Crescent Lake School Square Dancing Troupe, with Dorothy Azure Playing Piano, 1952 or 1953


Title: Crescent Lake School Square Dancing Troupe, with Dorothy Azure Playing Piano, 1952 or 1953
Subject: Crescent Lake, Leake, School, Allary, Square Dancing, Azure
Description: This is a photograph of the Crescent Lake Square Dancing Troupe taken in 1952 or 1953. Dorothy Azure is on piano. This photograph is part of the Nancy Leake Collection. This photograph is for research purposes only and cannot be preproduced. In 2017, Nancy Leake (née Hirsch) donated several archival files relating to her family’s experience of living in Crescent Lake, Saskatchewan—a Métis road allowance community. In 1946, her father, John S. Hirsch (1898-1995) was hired as the school’s first schoolteacher and community relief worker. Her mother, Elizabeth Mary Hirsch (1914-2013) also taught at Crescent Lake School. The Hirsch family lived and worked in Crescent Lake for ten years from 1946 to 1956. Nancy has many wonderful memories of living in Crescent Lake, which she wrote about in her memoires and is included in this collection. The Nancy Leake Collection consists of the following items: 1) Her memoirs of Crescent Lake School; 2) Elven Daily School Registers for the School prepared by her father, John S. Hirsch; and 3) 57 photographs.
Date: 1952, 1953
Type: Image
Date of Copyright: January 23, 2025
Coverage: Crescent Lake, Saskatchewan
GDI Media Filename: Crescent Lake, School Square Dancing Group. Piano-Dorothy Azure 1952 or '53, Nancy Leake.jpg

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