To commemorate one hundred years of Confederation July 1, 1867 — July 1, 1967 the following projects were constructed in Crescent Park Art Museum • Outdoor Swimming Pool • Natatorium Renovations • Park Lighting • Park Sprinkling System • Landscape . . . — — Map (db m289134) HM
The opening of Moose Jaw's central fire hall in 1910 was a long-awaited event. The fire hall was designed in 1907 but construction was delayed when city council spent two years searching for the right building site.
At the time of its opening, . . . — — Map (db m196929) HM
Architect: David Ewart, Ottawa • Contractor: McDiarmid & Co., Winnipeg
The Dominion of Canada's Chief Architect adapted his standard Public Building design (similar buildings remain in Vancouver, Lethbridge and Regina) to create a . . . — — Map (db m196925) HM
Architects: Sholto Smith, Moose Jaw • W.A. Elliott, Brandon
Contractor: Navin Brothers
After a 2-year delay in building, while city council searched for an appropriate site, the Fire Hall was constructed featuring a 60-foot hose . . . — — Map (db m196928) HM
When CPR construction reached here in September 1882, this view was part of a hay flat in the broad valley of Thunder Creek.
Main Street divided the two sections of land reserved for the Moose Jaw townsite. In the beginning, the thoroughfare “was . . . — — Map (db m196924) HM
[left side] Originally constructed by the Royal Bank of Canada in 1914, at a cost of $100,000, this terra cotta clad Beaux-Arts structure subsequently served for a time as home to the Bank of Montreal until 2008, when it was . . . — — Map (db m288898) HM
Moose Jaw Court House
This building is the first example of the system of new
district facilities commissioned by the Government of
Saskatchewan after the formation of the province in
1905. Completed in 1909, it is atypical of . . . — — Map (db m288977) HM
The Moose Jaw courthouse, completed in January 1909, is the oldest continuously functioning provincial court building in Saskatchewan. It replaced an earlier wood frame Court House at High Street and 9th Avenue which was built in 1893 and demolished . . . — — Map (db m288976) HM
Private George Price was born on December 15th 1892 in Kings County, Nova Scotia. As a young man he moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the 210th Infantry Battalion (Frontiersmen), Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.) in Moose Jaw on . . . — — Map (db m202457) HM
Architect: Reid & McAlpine, Moose Jaw • Contractor: Peter Lyall & Sons, Montreal
In1911, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, skeptical of Moose Jaw's population claims, refused a request for a $50,000 library grant. Undaunted, the city . . . — — Map (db m196926) HM
