By Roger White

Dolls have a new house to call home

May 11, 2017 | 2:09 PM

The dolls have a new house.

The fast growing collection of the Battlefords Allied Arts Council has moved from its former location in the North Battleford Public Library to the Chapel Building in the Don Ross Centre.

“The collection was becoming very large and we needed a new place to show them off,” said Donna Challis chair of the Council. “This new exhibit is so nice and it stands out I know people will enjoy seeing it.”

The collection which started as just a few Jenny dolls back in the 1960s and now has 85 groups of dolls with 123 individual dolls on display.

“It just kind of blossomed really,” Challis remembered. “A few Jenny dolls were purchased because they were unique and then they were donated to the library. Then people started donating their collections that they had and well you see the result today.”

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Challis said people would also purchase dolls while they were on holidays from different countries and donate them to the exhibit. Dolls from as far away as China and Peru are among the many visitors can see.

Joan Bunce, who was the Children’s Librarian at the Andrew Carnegie Library (now the Allen Sapp Gallery) where the dolls were originally housed, was happy to see the next exhibit at the Don Ross Centre.

“It’s marvelous so see this display once again,” Bunce remembered. “It brings back so many memories. I’m very proud of this collection.”

The Battlefords Allied Arts Council’s doll collection can be viewed weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Chapel of the Don Ross Centre.

roger.white@jpbg.ca

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