Walter A. Canniff Papers, 1876-1961
Collection Overview
Title: Walter A. Canniff Papers, 1876-1961
ID: OGLMC627
Primary Creator: Canniff, Walter A. (1888-1967)
Extent: 0.5 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 05/06/1981. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Grand Forks
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection Historical Note
"Walter A. 'Peewee' Canniff, 78, St. Anne's Guest Home, city mail carrier here for 33 years until his retirement in 1945, died Sunday at a local hospital where he had been admitted earlier in the day. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Wednesday at St. Michael's Catholic Church with Rev. John E. Moore officiating and burial in Calvary Cemetery. The body will lie in state Tuesday afternoon and evening at Grand Forks Norman Funeral Home, where a vigil will be held at 8 pm. Mr. Canniff married the former Mary Ellen Mahoney here in 1914. She died in 1920. He married the former Rose Carroll here on Nov. 22, 1926. She died April 21, 1965. Mr. Canniff began service here with the Post Office Department as a mail carrier on June 15, 1913. He continued here until his retirement on July 1, 1945, except for service at Billings, Mont., and Minneapolis, between 1917 and 1923. Mr. Canniff had been a member of the former Grand Forks Volunteer Fire Department and then served two years with the paid city department prior to 1913. He later was a call man with the Fire Department for 5 years before his retirement. He had been disabled following a heart attack, which occurred while fighting the Frederick Hotel fire here in December, 1944. His father, the late Harry G. Canniff, had been a volunteer firemen here in 1880. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Canniff was the dean of city mail carriers. He worked Route 3 of the local postal service for many years, which included N. Fourth and Fifth Streets. He was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. In 1960, Mr. Canniff was presented with a 50 year membership award by the Grand Forks Knights of Columbus Council 1260. Until recent months, Mr. Canniff had lived at 105 Fenton Ave. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Louis R. Stacey, St. Paul; a son, Ralph Canniff, Santa Barbara, Calif.; 5 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Two brothers, William and Arthur Canniff, are deceased."
Source: Grand Forks Herald, 2 October 1967
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Accruals: The Staceys donated additional items in May 1983.
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source: Dr. and Mrs. Louis Stacey, St. Paul, Minnesota
Acquisition Method: Donation; 81-757
Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Walter A. Canniff Papers. OGLMC 627, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota.
Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in August 2018.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Program: "An Evening with Sigmund Romberg and His Concert Orchestra", undated
- Folder 2: Programs
- Item 1: Seventh Biennial Singing Festival, Northwestern Scandinavian Singers' Association, Grand Forks, North Dakota, July 1904
- Item 2: Fourth Annual May Music Festival, Grand Forks Oratorio Society, May and June 1910
- Item 3: Fifth Annual Spring Music Festival, Grand Forks Oratorio Society, April 1911
- Item 1: Seventh Biennial Singing Festival, Northwestern Scandinavian Singers' Association, Grand Forks, North Dakota, July 1904
- Folder 3: UND Publications
- Folder 4: Programs from the Metropolitan Theater (Miscellaneous), 1898-1910
- Folder 5: Programs from O. Young's Music and Piano House, Grand Forks
- Folder 6: Program: 50th Anniversary of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Grand Forks, January 1931
- Folder 7: Publication: "The Opening of St. Mary's Church, Christmas Day, December 25, 1915"
- Folder 8: Publication: "A History of Fifty Years, 1892-1942: Grand Forks Deaconess Hospital"
- Folder 9: Publication: "History of Grand Forks County with Special Reference to the First Ten Years of Grand Forks City" by H.V. Arnold, 1900
- Folder 10: Map: U.S. Air Miles Lines, 1930-1931
- Folder 11: Artifact: Personal Wallet of J.H. Kelley of the Selkirk (Steamboat), Grand Forks, Dakota Territory, 1881
- Folder 12: Miscellaneous Items Regarding the Grand Forks Fire Department, 1897-1937
- Folder 13: Publication: "Constitution and By-Laws of Phoenix Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1: Organized December 11, 1882, at Grand Forks, Dakota"
- Folder 14: Miscellaneous Artifacts: Hotel Antler Key; Brunswick Hotel Key; Dakota Hotel Key; Badge of Fire Inspector; Chauffer Badge; Fire Chief Badge; Assistant Fire Chief Badge
- Folder 15: Assorted Ribbons from Grand Forks Events
- Folder 16: Record of Fires in Grand Forks, 1888-1889
- Page 71 and 72 from a ledger book
- Folder 17: List of Grand Forks Residences by Ward, circa 1895
- Folder 18: Program: "First Banquet Hotel Ryan: Honoring Miss Catherine Ryan August 30, 1927"
- Folder 1: Program: "An Evening with Sigmund Romberg and His Concert Orchestra", undated
- Photographs :
- Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets. Several oversize photographs were placed in the Oversize File Cabinets.
- Photograph 1: Dakota Theatre
- Oversize
- Photograph 2: Metropolitan Opera House
- Oversize
- Photograph 3: Sod House, Morraine Township, Grand Forks County, 1883
- Photograph 4: Ingalls House, 4th and Demers, Grand Forks, Following a Fire, March 1914
- Photograph 5: Opera House Block, Grand Forks, 1905
- Photograph 6: Grand Forks Street Fair, September 1897
- Photograph 7: City Hall under Construction
- Photograph 8: Grand Forks in 1876-Third Street Looking North
- Photograph 9: Grand Forks Street Scene, 1890
- Photograph 10: U.C.T. Convention in Grand Forks, June 1907
- Photograph 11: Dakota Hotel Ground Breaking
- Oversize
- Photograph 12: Horse Race at the Grand Forks Fairgrounds
- Oversize
- Photograph 13: Procession on the Way to University Grounds (for the laying of the cornerstone at UND), October 2, 1883
- Photograph 14: Downtown Grand Forks Street Scene
- Photograph 15: Valley Motor Company, North 4th Street and University, Grand Forks
- Photograph 16: B.O. Paulsness Plumbing and Heating, South 4th Street, Grand Forks
- Photograph 17: Sam Lee Laundry, 110 South 4th Street, Grand Forks
- Photograph 18: Hook and Ladder Company, Grand Forks Fire Departments, circa 1890
- Photograph 19: Grand Forks Fire Department Carriages Returning from a Fire in Fargo, June 1893
- Oversize
- Photograph 20: Hook and Ladder Companies on Parade, 300 Block of Kittson Avenue, Grand Forks
- Photograph 21: Unidentified Group of Men, 1887
- Photograph 22: Fireman on Parade, 1897
- Photograph 23: Grand Forks Fire Department, 1884
- Photograph 24: Three Unidentified Men
- Oversize
- Photograph 25: Ontario Store Basketball Team, 1898
- Oversize
- Photograph 26: Knights of Pythias Band, 1901
- Photograph 27: "Executed by Order of Judge Lynch, October 24, 1882. From the Great Northern Railroad Bridge, Grand Forks, North Dakota"
- Photograph of the 1882 lynching of Charles Thurber
- Photograph 28: "Wholesale District, Grand Forks, N. Dak"
- Photograph 29: Steamboats Docked Along the Red River in Grand Forks
- Photograph 30: "Steamboat Selkirk on Kittson Ave and 3rd St", Grand Forks, 1882
- Photograph 31: "Teaburg Farm 9 M. East of Mayville, N.D., March 1897"
- Blizzard photo; only the chimney of the house is above the snow
- Photograph 32: Six Grand Forks Firefighters Standing Outside the Fire Station
- Photograph 33: Three Firefighters Hosing Down Potatoes, October 1943
- Photograph 34: Fire at the Brunswick Hotel on DeMers Avenue, Grand Forks
- Photograph 35: Fire at the Brunswick Hotel on DeMers Avenue, Grand Forks
- Photograph 36: "The New Aerial Used as a Water Tower", 1946
- Photograph 37: Sig Odlaug Hardware Fire, Grand Forks, December 1946
- Photograph 38: Firefighters Assisting a Person down a Ladder
- Photograph 39: Tweet Super Market Fire, Grand Forks, 1943
- Photograph 40: "October 8, 1943. 17,000 Bushels of Potatoes Stored in Int. Har. Warehouse"
- Crowd watching the potatoes burn
- Photograph 41: Fire at 906 Master Service and Dixie Bar, South 4th Street, Grand Forks
- Photograph 42: Fire in Downtown Grand Forks, January 1946
- Photograph 43: Fire at Flatt's, North 3rd Street, Grand Forks, 1944
- Photograph 44: Firefighters Respond to a Fire in a Fire Engine
- Photograph 45: Tall Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine on the UND Campus in Grand Forks
- Photograph 46: Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine in Downtown Grand Forks
- Photograph 47: Tall Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine in Downtown Grand Forks
- Photograph 48: 4 Wheel Drive Fire Engine
- City Manager Rookwood and Chief Newark stand beside the fire engine
- Photograph 49: Firefighters M. Wilson, K. Rettke, Curtis Field and Sonny Coss, April 1961
- Photograph 50: Firefighters Berglund and Ron Nelson at the Simonson Lumber Fire, February 1961
- Photograph 51: Hotel Dacotah Fire, Grand Forks, December 1944
- Photograph 52: Flaat Farm Fire, 1944
- Photograph 53: Church of God Fire
- Photograph 54: Hotel Dacotah Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 55: Grand Forks Fire Department "Miss Flame"
- Robert Bundlie, Dewey Suedel, Kenneth Engen, Chief J.P. Newark, Sheila Sheik (Miss Flame), John Butler, Captain Emmett Dahl, Assistant Chief Clarence Coss, C.P. Coss and Inspector Clarence Sage
- Photograph 56: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 57: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 58: Fire Engine
- Photograph 59: Water Gushing Down a Stairwell, Tweet and McElroy Fire, 1944
- Photograph 60: Group Photograph of the Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1935
- Photograph 61: Horse Drawn Fire Wagon, circa 1906
- Photograph 62: Group of Men Outside of an Unidentified Building
- Photograph 63: Firefighters Stand beside a Fire Wagon, circa 1906
- Photograph 64: Four Firefighters in the Fire Hall, 1906
- Photograph 65: Parade in Grand Forks, April 1954
- Photograph 66: Wisner Block Fire, February 1907
- Photograph 67: Unidentified Fire
- Photograph 68: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944
- Photograph 69: Remains of the Hotel Dacotah Fire, December 1897
- Photograph 70: Margaret Murphy, 420 Reeves Drive, Grand Forks, circa 1910
- Photograph 71: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 72: Margaret Murphy and child, 420 Reeves Drive, Grand Forks, circa 1910
- Photograph 73: Grand Forks Post Office Staff, circa 1890
- Photograph 74: Inkster Comet Band
- Photograph 75: Harvest Workers at the Ed Taylor Farm, Grand Forks County, circa 1891
- Photograph 76: Wright House, Grand Forks, circa 1895
- Photograph 77: Unidentified Man in a Horse Drawn Carriage Outside the Hotel Arlington
- Photograph 78: Woolworth Department Store Workers, circa 1900
- Photograph 79: Grandstand at the North Dakota State Fair, July 1929
- Photograph 80: Goebel Motors, 213 North 4th, Grand Forks
- Photograph 81: UND Football Team, 1900
- Photograph 82: Hugh Ryan
- Photograph 83: Kate Ryan
- Photograph 84: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 85: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 86: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 87: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 88: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 89: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 90: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 91: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 92: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 93: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 94: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 95: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 96: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 97: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 98: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 99: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 100: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 101: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 102: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 103: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 104: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 105: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 106: Unidentified Man
- Photograph 107: D. McDonald, 1st Asst. No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 108: O. Winstrum, 1st Asst. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 109: John Zerfassdr, 1st Asst. Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 110: M.A. Walsh, 1st Asst. Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 111: B. Pringle, 1st Asst. Ext. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 112: A. Bangs, 1st Asst. No. 4, circa 1882
- Photograph 113: George D. Lay, Foreman Hose No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 114: W.O. Palmer, Foreman Relief Hose No. 2, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 115: T.B. Winter, Foreman Alert Hose No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 116: F.C. Whitbeck, Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 117: T.H. Snyder, Foreman, Phoenix Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 118: Robert Slaughter, Foreman, Active Hose No. 4, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 119: O. Hexom, 2nd Asst. No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 120: T.W. Crowell, 2nd Asst. No. 2, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 121: M. Reuth, Foreman, Ext. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 122: T.C. Canniff, 2nd Asst. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 123: T. Ryan, 2nd Asst. Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 124: T. Rindskopf, 2nd Asst. Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 125: Thomas Smith, 2nd Asst. No. 1 Ext., Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 126: Charles L. Crandall, 2nd Asst. No. 4, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882
- Photograph 1: Dakota Theatre
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