- A-1941
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- [192-?]
Streetcar seen from the side; sign along outside of streetcar reads "Regina Farm Boys Camp." Members are seated inside; summer scene.
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Streetcar seen from the side; sign along outside of streetcar reads "Regina Farm Boys Camp." Members are seated inside; summer scene.
Farm Boys' Clubs - Speers Saskatchewan Grain Club
Members of the club chosen as the camp team wearing ribbons, standing in a group out of doors, building in the background.
Farm Boys' Clubs - Yorkton Camp
Unidentified table tennis player making a shot during match. Two spectators in background. Indoor scene.
[Farm Boys' Clubs] - Inter-Club Competitions
Four pigs in foreground with a semi circle of boys behind them at a swine competition. House and barn in background.
Bio/Historical Note: As early as 1913 Agriculture Societies were sponsoring organizations for the youth the "Farm Boys Club and the Farm Girls Club". The Saskatchewan Agriculture Extension Department promoted the idea of separate classes for the juveniles to exhibit and judge their produce or livestock at local fairs. The "Farm Boys and Farm Girls Clubs" were combined and the name changed to "4-H Clubs" in 1952 and the motto became, "Learn To Do By Doing".
4-H Homecraft Clubs - Interclub Competitions
Females gathered around tables in the Memorial Union Building, University of Saskatchewan, sewing during an Inter-club event.
4-H Homecraft Clubs - Provincial Interclub Competitions
Image of five competitors; location unknown.
4-H Homecraft Clubs - Interclub Competitions
Eight females standing behind two tables doing costume selection. Location unknown.
Two women in the process of flower arranging.
Five females belonging to the Milden, Saskatchewan club wearing and displaying their skirts they made.
One image of club leaders sitting and standing around Emma Ducie, who is seated at centre. Also three images of several club leaders posing informally.
Bio/Historical Note: Emma Jane Roberts Ducie was born 28 April 1883 in the Morley, Yorkshire, England. and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1907. She married Harry Ducie, a farmer and school trustee, in 1909; they had three children, Harold, Rose, and Emmie. Emma Ducie organized the Coates Homemakers' Club and continued to be an active member of the Clubs and Women's Institutes at the local, provincial, and national level. Ducie also served with the Saskatoon Council of Women, the Saskatoon Friendship Club and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Ducie was also a long-serving member of the advisory council for the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. Emma Ducie died 3 December 1990 at age 107.
Farm Girls' Clubs - Homecraft Clubs - Members
Emmie Ducie examining Homecraft Club display of sewing during her tenure as Supervisor of Girls' Work with the U of S Extension Department. Note patriotic symbols/photos on display also. This may be a display of items made for war and post-war relief work.
Bio/Historical Note: Emmie Ducie Oddie was born in 1916 in the Coates district near Dundurn, Saskatchewan. Her elementary schooling was taken in a one-room school at Coates; she was awarded the Governor-General's Medal in Grade 8. Her high school was largely by correspondence, via Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon. Oddie earned a BSc in Home Economics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1941, and her MSc from Washington State in 1943. She worked, variously, at the Extension Division of the University of Saskatchewan (1940-1942); as Home Economist for the Department of Agriculture (1943); as Nutritionist for the Toronto branch of the Red Cross (1943-1945); as Supervisor of Girls' Work, Extension Division, U of S (1945-1946); as Special Lecturer, in a joint appointment with Extension and the College of Home Economics (1969-1973); part-time at the Regina Campus/University of Regina (1973-1975); and perhaps was best known for her regular column in The Western Producer, for 50 years, beginning in 1949. Oddie was president of the Saskatchewan Home Economics Association and the Canadian Home Economics Association; served as president of the Saskatchewan Women's Institute and Federated Women's Institutes of Canada; was a member of the Saskatchewan Arts Board for 10 years and of the Saskatchewan Milk Control Board for 16 years. Emmie Oddie died 6 July 2013 in Regina at age 97
Emma Ducie and F. Hedley Auld, Deputy Minister, talking to a woman; outdoor scene.
Bio/Historical Note: Emma Roberts Ducie was born in England in 1883 and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1907. She married Harry Ducie, a farmer and school trustee, in 1909; they had three children, Harold, Rose, and Emmie. Emma Ducie organized the Coates Homemakers' Club and continued to be an active member of the Clubs and Women's Institutes at the local, provincial, and national level. Ducie also served with the Saskatoon Council of Women, the Saskatoon Friendship Club and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Ducie was also a long-serving member of the advisory council for the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. Ducie died in 1990.
Head and shoulders image of two unidentified female 4-H members wearing 4-H uniforms and berets. Location unknown.
4-H Homecraft Clubs - Interclub Competitions
Women exercising indoors during an Inter-club event. Piano player and spectators in background.
[Farm Boys' Clubs] - Class in Session
Image of a classroom setting with a group of young men sitting at small desks. Instructor stands at blackboard in background; location unknown.