Showing 11 results

Completed stained glass window, created by David Johnson, inside Aylsham United Church, Aylsham, Saskatchewan.

Completed stained glass windows, created by David Johnson, inside Aylsham United Church, Aylsham, Saskatchewan.

An interview with Ben and Adele Smillie by Dennis Gruending for his book on Allan E. Blakeney called, PROMISES TO KEEP. Ben and Adele Smillie situate themselves in the NDP in the early 1960's. They begin by talking briefly about the medicare crisis and the role Woodrow Lloyd played in it. They then discuss the Waffle Manifesto and how Ben and Adele Smillie viewed it, the leadership campaign in 1970 and why they supported Don Mitchell instead of Allan Blakeney, the United Church's view on Uranium, the Smillies opinion of Blakeney and affirmative action in the government in the 1970's. Copied to ACD R-15617.

Materials used in the preparation of the local history book "The Ties That Bind: Estlin, Gray, Riceton, Bechard". Includes histories of the Gray and Riceton districts and Buck Lake settlement, place name origins, and family histories. Includes photographs relating to Gray, Saskatchewan dating from ca. 1918 to 1979 including aerial view taken by Carl Gillis, 1979; grain elevators and railway station, 1916; flood, 1916; sports day, ca. 1918; tearing down the old Grain Growers hall to build a community hall, 1945; and Ron Lewis with a curling trophy, ca. 1947. Some of the photographs were taken by Walter Greer, a storekeeper in Gray.

Records created, accumulated and used by Paul F. Groome (1896-1992) of Regina, Saskatchewan as follows: minutes of Rae Street Methodist Church, Regina, Saskatchewan, July 10, 1907 to February 20, 1912; minutes of Sixth Avenue United Church, Regina, April 6, 1936 to October 1, 1951; "minutes of the Young Men's Christian Association of Regina, Saskatchewan covering the period from 1890 to 1959" by Paul F. Groome and related source materials; Institute of Power Engineers decal; Western Canada Firemens' Association convention badge, 1908; and photographs relating mainly to Regina, Saskatchewan and its pioneers (including Harry Hourie, William Wallace Gibson, Zachary M. Hamilton, George Barr and Mrs. George Barr); electric power plants; and the activities and facilities of the YMCA, including its camps, swimming pool; Rae Street Methodist Church; Sixth Avenue United Church; St. John's United Church; Regina Boat Club regattas on Wascana Lake. Groome was employed as an engineer at the Regina Municipal Power Plant from 1929 to 1961.

Item is an image showing Llewelyn Bethel United Church (built 1910) and a cairn that also honours the Welsh settlers from Patagonia and Wales who established the Llewelyn Colony in the Bangor area of Saskatchewan during the early 1900s. The plaque on the cairn indicates that the cairn was erected by members of the Church and the J. Evans Memorial Fund Committee in co-operation with the Department of Natural Resources in 1971.

Item is an image showing the plaque on a cairn erected beside the Llewelyn Bethel United Church in the Llewelyn colony of Welsh immigrants located near Bangor, Saskatchewan. The plaque claims that the church was built in 1910, and that the cairn was erected by members of the Church and the J. Evans Memorial Fund Committee in co-operation with the Department of Natural Resources in 1971. It also indicates that the cairn was placed in honour of the Welsh pioneers from Patagonia and Wales who settled in the area in the early 1900s. The plaque depicts the Saskatchewan coat of arms in the middle of the top edge with a tiger lily blossom on each side and shows a single wheat stalk on each side that run the length of the plaque.

Volume 2, No. 29 of The New Outlook, a paper published by the United Church of Canada. Includes article ("Scarlet Riders of Yester-Years : Visits and Talks with Trooper Robert McLean") by Reverend H.A. McLeod on Robert McLean, a former member of the North-West Mounted Police who resided in the Qu'Appelle Valley.

Merger of: Presbyterian Witness; Canadian Congregationalist (Toronto, Ont.); and Christian Guardian (Toronto, Ont.), 1925.

Merged with: Christian Advance (Napanee, Ont.); United Church Record and Missionary Review (Toronto, Ont.), to become: United Church Observer (Toronto, Ont.), 1939.

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used by William A. Marjerrison of the Elrose, Saskatchewan district. The records relate mainly to Marjerrison's activities as a farmer; municipal official; member of the United Church of Canada and delegate to the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. The fonds also includes records relating to Marjerrison's interest in agriculture, freemasonry, archaeology, and local history.

The types of records included are correspondence; newsletters; permit books; financial records, including farm account books; newspaper clippings; annual reports; publications; local history books; photographs; and maps.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds. The headings assigned to the records in 1992 are as follows: Agriculture: Miscellaneous; Freemasonry; Geological Surveys and Reports; Grain Handling and Transportation; Land Assessment and Classification; Local Government; Local Histories; Marjerrison Family and Farming Operation; Prairie Regional Studies in Economic Geography; Publications: Miscellaneous; Saskatchewan Wheat Pool; Soil Surveys and Miscellaneous.