Princess Anne visited Brandon for seven hours on July 15, 1982. Her visit was covered in the July 16, 1982 issue of The Brandon Sun.
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of Princess Anne's welcome at City Hall. The event was attended by a crowd of 1500 and most of Brandon's dignitaries. The Princes is standing on a small platform on the west side of 9th Street facing spectators and the honor guard from CFB Shilo. A Canadian flag is in the foreground and Mayor Ken Burgess is standing to her right. A number of individuals are standing on the steps behind her.
Notes
The Brandon Sun includes a photograph of this same even taken from the opposite side of the street and from a wider angle.
Stuckey's notes: shows good details of buildings in backgrounds. Train consist: CPR 8528-8517 GM model GP-9 units; CPR business coach Strathcona; CPR business coach Killarney; VIA 103 dining coach; Two Govt. of Canada coaches.
Scope and Content
Photograph is looking southeast from overhead bridge and shows the train and a number of buildings on Pacific Avenue between 7th and 8th Streets.
Notes
Corresponds with negative 1-2002.3.9.P25.
Repro Restriction
The McKee Archives is the copyright holder for the Stuckey materials.
Eleanor Kidd Park (est. 1977) is situated on 18th Street North, on the south side of the Assiniboine River, and east of the Thompson twinned bridge. The park was the former site of an animal shelter overseen by Eleanor Kidd. Adjacent to the park are the Eleanor Kidd Gardens, which contains performance and fountain plazas. The sites have been subjected to heavy flooding from 2011 to 2015.
Eleanor Maud Kidd (nee Death) (b.05 Aug 1881, d. 11 July 1978) was born in London, England. She trained as a nurse/midwife at the Liverpool Children's Hospital and worked as a private nurse for affluent families in Italy. She immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Portage la Prairie where she worked as a public health nurse. She ultimately settled in Brandon where she married barber William Wesley Kidd (1873-1951) on November 24, 1921. Mrs. Kidd is credited with incorporating the Brandon SPCA/Humane Society in 1947. She died in Brandon, Manitoba, and is interred in the Brandon Municipal Cemetery. (sources: Brandon Sun 12 July 1978; Brandon Sun 13 July 1978; Manitoba Vital Statistics)
Custodial History
Photograph courtesy of Dirk Aberson
Scope and Content
Photograph is a close-up of Eleanor Kidd posing in front of the Elanor Kidd Park sign.
Stuckey's notes: shows good details of buildings in backgrounds. Train consist: CPR 8528-8517 GM model GP-9 units; CPR business coach Strathcona; CPR business coach Killarney; VIA 103 dining coach; Two Govt. of Canada coaches.
Scope and Content
Photograph is looking southwest from overhead bridge and shows the train at the station and a number of buildings on Pacific Avenue west of 8th Street.
Notes
Corresponds with negative 1-2002.3.9.P25a.
Repro Restriction
The McKee Archives is the copyright holder for the Stuckey materials.
MacDonald tied for the Gold Medal in General Proficiency and won the silver medals in Mathematics and Zoology. She also studied music while attending Brandon College.
Scope and Content
Graduation portrait of Margaret Ann MacDonald, class of 1959.