Last week Kamsack residents were circulating an Internet website address that includes access to 40 old photographs of Kamsack, some of which had never been seen by current residents.
It’s called Images of Prairie Towns and it is located at www.prairie-towns.com.
“This website is designed to preserve and display historical images of Western Canadian towns,” it says. “It is not complete and hopefully never will be. The majority of the images of Saskatchewan towns are from the postcard collection of Don Kaye.
“Because of the size of this project it is inevitable there will errors on the website,” it said, urging visitors to the site to send an email via the "contact" button so that corrections can be made.
The Kamsack pages have the 40 photographs posted under the following headings: town views, street views, railway, schools, churches, commercial buildings, public buildings, residential, rural and family. One error is that among the residential photos is the Doukhobor Prayer Home in Veregin.
As of November 1 the website contained a total of 393 towns in Saskatchewan with 6,078 images, including the photos from Kamsack; three of Pelly; four of Norquay and several of Canora.
It also contains 220 towns in Alberta with 1,862 images, and 143 towns in Manitoba with 920 images.
Among the photographs are images from the Peel Postcard Library at the University of Alberta; the collection of the Glenbow Archives in Calgary; the collection of the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre in Medicine Hat, and from the city of Leduc photo collection.
“If anyone wishes to contribute images or information that would be greatly appreciated,” the website says. “Please send an email if you have anything of interest.”
