Métis Woman in Front of Her Home, Crescent Lake


Title: Métis Woman in Front of Her Home, Crescent Lake
Subject: Crescent Lake, Road Allowance, Homes
Description: This is a photograph of a Métis woman in front of her home in Crescent Lake and was taken in the 1950s.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: 1950s
Type: Image
Date of Copyright: January 23, 2025
Coverage: Crescent Lake, Saskatchewan
GDI Media Filename: Metis Woman in front of her home, Crescent Lake, Nancy Leake.jpg

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Category Leake, Nancy Photograph Collection