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Swift Current Museum Persona

Borthwick, Jim

  • SCAA-SCM-0007
  • Persona
  • fl. 1926-1947

Bye, Alf

  • SCAA-SCM-0008
  • Persona
  • [19--] - [20--]

Cooper, William W.

  • SCAA-SCM-0011
  • Persona
  • fl. 1919-1950

William Wesley Cooper is well known in the commercial circles of Swift Current as an upright and reliable business man, interested in everything conducive to the progress and improvement of the city and district. He has been prominent in the mercantile business since 1903 and since 1912 has conducted business under the name of The W. W. Cooper Company, Departmental Store. He was born in Victoria county, Ontario, on the 31st of August, l873, a son of John and Ellen (McNeely) Cooper.
William Wesley Cooper was educated in a public school in Victoria County, which afforded him his early education, and in due time he was graduated from high school at Medicine Hat. He located in Medicine Hat in April, 189O. In June, 1903, he came to Swift Current and engaged in the mercantile business under the name of Argue & Cooper. In 1912 he purchased his partner's interest and the firm name was changed to The W. W. Cooper Company, Departmental Store. The W. W. Cooper Company Departmental Store is one of the representative enterprises of its kind in the west, and Mr. Cooper has built up an extensive and ever-increasing patronage. He carries a complete and high-grade line of goods and employs efficient and courteous clerks. Aside from the store in Swift Current, he operates branch stores in Cabri and Vanguard. He is managing director of the Ben Allan Portland Cement Company, Limited, at Owen Sound, Ontario, and is proprietor of the Swift Current Co-operative Agencies. His interests are wide and varied and the story of his career is the story of well earned success, which is the natural resuIt of hard work and ability.
Fraternally Mr. Cooper is identified with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and he has attained the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He was the first president of the Swift Current Rotary Club and an active member of the local Board of Trade. He is a member of the executive committee of the Old Timers Association and is Boy Scouts Commissioner of the Swift Current District. For recreation Mr. Cooper turns to the great outdoors and he is fond of fishing, golf, motoring and shooting. His religious faith is manifest in his attendance at the Methodist church. Since attaining his majority Mr. Cooper has been a stanch supporter of the Liberal party and he is active in any movement for the progress and improvement of his city.

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cansk/SaskatchewanAndItsPeople/VolumeIII/CooperWilliamWesley.html

Lunan, William Norman

  • SCAA-SCM-0016
  • Persona
  • January 26, 1908 - May 26, 2002

William Norman Lunan grew up in the Swift Current area in the early 1900s. He was a resident of Heritage Tower Seniors Home later in life. He is buried at the Mount Pleasant Burial Park in Swift Current, SK

Michie, Ted

  • SCAA-SCM-0017
  • Persona
  • 20th cent.

Swift Current Librarian c.1950s/1960s

Spence, George

  • SCAA-SCM-0025
  • Persona
  • fl. 1926-1952

George Spence, C.B.E. (October 25, 1880 – March 4, 1975) was a Canadian provincial and federal politician. Born in Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, he studied electrical engineering at the Leith Academy Technical College and emigrated to Canada in 1900 to pan for gold in the Yukon. In 1903, he moved to Austin, Manitoba where he was a farmer. In 1912, he moved to Monchy, Saskatchewan. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1917 for the riding of Notukeu. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1921 and 1925. He resigned his provincial seat in 1925 and was elected in the 1925 federal election in the riding of Maple Creek. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the 1926 federal election. He resigned his seat in 1927 to re-enter provincial politics, where he was appointed Minister of Railways. He was also Minister of Highways, Minister of Railways, Labour and Industries, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Public Works. He would serve until 1938 when he was appointed Director of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration. From 1947 to 1957, he was a member of the International Joint Commission, an independent binational organization established by the United States and Canada under the International Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909. In 1946 he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1948. In 1974, he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame.

Noble, Florence

  • SCAA-SCM-0055
  • Persona
  • [19--] - [20--]

Parton, Ken

  • SCAA-SCM-0056
  • Persona
  • [19--] - [20--]

Irwin, Noble

  • SCAA-SCM-0057
  • Persona
  • 1921-1998

Dr. Noble Totton Irwin was born November 15, 1921in Swift Current. He received his formal education at Central Public School and the Swift Current Collegiate Institute in this city and St. John's Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Noble Irwin was married to Irene Spence on June 7, 1945. He attended the University of Saskatchewan and received his pre-medical training.

Following this he served in the Canadian Army during World War II as a member of the 8th Reconnaissance, 14th Canadian Hussars Regiment and was severely wounded during the Allied invasion of Normandy. After his discharge in 1945, he entered medical college at the University of Manitoba. Upon graduation in 1950 and following a year of internship, he returned to Swift Current to work at the Swift Current Clinic as a general practitioner.

In 1957 he began four years of training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1961. He returned to the Swift Current Clinic where he practiced until his retirement in 1986. Dr. Noble Totton Irwin passed away in Swift Current June 29, 1998 and, wife Irene passed November 20, 1999. Both husband and wife are buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

Burke, Richard

  • SCAA-SCM-0061
  • Persona
  • 20th/21st cent.
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