Collection search - "The South Sask Dam Issue" (i.e. the Gardiner Dam) - Liberal federal Minister of Agriculture, James Garfield (J.G.) Gardiner and the issue of the promotion of the South Saskatchewan River Dam development in the 1957 federal election campaign

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: recto, in brush with black India ink, t.l., to t.r.: EARLY CANADIANA / THIS PRAIRIE PRIMITIVE DEPICTS THE SHOOTING OF THE / RAPIDS BY KISIS-TSIKUM-INA (THUNDER CHIEF.) THE RITE IS / PERFORMED SUCCESSFULLY EVERY FOUR YEARS IN THE / WEST BY THE FAMOUS CHIEF!; on the sign at the top of the dam, on the grassy area at the u.l.: THE / SOCIALIST / BAND; on the sign at the top of the dam, on the grassy area at the u.r.: THE / TORY / TRIBE; on the book being held by the figure of J. G. Gardiner sitting in the canoe and on the page that he is holding in his right hand which he has just torn from the same book, u.c.: HANSARD; on the right side of the canoe, u.c.: J G GARDINER; in lead pencil on the façade of the dam, c.l.: THE / SOUTH / SASK / DAM / ISSUE; in brush with black India ink, l.r.: SCURVIER & HIVES / PRINT / BY / CHAS.E.BELL / REGINA.; on the water at the foot of the Dam, b.r.: ELECTION RIVER (partial transcription)