MODEL-STEAM ENGINE

Description: BLACK PAINTED WOOD BASE, KEROSENE OPERATED BOILER. BOILER DOOR OPENS. WICK INSIDE BOILER; PULLEY MADE OF STRING. BROILER DOOR HAS WINDMILL PATTERN UNDER HANDLE; VENTS HAVE FLOWER PATTERN. TWO HANDLES HAVE RESIDUE. CONSERVATION REPORT ON FILE.

History: MADE BY ELMER R. MCINTOSH, RETIRED C.P.R. CONDUCTOR. *NOTE* ONLY 1 PIECE FOUND IN 2004 INVENTORY - PRESUMED THAT ARTIFACT IS ACTUALLY ONLY 1 PIECE. UPDATE: ON 12 MARCH 2019, MUSEUM STAFF WERE CONTACTED BY EMAIL BY JOAN (BOUCK) PATENAUDE – THE GREAT NIECE OF OBJECT DONOR ELMER R. MCINTOSH. ACCORDING TO PATENAUDE, HER GREAT UNCLE WAS A FORMER CPR CONDUCTOR, RUNNING TRAINS OUT OF LETHBRIDGE. IN HER EMAIL, SHE WROTE, “ELMER WAS A GREAT COLLECTOR OF ALL THINGS…WHEN HE PASSED AWAY MY DAD DONATED [ELMER’S COLLECTED] ITEMS TO BOTH THE GALT IN LETHBRIDGE AND THE GLENBOW IN CALGARY. I WAS ABOUT 12-13 YEARS OF AGE WHEN…I REMEMBER MY DAD DISPOSING OF HIS COLLECTION OF ITEMS.” PATENAUDE ALSO STATED THAT HER FAMILY IS RELATED TO THE HISTORIC JOHN MCINTOSH (1777-1845) WHO GREW AND PROMOTED THE FAMOUS MCINTOSH RED APPLE. ELMER IS JOHN MCINTOSH’S GREAT-GRANDSON BY WAY OF JOHN’S SON ALLEN (1815-1899.