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Dick Warren fonds

  • SCM-RG-0035
  • Fonds
  • 24 April 2004

The fonds, related to the Swift Current Boys' Band, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

Folder #1 - Photographs:

  1. 26 copies of a postcard with a photo of the Swift Current Boys' Band in Memorial Park, n.d.
  2. the Air Cadet band, (back row - standing): Charles Warren, Kelly Hayward, Art Elefson, Clifford Shirriff, George Shick, Maver McKay, Ernie Moen, Bill Wilson, Jack Hudson, Ross McLeod, Jim Standen, Ed Fisher, Ross Bearman, (front row - kneeling or sitting): Wilf Siebel, Gordon Traub, Alvin Carleton (?), Wally Walker, Ken Schmidt, Bill Ford, Gerald Thorneycroft, Dick Warren, Ken Moore, Everett Lett, Barry Traub (?), Ian Phillips, Ted White
  3. members of a Swift Current band (tintype photo)
  4. postcard with an image of a band in front of a horse-drawn wagon, ca. 1930s
  5. Swift Current Boys Band, photo taken inside an H-Hut, n.d.
  6. Swift Current Boys Band, 1913
  7. Swift Current Boys Band, n.d.
  8. Swift Current Boys Band, n.d.
  9. Swift Current Boys Band, taken on the front steps of Toronto City Hall, 1952
  10. Swift Current Boys Band, n.d.
  11. Swift Current City Band, 1921
  12. Swift Current City Band, ca. 1921
  13. Swift Current City Band, ca. 1913
  14. Swift Current City Band, ca. 1912
  15. Swift Current band, ca. 1910
  16. Medicine Hat band, ca. 1912
  17. Swift Current Citizen's Band, 1906: (back row) Reid, Marlow, Dick, Moote, Benson, Clinite, (middle row) Hodges, Sykes, Maxwell, Stephenson, Talman, Jones, (front row) Smith, Furnace
  18. Swift Current Citizen's Band, 1906: (back row) Reid, Marlow, Dick, Moote, Benson, Clinite, (middle row) Hodges, Sykes, Maxwell, Stephenson, Talman, Jones, (front row) Smith, Furnace
  19. Swift Current Boys Band in a parade, Calgary, 1956

Folder #2: scrapbook, containing newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, etc. that chronicle the band's events and trips, from 1949 to 1956, including their trips to Toronto, Calgary, Moose Jaw and Lethbridge.

Photographs in scrapbook:

  1. Swift Current Boy's Band banner
  2. four members of the Swift Current Boys Band, and three young women, posing in a restaurant, perhaps taken during the band's trip to Toronto in 1952
  3. members of the Swift Current Boys Band seated at long tables in a restaurant, perhaps taken during the band's trip to Toronto in 1952
  4. several members of the Swift Current Boys Band and a few young women seated at typesetting machines, perhaps taken during a tour of a newspaper office on the band's trip to Toronto in 1952
  5. several young women who are part of the Swift Current Boys Band, perhaps taken during the band's trip to Toronto in 1952
  6. members of the Swift Current Boys Band, a young women in the front row is holding a trophy, there is a welcome sign behind the band, taken in a restaurant, perhaps taken during the band's trip to Toronto in 1952
  7. Charles Warren (on the right) and two unidentified men, perhaps taken during the Swift Current Boys Band trip to Toronto in 1952
  8. a large audience in Memorial Park

Folder #3: book made for conductor Charles Warren, contains a poem and is signed in the back by all the band members

Folder #4: Swift Current Air Cadet Band attendance record, 1944 - 1946; list of Swift Current Boys Band members, 1952

Envelope #1: address to the Kiwanis Club of Prairie Pioneers, re: the history of community bands in Swift Current, given by Charles Warren in 1984; history of the Air Cadet Band; program for Swift Current Boys Band Golden Jubilee Concert; excerpt from a written history of the Swift Current Boys Band / Junior Band (pages 8 to 13, written for a University class on Recreation in Communities), list of Junior Band activities from 1968 - 1970 and proposed activities for 1972 - 1973, newspaper clippings; photographs:

Photographs in envelope #1:

  1. Swift Current Junior Band in a Frontier Days parade, ca. 1974 - 1975 (taken and developed by Patrick Laird)
  2. Swift Current Junior Band in a Frontier Days parade, ca. 1974 - 1975 (taken and developed by Patrick Laird)

Envelope #2: booklet "Marching Along Together: The Saga of the Swift Current Boys Band", 1954 (3 copies); booklet, "The Swift: A Review of Current Events/The Magazine of No. 39 SFTS Royal Air Force, SC", 1942; photograph

Photographs in envelope #2:

  1. several adults members of a band, brass section, band and individuals are unidentified

Discrete items: photograph #31, Swift Current Boys Band in a parade in Calgary in 1956; framed document, "Mr. Charles W. Warren/A Testimonial/This scroll is presented to Mr. Charles W. Warren upon his retirement as bandmaster of the Swift Current Boys Band"

Swift Current Boys’ Band

Doctor Keene fonds

  • SCM-RG-0036
  • Fonds
  • 1954 - 1965

The fonds, related to Doctor John David Keene, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-Receipt Book, June 1964 – October 1964, copies of receipts for medical services by Dr. J. D. Keene, Dr. J. J. Fitzgerald, Dr. B. K. Sood
-Receipt Book, October 1964 – February 1965, copies of receipts for medical services by Dr. J. D. Keene, Dr. J. J. Fitzgerald, Dr. Taylor
-Receipt Book, February 1965 – May 1965, copies of receipts for medical services by Dr. J. J. Fitzgerald, Dr. Fernando, Dr. J.D. Keene, Dr. J.J. Gregory
-Ledger, 1954 – 1957 (green) for Dr. Keene, Dr. Brosnan, some receipts fastened to the back pages
-Ledger (coiled notebook), 1960 – 1964
-Ledger (coiled notebook), February 1962 – August 1964
-Farm Ledger, 1964 - 1965, tracks cattle, wages, machinery purchase, seeds, feed, fertilizer and twine, repairs, etc., from Farm Tax Service Limited
-File folders: cancelled cheques from Dr. J.D. Keene; Keene's miscellaneous receipts for supplies, (Pioneer Coop, Swift Current Animal Clinic, Thompson Auto Supplies, Revelstoke Building Supplies); Keene's truck and tractor receipts; Keene's gas and oil receipts; receipts for Keene's cattle purchases and sales; bills and receipts for Keene's light, power and telephone

Keene, Dr. John David

Drylanders' Park Prairie Settlement Museum fonds

  • SCM-RG-0037
  • Fonds
  • 1965 - 1979

The fonds, related to the Drylanders' Park Prairie Settlement Museum, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-Documents, re: Drylanders' Park, forerunner of Doc's Town
-Spiral notebook with minutes, newspaper clippings, suggestions for project, 1979
-Constitution and Bylaws, 1971; application for incorporation
-Constitution of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society
-Notifications of exploratory meeting, and notes on the meeting, April 23, 1971
-Blank survey from Saskatchewan Museums Association, 1973
-Correspondence; re: request for Charitable Status, 1972
-Swift Current Chamber of Commerce members, 1970
-Saskatchewan Museums Association, 1973
-Correspondence, re: tax return for all societies incorporated under the Societies Act, 1972
-Letter to City Commissioner M. Butterfield, from Saskatchewan Industry Department, re: funding
-Copy of The Societies Act (An Act respecting Benevolent and Other Societies)
-Draft Bylaws for writing guidance
-Copy of Act creating the Western Development Museum (WDM), 1965
-Application for incorporation of Saskatchewan Museums Association (SMA); Saskatchewan Museums Association (SMA) constitution
-Minutes of SMA Executive meeting, 1971
-Document, re: "Some Considerations In Setting Up A Saskatchewan Community Museum"
-Western Development Museum (WDM) Annual Report, 1970
-Speech, re: national cultural survey
-Correspondence, re: funding for labour in Saskatchewan Museums Association (SMA) organizations

Drylanders' Park Prairie Settlement Museum

Dunelm School District fonds

  • SCM-RG-0038
  • Fonds
  • 1929 - 1942

The fonds, related to the Dunelm School District Number 3232, were accumulated by an unknown source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:
Fonds consists of receipts for school supplies purchased by the Dunelm School District at local Swift Current businesses, such as Laycock Drug Stores, The Park Hardware, Walkinshaw's Pharmacy, the W.W. Cooper Store, Gus Riedler's Service Station, Saskatchewan Co-Operative Creamery, C.C. Young and Son, Waterman-Waterbury Mfg. Co. Ltd., The Sun Printing and Publishing Co., Rollefson's Limited Hardware; all 1929 - 1942.

Dunelm School District Number 3232

El Ehman fonds

  • SCM-RG-0039
  • Fonds
  • 11 February 2004

The fonds, related to Hoffman James Powley, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-The volume is a ledger that has been also used as a scrapbook; scrapbook contains: table of contents, clippings of movie stars, politicians, poems, "cowboy" images, newspaper clippings, some Swift Current clippings, latest date on a newspaper clipping is 1932 though most are not dated (clippings and pictures are often pasted onto pages that were originally used as a ledger, ca. 1926); after clippings end several of the remaining pages are used as a ledger, 1911 - 1915, records of interactions with businesses, local businesses, and individuals; there is a large number of blank pages, after which there is another ledger, 1909 - 1913, record of interactions with businesses, local businesses, and individuals. The records in the ledger likely pertain to the Alexandra Hotel. "This book belongs to Hofffman James Powley, Beaver Flats P.O., Saskatchewan, Canada / 15th Day of February in the year 1926 A.D./ age - 18 yrs." written inside front cover

Powley, Hoffman James

Elaine Henderson fonds

  • SCM-RG-0084
  • Fonds
  • 1971-1973

Fonds consists of three scrapbooks the donor created filled with newspaper clippings relating to the Swift Current Broncos hockey team for the 1971-72 and 1972-73 seasons.

Henderson, Elaine

Emil George Berg fonds

  • SCM-RG-0089
  • Fonds
  • 1916-[199-?]

Fonds consists of material relating to Emil George Berg, known as George, including his military career and his death. Fonds contains four series: History, Military, Correspondence, and Newspaper clippings.

Florence Noble fonds

  • SCM-RG-0040
  • Fonds
  • 1912 - 1985

The fonds, related to Florence Noble and the 8th Recce, were accumulated by the source over her lifetime. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:
.1- July 26, 1982 Reunion (Tom Noble) Newspaper Clipping
.2 - Flo Noble’s tartan hostess sash
.3- 9 page 1st orders issues July 1941 (Holding unit Canadian Armored Corps) November 12, 1977
Moose Jaw Times
.4- Clipping of November 10, 1977 Moose Jaw Armories Reunion
(Together with .3 under same label)
.5a - 4 page report of Chuck's voyage overseas (June 21 – July 4, 1941)
.5b- 1 page, report of Chuck's voyage overseas (January 5, 1944)
.6 – 9 page 1944-1974 Canadian Remembrance Days booklet
.7 – Calgary photograph, No.5 , 1966 (25.5 cm x 20.5 cm)
.8 – Tom Noble photograph (19.5 cm x 24 cm)
.9 – Calgary reunion photograph, No.11 (28 cm x 17.5 cm)
.10 – Swift Current photograph,1960 or 1963 reunion (25.5 cm x 20.5 cm)
.11a – Newspaper clipping (Moose Jaw Times) of 8th Recce parade (Tom Noble and Emil
Zimmerman), 1982
.11b – Newspaper cartoon (Tom Noble) 1912
.12 – Tom Noble and Emil Zimmerman in 8th Recce Regiment parade, photograph (21.5 cm x 24 cm)
.13 – Notes by Major Gordon Good (8th Recce veteran) from World War II; November 1983 (22 pages)
.14 – Members in Calgary, photograph (9 cm x 9 cm)
.15-.19 – Marching Soldiers and armoured tanks, photographs (9 cm x 9 cm)
[In Devon Wente envelope]
.21 – 14th Canadian Hussars information paper
.22a – 8th Recce regiment 1st annual Reunion program, November12, 1960
.25 – Newspaper Clipping of Regina Leader Post (1980’s)

Frontier Radio Club fonds

  • SCM-RG-0041
  • Fonds
  • 1975 - 1995

The fonds, related to the Frontier Radio Club, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

Series 1: Financial
Dates: 1976 - 1982
Extent: 13 cm textual records
Scope and content:
-Receipt Books: May 1976 & March 1978, September 1976 – January 1977, January 1977 – May 1977, May 1977 - February 1978, 1980 (Memberships)
-Bank Deposit Book, May 1976 – December 1980
-Cheque Book, February 1976 – June 1982
-Account Book (red): 1975 - 1980, along with Treasurer’s Report, January – September 1977
-Bank Statements (envelope #1): Western Savings and Credit Union, March – December 1976; January – December 1977; January – December 1978; January – December 1979; January 1980; January 1981; interest advance notice
-Cash: (envelope #2): $6.00 ($1 bill and change)
-Receipts (envelope #3): receipts for services and supplies, etc.
-Statements (envelope #4): 1979 Tax Returns and Financial statements

Series 2: Minutes, correspondence and other documents
Dates: 1976 - 1982
Extent: 15 cm textual records
Scope and content:
-Registration Notebook
-Minute Books: January 1976 - March 1979; January 1980 - October 1982
-Miscellaneous (envelope #5): receipt (Province of Saskatchewan); Resolution of the General Membership; Application under Societies Act; Policy and Procedure – The Plains CB Club Emergency Measures
-Correspondence (envelope #6): Saskatchewan Provincial Secretary; Runzer's Officer Equipment; The Societies Act; Swift Current Bottlers Ltd., etc.
-Application (envelope #7): application for permit to operate a Canadian general radio Service Station in the United States (from Federal Communications Commission)
-Membership (envelope #8): membership applications
-Miscellaneous (folder #:1): correspondence, re: dissolution of club, 1981; Chapter 142 of The Societies Act; correspondence, re: incorporation of club, 1977; financial statement 1980, miscellaneous correspondence, questionnaires completed by members
-Miscellaneous (folder #2): financial statement 1977 – 80; REAP Alberta; various letters; Constitution and Bylaws of the “Southwest Amateur Radio Club”; St. John Ambulance; SGI Insurance; letters from Saskatchewan Province Secretary; receipt from Kinsmen TeleMiracle; poster – Alberta 1st Annual CB Jamboree; Chapter 12 – The Societies Act
-Constitution Preparation (folder 3): "The Societies Act - Application for Incorporation", n.d.
-miscellaneous (folder #4 - brown plastic): The Saskatoon General Radio Club 11th Annual Western Canadian CB Jamboree, 1981; Insurance contract – SGI; various correspondence: newsletters, letters; blank memberships certificates; blank meeting/minutes form; duo-tang: Sask. EMO SEMAD (Saskatchewan Emergency Measures Air Division) exercise NO. 4. 1975, Swift Current, SK; folder containing miscellaneous correspondence with the City of Swift Current; folder containing various correspondence, re: crests and decals; folder containing correspondence, re: Halloween Patrol; notebook containing minutes from January to December 1975, roll call sheet, 1995, names and addresses, “Halloween Patrol” list, guest list; correspondence, re: membership questionnaire
-Red Book – Memberships 1975 – 1980
-Book – “Citizen Band Directory for Southern Saskatchewan June 1975”
-Black Book - Membership 1978 - 1979
-Booklet – Radio / telephone operator handbook, land/sea/air
-Scrapbook – certificates and letters
-Thank you card from the Bennett family, to George Hanna
-six "Frontier City CB Radio Club Swift Current Sask." badges, and three "Frontier City CB Radio Club Swift Current Sask." buttons

Frontier Radio Club

George Schofield fonds

  • SCM-RG-0042
  • Fonds
  • 1936 - 1937

The fonds, related to George Schofield, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-A list of plays suitable for production by the CCYM Saskatchewan section; "Repertory Bulletin/Theatre of Action", a catalogue of short plays with leftist themes; handwritten speech on Socialism, supporting the Liberal party; letter to the Bureau of Labor and Public Welfare inquiring about payment for two workers, Fay Dudley and Lloyd Schneider; financial report for C.C.F. Saskatchewan; letter to all members of the Saskatchewan Commonwealth Youth Movement; registration for form of organizations for the CCFYM; speech written on stationary from Jeffries's Drug Store in Regina, SK about the CCF cause, author unknown; letter to George Schofield from H.F. Hughes, re: joining a CCF committee and the danger of Communist factions; letter to George Schofield from H.F. Hughes, Activity Secretary, 1937; document on how to organize a Cooperative Youth Movement Unit; handwritten documents bearing local announcements, including J.S. Woodsworth speaking at the Lyric Theatre in Swift Current, SK; open letter to all farmers in the Drouth [Drought] area, from George Schofield, secretary of the Drouth [Drought] Conference Coordinating Committee, 1937; letter from the Bureau of Labour and Public Welfare to all Municipal Secretaries, re: General Instructions and Regulations, Municipal Direct Relief Administration, 1936-1937; C.C.F. Saskatchewan section Directive Board meeting agenda, 1936 (2 copies); correspondence between George Schofield and F. Eliason of United Farmers of Canada, re: a meeting held by the U.F.C. whereat members of the D.C.C.C. (Drouth Conference Co-ordinating Committee) were not invited; documents entitled "How To Form a Lodge of the United Farmers of Canada" and an "Organizer's Report Form"

Helen Wittenberg fonds

  • SCM-RG-0043
  • Fonds
  • 20 July 2004

The fonds, related to the Agatha Schellenberg, was acquired by the source during its lifetime. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

Volume #1 (formerly 2004.33.5): textbook on midwifery written in German, one page of handwritten notes at the beginning, poor condition

Volume #2 (formerly 2004.33.6): black notebook, filled with handwritten pages and printed inserts, written in German, poor condition

Volume #3 (formerly 2004.33.12): orange notebook with lined pages, record or births from August 16, 1923 to December 1944 (not comprehensive)

Folder #1 (formerly 2004.33.10 & 11): nine handwritten pages of records of birth from ca. 1923 to 1944, written in German; 3 photocopies pages of letters written in German

Photos:
1 (formerly 2004.33.7). framed photo of Agatha Schellenberg with her family
2 (formerly 2004.33.8). framed photo of a woman, caption reads "Agatha Schellenberg // May 22. 1889...June 18.1967"
3 (formerly 2004.33.9). framed photo of a house, caption reads "Schellenberg home Blumenort Sask March 1924..1947"

Schellenberg, Agatha

Henderson Brothers Hardware fonds

  • SCM-RG-0044
  • Fonds
  • 1918 - 1919

The fonds, related to the Henderson Brothers Hardware, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

A.2005.4 (Henderson Brothers Hardware)
-receipts from Henderson Bros. Hardware, Harness, Plymouth Twine, in Webb, SK, from 1918 to 1919.

Henderson Brothers Hardware

Herb Butz fonds

  • SCM-RG-0007
  • Fonds
  • ? - 2003-10-14

The fonds, related to James Borthwick and the Elmwood Golf and Country Club, was accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

Borthwick, Jim

Hovdestad family fonds

  • SCM-RG-0045
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1920s - 1930s

The fonds, related to the Hovdestad family, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-10 cards addressed to Louise Hovdestad ( Colleen Eliason, donor's mother)
-3 cards addresses to a father from his children (Lois, Orlando, Stanley, Dennis and Elmer)
-a letter from Francis in Saskatoon, SK to Sydney Olson (Colleen Eliason, donor's father?) in Stewart Valley, SK
-three black notebooks (the notebooks contain prose and poems in English and Norwegian)

Hovdestad (family)

Hugh Henry fonds

  • SCM-RG-0009
  • Fonds
  • ? - 2002-04-08

The fonds, related to the Shortgrass Writers Guild, the Southwest Saskatchewan Writers Project, the Swift Current Film Society, and the Swift Current Social Justice Coordinating Committee were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described.

Southwest Saskatchewan Writers Project

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