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Smith, Christian

  • R-398
  • File
  • 1870-1973

Includes speeches, articles, radio addresses, notes, press clippings and pamphlets relating chiefly to developments in health services in Saskatchewan and in other areas of the world, and to other aspects of Saskatchewan's history.

Christian Smith (1900-1977) was a journalist and a civil servant.

File nos. 7 and 8 contain articles by and biographical information concerning Dr. Robert George Ferguson. File number 9 includes the experiences of the Smith family in Manitoba and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. File number 9 includes a series of articles on the psychiatric hospital in Battleford published in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix in October 1937. File 9 also includes a biographical sketch of R.D. Roberts. File 5 includes an article on Leask, Saskatchewan by Mrs. A. Webb. File 9 relates to the experiences of the Smith family, a Dutch family, in Manitoba and Saskatoon. File no. 3 includes a biographical sketch of Henry Joseph Schmitt. File 7 includes a biographical sketch of Maurice MacDonald Seymour. File no. 5 includes an article on Skipton Post Office by Mrs. A. Webb. File 7 includes an article by Reginald Oliver Davison on the history of public health in Saskatchewan reprinted from The Canadian Public Health Journal, December 1935. File no. 8 includes biographical information on James Walter McNeill.

Records of the Bray family

  • TR-344
  • File
  • 1889?-1996

Original and photocopied records relating to Thomas Harold Bray (1857-1939) and Sarah (Strouther) Bray (1858-1952) and family. Thomas, Sarah and their son, Thomas Harold, emigrated to Canada from England in 1889 and homesteaded in the McLean, Saskatchewan district. Records include genealogical information; a local history compiled by Thomas Harold Bray of McLean, Saskatchewan entitled Of Years Gone By; an original handwritten volume entitled Bray Family Record with geneaological information dating up to 1975; a typewritten document entitled The Life and Times of R-107890, compiled by Clifford Bray in 1993 relating to his military service in World War II; photocopies of Thomas Bray's homestead record and other records relating to his farming operations; and reminiscences of Muriel (Bray) Prior; Ruby (Duesterbeck) Bray; Irene (Bray) Stirton; and Norman Bray. Information on Starr's Point School No. 357 is included.

Also included are photographs of the Bray family homestead; a portrait of Thomas Harold Bray and Horace Bray; a group of unidentified people standing outside of Bethel United Church, 1940?; gatherings of women; and students and teacher of Starr's Point School, 1897.

Various records

  • Micro. R-2.50
  • File
  • 1894-1951

Document compiled by Arborfield Homemakers' Club and Arborfield Rural Municipality No. 456 containing a brief history of the Rural Municipality of Arborfield No. 456 and an honour roll from 1939 to 1945 with biographical information and photographs of servicemen. Published by The Tisdale Recorder, 1946.

Minute book of Wide Awake Epworth League dating from 1903 to 1911.

Illustrated Souvenir of Craik, Saskatchewan. 16 p.

Document entitled Chronicles of Craik Churches, compiled by G. Watt Smith. 1931. 15 p.

Records of Wolseley Electoral District Farmers' Institute consisting of minutes of the annual meeting on July 9, 1894; a financial statement dated June 30, 1894; and an annual report, 1893-94.

Records of the Wolseley Mechanics and Literary Institute consisting of a minute book and financial statements, 1894 to February 26, 1907.

Records relating to the United Church in Gray, Saskatchewan loaned for microfilming by T.E. Helstrom of Gray on January 22, 1958. Records consist of minute book [Bratt Lake circuit of Methodist church from November 12, 1906; Wilcox circuit, August 17, 1907 to February 11, 1913; Riceton circuit, May 1914 to October 30, 1922?; Gray Church, November 20, 1922 to 1951]. 199 p.

Items removed from the cornerstone of the Methodist Church in Indian Head, Saskatchewan and microfilmed in February 1957 including part of a letter listing members of quarterly official board, May 1898; historical sketches of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, the Methodist church, and the United church, compiled by R.J. McDonald, with addition by Carl Pearen; minutes of the Manitoba and North-West conference of the Methodist church, 1897; copies of The Prairie Witness, May 15, 1898, the Christian Guardian, May 18, 1898; The Vidette, May 25, 1898; Winnipeg Daily Tribune, May 25, 1898; and Manitoba Free Press, May 20, 1898.

Arthur F. Best fonds

  • F 296
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1968

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used by former Saskatchewan resident Arthur F. Best (also known as Arthur F. Brown). The records relate mainly to Best's activities as a homesteader; a commissioner for oaths; a member of various organizations in Ontario; and an inspector during World Wars I and II.

The types of records included are an address book; correspondence; certificates; membership cards; gasoline ration books; newspaper clippings; postcards written by Best to his wife and family; and photographs mainly of Arthur, Elma and Lorena Best and the communities of Saskatoon, Weyburn, Yellow Grass, Radville, Jansen and Truax in the early 1900s.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.

Best, Arthur Frank, 1886-[after 1968]

Biog. - Tyacke, John Wesley

  • Clippings File - Biog. - Tyacke, John Wesley
  • Item
  • 19--

Brief biographical information on John Wesley Tyacke, who died while serving in World War II. Creator of document and date of creation unknown.

Rayner, Halkyard family fonds

  • F 700
  • Fonds
  • [190-?]-1984 (predominant: 1942-1949)

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used primarily by George Rayner of Carievale, Saskatchewan and Jessie Halkyard (later Rayner) of Carnduff, Saskatchewan. The fonds includes correspondence written between Rayner and Halkyard during their courtship and engagement (1942-1949), military records belonging to Rayner during his service in the Second World War, and correspondence and other records accumulated during the Rayners' married life. It also includes records of members of the Halkyard and Rayner families. Subject matter of the photographs includes: portraits, likely of members of the Rayner and Halkyard families; a railway bridge at Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, prairie landscape with a townsite in the distance; an industrial site; a parade; the Calgary Zoo; and the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool head office in Regina, Saskatchewan and its surrounding businesses.

No sub-series have been identified in this fonds.

The types of records included are: correspondence; military records; financial records; greeting cards, prose, poetry and cartoons; photographs; personal documents; and an obituary.

Rayner, George Albert, 1919-1968

MILITARY PARADE IN REGINA

  • FILM R-2575
  • Item
  • 19--

Amateur film report: (1) Members of the Royal Canadian Armed Forces parade in Regina. DO NOT PROJECT - 1.4% SHRINKAGE !!!!

Biog. - Riecke, Harry Carl

  • Clippings File - Biog. - Riecke, Harry Carl
  • Item
  • 19--

Copy of article entitled Weyburn Man Member of Torpedoed St. Croix Crew containing information on Harry Carl Riecke of Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Source and date unknown.

Art Zimmerman fonds

  • F 27
  • Fonds
  • 1901-1994

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used by former Saskatchewan resident Art Zimmerman. The records relate mainly to Zimmerman's interests in farming, aircraft technology, steam machinery, gas engines, radio technology, water witching and electricity.

The types of records included are clippings, reminiscences, correspondence, publications, posters, an atlas, and photographs.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.

Zimmerman, Arthur Martin, 1886-1979

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