Melfort Canadian National Railway (CNR) train station at the left with grain elevators to the right. Photograph taken from the south end of Main Street looking east.
Melfort Hockey Team 1924-25. Back Row L-R: Geoff M. Browne, Jack Fretwell, Vic Beaupre, Lorne Kraeling, Perley Fennell, C.D. Walker (Coach) - Front Row L-R: Bob Devlin (trainer), Max Nelson, George Lancaster, Fred Jameson, Phil Price - Mascot is Ross Kraeling
The fonds contains one black and white photograph from Gerald Fitzgerald's personal collection. The photograph depicts the Melfort High School's h ockey team from 1930-1931. The team was the winner of the Hobberlin Cup.
The fonds contains 54 scanned black and white photographs. They were taken between the 1920's and 1950's in the Whittome District near Melfort, Saskatchewan. They include images of Prescott S.D. #3935, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, farming activities, and local families.
The collection contains 32 black and white photographs and 64 color photographs dating from 1902 to 1986. All of the photographs were taken in Melfort, Saskatchewan and surrounding areas. They include photographs of local business, locations, and citizens. As well, there are a large number of images from the ceremony that was held in 1980 in celebration of Melfort's transition from town to city.
The collection contains two scanned copies of black and white photographs owned by Ines Claggett, as well as five original black and white photographs. All photographs were originally taken between [ca. 1930] and [195-]. The photographs depict group portraits of the "Southside Circle" women's group of the Melfort United Church, young students and teachers and the Salvation Army Building, a curling team, and the former Melfort golf club house - which was originally run by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Harms.
Portrait of Thomas Clarke. Writing on face states: "For Auld Lang Syne/Thomas Clarke"
Bio/historical note: Mr. Clarke came out from England in 1877 to be a missionary in the Diocese of Saskatchewan and was sent to the Eagle Hills Reserve. He subsequently became ordained, was Principal of the Industrial School at Battleford 1883-1894, went as missionary in the Carrot River Valley in 1899 and eventually to Melfort, where he remained as Anglican minister and Rural Dean of the Prince Albert Diocese until his retirement in 1927. Source: Our Legacy website
