File consists of correspondence, minutes (Board Executive and Campus Advisory Bookstore Committee), copy of an agreement between Brandon University and BUSU, financial information and motions.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 2: Board of Governors
2.4 Correspondence and subject files
Box 7
File consists of: photocopied score and parts to first movement of Beethoven Trio, Op. 70 no. 1, 1808.
Publisher Info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1862-1890.
Reprinted: Munchen-Duisberg: G. Henle Verlag, 1955.
Original score of Beethoven Romanze, Op. 40, arr. for violin and piano
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1862-1890. Plate 8933
Reprinted: Leipzig: C. F. Peters, n.d.
Arranger: August Wilhelm
Original viola part for Beethoven String Quartets 127, 130, 133, 135. Volume 3 of three-volume set. Monogrammed.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d. Plate 8868
Reprinted: Leipzig: C. F. Peters, n.d.
Original parts for Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 1-6, 1799-1800.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1862. Plate 8157
Reprinted: Leipzig: C. F. Peters, n.d.
Arranger: Andreas Moser
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
In addition to working as a journalist, editor, and publisher, Fred McGuinness worked as a freelance writer or “wordsmith” as he identified himself on his business cards. Throughout his career, McGuinness would write/publish about a topic in a variety of forums and would continually re-work manuscripts. The last piece of freelance writing the S.J. McKee Archives appears to have is a un-proofed draft manuscript titled “Tommy Douglas and Me” printed on October 2, 2010.
McGuinness wrote promotional pieces for businesses such as McKenzie Seeds, The Keystone Centre, possibly Patmore’s Nursery, and Westman Communications Group. He wrote for industry magazines and newsletters such as CP Trucking News, BC Business Journal, TV Times, and Western People. He also contributed memoirs to the Manitoba History Journal. He was invited to submit contributions to the World Book Encyclopedia (1977) and Encyclopedia of Manitoba (2007).
In the 1990s, McGuinness was a consultant with the WESTARC Group, the non-profit Western Training and Applied Research Centre affiliated with Brandon University. The group was concerned with the project management, research, training, and economic development of communities and organizations in Western Canada. McGuinness would be involved in a number of economic development workshops and rural forums through his work with WESTARC.
Additional freelance work was contracted by the Manitoba government to write business profiles about Manitoban entrepreneurs; these stories/profiles were published as booklets for distribution titled: Bootstrap Two (1989), Bootstrap Three (1994), and Bootstrap Four (1995).
McGuinness’ interests in rural development lead to writing assignments for the Community Futures Program and Western Diversification Series. He accepted a five-year writing assignment for Industry Canada (1996 – 2000) and the Community Access Program, which focused on introducing the internet into rural communities.
Custodial History
Accession 1-2015 contains records created and collected over the course of McGuinness’ career as a newspaper journalist and freelance writer. The Estate of Fred McGuinness donated the materials to the SJ McKee Archives circa 2011. The Archives accessioned the records in 2015.
Scope and Content
The subseries contains records created and collected by Fred McGuinness during his time as a journalist, editor, and freelance writer in Manitoba. The records consist of research materials (e.g., newspaper clippings, copies of articles and book chapters, brochures, pamphlets), notes, drafts, copies of articles and reports, and correspondence.
Notes
Information in the history/biography was taken from documents in the Miscellaneous freelance subseries (McG 3.2)
In the file level inventories, square brackets at the end of file names reference the original location of the file in the unprocessed Fred McGuinness collection. The original location is also noted on the front of each file folder
Accruals
Closed
Finding Aid
A file level inventory is available
Storage Location
2015 accessions
Related Material
Fred McGuinness would write/publish about a topic in a number of forums. Therefore, it is possible research materials pertaining to this subseries may be found in the Fred McGuinness collection subseries: Correspondence (McG 1.2), Brandon Sun (McG 2.2), Neighborly News (McG 2.3), The Reader’s Digest (McG 3.1), Local history research (McG 4.1), and Talks and workshops (McG 6.3)
Arrangement
Arrangement was artificially created by the Archives. Subseries has been re-arranged according to publication period
File consists of correspondence and the student confidential statment of the college scholarship service (a method of collecting and evaluating financial information from students who may not receive financial support from parents).
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 4: Office of the Vice-President
4.2 Office of the Vice-President (Administration & Finance)
Box 2