MODEL - STICK, HOCKEY - Collections - Galt Museum and Archives

Description: STAMPED IN RED AT ONE END: "LETHBRIDGE MAPLE LEAFS, 1938-39". RED, WHITE & BLUE RIBBONS ON ONE END. SIGNED BY TEAM MEMBERS. SIGNATURES IN INK. INK & RIBBONS HAVE FADED. SEE CONSERVATION REPORT.

History: *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MILITARY OBJECTS, A PORTION OF WHICH WERE DONATED BY HENRY ARTHUR SHOOBERT. NO SPECIFIC INFORMATION REGARDING THE ARTIFACTS WAS DISCOVERED, BUT AN OBITUARY FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD ON FEBRUARY 27, 1981 PROVIDES THIS BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON THE DONOR: "BORN, RAISED AND EDUCATED IN ENGLAND, THE LATE MR. SHOOBERT CAME TO CANADA IN 1991 TO WINNIPEG AND CAME TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1921 WHERE HE HAS RESIDED UNTIL HIS PASSING. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE KIWANIS, LIFE MEMBER OF ANAF, AND A MEMBER OF THE LETHBRIDGE ELKS CLUB." CONTACT INFORMATION FOR NEXT OF KIN WAS NOT FOUND. SEE PERMANENT FILE P19662390000-GA FOR HARDCOPY OF OBITUARY.; *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF BOXED TEXTILES AND ACCESSORIES INCLUDING A NECKLACE DONATED BY H. A. SHOOBERT. IN 2018, PUNDYK CONNECTED WITH HENRY ARTHUR SHOOBERT'S SON, WESTLEY (WES) SHOOBERT REGARDING; THE DONATION. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE.