Material Type

Artifact

Date

1973

Materials

PLASTIC

No. Pieces

1

Height

1.3

Length

13.4

Width

13.4

Description

SQUARE DISH. INSIDE IS IMAGE OF MOUNTIE ON BLACK HORSE WITH BLUE SKY AND GREEN FIELD & TREES IN BACKGROUND. ABOVE MOUNTIE READS "ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE". THERE IS A STICKER ON DISH THAT READS "AL AZHAR SPRINGTIME CEREMONIAL LETHBRIDGE 1973". UNDERSIDE OF DISH HAS "MB ITALY" EMBOSSED.

Subjects

FOOD SERVICE T&E

Historical Association

COMMEMORATIVE

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, “…IT SAYS IT’S THE AL AZHAR. SO HE WAS PART, MY FATHER WAS PART OF THE SHRINERS HERE, THE AL AZHAR GROUP AND, THEY MUST HAVE BEEN HAVING SOME SORT OF CELEBRATION IN 1973. THIS IS ANOTHER HOBBY OF HIS, BUT WHAT KIND I DON’T KNOW, WHY IT WOULD BE 1973. BECAUSE DIDN’T THE MOUNTIES COME WEST IN 1874? SO MAYBE THEY WERE CELEBRATING FOR SOME REASON.” WHEN ASKED ABOUT HER FATHER’S CONNECTION TO THE MASONIC LODGE, “I THINK HE WAS [CONNECTED] EARLY ON AND THEN LET IT LAPSE BECAUSE WHEN WE LIVED IN BRANDON - LIKE THE WAR HAPPENED AND THEN BRANDON HAPPENED - AND I THINK HE BELONGED WHEN WE WERE IN BRANDON BUT IT WASN’T A BIG THING BECAUSE HE WAS PART OF THE ASSOCIATED CANADIAN TRAVELERS IT’S CALLED. ACT AND HE WAS A BIG MEMBER IN THAT, WAS PRESIDENT ONE THING AND ANOTHER. SO HE WAS BUSY WITH THAT AND MAYBE HE WAS A MASON EARLY, I HAVE A MASONIC BOOK AT HOME TOO… THEN LATER ON WHEN HE WAS MARRIED TO IRENE… SHE WANTED HIM TO GO FURTHER AND HE HAD SOME OTHER FRIENDS AND THEY ENCOURAGED HIM TO GO THROUGH THE SCOTTISH RITE, WHATEVER IT’S CALLED, AND GO FROM - HE HAD TO UPGRADE INTO THE MASONICS AND THEN HE MOVED ON TO THE SHRINERS. [IT WAS A LARGE PART OF HIS IDENTITY] ALONG WITH HIS ANTIQUE CARS AND HIS COINS AND HIS CURLING AND HIS SHRINER AND - THEY TRAVELLED WITH THAT TOO…” THE INTERVIEW AND A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND IN PERMANENT FILE.

Catalogue Number

P20000011037

Acquisition Date

2004-06

Collection

Museum

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