- UNIC1.011
- Stuk
- [1979]
The Rosetown school band performing at the UNICEF International Year of the Child Christmas pageant.
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The Rosetown school band performing at the UNICEF International Year of the Child Christmas pageant.
A group of children perform what could be a square dance in oversized dress-up clothes.
Nineteen children sing on stage in costume for the UNICEF International Year of the Child pageant.
The audience at the Rosetown Community Hall, seated to watch the UNICEF International Year of the Child Christmas Pageant.
Five women and a young boy hold picket signs demanding the installation of water and sewer on Little Flower Avenue, Sixth and Seventh Avenues West be completed, after a prolonged wait through wintertime. After a rumour spread that construction was about to cease, women protestors painted pickets. L-R: Geraldine Smith, Marguerite (Mary) Lavigne, Irene Driedger, ?, Richard Arsenault, Ruby Arsenault.
Transporting the Powell farm house across Eagle Creek. When W. Ross Thompson bought the farm home of Bill Powell (located 1 mile north of Eagle Creek) following the sale of the Powell land to the Hutterite colony, he moved it to his own farm, two miles south of town. The whole structure weighed 225 tons.
Moving the Powell farm house through the Eagle Creek valley from its original location about 8 miles north of Eagle Creek to its present position, 2.5 miles south of Rosetown.
Moving the Powell farm house with basement intact across the Eagle Creek bridge. This was the most difficult part of the journey.
The Powell farm house approaching the Eagle Creek bridge.
The Powell house raised up on blocks in preparation to move to its new location. The house was bought and moved by W. Ross Thompson in October of 1971.
The Powell house with basement intact, lifted up on blocks and ready to go on the trailer for transport. The structure weighed 225 tons and up until this point, a house with basement intact had not been moved whole before.
Getting the Powell house onto a semi trailer for transport.
The Powell house atop the semi trailer, ready to move to its new location 2.5 miles south of Rosetown. The house was moved by W. Ross Thompson, basement and all.
Moving the Powell farm house, basement and all, a feat which had never been done here before.
Some of the excavation work behind the transport of the Powell house. Unclear if this is at the old or present location of the house.