A portrait of a person identified as the valedictorian of the graduating class of 1943 in Biggar, Saskatchewan

A group of children standing on the steps at the front Vanceview Rural School

A group of children standing on the steps at the front Vanceview Rural School

A group of children standing on the steps at the front Vanceview Rural School

Velma Fogelberg and June Mckenzie during Freshie Days Celebrations in Biggar, Saskatchewan

A professional portrait of Vera Hydomako inset on a page

A Professional Portrait of Veronica Buschinskyi

Studio portrait/graduation photo of Walter Tarnopolsky from the Faculty of Law, University of Saskatchewan.

Group photograph of teacher, Marie Jopp, and students at the White Beach outpost school in 1943; the students stand by the school that is a frame shanty with mud plaster, a board roof, no shingles and no chimney.

A group of Wiggins school students pose outside the schoolhouse with their musical instruments, fiddles and mandolins. Identities not known.

Three images of the funeral procession of William Hamilton, who died while working as a volunteer nurse in the temporary hospital the City had set up at Emmanuel College during the Spanish Influenza Pandemic.
Photos A, B, C: Procession on campus; Dean of Agriculture's Residence at left, Saskatchewan Hall at right.
Photos D and E show a funeral procession [held around the same time as William Hamilton's; perhaps in Eastern Canada].
Photo D: Pallbearers carry a casket down a residential street. Marchers, women and men, walk behind.
Photo E: Procession on a residential street; marchers walking away from camera. People standing at far right.

Bio/Historical Note: William George Hamilton, Pharmacy student and widower with three children, contracted the Spanish Flu and died after serving as a volunteer nurse. Hamilton died 15 November 1918, at age 39. Hamilton’s wife, Mabel Isabelle (Coxworth) Hamilton, died on 28 March 1917, age 21. They are buried at Fairmede Cemetery, Wawota, Saskatchewan.

Woodrow Lloyd School's grade four class of 1980-81 posing for a group photo. A sign at their feet reads "Woodrow Lloyd School GR 4M 1980 & 81 JK 7557"

Woodrow Lloyd School's grade six class of 1979-80 posing for a group photo. A sign at their feet reads "Woodrow Lloyd School GR 6W 1979 & 80 JK 1518"

Written in Arbos 1983: STF Memories, p. 21; "In 1909 Georgina McGill, a student at McMaster University, came west to visit her brother Jud at his farm near Stranraer. She stayed to teach for several months at Wynona school? built in 1907. Miss McGill taught fourteen students in this sodded frame schoolhouse." Georgina McGill and students outside the Wynona sod schoolhouse.