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Mrs. Wasyl Bludoff of Langham in national Doukhobor costume running her 60 year old spinning wheel which was brought from Russia at a demonstration put on by the Saskatoon Arts and Crafts Society at the U of S June 1925. Sask grown flax is being spun. The comb holding the fibre is wooden tooth; an iron tooth comb as is used for wool is not satisfactory with flax. The folk behind are watching the loom in operation.
Doukhobor woman at spinning wheel.
Note on back of photo: "Mrs. Wasyl Bludoff at her spinning wheel, June 1925. Mrs. Bludoff died in April 1926, aged 29".
Doukhobor woman at spinning wheel
Doukhobor women drawing a plough.
Image of group of Doukhobor women drawing a plough. A man guides the plough.
Doukhobor women in field harvesting grain by hand.
The fonds consists of records by and relating to E.H. Oliver, his travels in Saskatchewan and his teaching at St. Andrew’s College, his experiences in the First World War and involvement with educational programs for the soldiers (through the University of Vimy Ridge and Khaki University), his postwar work as Principal of St. Andrew’s College and later Moderator of the United Church, and his research and publications.
Contents include: correspondence (1911-1916); diary of trips to the Doukhobor area around Veregin (1915), the Cote Reserve, and to the Ruthenians of Kamsack and Canora; military publications and wartime memorabilia; materials related to the University of Vimy Ridge (1917-1918) and Khaki University (1917-1919); Oliver’s postwar correspondence (1920-1935), as he resumed his duties as Principal of St. Andrew’s College; and various historical and research publications and manuscripts, on topics such as Church Union, education, Saskatchewan history and settlement. There is also a collection of material pertaining to the drought situation on the prairies and the United Church response (1930-1932), at which time Oliver was serving as Moderator.
The collection also includes letters and tributes to E.H. Oliver, from after his death (1935-1936).
Oliver, Edmund Henry
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Farm buildings in Theodore District, [SK].
Image showing farm buildings in the Theodore, [SK] district.
Four year old artists of V.Avramenko's troupe dancing Kolomeyka.
On back: Four year old artists of V. Avramenko's troupe dancing Kolomeyka".
This is a photograph of a man in Ukrainian Dress, seated in a chair with his right arm resting on table.
Materials collected by Dr. Nichol
Material apparently collected by Dr. Nicol, Superintendent of Home Missions, United Church of Canada, 1929-1946:
Mrs. Wasyl Bludoff at spinning wheel.
On back of photo: "Mrs. Bludoff Sr. of Veregin at her loom, weaving Sask. grown flax. The loom was brought from Russia about 25 or 26 years before. It is all handmade and crude. Hanging on the wall are a strip of plaid woollen homespun made of black sheep and white sheep wool, sent a strip of wool homespun on cotton warp to be dyed for a men's suit and next are two trips of linen. All these were woven by Mrs. Bludoff". Mrs. Kosemo Tarasoff observing.
Pupils of Vasile Avramenko's School of Ukrainian National Dance
At bottom; "Pupils of Vasile Avramenko's School of Ukrainian National Dances, Toronto, Canada, in the dance, Meteliza", 1926".
Three Ukrainian children. - Portrait.
Posed image of three children dressed in Ukrainian National dress. On back: "Ukrainian girls/photo by Wride/Kamsack".
Three young Ukrainian women. - Portrait
Posed image of three young Ukrainian women dressed in the Ukrainian National dress. On back of photo: "Ukrainian Group/photo by Wride/Kamsack Sask.".
On back of photo: "Mrs. Bludoff Sr. and Mrs. Wasyl Bludoff stringing the warp in the loom previous to the demonstration. It took the two of them almost a day to do this and the warp skein of 5 yards length had been prepared before then came. Herring-bone pattern was woven in the linen. Four treadles were used".