Businesses√

MG 524
Fonds
1827-1931, 1988

Diary as well as transcript and notes.

SCM-RG-0059
Fonds
31 January 2008

The fonds, related to Lavinia Bishop (nee Brown), were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-October 30, 1899, from Gleich, AB to Assiniboia, SK, from her Father William Brown
-note dated March 25, 1885, to Lavinia
-empty envelope that reads "A letter written to my dear Grandma at the age of seven years by myself"
-envelope that reads "Relics of By-gone Days", containing small cards that often read "Jesse Bishop" and "Lavinia A. Brown" and "David A. Brown", a Christmas card sent from the front during World War I, from Austine C. Brown to the Brown family.
-two letters in an envelope, June 6, 1881 and May 11, 1882
-letter from Balhagerty, September 4, 1876, to "Gran"
-Christmas card, to Bishop family, from Austine
-note written by Lavinia Bishop, reference to a bag and a Sunday School class
-envelope with "Photos of Interest", photos of Lavinia's family and other people she remembered
-envelope reads "A cherished remembrance of the late Countess of Rothes who died February 10, 1886", a newspaper and a printed and handwritten prayer
-envelope reads "Letters of sympathy written by the late Countess of Rothes (Henrietta Anderson Morshead Leslie, 17th Countess of Rothes [1832-1886]) to our Father and Mother on the deaths of our Grandma & baby Brother"
-envelope reads "Letters of Business written by the late Countess of Rothes & her mother the late Dowager to my father Wm Brown"

Bishop, Lavinia

First store built in Indian Head

IHM.2021.0135
Item
[188-]

Part of Businesses Collection

Street view of the first store to ever be built in Indian Head. (Built in 1882)

Moose Hotel, Moose Jaw, NWT

71-68
Item
1883

Part of MJ General Photograph Collection

Exterior/street-view of the Moose Hotel, located on the north-west corner of Main and High Street in Moose Jaw, NWT. Group of local residents, including Mr. Shupe (on the black horse), the hotel owner, are gathered in front of the hotel.

Empire Brewery

71-4
Item
ca. 1884

Part of MJ General Photograph Collection

Street-view of the Empire Brewery, located on High Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in Moose Jaw, Northwest Territories

Dr Hunt's drug store and office 1890?

IHM.2022.0165
Item
1890?

Part of Businesses Collection

Store front of one-story brick building with three men posing in front. The left door says "Office"; the left window says "Dr. CW Hunt"; the right window says "Drug Store"

Yorkton's first business street

YJ0082
Item
ca. 1897

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Livingstone St., on the right, Yorkton's first business street with the Royal Hotel in the foreground. At the left on the picture is Broadway east of first Ave. The first house is Markham's residence, next is J. C. Markham's livery barn. Next the Hudson's Bay store. Across the street 2nd. Ave., is R. A. Patricks small drug store, Yorkton's first drug store with a law office above. Next is the Carson Building with a photography shop and barber shop on the ground floor and offices above.

W.E. Morlidge, Builder & Contractor

LRA 0007
Item
[190-?]

Part of LRA Photograph Collection

Person seen sitting on stoop of house behind wood sign for "W.E. Morlidge Builder & Contractor"

Hardware Store at 514 Grand Avenue

IHM.2021.0063
Item
[190-?]

Part of Businesses Collection

Photograph of a shop front with two men in the front door. Merchandise in the front window is mostly oil lamps as well as axes and saws at the front door.