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Image shows the charter service of the United Church in St. Albert, held at Club Mocombo on April 18, 1954. The service was held on Easter Sunday with Reverend Dr. Villett, Principal of Alberta College (shown left) and the representative of the United Church Presbytery (right) with Lois Hole as organist.

Image shows the choir at the United Church charter service, held April 18, 1954 at Club Mocombo. Front row, from left: Margaret Raymond, Nora Parkes (Mrs. Cliff), Pamela Sweeney, Mildred Herron (Mrs. Bill). Second row: Atkinson twins (Joan & Joyce), Mary Usher, Ethel Cuts (Mrs. Wm.), Mrs. Harold Vague. Third row: Mrs. Phyllis Kittlitz, Margarite Aikens (Mrs. Lorne), Maxine Kraus, Mrs. Sweeney. Back row: Mr. Harold Vague, ?, Mr. Sweeney.

The girl in the back is Mrs. Harold Hawketz, the middle girl is unidentified and the girl in front is Leontine Lambert. The girls are beside the bridge and St. Albert Hotel is depicted in the background. Image was used in The Black Robe's Vision page 482.

Image depicts Elzear Sevigny with horse and buggy at his home on Madonna Drive, taken the summer before he died in 1919.

Image shows John Morasse with friends. Back row, from left: Leo Bellerive, William Morasse, Mary Morasse. Middle row: John Morasse, Odilie Morasse. Front: adopted son of Leo Bellerive, Marcel (died at 21 years). John Morasse was the first one to come west ca. 1880, settled in St. Albert, never married.

Image depicts the Morinville lawn tennis club, 1911. Image includes (but not identified): Mr. C. Hamilton, banker, Dr. Regan, dentist, Mr. H. Hamilton, druggist, and wife, Mrs. Angus Tergusen (with glasses), Mrs. Princelle, Mrs. Renault, Miss O. Brown.

Image shows the Astoria Hotel with people and horse-drawn buggies in the foreground. The hotel was built in 1890 by Gedeon and Xavier Bellisle; owned by Ernest Renaud and operated by his brother-in-law, Lucien Boudreau. It was later operated by J.A. Harnois and Elzear Letourneau. The hotel burned down in 1911.

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.

Image shows the house on the Chévigny homestead (about 2 miles north of St. Albert) built ca. 1890. In front of the house: Louis and Josephine Chevigny, Joe Arcand, Marie Louise, Victoria, Francois, Olivine, Alfred Arcane, Bernadette and daughter. In the buggies: Moise and friend; David, Josephine, and Laura.

This house was restored by the Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert in 2020, and currently sits on River Lot 23 in St. Albert.

Image shows a horse drawn bobsleigh with seven people. Octave Chevigny is shown on the extreme right.