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Tree Nursery (P.F.R.A) Fonds

  • TNF
  • Fonds
  • 2010 - 2013

The fonds was donated to the museum in 2012 by staff of the Government of Canada’s Agroforestry Centre, prior to its closure in 2014. From 1901 to 2013, the nursery provided over 650 million tree and shrub seedlings and rooted cuttings (poplar and willow) to the prairie regions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, as well as the Peace River District of BC for use in farmyard, field and roadside shelterbelts for wind, snow and erosion control. It was the major single employer in Indian Head for most of its existence.
It was previously known as the Shelterbelt Centre, the Tree Nursery and the Forest Nursery Station and belonged, at times, to the Department of the Interior, the Department of Regional and Economic Expansion and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It operated under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) from 1963 to 2008 and under the Agri-Environment Service Branch (AESB) from 2008 to 2013.
The distribution of trees and shrubs for shelter was initiated by Angus MacKay, first superintendent of the Experimental Farm. Because of the rapid increase in demand by farmers, a dedicated Forest Nursery Station was created south of Indian Head.
The fonds contains historic reports, publications, correspondence and documents from 1890 to 1994. All of the items are contained in letter-sized plastic sleeves. The slides are grouped in the cabinet by subject area and by years and are all numbered and titled and indexed in two accompanying binders that are used as a finding aid. Most of the slides are technical in nature (pictures of trees and shrubs, insects, shelterbelts, etc.) but some categories include people who were, in some way, involved in the shelterbelt program.

Government of Canada

1856 Moose Jaw Schools Cadet Corps fonds

  • MJ-254
  • Fonds
  • [2002?]

This fonds contains a book on the history of the 1856 Moose Jaw Schools Cadet Corps fonds. The book is comprised of reprinted Moose Jaw Times Herald articles about the cadet corps and a large collection of printed photographs.

1856 Moose Jaw Schools Cadet Corps

Luther Roberts fonds

  • MJ-253
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1915

This fonds contains postcards addressed mainly to Luther Roberts, including from his brother Harold Roberts.

Roberts, Luther

Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

  • MJ-252
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1975

This fonds contains correspondences between the CPR and the City of Moose Jaw regarding the 4th Avenue Viaduct, white prints of the Moose Jaw CPR rail yard, and schemes of various Saskatchewan rail yards.

Ruby Wilson fonds

  • MJ-251
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1970

This fonds contains the diaries of Ruby Wilson from 1964 to 1970.

Wilson, Ruby

Moose Jaw Business Improvement District fonds

  • MJ-250
  • Fonds
  • 1986-1988

This fonds contains manuals and guides on the development of the Moose Jaw’s Downtown, as well as photograph albums and matted photographs documenting the activities of the group.

Moose Jaw Business Improvement District

Ron Petrescue fonds

  • MJ-249
  • Fonds
  • 2015

This fonds contains a copy of the film My Unexpected Career about the life and career by Ron Petrescue.

Petrescue, Ron

Mildred Russell fonds

  • MJ-248
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1977

This fonds contains a signed copy of Mildred Russell’s book, “Reflections of Life”, and a newspaper clipping of Russell meeting then Lieutenant-Governor George Porteous.

Russell, Mildred Hendrum

Saskatchewan Culture and Recreation Heritage Conservation Division Moose Jaw Site Inventory fonds

  • MJ-247
  • Fonds
  • [198-]

This fonds contains an inventory of heritage buildings in Moose Jaw completed by the Heritage Conservation Division of the Saskatchewan Culture and Recreation. Sites include those on Main Street, and northwest, northeast, central, and southern sections of Moose Jaw. Also included are sites outside of Moose Jaw.

Saskatchewan Culture and Recreation Heritage Conservation Division

Kiwanis Club of Moose Jaw fonds

  • MJ-246
  • Fonds
  • 1919-2015

This fonds contains the activities of the Kiwanis Club of Moose Jaw during its existence. The fonds is divided into 15 series: reports, minutes, membership, constitution and by-laws, administration, correspondence, distributables, activities and events, finances, ephemera, scrapbooks and news clippings, certificates, awards, and plaques, photographs, sound recordings, and artifacts.

Kiwanis Club of Moose Jaw

Elizabeth Burns fonds

  • MJ-245
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1969

This fonds contains materials pertaining to the training and graduation of Elizabeth Burns from the Moose Jaw Training School for Nurses. Such materials include a diploma, a Moose Jaw General Hospital Alumnae Association certificate, a case containing a reusable glass syringe and needles, a fountain pen with Elizabeth Burns’ name engraved, and a Moose Jaw General Hospital pin.

Burns, Elizabeth

Archibald Piper fonds

  • MJ-243
  • Fonds
  • 1916-[after 1928]

This fonds contains three photographs of Archibald Piper at three stages of his life: during training in Calgary for the First World War, as a Sergeant in A Squadron on the 13th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles (though captioned as “O.M.R.”), and as a merchant of Massey-Harris farm implements. Also included is one photograph of men delivering grain to grain elevators in Tuxford, Saskatchewan.

Piper, Archibald

King George School fonds

  • MJ-242
  • Fonds
  • 1939

This fonds contains two issues of the King George School publication “The Meteor.”

King George School

Westview School District #256 fonds

  • MJ-241
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1965

This fonds contains a minutes book of the annual meeting of the Westview School District, a book order list for the school district, a letter of correspondence to Mrs. E.J. Forrest the secretary of the Westview School District, and a list of books ordered for the school district and confirmed by the department of education.

Westview School District #256

Shepherd Family fonds

  • MJ-240
  • Fonds
  • 2009

This fonds contains an article on Dr. Gordon Shepherd from The Luther Story, a periodical published by the Luther College High School in Regina, Saskatchewan. The article, along with several books on the Shepherd family, was accumulated by Silvia Gow, daughter of William and Fanny Shepherd.

Shepherd Family

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