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The Aylen Farm House
1900
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

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The Aylen family settled into a farm house, approximately seven miles North East of Fort Saskatchewan.

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Medicine and Active Forces The Aylen Children
1910
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

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This earlier photo of Dr. Aylen's children shows Gerald at the back, Bernard standing, D'Arcy setting, Patricia in the middle, Kathleen to the left and Naomi to the right.

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From Headquarters, to Gaol, to the Royal North-West Mounted Police

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Medicine and Mourning Near Fort Saskatchewan
1902
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

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Inspector Constantine was one of many Commanding Officers who made the long trek from the Northern outposts to replenish supplies at the Fort Saskatchewan Headquarters.

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Medicine and Mourning The Guard Room
1901
Fort Saskatchewan, Aberta

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Visiting officers also brought prisoners that were captured in the remote areas of the province. These individuals were held in the Guard Room and awaited 'trial' and sentencing.

'Justice' was conducted by the Commissioned Officers and the Guard Room was the jail. Many of the prisoners worked off their fines in the confinement of the Commanding Officer's home.

Young Griesbach remembers that while during his father's term at Fort Saskatchewan, between 1885 and 1903, his parents kept an open house and 'all sorts of distinguished, and other not so distinguished', guests stayed with and worked for them.

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The Policeman's Ball

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Medicine and Active Forces RNWMP Annual Ball Invitation
3 January 1913
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

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The great social event of the year was the Annual Policeman's Ball. This was a time of match-making for single officers.

Invitations were sent out to the available white ladies as far as Edmonton and of whom were escorted by the police in their travels to and from the Ball.

Preparations included an orchestra, a special room for the ladies to prepare, fresh wash stands with toiletries, and branches of evergreen.

The Ball took place in the men's mess, dance programs were printed and supper was in the recreation room. This special event began with a grand march with a master of ceremonies.

On January, 1913 at 9:30 p.m. Dr. and Mrs. Peter Aylen attended the Annual Royal North West Mounted Police Ball in Fort Saskatchewan.

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The Impact of the Spanish Influenza

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Medicine and Mourning Epidemic
1918
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