Round 3 ended on June 15, 2023 when Yvonne Sawatzky took home a Jackpot of $17,768! (Photo not available.)
ROUND 2: OCTOBER 2021 – MAY 2022
Cheryl Rowswell won the Jackpot on May 26, 2022. Cheryl’s winnings included $838 on the Ticket Draw & the $21,054 Jackpot for a grand total of $21, 892!
Round 2 Jackpot Winner Cheryl Rowswell
ROUND 1: JUNE – AUGUST 2021
The Ace was drawn on August 5, 2021 only 9 weeks into play. Larry Thalheimer from Unity had the lucky ticket to win the Jackpot of $10,626!
Round 1 Jackpot Winner Larry Thalheimer with Mayor Gwenn Kaye
Many thanks go out to all the Cut Knife Chase the Ace supporters. That includes all the volunteers involved with organizing the ticket sales and draws; the local businesses and services that facilitate in-person purchases; the community members who buy tickets, share Facebook and blog posts, and talk-up the event to their friends, and the Lucerne Hotel for providing the venue.
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists Wins Award
On November 8, 2023, the SCAA was the recipient of a 2023 Saskatchewan Heritage Award for their Archives Week Video Project 2022. The Heritage Saskatchewan award presentations took place at Government House in Regina.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Archives Week Video Project 2022 was created by our team to celebrate the annual SCAA Archives Week in a series of daily video clips whereby our members showcased their successes and achievements of the past year; and also displayed the hard work and dedication of archivists in preserving the vibrant history of the province.
The CMMM has been a member of the SCAA for more than a dozen years. When all of our archival materials came together under one roof, the SCAA Archives Advisor made a trip to Cut Knife to advise on its set up. They have continued to support us with information, recommendations, and at times, funding. We have participated in Saskatchewan Archives Week activities with Open Houses, digital exhibits, and blog posts focusing on local research. Our Resident Archivist, Lucille B. and many other Board members and volunteers have taken SCAA course work in a wide variety of archival topics.
The work of the SCAA in this province is vital to the preservation of local histories. The Cut Knife Museum and Archives congratulates the SCAA organization and all of the individuals involved with the Archives Week Video Project 2022 for this well-deserved recognition.
They will never know the beauty of this place, see the seasons change, enjoy nature’s chorus. All we enjoy we owe to them, men and women who lie buried in the earth of foreign lands and in the seven seas.
Government of Canada
and to honour those who served in wartime…
NEW EXHIBIT: F. V. Burden, Rockhaven, SK
The CMMM’s most recent acquisitions are from the family of Frederick Victor Burden from the Rockhaven area. Vic Burden served in WW II as an Aero Engine Mechanic at RCAF Trenton in Ontario. Click here to read the full story of his service. His uniforms, documentation, and additional artifacts are currently on display in the Cut Knife Library.
Frederick Victor Burden’s uniforms and duffle bag on display in the Cut Knife Library. Visit at 113 Broad Street to view additional documents and artifacts.
On Thursday, October 26, two members of the Canadian Armed Forces Governor General’s Foot Guards (Ottawa) and two members of the North Saskatchewan Regiment (Saskatoon) toured the Museum. They had travelled to the area to meet with Eric Tootoosis and other representatives of Poundmaker Cree Nation regarding potential Reconciliation activities in 2024. Eric then referred them to the Museum and Randy S. was available to tour them through the exhibits.
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S FOOT GUARDS
The Governor General’s Foot Guards (GGFG) was established in 1872 in Ottawa and is still headquartered there. Currently, the GGFG provide operational support to regular CAF deployments around the world including United Nations and NATO activities. It also has emergency response capabilities that assist Canadians during natural disasters or emergencies like the 1998 Ice Storm, floods, and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Members of the Regiment… provided a company of sharpshooters to the Battleford column during the North West Rebellion, where the Regiment suffered its first two casualties at the battle of Cut Knife Hill.
Lieutenant Colonel Jaime Bell (Commanding Officer) and Chief Warrant Officer Greg Witol (Regimental Sargeant Major) of the Governor General’s Foot Guards, and Chief Warrant Officer Jason Balcaen (Regimental Sargeant Major) and Master Warrant Officer Robert Brown (Indigenous Advisor to the Commander of the Canadian Army) of the North Saskatchewan Regiment enjoyed their tour. Of special note in the Exhibits building was the display of stone tools, the information on the 1885 Northwest Resistance, and from a military perspective, finding that the artillery used at the time had rifling on the projectile rather than the barrel of the gun. The group also spent some time going over the railway history of the North-West Territories, and the story of Bert Martin’s Cabin produced a chuckle.
Left to right: CWO Greg Witol, LCol Jaime Bell, MWO Robert Brown & CWO Jason Balcaen
Amy Rowswell (née Stephens) purchased this Remington Portable No. 5 typewriter in 1942. At the time, she was a student at the Normal School in Saskatoon studying to be a teacher. After receiving her certificate, she returned to Rockhaven to teach at Baldwinton, where she met Jack Rowswell. They married in 1952. Amy and Jack farmed south of Baldwinton, had three children, and eventually retired to the Town of Cut Knife.
Amy passed away in June 2023 and her family has kindly donated numerous items of historical value to the Clayton McLain Memorial Museum. Many personal stories will be attached to this machine. After all, it had been a part of the family for more than 80 years. However, this machine is also valuable in that Amy’s story points us to other stories, too.
THE TYPEWRITER
The idea of the typewriter first appears in 1714 as a Machine for Transcribing Letters, then again in 1830 as a typographer, but it’s not until the mid-1870s, that the typewriter appears on the market. Philo Remington, gun manufacturer, had purchased the production rights from Sholes, Soulé, and Glidden in 1873. In 1874, the Remington No. 1 was in production. By 1942, when Amy purchased her machine, typewriters were everywhere.
Typewriters became commonplace in office settings but also in people’s homes. They transformed the way people composed and produced written content and facilitate the process of manuscript preparation, typing letters and drafting professional documents.
Normal Schools were teacher training facilities created and funded by provincial governments. These institutions were designed to address the increased need for elementary school educators in the newly established public education systems.
The term “normal” derived from France’s École normale supérieure of the 1790s, and implied that teaching methods used therein would become the norm for all schools within the government’s jurisdiction.
The school at Baldwinton, SD #4762, was one of many hundreds of one-room schoolhouses built in Saskatchewan in the early days of settlement. As both population and educational expectations increased, one-room schools were replaced with larger buildings appropriate for separate grade levels and multiple teachers. Baldwinton was in operation from 1929 – 1965.
These buildings were respected as centers of learning; they hosted community events; they were recognized as the framework within which the community grew – for the years they remained open.
Clayton McLain Memorial Museum 
