Looking south on Boundary Avenue
What year? The cars look like late 50's.
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A message from Ted Cardwell about the picture.
From 1940-46 I lived in the house with the car in front of it on the street to the far left as you face the picture. The truck belonged to my uncle Alvin Seymour, and the car probably to Margaret Seymour (later married to Sham Regan who lived on the Fort San road across from PCTC. The white two story building to the south of the cars bordering on main street at one time was the home to a very good painter by the name of Marion Hamilton. Next to that building I think was Vic Box's garage on the south side of the street. The house prominent on the north end of the street to the left (now called Pasqua?) was Reekie's. Bill Seymour lives here in Saskatoon and would have a good idea of dates. His dad and our grandfather started Seymours Meat Market and Locker Plan. It seems to me that Reekie's expanded their store to fill up the space between them and McLeod's hardware to the east. Neidermyers ran the restaurant to the west of Reekie's store. My guess is the mid fifties for the picture.
A message from Bill Seymour about the picture.
What a great picture. Dad's butcher shop, Reekie's store, McLeod's Hardware, Valley Cafe, WOW!!! I remember going to school from my house (just where Ted said my dad's truck was) down the back alley by Savages, across Gabriel's bulk fuel station, down main street by Saunders, Hansen Hardware, Hancock's dentist office(which I feared), by the Post Office/ Police Station, cross the street, another back alley and then onto the school yard. 12 years of that...I loved this picture and going back to look at that time. Mom and Dad, Richard Morris, Andrew Goffinet and Norman and Rody McLeod. I loved my youth.
A message from Jim Scott about the picture.
In the early 1950's my grandmother, Emily Scott, lived in the small cottage in the left of the photograph, with what appears to be a school bus sitting in front of it. There was a small porch on the north side, to the near side of the picture, and inside there was a small living room/kitchen on the left, and a bedroom on the right. Whenever we went to visit Granny it was always a bit of a treat to go and play in the old auto wrecks that lay between her cottage and Solvey Motors, to the right (west). There was a fairly large garden plot behind the cottage, and our family planted potatoes there for a few years. Harvesting the crop was not a favourite activity of mine. Unfortunately our family left the valley in very early 1955 for Moose Jaw, but I still think of myself as being from Lebret, Fort San, and the Fort after all these years.