# West’s General Store and Post Office, 1950

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. 63; PDF scan 77. ISBN 0-88925-190-8.

Caption: “West’s General Store and Post Office — 1950.” The source page and caption were visually checked against the preserved PDF. Photograph date: 1950.

Location: Del Bonita, Alberta. The Collet family account on printed p. 301 (PDF scan 315) identifies the business as the Del Bonita Trading Co.; the West family account on p. 565 (PDF scan 579) records the later ownership.

[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 printed caption are retained, without enhancement or recompression. It is a crop of a printed book scan.

Image: [preserved PNG](/images/west-store-post-office-1950-book.png). Dimensions: 338 × 259. Bytes: 92043. SHA-256: `091eb131fad575ee499762b50a5290eea236adc3170ff53360bab610baa3193e`. Received into this archive: 2026-10-31T16:24:40.859Z.

No photograph-specific open licence is asserted.

[Machine-readable provenance](/provenance/west-store-post-office-1950-book.json).

[The separate copy from the Journal of Alberta Postal History](/images/post-office-1950.jpg) is also retained with [its own provenance](/provenance/post-office-1950.md).