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Ruth Horlick fonds

  • MG 211
  • Fonds
  • [192?]-2000 (inclusive) ; 1937-2000 (predominant)

This fonds documents the friendships, civic and individual concerns, and personal involvement that together, help create and define a sense of community. It contains materials relating to Ruth Horlick's life, the experiences as varied as war and household that impacted upon her, and her extensive friendships. Additionally it documents her commitments to various organizations, including her work with psychiatric patients at Royal University Hospital and the McKerracher Centre, as well as her volunteer work with the Saskatoon Symphony and the Learning Disabilities Association.

Horlick, Ruth Lenore (Hood)

Loveridge Family fonds

  • MG 312
  • Fonds
  • 1821-1997 (inclusive); 1889-1961 (predominant)

This fonds consists of the diaries of Thomas L. and Albert J. Loveridge of Grenfell, Saskatchewan. These handwritten diaries discuss weather, farming and day to day family matters. The second accessions includes correspondence, genealogical information, published materials and photographs relating to the Loveridge family, others, and the area in which they lived.

Loveridge, Thomas L.

Allena Williams fonds

  • MG 514
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1843

This seems to be a complete day- by-day account of Allena Williams's life between May 26, 1840 and October 11, 1843 (Vol. 6). She was a regular churchgoer and a Sunday-School teacher. The diary notes various accounts of sermons and a service at St. Paul's for S.P.G. There are also accounts of concerts in Hanover Square Rooms, where there was music by Rossini, Schubert, and others, and Beethoven's Sonata in D. Minor finally played by Sterndale Bennette.
Furthermore, she was a studious and industrious woman who always seemed to have either a book or a needle or a pen in her hand, or to be singing or playing.

Williams, Allena

Luise Herzberg fonds

  • MG 441
  • Fonds
  • 1863-2010 (inclusive); 1939-1971 (predominant)

This fonds contains material relating to the personal and professional life of Luise Herzberg, including materials relating to her childhood and schooling; family documents; materials relating to her parents, Paul and Elsbeth Oettinger, correspondence with her sister, Lotte Thurnauer; and materials received or collected by her son Paul Herzberg. The fonds contains substantial material relating to Luise’s scientific work, including correspondence with international colleagues, and reprints of her articles.

Herzberg, Luise Hedwig

Prairie Church History collection

  • FG 11
  • Collection
  • 1873–1974

The collection consists of a range of documents relating to Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian churches and related activities in Saskatchewan and elsewhere in the prairies.

Contents include histories, articles, addresses and other papers on: Congregationalism, Methodism, Presbyterianism in Saskatchewan; missionary work and communities in Prince Albert, Carrot River, Canora, and Norway House; Sunday Schools; C.G.I.T. and Y.W.C.A. groups; ministerial associations; Doukhobors; Ukranians; the Greek Orthodox Church; and Anglican Missions.

Authors include: Rev. W.P. McHaffie (Conference Historian and Archivist to Saskatchewan Methodist Conference); John MacLean (Chief Archivist, Wesley College Library, Winnipeg); Rev. Frederick Passmore; Rev. George Daniel; Rev. W.M. Moore; Rev. E.H. Oliver; Rev. J.R. McDonald; Rev. George Arthur; Allan Bowerman, J.L. Stewart; Alfred Carter; R.H. Hamilton; John L. Nichol; Lydia Gruchy; M. Stechinshin (Yorkton); John Roberts Kovalevitch; Rev. A.J. Hunter; Rev. P.C. Crath; E. Eustace and Maxim Berezynski; Dr. A.E. Archer (Lamont, Alberta); A. Bereka; Mrs. C.H. Monro (Ethelbert, Manitoba); Rev. John Gregorash; Rev. Theo Bay; Rev. J.A. Louseley.

Reverend Joseph Holmes fonds

  • MG 584
  • Fonds
  • 1875-1967

This substantive family archive of Canadiana consists of multi-page correspondence for southern and south-central Ontario beginning in 1875 through 1929, but mostly pre-20th century, and comprises of several different threads of personal/familial writings with letters received between Saskatoon Saskatchewan, and many other locations across Canada. Along with the over 85 letters are some loose covers, an account book, one check book with stubs and perhaps another 20 pieces of ephemera.

Holmes, Joseph (Reverend)

Dr. Andrew Everett Porter Collection

  • MG 468
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1953

This collection consists primarily of correspondence, notes, clippings and photographs. It includes material of other Porter family members.

Porter, Andrew Everett

Lorne and Mildred Paul fonds

  • MG 55
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1880s-1985] ; 1912-1974 (predominant)

This fonds contains biographical material, including a Paul family history and reminiscences and anecdotes by L.C. Paul, as well as several of his articles. In addition, there is both the manuscript and published version of the History of Extension (1910-1970), and a file on the Retired Faculty Association. The addendum contains clippings and article pertaining to the history of agriculture and agricultural science in Western Canada.

Paul, Lorne Caswell

Bowley / Jones / Ward Family Collection

  • MG 552
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1880s]-1972

This collection contains records relating to the lives, family, and avocations of Louis Bowley, Mary Bowley, and Norm Jones.

Bowley, Louis

E. Priest fonds

  • MG 587
  • Fonds
  • 1881-1885

This diary spans four eventful years of Ms. Priest’s life, touching on her activities as a teacher, her wedding, holiday trips to England and Wales, and early years homesteading in Canada. Personal and philosophical thoughts are also explored within the diary. Many flowers pressed in diary.

Priest, Ellen

Ida Janet Munro (Clarke) Thompson fonds

  • MG 484
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1953 (inclusive) ; 1905-1953 (predominant)

Correspondence, accounts books, and other textual material.

Thompson, Ida Janet Munro (Clarke)

W.M. Whitelaw fonds

  • MG 38
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1943 (inclusive) ; 1900-1906 (predominant)

This collection contains material obtained by the Committee on Historical Records, established at the University in the early 1940's to obtain historical documents and reminiscences from individuals throughout the province. Although many responses are brief and contain only suggested names of people to be contacted, some replies provide detailed accounts of early settlement and community development. The fonds also contains brief family histories from a class in 1943.

Whitelaw, William Menzies (Professor of History)

Hinde Horn Wake family fonds

  • MG 604
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1998 (inclusive); 1910-1950 (predominant).

This fonds consists of records of the Joseph Hinde and Henry Wake families, members of an English Quaker community in Birmingham who immigrated to Canada in 1912. The records reflect their daily lives and the operation of the Hinde family's Valley Springs Ranch near Borden, Saskatchewan. Materials relating to the Horn family farm at Spring Valley Saskatchewan during the Depression comprise the second series of records in this fonds. The types of records included are diaries, correspondence, photographs, financial records, publications, artifacts and clippings.

Hinde, Joseph

Jason Schoonover fonds

  • MG 583
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1895-1977 (inclusive) ; 1975 (predominant)

This fonds contains materials pertaining to the writing, planning and production of Diefenbaker’s 80th Birthday Party in 1975. Specifically, it includes handwritten and typed notes, correspondence, photographs, slides, film and audio reels, and some clippings. The film includes footage gathered and created for the event (including new interviews with John and Olive Diefenbaker) as well as the finished product as presented during the birthday gala.

Schoonover, Jason

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