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25 Cents - St. Gregor Homecoming St. Gregor, Saskatchewan
| Issuer | Village of St. Gregor Homecoming Committee |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Value | 25 Cents (0.25 CAD) |
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| Reverse description | The right portion of the reverse carries a turquoise vignette of a flowering plant within a ruled rectangular frame. The left field is occupied entirely by a chronological history of St. Gregor, typeset in black on a plain cream ground, listing milestones from the village's naming through 1970. |
| Reverse lettering | St. Gregor named in honor of Pope Gregory 1903 First settlers arrive 1904 railway built through St. Gregor 1906 first general store built 1920 St. Gregor incorporated as Village 1924 Grade VIII pupil receives Governor General's Bronze Medal 1939 Second World War: 21 men and women serve in armed forces; Sgt. V. McHarg, F/O G. Little and W/O L. Lenz made the supreme sacrifice. 1944 Electrical Power in St. Gregor 1968 Village installed water and sewer 1970 Local girl, Vera Plemel, crowned "Miss Saskatchewan Homecoming". |
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Canadian municipal scrip issued for homecoming celebrations occupies an odd corner of notaphily — legally it exists as a promotional coupon rather than currency, but these pieces circulated freely among merchants during the event weekend. St. Gregor is a small predominantly Ukrainian-Catholic settlement in the Quill Lakes district, founded by settlers from Galicia around 1905, and homecoming issues like this one were common across Saskatchewan's ethnic-founded villages during the centennial-era boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Survival rates are erratic. Many were redeemed and discarded; others were pocketed as souvenirs and survived uncirculated in scrapbooks.