Construction industry - Materials√

CORA-RPL-A-380
Item
ca. 1904

48 inch water pipe for the Boggy Creek waterworks project. View is along 7th Avenue.

Administration Building - Addition - Construction

A-7039
Item
23 July 1986

Part of University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

View looking north of stone cladding nearly completed on the Administration Building addition. Sign in front reads: "Penn-Co construction". Sign below it reads: "Saskatchewan Builds - Administration Building - Alternate Accommodation - Opening Spring 1987 $5.6 million project 125 years of employment in construction and service industry 'Partnership for Progress'."

Bio/Historical Note: In 1979 portions of the Administration Building (College Building) were declared unsafe. The building that had been at the heart of University life for seven decades was showing its age. A weak roof structure and deteriorating cement precipitated action on the part of the University’s administration. From a number of options available, the choice was made to build a new building adjacent to the original structure. The Administration Building Addition (East Wing) was opened in October 1987, construction having began in the fall of 1985. Designed by Wiens Johnstone Architects of Regina and built by Penn-Co Construction of Calgary, the $6.6 million three-story stone-clad building contained 4,646 square metres of floor space, approximately the same office space as the College Building. The two buildings were directly linked with some of the College Building’s exterior walls in the addition’s interior space.

Arts-Commerce-Law Complex Building - Construction

A-4519
Item
16 Sept. 1966

Part of University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Elevated view of worksite with equipment, vehicles and men working on the sides of the building.

Bio/Historical Note: The Law and Commerce Buildings were designed and constructed as part of a single project between 1965 and 1967. The architect was John Holliday-Scott of the Saskatoon firm Holliday-Scott & Associates.

Beginning Construction of Dark's Drug Store in Biggar, Saskatchewan

77.325.01
Item
ca.1913

Part of Biggar Photograph Collection

Four men and two horses in a space between two buildings on Main Street in Biggar, Saskatchewan
The space has been excavated for laying foundation and there are more men and some machinery at street level

Building a Soddie

1.0144.08
Item
[191-?]

Part of Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation fonds

A large group of men, women and children are gathered around and on top of a large sod building [school?] with plank roof and glass windows. A pile of lumber in the foreground suggests recent construction.