Kiwanis Club of Swift Current fonds
The fonds, related to the Kiwanis Club of Swift Current, 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.
Kiwanis Club of Swift Current
The fonds, related to the Kulture Club, 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:
-notepad, 1946-53, (contains book list, attendance, ledger);
-notepad, 1953 - 1959, (contains membership list, financial statement, book list, minutes);
-notepad, 1960 - 1966, (contains minutes, attendance, membership);
-notepad, 1967-86, (contains membership, minutes; newspaper clippings from February 13, 1995, re: history of club);
-10 photocopies of invitation, re. 40th Anniversary, 1986;
-5 color photo negative strips, (17 images);
-57 photographs (see below)
Kulture Club
Fonds consists of black-and-white and colour photocopies of Lawrence Hugh McTaggart's military documents, including two of his Canadian Army Soldier's Pay Books, handwritten information about McTaggart by his wife, and two photographs taken of photographs of McTaggart.
The fonds, related to the Belvidere Rural Telephone Company Limited and the Rural Municipality of Swift Current Number 137, 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.
Belvidere Rural Telephone Company Limited
File consists of newspaper clippings and other pages relating to the 8th Recce Regiment and the Royal Canadian Legion in Swift Current. Also includes lists of those in the regiment who died and where they are buried as well as honours received by the 14th Canadian Hussars and other textual records.
The fonds, related to Lavinia Bishop (nee Brown), 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:
-October 30, 1899, from Gleich, AB to Assiniboia, SK, from her Father William Brown
-note dated March 25, 1885, to Lavinia
-empty envelope that reads "A letter written to my dear Grandma at the age of seven years by myself"
-envelope that reads "Relics of By-gone Days", containing small cards that often read "Jesse Bishop" and "Lavinia A. Brown" and "David A. Brown", a Christmas card sent from the front during World War I, from Austine C. Brown to the Brown family.
-two letters in an envelope, June 6, 1881 and May 11, 1882
-letter from Balhagerty, September 4, 1876, to "Gran"
-Christmas card, to Bishop family, from Austine
-note written by Lavinia Bishop, reference to a bag and a Sunday School class
-envelope with "Photos of Interest", photos of Lavinia's family and other people she remembered
-envelope reads "A cherished remembrance of the late Countess of Rothes who died February 10, 1886", a newspaper and a printed and handwritten prayer
-envelope reads "Letters of sympathy written by the late Countess of Rothes (Henrietta Anderson Morshead Leslie, 17th Countess of Rothes [1832-1886]) to our Father and Mother on the deaths of our Grandma & baby Brother"
-envelope reads "Letters of Business written by the late Countess of Rothes & her mother the late Dowager to my father Wm Brown"
Bishop, Lavinia
File consists of letters relating to the regimental history in reply to Maj. Booker's letter requesting information.
Letters received - History of 8th Recce Regt.
File consists of letters received about the regimental history, lists regarding correspondence about the regimental history, three photographs, and other textual records.
Part of Margaret Wright fonds
The fonds, related to Louise Rosenbury, 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:
Valentines Day cards (2); Christmas Program (North View 1931); handwritten songbook; music notation notebook; music and algebra exercise book; geography exercise book; health education exercise book; agriculture exercise book (2); physiology exercise book; arithmetic exercise books (10); economics exercise book; domestic science exercise book; geography exercise book / misc. notebook; physiology and agriculture exercise book; Julius Caesar exercise book; French exercise book (2); Literature exercise book; Current Events scrapbook; Canadian History / French exercise book.
Rosenbury, Louise
File contains a record entitled "1944-1974 Canadian Remembrance Days: The Struggle for Louvigny July 18th-19th" and a copy as well as a program about a visit to Louvigny for the 50th anniversary.
The fonds, related to the Swift Current Lioness Club, 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:
-two photographs of past presidents and five pages of handwritten notes relating to the Swift Current Lioness Club
Swift Current Lioness Club
The fonds, related to Louise Rosenbury and the Wright Museum, 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.
Rosenbury, Louise
The fonds, related to the Beta Sigma Phi, Swift Current Chapter and Ted Michie, was 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.
Beta Sigma Phi, Swift Current
Matador Land and Cattle Company fonds
The fonds, related to the Matador Land and Cattle Company, 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:
-receipt for feed from J.Y. Doonan & Son Livery, Feed & Sale Stable, 1903 (1993.6.1)
-receipt for building supplies, from W & R Marlow, 1905 (1993.6.2)
-receipts for general supplies, from Chas. Reid General Merchant, 1906 (1993.6.3 - 4)
-receipts from International Lumber & Implement Co., 1908 (1993.6.5 and 1993.6.14)
-correspondence, from the management of the Matador Land and Cattle Company in Trinidad, Colorado, to D. Somerville of the Matador Ranch in Swift Current (1993.6.6a-b)
-correspondence from the Argue & Cooper Store to D. Somerville of the Matador Ranch, 1908 (1993.6.7)
-transportation bill from the Canadian Pacific Railway, Waldeck Station, 1913
-correspondence, from the P. Burns & Company Ltd. Packers, Exporters, and Provisioners, to Matador Cattle Co. of Waldeck, re: purchased fall cattle, 1914 (1993.6.9)
-correspondence, from the management of the Matador Land and Cattle Company, to the Matador Ranch in Swift Current, re: the company's inability to send them cattle that year due to the embargo on cattle going from the U.S. to Canada, 1915 (1993.6.10)
-correspondence, from the management of the Matador Land and Cattle Company, to the J.R. Lair of the Matador Ranch in Swift Current, re: inquiring about general conditions, discussion of a road allowance, 1916 (1993.6.11a-b)
-correspondence, from the management of the Matador Land and Cattle Company, to the J.R. Lair of the Matador Ranch in Swift Current, re: purchasing cattle and cattle minimum cattle requirements for ranches, 1916 (1993.6.12a-b)
-handwritten receipt, for "hauling 5 tons fence posts twine", between Matador Ranch and J.A. Rouse, 1908 (1993.6.13)
-photocopy of a receipt, from Gordon, Ironsides & Fares, credit to the Matador Land Co. for steers, 1911 (1993.6.15)
-photocopy of a Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s Night Lettergram, sent to the Alexander (Alexandra) Hotel in Swift Current, re: train shipments, from John McBain
-correspondence, from McKay Irons Co. Chartered Accountants, to David Sommerville of the Matador Land & Cattle Co., re: conditions at the Matador Ranch, 1910 (1993.6.17)
-correspondence, from the Office of the Veterinary Director-General, D. Somerville of the Matador Ranch, re: bringing cattle into Canada from the U.S., 1912 (1993.6.18)
Matador Land and Cattle Company
Matador Land and Cattle Company fonds
The fonds, related to the Matador Land and Cattle Company, 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:
-account book ca.1905-1907
Matador Land and Cattle Company