Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1860

Date Range To

1870

Materials

SILVER

No. Pieces

1

Width

2.5

Diameter

6.3

Description

PATENT STAMPED AND ENGRAVED ON INSIDE. "S" WITH "V" OVER STAMPED INSIDE. ENGRAVED LEAF PATTERN ON ONE HALF THE BRACELET WITH PLAIN BORDER. BACK HALF PLAIN. BROKEN AT HINGE. ILLEGIBLE NAME SCRATCHED INTO INTERIOR SIDE OF BRACELET. TENSION DEVICE ON INTEIOR WITH PRESSURE KNOBS FACILITATES CLOSURE. SURFACE PATINATED.

Subjects

ADORNMENT

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

DONOR, MRS. CLIFF MCNABB BELIEVES BRACELET DATES TO 1867 BELONGED TO A NURSE, CHARLOTTE NICOLSON, WHO HAD A NURSING HOME IN RIVERSIDE. MARGARET MCNABB, NEE HARVIE IMMIGRATED TO CANADA FROM GLASCOW SCOTLAND IN 1904 WITH HER FAMILY & SETTLED IN THE TURIN/IRON SPRINGS AREA TO FARM. LATER MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE & MARRIED CLIFF MCNABB ABOUT 1918. AS A RESULT OF RESEARCH DONE IN CONJUNCTION WITH A SCOTTISH-THEMED EXHIBIT IN 2009, THE GALT CONDUCTED NEW INFORMATION ON THE HARVIE FAMILY, ADDING THE FOLLOWING TO THE RECORD. ROBERT AND MARGARET HARVIE LEFT SCOTLAND IN 1904 AND IMMIGRATED TO CANADA, DESTINED FOR LETHBRIDGE, WITH THEIR FAMILY. THE FAMILY CONSISTED OF TWO SONS (JOHN AND CHARLIE) AND A DAUGHTER (MARGARET). MR. HARVIE’S MINING EXPERIENCE IN HIS NATIVE SCOTLAND PROVED VALUABLE IN LETHBRIDGE AND DIAMOND CITY WHERE, HE FOUND WORK MINING COAL. IN 1907, MR. HARVIE MOVED HIS FAMILY ON TO THE PRAIRIE AFTER HE DECIDED THAT FARMING WAS HIS CALLING. HE OCCUPIED LANDS IN AND AROUND LETHBRIDGE BEFORE SETTLING PERMANENTLY NEAR TURIN. MRS. MARGARET MCNABB WAS THE LAST SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE HARVIE FAMILY. SHE PASSED AWAY AT AGE 86 IN 1979. FOR MORE BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS ON THE FAMILY, PLEASE REFERENCE P19651761000-GA. *UPDATE* IN 2017, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF BOXED TEXTILE ARTIFACTS, INCLUDING THIS BRACELET. THE ATTEMPTS MADE TO LOCATE AND CONTACT THE DONOR'S NEXT-OF-KIN TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ARTIFACT WERE UNSUCCESSFUL. FURTHER INFORMATION INTO CHARLOTTE NICOLSON WAS CONDUCTED USING THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD AND GALT ARCHIVES. IN THE 10 JULY 1935 EDITION OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD THERE IS A NOTE ABOUT A CHARLOTTE NICHOLSON, WHO WAS THE MATRON OF THE YMIR HOSPITAL. HER MARRIED NAME WAS MRS. W. T. MCDOWELL. FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HER WAS NOT FOUND. ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE FROM THE GALT PUBLISHED IN THE HERALD ON 7 DECEMBER 2014, RIVERSIDE WAS A COMMUNITY IN THE RIVER BOTTOM OF LETHBRIDGE THAT WAS IN EXISTENCE FROM THE 1930S TO 1950S. INFORMATION ABOUT A NURSING HOME IN THE COMMUNITY WAS NOT FOUND. PLEASE SEE THE PERMANENT FILE FOR MORE INFORMATION, INCLUDING LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES.

Catalogue Number

P19651776000

Acquisition Date

1965-05

Collection

Museum

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