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Cree women gather, awaiting the commencement of the last Hobbema Sun Dance of the early 20th century.

Buildings on rough-cleared land at the depot of Waterways. This community, situated south of Fort McMurray, was the terminus of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway at the northernmost end of the railroad.

The Upper Pelican Rapids, located near the community of Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta.

Men wait on the dock with cargo to travel up the Clearwater River in Alberta. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

A wide view of the Cree First Nation's tepees at Hobbema, arranged around a central space.

Tepees belonging to the Cree First Nation, erected at Hobbema for the last Sun Dance of the early 20th Century. Women, children and horses go about their business within the camp.

A view of the tar sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, as seen from on the river. The deposits erode directly from the riverbank.

A tar sands deposit in a riverbank at Waterways in northern Alberta. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

Two steam wheelers that travelled the rivers of Northern Alberta, the A & A Company's 'Slave River' and the H. B. Company's 'Athabasca River'. Both vessels are named for actual rivers.

The steam wheeler "Slave River" waits for the wind to ease near Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.