Brandon College established a Canadian Officer Training Corps (COTC) program in 1916 and had enough students for a platoon that would join the 196th Western Universities Battalion's B Company. COTC logs for in the SJ McKee Archives show that at least 40 men regularly attended classes on campus during the 1916 winter term.
The Brandon Daily Sun published the names of 60 potential platoon recruits before they headed to Camp Hughes to train in the summer of 1916. Although Lt. J.R.C. Evans spearheaded the training of the COTC enlistees at Brandon College, he was found medically unfit for overseas service. In his stead, the son of the college's founder, Lt. William Carey McKee, lead the platoon to Camp Hughes where they joined the 196th Battalion. Of the 60 recruits identified in the local paper, 20 would not survive the war, including Lt. McKee. [ST/2016]
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Photograph shows a group of 40 men wearing WWI uniforms. The men have the Canada general service cap badge on their headdress. The officer in the centre of the group (i.e., the man with the cane) is J.R.C. Evans. The group of men are likely members of the first Brandon College Platoon, which joined the 196th Western Universities Battalion.
W.M.C.A. Convocation. Photo shows graduates and audience members standing at their seats, as well as a brass ensemble in the orchestra pit conducted by Prof. Alan Ehnes of the School of Music.
W.M.C.A.Convocation '76? Faculty members walking north down 20th Street (pre-parking lots). Rt. row (from beg.): C.W. Anderson, E Birkinshaw, ?,?,?, L. Watson, Lt. row (from beg.): R.H. Hannah, P. Hallamandaris, A.A. Ariano?, T. McNeely, P.G. Klassen, ?,?, E. McFadden
WMCA – Spring Convocation. Dr. Nancy Stanley receives the Board of Governors Community Service Award. L to R: Chancellor Kevin Kavanagh, Nancy Stanley, Bob Cochrane (Chair, BOG), Dennis Anderson (President, BU)
Photograph shows a group of 10 men, eight whom are wearing sweaters with the letters WCBC appliqued across the chest. The goalie is seated in a wodden chair and wears his goalie pads and skates. The four other players in the front row are also wearing skates and have their hockey sticks.
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Writing on the front of the photograph mat reads: Wheat City Business College Hockey Club, 1912
W.M.C.A.B.U. Convocation (Spring 79). L to R. (front row) W. G. Dinsdale; P.C.M.P., E. R. McGill; M.L.A, K.A. Cosens; M.L.A., Min of Education (Standing), Background (clear) L. Liu, P. Letkeman, B. Parsons, Chris. Kennedy (University Registrar).
