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Wolseley (Sask.)
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Wolseley-Sintaluta Pastoral Charge fonds

  • FL 768
  • Archief
  • 1886–1993

The fonds consists of textual materials generated by Wolseley, Sintaluta and Wolseley-Sintaluta Pastoral Charges and constituent churches – their boards, committees and related bodies, and local youth and women’s groups.

Contents include: minutes of boards, stewards, trustees’ meetings; Sunday school, choir and mission band files; records of local Young Peoples’ Union (Y.P.U.), Ladies Aid Society, Women’s Missionary Society (W.M.S.), Woman’s Association (W.A.) and United Church Women (U.C.W.) groups; correspondence; anniversary bulletin and history files; annual reports; communion and historic rolls; and record books and church registers of baptism, marriages and burials in the area. St. James United Church (Wolseley), Ellisboro, Summerberry, Poplar Grove, Weldon, Westfield Church (Wolseley), Bethany Church (Wolseley), Hurricane Hills Reserve, Carry the Kettle Reserve, Assiniboine, Adair, Red Fox, Rose Valley, Moffatt, Alexander, and Sintaluta are among the congregations and communities identified in the fonds.

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Trolling For History Volume One

A letter-sized 56-page blue coil bound book containing a collection of articles about the history and historical figures of Wolseley and the surrounding area written by Stephen Scriver.

T.E. 'Ed' Scriver

Thomas Edward Scriver (1880-1962) was dubbed "The Dean of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Editors" when he died after publishing The Wolseley News for 58 years. He was a temperance supporter and was at the founding conventions of both the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and its later namesake, the New Democratic Party (NDP)

The “Peanut”

A steam locomotive is seen pulling several train cars on a Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) ‘Spur Line’ running between Reston, Manitoba and Wolseley, Saskatchewan from 1908 to 1961. It was affectionately named “Peanut” as its whistle resembled the sound of a peanut vendor’s cart.

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