Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

GLASS DOME

Date

1909

Materials

BRASS, STEEL, GLASS

No. Pieces

3

Height

30.0

Diameter

19.8

Description

GLASS DOME TYPE CLOCK WITH BRASS BASE & WORKINGS. GOTHIC NUMBERS ON FACE. ENGRAVED ON BASE: "PRESENTED TO JOHN MACFARLAND BY STRATHCONA FRIENDS MAY 31ST 1909" GLASS DOME IS REMOVABLE. MECHANICAL SPRING WOUND CLOCK INCLUDES WINDING KEY. HOLLOW BASE HAS TIN COVERING. DETACHABLE WEIGHT HAS THREADED FITTING TO ADJUST. MARKED "S" "F". CASEWORKS REVERSE STAMPED "71490".

Subjects

TIMEKEEPING T&E

Historical Association

COMMEMORATIVE

History

DONOR MARJ WELCH STATED IN 2006 THAT SHE THOUGHT SHE RECEIVED THE CLOCK FROM GRANDPARENTS NORMAN AND MARGARET MACLEOD (NEE SHERLOCK). NORMAN ARRIVED IN LETHBRIDGE PRE-1905, COMING FROM CENTRAL CANADA. SHE HAS NO MEMORY OR KNOWLEDGE OF SENATOR MACFARLAND. SHE SPECULATED THAT MACFARLAND'S NAME MAY ALSO APPEAR ON A WEDDING COLLAR SHE DONATED. WELCH RECALLS HER OWN DISPLAY OF THE CLOCK ON HER BUFFET AND HER TROUBLE MOVING IT. IT WAS DONATED TO THE GALT WHEN HUSBAND JACK BUILT A GRANDFATHER CLOCK FOR THE WELCH HOME. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS, INCLUDING ONE DONATED BY MARJORIE WELCH'S MOTHER, NORA EVERSON. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHERLOCK/MACLEOD FAMILY, SEE RECORDS P19960108000 AND P19740093000. *UPDATE* IN 2021 TWO COLLECTIONS ASSISTANTS, RYLEY GELINAS AND O. E., CONDUCTED AN AUDIT OF THE ROLLED TEXTILE COLLECTION, INCLUDING SEVERAL TEXTILES DONATED BY MARJORIE AND JACK WELCH. ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2021, GELINAS INTERVIEWED PADDIE WALMSLEY, THE DONORS’ DAUGHTER, ABOUT HER PARENTS’ DONATION AND HER MEMORIES OF THE OBJECTS OF THIS DONATION, INCLUDING A CLOCK. WALMSLEY EXPLAINED THAT SHE VIVIDLY REMEMBERS THE CLOCK ON DISPLAY IN BOTH HER GRANDMOTHER’S AND PARENT’S HOUSE: “IT WAS AT MY GRANDMOTHER’S [NORA EVERSON’S]. I CAN REMEMBER IT ON A MANTLE AND THEN IT SAT ON MY MOM AND DAD’S [MARJORIE AND JACK WELCH’S] DINING ROOM HUTCH.” WALMSLEY ELABORATED THAT THE CLOCK WAS ON DISPLAY AT THE WELCH’S HOME AND THAT HER FATHER “BUILT TWO GRANDFATHER CLOCKS AND A GRANDDAUGHTER CLOCK,” WHICH REPLACED THIS ONE. “THEY LOVED BEAUTIFUL THINGS,” WALMSLEY SAYS OF HER PARENTS. “MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, HAD A BEAUTIFUL HOME WITH THINGS ON DISPLAY AND IT WAS ALWAYS THINGS, YOU KNOW OF, NOT VALUE, BUT THINGS OF IMPORTANCE TO HER.” WALMSLEY STATED THAT OBJECTS OF THE COLLECTION WERE DONATED TO THE MUSEUM BY HER PARENTS AS A WAY TO PRESERVE THE HISTORY: “SHE [MARJORIE WELCH] KNEW THE VALUE OF HISTORY AND THAT WAS KIND HER THING… AND MOM JUST WANTED, WOULD WANT SOMEBODY ELSE TO ENJOY THEM, AND YOU KNOW, TO KNOW THE HISTORY AND SEE IT.”

Catalogue Number

P19920058005

Acquisition Date

1992-11

Collection

Museum

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