Shown is an aerial view of McIntosh Field during Second World War from the exhibit. The airport was built during the war as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and was known as RCAF Station North Battleford. (Facebook/City of North Battleford Historic Archives)

By Angela Brown

Annual event

City Archives Week display focus on the 1940s

Feb 1, 2022 | 4:59 PM

The City of North Battleford plans to hold a special show again to honour Archives Week in the province.

The North Battleford Historic Archives display called “War and Peace: North Battleford in the 1940s” will run at the Discovery Co-op Mall from Feb. 10 to 12.

Archives volunteers Hugh McIvor, Terry Lumsdon, Tammy Donahue Buziak and Bill Wells helped organize the event. The city’s archivist and senior gallery assistant at the Allen Sapp Gallery and Chapel Gallery, Lynn Stace, was also involved in the project.

Due to COVID-19 precautions, the artifacts in the exhibition will be securely contained to prevent contact so visitors won’t be able to handle the materials as they would in previous years. But there will be plenty to enjoy nonetheless.

Wells said the display offers a wide variety of photographs, newspaper articles and advertising documenting this exciting period in the city’s history.

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“We tried to cover everything we could — business growth, fashion, entertainment, sports, whatever we ran across..,” he said. “I imagine there will be at least two to three hundred items for people to look at.”

Some of the people who come to see the display, Wells said, may have been around in the 1940s and would remember the period.

“We could do a whole [presentation] on the war, but really what we are talking about is what happened in the city,” he said. “One of the things that struck me was the amount of restrictions, the rationing, and the control the government at all levels imposed in order to get us through the war. Then, after the war is the prosperity.”

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