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Indian Head Agricultural Society Minute Book

Indian Head Agricultural Society Minute Book

A large black and red hardcover notebook containing the meeting minutes for the Indian Head Agricultural Society from 1926 to 1930. The book also contains the minutes of a meeting on January 23, 1945 to gift the cash assets of the society to the Indian Head Athletic Association.

Indian Head Agricultural Society

Joe Griffiths and Orvald Gratias

Joe Griffiths and Orvald Gratias

Joe Griffiths, coach of the track and field team, and Orvald Gratias, captain of the team, stand outside a tent.

Bio/Historical Note: Orvald Arthur Gratias, a native of Kinistino, Saskatchewan, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BSc ‘28; MSc ‘30) in 1925. During his five years on campus he competed in basketball, football and track & field. He excelled in discus and hammer throw and was captain of the track & field team in 1930. In 1928, the Sheaf named him Saskatchewan's most versatile athlete. Joe Griffiths later described Gratias as one of the greatest all-around athletes to wear the green and white. He received a Major Athletic Award in 1930. Gratias was president of the University Athletic Directorate and went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, studying particle physics. Gratias parlayed an MBA into a second career as a research analyst with the Montreal blue-chip firm MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier, specializing in market movements. Gratias died on 23 July 1996 in Ottawa at age 87.

John Dewar fonds

  • MG 195
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1998 (inclusive); 1972-1998 (predominant)

This fonds documents the professional and academic activities of Dr. Dewar over the course of his career. Files pertaining to research and writing focus on the areas of sports history, including material on Indigenous athletes and athletics, and residential schools, basketball, hockey, and the Olympics. The material on teaching covers topics such as sports history and the philosophy of sport. Also included are student papers collected by Dewar from his and Professor Val Schneider's sports history classes. Many of these student papers deal with a variety of Saskatchewan teams and locales.

Dewar, John Duncan, 1932 - 2018

Kathleen Flett fonds

  • 2003-104.
  • Fonds
  • [190-] - [ca. 1943], predominant [190-]

The fonds contains 17 scanned copies of photographs from Kathleen Flett's personal collection. The majority of the photographs depict members of the John and Janet Flett family and images of the Flett homestead, dating from the early 1900s to approximately 1943. Several are formal studio portraits of individuals and wedding parties. Three photographs depict threshing activities. One photograph features the "Ethelton Aces" team in approximately 1943.

Flett, Kathleen

Kent and Brooksbank bowling Team

Kent and Brooksbank bowling Team

Names of members printed on front: Back row, left to right: Jack Brooksbank, Jack Ennis (captain), S. Kent. Front row, left to right: W. McMillan, Geo. Guillaume, M. Mapes, O. Kempel. Winners of Commercial League 1929-1930, sitting and standing for portrait

Lorne Cooper fonds

  • LC01
  • Fonds
  • 1859-1987

This fonds consists of correspondence, letters to the Editor, newspapers, newsprint, photographs, and negative pertaining to the City of North Battleford. It mostly consists of photos with captions as they appeared in the News-Optimist. Fonds is composed of the following series: Newsprint; Photographs; Textual Records; Multimedia; and Negatives.

Cooper, Lorne

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