Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

HAIRPIN

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

WIRE

No. Pieces

3

Length

5

Description

3 WIRE HAIRPINS, WITH THREE SMALL GROOVES FOR MAINTAINING SECURE HOLD. ONE SLIGHTLY BENT OUT OF SHAPE.

Subjects

TOILET ARTICLE

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

UNKNOWN. *** INFORMATION BELOW PROVIDED BY DONOR AT THE REQUEST OF THE GALT IN 2010. “SIMILAR TO 'BOBBY PINS' FOR SECURING HAIR BUT LESS VISIBLE. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW USED THEM.” *** *UPDATE* IN 2018 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED AN ARTIFACT SURVEY, INCLUDING A NUMBER OF ARTIFACTS DONATED BY IRMA DOGTEROM. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS ESTABLISHED THROUGH ARCHIVAL RESEARCH: “IRMA [DOGTEROM] WAS BORN IN LETHBRIDGE ON OCTOBER 3, 1930,” HER OBITUARY ON THE MARTIN BROTHERS FUNERAL CHAPELS WEBSITE STATES, “AFTER GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL SHE MET AND MARRIED JAKE DOGTEROM (1926-2015). THEY SET UP HOUSE ON THE FARM EAST OF LETHBRIDGE [IN 1950] AND CORAL, JAN, DAVE, AND NANCY SOON FOLLOWED.” ACCORDING TO JAKE’S OBITUARY, THE COUPLE MOVED INTO LETHBRIDGE IN 1988, THOUGH JAKE CONTINUED TO COMMUTE TO THE FARM TO WORK. THE OBITUARY STATES THAT SHE WAS A TWO-TIME RECIPIENT OF THE QUEEN’S JUBILEE MEDAL. FURTHER LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARCHIVAL SOURCES SPEAK ABOUT HER PASSION FOR LOCAL HISTORY, WHICH HAS BEEN ILLUMINATED THROUGH HER INVOLVEMENT OF NAMING THE STREETS AFTER SIGNIFICANT WOMEN FROM LOCAL HISTORY IN THE LEGACY RIDGE DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH LETHBRIDGE. IRMA DOGTEROM PASSED AWAY IN LETHBRIDGE ON AUGUST 5, 2014 AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS. JACOB (JAKE) DOGTEROM, WAS BORN ON JULY 26, 1926 IN LETHBRIDGE ACCORDING TO HIS OBITUARY. HIS PARENTS WERE EMILY MARIE LOUISE CHAREST AND JACOB (JAKE) DOGTEROM. IT WAS RECORDED THAT THIS ARTIFACT WAS CONNECTED EMILY DOGTEROM (NEE CHAREST), THE DONOR’S MOTHER-IN-LAW. HER FAMILY HISTORY WAS RECORDED IN THE BOOK TITLED, “PIONEER PEMMICAN CLUB ROUNDUP,” (PUBLISHED IN 1984). THE HISTORY – WRITTEN BY JAKE DOGTEROM – STATES, “MY MOTHER’S PARENTS, GEORGE AND EMMA CHAREST, CAME FROM WINNIPEG TO GLEICHEN, WHICH WAS IN THE ALBERTA DISTRICT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, SOMETIMES PRIOR TO 1899. IT WAS IN GLEICHEN IN 1899 THAT MY MOTHER, EMILY MARIE LOUISE CHAREST, WAS BORN.” THE HISTORY CONTINUES, “IN 1905 THE FAMILY MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE SO MY MOTHER, EMILY, COULD START SCHOOL AT THE CONVENT ON NINTH STREET SOUTH. THEIR HOME WAS AT 1706 6 AVENUE NORTH AND, SINCE THE NINTH STREET BRIDGE HAD NOT YET BEEN BUILT, EMILY HAD TO WALK THROUGH THE RAIL YARDS TO AND FROM SCHOOL… GEORGE CHAREST DIED IN 1912. EMMA, HIS WIDOW, MARRIED AGAIN TO W. R. HOYLE AND THEY MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES LEAVING EMILY IN LETHBRIDGE TO FEND FOR HERSELF.” “EMILY WENT TO WORK AS A KITCHEN MAID IN THE BOARDING HOUSE AT THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM, NOW THE LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH STATION. SHE WAS THIRTEEN YEARS OF AGE… [LATER], WHILE WORKING AT THE BOARDING HOUSE WHICH WAS RUN BY MR. AND MRS. MALONEY, SHE MET HER FUTURE HUSBAND, JACOB (JAKE) DOGTEROM. HE WAS WORKING AT THE FARM TO LEARN CANADIAN FARMING METHODS. JAKE HAD COME FROM HOLLAND IN 1912 WITH ONE BROTHER… IN 1918 JAKE BROUGHT HIS FIRST QUARTER SECTION OF LAND, THE SE1/4 OF 25-8-21-W4. HE WORKED WINTERS AT THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION AND IN THE SUMMER HE WORKED WITH HORSES AND A SULKY PLOW, BREAKING AND SEEDING THE LAND. THERE WERE NO BUILDINGS ON THAT FIRST QUARTER SO FOR HIS FIRST HOME HE MOVED A SMALL HOUSE OUT FROM THE CITY TO LIVE IN… IN 1918 EMILY LEFT THE BOARDING HOUSE AT THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION AND WENT TO WORK IN THE HOME OF A LOCAL BANK MANAGER… IN 1920 EMILY MARIE LOUISE CHAREST AND JACOB DOGTEROM WERE MARRIED IN ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH IN LETHBRIDGE. THE TWO-ROOM HOUSE ON THE FARM BECAME A WORKSHOP WHEN A LARGER HOME WAS BUILT. THE FARM PROSPERED, AND IN 1929 THEY PURCHASED A SECOND QUARTER SECTION ADJOINING THE FIRST,” THE HISTORY READS. IT CONTINUED, “WHEN THE DEPRESSION HIT, IT WAS HARD TO MAKE ENDS MEET – WHEAT PRICES WERE LOW – BUT THE FAMILY HAD A LARGE GARDEN AND SOME PRODUCE WAS TRADED FOR STAPLES AND CLOTHING AT THE SUPINA MERCANTILE… EVERYONE WAS IN THE SAME PREDICAMENT THOUGH SO THE CHILDREN DID NOT NOTICE. THE FARM HAD COWS, CHICKENS AND THE LARGE GARDEN SO THEY ATE WELL. IN THE FALL THE BED TICKS WERE FILLED WITH FRESH SWEET-SMELLING STRAW WHICH WAS PRETTY FLAT AND THIN BY SPRING. HOMEWORK WAS DONE BY COAL OIL LAMPS SINCE ELECTRICITY WAS NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL 1946. MOTHER MADE HER OWN BUTTER AND CHEESE AND THE COOKIE JARS WERE USUALLY FILLED. COAL AND WOOD WERE USED FOR BOTH COOKING AND HEATING UNTIL 1960 WHEN PROPANE WAS INSTALLED.” “I WAS BORN ON JULY 26, 1926, THE FOURTH CHILD IN THE FAMILY. I HAD TWO SISTERS: MARIE AND MURIEL, AND FOUR BROTHERS: LOUIS, HENDRIK, FRANCIS AND RAYMOND” [SOURCE: PIONEER PEMMICAN CLUB ROUNDUP, 1984, P. 634-636]. PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P19930068001 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, INCLUDING FULL OBITUARIES AND LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES.

Catalogue Number

P19930068001

Acquisition Date

1993-11

Collection

Museum

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