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1. P10149 - From left Donna Dempsey, Susan Mattinson and Kris Foulds of the Fraser Valley Women's Coalition hold poster designed by Debrah LePage and will be walking through Centennial Park for Take Back the Parks Campaign.

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2. P10682 - Donna Dempsey puts the finishing swirl of whipped cream on Amanda Hlusek's perfect Sunday. Museum workers dished out dozens of scoops at the annual Ice Cream Social at Trethewey House to visitors who enjoyed the Matsqui Heritage Festival

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3. P11117 - The Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford (MSA) Museum will be transformed into a spooky place as the house puts on a costume of its own for an old-fashioned Hallowe'en celebration. Two staff, Donna Dempsey and Kris Foulds, right, in costumes to promote the event.

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4. P12237 - Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford (MSA) Museum Society Annual General Meeting, held at Kariton House, March 3, 1999. Membership committee members Donna Dempsey, left, and Elaine Dunsmore, right, present the First Heritage Savings Credit Union representative with two heritage prints in recognition of FHA's $1000 sponsorship of the Museum's Halloween House programme. Society President, Ed Janzen, at the table in the background.

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5. P12249 - Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford (MSA) Museum Coordinator, Donna Dempsey, at the computer station adjacent to her work station, centre front inside the Heritage Gallery as seen through the doorway of the recently added wall that separates office functions from a progamming and exhibit space. Curator's work station is on the right.

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6. P12250 - The interior of the Heritage Gallery, looking through the doorway in the recently added wall, dividing the office funcitons from a public programming and exhibit area. View looks through the office and into the staff kitchen in the southeast corner of the HG.

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7. P12445 - Museum past president, Susan Gladiuk, centre right, presents a framed donor recognition print to John Pankratz of Harrison Pankratz for the firm's annual donation. Museum Coordinator, Donna Dempsey, left, President Joan Kirsch, seated closer to centre, and Museum Secretary, Cheryl Trayler look on.

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8. P12458 - Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford (MSA) Museum Society Past President, Don Stevenson, with staff member, Coordinator Donna Dempsey, open the "Heritage Pavillion" at the Trethewey House Heritage Site, one of fourteen pavillions participating in the multicultural celebration, Folk Rythyms, Sept 15-17, 2000.

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9. P12459 - Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford (MSA) Museum Society Past President, Don Stevenson, with staff member, Coordinator Donna Dempsey, open the "Heritage Pavillion" at the Trethewey House Heritage Site, one of fourteen pavillions participating in the multicultural celebration, Folk Rythyms, Sept 15-17, 2000.

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10. P12555 - Ceremony to designate the 1911 Gur Sikh Temple a National Heritage Site. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien speaks to the crowd assembled to witness the ceremony. The Gur Sikh Temple is the oldest extant gurdwara in the Western Hemisphere, an anchor for the Sikh community and a symbol of community perseverance and triumph in the face of systematic racist practices that sought to prohibit the establishment of an enduring Sikh community in Canada. The object description lacks the names of members of the Khalsa Diwan Society, Sikh VIPs and other attendees. Three Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford (MSA) Museum staff members, Kris Foulds, Lynne Wright and Donna Dempsey looking at the camera.

    Although still a mainly bachelor society due to discriminatory immigrations laws aimed at stopping the migrants from India, in 1908 the Abbotsford Sikh community decided it was time to build a temple. The gurdwara would provide a place to worship but just as importantly, a place for the community to come together. Sunder Singh Thandi, with Arjan Singh, purchased a one-acre property on a prominent hill adjacent to the mill at Mill Lake. The loca...

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11. P48475 - Promotional photo for Hallowe'en House at the MSA Museum Society's Trethewey House. The annual event offers an alternative to trick or treating and includes costumed performers in the house and on the grounds, a costume contest, games and concession. Office Coordinator Donna Dempsey as the bride of Dracula, Curator Kris Foulds as the witch, and Executive Director Lynne Wright as Offo the Clown.

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12. P48476 - Promotional photo for Hallowe'en House at the MSA Museum Society's Trethewey House. The annual event offers an alternative to trick or treating and includes costumed performers in the house and on the grounds, a costume contest, games and concession. Office Coordinator Donna Dempsey as the bride of Dracula, Curator Kris Foulds as the witch, and Executive Director Lynne Wright as Offo the Clown.

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13. P9630 - Donna Dempsey, MSA Museum Coordinator, shows items, including a dressing table circa 1925, donated by the York family of Sumas used to represent a master bedroom of the 1920s, during a Trethewey House Open House February 21.

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