- RO8.037
- Item
- 1956
100 block Main Street in winter. Left side of street: York Hotel, Billiard Hall & Barber Shop, Graham's Hardware, King's, café. Right side: Myers Block, Conlins & Evans, Gordon's Drugs, Eagle Office, TD Bank.
100 block Main Street in winter. Left side of street: York Hotel, Billiard Hall & Barber Shop, Graham's Hardware, King's, café. Right side: Myers Block, Conlins & Evans, Gordon's Drugs, Eagle Office, TD Bank.
Man Driving A Hay Wagon in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
A man driving a hay wagon through the snow, hitched to two horses. The wagon has sled skis instead of wheels.
Part of City of Regina fonds
Men and women standing in front of the McCarthy Block, located at 1627-33 Broad St., damaged by fire in 1912.
Progress shot of construction of the most westerly gate of the Memorial Gates. Thorvaldson (Chemistry) Building in background.
Bio/Historical Note: The Memorial Gates are a military memorial that is part of the University campus. Sixty-seven University students and faculty lost their lives while on service during World War I. The impact of the war on the University was immense: 330 students and faculty served during the War, a number equivalent to nearly all of the students who had registered the year prior to the beginning of the conflict. The desire to honor the staff and students who had fallen during the Great War was strong within the University community. As early as August 1918, 3 months prior to the formal Armistice, University President Walter C. Murray began making enquiries into the cost of a suitable memorial. What was settled upon were gates made of solid bronze, imported from England; the remainder, made of local greystone. Architect David R. Brown estimated the cost of what would come to be known as the Memorial Gates to be $30,000, with an additional $10,000 required for the memorial. The cement work was done by Richard J. Arrand in 1927-1928. A concerted fundraising effort among students and alumni helped cover the costs. The Memorial Gates were unveiled by President Murray and dedicated by the Bishop of Saskatchewan on 3 May 1928. A stone tablet, positioned between the bronze gates, bears the inscription: "These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War and gave their lives that we might live in freedom." For many years after, the site was used for the university’s Remembrance Day services at which wreaths are still laid every November 11th. These Gates were originally the entrance gates to campus and flanked University Drive. In the 1980s, due to increased traffic to the southwest portion of the campus, primarily Royal University Hospital, a new road entrance was built to the west. The gates remain, with the remnant of University Drive passing through them renamed Memorial Crescent. The gates are now primarily used by pedestrians, though the roadway is open to vehicles.
Three teams of horses hitched to a small frame house preparing to drag it on snow. Three men are holding the reins. Dog in front.
Part of LRA Photograph Collection
Exterior view of the North Gully school building with snow on the ground.
The Mike & Sophie Gawletz home, located on 100 block of 2nd Avenue East. October 16, 1930.
A young baby, Olive Addison (born April 21, 1906) with her mother and father, standing outside of a house in the winter.
"One Mile East of Biggar, Saskatchewan"
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
A snow covered ditch with telephone poles to the right and a highway to the left; there is a car driving on the highway
President's Residence in Winter
Looking northeast at the President's Residence; winter scene.
Bio/Historical Note: The President’s Residence is among the original buildings constructed on campus. The residence was designed by Brown and Vallance, and was built under the direction of A.R. Greig, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. The building was originally planned as a wooden structure. However, a proposal to construct the building out of a local river rock, later known as greystone, was raised prior to the commencement of construction - if the government would foot the bill. Eventually the latter material was chosen, though the government perhaps came to regret its decision. Construction on the President's Residence began in 1910 and finished in early 1913. By the time it was completed the original cost for the building had ballooned from $32,000 to $44,615. Walter Murray, the first president of the University, was deeply embarrassed by the cost of what was to be his personal residence, even though it was also a public building. However, the people of Saskatoon were proud of the building and the status it gave their University, and no public outcry over the cost ever materialized. Renovations to the President's Residence were completed in 1989 by PCL-Maxam at a cost of $96,752. The renovations were designed by architects Malkin/Edwards.
President's Residence in Winter
Looking northwest at the President's Residence; winter scene.
Bio/Historical Note: The President’s Residence is among the original buildings constructed on campus. The residence was designed by Brown and Vallance, and was built under the direction of A.R. Greig, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. The building was originally planned as a wooden structure. However, a proposal to construct the building out of a local river rock, later known as greystone, was raised prior to the commencement of construction - if the government would foot the bill. Eventually the latter material was chosen, though the government perhaps came to regret its decision. Construction on the President's Residence began in 1910 and finished in early 1913. By the time it was completed the original cost for the building had ballooned from $32,000 to $44,615. Walter Murray, the first president of the University, was deeply embarrassed by the cost of what was to be his personal residence, even though it was also a public building. However, the people of Saskatoon were proud of the building and the status it gave their University, and no public outcry over the cost ever materialized. Renovations to the President's Residence were completed in 1989 by PCL-Maxam at a cost of $96,752. The renovations were designed by architects Malkin/Edwards.
Qu'Appelle Hall (men's residence) lighted at night in winter.
Rail yard - Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Part of Hans Dommasch fonds
Grain elevators, railway boxcars and buildings are seen covered in snow in the railyard of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Dommasch, Hans S.
Rail Yard in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Aerial 'winter scene' of train cars in the rail yard in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Black and white photograph of a large group of men with shovels surrounding the Canadian National Railway (CNR) Snow Plow train engine, which appears stuck in a snowbank.