Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1920

Date Range To

1930

Materials

STEEL, FRENCH IVORY

No. Pieces

1

Length

12.0

Width

1.1

Description

FRENCH IVORY (CELLULOSE NITRATE) HANDLE AND NICKEL PLATED SHANK & BLADE "FRENCH IVORY" AND TRADEMARK ON HANDLE. SOME SURFACE CORROSION.

Subjects

TOILET ARTICLE

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, GRACE MARSHALL, ARRIVED IN ALBERTA IN 1909 FROM NOVA SCOTIA, VIA U.S.A. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED AN ARTIFACT AUDIT, WHICH INCLUDED A BUTTONHOOK AND CUTICLE KNIFE DONATED BY CATHERINE HARVEY. AS PART OF THE AUDIT PROCESS, PUNDYK CONNECTED WITH HARVEY’S DAUGHTER, CARL HARVEY-BARNES. ON OCTOBER 22, 2018, HARVEY-BARNES CAME INTO THE GALT MUSEUM TO REVIEW THE DONATION AND PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. SHE DID NOT HAVE SPECIFIC MEMORIES OF ANY OF THE FIVE ARTIFACTS DONATED BY HER MOTHER, BUT SUSPECTS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN FROM HER GRANDMOTHER’S DAILY LIFE. HARVEY-BARNES EXPLAINS THAT THE OBJECTS WOULD HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND IN HER GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE FOLLOWING HER 1961 PASSING. THE DONOR CONTRIBUTED HER FAMILY’S HISTORY TO THE COMMUNITY HISTORY BOOK TITLED “PIONEER PEMMICAN CLUB ROUNDUP 1885-1985” (PUBLISHED 1984). THE HISTORY READS: “ALEXANDER AND GRACE (MURRAY) MARSHALL WERE BOTH BORN IN PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA. IN THE EARLY 1900’S ALEX BOUGHT LAND IN THE AREA NOW KNOWN AS THE MCNALLY DISTRICT, SOUTH OF LETHBRIDGE. WHILE STILL A YOUNG MAN HE MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES WHERE HE AND GRACE WERE MARRIED. IN 1909, THE MARSHALLS WITH THEIR FOUR SONS: BILL, DON, GEORGE AND ALEX, MOVED FROM MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA, TO LETHBRIDGE, TO LOOK AFTER THE LAND THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY BOUGHT. ALEX, BROTHER-IN-LAW, GEORGE MURRAY, ARRIVED IN 1910 TO BE FOREMAN ON THE FARM WITH ALEX WAS MANAGER OF A. MACDONALD WHOLESALE GROCERS, WHICH WAS LATER PURCHASED BY WESTERN GROCERS. ALEX DIED IN 1917. IN ADDITION TO THEIR FOUR SONS, THE MARSHALLS HAD A DAUGHTER, CATHERINE, WHO WAS BORN IN LETHBRIDGE. THE ELDEST SON, BILL, DIED AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN YEARS AS THE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT AT THE TAYLOR MOLL ON THIRTEENTH STREET SOUTH. DON MARSHALL, A PILOT IN THE UNITED STATES MARINES, WAS LATER INVOLVED IN THE AVIATION BUSINESS. GEORGE SERVED IN THE CANADIAN ARMY DURING WORLD WAR II; FOLLOWING HIS DISCHARGE HE BECAME A PARTNER IN MCGUIRE’S MEN’S WEAR IN LETHBRIDGE. ALEX WAS A WELL-KNOWN FARMER IN THE MCNALLY DISTRICT. CATHERINE MARRIED WILLIAM “BILL” HARVEY, GENERAL MANAGER OF A LETHBRIDGE AUTOMOTIVE FRANCHISED DEALERSHIP. BILL HARVEY IS NOW DECEASED AND CATHERINE CONTINUES TO LIVE IN LETHBRIDGE. THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTER, JANET AND CARL.” ACCORDING TO HARVEY-BARNES, HER GRANDMOTHER, GRACE MARSHALL, LIVED IN A HOUSE CATHERINE HARVEY RENTED IN THE 1930S FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF HER HUSBAND. THE OBITUARY FOR GRACE MARSHALL PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 11, 1961 IN THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD STATES SHE WAS BORN AT LOGANVILLE, NOVA SCOTIA. SHE PASSED AWAY JANUARY 10, 1961 AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS. PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P19880060001 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION INCLUDING NOTES FROM THE GALT MEETING WITH CARL HARVEY-BARNES ALONG WITH COPIES OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD AND ADDITIONAL ARCHIVAL RESEARCH.

Catalogue Number

P19880060004

Acquisition Date

1988-09

Collection

Museum

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