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Swift Current Museum Corporate body

Yolanda's Dress Shop

  • SCAA-SCM-0113
  • Corporate body
  • [19--] to [19--]

Yolanda's Dress shop was named after (owner/proprietor ?) Yolanda Lorenzina (1902 - 1996). She is interned at Mount Pleasant Burial Park in Swift Current, SK

Wright Museum

  • SCAA-SCM-0126
  • Corporate body
  • 20th/21st cent.

University Women’s Club of Swift Current

  • SCAA-SCM-0096
  • Corporate body
  • 1930-ca. 2006

The University Women’s Club was founded in Saskatchewan in 1918, and the Swift Current branch in 1930 with ten charter members. The Club participated in the work of the Canadian Federation of University Women to encourage educational values by educating themselves, participating in the education of others and to stimulate members to become involved in pubic affairs. The Club also awarded the Dorothy Goddard scholarship annually. The club disbanded ca. 2006 and the majority of the records were transferred to the Saskatchewan Archives Board.

Swift Current Royal Purple Lodge Number 93

  • SCAA-SCM-0163
  • Corporate body
  • 1946-2014

The Swift Current Royal Purple Lodge Number 93 existed from 1949-2014. The Royal Purple's were the ladies auxiliary for the Elks of Canada. The Royal Purple's work in tandem with the bother Elks to support local, national, and international charities. The Swift Current Lodge supported the purchase and set up of Christmas lights in memorial park. The supported Speech and hearing programs, D.A.R.E, social events at the Palliser Regional Care Centre, as well as support for the local Saskatchewan Abilities Centre, in addition to the various national and international charities supported by the Elks and Royal Purples on a national level. Their mission statement was: A Nation fraternal and charitable organization promoting and supporting community needs through volunteer efforts of local lodges "We do adhere to the principles of justice, charity, love and fidelity to the best of our ability."
The Swift Current Lodge Number 93 dissolved in 2014 at which point there was a shifting and changing of the organization at the national level.

Swift Current Music Festival Association

  • SCAA-SCM-0038
  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1933-2003

The first adjudicated music festival took place in Swift Current in 1930, and these festivals have continued ever since, even during war years. G.E. Bowers and Dorthea Horton were named President and Secretary-Treasurer in 1931.

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