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2282 A0074 Archives of Manitoba   Aboriginal trade tools.    Tools  
2268 A0073 Archives of Manitoba   Aboriginal trading tools.  Drawing by C.W. Jefferys.  Tools  
24425 A0817 Winnipeg Tribune Collection     An Inuit making fire with a primitive fire drill used before White Traders brought them matches.  Eskimos ▪ Fires ▪ Inuit ▪ Inventions ▪ Tools c. 1934
40845 A1365 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Collection     Artifacts At St. Andrew'S Anglican Church, In St. Andrew'S, Mb, Including Handmade Nails, Stonemason’S Hammer And Chisel, Used In Building The Church, Buffalo Hide Used As A Kneeling Pad, And Original Handmade Shingle  Artifacts ▪ Buffalo ▪ Buildings ▪ Churches ▪ Tools 1957, February 8
13504 A0417 Ernest Symons, Rocanville Collection     Blacksmith shop and crew. Men are wearing leather aprons. Note wagon wheels, hammer & tongs and sledge hammer.  Blacksmiths ▪ Buildings ▪ Equipment ▪ Labour ▪ Tools c. 1909
42510 A1403 Canadian National Railway Collection     C. H. Steele, Transportation Engineer And H. D. Cowan, Assistant General Superintendent Of Equipment Inspecting Hopper Doors On Grain Car Using What Looks Like A Hammer  Personalities ▪ Railways ▪ Tools 1970c
52411 A1590 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     City Of Winnipeg Employees Ron Overby (With Chainsaw) And Glen Mazowita Cut Down An Elm Tree With Dutch Elm Disease. They Are On The Bank Of The Red River  Disease ▪ Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Rivers ▪ Tools ▪ Trees 1987, January 28
71672 A2407 Miscellaneous Collection     Close Up Of A Polar Bear Pelt Being Prepared By An Inuit Woman (Only Her Hands Are Shown) Using An Ulu Scraping Tool.  Bears ▪ Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools ▪ Trapping ▪ Women  
71682 A2407 Miscellaneous Collection     Close-Up Of A Trapper’S Hands Preparing An Animal Trap In The Snow. A Savik Snow Knife Which He Used Is Lying In The Snow In Front Of The Mound Of Snow Hiding The Leg Iron Fox Trap  Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Foxes ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools ▪ Trapping  
71683 A2407 Miscellaneous Collection     Close-Up Of A Trapper’S Hands Preparing An Animal Trap In The Snow. A Savik Snow Knife Which He Used Is Lying In The Snow On The Left, With The Metal Leg Iron Trap Lying On The Left In Front Of Him  Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Foxes ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools ▪ Trapping  
71676 A2407 Miscellaneous Collection     Close-Up Of A Trapper’S Hands Preparing An Animal Trap In The Snow. The Bait Food Is In His Left Hand And A Savik Snow Knife In His Right Hand. The Metal Leg Hold Is On The Mound Of Snow In Front Of The Trapper  Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Food ▪ Foxes ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools ▪ Trapping  
71677 A2407 Miscellaneous Collection     Close-Up Of Inuit Trapper’ S Hands Removing Sinew From A Polar Bear Leg Using A Knife. Another Knife Is On The Floor Beside Him.  Bears ▪ Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Foxes ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools ▪ Trapping  
66444 A2150 Gait Agricultural Collection     Coal Sheds, Alberta Railway And Coal Co, Dunmore, Ab (Nt). Group Of Men, All Holding Shovels,Posed In Front Of Sheds  Agriculture ▪ Buildings ▪ Coal ▪ Railways ▪ Tools ▪ Towns 1890
11045 A0343 Gimli Historical Museum Collection     Cutting Long Grass With Scythe Near Gimli Park  Lawns ▪ Parks ▪ Tools ▪ Towns  
65422 A2111 Farm Light and Power Collection     Eugene Waker (L), Co-Owner Of Waker Farms Ltd, Swift Current, Sk, Showing The Power Tools In His Farm Shop To Pat Coolichan Of Swift Current  Agriculture ▪ Buildings ▪ Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools 1961
72598 A2447 Miscellaneous Collection     Farmer, Leonard Kiesman Heaves On The Pulling Chains Attached To New Born Calf Half Way In The Birth Canal Of Its Mother Cow While Dr. Sones, Veterinarian, Holds A Scalpel Ready To Enlarge The Incision If Necessary. (The Calf Was Delivered By Caesarean Section In The End)  Agriculture ▪ Cattle ▪ Costumes ▪ Equipment ▪ Medicine ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools  
50528 A1521 Winnipeg Archives     Gang Of Workers With Shovels And Equipment During Concrete Paving Operations On A Winnipeg Street After World War Ii  Construction ▪ Equipment ▪ Labour ▪ Tools ▪ Winnipeg Streets 1946c
11966 A0371 Ernest Symons, Rocanville Collection     George White & Sons Side-Mount Engine (Rear Axles Stub Attached To Side Of Firebox), Shorter Wheel Base But Tended To Rear Up Under Pull. Wood Separator With Wide Feeder, Dividing Board For Two Rows Of Sheaves To Keep From Overloading. Photo Courtesy Of A.C. Purvis, Carlyle, Sk  Agriculture ▪ Costumes ▪ Machinery ▪ Threshing ▪ Tools  
56533 A1727 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Hard Hatted Workers Use Jack Hammers To Break Up Concrete And Steel Retaining Walls On South Span Of Maryland Street Bridge  Bridges ▪ Construction ▪ Equipment ▪ Labour ▪ Tools ▪ Winnipeg Streets 1988, July 12
12586 A0389 Major L.J. Charles Collection     Hudson Bay Railway Construction. Excavating A Cut Near Present Day Gillam, Through Hardpan And Boulders, With Pick And Shovel And Loaded Into Cars To Be Pushed Out To And Built Into The Adjacent Embankment. The Cars Were Made Of Hewn Planks At The Site,  Construction ▪ Equipment ▪ Railways ▪ Tools 1915
58582 A1793 City of Winnipeg Hydro Collection     Hydro Construction  Construction ▪ Hydro ▪ Tools 1910, September 9
58583 A1793 City of Winnipeg Hydro Collection     Hydro Construction. Note The Wheelbarrow And Shovel  Construction ▪ Hydro ▪ Tools 1910, Septmber 2
17670 A0558 J.H. Ashdown Collection     Interior View Of J.H. Ashdown Hardware Store, Main Street, Winnipeg, Showing A Portion Of The Tool Section  Displays ▪ Stores ▪ Tools ▪ Winnipeg Buildings ▪ Winnipeg Streets  
1718 A0057 Archives of Manitoba     Inuit (Eskimo) At Work With Axe  Eskimos ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools  
17881 A0567 Institute of Arctic Research Collection     Inuit (Eskimo) Drilling Bone With Bow Drill At Coppermine River  Costumes ▪ Eskimos ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools  
17841 A0565 Institute of Arctic Research Collection     Inuit (Eskimo) Taktu Cleans Fat From Sealskin With An Ulu (Scraping Tool) At Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Eastern Arctic  Eskimos ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools 1960
66639 A2157 Nebraska Agriculture Collection     Ledbetter Family, Merna, Custer County, Nebraska, Posed In Front Of Their Sod House. Husband Is Holding Axe. Scrap Wood In Front Of Horses On Left  Agriculture ▪ Horses ▪ Houses ▪ Immigration ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools ▪ Women 1886
5850 A0186 Oblate Fathers' Collection     Metis Man Holding An Axe Standing On The Log Cabin He Is Building At Dog Creek, Camperville, Mb. The Logs Are Selected By Size And Length For The Walls. Each Log Is Notched To Accommodate Its Neighbour To Ensure A Good Fit. The Better The Fit, The More Stable The Structure; The Less Chinking Needed. Chinking Was Accomplished By Forcing Moss Between The Logs And Then A Mixture Of Mud And Straw Was Layered Over Top Of This  Buildings ▪ Cabins ▪ Construction ▪ Costumes ▪ Equipment ▪ Metis ▪ Tools  
14107 A0438 George Cotter Collection     Mr. H.M.S. Cotter Outside In Yard At Hbc Post At Rigolet. Note Gun And Tools On The Table He Is Standing Behind  Buildings ▪ Guns ▪ Hudson Bay Company ▪ Personalities ▪ Posts ▪ Tools  
66438 A2150 Gait Agricultural Collection     Neil Mccrea And George Shenton, And A Harnessed Horse In Front Of A Sod Shack, Enchant Area, Ab. One Man Is Holding A Sledge Hammer, The Other A Curved Pick  Agriculture ▪ Buildings ▪ Equipment ▪ Harness ▪ Horses ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools 1910
11968 A0371 Ernest Symons, Rocanville Collection     One Of First Icelandic Owned Threshing Outfits In Manitoba. 1901 - 1902. Sawyer & Massey Engine With Cast Wheels, Large Separator, Fully Equipped, Stack Threshing. Workers Are In Front Of The Machinery  Agriculture ▪ Costumes ▪ Labour ▪ Machinery ▪ Threshing ▪ Tools  
61085 A1945 Manitoba Cooperater Collection   Pool Packers worker with a chainsaw dividing a cattle carcass, Brandon, Manitoba.    Abattoirs ▪ Agriculture ▪ Cattle ▪ Equipment ▪ Industry ▪ Labour ▪ Tools ▪ Towns  
59930 A1897 Nebraska Agriculture Collection     Railroad Crew With Large Shovel At Work On The Union Pacific Railroad Line.  Construction ▪ Labour ▪ Machinery ▪ Railways ▪ Tools  
72375 A2440 Hugh Allan Collection (Dec./97)     Richard Comely (In Shirt And Tie), In Winnipeg, Mb, Producing A Cartoon Of “Captain Canuck” With Input From The Manager David Abbott (In Sweater). Photo By And Courtesy Of Hugh Allan  Art ▪ Cartoons ▪ Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools 1975, May 28
72373 A2440 Hugh Allan Collection (Dec./97)     Richard Comely In Winnipeg, Mb, At Work Producing The Cartoon Character "Captain Canuck". Richard Comely Is A Free Lance Artist Who Created "Captain Canuck". Note The Pen And The Drafting Board He Used And His Clothing. Title Of The Cartoon Is "Richard Comely Presents Captain Canuck The Brain Machine Part 1". Photo By And Courtesy Of Hugh Allan  Art ▪ Cartoons ▪ Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools 1975, May 30
72374 A2440 Hugh Allan Collection (Dec./97)     Richard Comely, In Winnipeg, Mb, Showing A Poster With His Cartoon Creation “Captain Canuck”. Photo By And Courtesy Of Hugh Allan  Art ▪ Cartoons ▪ Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Posters ▪ Tools 1975, May 30
10394 A0324 York Factory Collection     Sample Of Artifacts Displayed In Depot, York Factory. (Axe Heads)  Artifacts ▪ Buildings ▪ Displays ▪ Forts ▪ Tools 1977, August
10387 A0324 York Factory Collection     Sample Of Artifacts Displayed In Depot, York Factory. (Hand Tools)  Artifacts ▪ Buildings ▪ Displays ▪ Forts ▪ Tools 1977, August
10401 A0325 York Factory Collection     Sample Of Artifacts Displayed In Depot, York Factory. (Hand Tools)  Artifacts ▪ Buildings ▪ Displays ▪ Forts ▪ Tools 1977, August
38086 A1272 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Shovel Equipped Bush Fire Fighting Crews Near Lac Du Bonnet, Mb  Firefighters ▪ Fires ▪ Forestry ▪ Tools ▪ Towns 1953, May
57363 A1754 Gurling Collection     Site Of House Being Built, By W.A. Girling, A Transcona Building Contractor, In Tuxedo Area Of Winnipeg. A Cement Truck From Transit System Mixed Concrete, Building Products And Coal Company Limited And Crew At The Site  Construction ▪ Houses ▪ Tools ▪ Trucks ▪ Winnipeg Buildings 1933c
70713 A2321 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Collection     Stan Westaway, Cb.C Winnipeg’S Resident Horticultural Expert On Set Of Cbc Television Gardening Show. (4x5 Neg.)  Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Planting ▪ Programs ▪ Television ▪ Tools 1958, November
58985 A1810 Shipley Collection     Stewart (Left) And Harry Shipley Clearing The Brush With A Brush Scythe And Axe In Preparation For Breaking The Land At Grandview, Mb. Note The Hats Made By Their Mother Annie Shipley (Very Similar To The Tilley Hats Of Today (1999). Photo Courtesy Of Dorothy Shipley  Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools ▪ Towns 1932c
58477 A1790 City of Winnipeg Hydro Collection     Surveyor’S Instruments Seen In Front Of Log Buildings. Dining Building On Right At Pointe Du Bois, Mb  Buildings ▪ Dining ▪ Equipment ▪ Houses ▪ Hydro ▪ Surveying ▪ Tools 1912, August 19
11965 A0371 Ernest Symons, Rocanville Collection     Sveinson & Arason Outfit. One Of The Earliest Icelandic Owned Threshing Machines In Manitoba. L.D. Sawyer (Predecessor Of Sawyer And Massey) Engine. One Of The First Efforts At Making A Steam Traction Engine In Canada. Return Flue (Smoke Stack At Rear) Design. Large Diameter Short Boiler. Separator And Early Sawyer & Massey With Wood Wheels, Primitive Straw Carriers, Fargo Bagger For Grain, Hand Fed. Photo Courtesy Hon. Judge W.J. Lindal  Agriculture ▪ Costumes ▪ Machinery ▪ Threshing ▪ Tools 1896c
59107 A1814 Eaton's Store Collection     T. Eaton Co, Stereoscopic Image “Hardware And Stoves”. (See Image A1814-59106 For Write-Up)  Equipment ▪ Lavatories ▪ Machinery ▪ Stores ▪ Tools  
59087 A1813 Eaton's Store Collection     T. Eaton Co, Stereoscopic Image “Harness Department”. (See A1813-59086 For Write-Up)  Buggies ▪ Businesses ▪ Equipment ▪ Factories ▪ Harness ▪ Stores ▪ Tools ▪ Wagons  
59106 A1814 Eaton's Store Collection     T. Eaton Co, Write-Up “Hardware And Stoves” For Image A1814-59107  Machinery ▪ Stores ▪ Tools ▪ Utensils  
59086 A1813 Eaton's Store Collection     T. Eaton Co, Write-Up “Harness Department”. (See A1813-59087 For Image.)  Buggies ▪ Businesses ▪ Equipment ▪ Factories ▪ Harness ▪ Stores ▪ Tools ▪ Wagons  
8150 A0255 Rev. R.T. Chapin Collection     Three Metis Men At Island Lake, Mb, Mixing Mud And Straw With Their Feet. The Mud Is Mixed With Straw & Used To Plaster Over The Logs In Walls And Improve Insulation. To Begin This Task, First A Hole Is Dug In The Ground To Get Below The Topsoil; Then The Hole Is Filled With Water And Selected Clay Is Added. The Men Mix This With Their Feet, Getting A Good Consistency With The Mud. Too Dense A Consistency Would Not Allow The Straw To Mix Well In The Mud And Too Thin Would Not Be Good Either Because It Would Lack Stability. A Fence And A Building Are Behind The Men  Buildings ▪ Cabins ▪ Construction ▪ Costumes ▪ Fences ▪ Metis ▪ Tools 1924c
7035 A0220 Manitoba Cooperater Collection     Tool House At Cannington Manor, Sk  Agriculture ▪ Buildings ▪ Houses ▪ Tools  
57362 A1754 Gurling Collection     Transcona Building Contractor, W.A. Girling (Extreme Left), With His Crew Building Houses In Tuxedo Area Of Winnipeg, Mb  Construction ▪ Equipment ▪ Houses ▪ Labour ▪ Tools ▪ Winnipeg Buildings 1933c
71673 A2407 Miscellaneous Collection     Trapper Preparing And Setting A Trap For An Arctic Fox Using A Savik Snow Knife  Costumes ▪ Equipment ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Tools ▪ Trapping  
71681 A2407 Miscellaneous Collection     Two Inuit Women Fleshing A Polar Bear Using Atraditional Ulus  Bears ▪ Costumes ▪ Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Fur Trade ▪ Inuit ▪ Tools ▪ Trapping ▪ Women  
71602 A2405 Miscellaneous Collection     Two Young Inuit (Eskimo) Men Working On An Engine During A Course From October 1st, 1967 To March 31st, 1968, Inside A Room At The Canadian Forces Base In Chilliwak, Bc  Bases ▪ Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Inuit ▪ Machinery ▪ Military ▪ Tools 1967
16 A002 Miscellaneous Collection     Ukrainian Men Beating Grain With A Flail (Threshing Tool) To Separate The Grain (Seed) From The Chaff (Straw) Of Wheat  Agriculture ▪ Costumes ▪ Threshing ▪ Tools ▪ Ukrainians ▪ Wheat  
58987 A1810 Shipley Collection     William Shipley, And Sons (L- R): Harry, Tom, And Stewart, Standing In Front Of A Pile Of Wood They Cut For Their Winter Supply Using Axes And A Large Two- Man Saw In Winter Of 1926 Or1927 At Grandview, Mb. Farm. Photo Courtesy Of Dorothy Shipley  Equipment ▪ Personalities ▪ Tools ▪ Towns ▪ Wood 1926c
58144 A1779 City of Winnipeg Hydro Collection     Women And A Surveyor With Surveyor’S Instruments, Seen In Front Of The Camp At Hydro Site, Probably Pointe Du Bois, Mb  Camps ▪ Equipment ▪ Hydro ▪ Surveying ▪ Tools ▪ Women 1906c
30190 A1007 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Work Crew Shovelling Sand Onto Winnipeg Street From Back Of Truck  Labour ▪ Tools ▪ Trucks ▪ Winnipeg Streets 1962, February 13
11969 A0371 Ernest Symons, Rocanville Collection     Workers Posing In Front Of The Sawyer & Massey Compound Engine From Oak Lake Area Of Manitoba. Outfit Owned By Ed Dobson Of Bradwardine Who Usually Threshed 6 - 8 Sections For Farmers In Kenton , Lenore , Oak River, Harding And Bradwrdine Districts. Average Crew Was Twenty Men.. "Ham" Headlight (Note Stable Lanter Inside). Condensation Lubricator, Mechanical Oil Pump, Wood Body Separator With Old Type Rotary Band Cutter Self Feeder  Agriculture ▪ Costumes ▪ Labour ▪ Machinery ▪ Threshing ▪ Tools 1906
64757 A2084 P.F.R.A., Regina Collection     Workers With Shovels Breaking Up Ice In A Canal In The Ross Creek Irrigation District  Agriculture ▪ Canals ▪ Ice ▪ Irrigation ▪ Labour ▪ Tools 1950, April
71604 A2405 Miscellaneous Collection     Young Inuit (Eskimo) Men Constructing A Boat During A Course From October 1st, 1967 To March 31st, 1968, Inside The Canadian Forces Base In Chilliwak, Bc. Sign On Wall Reads “No Smoking Plastics”  Bases ▪ Boats ▪ Construction ▪ Eskimos ▪ Inuit ▪ Military ▪ Signs ▪ Tools 1967
71601 A2405 Miscellaneous Collection     Young Inuit men building the frame of a boat during a course from October 1st, 1967 to March 31st, 1968, inside a shops room at the Canadian Forces Base in Chilliwack, British Columbia.  Bases ▪ Buildings ▪ Construction ▪ Equipment ▪ Eskimos ▪ Inuit ▪ Military ▪ Tools 1967
72650 A2449 Miscellaneous Collection     Young Men And Women Sweeping The Alley (Back Lane) Of Albert Street And Painting Over The Graffiti On The Buildings During The Albert Street Clean-Up On September 12, 1971. Note The Iron Fire Escapes On The Outside Of The Buildings. A "No Parking Any Time" Sign Is In The Alley"  Costumes ▪ Signs ▪ Tools ▪ Winnipeg Buildings ▪ Winnipeg Streets 1971, September 12