Photos donated by Kenneth J. Friedt Jan 2008

Photos donated by Kenneth J. Friedt Jan 2008
Negatives he bought at a garage sale,
Unknown Photographer.
Ken has donated the original negatives to the Saskatchewan Archives
and given me permission to use them here for all to see
As far as we know, the photographer worked for the CPR, 1909-1911
in the Roche Percee area, Outlook, Moose jaw and Estevan areas.
He looks like an engineer type maybe.
Not many on the train gang would wear a tie.
If you have these original snaps in your album, please contact me or Ken
Note- in the slide show below, mouse over the right side of the old book
and you will see mini thumbnails of all the photos.
You can click on any one you wish to see again.
Apologize for the captions on some being cut off by the program.
will try and fix that another day.

Some of the photos above, show a train wreck,
and I found this clip below, dated July 10, 1910,
that describes the wreck of East bound freight #75.
about 1/4 mile west of Roche Percee.
Accident actually took place July 9, 1910 at 8 am
You can see the lumber in the pictures.
Conductor Miller was in charge.
27 of the 35 cars left the track.