Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

DRESS COAT

Date Range From

1880

Date Range To

1890

Materials

WOOL, SILK

No. Pieces

1

Length

104.7

Width

43.1

Description

OUTSIDE OF COAT IS BLACK WOOL. IS DOUBLE BREASTED. THERE ARE SIX BUTTONS ON FRONT OF COAT; BUTTONS ARE ROUND AND FLAT AND COVERED WITH BLACK THREAD IN A WEAVED PATTERN. COAT HAS POINTED LAPELS. THERE ARE THREE BUTTONS (AS ABOVE) ON EACH CUFF. ON MID-BACK OF COAT ARE TWO BUTTONS (AS ABOVE), BELOW WHICH IS A VENT. THERE ARE NO OUTER POCKETS. INSIDE OF COAT IS LINED WITH BLACK SILK ON BACK OF NECK IS A BLACK LABEL WITH GOLD PRINT THAT READS "BARRHEAD CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD". THERE IS AN INSIDE POCKET ON EACH SIDE. LINING JUST BELOW ARMS IS QUILTED; ARMS ARE LINED WITH AN IVORY AND BLACK STRIPED MATERIAL.

Subjects

CLOTHING-OUTERWEAR

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

BELONGED TO DONOR'S GRANDFATHER, JOHN MCLINTOCK. DONOR BELIEVES COAT WAS WORN BY GRANDFATHER AT HIS WEDDING IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND DECEMBER 4, 1888. JOHN MCLINTOCK BECAME A WIDOWER IN SCOTLAND. HE DECIDED TO MOVE WITH HIS TWO TEENAGED SONS, WILLIAM AND JOHN JR., TO NEW ZEALAND. THEY TRAVELLED TO THE NEW ENGLAND STATES IN 1907 TO VISIT FAMILY FIRST. SHORTLY AFTER THEY HEADED TO COCHRANE WHERE JOHN'S UNCLE WAS LAST HEARD FROM ABOUT 25 YEARS EARLIER. THEY FOUND HIM AND HIS HALF-FINISHED HOMESTEAD, AND HELPED HIM FINISH BUILDING HIS "SHACK". THEN JOHN HOMESTEADED A FEW MILES AWAY. UPON THE FIRST BIG SNOWFALL IN LATE SEPTEMBER, JOHN HAD HAD ENOUGH OF RANCHING AND PLANNED TO MOVE TO NEW ZEALAND. HOWEVER HIS 2 SONS WERE ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE OF RANCH LIFE, SO THEY STOOD UP TO THEIR FATHER AND SAID THEY WERE STAYING IN COCHRANE. THEIR FATHER ABANDONED HIS PLAN OF GOING TO NEW ZEALAND AND THEY MADE COCHRANE THEIR HOME. *UPDATE* IN 2016 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING A COAT AND BOW TIE DONATED BY DOUG CARD. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WAS COMPILED USING ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD, FROM EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COCHRANE HISTORICAL & ARCHIVAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY, AND WITH THE WEBSITE FINDAGRAVE.COM DOUGLAS CARD WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CALGARY AND SERVED IN THE RCAF DURING WORLD WAR II. HE MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE FOLLOWING THE WAR, WHERE HE WORKED FOR CJOC RADIO FOR 36 YEARS. HE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 80 ON OCTOBER 23, 1997. IN 1942, DOUG MARRIED CLAUDIA G. CARD (NEE MCLINTOCK). CLAUDIA CARD PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 89 ON MAY 22, 2005. HER PARENTS WERE WILLIAM SHEARER MCLINTOCK AND ESTELLA ELIZABETH MCLINTOCK (NEE WHITE). ESTELLA WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BANFF AND WAS MARRIED TO WILLIAM IN 1915. SHE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 91 ON JULY 3, 1980. HER OBITUARY LISTS WILLIAM AS SURVIVING HER IN 1980. HIS OBITUARY HAS NOT YET BEEN FOUND. ESTELLA WAS THE DAUGHTER OF DANIEL C. WHITE AND MARGARET (MAIDEN NAME UNKNOWN) WHITE. DANIEL PASSED AWAY IN 1909. FOLLOWING DANIEL’S DEATH, MARGARET WAS REMARRIED TO CHARLES GRAYSON. MARGARET GRAYSON PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 93 ON APRIL 8, 1961. CHARLES GRAYSON WAS BORN ON JULY 1, 1870 IN SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND. HE MOVED TO CANADA WITH HIS FAMILY AS A CHILD. HIS PARENTS SETTLED IN THE QU’APPELLE VALLEY, SK, WHILE HE CONTINUED WEST TO THE COWAN RANCH IN THE BIG HILL SPRINGS AREA IN 1886. AT THE AGE OF 16, HE TOOK UP WORK AS A RANCH HAND. CHARLES MARRIED BLANCHE BRUCE, DAUGHTER OF DONALD AND JUNE BRUCE, IN 1902 IN COCHRANE, AB. BLANCHE PASSED AWAY IN NOVEMBER 1907. CHARLES PASSED AWAY ON DECEMBER 26/27, 1950 (BOTH DATES ARE LISTED IN THE HERALD). MARGARET’S OBITUARY INDICATES THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE “FORMER OLD TIMERS OF THE BANFF AND COCHRANE DISTRICTS.” WILLIAM MCLINTOCK WAS THE SON OF JOHN MCLINTOCK, SR. HIS MOTHER’S NAME IS UNKNOWN. SHE PASSED AWAY BEFORE THE MCLINTOCK FAMILY MOVED TO CANADA. WILLIAM AND HIS BROTHER JOHN JR. MOVED TO CANADA WITH THEIR FATHER FROM SCOTLAND IN 1907. THEY SETTLED IN THE COCHRANE AREA. WILLIAM REMAINED IN COCHRANE UNTIL 1913, JOHN JR. UNTIL 1915 (WHEN HE LEFT FOR OVERSEAS SERVICE IN WWI), AND JOHN SR. UNTIL 1922. AT THAT TIME, JOHN SR. MOVED TO CALGARY. HE MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE IN THE LAST MONTH OF HIS LIFE TO LIVE WITH WILLIAM. HE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 75 ON MARCH 23, 1941. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR COPIES OF THE ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD, THE EMAIL FROM THE COCHRANE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND FINDAGRAVE.COM.

Catalogue Number

P20000015001

Acquisition Date

2000-08

Collection

Museum

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