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CARBERRY NEWS-EXPRESS fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.285, 198.298, 1988.307, 1989.67, 1990.08, 1990.51, 1990.100, 1990.112, 1990.124, 1991.51, 1992.311992.50, 1994.118, 1995.38, 1998.04, 1999.07, 1999.26, 2001.05, 2002.01, 2004.03, 2004.10, 2005.03, 2006.06, 2007.18, 2008.02, 2011.06
  • Fonds
  • 1940-2008

Fonds consists of the photographs depicting the visual history of the town of Carberry, Manitoba, and the Rural Municipality of North Cypress. There are 6715 black and white photographs, 58 colour photographs, 511 black and white negatives, 7 colour negatives, and 6 colour slides. Of note is a photo of the Carberry Epworth League (1900). Textual material consists of ten pamphlets of the Carberry Curling Bonspiel (1927-1939 not inclusive), volumes of newspapers (1903, 1858, 1975-2007 inclusive), "Progressive Carberry and North Cypress" - a 1913 booklet on history of Carberry, Brookdale, Wellwood, Oberon, Edrans, Ingelow, Petrel, Harte, Gregg, and Fairview. Also copies of posters and other job printing done by the newspaper circa 1950-5. 2006.06 consists of a bound photocopied copy of the fragile and restricted 1903 Holiday Number of the Carberry News. 2011.06 consists of a large book of printing samples dating from the early 1900's available from the newspaper office, plus copies of books entitled "The Carberry Plains: 75 Years of Progress"; "Around the Cracker Barrell"; "Olmstead Family Reunion: First Reunion, Carberry, Manitoba-1983;" "Wartime Souvenir of Carberry"; "Brookdale Community 1878-1967"; "Kerfoot United Church Diamond Anniversary"; "Pioneers of New Brunswick" all printed by the Carberry News-Express, and a book entitled "The Story of Manitoba's Weekly Newspapers" by Major A.M. Pratt.

Carberry News Express

ISABELLE COLTART fonds

  • CA CPA 1994.66, 1995.13, 1995.56
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1994

Fonds consists of correspondence (1994) describing early life in the Carberry, Manitoba area, and news clippings describing various citizens. Black and white photographs show Carberry School, Carberry United Church, and individuals.McMaster records consist of 4 coloured and 1 black and white photographs of McMaster and family, poetry, miscellaneous correspondence and a letter to I. Coltart.

Coltart, Isabelle Mary

BESSIE GRAHAM fonds

  • CA CPA 1994.95
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1970

Fonds consists of loose (140 black and white and 3 colour) photographs, mostly of identified family members and possibly friends, taken across Canada and in England. Album holds 84 photographs. Includes two postcards, a letter, and a pamphlet for the School Trustees Convention in Winnipeg (1939).

Graham, Bessie (Comstock), 1890-1991

CRICH FAMILY fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.27, 1988.164, 1989.43, 1989.56, 1989.63, 1991.60, 1992.139, 1993.29, 2001.10
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1962

Fonds consists of 413 black and white photographs, 153 colour photographs, 692 negatives, and 1,130 slides. Includes images of John G. Crich, Beryl and Chester Crich, Carberry cenotaph, Carberry School, businesses and buildings in Carberry, as well as parades, Carnival (1948), train accident (1953), airplanes at Carberry airbase, hockey team (1947-48), Crich's bakery, the British Commonwealth Airforce Training Station #33, Carberry Fair (1947, 1958), Spears Ranch, agriculture, aerial views of Carberry, Clear Lake and Gimli, Manitoba, Spruce Woods Provincial Park. Also includes Alf's garage (1938).

Textual material consists of stationary of Crich's bakery, bakery menu signed by RCAF (1940), tribute to Chester Crich (1963), poem by Ron Clarke written about local people in Carberry (1959), clipping when bake shop was sold to Dirk Appel, letter written by Vera M. Davidson to John G. Crich (1959), calling card of Mrs. Chester Crich, "Wartime Souvenir of Carberry" (1942) of Beryl Crich. Slides cover holidays across Canada and in U.S.A., and local events and people. Of special interest are photographs of the Devil's Punch Bowl in Spruce Woods Provincial Park (1929).

Crich, John George, 1882-1962

JOHN GREGG fonds

  • CA CPA 1990.128
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1937

Fonds consists of a telegram (1937), a certificate of promotion (1921), two entrances to Normal Examination (1923, 1924).

Gregg, John, 1909-

GUTHRIE FAMILY collection

  • CA CPA 1988.113, 1988.129
  • Fonds
  • 1891-1954

Collection consists of photographs of Carberry, some of which Joseph Paynter created. Photographs depict inventions by David Kerr, such as the Jones Windstacker, later known as the Carberry Blower attachment to threshing machines at the turn of the century. Photographs show construction of the Lake of the Woods Milling Company, the Maple Leaf Football Team (champions of Manitoba in 1896). Album illustrates family members. One photograph shows students and teacher of Carberry School ([ca. 1905]). Booklet is dated 1903 and is entitled Souvenirs of Carberry. H. H. Allen took some of the photographs, as did E. R. T. Smith, and Davidson. News clippings describe the Windstacker, and marriages.

Guthrie Family

CHARLES JOHNSTONE fonds

  • CA CPA 1989.12
  • Fonds
  • 1946-1978

Fonds consists of a certificate from the Department of Public Works (1959), a certificate entitled "Medaille Commemorative des Batailles de la Somme", honorary life membership from the Carberry Agricultural Society (1976), correspondence from Queen Elizabeth II (1976), other correspondence, newspaper clipping. black and white photographs show family and friends, Knox Presbyterian Church, Carberry Post Office, and Johnstone.

Johnstone, Charles, 1892-1978

LADIES' ORANGE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION No. 1115 fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.67, 1988.244
  • Fonds
  • [1929]-1979

Fonds consists of a black and white photograph of members of the Lodge (ca. 1950), minutes, applications, correspondence, members due book, and a roll call book.

Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association No.1115

MOFFATT, DOROTHY fonds

  • CA CPA 1988.243, 1992.104, 1995.59, 1995.84
  • Fonds
  • 1970, 1966, 1992

Fonds consists of photographs of Deer Range School: one black and white (1970), one colour (1992), and a school history. History describes Deer Range School #922 as being founded in 1898 to provide educational services to children of the Deer Range district of Manitoba up to Grade Nine. It was closed to students in 1959 when declining enrollment prompted children to be sent to schools in Edrans and Firdale, Manitoba, and dissolved in 1966. Family history lists significant dates for members, beginning with Lucretia Martha (Seaman) Smith.

Moffatt, Dorothy Emma (Smith), 1915-

MARY MOORE collection

  • CA CPA 1988.175, 1997.05
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1917

Collection consists of black and white photographs of main street showing previous fire site, students and teachers in Grades Two and Three (1911, 1916), and a news clipping describing the murder of Gordon Rasmussen (1917). Textual material includes baptismal certificates, diplomas, Carberry School records (1922-1930).

Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Goodwin) (Hope), 1913-

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