The matchbook covers on this page are from businesses in Churchill in the 1950s. To the best of our knowledge, only Branch No. 227 of the Royal Canadian Legion is still around although the Churchill Restaurant may be a descendant of the Churchill Cafe. For presentation on this page, matchbook covers were digitally sliced in half and the top half rotated 180 degrees so the cover halves could be viewed side by side.

Going to the Igloo Theater to see a movie was quite an experience. The floor was wood and it slanted from the back to the front. One could often hear beer bottles rolling from the top to the front under the seats. Of course they would hit the legs of the seats as they rolled down and made a lot of noise.

A good many of the movie patrons were the native population and that was the first time I had been to a movie where the audience cheered for the Indians instead of the cowboys in the western movies. They were quite vocal about it. That gave me a bit of a feeling of what the native people must have felt like when the white people used to cheer for the cowboys in those movies.

L. C. McKillop had the franchise for picking up cloths and uniforms for dry cleaning.