"100th Street, Tisdale 1954 - Formerly Main Street" Includes post office. Copied from Fifty Years Along the Doghide: Tisdale and District 1955, p. 12.

A train pulled into Tisdale Railway Station, several cars lined up; grain elevators in background.

Aerial view of Tisdale looking north along Main Street (right center). Aerial view at an oblique angle, a view of the farmland beyond Tisdale is also visible. Photograph taken by Don Ives. Produced by Parkland Publishing Ltd. of Tisdale.

01: View showing construction of a pre-cast concrete bridge over the Melfort Creek for Highway 6, north of Melfort. 02 to 03, 05 to 09, 13 to 32, 36: Views of the Agra Industries Ltd. vegetable oil extraction plant, located at Nipawin. The plant produced Fair Lady and Village brands of margarine, as well as rapeseed (canola) meal and oil. Included are exterior and interior views of the plant, margarine wrapping operations, and tests conducted in the quality control laboratory. 04: View showing an old bridge over the Saskatchewan River at Nipawin. 10 to 12, 33 to 35: Exterior views of the Newfield Seeds Ltd. plant, located at Nipawin. Operations at the plant included seed cleaning and dressing, and processing cereal forage and grass seed.37 to 68: Exterior and interior views of operations at the Tisdale Alfalfa Dehy Ltd. plant, located at Tisdale. Views show alfalfa being fed into dehydrating furnaces, the loading of finished dehydrated alfalfa pellets into a train car, and the inside of the chamber leading to the dehydrating furnace. 69 to 82, 84 to 99: Views of operations at the Morris Rod-Weeder Co. Ltd. plant, located at Yorkton. Views include a lathe in operation (69 to 72, 88 to 93, 95 to 96), testing a hydraulic cylinder (73 to 76, 85 to 86), paint being applied to machinery in the paint line (77 to 82, 87), and punching holes in a shank (94, 97 to 99). 83 to 84: Harvesting in the Yorkton district.

Agricultural film: (1) Scenes from the Alfalfa Dehydration Plant at Tisdale in operation. (2) Scenes of alfalfa fields including aerials.

An employee in the warehouse at the Saskatchewan Honey Co-op, Tisdale, stacking full cartons of honey which are ready for shipment to various points.

Posters for auction sales of goods owned by H. Arps in the Valparaiso, Saskatchewan district in 1926 and 1937; letter dated November 21, 1953 from Naomi Arps to Neil Harris of the Golden Jubilee Committee regarding early days in Tisdale.

Television series (excerpts): (1 & 4) Opening of the MacKay Tower in Tisdale, includes John Diefenbaker. (2) Gas prices. (3) Historic house is moved. (5) Ed Whelan on car insurance. (6) Vandalism at playground. (7) RCMP swat team training at Western Development Museum. (8) Man on the street interviews on wage and price controls.

File consists of a copy of biographical information on Keith Grant Learn of Togo, Saskatchewan, who died in 1944 while serving overseas in the Second World War.

Information compiled by Mrs. L. Learn.

Boy Scout cabin at Tisdale.