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Postmarks Project series
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2.600 m of textual records
283 photographs : prints, col.
9 photographs : prints, b&w
6 photographs : postcards
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William R. (Bill) Barry was born on May 27, 1942 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He received his primary and secondary education in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Barry earned a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree from the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Regina.
Barry was employed in a variety of positions during his professional career, as follows: teacher at Balfour Technical School in Regina (1967-1969); vice-principal in Star City (1969-1972); Assistant Superintendent for the Long Lake School Unit in Watrous (1972-1978); Director of Education for the Shamrock School Division in Foam Lake (1978-1982); civil servant in Regina (1982-1993); and health care consultant (1993-1997).
In 1997, Barry embarked on a career in writing and publishing. He is the author of several publications on Saskatchewan place names, including "People Places: Saskatchewan and its Names" (1997); "People Places: The Dictionary of Saskatchewan Place Names" (1998); "People Places Cookbook" (2000); "Ukrainian People Places" (2001); "People Places: Contemporary Saskatchewan Place Names" (2003); "Age Shall Not Weary Them" (2005) and "Geographical Names of Saskatchewan" (2005). Barry also served as assistant editor of the "Atlas of Saskatchewan" (1999). A frequent contributor to radio and television programs, Barry was president of People Places Publishing Inc., a publishing company that was incorporated in September 1992 and dissolved in January, 2012.
Barry currently (2013) resides in Regina, where he continues to serve as webmaster for SVWM.ca (Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial).
Custodial history
Bill Barry donated these records to the Regina office, Saskatchewan Archives in one accession in 2012: 2012-041 (February 14, 2012).
Scope and content
This series consists of records created, accumulated and used by Bill Barry relating to his activities as a postmark collector. In the mid 1980s, Barry embarked on a project to personally visit all of Saskatchewan's post offices and sub-offices and mail himself a letter from each one. He was also compiling a reference collection of provincial postmarks and conducting research on post office history.
The records are arranged in alphabetical order by name of town, village, city or settlement. The types of records included are stamps; documents with postmarks stamped on them; photographs; reference publications; matchbooks advertising restaurants, gas stations, and various businesses and photocopied sections of maps showing the location of towns, villages, and cities.
No sub-series were identified in this series.