Frequent travelers of the Peace River Trail were the Revillion Brothers who owned a series of trading posts in the area. When the fur trade started winding down they took on a new enterprise - film making.
Nanook of the North is a 1922 silent documentary that captured the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. The film is considered to be the 1st feature length documentary filmed by Robert J. Flaherty. Even though critics accuse Flaherty of staging events the film was one of the first 25 selected for preservation in the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
The film itself was not produced here but was funded by Revillon Bros. who were active competitors to the Hudson's Bay Company in our area. They had warehouses at Athabasca Landing as wells as Lesser Slave Lake.
The Saturday News of March 10, 1906 announced that Revillon Brothers had taken over the large fur trading business of Bredin, Cornwall, & Roberts along with the firm’s nine trading posts, dozen sub-posts and the entire catch of this season. The Revillon firm have now 150 stores and posts in the Dominion.