This house was built in 1907. It was constructed for the Bank of Montreal as the residence of the local bank manager, W.G.A. Watson, and was used for that purpose until the 1960s.
Custodial History
See fonds level description of the Alf Fowler collection for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Photo shows a Brandon residence located at 1335 Victoria Avenue.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Assiniboine Historical Society's Brandon: A Residential Walking Tour pamphlet (1993).
Storage Range
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript collection - photograph storage drawer
Photograph is looking west and shows the new Students' Residence Complex, consisting of Darrach Hall, Flora Cowan Hall, and the Main Dining Room, funded by the Central Mortgage & Housing Corporation. The grassy area in the photograph is now occupied by the John R. Brodie Science Centre and McMaster Hall.
Photograph shows Hon. James Richardson, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip and A.L. Dulmage conversing with with other individuals at a gathering in the backyard of the President's Residence on the corner of 13th Street and Victoria Avenue. Dignitaries were part of the cornerstone laying ceremony of the John R. Brodie Science Centre.
Photograph shows guests at a gathering in the backyard of the President's Residence on the corner of 13th Street and Victoria Avenue. Among the guests were (L to R): Alice and Len Evans (MLA for Brandon East and Cabinet Minister), Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Stanley Knowles and the Hon. James Richardson (MP for Winnipeg South and Cabinet Minister). In the back row, above the child in the crowd is Elias Haddad. Dignitaries were part of the cornerstone laying ceremony of the John R. Brodie Science Centre.
File consists of mintues and related documents for (Manitoba) Intercultural Committee of Cabinet and Manitoba Intercultural Council (MIC) Executive Committee meetings. Topics include: ESL; affirmative action; access to health and social services by new immigrants/refugees; heritage languages/multicultural education; media and communications and multiculturalism; immigration levels/settlement.
Storage Location
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
MG 3 1.19 May Yoh
Sub sub series consists of correspondence, financial information, newsclippings, reports, minutes, motion sheets, reference materials, an alumni questionnaire, BUSU/Board of Governors Joint Negotiating Committee memo of understanding, Knowles-Douglas Students' Union Centre Commission (Thrid draft), potential chairmen recruitment forms, briefs, policy documents, agendas, and calenders of events.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 2: Board of Governors
2.5 Board of Governors' committees
File consists of minutes, proposed 5 year program for Continuting Education, memos, and a brief submitted to the Joint Ministerial Task Force on nursing education on behalf of Brandon University (1977)
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 2: Board of Governors
2.4 Correspondence and subject files
Box 6
