Mogul tractor and Model T Ford car. Farmer beside tractor with dog up high. Water tank in foreground.

Man and woman with Mogul tractor hooked to a two-bottom breaking plow.

Gasoline tractor powered threshing machine. Model T Ford car in front. Three stook racks with horses and drivers. Grain elevator in background.

View of southwest walls of Qu'Appelle Hall, the men's residence. Note use of land in foreground for [vegetable] garden.

Bio/Historical Note: Originally known simply “Student’s Residence No. 2,” the name “Qu’Appelle Hall” was first mentioned in the minutes of the Board’s executive committee in September 1916. Designed by Brown and Vallance as a men’s residence, construction began on Qu’Appelle Hall in 1914 but was sporadic. Delays meant that some building material was subject to the war tax, an additional 5%; and over the winter of 1915 frost damaged the swimming pool, another of many unforeseen expenses. The building was finally completed in 1916, at a cost of $250,000. It included a swimming pool, with lockers purchased from the YMCA, and the dining hall was immediately put to use as a gymnasium–facilities “rendering the Physical Training, which all must take, a pleasure not a penance.” As well as student quarters, Qu’Appelle Hall was used to provide office space and a place for a museum. Normal School (Education) used the first floor; some language classes were also taught there. In 1917 part of the building was used by Emmanuel students while returned soldiers studying Engineering used their building; and in the 1930s, the COTC was quartered in the north end of the Qu’Appelle Hall basement. The building was used for classes and offices until construction of the Arts building in 1960. In the early 1960s the Board of Governors decided that “there should be accommodation on campus for at least one-third of the out of town students,” and authorized an addition to Qu’Appelle to house another 60 students–an increase of 50%. The $731,000 addition, designed by Izumi, Arnott and Sugiyama, was completed in 1963.

Tool display with "Jansen", "Shaunavon" pennants on wall in the interior of the Mechanical Car.

Bio/Historical Note: From 1914 to 1922 a Better Farming Train (BFT) toured the province providing lectures and demonstrations and presenting exhibits on matters pertaining to agriculture. Funded by the Agricultural Instruction Act, equipped jointly by the Department of Agriculture and the College of Agriculture, and staffed by the University of Saskatchewan, the BFTs were operated free of charge by the railways. Consisting of between 14 to 17 cars they toured the province for several weeks each summer. During part of one summer two trains operated. The train was divided into five sections: Livestock; Field Husbandry; Boys and Girls; Household Science; Poultry; and Farm Mechanics. A converted flat car acted as a platform for the display and demonstration of the "well-selected" horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. Each section usually contained a lecture car accompanied by one or more demonstration cars.

Group photo of the First McGill University Company; taken at McGill University.

Bio/Historical Note: This was part of the 38th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, which went overseas in 1915 to reinforce Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (P.P.C.L.I.).

Elevated view of a variety of low buildings in a field with fenced-in enclosures. Sutherland area in background.

Three incubators lined up for judging in the Livestock Pavilion.

Animals scattered around the side of the Sheep Barn and fence in background.

The sire, "The Marshall," and his offspring, "Marshall Haig," "Marshall Craigier" and "Field Marshall," in a field being held by four men with a [poultry]barn and trees in background.

"Marshalia Butterfly," offspring of "The Marshall," in a field with [J. B. Rayner]. Barn in background.

Students and faculty stand on front step of Emmanuel College (l to r): J.H. Smith, H.C.M. Grant, J. House, William Allen, William Charles Pearson, Gilbert Joseph Waite, Joseph Blackburn, Archibald Stanley Dainton, Arthur Reginald Nash, A.J. Wright, Arthur William Ashley, John H. Bryne, John Elijah Jeary, Percy C. Bays, C.R. Daniels, W.L. Hughes, J.B. Allen, Harry Berry, Louis H.C. Hopkins, professor; George Frederick Trench, principal; George William Legge.

Bio/Historical Note: Reverend George Frederick Trench was born 7 January 1881 in England. He was educated at Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. He graduated from Selwyn College at Cambridge University in with a BA (1902) and an MA (1908). Trench gained the rank of Temporary Chaplain in the Forces. He fought in the First World War between 1914 and 1919, where he was mentioned in despatches twice. He was Assistant Home Secretary to the Church Missionary Society. Trench was principal at Emmanuel College and also held the office of superintendent and rural dean. He held the office of general superintendent to the Missions to Seamen between 1931 and 1945. He was the vicar between 1945-1951 at Milland, Hampshire, England. Trench died on 23 April 1966.

Bio/Historical Note: Emmanuel College pre-dates the University of Saskatchewan by some thirty years. The College was founded at Prince Albert in 1879 by Rt. Rev. John McLean as a “training College for Native Helpers.” In 1883 by an Act of Parliament, Emmanuel College was incorporated as "The University of Saskatchewan.” When the provincial university was established in Saskatoon in 1909, the Synod decided to relinquish its title and opt for affiliation to the new university. Emmanuel sold its old site to the federal government, to be used for a penitentiary, and shipped all its belongs to Saskatoon in four boxcars. On unbroken prairie on the east side of the river, professors, students and carpenters began to construct a series of wooden buildings. This “College of Shacks” was moved between 1910 and 1912 to the campus. In 1913 Rugby Chapel, so named because it had been funded by the staff and students of Rugby School, England was moved to the campus from Prince Albert. A stone clad, permanent college building was constructed between 1911 and 1912. Designed by Brown and Vallance, the building contained residential space for students and the college Principal, classrooms and a refectory in the basement. In 1916 the College was used as a military hospital for returned soldiers and in 1918, as a hospital during the outbreak of influenza. In 1962 McLean Hall was built as an addition to Emmanuel College but a proposed walkway connecting the two was never completed. In 1964 St. Chad’s College of Regina joined Emmanuel College to form the College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, continuing as an affiliate college of the University of Saskatchewan. The college closed in 2013.

Outdoor photo of Mr. & Mrs. H. Elkington.

Dr. Fred Hart with his daughter Edith in a wagon pulled by pony "Cookie"

Letter from the University of Saskatchewan Department of Field Husbandry.