Archbishop Monaghan of Regina had asked in 1939 that the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul start a home for older and less financially stable people in Moose Jaw. The building that was requisitioned as St. Anthony’s home was a boy’s college that had been closed since 1931. St. Anthony’s home opened on September 1, 1939 and was home to 20 patients. Two days later, the Department of National Defense requisitioned the building and upgrades were made to its plumbing and electrical systems by the time it was returned to the Sisters of Providence in 1940. St. Anthony’s home reopened on April 11, 1940. A new wing that added 114 nursing beds was constructed in May 1968. During the 1980s and 1990s the administrations of Providence Hospital and St. Anthony’s Home became governed by one Executive Director and one governing board.

Eventually it was decided that St. Anthony’s home and Providence Hospital be merged into one new facility. On May 27, 1995 both St. Anthony’s home and Providence Hospital were closed. The new Providence Place opened on September 19, 1995.

Anna Charlotte Orr was born on October 21, 1887. She married Albert Norman Collard on August 4, 1909. Albert Norman Collard was born on September 23, 1882.

Anna Charlotte Orr died on May 6, 1910. Albert Norman Collard died on November 24, 1946.

The United Church Women (UCW) was formed as a successor group to the Woman’s Missionary Society (WMS) in 1962.

The Sipprell guild of the United Zion Church was formed as a group that followed the values and goals of the UCW, The group met once a month.

Osmund Naverseth was born in Sogndal, Norway on September 25, 1909. He emigrated to Scotsguard, Saskatchewan from Bergen, Norway on March 13, 1928 to farm. He reported for war service with the Royal Norwegian Air Force on June 26, 1942. The Henderson’s Directory for that year lists he and his wife Bertha as living at 476 Selwyn, Moose Jaw. Osmund was struck off strength on October 28, 1942, and honourably discharged on medical grounds in Toronto, Ontario on April 3, 1946 having achieved the rank of leading aircraftman. Osmund received the King Haakon VII medal for his service to Norway during the war.

After the war, Osmund worked as a salesman for the Western Ice Company until the early 1960’s when he became a taxi driver for Amil’s Taxi. Bertha Naverseth died October 2, 1966.

It is not known when Osmund Naverseth died.

Frank Dudley McCulloch was born in 1900.

He was listed in the Henderson’s Directory in 1925 as the President and Manager of a real estate company at 205 - 310 Main Street North in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

He obtained a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.D., C.M.) from McGill University, and registered with the Medical Council of Canada on July 2, 1925.

In 1939, he was listed in the Henderson’s Directory as a physician at 209 -310 Main Street North in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

McCulloch died September 8, 1939.

Edward Nicholas Hopkins was born Brownsville, Province of Canada, on October 3, 1854. Hopkins came to the Moose Jaw area in 1882, making him one of its first residents. He built his home at 65 Athabasca Street West in 1905.

Hopkins was the first secretary of the Moose Jaw Board of Trade, the president of the Grain Growers Association, and the president of the Dairymen’s Association of the Northwest Territories.

Hopkins married Minnie Latham in Moose Jaw on January 24, 1889.

Running for the Progressive Party, Hopkins was elected to a seat in the House of Commons in a 1923 by-election for the constituency of Moose Jaw, and served in that role until 1925 when he lost in reelection.

Edward Nicholas Hopkins died on July 14, 1935.

Fanny Shepherd was born in Kent, England in 1866, the youngest daughter of baker and operator of a public house, Edward Hopper. Edward Hopper was born in Eastry, England in 1833.

William Shepherd was born on the Island of Sheppy, England in 1862. William originally worked in a butcher’s shop in Canterbury. He and Fanny married in 1887 and had three sons, Will, George, and Charles in Canterbury before moving to Deal in 1894. They had a daughter, Kitty, and sons Harry and Geoffrey in Deal, and a last son Tommie in Ramsgate. After attempting to farm and returning to the butcher business, the family decided to immigrate to Canada. They ended up acquiring 640 acres of land to farm outside of Stalwart, Saskatchewan.

Fanny, an active community leader, gave the leading address for the women’s section of the Moose Jaw Grain Growers’ Convention. She also wrote a regular column titled Mother’s Hens that was published in The Grain Growers’ Guide.

In February 1916, Will Shepherd married Fanny Howland, who hailed from Kent. They had three children, Edgar, Margaret, and Sylvia. Edgar served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII, and married Betty Ritchie who passed away in 1983. They had daughters Patricia and Sylvia. Edgar died in 1999. Margaret was born in 1922, and married Gordon McKay. They had two sons, Bill and Paul. Gordon McKay passed away in 1984, and Margaret in 2004 in Moose Jaw where she had lived for most of her life. Sylvia was born in 1928 and married George Gow in 1957. George died in 1980. They had a daughter, Nancy, in 1958, and a son, Richard, in 1962. Sylvia resides in Moose Jaw.

Charles and George Shepherd, sons of William and Fanny, left the family farm in Stalwart to go West in search of land for new homesteads. They started in Maple Creek, but eventually settled South of Cypress Hills and also West Plains. Every family member would eventually move West to join except for the aforementioned William Junior and his wife Fanny.

Charles married Helen Banks and had sons, Jack, in 1922 and Charlie, in 1926. Charles died in July 1926, and his youngest brother Tommie would marry his widow Helen in February 1929. They raised children Joan, Lloyd, and Ruth.

Jack enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1942 and fought in Europe. He contracted tuberculosis in Italy and recuperated for 18 months. He married Mary Mitchell in 1949, and they assumed control of the family ranch in 1950. They had daughters Barbara, Sheila, CIndy, and Susan.

Lloyd went to school for engineering and graduated in 1956. He married Florence Lavers in 1957 and returned to school at the University of Saskatchewan, earning a Phd. in physics in 1963.

George married Irene Thompson in 1927 and had children Gordon and Eleanor. Gordon attended Luther College High School in Regina and then went to Harvard Medical School, and then to Yale. He researched nerve cells and wrote books about his research. He married Grethe Gadegaard and had children Gordon, Kristen, and Lisbeth.

Construction of the school started in 1911 and was opened to the public on November 11, 1912. It was built at a cost of $242,240.00. The school’s first principal was W.T. Cunningham, holding the position from 1913-1942.

It is open and operating as of February 2, 2018.

The Kiwanis Club of Moose Jaw was formed in 1919, and held its first club meeting on April 29 of that year. Its first officers were elected on May 20, 1919, and was chartered on November 25, 1919. One of the club’s founding members was well-known Moose Javian, H.L. Fysh.

The club later became incorporated on November 22, 1953, and certified under the Companies Act on December 8, 1955.

The club was designed to assist the community in different ways, such as in delivering christmas hampers, raising money to support children, hosting a student exchange program, and generally promoting kinship and community. One of the club’s first projects was the building of a swimming pool in the Moose Jaw Young Women’s Christian Association building. Other projects included donating $2000 to the construction of the Moose Jaw Civic centre, and sending parcels to soldiers during the Second World War.

Due to low membership, the Kiwanis Club of Moose Jaw disbanded, holding its last official meeting on June 16, 2015.

The Moose Jaw Main Street Project was created in 1981 with the aim of redeveloping Moose Jaw’s Main Street. The project’s creator and first director was Gordon Fulton. Stuart Lazear became project coordinator in 1984 when Fulton left to participate in a national project.

The Moose Jaw Main Street Project followed the Heritage Canada Foundation’s Main Street Approach designed to revitalize a municipality’s downtown in part using government funding.

After Heritage Canada’s three year commitment to the project ended on June 30, 1985, the Moose Jaw Main Street Project was absorbed by The Business Improvement District (BID). Lydia Lewycky became co-coordinator in 1985, and coordinator in 1986. BID was originally formed in August 1985 with a goal of improving downtown Moose Jaw. It held its first meeting on December 5, 1985. Emmet Reidy became director in 1988.

BID was involved in several projects such as replacing Main Street’s lamp standards with pre-WWI lamp standards, and parking improvements.

After funding cuts, BID dissolved in 2010.

Balcarres Pastoral Charge was formed as a new United Church charge in 1925, including points at Wrights and Saltoun. By the 1960s, Wrights and Saltoun were no longer noted but points at Duff and Lorie had been incorporated, under the name Balcarres-Pheasant Forks Pastoral Charge. This was combined with Abernethy-Lemberg Pastoral Charge (a.k.a. Lemberg-Abernethy Pastoral Charge), ca.1969, to create Pheasant Creek Larger Parish. In 1989, the Parish split up into Abernethy-Lemberg, Balcarres, and Duff Pastoral Charges.

Gravelbourg Pastoral Charge was formed as a new United Church charge in 1925. Preaching points over time included Gravelbourg, Becker and Bolin, Bateman and Coderre (ca.1990), and Shamrock (ca.1990-2018, into which Coderre amalgamated, as of December 31, 1990).