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Carberry Plains Archives CARBERRY PLAINS MUSEUM fonds
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CARBERRY PLAINS MUSEUM fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.187,1988.188,1988.199,1988.206,1988.211,1988.227,1988.228,1988.237,1988.241,1988.251,1988.254,1988.255,1988.257,1988.264,1988.269,1988.270,1988.287,1988.295,1989.52,1989.60,1990.17,1990.96,1991.15,1991.31,1992.47,1992.81,1994.28,1995.33,1995.70,2009.12
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1982

Series 1 consists of records created and/or received by the Carberry Plains Museum in the course of its management, including plans, policies, procedures, correspondence, funding applications, displays. Series 2 consists of other records including miscellaneous, anonymous, and undocumented donations.

Carberry Plains Museum

Series 2: Carberry area collection, 1868-1982.

Series includes maps of Carberry (1971, 1976) and Fairview receipts for a sewing machine (1916), Hattie Alges school merit card (1868), Brookdale Community 1878-1967 history booklet, Citizen's Memorial Service programmes (1901, 1910), Brookdale Centennial Reunion Guest Book (1967), printed materials from businesses (1895-ca. 1905) (Carberry Flour Mill, C. W. Malone Hardware, Murphy and Armstrong Flour and Feed, Benjamin Stewart Jeweller, Canadian Pacific Railway Company Telegraph, Union Bank, H. W. Brown Hardware, J. Fairley Merchant, Finkelstein and McCutcheon Grocers, Merchants Bank of Canada, Madame MacKenzie [Music Teacher] (1900)), Carberry Curling Club Banquet programme (1901) and other material (1912-1952), Conservative Association of North Norfolk minutes and cashbook (1888-1907), marriage licence of Hazel M. Ireland and Robert Y. Eaton (1911), 1911 telephone directory, enlistments of the 226th Battalion (1915-1916), plant description of the Reliance Grain Elevator (1940).

Black and white photographs of the Canadian Northern Railway station, the public school, the CPR station, the Grand Trunk Pacific station, grain elevators, local buildings and businesses, the Carberry Flour Mill, hotels, churches (interior and exterior), Town Office, and the water tower, Mrs. George Bickford (née Agnes Switzer), Ken Boles' threshing outfit (1919), Brandon College Commercial Class (1912), J. T. McNees threshing outfit (1912), James C. Humeston prize-winning heavy draft horse team (1908), Canuck Junior Lacrosse Team (1917), Carberry Baseball Club (1892), Chamber of Commerce Beard-Growing Contest (1959), Carberry Community Choir (1982), Carberry Skating and Curling Rink, James Cowie at King's Printer (ca. 1938), McDonagh and Shea curling trophy winners (1910), Montrose Baseball Club, curling teams, farming, early settlers, Mary I. (Bailey) Eyvindson, James Fowler, Wellwood School, other local citizens, grasshopper taken by William Preston, Harkness house in Pleasant Point, James Kine's general store (before 1900)(includes 1 negative), telephone office (1946), Montrose Baseball Team (1907), Seton Park monument (1958), Western Hotel Livery.

Colour photographs show Carberry Legion/Carberry Collegiate Institute Band (1982), Order of the Eastern Star Sharon Chapter No. 52 members (1974).

Town of Carberry and Municipality