Moose Jaw Times-Herald: New mural celebrates stock growers’ history

The dedication of the Saskatchewan Stock
Growers Association centennial commemoration
mural took place at 38 High St. W. on Friday.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Farmers on horseback drive cattle toward the stockyards and the train with rolling hills in the background.

Portraits of the original board of directors of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA) overlook the scene.

This was the year 1913, the year of the SSGA’s first annual general meeting in Moose Jaw and the year the SSGA officially began.

On Friday, in commemoration of the anniversary, the official mural dedication of the anniversary mural, painted by local artist Grant McLaughlin, on the east wall on Ashdown’s Furniture, 38 High St. W., took place. The wall is actually owned by CIBC. The mural is Moose Jaw’s 47th mural.

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