The Metropolitan store was located on the south side of Rosser Avenue at 8th Street.
Scope and Content
Photograph shows the front of the Metropolitan Store Ltd. at night, in particular four large display windows displaying men's and women's apparel and baked goods. Signs in the windows read: Grand opening sale Friday and Saturday.
Repro Restriction
The McKee Archives is the copyright holder for the Stuckey materials.
Photograph was taken at the opening of the A.E. McKenzie Building (including the Evans Theatre) and shows the J.R.C. Evans Lecture Theatre doorway. L to R Dr. John E. Robbins, Mrs. Olive (Freeman) Diefenbaker (Class of 1923 and wife of Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker)
Notes
The opening of the A.E. McKenzie Building took place the same day as the installation of John E. Robbins as President of Brandon College.
Item is three contact prints taken at the opening of McMaster Hall.
Print 1 (L toR): ?, Murray(?) Simmons, Lloyd Dulmage (Microphone); ?, Walter Dinsdale (M.P.), Bill Wilton (Mayor), Scott Bateman (Chairman of University Grants Commission), ?, ?
Print 2 (L to R): Lyle Dick (?), holding ribbon (?), Lloyd Dulmage, Murray(?) Simmons, (?) holding ribbon, Walter Dinsdale, Bill Wilton, Scott Bateman
Print 3 (L to R): Lyle Dick (?), ?, Lloyd Dulmage, Murray(?) Simmons, ?, Walter Dinsdale, Bil Wilton, Scott Bateman
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