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Immigrants' possessions: Tools




CMC S90-4304
 

Hrytsko Kitt brought this metal hammer-head with him from the western Ukraine, along with other small tools. He settled in the Plain Lake district, south-east of Two Hills, Alberta in the early twentieth century.





Hrytsto Kitt also brought his wire-mesh sieve, graded for sieving rye, to Alberta from the western Ukraine. The sieve and the hammer were purchased for the Museum in Two Hills, Alberta.

 
CMC S90-4303





CMC S94-17191
 

Arthur Sorrill of West Bromwich, England made his vertical mahogany tool cabinet when he was only 19 years old, ca.1894. Most of the tools in the cabinet date from the same period, and were made in England. He arrived in Canada in the 1920s, and eventually passed his trade and his tools to his son William.



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