Jeff O’Brien, Saskatoon’s city archivist, said the city had been looking for a permanent facility for the archives to call home for many years. The archives are now set to relocate the entire collection to the old Post Office Building downtown, right across from City Hall and the Saskatoon Public Library.

The current location near the Saskatoon Airport has been in use since 2010, but has also reached its maximum capacity, O’Brien explained. He said the collection is almost twice as large today as it was 14 years ago.

According to the city, the archives contain 450,000 photographs, 4,000 feet of shelves and 3,000 linear feet of records, along with thousands of maps and blueprints dating back to the early 1900s. About 3,500 boxes of material will be moved this week.

“The goal will be to make sure we don’t lose anything, but to also do some organization up front,” O’Brien said.

“You want to keep the stuff that tells the story (with) the most summary, but at the same time the most substantial way possible.”

You can read more in an article by Mia Holowaychuk published in the ckom.com web site at: http://bit.ly/3JdERi0.