Float in Parade
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- Date
- 1985
- Format
- textual records
- photographic
- Collection/Fonds
- Peter Hessel collection
- Description Level
- File
- Fonds No.
- 0021
- Series
- 1
- Subseries
- FLO
- Scope and Content
- File consists of:
- 1. Clipping from local paper (1985) under McNab Township Council Notes, subheading: “Float in Salute parade”. Key terms: McNab Township Heritage and Museum Committee, CBO Salute, Salute to the Valley, Murray Yantha.
- 2. Clipping of photo from Chronicle-Guide, Aug. 21, 1985, showing float. Murray Yantha, standing in kilt (depicting the Laird of McNab), sitting with thrashing flail: Willard Campbell, beside him: Olive Somerville; standing with fiery cross: Bill Mitchell of Waba, sitting below him: Brenda Storie of White Lake.
- 3. Text of sign carried on the float, regarding the 125th anniversary of the Laird of McNab’s death, and the 160th anniversary of the first McNab settlers.
- 4. Photocopy of Peter Hessel’s article in the Chronicle-Guide of June 17, 1985, “History without pain” — Part 1 of 2 articles about the forthcoming “Salute”.
- 5. Photocopy of Peter Hessel’s article in the Chronicle-Guide of June 24, 1985, “Two secret anniversaries” — Part 2 of 2 articles about the forthcoming “Salute”.
- 6. Handwritten notes by Peter Hessel and photocopy of a dictionary definition of “fiery cross”.
- 7. Handwritten notes by Peter Hessel with names of people involved in the McNab Heritage and Museum Committee
- 8. Typewritten checklist by Peter Hessel re the float and Heritage Day.
- 9. Two Polaroid snapshots of the float. [Note: Peter Hessel has a whole series of colour photos in an album].
- 10. Blank letterheads and envelope of Township of McNab (issued for the Centennial of 1967).
- 11. Handwritten letter on McNab stationery by Janet Carmichael to Peter Hessel, dated July 29, 1985, re the float in the parade.
- 12. Typed letter from the McNab Heritage and Museum Committee, signed by Brenda Storie, to Peter Hessel, dated March 21, 1986, following Peter Hessel’s resignation from the committee.
- Notes
- See also files “Waba Cottage Museum” and “Heritage Days, McNab (1984, 1992)” in Peter Hessel Fond.
- Accession No.
- 1994-0021