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ALLWOOD - FRYDENLUND Story

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John Allwood Harness Shop
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Absalom Rice confectionary
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Gathering the eggs.
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Sharpening Fence Posts
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Bridal Party - Wedding of Juel & Jean

Home Town or Home Community:
Saskatoon & Allan, SK

Our Story:
THE ALLWOOD-FRYDENLUND STORY

By

Jean Allwood Frydenlund

Smells evoke the strongest memories of all, it is said, and I would not dispute it. Each time I step inside the harness shop at Saskatoon’s Western Development Museum, the smell of leather takes me back to such a shop on Broadway Avenue and I am standing once again on the worn wood floor, subconsciously absorbing the sights and sounds and smells that went with the trade.
The shop had a large front window. Children liked to stand outside and gaze, fascinated, at the plaster model, perhaps two feet high, of the  ...more Story

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Western Development Museum

Contact:
Jean Frydenlund
1033 9th Street East
Saskatoon SK S7H 0M3
Canada