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Ab Gowanlock of Dauphin

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Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

GMD: graphic

Date Range: [c.1984]

Accession Number: 1-2015

1 image

Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

Series Number: McG 9

Item Number: 1-2015.239

Accession Number: 1-2015

GMD: graphic

Date Range: [c.1984]

Physical Description: 8" x 10" (b/w)

Physical Condition: A typed label has been taped to the back of the photograph. Back of photograph has yellowed. No other degredation observed. ST/2016

Custodial History: Photograph sent to Fred McGuinness from the Winnipeg Free Press Photo Department

Scope and Content: Photograph shows a platform party in front of the Westman Centennial Auditorium. At the microphone is Mayor Ken Burgess. Seated on the mayor's left is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to his right Lorne Watson. The party may have been assembled for the founding of the Brandon University School of Music's Queen Elizabeth II building.

Notes: Photograph was collected during the research phase of the monograph "Manitoba: The Province & The People" (1987) written by Fred McGuinness and Ken Coates. Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Ab Gowanlock 85 years old of Dauphin, two-time winner of the Brier (once in 1938 at Toronto and once in Sudbury in 1953) at the wheel of a Rumley Oil Pull tractor during the Thursday afternoon parade of steam and oil and gas tractors. Mr. Gowanlock is not a newcomer to threshing as he was involved with it on a regular basis from 1916 to 1947. dirk...shot directly into sun and was hard to print...

Name Access: Ab Gowanlock

Subject Access: Tractors; parades

Repro Restriction: Photograph may be subject to Canadian Copy Right Laws.

Storage Location: RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)

Arrangement: McG 5.4 File 2

Images

Austin Threshermen's Reunion

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Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

GMD: graphic

Date Range: 1985

Accession Number: 1-2015

1 image

Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

Series Number: McG 9

Item Number: 1-2015.241

Accession Number: 1-2015

GMD: graphic

Date Range: 1985

Physical Description: 10" x 8" (b/w)

Physical Condition: Emulsive side of image has residue and mock-up lines. A typed label has been taped to the back of the photograph. Back of photograph has yellowed. No other degredation observed. ST/2016

Custodial History: Photograph sent to Fred McGuinness from the Winnipeg Free Press Photo Department

Scope and Content: Photograph shows a steam tractor on display at the Austin, Manitoba's Threshermen's Reunion.

Notes: Photograph was collected during the research phase of the monograph "Manitoba: The Province & The People" (1987) written by Fred McGuinness and Ken Coates. Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Kevin Milne and Makinak and Gordon Down of Winnipeg chugging up a storm at Austin Thursday. Dirk Aberson for Greg McComb. 1985

Name Access: Manitoba Threshermen's Reunion & Stampede

Subject Access: Tractors; parades

Repro Restriction: Photograph may be subject to Canadian Copy Right Laws.

Storage Location: RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)

Arrangement: McG 5.4 File 2

Images

Austin Threshermen's Reunion

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Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

GMD: graphic

Date Range: 1979

Accession Number: 1-2015

1 image

Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

Series Number: McG 9

Item Number: 1-2015.242

Accession Number: 1-2015

GMD: graphic

Date Range: 1979

Physical Description: 10" x 8" (b/w)

Physical Condition: Emulsive side of image has mock-up lines.

Custodial History: Photograph sent to Fred McGuinness from the Winnipeg Free Press Photo Department

Scope and Content: Photograph shows historic tractors on display at the Austin, Manitoba's Threshermen's Reunion. The tractors are parading on an outdoor track before a packed grandstand.

Notes: Photograph was collected during the research phase of the monograph "Manitoba: The Province & The People" (1987) written by Fred McGuinness and Ken Coates. Writing on the front of the photograph reads: Austin Parade Thursday, July 27/79

Name Access: Manitoba Threshermen's Reunion & Stampede

Subject Access: Tractors; parades

Repro Restriction: Photograph may be subject to Canadian Copy Right Laws.

Storage Location: RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)

Arrangement: McG 5.4 File 2

Images

Austin Threshermen's Reunion

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Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

GMD: graphic

Date Range: 1982

Accession Number: 1-2015

1 image

Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

Series Number: McG 9

Item Number: 1-2015.243

Accession Number: 1-2015

GMD: graphic

Date Range: 1982

Physical Description: 8" x 10" (b/w)

Physical Condition: Emulsive side of image has mock-up lines.

Custodial History: Photograph sent to Fred McGuinness from the Winnipeg Free Press Photo Department

Scope and Content: Photograph shows a small steam engine to which a tug of rope is affixed. Seven young boys are pulling counter to the engine as an engine operator makes adjustment. Bemused spectators look on.

Notes: Photograph was collected during the research phase of the monograph "Manitoba: The Province & The People" (1987) written by Fred McGuinness and Ken Coates. Writing on the label filed with the photograph reads: A miniature case steam engine gets an unexpected load as a group of boys try to haul it to a stop during the Thursday afternoon parade. dirk. 19/82

Name Access: Manitoba Threshermen's Reunion & Stampede

Subject Access: Tractors; parades; entertainment

Repro Restriction: Photograph may be subject to Canadian Copy Right Laws.

Storage Location: RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)

Arrangement: McG 5.4 File 2

Images

Christmas Tree Farm negative set 3, frames 1A to 13A

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Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

GMD: graphic

Date Range: [1980s]

Accession Number: 1-2015

1 image

Part Of: Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level: Item

Series Number: McG 9

Item Number: 1-2015.259

Accession Number: 1-2015

GMD: graphic

Date Range: [1980s]

Physical Description: 1.5 " x 1.5" (b/w)

Material Details: negatives

History / Biographical: Fred McGuinness is popularly known for his work as the prairie essayist for CBC Radio’s Morningside with Peter Gzowski, a position he held for 17 years. Many of McGuinness’ Morningside essays were autobiographical in nature. He often reported about life on Christmas Tree Farm, a section of land where he and his wife, Christine, built their dream home in the late 1970s. The couple planted a Christmas tree farm on the property and Christine maintained an extensive kitchen garden, while Fred tended honey bees. Life on the farm made its way into radiobroadcasts, Neighborly News columns, and the book "Letters from Section 17: A Collection of Morningside Essays" (Winnipeg: Great Plains Publishing, 1999).

Scope and Content: Set consists of 13 negatives showing work being conducted on the McGuinness property, Christmas Tree Farm, Section 17. The first 12 negatives show the McGuinness family planting with their tractor and the last negative shows a woman working on a swimming pool liner.

Notes: McGuinness drafted a manuscript, titled "Hole in the Ground," about the family pool on Section 17. It was one manuscript McGuinness was re-tooling before he passed away in 2011.