Brent Campbell holds the degrees of Bachelor of Music Education from SUNY Potsdam, ‘81 and Master of Music Education from Brandon University, ‘89. He has taught courses at St. Lawrence University, Brandon University, and at both the junior and senior high levels in Manitoba.
He is a past board member of the International Music Camp, spent six years on the executive board of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE), is past director of the University of Manitoba Summer Jazz Camp and past president of IAJE Canada. He spent 13 years on the trombone faculty of the Mile High Jazz Camp in Boulder, Colorado, and worked for Jazz At Lincoln Center as the Canadian consultant for the Essentially Ellington program.
Campbell currently serves as the Director of the Brandon Jazz Festival, as Executive Director of IAJE Canada, as the Administrative Officer of the Brandon Chamber Players and is the Canadian Jazz Representative for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London, England.
Campbell presently teaches concert and jazz bands at Vincent Massey High School in Brandon, Manitoba, where he lives with his wife Caroline and their three children.
Custodial History
Photograph was tranfered to the McKee Archives from the Public Communications Office in the winter of 2007.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Brent Campbell in a computer lab.
Notes
History/Bio taken from the Vincent Massey High School Band Department website, available at: http://www.brandonsd.mb.ca/massey/staff/campbell/instructors.htm (May 2008).
James Buckley was born in Arnprior, Ontario in 1877. He moved to Manitoba in 1904. In 1906, he settled in Brandon, Manitoba where he was employed as a Canadian Pacific Railway conductor for thirty-six years. In the same year he arrived in Brandon, Buckley married Helenea Stavenaw. Togerher they had two daughters Ruth and Margaret. James Buckley was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and the Knights of Columbus. He passed away in Brandon, Manitoba on December 8, 1957.
Custodial History
Fonds passed into the hands of Buckley's daughter Margaret following the death of Helenea (Stavenaw) Buckley in 1959. Following Margaret's death the fonds was retained by Lesley Liversidge who donated the fonds to the Daly House Museum in 2004. The Museum then donated the fonds to the McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
Fonds includes Conductors' Local Passenger tariff No. C 6 Brandon to Moose Jaw in effect June 23, 1918; Constitution of Railway Conductors of America revised and adopted May 4, 1925; CPR Rules for Heating, Ventilating, Lighting and for operation of water rising system on passenger equipment, revised January 1924; Souvenir, Canada's Great Inland Port Fort William and Port Arthur [n.d.] 127 illustrations; poster The Spirit of 1918: Sticking To It, supplement to The Graphic, The Railway Conductor, July, 1939 Royal Visit Edition; Wonderland of Canada, The Rocky Mountains Specially Selected Views of the Canadian Rockies on the Canadian Pacific Line, photographs by WM Notman & Son. Valentine & Sons, Publishing Company, Montreal and Toronto[n.d.]; Over the Kettle Valley Route British Columbia published for Canadian Pacific Railway News Service 20 pp. [n.d.]; postcard with steam engine traveling through a flooded rail-line and CNR key.
