The image is of the South Fork Valley looking South, whose waters run North to the Hudson Bay. A few kilometres to the South, the waters of the Frenchman River (aka the White Mud) flow toward the Gulf of Mexico. Looking past the alkali grass in the morning fog, a little red house can be seen. It is the only sign of the once vibrant town of South Fork, wherein in 1920, three grain elevators used to stand alongside a store, cafe, lumberyard, and the houses of the town. There is a steep incline to the right leading out of the valley, where farmers would sometimes haul their coal from the mines at South Fork and frequently, on their way, blocked the wheels of their wagons to give horses a rest. In 1928 a fire burnt much of the town, and around the 1970s the last elevator was moved to Roger Allemand's farm and is still standing there today.
