Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1900

Date Range To

1910

Materials

COPPER

No. Pieces

1

Diameter

10.8

Description

EMBOSSED ON FACE OF ASHTRAY: FORT ENTRANCE & GATE & WORDS "OLD FORT GARRY GATE WINNIPEG". CRACKS AROUND EDGE, DISCOLORED & BENT. SEE CONSERVATION REPORT. FLORAL PATTERN AROUND GATE AND ALONG EDGE OF ASHTRAY. EXTREME OXIDATION AND ASH DISCOLORATION.

Subjects

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY

Historical Association

DOMESTIC

History

BELONGED TO FATHER OF DONOR, ROBERT B. TAYLOR, BELIEVED BY DONOR TO DATE TO TURN OF THE CENTURY. (PROBABLY NEWER - SOUVENIR). *UPDATE* RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED INTO THE LIFE OF ROBERT BRUCE TAYLOR AS PART OF A 2018 COLLECTION AUDIT LED BY COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK. THE AUDIT INCLUDED AN ASHTRAY DONATED BY TAYLOR’S DAUGHTER, FLORENCE FLAVELL. ATTEMPTS TO LOCATE THE DONOR’S AND TAYLOR’S NEXT-OF-KIN WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS DEVELOPED THROUGH ARCHIVAL RESEARCH. ROBERT BRUCE TAYLOR WAS BORN ON 26 JULY 1876 IN CLINTON, ONTARIO AS RECORDED ON HIS FIRST WORLD WAR ATTESTATION PAPER GLEANED FROM HIS SERVICE FILE ACCESSED THROUGH THE DIGITAL ARCHIVES OF THE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES OF CANADA. HE WAS MARRIED TO HIS WIFE AND THE DONOR’S MOTHER, RUTH TAYLOR (NEE PETTIT) AT THE TIME OF ENLISTMENT. HE WAS DISCHARGED UPON MOBILIZATION IN 1919. HE PASSED AWAY IN CALGARY, ALBERTA ON 30 OCTOBER 2018. RUTH TAYLOR PASSED AWAY OF 24 WEDNESDAY 1950 AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS. MRS. TAYLOR WAS BORN IN SIMCOE, ONTARIO AND CAME WEST IN 1898. BOTH ROBERT AND RUTH WORKED WITH THE SALVATION ARMY THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN ALBERTA. THEY LIVED IN 1902 UNTIL 1920. BOTH MRS. AND MR. TAYLOR WERE LAID TO REST IN LETHBRIDGE ALONG WITH THEIR SON, ROBERT (D. 1905). THERE IS NO OTHER EVIDENCE OF THE FAMILY LIVING IN LETHBRIDGE. ACCORDING TO THE DONOR’S OBITUARY PUBLISHED IN THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD ON 24 JUNE 1989, FLORENCE LAURETTE FLAVELL WAS BORN IN PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MANITOBA ON MAY 17, 1902. SHE CAME TO LETHBRIDGE AS A CHILD WITH HER PARENTS. SHE WAS A GALT SCHOOL OF NURSING GRADUATE, STUDYING AT THE SCHOOL FROM 1919 TO 1923. SHE PRACTICED NURSING UPON GRADUATION UNTIL HER RETIREMENT IN 1967. FLAVELL PASSED AWAY IN LETHBRIDGE ON 21 JUNE 1989 AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS. PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P19760020000 FOR MORE INFORMATION, INCLUDING HARD COPIES OF ARCHIVAL RESEARCH.

Catalogue Number

P19760025000

Acquisition Date

1975-07

Collection

Museum

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