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Sparta- Santa Parade
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- December 8, 1951
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3492
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3493
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3494
- Other Title Info
- The caption of 1_3494 from the Times-Journal reflects the time period when it was created and uses language and terminology that is offensive today. The original caption was retained to ensure that attitudes and viewpoints of that time are not erased from the historial record.
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 51-3055 (1_3492)
- 51-3056 (1_3493)
- 51-3050 (1_3494)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3492
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3493
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3494
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- December 8, 1951
- Publication
- 1_3493, 1_3492 and 1_3494 were published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on December 10, 1951, page five.
- Physical Description
- 3 negatives: plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of the Santa Parade that took place in Sparta.
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal, December 10, 1951, page five: “Santa Claus Makes Visit to Sparta: Spectacular Parade Attends Santa’s Annual Visit to Sparta.”
1_3493: “Santa Claus never received a heartier welcome than was accorded to him Saturday afternoon, when he paid his annual visit to Sparta and gave out sacks of candied and apples to little boys and girls at the Pioneer Forge and Anvil, now Sparta’s community centre. The children on hand to welcome Santa Claus were so numerous that he had some difficulty getting into the building. Members of the Sparta Community Club assisted him in handing out the gifts.”
1_3492: “Santa Claus almost lost his voice, Saturday afternoon, calling to the hundreds of little girls and boys of the Sparta district who attended the Sparta Community Club’s annual Christmas parade. Santa came as a personal guest of Don Kay and rode in state in an old-fashioned horse cutter, mounted on a decorated tractor trailer. George Gruber had the privilege of driving the tractor that pulled Santa Claus in the parade.”
1_3494: “A note of novelty was introduced into the Sparta Community Club’s Santa Claus parade, Saturday, in the igloo float, depicting a Frozen North scene with little Donna Denniss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Denniss, impersonating a little Eskimo girl in the entrance to her ice and snow home, with the Denniss’ collie, taking the role of a husky, beside her. The little girl is looking to the north for Santa Claus. A direction sign points to the North Pole.”
- Name Access
- Sparta (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Parades
- Christmas
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B11 11_345
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