Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba, Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics
Physical Description
65 leaves
Notes
"Seminar for co-operative personnel organized by Department of Agricultural Economics University of Manitoba with assistance from the co-operative organizations of Western Canada"
Phyllis Field Cooper was born on July 22, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois. She attended the Chicago Art Institute. Phyllis emigrated to Canada in March 1918, where she worked briefly for Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cooper near Treesbank, MB, before she moved to Winnipeg to teach a juvenile art class connected with the Winnipeg School of Art. In fall 1920, Phyllis went to work in the office of a Winnipeg insurance company. That same year her parents and brother moved to the Treesbank area. Phyllis moved home to work at the Treesbank store, before the entire family moved back to Chicago in 1923.
Phyllis married Archibald Cooper (1868-1953) on August 26, 1933, and the couple moved to Winnipeg. They did not have children. During their time in Winnipeg, Phyllis worked as an interior designer, a vocalist and a writer, writing articles for the Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Tribune. She was a member of the Philharmonic choir in Winnipeg and an Honorary Life Member of the Winnipeg Sketch Club. She moved to Glenboro in 1955, following the death of her husband. In Glenboro she gave piano and art lessons for several years. Phyllis Field Cooper died in August 1987. She is buried at Millford Cemetery in Treesbank, MB.
Custodial History
As part of the Westman Oral History Collection, this collection was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1998. The original tapes from the Westman Oral History project were deposited in the Brandon Public Library. Copies of these originals were made by Margaret Pollex of the Brandon University Language Lab at the request of Eileen McFadden, University Archivist in the early 1990s. These copies compose the collection held in the McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
Item is an audiocassette tape containing an interview with Phyllis Field Cooper about her life. Interviewer is Irene Brown.
Notes
History/bio information from the records and the Glenboro local history "Beneath the long grass." Description by Christy Henry.
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Elementary and practical arithmetic : in which have been attempted various improvements in arrangement and nomenclature, as well as in the means of thorough discipline in the principles and applications of the science
Houses for the people : a summary of the powers of local authorities under the housing of the working classes act, 1890, and the use which has been and can be made of them
2nd ed. revised, 1899; 3rd ed. revised and enlarged, 1900; 4th ed. revied and enlarged, 1906; 5th ed., 1913
3rd ed. : a summary of the powers of local authorities under the housing of the working classes act, 1890 to 1900, and the use which has been and can be made of them
4th ed. : a summary of the powers of local authorities under the housing of the working classes act, 1890 to 1903, and the use which has been and can be made of them
5th ed. : a summary of the powers of local authorities under the housing of the working classes act, 1890 to 1909, and the use which has been and can be made of them
The diffusion of Grain-marketing cooperatives in southern Manitoba from 1906 to 1960, with particular emphasis on the periods 1912-17 and 1925-40 / : by Geffrey E. Katz
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