The Brandon University Photograph collection is an artifically created collection. It includes photographs from both Brandon College and Brandon University.
Custodial History
The custodial history is varied. Some photographs were created by officers of the College and the University, or were produced at the request of the institution. Many, as well, have been donated by former faculty members and students. We have tried to record the custodial history for photographs that have been donated by faculty members and students at the item level.
Scope and Content
Fonds has been divided into eleven series, including: (1) Convocation, Scholarships and Awards; (2) Campus Buildings; (3) Library Activities and Archives; (4) Faculties and Schools; (5) Student Activities; (6) Administrative and Support Units; (7) Sports; (8) Portraits; (9) Oversize; (10) Special Events; and (11) Documents, Diplomas and Certificates.
Education curriculum collection room opening westward off Library Reading Room, Library and Arts Building. L. to R. Ralph Berry, Margaret Ariss and students
Sixteen biographical sketches of leaders in Canadian adult education taken from 'Food for thought,' journal of the Canadian Association for Adult Education
Photograph shows a float advertisement for the Manitoba Agricultural College. The photograph was taken at Treesbank, MB. The banners on the float read: "Prosperity like a Tree" "If the Roots Suffer, the Leaves Wither and the Trunk Dies."
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson was born February 15, 1923 in Brandon, MB. The middle son of Angus and Annie Ethel (Pentland) McPherson, Murray grew up on the family farm in the Brandon Hills District. Following high school he obtained a B.Sc. degree from Brandon College, before enrolling in the Faculty of Eduction at the University of Manitoba in 1947 where he received his B.Ed. and M.Ed. Murray completed his Ph.D. in Educational Curriculum in 1975 at Michigan State University.
Murray's teaching career began at Brandon College as a chemistry instructor. After the year of teacher training he taught in Daupin Collegiate, then Luxton Junior High School and St. Johns High School in Winnipeg. In 1962, Murray joined the University of Manitoba Faculty of Education where he taught methods in mathematics and served as Head of the Deparment of Curriculum: Mathematics and Natural Sciences for sixteen years, before assuming the position of Co-ordinator of Student Teaching. During his career Murray co-edited a series of textbooks for elementary grades and was a strong supporter of the Manitoba Association of Mathematics Teachers. Following his retirement in 1988, Murray volunteered with Creative Retirement, Mentors Club and Habitat for Humanity. He also remained active in the United Church.
Murray McPherson married Margaret Elinore Raven on July 14, 1951 in Winnipeg. Margaret Elinore (Raven) McPherson was born in Winnipeg, MB on March 11, 1927. Educated at the University of Manitoba, where she earned a B.Sc. (1947), a Dip. Education (1948) and a B.Ed. (1966), Margaret taught school in Dauphin (1948-1953) and the Winnipeg School Division (Spring 1954). Together they had two children: John Angus Murray McPherson (b. March 19, 1955), an orthopedic surgeon in Winnipeg, and Kathryn May McPherson (b. November 20, 1957), a professor of history at York University, Toronto. Alfred Angus Murray McPherson died on November 25, 2001 at the Charleswood Care Centre in Winnipeg, MB. Margaret continues to live in Winnipeg, MB.
The MacPherson family originally came from the County of Sutherlandshire in the north of Scotland. The need for wool during the Napoleonic Wars resulted in the "Highland Clearances" of the early 1800's, which forced the small farmers or "crofters" to leave their farms and to move to the villages, such as Kildonan, Helmsdale and Golspie along the east coast.
In 1814, Hugh MacPherson (1779-1843) with his wife Anne Sutherland (1783-1857) and their family, immigrated to Nova Scotia and acquired a farm at Watervale, a community on the West River at Pictou. Following the issue of the land title, the "Mac" spelling of MacPherson became "Mc."
Alexander McPherson, the son of Hugh and Anne, married Elizabeth Murray at West River on April 10, 1840. They lived on the family farm at Watervale where they had a family of eleven children, a number of whom died in infancy. Their oldest son Hugh (1845-1916) and their youngest, Johnston (1857-1944), later came to Brandon Hills, MB.
Angus Sellars McPherson, a son of Hugh and Margaret (Sellars) McPherson, was born in Brandon Hills, MB on March 1, 1884. A farmer in the area his whole life, Angus married Annie Ethel Pentland in 1913. Together they had three sons: Howard, Murray and Kenneth. Angus died at Brandon General Hospital on September 5, 1953.
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson's mother, Annie Ethel (Pentland) McPherson, was born into a family that originally came from the ancient Scottish Midlothian or the more modern County of Edinburgh, from the Pentland Hills County, and in and around the towns of Pentland and Carrington. Around the year 1700, at the time of the large movement of immigrants from Scotland and England into Northern Ireland, several families of the clan settled in counties Down and Arnaugh in Ireland.
Between 1790 and 1820, a number from both Scotland and Ireland immigrated to Canada settling mainly in Eastern Ontario in the Counties of Hastings, Lennox and Addington and on Amherst Island. Around 1860, some moved to Huron County in Western Ontario to carve homes out of the bush. In 1881, Thomas James Pentland came from Goderich to Manitoba and settled near Douglas. He had learned the trade of a blacksmith and found one was needed so badly he gave up the intention to homestead and built a shop northwest of Douglas, on the South East quarter of Section 17-11-17. He later added a store and house there.
On July 22, 1885, Thomas James Pentland and Annie Isobel McVety were married at the home of the bride's parents at High Bluff and lived northwest of Douglas until 1890, when he made a deal with Isaac and Fred Lewis. Thomas took their homesteads on Section 14-12-18 and they took over the store, which they moved to Oakenside. T.J. Pentland continued to farm there until his death in June of 1919. T.J. Pentland was elected to the Council of the RM of Elton for Ward 1 in the fall of 1884 and served three years as councilor and fourteen years as Reeve.
The McVety and Owens families both came from County Fernanagh, Northern Ireland to Ontario during the first half of the nineteenth century. Henry McVety and Elizabeth Owens were married March 11, 1856, at Belgrave and lived at Morris until the spring of 1882, when they moved to High Bluff, Manitoba and fifteen years later to Bagot. In 1882, their daughter Annie Isobel came to Douglas to teach at the first Elton School situated 2.5 miles north and 1 mile east of present Douglas.
The family of Thomas and Annie Pentland consisted of three sons and three daughters. Fred, who served overseas in the 78th Battalion in the First World War and was killed in September 1917; Harry, who farmed in Justice until 1922, then lived in Brandon until his death in 1948; Ethel (Mrs. Angus McPherson), now living in Brandon; Evelyn (Mrs. N.C. Thompson) now living in Brandon; Wesley, living at Justice on the home farm; and Grace who died in 1908.
Harry Pentland's son, H. Clare Pentland, was born October 17, 1914, on a farm near Justice, MB, where Harry had taken up farming. Clare graduated from Brandon College in 1940, with an Economics degree and attended the University of Oregon, where he completed a Master's degree in 1942. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1961. His dissertation was later published as "Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860." A noted economist and a founder of the history of labour in Canada, H. Clare Pentland died on October 13, 1978.
Custodial History
Prior to the death of Murray McPherson, Margaret McPherson's husband, he and his daughter Katherine McPherson, professor of history at York University, searched through various farm houses previously occupied by members of the McPherson family and gathered together family archival materials to safeguard them from destruction. These materials were tranferred to the McPherson residence in Winnipeg and upon the death of Murry McPherson, Margaret became the sole custodian of the records. The decision to place the records at the McKee Archives was arrived at for two reasons. First, the records relate to the Brandon Hills and the history of this region. Second, Murray McPherson attended Brandon College in the 1940s, and felt kinship with the institution. The records came to the McKee Archives courtesy of the good offices of Diane Hageland of the Association for Manitoba Archives. Margaret McPherson donated the records to the McKee Archives on May 4, 2006.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of personal and business records for various members of the McPherson and Pentland families. These were generated in the course of settlement in the Brandon Hills, travel, participation in the First World War and various forms of associational life, in particular the Orange Lodge. The fonds includes correspondence, financial records/ledgers, legal documents, postcards, photographs, scrapbooks, greeting cards, livestock records, Brandon College Sickles, school records, electoral records, diaries, membership records, certificates, income tax records, ration cards, notebooks, newsclippings, autograph albums, poetry, receipts and speeches.
Notes
Biographical information for the fonds was provided by Margaret McPherson. Processing done by Deidra Wallace and Christy Henry summer/fall 2006. Description by Christy Henry. Numerous spellings of the surname "McVety" appear in the fonds, including McVetie and McVitie. The oldest documented spelling in documents of a legal nature is McVety. This spelling therefore will appear throughout the finding aid.
Accruals
Further accruals expected.
Storage Location
2006 accessions
Storage Range
2006 accessions
Arrangement
Original file order has been maintained, while some boxes have been combined to provide a more suitable environment for the preservation of print materials. The boxes have been renumbered accordingly. Due to the original file order, however, the file numbers in the database have been prefaced by their original box numbers. For example, File 3.5 refers to the fifth file of the original third box.
A couple of the photographs have tears or ink marks on them. Six of the photographs are on matting.
History / Biographical
W. Wade and Sons Lumber was originally established in Ninga, Manitoba c. 1902. The business and the family, who had been homesteading since 1885 (first near Deloraine where they also owned a lumber yard from 1887-1889, and then on a farm at Rhodes near Ninga), moved to Brandon in 1909. Wade and Sons was founded by William Unwin Wade, who operated it until his death in 1924; his sons James and William were made partners prior to his death and continued to run Wade and Sons after Unwin's death. The firm was incorporated in 1926 as Wade and Sons Limited. James Wade died in November 1951. William Wade sold the business to The North American Lumber and Supply Company Ltd. c. 1952. The sale included: the home yard office at 117 14th Street, Brandon; a sash and door factory of brick and tile; a warehouse on a 75 by 120 foot lot by the Canadian Pacific railway tracks; and an open lumber piling yard on a 50 by 120 foot lot.
Custodial History
The photographs were in the possession of William Ridley Sheridan Wade, grandson of Unwin Wade since the 1950s. Following his death in July 2004, the photographs became the possession of his widow, Marion Wade. She donated the photographs to the McKee Archives in April 2007.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of black and white photographs, various sizes, of the W. Wade and Sons Lumber business, including buildings, trucks and employees. It also includes photos of members of the Wade family.
Photographs include:
1. W. Wade and Sons Lumber, Ninga, MB (1902) - 5.5" x 3.75" on matting - exterior of the office, with lumber storage in the background. Unwin Wade standing in front of the office on the right. The other man is unidentified.
2. Ninga, MB (1902) - 5.5" x 4" on matting - view of Main Street. Grain elevator(s?) on the right. Various businesses on the left. There are a number of carts, wagons etc. parked along the street.
3. Wade family at Rodes Siding, MB, family home near Ninga (c. 1902) - 5.75" x 4.5" on matting - various family members standing ouside their home during winter.
4. Wade family portrait (n/d) - 5.5" x 4" on matting - Back L to R: Pearl, Ada, James, William; Middle L to R: William Unwin Wade, Eva, Elizsabeth (nee Bawkes) Wade; Front: Hazel.
5. W. Wade & Sons Lumber, Brandon, MB (c. 1909) - 6" x 4" on matting - exterior of the office on the rights. Stored lumber and a horse drawn cart on the right. There are three men in the photograph. On the far left is Unwin Wade, in the middle is either James or Will Wade. The man on the right is unidentified. Photograph by J.W. Wilson and Co., Toronto.. There is a thumbprint in the upper right corner of the photograph.
6. W. Wade & Sons Lumber, Brandon, MB (1909) - 7" x 5" on matting - interior of the office. Unwin Wade behind the counter on the right. James Wade standing beside the door on the left. There are a variety of papers, calendars and ads on the walls and desk. There is a large tear in the upper left of the photograph.
7. Wade & Sons Limited, Builders Supplies, Brandon, MB (1951) - 6" x 4" - Staff portrait outside the office on 14th Street. Second from the left is Sherry Wade, James' son. Ninth from the left is James Wade. On the far right is Murray Wade. Third from the right is Jack Patton, who ran the factory (they made windows).
8. Wade & Sons Limited, Builders Supplies, Brandon, MB (1951) - 6" x 4" - Three Wade & Sons trucks parked in front of the office on 14th Street. The men in the photograph are unidentified.
9. Wade & Sons Limited, Builders Supplies, Brandon, MB (1951) - 6" x4" - Photo is looking down 14th Street, showing the Wade & Sons office and outbuildings. The same three trucks from 28-2007.8 appear in this photograph.
10. Men with vehicles (1926) - 4.25" x 2" - Outside Wade & Sons, photograph shows five men posed alongside Wade & Sons vehicles. The man on the far right is James Wade. The man on the far left is Will Wade. He is standing beside Albert Petit(?).
11. Wade & Sons Limited truck (1930) - 4.5" x 2.5" - Photo taken from the front of the truck, parked on Pacific Avenue, looking east. The truck carried lumber on its sides.
12. Wade & Sons, Limited truck (1930) - 4.5" x 2.5" - The truck in the photo is the same as the one in 28-2007.11, only this photo shows the side of the truck, including the Wade & Sons, Limited stencil on the side of the truck.
13. Wade & Sons, Limited truck (n/d) - 4.25" x 2.75" - Unidentified man stands beside an empty Wade & Sons lumber truck. The truck is parked on a residential street.
14. Wade & Sons, Limited truck (n/d) - 4.5" x 2.5" - Photo shows a man standing beside a Wade & Sons Limited truck. The truck bed appears to be full of shingles. A woman is sitting in the passenger seat.
15. East side of 14th Street (n/d) - 2.5" x 4.5" - Photo was taken from the back of a Wade & Sons truck and shows the east side of 14th Street looking northeast. It includes the corner of the Wade & Sons office (far left) and one of the outbuildings, possible during construction.
16. Overland car (c.1919) - 2.5" x 4.25" - Photo shows what is likely an Overland (with bald tires) parked on a residential street. Most of the hood and all of the passenger side are visable.
17. Wade family portrait (1927) - 4.5" x 2.5" - Includes Will and James Wade's families. Second from the left is Will Wade. Third from the left is James Wade. Fifth, sixth and seventh from the left are James Wade's children: Ruth, Gwen and Sheridan.
18. First Baptist Church choir (n/d) - 4.5" x 2.5" - Photo was taken from the balcony of the First Baptist Church on Lorne Avenue, Brandon, MB. It shows the choir in the choir loft (baptismal pool in the back centre), the minister at the pulpit and the organist.
19.Portrait outside the First Baptist Church (n/d) - 4.5" x 2.5" - L to R: Charles Stone, Baptist minister, ?, James Wade, ?.
20. Portrait outside the First Baptist Church (n/d) - 4.5" x 2.5" - L to R: ?, Charles Stone, ? , ?, James Wade, ?.
Notes
History/Bio information was supplied by Marion Wade. Brandon Sun articles and William Ridley Sheriden Wade's obituary were also used. Description by Christy Henry.
Storage Location
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection - photograph storage drawer
Storage Range
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection - photograph storage drawer
