Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

C/W JACKET

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

POLYESTER/COTTON BLEND, SATIN

No. Pieces

3

Description

1. DRESS. 112.0(L). CALF LENGTH. MATERIAL IS BLACK AND WHITE CHECKERED. HAS BOAT OR BATEAU NECKLINE (STRAIGHT AND HIGH). THERE IS A ZIPPER IN THE BACK. FRONT AND BACK OF BODICE EACH HAVE 2 PLEATS. FRONT OF SKIRT HAS 4 PLEATS AT WAISTLINE, BACK HAS 2. THERE ARE 2 BELT LOOPS AT SIDES OF DRESS, MADE FROM BLACK THREAD. TOP HALF OF SKIRT HAS WHITE SATIN LINING. AT BOTTOM CENTER BACK SKIRT IS SPLIT AND HEMMED. 2. BELT. 83.5(L) X 3.8(W). FRONT OF BELT IS SAME BLACK AND WHITE CHECKERED MATERIAL AS DRESS. HAS A RECTANGULAR BUCKLE (COVERED IN SAME MATERIAL). HAS 4 BUTTONHOLES REINFORCED WITH STITCHING. BACK OF BELT IS STIFFENED WHITE FABRIC AND IS STAMPED WITH " "STA-FIRM" BACKING WASH OR CLEAN AS GARMENT". ALSO "STEWART" IN WRITTEN ON BACK OF BELT IN BLUE PEN. 3. JACKET. 45.0(L). COLLARLESS WAIST LENGTH JACKET MADE OF SAME BLACK AND WHITE CHECKERED MATERIAL AS DRESS. HAS HALF LENGTH KIMONO SLEEVES (CUT AS ONE PIECE WITH FRONT AND BACK). FRONT OF JACKET HAS THREE BLACK FROG CLOSURES. THERE IS A HORIZONTAL PLEAT NEAR EACH ARM ON FRONT OF JACKET. INSIDE OF JACKET IS LINED WITH RED SATIN.

Subjects

CLOTHING-OUTERWEAR

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, MARJORIE BAILEY. COAT WAS TAKEN TO WINNIPEG WHEN DONOR'S MOTHER BECAME SICK WITH A HEART CONDITION. DONOR'S FATHER WORK LONG HOURS AND SO IT WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE DOCTOR THAT DONOR'S MOTHER BE UNDER CARE 24 HOURS A DAY. DONOR'S MOTHER WENT TO WINNIPEG TO STAY WITH HER SISTER TAKING THE JACKET WITH HER. MRS BAILEY PASSED AWAY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AFTER SHE ARRIVED IN WINNIPEG. DONOR'S FATHER EVERETT STEWART WAS 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 THEY REMAINED. MARJORIE PASSED AWAY IN 1967. *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. ON THE TIME IN HER MOTHER’S LIFE DESCRIBED ABOVE JEAN STATED, “SHE HAD, SHE’D HAD TYPHOID FEVER WHEN SHE WAS LIKE FIFTEEN IN SASKATCHEWAN AND I WAS I GUESS A VERY DIFFICULT BIRTH AND SHE WAS NEVER QUITE THE SAME AND SHE HAD HEART PROBLEMS. WELL WE DIDN’T KNOW SHE HAD HEART PROBLEMS. SHE HAD A GOITER OUT AND THEN SHE HAD - YOU KNOW A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON, SHE WAS ON A LOT OF PILLS, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE ONE THING AND ANOTHER. ONE DAY I’D COME HOME, I WAS WORKING IN CALGARY AND CAME HOME AND SHE HAD TERRIBLE STOMACH ACHES. WELL TURNED OUT SHE HAD AN ENLARGED HEART BECAUSE THE DOCTORS HADN’T PUT HER ON THYROID. AND SO IN 1967 SHE HAD A HEART ATTACK AND SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL, AT THE CIVIC HOSPITAL, THAT OLD ONE… AND IN THE END AFTER THAT BECAUSE MY DAD WAS STILL ON THE ROAD OUT IN BC AND I WAS WORKING, I WAS MARRIED AND WORKING AND HAD A DAUGHTER - THE DOCTOR FELT SHE SHOULDN’T BE ALONE AND HER SISTER HAD COME AND STAYED WITH HER. SHE CAME FROM WINNIPEG, HER YOUNGER SISTER, AND STAYED WITH HER. AND THEN SHE HER SISTER HAD TO GO BACK TO WINNIPEG TO LOOK AFTER HER HUSBAND - HER HUSBAND HAD SOME HEALTH ISSUES. SO MOM WENT WITH HER AND WE DROVE THEM - MY HUSBAND AND I AND MY DAUGHTER DROVE HER TO WINNIPEG. AND SHE WAS WAITING FOR THIS DOCTOR IN LETHBRIDGE THAT I SHALL NOT NAME. HE HAS PASSED AWAY - BUT HE PROMISED TO COME AND SEE HER IN WINNIPEG BECAUSE SHE WAS CLOSE TO THE ROAD THAT WENT AROUND WINNIPEG AND HE WOULD STOP AND SEE HER AND CHECK ON HER. AND HE DIDN’T AND SHE WAITED, SHE WAITED AND SHE WAITED AND SHE FINALLY HAD A HEART ATTACK, A MAJOR ONE AND SHE WENT IN AND, HER SISTER PHONED ME AND SHE DIDN’T LAST THE TWENTY-FOUR OR FORTY-EIGHT HOURS THAT THEY USUALLY SAY - THE CRITICAL TIME.” THE INTERVIEW AND A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND IN PERMANENT FILE P20000011001.

Catalogue Number

P20000011002

Acquisition Date

2004-06

Collection

Museum

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