Fourteen veterans of WWI and a NWMP officer stand in front of the Wolseley War Memorial, likely in the 1920s. A couple of figures in the rear have moved and are out of focus.
A team photo of the women's softball team in their uniforms. Names of players and coach: Top row (l to r): Georgina Beliveau, Joyce Bender, Marvin Nickel, Verna Bender, Joyce Muth. Bottom: Alice Ferguson, Marian Magel, Kay Wilson, Rita Bradley, Helen Beliveau, Dorothy Ferguson. Kay Wilson latter married Marvin Nickel.
Wolseley wheat blockade February 1902. Men stand on and near horses hitched to wagons and sleds at the approach to the Dominion Elevator. Box cars are seen to the right and another elevator is seen in the background.
Wolseley Basketball Team. Nine women and their coach are seen standing tallest to shortest outdoors, three captains are identified by the ”C” on their blouse.
A steam locomotive is seen pulling several train cars on a Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) ‘Spur Line’ running between Reston, Manitoba and Wolseley, Saskatchewan from 1908 to 1961. It was affectionately named “Peanut” as its whistle resembled the sound of a peanut vendor’s cart.
Thomas Edward Scriver (1880-1962) was dubbed "The Dean of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Editors" when he died after publishing The Wolseley News for 58 years. He was a temperance supporter and was at the founding conventions of both the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and its later namesake, the New Democratic Party (NDP)