MemorySask

UNIQ1.004
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Moving the Powell farm house with basement intact across the Eagle Creek bridge. This was the most difficult part of the journey.

Anglican vicarage

CH1.016
Item
1932

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Front view facing north. Date on back: July 7, 1932,

Anglican vicarage

CH1.021
Item
1932

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Vicarage of Anglican Church viewed from northeast.

Approaching Eagle Creek

UNIQ1.005
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

The Powell farm house approaching the Eagle Creek bridge.

Excavation Work

UNIQ1.011
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.

Family on ground in front of house with prairie background

AG2.010
Item
Unknown

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Small 1 1/2 storey wooden house, painted or whitewashed, wooden outbuildings. Family of one older man, man and woman, four children of which three are teens; all seated on the grass.

Farmyard and tractor

AG2.015
Item
1920

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

White frame house and large barn on Peter Ritchie farm in 1920. Tractor has a Ritchie and McDonald engine, steel wheels, smokestack.

Herman Holler homestead

AG2.011
Item
1906

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Herman Holler standing in front of wooden shack; barrels scattered, chimney pipe protruding from the roof. Prairie background. Wood branches in teepee stack in background.

House and its Moving Crew

UNIQ1.017
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

The Powell house mid-move with members of its moving crew standing around it. W. Ross Thompson moved the house.

House and Machinery #1

UNIQ1.018
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.

House and Machinery #2

UNIQ1.019
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.

House banked with bales

AG2.014
Item
Unknown

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Man in buckboard, sod barn in background. Sunflowers growing in forefront.

In the Valley

UNIQ1.003
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.

Lifting the Powell House

UNIQ1.006
Item
1971

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.