This fonds contains the book titled History of Our Living Elders and 99 cassette tapes of the interviews

This collection consists of 52 funeral cards from the estate of the Hodgson brothers, David and Gordon. The cards from the funerals of family and friends of the brothers, may contain birth and death dates, a listing of hymns performed at the funeral, names of pallbearers, surviving family members, and some biographical information about the deceased. Some include an image. The collection contains cards for the following people: Barber, Gilbert (d. Aug. 28, 1991); Batty, Elizabeth (d. May 15, 1986); Bootsman, George Frederick (d. Oct. 26, 1991); Bootsman, Johan (d. Feb. 25, 1992); Bott, Henry Percy (d. Oct. 9, 1974); Boyer, Alferd (d. Aug. 21, 1974); Brandvold, Martin Alfred (d. July 21, 1975); Buzuk, Wiliam (d. Apr. 9, 1992); Cowe, James (d. May 9, 1974); Christie, Nora (d. Apr. 1, 1992); Davidson, Gerald Graham (d. Oct. 25, 1983); Davidson, Lorne (d .Nov. 7, 1983); Davies, Ethel (d. Dec. 13, 1980); Deaville, Harold (d. Apr. 22, 1988); Earl, John Douglas (d. June 16, 1994); Earl, Robert Arthur (d. June 16, 1994); Evans, Lindsay Albert (d. Feb. 7, 1976); Ferster, Helen Margaret (d. Dec. 29,1988); Flint, Frank, Jr. (d. July 28, 1990); Green, Margaret Vivian (d. Apr. 27, 1991); Gower, Floyd Walter (d. Feb. 6, 1992); Hanson, William Alfred (d. Apr. 21, 1968); Hodgson, David Louis (d. Aug. 22, 1993); Jack, Alferd Stanley (d. Mar. 15, 1985); Jack, David Ernest (d. Dec. 20, 1986); Johansson, John (d. Dec. 10, 1989); Johnson, Elsie Elizabeth (d. Apr. 16, 1970); King, Leonard (d. July 11, 1983); Mackay, Harland Ward (d. Oct. 16, 1986); Mackay, John (d. Oct. 30, 1983); Mackay, Vernon Bruce (d. July 8, 1990); Miller, Alexander (d. Nov. 2, 1987); Noonan, Marion (d. Feb. 3, 1980); Parsons, Robert George (d. Aug. 19, 1985); Purser, Irene Miller (d. July 31, 1990); O'Neill, Edna Fern (d. Dec. 22, 1990); Owen, Paul (d. Oct. 29, 1990); Radcliffe, Kenneth Ross Frederick (d. June 29, 1991); Randall, Wayne (d. Feb. 1, 1984); Ronnpage, Helga Margrethe (d. Apr. 24, 1992); Ronnpage, John (d. Nov. 27, 1988); Rue, Wallace Melford (d. Aug. 5, 1979); Saunders, Colleen Fay (d. July 10, 1980); Seward, Frank Oliver (d. June 21, 1991); Sholdice, Murtle Eileen (d. June 30, 1991); Shook, Grace Norma (d. May 18, 1989); Shook, Neil Gordon (d. June 19, 1994); Slack, James Elmer (d. Aug. 18, 1991) Stone, James Dwight (d. Apr. 14, 1978); Tattersall, John Waler (d. Aug. 1, 1991); Welsh, Stanley (d. June 14, 1968); Williams, Bryn (d. May 3, 1984); Wilkinson, Albert William (d. Oct. 8, 1979).

This fonds contains photographs of the Hoffman's Circus members traveling in Alberta, Saskatchewan and North Dakota, as well as advertising material

The fonds contains 23 black and white photographs, 21 black and white negatives, and 1 photocopy of a photograph from Charles Hillary Hopkins' private collection. The majority of the photographs were reprinted in 1996, but the original copies of these photographs date from the 1930's to 1959. The photographs were taken in Melfort, Saskatchewan and surrounding areas including the Stoney Creek and Whittome districts. They include images of Melfort High School (Melfort Collegiate Institute)students and staff, Broadway School students, snow plowing, and a flood.

This fonds contains materials relating to Beach’s academic career and interests in psychology, human behaviour, and counseling; as well as material relating to World War II, conflict in general, and behaviour under various forms of stress.

Minutes of meetings, programs of annual shows and other correspondence and records

The fonds, related to the Hovdestad family, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-10 cards addressed to Louise Hovdestad ( Colleen Eliason, donor's mother)
-3 cards addresses to a father from his children (Lois, Orlando, Stanley, Dennis and Elmer)
-a letter from Francis in Saskatoon, SK to Sydney Olson (Colleen Eliason, donor's father?) in Stewart Valley, SK
-three black notebooks (the notebooks contain prose and poems in English and Norwegian)

This collection contains scrapbooks with photos and textual material.

Fonds consists of personal papers created by Dr. Howard Leyton-Brown. Included are reports, notes, correspondence, meeting materials, minutes, list of artist and compositions, programs, and other records reflecting his various musical involvements locally, provincially, and nationally. The bulk of the records pertain to Dr. Leyton-Brown's activities as a member and director of the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Dating from 1966-1972, this series includes job applications, briefs, reports, committee files, correspondence, grant applications, information bulletins, minutes and agendas of Board meetings, monthly operations reports, clippings, and press releases. His participation with the Canada Council is also documented in a series of files containing reports, meeting materials, notes, and correspondence, 1971-1974. The remainder of the fonds is arranged by the organization or institution with which Dr. Leyton-Brown was associated, and includes the Canadian Association of University Schools of Music (1967); the Conservatory of Music, University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (1962-1966); the Regina Council of the Arts (1970); the Regina Orchestral Society (1963-1964); and the Regina Symphony Orchestra (1963-1964; 1973).

This fonds consists of correspondence, reports, articles, addresses, minutes, course material and notes relating to H.R. Baker’s career and research. There is considerable material regarding the development and delivery of extension programs and adult education in Saskatchewan. Much of the material deals rural and community planning and coping with changing social and economic conditions. This fonds is supplementary and complementary to the official records of the Extension Division.

One photograph album containing photographs taken by a Canadian soldier between 1917 and 1919.

The fonds, related to the Shortgrass Writers Guild, the Southwest Saskatchewan Writers Project, the Swift Current Film Society, and the Swift Current Social Justice Coordinating Committee were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described.

The fonds consists of records created and collected by Rev. MacDonald, from his time as an ordained minister, in Saskatchewan. Contents include: sermons (1966-1967); photocopied newspaper obituaries (1986); and a copy of “Prayers of Edmund Oliver” (no date).

This fonds contains six albums titled Memory Books 1965-1992 that contain newspaper clippings, letters, photographs and commentary of the group's activities. This fonds also contains a book titled History of Saskatchewan 4-H 1917-1977 and examples various activity booklets pertaining to light horses, interior design and ecology