- UNIQ1.015
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- 1971
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.
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 farm house, basement and all, a feat which had never been done here before.
The Mike & Sophie Gawletz home, located on 100 block of 2nd Avenue East. October 16, 1930.
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).
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.
First United Church in Rosetown and manse. Photo by Ward Studios.
A view from the south west corner of Lion's Manor.
The Powell house raised up on blocks in preparation to move to its new location. The house was bought and moved by W. Ross Thompson in October of 1971.