfield in 1920.

Miriam Green Ellis and Nellie McClung with an airplane at the Lacombe airfield in 1920.

Nellie McClung, with an airplane at the Lacombe airfield in 1920.

A collage of photos from Miriam Green Ellis and Nellie McClung's trip to visit Wilfred Reid ("Wop") May at the Lacombe airfield in 1920. May, a celebrated World War I fighter pilot, operated an aviation business out of Lacombe after the war.

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Miriam Green Ellis, Wilfred Reid ("Wop") May and an unidentified man pose in front of one of Wop May's airplanes at the Lacombe airfield in 1920.

Miriam Green Ellis at her summer home, dubbed 'Toad Hall', north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

A skin boat on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories. The skins would be removed for sale at its destination.

E. Cora Hind inspecting field crops. A distinguished member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, she earned distinction as Western Canada's premier agriculture journalist.