- MSS_C550_2_3_19
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- July 13, 1891
This picture was taken at the third annual sports day at Duck Lake, July 13, 1891. W.B.Cameron, then at the Indian Agency is standing beside his velocipede. Also this picture is pasted on a piece of cardboard.
This picture was taken at the third annual sports day at Duck Lake, July 13, 1891. W.B.Cameron, then at the Indian Agency is standing beside his velocipede. Also this picture is pasted on a piece of cardboard.
This is a picture of Beardy's Warriors and W.R. Cameron. This picture was taken at Duck Lake, NWT on July 13, 1891.
This is a picture of the N.W.M.P. barracks.
View of Cannington Manor and mill.
This picture shows a view of Cannington Manor with the mill at right.
Bio/historical note: The Mill, planned in 1884 and built by local labour with local materials. It was of great benefit to a wide district. A gold metal was won at the Paris Exposition from local wheat ground in this mill.
This is a picture of Abraham Evans of Wawota. He was lost in a blizzard March 8, 1892. His feet and part of his nose was amputated. Mrs. Ramage, a neighbour who had asked for a life home from Moosomin perished in the storm.
This is a picture of Edward Michell Pierce who was the founder of Cannington Manor. He was born March 27, 1832. He was married in 1852. He died June 20, 1888.
This picture is of Cannington Manor Village before it was dismantled in 1914.
Image of several Galician women standing on a street in business section of Rosthern, SK. They are dressed in winter clothing.
Pioneers of Dundurn. - Group photo.
On back: "Taken at an Old Timers' picnic on John Mawson's ranch, 1913. Standing (l to r): John Blackley, Robert McCordick, W.H. Holmes a'Court, Thomas Richardson, Archie Wilson, W.S. Fisher, Russel Wilson, E.J. Woolridge, J. Hunsicker. Sitting (l to r): John Mawson, Hon. W.A. Holmes a'Court, Harry Hunsicker, Andrew Blackley, Joseph Proctor, Arthur Prime".
Vasile Avramenko's troupe of Ukrainian dancers. - Group photo.
Posed group photo of Vasile Avramenko's troupe of Ukrainian Dancers.
Four year old artists of V.Avramenko's troupe dancing Kolomeyka.
On back: Four year old artists of V. Avramenko's troupe dancing Kolomeyka".
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".
Mrs. Wasyl Bludoff at her spinning wheel, June 1925. Mrs. Bludoff died in April 1926, aged 29.
News clippings relating to early settlers in Saskatoon.
Clippings from the Saskatoon Phoenix describe experiences of early settlers as they arrived in Saskatoon, beginning in the 1880s. The time period covers from 1 April 1911 to 19 April 1921. Also included is an article taken from a book on the settlement of the West by F. Maclure Sclanders, Commissioner of the Saskatoon Board of Trade. Also included is a program of the "Dinner for the '83 Boys", the men who homesteaded the Saskatoon area. Held 3 October 1912; names of participants are written on the inside of the program.