Summary information
| Repository: | South Peace Regional Archives |
| Title: | Lettington-Hogg fonds |
| Reference code: | 0496 |
| Date: | [1931-1932] (date of creation) |
| Physical description: | 8 photographs
1 album (5 pp.) |
| Dates of creation, revision and deletion: | Processed by Mary Nutting, September 2012 Added to new database November 2024 – TD |
Administrative history / Biographical sketch
Osborne Hogg was born in Delburne, Alberta and came up to the Peace Country in 1922 with his parents, William and Mary Hogg, four brothers and three sisters. They settled in the Hythe district, living first at Gimle, then near Goodfare. Two of the Hogg boys—Barney and Maurice (Jim)—were well-known bronc riders at the local stampedes, and Osborne often joined them.
One of the stampedes on the Hogg boys circuit was St. George’s Ranch, located on several sections in Township 71, Range 13, midway between Rio Grande and Goodfare, in the Windsor Creek district. The ranch was operated from 1927 to 1938 by the Fred McFadzen family who organized an annual rodeo at the ranch. This was a gala affair concluding with a dance in the evening, and people came from miles around to join in the excitement.
Hannah “Nance” Alice Lettington was born in Winona, Ontario. Her parents came originally from England, and settled in Ontario. Her father was killed in World War I, but as the older children came of age, mother Emily decided to come west with Hannah and her two older siblings, Maud and Alf. They arrived in Hythe, by train, in 1929. Mrs. Lettington took first a homestead in the Southwell district, then a Soldiers Settlement Board grant of a half section of farmland in the Lambert School District near the Hearfield, Fielding and Hayes families who were also from England. This was before the railway was extended to the B.C. border and before Lymburn was established as a railway siding, so they had to walk the six miles up to Brainard for mail and groceries at Pollack’s Store there. In the spring of 1930, the railway line was surveyed and the Pollack family opened a store and post office at the new townsite of Lymburn. This made life easier for the Lettington family, who could now do their shopping at Pollack’s store in Lymburn. Nance walked (or ran, for she was quite a runner) to the nearest one-room school, named Lambert.
Nance married Osborne Hogg in 1933. They farmed in the Lymburn district for four years, but later moved to Turner Valley where he worked as a cat operator for several oil companies. Osborne and Nance returned to Beaverlodge in 1970, where he passed away. Nance passed away in 1984.
Custodial history
The records were donated to South Peace Regional Archives in 2010 by Rhonda Yaskowich, daughter of Hannah Lettington and Osborne Hogg.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of eight photographs of Nance Lettington and her friends in the Lymburn district, the students at Lambert School, and activities at St. George’s Ranch in Windsor Creek. There are also five pages (digitized) of a photograph album.
Notes
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title of fonds based on contents.
Conditions governing use
This fonds was a loan for copy and consists only of digital copies.
Access points
- Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)
- Family and personal life (subject)
- Agriculture (subject)
- Settlement and Immigration (subject)
Series descriptions
| Reference code | Title | Dates | Physical description |
| 2010.21.01 | Item – School Pals at Lambert School | [1931] | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
Twenty-seven students with teacher Miss Beckman in front of the first Lambert log school just west of Lymburn. This log school, built by Mr. Hayes in 1922, was of superior construction with large windows and a brick chimney from floor to ceiling. |
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| 2010.21.02 | Item – Violet Fielding in Her Swing Dress | [1931] | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
Violet Fielding, a friend of Nance Lettington, shows off her swing dress. |
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| 2010.21.03 | Item – At Preston Lake | [1931] | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
Nance Lettington and friend Inez Hayes on an outing at Preston Lake, northwest of Lymburn. |
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| 2010.21.04 | Item – Alice Hayes, Lymburn | [1931] | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
Alice Hayes at Lymburn was a friend of Nance Lettington’s. |
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| 2010.21.05 | Item – At the Fred McFadzen Family Round-up | [1931] | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
From left to right, Isabel Savage, Inez Hayes, school teacher Miss Beckman, Nance Lettington, and Helen Savage at the Fred McFadzen family round-up at St. George’s Ranch. |
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| 2010.21.06 | Item – Jim Carey, Trick Roper | 1932 | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
Jim Carey, trick roper, was an alleged nephew of Buffalo Bill Cody’s. He was also a friend of Osborne’s. Here he is performing at the St. George’s Ranch Stampede at Windsor Creek in 1932. |
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| 2010.21.07 | Item – Stampede at St. George’s Ranch, Windsor Creek | 1932 | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
Steer riding event at the Stampede at St. George’s Ranch, Windsor Creek in July, 1932. A note beside the photo says “from Barney” [Hogg]. |
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| 2010.21.08 | Item – Stampede at St. George’s Ranch | 1932 | 1 TIFF : b&w |
| Scope and content:
Stampede at St. George’s Ranch, Windsor Creek in July, 1932. A note beside the photo says “from Barney” [Hogg]. The corrals of the ranch can be seen in the foreground and the ranch buildings in the background. |
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