The collection includes color and black and white photographs and negatives from Wesley Aikenhead's private collection. Most of the images are of Saskatoon, Melfort and Melfort's surrounding area.
Saskatchewan Teachers Federation (STF) and Western Development Museum (WDM) - sponsored Historama essay contest winners. Diane Quilichini (Biggar, Sask), Julia Hart (Beaver Dam School District) and Bonnie Coventry (Alex Wright School, Nipawin, Sask.)
The fonds consists of records generated by the Presbytery, its secretaries, committees and related bodies, in fulfillment of their responsibilities, as outlined in the Manual of the United Church of Canada.
Contents include: minutes; reports; correspondence; statistics; pastoral charge surveys; property documents; financial records; files relating to Education and Students [Committee]; and records from the Archives and Church Records Committee, Rural Life Committee, the Church Extension Committees, the Missionary and Maintenance Committee, and the Evangelism and Social Services Committee.
Clippings from the Saskatoon Phoenix describe experiences of early settlers as they arrived in Saskatoon, beginning in the 1880s. The time period covers from 1 April 1911 to 19 April 1921. Also included is an article taken from a book on the settlement of the West by F. Maclure Sclanders, Commissioner of the Saskatoon Board of Trade. Also included is a program of the "Dinner for the '83 Boys", the men who homesteaded the Saskatoon area. Held 3 October 1912; names of participants are written on the inside of the program.
A.S. Morton and G.W. Simpson pose with the executive of the Morton Historical Association in academic robes. Names of members not supplied.
Membership in the Historical Association, formed in 1917-1918, was open to any student who had taken one course in history at the University. Professor A.S. Morton fostered the society from the beginning and proved a source of inspiration in awakening and sustaining interest not only in ancient history and historical research, but also in modern problems and events. A photograph of members and a brief account of the Associations activities appears in most editions of the official yearbook or Greystone.
Executive of the Morton Historical Association. Written on back of photo are names: K.M. Benson, Jean E. Murray, Ruth Smith, P. Jordan, Jean MacKay, Beth Stewart and Jack Purves.
Bio/historical note: Membership in the Historical Association, formed in 1917-1918, was open to any student who had taken one course in history at the University. Professor A.S. Morton fostered the society from the beginning and proved a source of inspiration in awakening and sustaining interest not only in ancient history and historical research, but also in modern problems and events. A photograph of members and a brief account of the Associations activities appears in most editions of the official yearbook or Greystone.
