MemorySask

Unique to All

GPC-UNIQ1
Series
1959-1974

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Unique and interesting photos from the Rosetown area.

Trailer Time

UNIQ1.008
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Getting the Powell house onto a semi trailer for transport.

Tar paper homestead shack

AG2.012
Item
1907

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Small shack, covered with tarpaper, wooden walkway, stones along side, stovepipe, banked with dirt, pot on dirt, broom against door, towels on clothesline.

Sinking Tires

UNIQ1.012
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

The tires of the semi trailer carrying the Powell house sinking into dirt under the 225 ton weight of the house.

Rosetown General Photograph Collection

GPC
Collection
1975?- 1998

The Rosetown General Photograph Collection spans approximately ten decades of the history of Rosetown and district, consisting of photographs taken by and collected by the Rosetown Centennial Library Archives.

Ready to Move

UNIQ1.009
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.

Prairie home

AG2.009
Item
1929

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

House built in 1925 by T.E. Smith, Glamis. Picture taken by Ward's Photo Studio, March 16, 1929. Painted buildings in the background.

Ward's Photo Studio

Powell House Side View

UNIQ1.013
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Side view of the Powell house as it sits on the semi trailer ready to move.

Powell House Rear View #2

UNIQ1.016
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Rear view of the Powell house as it sits lifted ready to move.

Powell House Rear View #1

UNIQ1.015
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Rear view of the Powell house as it sits lifted ready to move.

Powell House Lifted

UNIQ1.007
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.

Powell House Front View

UNIQ1.014
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Front view of the Powell house as it sits lifted up and ready to move.

On the Move

UNIQ1.010
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Moving the Powell farm house, basement and all, a feat which had never been done here before.

Moving the Powell House

UNIQ1.002
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.