This fonds contains one scrapbook containing newspaper clippings regarding weddings, births, and death notices for several Saskatchewan municipalities. Clippings were gathered by Minnie Clemenshaw, an early pioneer to the Archydal area. Scrapbook edited by Beverly Wilson, grand-daughter-in-law of homesteader John Wilson.
This fonds contains four books that belonged to the family of George Benjamin Cubitt Sharpe.
The two Ontario Readers books were published in 1884 and 1885, and belonged to Ernest W.C. Sharpe. The methodist hymn book was likely used by Georgina Sharpe as it contains a letter sent from her. The hymn book also includes four flattened flowers, five newspaper clippings, and a weekly schedule of the the Zionist Methodist Church from 1911.
This fonds contains two copies of the first issue of the Moose Jaw Times from the scrapbook of Edward Nicholas Hopkins. The end of both copies contains an extract from an address by Edward Nicholas Hopkins to the Dairymen’s Association at Fort Qu’Appelle in March 1896 that was quoted by Percy Reid at the Canary Banquet on March 24, 1929.