Co-op Farm Implements was a subsidiary company designed to serve Pool members in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of general documents and photographs.
Box 1 and 2: Reston Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1928 - 1945, 1950 - 1951, 1953 1961 - 1963 Financial records and statistics Statement of surplus, 1938 - 1942 Final statements, 1935 - 1937, 1940 - 1942 (5 reports) Auditors' reports, 1929 - 1932, 1935 - 1942, 1947, 1954, 1962, 1963 (16 reports) Operating account, 1932 Balance sheet, 1951, 1960 - 1963 Analysis of Operating Result, 1961 - 1962 General expenses, 1961 - 1962 Surplus payment for year, 1938 - 1958 Final oats equalization payment, 1946 - 1947 Flax adjustment payment, 1947 - 1948 Barley adjustment payment, 1947 Grower's deliveries, 1958 - 1959, 1960 Deliveries and surplus, 1949 - 1959 Grower's ledgers, 1934 - 1947 Correspondence, 1944 - 1951 Membership list, 1945 - 1957, new Memberships Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Pipestone
Box 3: Reston/Cromer Association Minutes Nov 5 1959 - Nov 1998; Correspondance July 19 1960 - May 25 1999; Documents 1960 - 1969; Membership and Board Members 1959 - 1999; Cromer Membership Roster 1968 - 1979; Attendance 1958 - 1969; Funding Requests; Financial 1957 - 1996; Miscellaneous
Box 4: Cromer Seed Co-operative August 1 1972 - June 5 1986; Reston Minute Book May 20 1983 - May 24 1994
Notes
File numbering is not congruous between sub-series arranged prior to 2009 and sub-series arranged or added to after 2009. This will be corrected in the future
William Archibald Branton was from High River, Alberta. He attended Brandon College, graduating in 1910. Following graduation he returned to Alberta where he became Building Superintendent and Chief Architect for the Calgray Public School Board (1911-1957).
Custodial History
Records were donated to the McKee Archives by Mary Richmond, the daughter of William Branton, in 2006.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of a copy of "Selections in Poetical and Prose Literature for Third Class Teachers' Examination" edited by John C. Saul and W.A. McIntyre.
Notes
The book is signed "William A. Branton, Brandon College, Man." and was bought at Christie's Bookstore Brandon (stamped). Description by Christy Henry.
Storage Location
MG 2 Brandon College Students
2.26 William Archibald Branton
Related Material
Class of 1910 photographs and Brandon College Registration cards.
Thomas Russell Wilkins was born in Toronto in 1891. He received his B.A. from McMaster University in 1912, and became the Science Master at Woodstock College the following year. In 1916, he and his wife Olive moved to Chicago, where Wilkins was an instructor of Physics at the University of Chicago. The next year he served as a master signal electrician in the U.S. Signal Corps. During World War I, Wilkins completed pioneer research for the United States Navy, which led to the development of pulse sonar devices in the 1920s. He had also been researching the possibilities of a wireless telephone.
Wilkins and his wife moved to Brandon in 1918, where he took up the position of Professor of Physics. During his time at Brandon College, Wilkins introduced the latest technology to classrooms, designed the original Science Building, and along with the Brandon Citizen's Committee, seucured building funds for the Citizen's Science Building.
Receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1921, Wilkins resigned from Brandon College in 1925 to pursue postgraduate study at Cambridge University. In 1926, he began research at the University of Rochester, where he also took up the position of Professor of Physics. From 1930 to 1938, he acted as the Director of the Institute of Optics.
Widely known for his work in the fields of cosmic rays and atomic disintegration, in April 1939, Wilkins announced the perfection of a camera that was able to record the "footprints" of invisible atoms after they collide. In October 1939, he received a medal from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain recognizing his work regarding the use of photographic emulsions in the study of radium. The following year, Wilkins perfected a camera that could determine the energy levels inside the nuclei of stable chemical elements. He received a grant from Sigma Xi, the National Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research, in November of 1940.
Wilkins married twice. The first marriage, to Olive Anges Cross took place on June 17, 1913. Olive Wilkins died suddenly on May 13, 1937, at the age of 45. Wilkins married Susan Gwendolyn Whidden, the daughter of former Brandon College president Dr. H.P. Whidden, in 1938.
Thomas Russell Wilkins died suddenly of a heart attack on December 10, 1940, on his way back to his laboratory after a faculty meeting. He was 49 years old.
Custodial History
Records were accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1998. Prior custodial history is unknown.
Scope and Content
T. Russell Wilkins’ reocrds contain correspondence between himself and Mrs. Wilkins and Dr. Whidden concerning their employment with Brandon College. There are letters between the two men regarding the building of the Science Building in 1920. There is also a copy of the Canadian Baptist. Besides programmes and a picture, there is also correspondence between various people. Dr. Wilkins kept the papers he had written for various classes at McMaster University in the years 1911 and 1912. There is a "toast to the ladies" that he delivered at a banquet of some sort, that gives an interesting view on how Wilkins, and possibly other men of his time, viewed women. There are numerous newspapers clippings, and several pages taken from journals such as Popular Mechanics, Popular Electricity and others. Dr. Wilkins was at the top of his field of study. He was an extremely bright man who managed to create some very useful tools of science. His papers are interesting and informative to read.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from Campus News May 1990
During the independent existence of Manitoba Pool Elevators, the Manitoba Co-operator, published by the Manitoba Co-operative Conference Ltd., was the official organ of the cooperative movement in the province. The sub-series consists of issues of The Manitoba Co-operator from 1931-1936 and 1943-2001.