This collection contains programs from the Moose Jaw Festival of Music and Dance. It contains some programs prior to the addition of dance to the festival, but the majority of the material is from after the dance portion of the competition was added.
This fonds consists of mementos of the 128th Battalion. It includes a programme of their performed music, a Christmas card, menus from their travels and a reunion programme.
Two images of ten-piece brass band standing in front of brick buildings with horns and drums. Original photo identification: "First band in the Moose Jaw area. Band organized by George Munroe Doan in 1885. Band members left to right: I. Jos. Cafferatta II. George Munroe Doan leader of the band III. George Shepherd IV. Chas. A. Gass V. J.R. Simmons VI. Chas. Doan VII. Jesse Doan VIII. Jack Doan IX. Wm. Doan X. Geo. Doan". Copy 1 photo identification: "Geo. Munroe Doan of Stoney Beach - Leader. Left to right: George Doan, William Doan, Jack Doan, Jesse Doan, George M. Doan (leader), J.R. Simmons, Jos. Cafferatta, Geo. Shepherd, Charlie Gass, Chas. Doan. Organized 1885."
This series contains the records created by Erlin Kaiser, accumulated by his son Jerry. Included items are biographies of his father Andrew John Kaiser, poems, stories, sheet music, draft biographies, diaries, a history on Baildon, an appointments book, and a minutes book from an organization in Baildon.
This collection consists of three scrapbooks of Moose Jaw Times Herald clippings. The clippings are all from the ‘Photo Flashback’ section and contain historical photographs of Moose Jaw and district. The scrapbooks are organized by themes: Sports clubs, music, etc; Main Street, parks, events, winters and floods of interest; and old buildings, firefighters and the C.P.R. It is unknown who compiled these scrapbooks. The ‘Photo Flashback’ section was published from 1988-1989.
This series contains programs and tickets from various events in Moose Jaw. It includes two photographs of Nurse Shepherd and Nurse Drewry (two of the first nurses in Moose Jaw), a photograph of Kay Bird in Crescent Park, as well as two photographs of the Turner & Ellis Hardware parade float. This series contains the some teaching records of Bessie M. Richards, the mother of Austin Ellis as well as TCA airplane papers that fell from the TCA airplane crash over Ross School. It also includes a chart about the first government of Saskatchewan, a prescription from Fysh Drugstore, a Zion Church Choir programme, and a Saskatchewan Music Association festival ticket.
This fonds contains photographs and memorabilia created and collected by Betty Dawn (Erb) Nicholl. It includes five photo albums containing photographs of her family, friends, and travels. Many of the photographs were taken in Moose Jaw and most of the photographs are identified. It also contains two Prairie Breezes newsletters, announcing Betty’s engagement and marriage to Wilson Nicholl as well as a Central Collegiate Institute 75th Reunion Yearbook.
This fonds contains three series: Financial Records, Memorabilia and Correspondence. It includes financial records belonging to the Ellis’, such as an account book, shares, and a land title. It contains memorabilia of family and events in Moose Jaw as well as letters sent and received by the Ellis’.
This series contains R.H. Clarke’s (Kay Ellis’ father) Bank of Hamilton account book, a VIA Air Mail envelope, a Bradstreet’s Commercial Ratings in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Yukon, three financial shares owned by the Ellis’ and R.H. Clarke, and a Moose Jaw land title in Austin Ellis’ name.