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A dictionary of correct English : a manual of information and advice concerning grammar, idiom, use of words, points of styles, punctuation, pronunciation, and other practical matters

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections266
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1934
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Pink, M. Alderton (Maurice Alderton)
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-13-8
Item Number Range
Archives 14-13-8
Responsibility
by M. Alderton Pink
Start Date
1934
Date Range
1934
Publication
London : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD
Physical Description
xii, 196 p., 31 p. ; 19 cm
Notes
Grammatical information arranged alphabetically
Subject Access
English language Errors of usage
English language Idioms
English language Grammar
Storage Location
Box 13 - Literature I
Storage Range
Box 13 - Literature I
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Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and to assist in literary composition

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections265
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1933
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869
Roget, John Lewis, 1828-1908
Roget, Samuel Romilly, b. 1875
Heggen, Willard Jerome, 1902
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-13-7
Item Number Range
Archives 14-13-7
Responsibility
by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged by John Lewis Roget. New ed. revised and enlarged by Samuel Romilly Roget
Start Date
1933
Date Range
1933
Publication
London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Co
Physical Description
xlii, 705 p. ; 21cm
Notes
American edition edited and revised by Willard Jerome Heggen
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Access
English language Synonyms and antonyms
Storage Location
Box 13 - Literature I
Storage Range
Box 13 - Literature I
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The complete plain words

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections65
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1954
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Gowers, Ernest, Sir, 1880-1966
Description Level
Item
Item Number
PE 1421.G592
Archives 14-13-5
Item Number Range
PE 1421.G592
Archives 14-13-5
Standard number
System Control Number 87085169
Responsibility
Sir Ernest Gowers
Start Date
1954
Date Range
1954
Publication
London : H. M. Stationary Off
Physical Description
iv, 209 p. ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical reference and index
Subject Access
English language Style
Vocabulary
English language Terms and phrases
Storage Location
Box 13 - Literature I (Archives copy)
Storage Range
Box 13 - Literature I (Archives copy)
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The universal dictionary of the English language : a new and original compilation giving all pronunciations in simplified and in more exact phonetic notations, extensive etymologies, definitions, the latest accepted words in scientific, technical, and general use, with copious illustrative phrases, and colloquialisms

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections261
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1938
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy, 1870-1945
Read, Allen Walker
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-13-1
Item Number Range
Archives 14-13-1
Responsibility
edited by Henry cecil Wyld ; with preface to the American edition by Allen Walker Read
Start Date
1938
Date Range
1938
Publication
Chicago : Standard American corporation
Physical Description
5 v. ; 28 cm
Subject Access
English language Dictionaries
Storage Location
Box 13 - Literature I
Storage Range
Box 13 - Literature I
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Crabb's English synonymes

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections264
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1917
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Crabb, George, 1778-1851
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-13-6
Item Number Range
Archives 14-13-6
Responsibility
by George Crabb ; with an introduction by John H. Finley
Start Date
1917
Date Range
1917
Publication
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers
Physical Description
[10], 769 p. ; 21 cm
Notes
At head of title: Centennial edition
Revised and englarged by the addition of modern terms and definitions arranged alphabetically, with complete cross references throughout
Subject Access
English language Synonyms and antonyms
Storage Location
Box 13 - Literature I
Storage Range
Box 13 - Literature I
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The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections66
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1936
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Description Level
Item
Item Number
PE 2808.M4 1936
Archives 14-13-2
Item Number Range
PE 2808.M4 1936
Archives 14-13-2
Standard number
System Control Number 87085373
Responsibility
by H. L. Mencken
Start Date
1936
Date Range
1936
Publication
New York : Knopf
Physical Description
xi, 767, xxix p. ; 25 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Access
English language United States
Americanisms
Names United States
Names
Personal United States
Storage Location
Box 13 - Literature I (Archives copy)
Storage Range
Box 13 - Literature I (Archives copy)
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The writer's desk book : being a reference volume upon questions of punctuation, capitalization, spelling, division of words, indention, spacing, italics, abbreviations, accents, numerals, faulty diction, letter writing, postal regulations, etc., etc.

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections267
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
c1912
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Orcutt, William Dana, 1870-1953
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-13-9
Item Number Range
Archives 14-13-9
Responsibility
by William Dana Orcutt
Start Date
c1912
Date Range
c1912
Publication
New York, : Frederick A. Stokes Company
Physical Description
vi, 184 p. ; 17 cm
Notes
Includes index
Subject Access
English language Orthography and spelling
Storage Location
Box 13 - Literature I
Storage Range
Box 13 - Literature I
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Community : a sociological study being an attempt to set out the nature and fundamental laws of social life

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections293
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1924
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
MacIver, Robert M. (Robert Morrison), 1882-1970
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-14-2
Item Number Range
Archives 14-14-2
Responsibility
by Robert Morrison MacIver
Start Date
1924
Date Range
1924
Publication
London : MacMillan and Co., Limited
Physical Description
xvii, 446 p. ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes index
Subject Access
Community
Storage Location
Box 14-Discards II
Storage Range
Box 14-Discards II
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Pacific Express in Kicking Horse Pass

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Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1889-1894
Accession Number
20-2009
Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Creator
Photographer: Trueman & Caple, Vancouver
Description Level
Item
Series Number
McG 9
Item Number
20-2009.180
Accession Number
20-2009
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1889-1894
Physical Description
3.75" x 2.5" (b/w)
Material Details
reproduction
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a possible CPR train stopped on the tracks at the base of a mountain. Train employees and passengers are posing alongside the train.
Notes
Writing on the front of the photograph reads: Train #1033 "Pacific Express" in Kicking Horse Pass near Golden / Trueman & Caple Photo, Vancouver, BC / Wishing You A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Date obtained from Margery Hadley McDougall, "R.H. Trueman, Artist and Documentarian," BC Studies, No. 52, Winter 1981-82, pp.129-141.
Subject Access
trains
Transportation
Storage Location
RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)
Arrangement
From 20-2009 #1 File 8
Images
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W.F. McGuinness at the Dominion Express Co.

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Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
[1900s]
Accession Number
1-2015
Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
McG 9
Item Number
1-2015.89
Accession Number
1-2015
GMD
graphic
Date Range
[1900s]
Physical Description
2.5" x 3.5" (b/w)
Physical Condition
Photograph is folded and torn
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a group of four men standing on a platform at the entrance of the Dominion Express Company. William Frederick McGuinness stands on the left.
Name Access
William Frederick McGuinness
W.F. McGuinness
Dominion Express Company
Subject Access
Brandon business buildings & facilities before 1940
building exteriors
Conservation
on matting
Storage Location
RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)
Arrangement
BR #3 Family pictures
Images
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Self-help a hundred years ago

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections212
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
harles Scribner's Sons, 1906
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Holyoake, George Jacob, 1817-1906
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-5-21
Item Number Range
Archives 14-5-21
Responsibility
by George Jacob Holyoake
Start Date
harles Scribner's Sons, 1906
Date Range
harles Scribner's Sons, 1906
Publication
London : Swan Sonnenschein ; New York
Physical Description
vii, 214 p. ; 20 cm
Subject Access
Cooperation Great Britain
Storage Location
Box 5 - Historical II
Storage Range
Box 5 - Historical II
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Spirit of the Post Road : a story of self-help communities

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1955
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Meyers, Robert
Federation of Southern Manitoba Co-operatives
Description Level
Item
Item Number
HD 3450.A3M3
Archives 14-23-8
Item Number Range
HD 3450.A3M3
Archives 14-23-8
Standard number
System Control Number 76210665
Responsibility
by Robert Meyers
Start Date
1955
Date Range
1955
Publication
[Altona, Man.] : Federation of Southern Manitoba Co-operatives, (Altona, Man. : D.W. Friesen)
Physical Description
viii, 151 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 15 cm
Subject Access
Cooperative societies Manitoba
Cooperation Manitoba
Storage Location
Box 23 - Historical VI (Archives copy)
Storage Range
Box 23 - Historical VI (Archives copy)
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Class of 1930's 50th Anniversary, Tommy Douglas Speech

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Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
May 3rd, 1980
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
2
File Number
2.1.13
Item Number
2.1.13
Date Range
May 3rd, 1980
Physical Description
colour, 5" x 7"
Scope and Content
Class of 1930’s 50th Anniversary Tommy Douglas – Arts Class of 1930 - speaks
Name Access
Douglas
Subject Access
Class of 1930
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Collaboration for self-reliance : Canada's scientific and technological contribution to the food supply of developing countries.

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections182
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1981
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Committee on Canada's Scientific and Technological Contribution to World Food Supply
Switzer, C. M., 1929
Science Council of Canada
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-6-3
Item Number Range
Archives 14-6-3
Standard number
System Control Number AAQ4380
Start Date
1981
Date Range
1981
Publication
Ottawa : Science Council of Canada
Publisher Series
Science Council of Canada report ; 32
Physical Description
112 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Notes
"Report is the result of four years' consideration and debate by the Science Council's Committee on Canada's Scientific and Technological Contribution to World Food Supply."--Pref
Chairman: C.M. Switzer
Issued also in French under title: Collaboration pour l'autod©veloppement, ©ál'adresse ci-dessus
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Access
Food supply Developing countries
Agricultural industries Developing countries
Technology transfer Canada
Agriculture and state Canada
Storage Location
Box 6-Discards I
Storage Range
Box 6-Discards I
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Class of 1930's 50th Anniversary, Tommy Douglas Speech #2

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/descriptions207
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Date Range
May 3rd, 1980
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
2
File Number
2.1.14
Item Number
2.1.14
Date Range
May 3rd, 1980
Physical Description
colour, 5" x 7"
Scope and Content
Class of 1930’s 50th Anniversary Tommy Douglas – Arts Class of 1930 - speaks
Name Access
Douglas
Subject Access
Class of 1930
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Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1961-1962
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
8
Item Number
BUPC 8.E.4
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1961-1962
Physical Description
2.5" x 3.5" (b/w)
Scope and Content
Portrait of Florence English, Lady Stick, and winner of medal in Religious Studies.
Subject Access
Lady stick
Student government
award recipients
Images
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Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
c. 1962
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
8
Item Number
8.E.5
GMD
graphic
Date Range
c. 1962
Physical Description
2.5" x 3.5" (b/w)
Scope and Content
Portrait of student Florence English, class of 1962.
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Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
c. 1990
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
8
Item Number
8.E.12
GMD
graphic
Date Range
c. 1990
Physical Description
3.25" x 5" (colour)
History / Biographical
English taught in the Nursing Department from 1987-2005.
Custodial History
Photograph was tranfered to the McKee Archives from the Public Communications Office in the winter of 2007.
Scope and Content
Photograph of John English in his office.
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English Church, Killarney

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Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1908
Accession Number
20-2009
Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Creator
Photographer: Winnipeg Photo Company
Description Level
Item
Series Number
McG 9
Item Number
20-2009.220
Accession Number
20-2009
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1908
Physical Description
5.5" x 3.5" (b/w)
Material Details
postcard
Physical Condition
Photocard has been mailed
Scope and Content
Photograph shows the English Church in Killarney, Manitoba. The entrance to the brick structure is obscured by trees.
Notes
Writing on the front of the postcard reads: English Church, Killarney, Copyright Canada 1908 by Winnipeg Photo Companty, No. 3. Writing on the back of the postcard reads: Photo Post Card by Winnipeg Photo Co., Napinka, Man. The postcard is addressed to Miss Annie Pope of 638 Pacific Avenue, Brandon. A green one cent King George stamp is postmarked Killarney Manitoba 22 July 1908.
Name Access
Killarney, Manitoba
Church of England
Subject Access
churches
Storage Location
RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)
Arrangement
From 20-2009 #4 plastic envelope #2
Images
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Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1965
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
8
Item Number
8.E.7
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1965
Physical Description
2.5" x 3.5" (b/w)
Scope and Content
Graduation portrait of Morley D. English, class of 1965 and Brandon University Faculty member (Economics) from 1967-1970.
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