Wednesday 1 July 2020

Peter Apsit Photos 1916 -1921 at Portage La Loche


1920 photo taken in Portage La Loche of Eleonore Marie Laprise (nee Janvier in 1901 at La Loche) holding her son Johnny (nee Janvier) Laprise in a mossbag. (from the Peter Apsit photo collection provided by Gerald Sarapu)

Apsit cabin 1918-1921. Peter and John Apsit are in their cabin sitting at a table and lying on a cot by the window. On the wall is a 1918 calendar and dozens of photos. (from the Peter Apsit photo collection provided by Gerald Sarapu)


Portage La Loche 1919-1920 -- Hudson's Bay Company factor's house at West La Loche. Peter Apsit sitting in dark striped shirt (on the right), John Apsit standing in white shirt. Angus McLean the HBC factor who was sixty years old in 1916 may be the man in the dark clothes sitting in the chair.(from the Peter Apsit photo collection provided by Gerald Sarapu)