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17 RCA - Memoirs of Charles F. Watson

A 68-page (single-sided) coil-bound book containing the WWII memoirs of Charles F. Watson a Canadian soldier who was originality from Indian Head and joined Indian Head's 76th Field Battery and fought in WWII.

Charles F. Watson

Biographies collection

  • FG 20
  • Collection
  • ca.1900s–2001

The collection consists of primarily textual materials relating to various ministers and other lay people associated with the United Church, in Saskatchewan. Contents include obituaries, newspaper articles, pamphlets, programs, publications, and various other documents containing biographical information. Some are accompanied by portraits.

Memories of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Two copies of a homemade 118-page book written by Arnold Dales about his time in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII. Dales was a bomber navigator whose plane was shot down over Winterswijk, the Netherlands, on February 21, 1945. He had a broken leg and when that was mended by German medical staff, he was placed in a POW camp near the Danish border. A month later, the war had ended and he was able to return to Canada. He was a real estate agent in Indian Head, mayor of Indian Head and a key person in the creation of the Indian Head Museum.

Dales, Arnold

Sunny South School District #161 - Reminiscences and Information

A white, letter-sized envelope containing many letters. lists of names, historical summaries and chronologies relating to Sunny South SD 161. It also contains photos and negatives of the schools and students, ranging in date from 1882 to 1980. The envelope also contains some materials that related to the relocation of Jubilee School to the grounds of the Indian Head Museum. Much of the material involves and may have been written by Winnie Kerr.

Hannah, Ruth

United Church Women Saskatchewan Conference fonds

  • FW 14
  • Fonds
  • 1959–1971, 1974, 1978, 1981–2012

The fonds consists of records created by the Saskatchewan Branch of the U.C.W., its members, treasurers, circles and committees. Contents include: meeting minutes (1961-1963, 1966-1970, 1981-2012); membership rolls; lists of executives and provisional committees; annual reports; programmes; financial accounts book (1961-1970); correspondence files; histories of local U.C.W. units; and scrapbooks (1962-1970).

United Church Women (U.C.W.), Saskatchewan Conference

W. Hugh Arscott fonds

  • MG 344
  • Fonds
  • 1916-2001 (inclusive) ; 1961-1979 (predominant)

This fonds contains materials relating to Arscott's work; his involvement with the Progressive Conservative Party and later disillusionment with the mainstream parties and his activities with the Rhinoceros Party; his extended family; his war service;and reminiscences of growing up in Saskatoon, attending the University, and local and political figures. Particularly extensive is his writing: creative; satire; and memoirs.

Arscott, William Hughes, 1924-2002 (alumnus, financial planner, political commentator)

William Lunan fonds

  • SCM-RG-0080
  • Fonds
  • 1913 - 1945

The fonds, related to William Lunan, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

The memoirs of Bill Lunan begin with his family’s move to the Cantuar district in 1913, his years as a farmer, farming conditions in the region until the 1940s, Cantuar businesses and individuals, some early Swift Current information, information on the life style of homesteaders in the Cantuar district in the early 1900s. Tom Milroy, Everett Hunter, Bert McPherson, Jack Hart, Joseph Regan and boys from the Cantuar region who did not return from World War I.