In 1975, Brandon University in cooperation with the Manitoba Pool Elevators, founded the Rural Resources Centre. The Centre was designed to provide rural Manitoba with resource materials for use in the discussion and analysis of problems related to rural social development. It was given a mandate to collect publications and archival materials related to the history of the Manitoba Pool Elevators, cooperative societies, churches, exhibitions, school districts, and Women’s Institutes.
In September 1978, the University transformed the Rural Resources Centre into the Brandon University Archives. Originally housed in a trailer, from October 1981 to September 1998 the University Archives operated out of the Archives Centre located in the basement of the Jeff Umphrey Building at 20th Street and Victoria Avenue.
In 1990 the University Board of Governor’s renamed the University Archives the S. J. McKee Archives. The S. J. McKee Archives was so established on Saturday, November 19, 1990, to mark the anniversary of the opening of the Brandon Academy by S. J. McKee and his wife Laura McKee one hundred years earlier. In 1899, the Brandon Academy founded by Samuel and Laura McKee became Brandon College.
The S. J. McKee Archives moved to its current location on the mezzanine floor of the John E. Robbins Library in the summer of 1998.
The McKee Archives is the principal repository for records of archival value created by the University or which relate to the history and mandate of Brandon College and Brandon University. The Archives collects records of selected Brandon College and Brandon University faculty and alumni.
The McKee Archives also acquires manuscript collections, which support the research and teaching programs offered at Brandon University. These include archival records related to rural development, education, agriculture, heath studies, First Nations, and the city of Brandon.
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVISTS:
SALLY CUNNINGHAM (1975 - ?)
No biographical information yet.
EILEEN MCFADDEN (1981 - 1997)
See RG 6, series 8, sub-series 1 (University Librarian) for biographical information on Eileen McFadden.
TOM MITCHELL (1997 - present)
See RG 6, series 5 (Registrar's Office) for biographical information on Tom Mitchell.
Scope and Content
The sub-series has been divided into four sub sub series, including: (1) Archives - general files; (2) Archives - budget files; (3) Archives - correspondence files; and (4) Archives - exhibits and displays.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from articles in "The Quill" (September 24, 1981 and November 20, 1990) and the S.J. McKee Archives hompage at http://www.brandonu.ca/library/archives/ (September 2006).
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 8: Library Services
File consists of correspondence with and photocopies sent by the Canadian Baptist Archives at McMaster University. The materials relate to Brandon College, Rev. W.C. Smalley, Howard Whidden and J.R.C. Evans (1930s).
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 8: Library Services
8.2 S.J. McKee Archives
Box 1
File consists of correspondence, memos and reports. Subject matter includes hardship allowances, salary negotiations, credit extension remuneration, and plenipotentiaries.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 2
File consists of a statement on Brandon University's budget position, a discussion paper entitled "Guidelines on employee benefit plans in Manitoba," BUFA salary information, recommended alteration to the BUFA brief and a copy of the credit extension renumeration agreement.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 3
File consists of memos, executive list (1980/1985), salary information, recommendations, reports (including one on the aims of Brandon University), job descriptions for various positions, copies of various signed articles, a copy of the BUFA constitution, faculty handbook revisions, BUFA proposals and collective agreements.
Notes
File artificially created July 19/06 (CMH).
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 6
File consists of BUFA newsletters, meeting agendas, recommended alterations to the BUFA brief, a proposed collective agreement, and a report from the BUFA-Board of Governors' Salary Negotiating Committees.
Notes
File artificially created July 19/06 (CMH).
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series XV: BUFA
Box 6
Related Material
RG 6, series 15 (BUFA), files 54, 60, and 110-114.
