Mount Joy School District #341

The windows may be broken, and the northwest wall partially collapsed, but this stone school still retains the aura of a building once considered too fine to serve a one-room schoolhouse.

Three local farmers helped the stonemason build the school, which opened in October 1912 to serve grades one to eight. Soon the school began to be used for other community activities; Christmas concerts, Oyster dinners, picnics, meetings, dances, box socials . . . the last school year was 1959. 

I am unsure how much longer it was used as a community centre after the closing. Located in southwest Saskatchewan, visited in September, 2017. 

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The Parker Residence

In 1918 stonemason Charlie Parker built this craftsman style home as his own residence, and raised a family of seven girls. It was last lived in the late 1960s. Located in southwest Saskatchewan, visited in September 2017.

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Apparently they meant it when they issued the heavy snowfall warning

Woke up to this. I have been trying to get the motorcycle to where I store it for the winter. A friend has let me store it in his barn for the last two winters. I have not been able to accomplish getting it there due to rain and some recent frost. With luck this will melt in the next two days and I can get it stored this weekend.

Hoosier United Church

The church was built in 1916 in the former hamlet of Hoosier, and served the dual role as a place of worship and a community centre. Although weekly religious services ended in 1966, the church was used as a community centre well up until the 1990s.  

The heritage value of the Hoosier United Church also lies in its architecture. Built in 1916, the church’s subdued Gothic architecture vests this simple wood-frame building with a dignified beauty. The Gothic Revival influence is visible in the form and proportions, massing and windows. The sanctuary is laid out traditionally with the pulpit, raised upon a stage, facing rows of pews which are divided by a central aisle. Located in southwest Saskatchewan, visited in May 2016.

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Why do we take photos? To get multiple likes and shares? To tell a story?

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the likes and shares my photos or posts get. But the story behind the photo is what pulls my heartstrings. For instance this particular building we photographed in Admiral, Saskatchewan during the September long weekend looked interesting for me to stop and take a few photos. Much to my surprise today over lunch at work I found a vintage slide from the Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society Everett Baker slide collection that took my breath away. Behind the beaming CO-OP manager was a Ford dealership building – the same building I photographed but looked in much better shape some sixty-seven years ago. Upon closer investigation the date from the slide was just five days from when we visited in September 2017. 

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"Standard Implements" was established by Peter Grabinski in the late 1910s. In 1925 a Ford car dealership was added to the business. A new building to the south was built in 1946 as the new showroom. In 1972 the original building was closed down and was then used as the Village recycling depot, though it closed at some point.

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This is one of the reasons I go out and record these fleeting moments in time…

(SHFS_0007 - George & Mary Farnworth with the Admiral CO-OP truck - August 26, 1950)

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