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Cecil Clifton (C.C.) Tannahill was born in a sod house near Liberty, Saskatchewan on December 4, 1912 to Magruder and Jessie (nee Castell) Tannahill. After completing his early education in the Liberty district, Tannahill operated a farm and automobile dealership in Liberty and played baseball with the Liberty Eagles. He married Isabel Anne Coutts, a teacher from Bulyea, on November 29, 1939. Their son, Gary Clifton, was born on March 13, 1944.

Tannahill was interested in coins from an early age, but only joined the Canadian Numismatic Association (CNA) in 1950, later becoming a life member. The Tannahills moved to Regina in 1953, where Tannahill embarked on a career as a salesperson and co-founded The Regina Coin Club, serving as its first president. Tannahill conducted numismatic research as he travelled throughout Western Canada for business purposes.

Tannahill took every opportunity to promote organized numismatic research in Saskatchewan, whether by example or through administrative service. In 1965, he published his first listing of Saskatchewan Trade Tokens through the CNA, which was updated via addendums on two separate occasions. In 1980, an authoritative version of his work was released, which was entitled An Illustrated Edition on Banking, Trade Tokens, Paper Money & Scrip used in the Territory and Province of Saskatchewan. The next year, Tannahill received the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association's highest honour, the J. Douglas Ferguson award. It is presented annually to the living numismatist who has contributed most to the science of numismatics in Canada, either through research, writing, publishing, or in any other matter.

By that point, Tannahill had been a director of the CNA for a number of years, serving as director for the prairie provinces, and then as President from 1959-1961. He was also President of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society in 1966, and he usually published under the auspices of being a Fellow of that organization. Tannahill relocated to British Columbia in the 1970s, but continued to attend numerous conventions as a Numismatic Consultant, often appearing as a speaker or adjudicating for exhibitions. Over the years, he won many awards and ribbons for his displays and work in numismatics.

Colleagues claim that Tannahill's approach, with its focus on forming context for the collections through detailed historical investigation, raised the standard for numismatic research and collecting. In 1974, the Saskatchewan Department of Culture and Youth purchased his complete collection of Saskatchewan numismatica. This consisted of over 1200 items involving trade tokens, wooden money and depression scrip, as well as the Specimen Bank Notes of the Weyburn Security Bank, one of only three known sets. Tannahill was appointed a research officer with the title “Special Advisor”, responsible for organizing and augmenting the collection, an activity he returned to Saskatchewan to pursue when he retired in 1982. This collection remains with the Western Development Museum at Saskatoon, but has been configured as a portable display so that it can travel around the province to the various museums.

Tannahill remained in Saskatchewan until 1997, when he went to stay with his son in Vernon, B.C. He died in April of 1997.

Koozma John Tarasoff was born to John and Anastasia Tarasoff on February 19, 1932, on a farm near the Doukhobor community of Pokrovka, Saskatchewan. Tarasoff's paternal grandfather Koozma participated in the historic Doukhobor "burning of firearms" in Tsarist Russia on June 29, 1895, joining the large migration of Doukhobors to Canada in 1899. His son, John, was born in Canada, and worked as first as a farmer and later as a carpenter after moving his family to Saskatoon in 1943. Anastasia, from the village of Slavanka, Azerbaidjan immigrated to Saskatchewan in 1926 and shortly after married John Tarasoff. The Tarasoffs had two sons: John (b.1928), and Koozma. As youngsters in Pokrovka, both children spoke Russian as their first language.

Interested in baseball in his youth, Tarasoff travelled to the Ozark Baseball Camp in 1952, where he was befriended by Tyrus (Ty) Cobb. Tarasoff and Cobb corresponded regularly for about three years, and Cobb arranged a professional try-out for Tarasoff.

While pursuing his studies, Tarasoff held an active role in certain Doukhobor cultural and student organizations. From 1953-1958, he was editor and publisher of a monthly, English-language Doukhobor publication, The Doukhobor Inquirer (which became The Inquirer in c. 1956.) The Inquirer was the official publication of the Union of Young Doukhobors, Saskatoon.

Tarasoff matriculated from the Saskatoon Technical Collegiate Institute in 1952. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English, Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (1957), his Master of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from the University of British Columbia (1963) and completed course work for a doctorate in Sociology at Carleton University (1974-1976).

For a period of sixteen years beginning in 1963, Tarasoff worked for various departments within the Government of Canada and the Government of Saskatchewan. He was a Socio-Economic Research Officer for the Saskatchewan Department of Welfare in Regina (1963-1967), while also doing free-lance contract work for the National Museum of Canada on various ethnological topics. He was employed as a Senior Human Resources Studies Coordinator for the Canada Department of Forestry and Rural Development, Western Region (1967-1969) and was a Senior Socio-Economic Research Officer for the Canada Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE), (1970-1976). From 1976-1979, Tarasoff was Senior Socio-Economic Research Project Manager for the Canadian Council on Rural Development.

Since 1980, Tarasoff has worked extensively as a consultant, writer, lecturer, photojournalist, conference organizer and advisor on multiculturalism and cross-cultural and international exchange. He has written books and reports on a wide variety of topics, including rural development, cross-cultural communications, multiculturalism, Canadian Indians, community studies, peace and disarmament, Soviet-West relations, museum curatorship, behavioural change, and the Doukhobors.

Tarasoff's most recent work, Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers' Strategies for Living was published in 2002. Koozma Tarasoff currently (2005) resides in Ottawa, Ontario.

The Village of Tate was an urban municipality incorporated in 1909, under the provisions of The Village Ordinance. The Village was governed by an elected council that could hire staff to manage daily administration and maintain municipal services, such as roads, utilities and recreation facilities. The responsibilities of the council included enforcing bylaws; waste collection/landfill; fire protection; maintaining public utilities, roads and streets; issuing tax and assessment notices and collecting taxes and other fees.

The Village of Tate was an agricultural-based community located on the north-east corner of Section 36, Township 28, Range 21, west of the second meridian, 13 kilometres northwest of the Village of Semans in central Saskatchewan. The Village was found near Highway 15 between highways 6 and 20 and was located within the Rural Municipality of Mount Hope No. 276. The Village was named after D'Arcy Tate, solicitor for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

The village was disorganized in 1961.

Alex Taylor was born January 24, 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. He received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1962, and a Masters of Divinity from Victoria University in Toronto in 1965. Taylor served as a member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Kerrobert - Kindersley electoral district from 1971 to 1975. During part of this time, 1972-1975, he served as the Minister of Social Services and Minister Responsible for the Public Service Commission and the Public Service Superannuation Board.

From 1965, Taylor was a United Church Minister at Zion United Church in Regina, Lang - Milestone United Church, and at Eatonia - Mantario United Church. He also served for 10 years as chaplain of HMCS Queen, retiring in 1991 with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He retired from the active ministry in 2001.

From 1978 to 1980 he chaired the Saskatchewan Worker's Compensation Board, and prepared the legislation changing compensation from pension to salary replacement. From 1980 to 1981 he chaired the Saskatchewan Task Force on Rehabilitation and the Minister's consultation on Home Care. In 2000 he was elected to the Regina Health District Board, and appointed to the new Regional Board, which became the Regina - Qu'Appelle Health Authority. In 2002 he was elected Board Chair of Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO), and served in that role until 2010. He was also Chair of Canadian Health Care Association.