Stuckey's notes: Community of Thoona, Manitoba. Officially opened December 27, 1903 by Rt. Rev. S.P. Matheson, Bishop of Rupert's Land. Last annual meeting of congregation committee December, 1953. Officially closed November 1, 1964 by Rt. Rev. Ivor A. Norris, Bishop of Brandon, after special service in Birtle - St. George's Church. Exterior and interior.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Image shows the Church of St. Albans - Blenheim (Anglican), south of Birtle, Manitoba.
Notes
[Brandon NW includes communities north of Trans-Canada #1 highway and west of PTH #10.]
Stuckey's notes: Community of Thoona, Manitoba. Officially opened December 27, 1903 by Rt. Rev. S.P. Matheson, Bishop of Rupert's Land. Last annual meeting of congregation committee December, 1953. Officially closed November 1, 1964 by Rt. Rev. Ivor A. Norris, Bishop of Brandon, after special service in Birtle - St. George's Church. Exterior and interior.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Image shows the Church of St. Albans - Blenheim (Anglican), south of Birtle, Manitoba.
Notes
[Brandon NW includes communities north of Trans-Canada #1 highway and west of PTH #10.]
Stuckey's notes: Community of Thoona, Manitoba. Officially opened December 27, 1903 by Rt. Rev. S.P. Matheson, Bishop of Rupert's Land. Last annual meeting of congregation committee December, 1953. Officially closed November 1, 1964 by Rt. Rev. Ivor A. Norris, Bishop of Brandon, after special service in Birtle - St. George's Church. Exterior and interior.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Image shows the Church of St. Albans - Blenheim (Anglican), south of Birtle, Manitoba.
Notes
[Brandon NW includes communities north of Trans-Canada #1 highway and west of PTH #10.]
Stuckey's notes: Community of Thoona, Manitoba. Officially opened December 27, 1903 by Rt. Rev. S.P. Matheson, Bishop of Rupert's Land. Last annual meeting of congregation committee December, 1953. Officially closed November 1, 1964 by Rt. Rev. Ivor A. Norris, Bishop of Brandon, after special service in Birtle - St. George's Church. Exterior and interior.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Image shows the Church of St. Albans - Blenheim (Anglican), south of Birtle, Manitoba.
Notes
[Brandon NW includes communities north of Trans-Canada #1 highway and west of PTH #10.]
Stuckey's notes: Community of Thoona, Manitoba. Officially opened December 27, 1903 by Rt. Rev. S.P. Matheson, Bishop of Rupert's Land. Last annual meeting of congregation committee December, 1953. Officially closed November 1, 1964 by Rt. Rev. Ivor A. Norris, Bishop of Brandon, after special service in Birtle - St. George's Church. Exterior and interior.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Image shows the Church of St. Albans - Blenheim (Anglican), south of Birtle, Manitoba.
Notes
[Brandon NW includes communities north of Trans-Canada #1 highway and west of PTH #10.]
Opened 1903. Closed 1923. Building became the Oak Theatre ca. 1930. Reopened as Towne Cinema ca. 1980 after being closed for many years. The building has since been demolished.
Scope and Content
Postcard shows the interior of the lunch counter and cashier register at Cafe Aagaard located at 29-8th Street Brandon.
Notes
Writing on the front of the postcard reads: Lunch Counter Cafe Aagaard, 29 Eigth St., Brandon, Man. The back of the postcard reads: Cafe Aagaard, Largest, Oldest and Best in Brandon. The postcard is addressed to Mrs. K.L. McGregor, 157-4th St.
The decorative ceiling and border are consistent with another photograph in the McGuinness collection (see 20-2009.78) in which Gordon Irwin is identified. According to Henderson's 1909 Brandon City Directory, Gordon Irwin - a barber - and tobacconist J.S. Rosby shared at storefront at 919 Rosser Avenue. This address is situated on the north side of Rosser Avenue, adjacent to a laneway. It is possible that the back of the shop overlooks the Grand Union Hotel on the corner of Pacific Avenue and 10th Street.
Scope and Content
Photograph shows the interior of a store primarily selling pipes and cigars. An ornate tin ceiling and wallpaper border are evident. A barber shop area can be seen in the back of the shop near the exit.
Notes
Writing on the back reads: Harold Tackaberry says may have been Jory's or Waldron's, now part of Knowlton's. The handwriting is Fred McGuinness'.
Photograph was in possession of Mrs. Ruby Miles, who passed the image on to Fred McGuinness. McGuinness makes reference to Mrs. Miles and this photograph in his Sunbeams column (Brandon Sun 14 September 1978).
Scope and Content
Photograph shows the interior of the Hanbury Manufacturing Co. Mill. Men identified in the photograph include: Mr. Tom McKenzie (right), Elden Darrow, and Jack Silliker.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Mrs. R. Miles. Provenience and identifications obtained from Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Photograph shows the Red Indian (Gasoline) Station on the north side Princess Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets, Brandon. Attached to the west side of the gas station is another shop which contains Hutchings' Drug Store. The Alexandra Block on 10th Street is visible in the background.
Item is a mini-chapbook entitled "Barker's Dozen" by Lucile Angela Morreale Barker. It is series 1, number 7 of the Dollarpoems series. The series was published by Pierian Press, Brandon University with the assistance of the Manitoba Arts Council.
Photograph shows Western Motors Ltd. on the southwest corner of 10th Street and Princess Avenue. Anglo gas station is part of the car shop, which sells GM, Chevrolet, and Oldsmobiles.
Hutchings' Drugs is on the ground floor of the Hughes Building on the northwest corner of 10th Street and Princess. Manufacturers Life occupies the second storey.
The Brandon Co-op building is located between 6th and 7th Street on the south side of Princess Avenue. The building later housed the Brandon Public Library and Convergys.
Custodial History
See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.