page_title: Jacqueline Shumiatcher
section_title: Early life and family
hierarchical_section_title: Jacqueline Shumiatcher / Early life and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Sacred Heart Academy Removed from the following pages: Regina's historic buildings and precincts Regina --OrphanBot (talk) 06:45, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
context_page_description: Jacqueline Clay Shumiatcher, OC SOM is a Canadian philanthropist, arts patron, and art collector. She and her husband Morris C. Shumiatcher began supporting the arts community in Regina, Saskatchewan, shortly after their marriage in 1955, an endeavor which she has continued since Morris' death in 2004. The couple were avid collectors of Inuit art and artwork by local artists. In 2014 she donated 1,310 Inuit sculptures and paintings by the Regina Five, worth an estimated C$3 million, to the University of Regina. She has received many honours and awards, including the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2001 and the Order of Canada in 2017.
context_section_description: Jacqueline Fanchette Clotilde Clay was born on April 29, 1923 in Vendin-le-Vieil, Pas de Calais, France. Her parents were Archibald Franklin Clay and Rose Jeanne Clay (née Souillart).
  She has a younger brother. Her British-born father moved to Canada before she was four and she, her mother, and brother followed him to the North Central neighborhood of Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1927. Her father found work at the Regina General Motors factory and later as a bank clerk. The family was poor and lived in a disadvantaged neighborhood, with unpaved roads, boarded sidewalks, and no indoor plumbing. Archibald designed a primitive system to collect and pump rainwater into their home. They also lacked a telephone and car.
  She graduated from the Kitchener School and Scott Collegiate high school. In 1940 she began working at the Sacred Heart Academy as a teacher of typing and shorthand for $1 a day. This was followed by a series of jobs in different fields, including auditing in the Simpsons department store, night work in the meteorology department at Regina International Airport during World War II, work in a mortgage company and bank, and executive secretarial work at Scott Collegiate.
  In 1947 she applied for a job as secretary to Morris C. Shumiatcher, legal counsel to Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas. After leaving this position, she continued to assist Shumiatcher in overseeing his affairs while he was out of town and setting up his law office when he returned. They married in 1955. She then founded Managerial Services Ltd. to supply secretarial and managerial help for her husband's legal practice.
caption: Former site of the Sacred Heart Academy
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