The Ritchie family sod house with, L-R, Mrs. Peter Ritchie, Sr., Miss Jean Ritchie, Peter Ritchie, Sr. in front of the house. A window box contains flowers. There is a frame barn behind the house.
West side of Main Street in Zealandia looking north. A number of people walking about and a hardware and furniture store under construction with six horses and wagons on the street. A Canadian Northern train can be seen in the background.
This is a reprint of a cracked and smudged original. Written in ink on back of print: "Rosetown ladies Sept. 1909." Josephine Sheffield is 2nd from right. The 2 girls in front may be Viva Sheffield (Evans) and Lorna Sheffield (Moyer).
Eagle Creek Bridge north of Rosetown just completed in 1909. This bridge was built by Peter L. Ritchie, the tall man wearing a hat in the photo. Other men seated on the bridge rails, wearing hats and smoking pipes.
L-R: Dick MacDougald, Fraser Heartwell, George Bigelow, unknown, Jim Geddes, two on right are unidentified. Wearing suits and ties or cravats, hats or caps. Example of men's fashions, particularly headgear, of early century.
Wide shot of the town of Zealandia in 1909. All four elevators can be seen in the background. A plume of smoke is rising in the left-middle of the photo. Unclear if this is related to a fire or not.
The Zealandia Railway Station is in the forefront of the photo, with the hotel across the street. The old Highway 7 runs between the station and the hotel. Main Street can be seen on the right-hand side of the picture.
Four grain elevators, one belonging to the Goose Lake Grain and Lumber Co., are seen with a long row of box cars. A through track beside the station is also seen. "Zealandia wheat train, 1909" hand written on bottom of photograph in white marker.
Four grain elevators, one belonging to the Goose Lake Grain and Lumber Co., are seen with a long row of box cars. A through track beside the station is also seen. "Zealandia wheat train, 1909" hand written on bottom of photograph in white marker.
A row of shops on 1st Avenue in Zealandia. The livery stable is at the end of the row just behind the windmill. A man places bricks along the side of a building in the forefront of the photo.
