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Rosetown (Sask.) Dwellings√ With digital objects
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Powell House Lifted

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.

Paquette Pioneer Store

Sod building with a small wooden building on the right side with several people standing infront of the open door. Writing on the front of the picture "Uncle Joe Paquette first store and post office Rosetown, 1906".

Moving the Powell House

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.

McNab Place, Senior Housing

211 2nd Avenue West has 30 apartments for senior housing and was opened in 1977. It was named honoring "Bob" McNab for his long term service to the community as he was mayor of Rosetown for 20 years.

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