Multiple yellow accretion marks down right edge of picture. Backing paper is almost completely torn off on the perimeter edges. Frame has multiple abrasions and chips all around frame edge. Bottom two mitre joints are separated.
Mr. J.E. Matthews was a Sunday School Teacher in 1924 at St. Paul's United Church in Brandon, MB. The name "The Invincibles" was only ever used in the church's 1922 Annual Report, however it is most likely that the men in the photograph are members of Matthews' Sunday School class.
Custodial History
Donated by the estate of H. Rorke in 2004.
Scope and Content
Photograph consists of portraits of the members of St. Paul's I.T.S. Invincibles.
Notes
History/Bio information courtesy of Gayle Gessner, The United Church of Canada Archives, University of Winnipeg.
Maude Marie MacDonald (nee Evans) was born on May 23, 1910 in Indian River, Ontario. In 1913, her family moved to Manitoba, settling in the Brookdale area. She attended school in Brookdale and at Brandon College, graduating with a BA in 1930. After graduating from Normal School in Saskatoon, she taught at Justice, Brookdale, Brandon, Kemnay, Ochre River and Carberry, before retiring in 1971. Marie married George MacDonald (1913-1989), who she met while teaching in Ochre River, in June 1937. The couple had three children: Janet, Karen and Donald. In 1951, Marie and George bought Maxhame, a farm near Brookdale. She continued to live on the farm after George died. Marie loved gardening and reading, and in her later years, she enjoyed travelling. Marie MacDonald died on January 25, 1996 in Winnipeg, MB and is buried in Carberry Plains Cemetery.
Custodial History
As part of the Westman Oral History Collection, this collection was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1998. The original tapes from the Westman Oral History project were deposited in the Brandon Public Library. Copies of these originals were made by Margaret Pollex of the Brandon University Language Lab at the request of Eileen McFadden, University Archivist in the early 1990s. These copies compose the collection held in the McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
Item is an audiocassette tape containing an interview with Marie MacDonald about education in Manitoba, particularly her experiences as a teacher from 1931-1972. Interviewer is Dorothy P. Martin.
Notes
History/bio information from the records and MacDonald's obituary. Transcript by Victoria Newham (2020). Description by Christy Henry.
Language Note
English
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[St. Joseph’s Academy provided education to the children of Brandon’s Catholic community and was overseen by its own Catholic school board. Many non-secular school boards would be eliminated in Manitoba in 1890. (Mitchell, T. 1986. In the Image of Ontario: Public Schools in Brandon 1881-1890. Manitoba History, Number 12, Autumn 1986)]
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Teaching Fathers of St. Joseph's Academy
Notes
St. Joseph's Academy was built 1883, closed 1895; Copy neg.; From St. Michael's Academy Collection
Bridge built by the Canadian Pacific Railway and presented to City of Brandon in 1904 in exchange for permission to close the level crossing at Sixth Street; Iron cantilever bridge over tracks; Two timber trestles each two blocks long running east and west connected to Assiniboine Avenue; Pedestrian stairway connected to Eight Street North
West approach torn down August 1934 and timber used to resurface East approach
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
View of original Eighth St. bridge from Christie Building, including East and West ramp approaches from Assiniboine Ave.
Notes
Photographer I.C. Barton from Chicago Illinois.
Additional historical information provided by Fred McGuinness collection (20-2009).
Contract for concrete approach from north end to replace east and west timber approaches along Assiniboine Ave. awarded to A.E. Jones and E. Fulcher for $30,590. Oct. 11, 1934. (Brandon Sun). As part of this project a Z-shaped ramp on the west side to Assiniboine Ave for pedestrians replaced wooden stairs to north end.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
View of East side of original Eighth St. bridge from Pacific Avenue; Shows pedestrian stairway to North end and CPR early 2800 [locomotive] being serviced on Train No.4
