Photograph shows a group of eleven young men posing in the brush at Y Point, Pelican Lake.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Leader training camp Y Point, Pelican Lake, 1925. Ozzie Doak, holding rod. G. Baldock with striped hat kneeling.
Note affixed to back of photograph reads: 1925 Leadership Training Camp - "Y" Point, Pelican Lake. Stand Left to Rigt. 1st unknown, Rainy River; Archie MacDonald, Carroll; Gordon MacDonald, Stonewall; Edward Armstrong, Wpg; Osborne Doak, Brandon; Roy Grassick, Carroll; Hayden Stewart, Wpg. Front Row. Left. Louis Schroeder, Wpg; Orville McKillop, Portage la Prairie; Sherman Black, Wpg; George Baldock (striped hat), Brandon.
Photograph shows the lake and shoreline of "Y" Point, Pelican Lake.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Scenes. "Y" Point YMCA camp at Pelian Lake. We took train to Belmont and farmer's wagon to Camp. 10.00 per week. I was there 1922-25 as camper and 1925 as leader and leader training camp.
Christy Morgan Henry was born in Souris, MB on October 3, 1978. She moved to Brandon, MB in 1981 with her family, where she attended Valleyview Centennial School and Vincent Massey High School. Henry obtained her B.A. (Spec. in History) from Brandon University in 2002. Henry completed her M.A. in Archival Studies through the University of Manitoba in May 2009.
During her years as a student at Brandon University, Henry was a member of the Religion Club, where she became involved in the early planning and implementation stages of the Labyrinth of Peace project.
Henry completed contracts with the University of Calgary Archives and the Legal Archives Society of Alberta before taking a position as a Library/Archives Assistant at Brandon University in July 2006. She was appointed University Archivist at the S.J. McKee Archives in 2011.
Custodial History
The photographs were in Henry's possession until their donation to the McKee Archives in September 2007.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of sixteen photographs of the Labyrinth of Peace, including photographs of all of the original stained glass symbols, and one photograph of Ed Milton, Peter Hordern and Robert Brockway at Milton's retirement tea.
Henry Forbes Angus (1891-1991) graduated from McGill University in 1911 and in 1914 he went to Oxford University. His studies were interupted by the First World War. In 1919, he joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia in the Economics Department. Angus was likely an associate of William Burton Hurd, a faculty member at Brandon College and former student at Oxford University (around the same time that Angus attended that institution).
Scope and Content
Portrait of Henry Forbes Angus, a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
Related Material
Angus family fonds at the University of British Columbia Archives.