The Main Library was located in the A.E. McKenzie Building. The reading room was on the second floor in what is now the North Stacks. The Main Library was renamed the John E. Robbins Library on October 4, 1974.
Scope and Content
Photograph is looking north into the reading room of the Main Library.
Charles Wayland Lightbody was born in Kansas in 1904. He spent part of his childhood in Brandon, MB where his father worked in the agricultural sector. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1924 and spent 1924-1925 at the Univeristy of Tornoto working on an M.A. degree. In 1925, heentered Worcester College, Oxford as the Rhodes Scholar for Saskatchwan and recived an honors B.A. from that institution in 1928. During 1929-1930, he studied at Harvard University.
From 1930 to 1942, Lightbody was an instructor and assistant professor of history at St.Lawrence University. During that period he also recieved his M.A. from Oxford (1936) and completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University. In 1942 and 1943, Lightbody was engaged in research for the U.S. Army; in 1944 and 1945 he resumed public lecturing, broadcasting and writing. Following the war he spent three years at his home in Chappaqua, New York concentrating on historical research.
Lightbody joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchwan in 1948, leaving in 1962. He spent a year that the Univeristy of Regina before coming to Brandon College in 1963, where he was made head of the History Department in 1964. He was on sick leave for most of his last year at Brandon University.
Charles Wayland Lightbody died in Brandon, MB on January 8, 1970.
Scope and Content
Portrait of Charles Lightbody.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Brandon Sun (January 8, 1970) and a January 13, 1970 Brandon University News Release. Both are located in the Charles Lightbody biography file.
File consists of memos, correspondence, an agenda for a Board of Trustees meeting, notes, a report on activities, a pamphlet on the Charles Wayland Lightbody Memorial Fund, and minutes of the Board of Trustees.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 4: Office of the Vice-President
4.2 Office of the Vice-President (Administration & Finance)
Box 8
Education curriculum collection room opening westward off Library Reading Room, Library and Arts Building. L. to R. Ralph Berry, Margaret Ariss and students
Probably the peak of the sawmilling industry in Brandon was "The Big Drive" in 1910, when 125 drivers brought 5 million board feet of timber down the Assiniboine to Hanbury's Mill.
Most of these logs were cut in the Riding Mountains in winter and floated down the Little Saskatchewan and Birdtail Rivers to the Assiniboine.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Logs, destined for Hanbury Manufacturing Co., in the Assiniboine River
Notes
Looking north from 3rd Street.
[This negative was produced using a previously published image (P.E.).]
See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Image consists of an aerial view looking north at the intersection of Highways 1 and 10 and shows the British American dealer located at the intersection.
book stacks on mezzanine. Tour of the Robbins Library by members of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (associated with presentation of funds) L to R 1) Helen Harris, 2),3),4),5), Father Rudachek, etc.
Photograph is looking northwest from approximately the south entrance of the driveway and shows the Citizens' Science Building, the Brandon College Building and part of Clark Hall, as well as the drive way and part of the front lawn.
