In 1917 the Brandon Electric Light Co. and the Brandon Gas & Power Co. merged to form the Canada Gas & Electric Company; CG&EC was subsequently taken over by the Manitoba Power Commission;
Brandon's central heating system was taken over by the Brandon Steam Heat Users Co-operative;
On September 13, 1957 at 3:38 PM, an explosion in the boiler and stack destroyed the large stack causing two fatalities.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Canada Gas & Electric Co. steam plant
Notes
View (from 10th St.) of the coal-powered steam generating plant located at 10th St. & Lorne Ave.
Copy negative from 8x10 negative by C.J. Smith (on file).
In 1917 the Brandon Electric Light Co. and the Brandon Gas & Power Co. merged to form the Canada Gas & Electric Company; CG&EC was subsequently taken over by the Manitoba Power Commission;
Brandon's central heating system was taken over by the Brandon Steam Heat Users Co-operative;
On September 13, 1957 at 3:38 PM, an explosion in the boiler and stack destroyed the large stack causing two fatalities.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Canada Gas & Electric Co. steam plant
Notes
Rear view of the coal-powered steam generating plant located at 10th St. & Lorne Avenue
Coal was fed from boxcars up elevators to crushers in two cupolas from which it was fed by gravity to chain grate boilers; The chain grate revolved slowly but constantly with coal fed at front edge, burned, and dumped as cinders in pit at far end
The two boxcars shown were used to haul the coal; One is lettered for the Canadian National, the other is still lettered for the merged Grand Trunk Pacific; Cinders were loaded in gondola cars at far right
Copy negative from 8x10 negative by C.J. Smith (on file).
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.]
According to Stuckey and Bain (1996), “The Brandon, Saskatchewan & Hudson’s Bay Railway was built and operated as a totally owned subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway. Construction commenced in late 1905 and by the end of 1905, less than a mile of track had been laid north of the boundary at St. John. In 1906, the remaining 68.6 miles to Brandon were laid and service commenced that year. During the Depression of the 1930s, traffic declined significantly and the entire branch was abandoned in 1936. Over much of the branch’s length, the ties and rails were laid on the prairie without ballast and today little remains of the line apart from traces where there were cuts and bridges.” (p. 18)
Stuckey, L. A., & Bain, D. M. (1996). The Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways in Canada. Calgary, Alberta: British Railway Modellers of North America.
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Scope and Content
Great Northern [gas-electric power unit] 2327 & Train at Rugby, ND.
Notes
Built by Brill/Westinghouse in June of 1928; scrapped June 1956. This unit ran with a similar train to Brandon, Manitoba from 1929 until 1936.
[The land on which city hall stood in this photo is now known as Princess Park. P.E. 01/06/09]
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Scope and Content
Princess Avenue, showing City Hall & CKX radio tower
Notes
[View is from 9th Street looking east. P.E.]
"Radio towers of CKX on city hall grounds were 150 feet tall; Studio and transmitter were on the east side of city hall." - Fred McGuinness collection (20-2009).
Bylaws to keep cattle off streets were being debated by city council about this time.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
J. Birtles Meat Market "Family Butcher", 608 Rosser Avenue
Notes
Mr. Birtles on right, including Mr. Hammell, Hiram Chesley, and Lew Wicket; Photo includes Red Cross Drug Store with proprietor Mr. McCullagh in front; From Brandon Sun files.
See fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of miscellaneous MPE records:
Box 1:
1a-5. Miscellaneous files March 5 1925-Nov 19 1973
Box 2:
6. Membership Lists
7. Training and Development
8. Member Complaints
9. MPE Employee Handbook
10. Plebiscite Nov 24 1951
11. Quiz Programs 1940, 1948
Canadian Wheat Pool Visitors Book 1930-1956
12. Delivery Ledger 1967-1968
13. Information re: Wheat Export Shipments 1924-1930
14. Important Issues by Association June 2 1944
15. Grain Booklets
Manitoba Pool Elevators was quick to realize the usefulness of the radio medium as a educational and promotional tool. It was also often used to defend the Pool and the co-operative movement in general on programs such as Farm Radio Forum. See fonds level description of RG 4 for complete history/bio of MPE.
Scope and Content
Sub-series MPE B.10 consists of textual radio broadcast transcriptions. The records include transcriptions from 1930 until 1971. Radio broadcasts are on a wide variety of topics, including argicultural science, the grain market and general economy of Canada and the world, government acts and legislation that affected the producer, co-operatives and the co-operative movement, rural life, young people, WWII, Manitoba, and the Manitoba Pool Elevators.
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Syndicate Block
Notes
Located at the SW corner of 7th St. & Rosser Ave (former location of Eaton's store).
Tenants at time of photo: The Merchants Lt., McWhirter & Ball, Vincent & MacPherson. For history of Vincent & MacPherson see Brandon: A City, pp 125-126, by Barker.
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