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FRED AND MILLIE SWITZER FAMILY fonds
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FRED AND MILLIE SWITZER FAMILY fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.137, 1988.191, 1991.05, 1992.68, 1994.04, 1994.51, 1994.84, 1996.37
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1928]-1981

Fonds consists of black and white photographs showing the Switzers in front of their grocery store, a retirement party at the Modern Bakery for Effie Balfour (1969), Carberry's Main Street (ca. 1940), a Canadian Pacific Railway train wreck (1946), Esther Switzer (ca. 1928), Miss Abbott, a schoolteacher on a Switzer horse. Textual materials include an income tax form (1944), news clippings of the Switzer brothers harvesting (1913), a beard growing contest, the Daniel Switzer family, a family chart on this and the Esther Burns Switzer families, a certificate for Century Farm Award (1981) for the Daniel Switzer farm, a Samuel Craig family history written by Lloyd J. Bowen of Victoria, British Columbia in 1982, a "Kerfoot History: Canadian Branch" written by J. M. Morris (1856-1936) in 1953 and compiled by Winnifred (Morris) Mair, his daughter.

Switzer Family