# First school buses at Del Bonita

From [*Heritage of the High Country: A History of Del Bonita and Surrounding Districts*](/books#heritage-of-the-high-country) (Del Bonita Historical Society, 1981), printed p. 163; PDF scan 177. ISBN 0-88925-190-8.

Caption: “First school buses. Drivers, Herm Hillmer Sr., Gene Plunet, Arvel Dustin.” The source page and caption were visually checked against the preserved PDF. The caption gives no photograph date.

[University of Calgary catalogue](https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3408T8W0EU). The photograph’s creator is not named in the printed caption.

The curator supplied this PNG crop and identified it as coming from the Del Bonita book. The exact supplied bytes and caption are retained, without enhancement or recompression. It is a crop of a printed book scan.

Image: [preserved PNG](/images/del-bonita-first-school-buses-book.png). Dimensions: 334 × 194. Bytes: 69394. SHA-256: `db4c0d81a1b2e772b80a440429ba2e7859b56315cb8f292e91da9dde7adcb0d6`. Received into this archive: 2026-10-31T16:37:32.110Z.

No photograph-specific open licence is asserted.

[Machine-readable provenance](/provenance/del-bonita-first-school-buses-book.json).

## Curator-supplied date

Around 1940. Approximate date supplied by the site curator on October 31, 2026, placing this photograph around the time of the 1940 Del Bonita Centralized School photograph. The book caption gives no photograph date.