Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

CURLING NAMETAG

Date

1959

Materials

TIN, PAPER, PLASTIC

No. Pieces

2

Height

0.7

Diameter

5.6

Description

CIRCULAR. WHITE WITH RED PRINT. READS "20TH ANNUAL SHIRTSLEEVE BONSPIEL FEB. 9 TO 14, 1959 LETHBRIDGE ICE CENTRE HY'S TOWNE HALL SHOP HAS-A-SUIT THAT'LL FIT JUST YOU". CENTER OF BUTTON HAS A RECTANGULAR 'WINDOW' WITH A PAPER INSERT WITH "E. STEWART LETHBRIDGE" TYPED ON IT. BACK OF BUTTON HAS A BRASS PIN.

Subjects

PERSONAL SYMBOL

DOCUMENTARY ARTIFACT

Historical Association

SPORTS

History

CAME FROM THE BELONGINGS OF DONOR'S FATHER EVERETT STEWART. BORN IN 1912 TO WILLIAM AND SARAH JANE (CUTT) STEWART IN INDIAN HEAD, SASKATCHEWAN. HIS FAMILY FARMED UNTIL THE 1930S, WHEN THE DROUGHT HIT AND HARD TIMES FORCED THEM TO MOVE. EVERETT STAYED AND ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN AT SASKATOON WHERE HE GRADUATED WITH A DEGREE IN PHARMACY IN 1937. HE THEN WORKED IN PHARMACIES IN INDIAN HEAD AND REGINA. ON JUNE 15, 1939, EVERETT MARRIED MARJORIE BAILEY. HE THEN SIGNED UP WITH THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES AS AN ARTILLERY OFFICER IN WWII. THEIR DAUGHTER MARGARET JEAN (DONOR) WAS BORN ON MAY 31, 1943. AFTER THE WAR, WITH FUNDING GIVEN TO VETERANS, EVERETT OPENED HIS OWN DRUG STORE IN SUTHERLAND, SASKATCHEWAN. HIS WAS THE FIRST DRUG STORE IN SUTHERLAND AND HE STRUGGLED WITH MAKING IT A VIABLE BUSINESS. THEN IN 1949 HE SOLD THE BUSINESS AND TOOK A SALES POSITION WITH CHARLES E. FROSST & COMPANY WHICH WAS THE LAST WHOLLY OWNED CANADIAN DRUG FIRM. HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE MOVED TO BRANDON, MANITOBA (1949 TO 1955). THE FIRM THEN TRANSFERRED EVERETT TO LETHBRIDGE, WHERE HE REMAINED. AFTER HIS WIFE MARJORIE DIED (1905-1967) HE KEPT BUSY WITH HIS VAST COIN COLLECTION THAT WAS HIS PASSION. HE ATTENDED MANY COIN SHOWS THROUGHOUT CANADA AND THE U.S. AND BOUGHT, TRADED, AND SOLD MOSTLY CANADIAN COINS. THEN ON JULY 22, 1974, HE MARRIED IRENE EVANS (1906-2002) FROM BILLINGS MONTANA. IN 1976 FROSST & CO. RETIRED EVERETT. AFTER THAT THEY SPENT 6 MONTHS A YEAR IN LETHBRIDGE AND 6 MONTHS IN MESA, ARIZONA. EVERETT WAS A LONG TIME MEMBER AND PAST PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATED CANADIAN TRAVELERS IN BRANDON, MANITOBA AND LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA; A FOUNDING MEMBER AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE LION'S CLUB IN SUTHERLAND, SASKATCHEWAN; A MEMBER OF THE MASONIC LODGE AND THE LETHBRIDGE AL AZHAR SHRINE CLUB. BESIDES HIS EVER-GROWING COIN COLLECTION, HE RESTORED A 1926 MODEL A FORD, AND TRAVELLED WESTERN CANADA AS AN AVID CURLER. EVERETT PASSED AWAY IN HIS HOME FROM CANCER IN 1993. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PERSONAL ARTIFACTS INCLUDING SOME DONATIONS MADE BY JEAN JOHNSTONE (NEE POTTS). AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ORIGINAL DONOR JEAN JOHNSTONE WAS CONDUCTED. WHEN ASKED IF SHE REMEMBERED THE ARTIFACT SHE STATED, “[CURLINGS] ANOTHER HOBBY HE HAD ALWAYS AS LONG AS - IN FACT FOREVER. HE WAS ALWAYS IN A BONSPIEL - THE BIGGEST MEMORY I HAVE… WE’D GO TO NELSON, HE PLAYED IN THE SUMMER BONSPIEL IN NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND WE’D ALWAYS GO THERE AND CAMP. MY MOM AND SOMETIMES HER SISTER WOULD COME OR HER BROTHER-IN-LAW, MY AUNT AND UNCLE WOULD COME. AND WE MADE A BIG HOLIDAY OF IT AND HE WOULD CURL IN THE BONSPIEL SO I HAVE LOTS OF PICTURES OF HIM IN MANY BONSPIELS… HE MUST HAVE BEEN [CURLING HERE IN LETHBRIDGE.] I DIDN’T PAY ATTENTION. …HE WAS A BIG CURLER.” THE INTERVIEW AND A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND IN PERMANENT FILE.

Catalogue Number

P20000011031

Acquisition Date

2004-06

Collection

Museum

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