Rosetown Senior & Junior Band on parade
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- 1925
Approaching 6th Avenue on Main Street marching south to north. Some of the buildings are, from top right: Anglican Church, Masonic Lodge, Wiseman house, and four houses on the 500 block.
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Rosetown Senior & Junior Band on parade
Approaching 6th Avenue on Main Street marching south to north. Some of the buildings are, from top right: Anglican Church, Masonic Lodge, Wiseman house, and four houses on the 500 block.
A visiting band on parade marching past the green water tower in the old green colour of the 70's and early 80's. The band is marching south on Main Street.
Gun Carriage and Floral Tributes
Decoration Day parade moving north on Main Street Rosetown on November 11, 1926. Gun carriage filled with flowers leads the parade.
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Uniformed men parading on Main Street in Rosetown going south. Businesses on the west side of the 100 and 200 blocks can be seen. The street is gravel/dirt.
Nurses residence in background. People on foot and children on bicycles. On reverse: "Decoration Day 1959."
Men in uniform followed by a Boy Scouts float facing west on the 200 block of Main Street, Rosetown.
Bob Paull is seen riding a tractor pulling a Cessna airplane in a parade.
Parade entries heading south on Main Street. The Presbyterian Church is in the background. A man and a youth driving two mules in a small cart are followed by a chuckwagon and horseback riders.
J.D. (Don) McGill, age 86 and originally from Stranraer, rides a three-wheeled bicycle in a Rosetown summer parade.
Horseback riders are leading the parade followed by a marching band. Many people line the street: women in dresses and hats, men dressed in suits and hats. Background stores: R-L: Phillips Hardware, Kings Limited, Graham Bros., Queen's Gas (Graham's), Aseltine Law Office, Ladies Rest Room, Pool Room, Albion Hotel.
A steam-powered tractor makes its way down the dirt street at a parade in Herschel, SK.
"Blitz" on Second Avenue, Saskatoon
Soldiers in military trucks, tanks and motorcycles proceed down Second (2nd) Avenue South, Saskatoon. In background is the Bowerman Block, occupied by Caswell's Men's Clothing Store, and located on 21st Street East near 2nd Avenue South. Crowds watch from the sidewalk at centre.
Bio/Historical Note: The disturbing news of Nazi incursions into the Canadian Arctic and the grim prognostications of America's commander-in-chief, Dwight D. Eisenhower, during the early days of World War II, were enough to prompt Saskatonians to prepare for the possibility of a Luftwaffe bombing run on their city. Ominous comments by local Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) personnel during mock blackouts that the prairie center would be a "pushover" in the event of a real blitz no doubt stirred the popular imagination. The crook of the river, the railway tracks that shone in the moonlight, and the usually cloudless atmosphere were all cited by military figures as factors that made Saskatoon especially vulnerable to an air attack. As a result, in January 1942 Colonel Robert W. Stayner, a distinguished veteran of the Great War, was placed in charge of air raid defense in the city. Concerned Saskatonians were encouraged to train for their community's defense. Not everyone, however, felt that war on prairie soil was imminent. Several officials in Saskatoon insisted, for example, that the prospect of an air attack on the city was still remote. Nevertheless, 1,132 local men and women were engaged in first aid, fire, and police drills in November 1942, striking evidence that the threat from the Luftwaffe seemed real enough to justify such precautions. The Star-Phoenix played a key role in whip ping up this war fever. Its special two-page "Nazi" edition of the newspaper (October 19, 1942) was a case in point. The premise behind the whole idea-that Nazis had conquered Canada, had Saskatoon in their grip, and had seized the Star-Phoenix-would have outraged every patriot in that urban center. Renaming the newspaper Deutsche Zeitung fuer Saskatoon, the editors set about filling the two pages with stories of Nazi hubris. A jubilant Hitler greeted his new subjects on the very front page: “The entire German people rejoice with me in the glorious victory of German arms in overcoming the last resistance of decadent democracy in Saskatchewan. . . . The rich farm lands of what the British were pleased to call the breadbasket of their former empire will fit magnificently into our plans for a New Order.”
The conquest of Saskatoon seemed irreversible. The amalgam of stories in the Star-Phoenix's Nazi edition were clearly designed to shock different sectors of Saskatoon's diverse population out of their complacency. Local church leaders, for example, could not have missed the upset ting announcement of the new Reichbishop appointed by the Nazis for the Canadian Gau (the German word for province) and the burning of old prayer books that promoted "unscientific Christianity." Farmers in the rural areas around Saskatoon would have been startled to read about Nazi plans to ship every ounce of butter they produced back to Germany and to confiscate all livestock, with anyone who resisted being shot on sight. And those in the prairie city with a medical background would have stared with disbelief at the Star-Phoenix's health section, a part of the paper that was now dedicated to Nazi teachings on biology and physiology. Even more hair-raising was a grim warning that anyone who opposed the new regime was to be sent to the "concentration camp" at Dundurn. These local stories were intermixed with national ones. Other stories in Deutsche Zeitung fuer Saskatoon were deliberately left blank and marked only with the word "censored" and the swastika emblem-giving the impression that the "German World Plan" was far too sinister to print. Readers of the Star-Phoenix's "Nazi" edition doubtless got the point: life in the "true north strong and free" was worth defending. Excerpts from Bringing the War Home: The Patriotic Imagination in Saskatoon, 1939-1942, by Brendan Kelly, 2010.
Parade for Inauguration Ceremonies
Parte de City of Regina fonds
Parade on South Railway Street for the Inauguration Ceremonies.
Saskatchewan Power building & Swift Current parade
Parte de Leonard 'Hymie' Hanft fonds
8mm film taken by Leonard "Hymie" Hanft. Film length is 2:16. Footage is the Saskatchewan Power Building in Regina, city scene from on top of building, parade (maybe Swift Current)
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The Silver Jubilee Parade on Main Street in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Parte de Biggar Photograph Collection
Large crowds of people on the sidewalks of Main Street in Biggar, Saskatchewan watching people with banners walking in a parade
Some of the people are girls in Girl Guide uniforms