John Alvin (Al) Brunsdon was born on November 29, 1927 in Hawarden, SK and passed away in Swift Current on Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 81 years of age. He is predeceased by his older brother Bert and younger brother, Doug.
He is survived by his wife Claire; 3 children, Wayne, Laurie and Pat (Karen); 2 grandchildren, Denise and Clark, and his sister Marion of Victoria, B.C. He was born into a Canadian Pacific Railway family. His many locations include: Glenside, Tugaskie, Wadena and Assiniboia where he graduated High School. He followed the family footsteps into the CPR and became a Telegrapher in 1948. Three years later he met his wife in Wilkie, SK and married Claire on May 23, 1951. They remained in Wilkie until moving to Tuberose in late 1952. From Tuberose to Cadogan, AB in 1955 and to Kisbey, SK in 1963. In 1967 Al left Kisbey and the CPR. After he retired he was an active member of his community, volunteering in many ways: Kiwanis and the Archaeological Society. Al with Claire were well know in the church community, attending Bronco games and Indian Baseball games. Al loved to travel and had seen: Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China and Australia. Al will be missed by all his family, his extended family and friends. He was a very nice man. A great guy with a good sense of humor. Loved to go fishing, searching for treasures or just getting to know his beloved Saskatchewan. He enjoyed sharing time with his family no matter where in the world they were. https://parksidefuneralhome.com/tribute/details/550/Al-Brunsdon/obituary.html

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.

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Jean Cyca is a resident of Swift Current, Saskatchewan; as an artist she works with a variety of mediums creating artwork showcasing the surrounding community and places from her travels.

Iver Clifton was born February 11, 1930 in Hodgeville, Saskatchewan. He began his schooling at Ensz, a one-room country school, and then on to Luxor school in Neidpath, where he completed grade 10. He then went to Herbert High School to complete grades 11 & 12, where he graduated in 1947. While attending school in Herbert he joined the Herbert High School Cadet Corp., that same year becoming a member of the Armoured Reserve Regiment, the14th Canadian Hussars.

He qualified as Lieutenant in 1948 while attending the Armoured Corps. school in Camp Borden, Ontario. In 1950 he was given the opportunity to be a member of the Canadian Armoured Units going overseas to the Korean War, but his plans changed due to his father's illness and he stayed to help on the family farm. He continued with the reserve army training, completing a number of examinations and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, then was appointed Commanding Officer of the 14th Hussars, which he held until the regiment was disbanded in 1968.

Through this time he farmed and ran a cat and scraper, building many roads, dugouts and dams in the area. In 1958 he purchased his own farm just outside of Swift Current. He married Glennis on June 9, 1962, and celebrated with a military wedding. The farm became home for him and his wife, where they raised three sons and a daughter. The farm was home to grain, livestock and a large scale vehicle salvage operation. Being a very good mechanic, many people came to him for advice, parts, repairs and complete vehicles.

Iver was a member of the Swift Current Chamber of Commerce and president from 1976 to 1979, the first farmer in the area to hold this position. He was president of the Saskatchewan Army Cadet League and the Army Cadet League of Canada. He was a member of the Swift Current Masonic Lodge and the Swift Current Shrine Club. He was a Life Member of the Royal Arch Masons, the Damascus Preceptory, the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Association and the Swift Current Royal Canadian Legion Branch #56. As a member of the Shrine Club, he was their drum major for over 20 years, traveling to numerous places performing in over 260 parades and competitions.

Iver had the great experience and good fortune to be appointed Aide-de-Camp for three Lt. Governors, each serving a five year term. He organized the purchase of the Swift Current Mayoral Chain of Office in 2003. He organized and financed the retrieval and placement of the WWII armoured military tank, which is placed at the Rec Center. Among his numerous accomplishments, one of the biggest and most recent that he was able to enjoy, was the renaming of the Rec Center to the Lieutenant Colonel Clifton Recreational Center. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Iver was very involved in all of his children's activities, always there for their different events or accomplishments, as well as teaching them different aspects of life that he felt important. Iver was a man of many 'hats'- soldier, colonel, heavy equipment operator, farmer, parts man, mechanic, Shriner, friend, brother, husband, father and grandfather.

Aldeo Lalonde married Clara May Beeching in 1953 and farmed near Bjorkdale, Saskatchewan from 1954 to 1974 raising a family of four children.

Anthea Loran grew up in Hampshire, England, during the Second World War and she followed her sister Anne Szumigalski to Canada in 1955. A nurse by trade, she lived in Regina and Saskatoon before moving to Swift Current with her husband, Ralph where they raised six children.

She passed away in Swift Current on March 23, 2018. For a more detailed account of her lifetime of volunteerism, see:

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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.

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.

Curator and Director of the Swift Current Film Society from September 1998 to December 1999