Photograph of the Brandon College Capettes basketball team (1966-1967). Front Row (L to R): Jan Neddrie, Val Broadfoot, Judy Kellie, Capt. Barbara Ann Scott, Rhonda Harper. Back Row (L to R): Manager Margaret Reid, Fay Emish, Vicki Moore, Janice Doak, Coach Doug Steeves. Missing: Sandra Schneider, Linda Oakley.
Brandon College established a Canadian Officer Training Corps (COTC) program in 1916 and had enough students for a platoon that would join the 196th Western Universities Battalion's B Company. COTC logs for in the SJ McKee Archives show that at least 40 men regularly attended classes on campus during the 1916 winter term.
The Brandon Daily Sun published the names of 60 potential platoon recruits before they headed to Camp Hughes to train in the summer of 1916. Although Lt. J.R.C. Evans spearheaded the training of the COTC enlistees at Brandon College, he was found medically unfit for overseas service. In his stead, the son of the college's founder, Lt. William Carey McKee, lead the platoon to Camp Hughes where they joined the 196th Battalion. Of the 60 recruits identified in the local paper, 20 would not survive the war, including Lt. McKee. [ST/2016]
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a group of 40 men wearing WWI uniforms. The men have the Canada general service cap badge on their headdress. The officer in the centre of the group (i.e., the man with the cane) is J.R.C. Evans. The group of men are likely members of the first Brandon College Platoon, which joined the 196th Western Universities Battalion.
Portrait of the 1910-1911 Brandon College football team. Front left: W. C. Smalley. Front centre: Archie Gordon. Back row (second from right): J.R.C. Evans.
The 1927-1928 team won the provincial championship in women's basketball, beating the Winnipeg Athletics 45 to 2.
Scope and Content
Portrait of the 1927-1928 Brandon College women's basketball team. L to R: Dr. Evans (coach), Ruth Bingham, Jerrie Balmer, Jean Gammon, Jean Doig, Ann Foster, Helen Ball, Evelyn Doig, Ella Bowering
Photograph was tranfered to the McKee Archives from the Gymnasium in December 2011 during the construction of the Healthy Living Centre.
Scope and Content
Item is a composite team portrait of the 1913-1914 Brandon College hockey club. The team were winners of the Brandon City League Cup in 1911-1912, 1912-1913, and 1913-1914.
Photograph of the Brandon College women's basketball team.
Notes
The following signatures, along with the sentence "with sincere appreciation" are written on the back of the matting: Dorreene Fleming, Jackie Fleming, Grace Armstrong, Shirle Hurst, Eunice Hunter (captain), Doreen Rowse, Margaret Clark, Patricia Hill, M. Ruth Clark.
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