This collection contains one booklet containing the favourite poems of Dick Lillico. It includes 30 pages of poems selected by Lillico. The booklet is signed, “Best wishes Mrs. Boyd, Sincerely Dick”.

This fonds reflects the historical research and writing conducted by Richard Dowson. Dowson has completed extensive research on Moose Jaw during WWII. It includes writings on George William ‘Bill’ Ward, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the history of Moose Jaw residents in relation to the sinking of the Line Athenia. It also includes the history of the Moose Jaw Dam-buster Airmen, Sergeant-Pilot Kenneth Brown and Pilot Officer Robert Alexander Urquhart.

This fonds contains genealogical information regarding the descendants of Valentine Ridley and Elizabeth Butler, Robert McCartney and Sarah Broadfoot, Samuel Getty and Catherine Kinney, and John Rothwell and Elizabeth Fennell. Grant G. Ridley undertook the research and compilation of genealogical information pertaining to his ancestors. This work had originally been started by his grandmother Isabella Rathwell (née Getty). He completed his work in April 2014.

People swimming at River Park Beach in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Image of River Street looking west. Many pedestrians are walking along and across the street.

Image of River Street in Moose Jaw, SK, looking west with horse drawn carts and automobiles on the road and pedestrians on the sidewalk.

Image of River Street in Moose Jaw, SK, looking west with horse drawn carts and automobiles on the road and pedestrians on the sidewalk.

Team of nine horses pulling plow driven by three men breaking soil for road

This fonds contains a completed copy of Allan’s master’s thesis entitled A Populist in Municipal and Provincial Politics: John Wesley Corman as well as some of his research used for writing the thesis. The research papers include copies of newspapers, articles, photographs and an audiocassette pertaining to John Wesley Corman. The research papers are heavily annotated.

Exterior view of Robin Hood Flour Mills, Moose Jaw, before destruction by fire. Lethbridge Galt Coal Co. seen in foreground. Title on front: "Saskatchewan Flour Mills, Moose Jaw, Canada."

Exterior view of Robin Hood flour Mills grain elevator, built in 1911 to replace elevator that was destroyed by fire

Black and white image of the Robin Hood Mills in Moose Jaw. The complex includes a mill, a grain elevator and grains bins.

Black and white postcards of the fire that destroyed the Robin Hood flour mill in Moose Jaw on December 16, 1911.

Men and women kneeling and standing in front of and on truck and horse-drawn wagon serving as Robin Hood Mills parade float in Crescent Park. In background is seen St. Andrew's Presbyterian and Moose Jaw Public Library