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Item · 1931-1932
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

B&W, print, captioned, of snowy residential streetscape, Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Part of a group of thirteen (13) B&W photographs, mainly 10 x 7 cm, of Grande Prairie, AB. Most are annotated on the back in the same handwriting and stamped with the words “Esch’s Prints Guaranteed Not to Fade.” See also PE000435, PE000437-447.

Item · July 27 – Aug 10, 1933
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Vol. 1, No. 1 – 3 of the Northern Saskatchewan Farmer & Labor News, published in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, which describes itself as ‘a weekly publication in sympathy with the farmer, labor and C.C.F. movement’. Contains news, articles and editorials, generally from a left-wing perspective. In addition, each issue contains a number of advertisements for local businesses, and classified advertisements.

Item · 1931-[1938?]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

The album's photographs capture the noted Anglo-Canadian conservationist Grey Owl (1888-1938) at work. Born Archibald Belaney in Hastings, England, he came to Canada in 1906, working as a trapper and guide in northern Canada for many years. Over time, Mr. Belaney became passionately committed to the preservation of Canada's wilderness and its wildlife. He also began to take on an entirely new identity as Grey Owl, the son of a Scottish father and Apache mother. Under this fictitious First-Nations persona, Mr. Belaney became a well-known author, writing several successful books on conservation that provided him considerable fame in both Canada and England. In 1931, he became a conservation officer in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. He would later take on a similar role in Prince Albert National Park, where he would remain until his death in 1938. For more information, please see the entry on Grey Owl in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (available online at http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/belaney_archibald_stansfeld_16E.html [accessed on 10 December 2018]).

The album's photographs document Grey Owl's activities in these national parks. The captions accompanying the images are listed below.
• Grey Owl watching the little beaver, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Grey Owl feeding young elk, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada
• Grey Owl feeding beaver rice, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada
• Grey Owl feeding beaver rice, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada
• Grey Owl calling and watching for beaver, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada
• Grey Owl feeding beaver rice, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada
• Grey Owl feeding whiskey jack, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Grey Owl with squirrel climbing up his side, looking for food, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Grey Owl in Indian dress, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Grey Owl in Indian dress, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Grey Owl at beaver dam, Ajawaan Lake, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Anahareo and Grey Owl, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Anahareo and Grey Owl with tourists, beaver joining in the picnic, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Grey Owl with Jelly Roll, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada

Item · 1922
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

B&W photograph printed on cardboard depicting the 1922 Prince Albert Saskatchewan Normal Class. Contains 46 individual photos of students and staff. Bottom right-hand corner attributes the photo to Cross & Voldeng. Label on the back states: "Frames to fit this picture 1.50 ea. Extra photos 1.00." Below label there is more writing, stating: "The Kiddies Photographers." A handwritten note says: "Austin Carr-my best pal. Agler-the school vamp."

Item · May 8-9, 1936
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Booklet, produced by the Moose Jaw, SK YMCA, to accompany the 1936 Boys’ and Girls’ Fair in that city. Contains events program, list of sponsors and committee members, rules and regulations for the fair in general, and contest rules for various competitions. In addition, the booklet also features a substantial number of advertisements from local businesses.

Item · June 7-8, 1928
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Program for the seventh annual Freemasonry reunion at the Moose Jaw Lodge of Perfection. It is bound in a blue/purple cover with copper-coloured lettering indicating the title of the event and the organization’s logo. The program includes details of the event and a list of members and candidates. Each page is framed by an ornate blue margin around the content.

Item · Feb. 27, 1927
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Receipt slip certifying a $10.00 donation by Ronald [last name illegible] to the Propagating Fund of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada. It states that the sender “enters the portal Moose Jaw Klan, Realm of Sask.”  The slip is signed by Scott Emery on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada. This form is printed but filled in using handwriting.

File · 1910 - 1912
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Materials relating to payment for a homestead in Swift Current, Saskatchewan; the materials are addressed to Percy L. Stubbs. The materials include:

  • An Oct, 7, 1910 payment reminder for the 3rd installment on the homestead, amounting to $64 plus interest on the outstanding amount.
  • A Dec. 27, 1912 payment receipt for $211.35 in relation to the homestead. The receipt includes the location of the homestead property.
  • A postal envelope, addressed to P. L. Stubbs, and dated Dec. 27, 1912.
Item · ca. 1920
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Small booklet made of kraft-type paper, with 29 B&W photographic prints and a typed description on each facing page. Likely originally bound with red ribbon, but sheets are now loose. Cover reads ‘E.L.C. from P.C.[?]’ Photographs cover Stony Creek, and two-car road trip through Drumheller, the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Sand Point (Idaho), Vancouver Island, Washington State and the West Coast of the United States. Scenes include landscapes, pitched tents for camping, meeting with First Nations’ couple, group portraits, etc.

Item · July 11-19, 1936
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Program titled: "Welcome Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Motorcade and Souvenir Picnic Programme, Souvenir Program, 1886 Vancouver’s Golden Jubilee 1936." Front cover contains an elaborate drawing depicting cars along a route in the prairies to Vancouver, and another drawing depicting those same cars entering Vancouver. Drawing has been done in green ink. Back cover is blank. Interior contains advertisements for various activities and services in Vancouver, a welcome address by the mayor of Vancouver, and a programme and daily schedule of events from July 11-19th.

Item · 1923
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Argues for the funding and construction of grain elevator facilities in Edmonton, which the authors suggest, will be necessary for Alberta farmers to take full advantage of a grain transport route to the Pacific, via Vancouver, then under development. Include is an annotated map of this westbound grain route.

Item · Unknown
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Poster produced by the Vancouver Sun, protesting the opposition of the Winnipeg Board of Trade to modification of existing rail shipping rates. The poster opines that the present rates unnecessarily discourage Western farmers from shipping their products through the westbound route to Vancouver.

PE001604 - Washing Gold
Item · n.d.
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Photo of a man washing gold on the North Saskatchewan near Fort Edmonton. Caption under the photo says “Washing Gold, Vancouver, British Columbia.” Write-up on gold and the gold rush on the back of photo.

Mathers, Charles Wesley
Item · 1943-1945
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Contains records of navigation and navigation instruction carried out on RCAF training flights by H.H. Grantham. Lists names of pilots instructed, locations and times of flights, with signed certifications. Grantham’s duties involved 1st and 2nd navigation and instruction, especially for night flying over German targets. Most flights took place in various parts of Manitoba.

Grantham, H. H.
Item · 1940s
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection
  • Scrapbook created by Cpl. Frankie Eglin to document his time at the Number 34 Service Flying Training School, including scrupulously captioned photographs, graduation dinner invitations and programs, and journal entries describing trips taken. Photographs feature personnel from the base in formal and leisure settings, landscapes and wildlife in the Banff area, and documentation of the 1943 Calgary Stampede, with photos of indigenous groups parading through the city on horseback.
  • 7 copies of a photo of Cpl. Eglin in uniform, and a photo of men in military uniforms, seated with awards in a bunkhouse, are inserted loosely.
Eglin, F.
Item · 1940s-1970s
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection
  • Personal photo album of R.A.F. student James Newman at the Service Flying Training School near Carberry, Manitoba. Includes photographs documenting his time at the S.F.T.S., travels in the prairies, and later life. Includes a signed 17x12cm photo of the film star Lana Turner, inscribed “To the R.A.F. students at Carberry, Sincerely, Lana Turner.” Also includes a photo of the base coat of arms for the College of Arms, inscribed “Approved George R.I.” Some photographs are captioned, and include names.

Plus 10 photos and other assorted documents in a pocket at the back:

  • 2 Christmas 1943 cards with cats flying propeller planes at the front, addressed to the Gold Coast Squadron from the Peoples of the Gold Coast Colony, Ashanti and Northern Territories, British West Africa.
  • 2 copies of a group portrait of men in military uniform
  • A small photo of some rubble seen from the water
  • 3 architectural drawings
  • A photo of a man in officer uniform shaking a woman’s hand, captioned R.M.S. Windsor Castle
  • A small photo of James Newman in military uniform and a woman standing outside a house, captioned on the back: “Donna and I outside the front door. –Jim”
Newman, James
Item · December, 1909
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Diary and scrapbook written, compiled and bound by Anna Coombs, documenting her 1909 trip from London, England, through parts of Canada and the U.S. Describes visiting Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton and Banff, among other locations. Describes her experience of the journey, including the landscape and social life in Western Canada. Anecdotes include an account of visiting a Doukhabour village (pp. 36-7), and an incident where the car that the party is travelling in catches fire and is destroyed while travelling down a straw-covered road (pp. 37-38). Latter half includes a scrap book with postcards, brochures, time-tables, railway maps, etc. glued to the pages.

Coombs, Anna
Item · October 14, 1949
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Birthday card from Louise Stewart to her husband Clayborne. Inscription reads, “Here $10.00 toward an electric razor but got you these blades to use in the meantime haha. All my love, Louise.” Card features a rhyming verse and is illustrated with cartoon animals in love.

Stewart, Louise
Item · [1940s-1950s]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Christmas card inscribed “From Marie.” Recipient not named, but presumably Clayborne or Louise Stewart, or both. Card sketches a history of Christmas carols with a lighthearted verse and cartoon illustrations of carolers from different eras.

Item · 1948
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Christmas card with letter written on it from Louise (Zenobia) Stewart’s mother in Vancouver BC. Card is signed “with Love, from Ruthi and mama Lyon (and Emil).” Letter within apologizes for not having written since moving to BC. Mentions growing slow due to age. States that Emil is staying with her, as the loggers are unable to work due to snow. A Swedish man and a young couple are also rooming with her. Mentions high unemployment in Vancouver. States that she is currently working in a café.

Item · [1940s-1950s]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Birthday card, inscribed “Love, Dolly, Trudy, Les.” Recipient not named, but presumably Clayborne or Louise Stewart. Depicts a cartoon hippo drinking beer and crying, and then doing a handstand with a “happy birthday” sign hanging off of his tail; jokes about how going “bottoms up,” i.e. drinking alcohol, will ease birthday sadness.

Item · [1940s-1950s]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

St. Patrick’s day card from Clayborne Stewart to his wife Louise. Includes a comical verse remarking on the quality of the card and wishing luck on St. Patrick’s day. Unfolds vertically and horizontally to reveal the end of the verse and the inscription which reads “Just a note on a large piece of paper. So good luck, Love, Clay.”

Stewart, Clayborne
Item · February 14, 1949
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Valentine’s Day card from Louise Stewart to her husband Clayborne. Text within reads “Gosh! I’m glad you’re mine for keeps and I can see you every day! How can I be so sure of that? Well, Honey, try and get away!” Inscribed “And that’s for D- sure. Feb 14/49. All my love, Louise.” Includes a cartoon which depicts a man with a ball and chain around his ankle being embraced by a woman.

Stewart, Louise
PE001868 - Birthday card
Item · [1940s-1950s]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Birthday card, unsigned and not addressed. Features cartoon illustrations of a chicken consoling another, and then running together from moths with nets. Text reads “Cheer up! Another birthday should be no cause to fret- We may not be spring chickens, but the moths ain’t got us yet!”