- UNIQ1.008
- Item
- 1971
Getting the Powell house onto a semi trailer for transport.
Getting the Powell house onto a semi trailer for transport.
Small shack, covered with tarpaper, wooden walkway, stones along side, stovepipe, banked with dirt, pot on dirt, broom against door, towels on clothesline.
The tires of the semi trailer carrying the Powell house sinking into dirt under the 225 ton weight of the house.
The Powell house atop the semi trailer, ready to move to its new location 2.5 miles south of Rosetown. The house was moved by W. Ross Thompson, basement and all.
House built in 1925 by T.E. Smith, Glamis. Picture taken by Ward's Photo Studio, March 16, 1929. Painted buildings in the background.
Ward's Photo Studio
Side view of the Powell house as it sits on the semi trailer ready to move.
Rear view of the Powell house as it sits lifted ready to move.
Rear view of the Powell house as it sits lifted ready to move.
The Powell house with basement intact, lifted up on blocks and ready to go on the trailer for transport. The structure weighed 225 tons and up until this point, a house with basement intact had not been moved whole before.
Front view of the Powell house as it sits lifted up and ready to move.
Moving the Powell farm house, basement and all, a feat which had never been done here before.
Transporting the Powell farm house across Eagle Creek. When W. Ross Thompson bought the farm home of Bill Powell (located 1 mile north of Eagle Creek) following the sale of the Powell land to the Hutterite colony, he moved it to his own farm, two miles south of town. The whole structure weighed 225 tons.
Three teams of horses hitched to a small frame house preparing to drag it on snow. Three men are holding the reins. Dog in front.
Several unidentified children sit on a Model T Ford truck parked in front of an old frame house (shack).
First United Church in Rosetown and manse. Photo by Ward Studios.