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Years of dedication: Adrian Paton’s extensive photo collection digitized Kelly Running Observer Staff
Knowing one’s history is an important step to knowing one’s heritage. In Arcola, Adrian Paton, has dedicated years to collecting photographs which depict Saskatchewan’s early history. Beginning in the late 1980s when he received his grandmother’s photo album his passion expanded in 1993 while working on a local history project. His years of dedication have coalesced in the creation of a travelling exhibit by the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society. The exhibit was unveiled on Sunday, Nov. 29, in Arcola where the display will stay for three months before travelling to libraries and schools across the province. The President of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society, Keith Carlson, explained that when the Society first approached Paton in relation to the collection that, “We asked what he wanted to see done with his collection, and Adrian being a generous man simply said he wanted people to see them and to share them.” Ultimately the best way to do that was to send out two history students from the University of Saskatchewan for two summers to digitize over 800 photographs, although Paton has approximately 8,000 images in his possession. Initially worried that when they arrived there would simply be a drawer filled with photos strewn about, they were happily surprised when they discovered Paton had
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Adrian Paton proudly stands next to a display the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society put together based on his collection of historical photos and knowledge of Saskatchewan histories. put effort into his collection throughout the years having catalogued and filed everything. “It’s a fantastic collection,” Carlson exclaimed. With the photos digitized, they can now be viewed online, on the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society’s webpage: http://shfs.ca/. In addition to the photos compiled online, the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society wanted to create something more tangible, something that would also include brief written histories putting the images into context, thus the travelling exhibit was created based on the themes Paton had
categorized them in. The exhibit comes with a teacher’s guide as well for grades three to five, which helps teachers fit the exhibit into their provincial curriculum. “I would like to thank everybody for coming,” Paton said to the amassed crowd which filled the Arcola Library. “I’m always asked why I do this, why I started collecting, and I’ve never had an answer. I just started and it began to grow. I’ve been asked where I get them and I now have over 300 donors, and many of you in this room are included in that.”
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