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Head and shoulders portrait of Louis Chevigny. He was born in Quebec in 1847, married Josephine Arcand, came west in 1870. He was the toll bridge keeper in 1881, worked for the Mission, hauled freight from Winnipeg, and homesteaded 2 miles north of St. Albert. In 1885, he built the St. Albert Hotel.

Head and shoulders portrait of Josephine Marie (née Arcand) Chevigny, wife of Louis Chevigny. She was born in Quebec in 1847, married Louis Chevigny in 1870, came west with 6 children and had 5 more in St. Albert. She died ca. 1910.

Image shows George Hodgson, his wife and children in front of log house on the Sarcee Reserve in Calgary. The woman could be Louise Boucher, whom he married in 1870, or Marie Rowland, whom he married in 1845.

Image shows the first chapel in St. Albert before its restoration in 1927.

Image depicts a large framed oval charcoal drawing of Antoine Dion. It is reported that Antoine Dion assisted Albert Lacombe, OMI in the building of the chapel in St. Albert in 1861. He died ca. 1919 in the flu epidemic at Hart River.