William Edgar "Billie" Morgan was born in 1867 in Kerwood, ON. He was educated at Kerwood and Strathroy before obtaining his teaching permit. He taught in Ontario for several years before coming west in the late 1880s. Billie completed his teacher training in Brandon before teaching at Blythe and Stratherne schools. Billie left the teaching profession in 1900 to take up farming. An avid baseball and football fan, Billie Morgan died on March 31, 1951. Jennie Kennedy Smith was born in 1869 and came to the Oakleigh district in the Rapid City area with her family as a young girl. Jennie attended Rapid City High School and took normal training at Brandon. She taught at Oak River and several schools north of Brandon. Jennie married Billie Morgan in 1896. Together they had eleven children: Milton, Duncan, Ralph, William, Eva, Alexander, Marjorie, Georgina, Laura, Francis and Mac. Jennie Morgan died in 1942. They are both buried at Methven Cemetery.
Georgina Kennedy Duce (nee Morgan) was born on the family farm in the Treesbank district in 1900. Georgina received her education at Stratherne School. She worked for a branch of the Royal Bank and the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company from 1918 until her marriage to Charles E.A. Duce (1902-1970) in 1939. The couple had one son, Bill. Georgina Duce died on March 29, 1988 in Wawanesa, MB. She is buried at Rounthwaite Cemetery.
Malcolm Kitchener "Mac" Morgan was the youngest member of the W.E. Morgan family. Born on the home farm on July 27, 1916, Mac worked for the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company in Wawanesa and Regina and later was employed at Auto-Pac. He also spent three years in the Army. Mac retired in 1981. Mac married Mary Maxine Campbell (1919-1993) in 1942. They did not have any children. Mac Morgan died on August 7, 1984 in Wawanesa, MB. He is buried at Methven Cemetery.
Custodial History
As part of the Westman Oral History Collection, this collection was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1998. The original tapes from the Westman Oral History project were deposited in the Brandon Public Library. Copies of these originals were made by Margaret Pollex of the Brandon University Language Lab at the request of Eileen McFadden, University Archivist in the early 1990s. These copies compose the collection held in the McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
Item is an audiocassette tape containing an interview with Georgina Duce and Mac Morgan about the life of their father W.E. Morgan. Interviewer is Elsie Cory.
Notes
History/bio information from the records, the local history "Oakland Echoes" and obituaries for Duce, Billie Morgan and Mac Morgan. Description by Christy Henry.
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English
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Kenneth Ralph Hanly was born in Clinton, Ontario on July 30, 1932. He obtained his B.A. (Honors in English and Philosophy) from the University of Saskatchewan in 1959, his M.A. in Philosophy from the same institution in 1960, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy with honors from the Unveristy of Oregon in 1967. Hanly was initially appointed to the Philosophy Department at Brandon University in 1963. He retired as of June 30, 1996 and in 1998, the Board of Governors of Brandon University conferred the title of Professor Emeritus on him.
At Brandon University, Hanly was the poetry co-editor of "Pierian Spring" for 1982 and 1983, the editor for that publication for 1984 and 1985, and the editor of "Dollar Poems" from 1983-1987. He also seved as a representative on the University Tenure Committee and the Senate. His research interests included the Canadian left and political radicalism and labour movements in Brandon. During his tenure at Brandon University he was active in the NDP and particularly interested in municipal politics.
Hanly was also a member of the Manitoba Police Commission (1982-1987), the Manitoba Law Reform Commission (1970s), Amnesty International, the Canadian Authors Association, the Manitoba Writer's Guild, the Manitoba Association of Rights and Liberties, and an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets (1984-1986).
As of January 2006, Ken Hanly divides his time between Oakburn, MB and the Phillipines. He can be contacted at northsunm@yahoo.com.
Custodial History
While doing research in 1974, Ken Hanly sent three tapes and a request to William Pritchard to record an oral history of the Socialist Party of Canada. The tapes were recorded in October of 1974. Wiszniowski and Pirozek were interviewed by Hanly himself in the same year. Magnacca was also interviewed by Hanly. Hanly kept these materials from 1974 until 1997 when he decided to donate them to the McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
Fonds includes cassette tapes of a conversation with W. A. (Bill) Pritchard in which he provides an oral history of the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) and describes his activities as a militant within the party from 1911 to 1927. Pritchard devotes a good deal of time to describing his many experiences as editor of the Western Clarion, the party newspaper, running in various elections, and his tours of B.C. and Alberta on behalf of the party. Pritchard also discusses the ideology of the Socialist Party of Canada and the ideological splits within it that occurred in the 1920s.
Fonds also includes a recording of a conversation with Brandon Communist Frank Wiszniowski dealing with Wisznoiwski's evolvement in various organizations following his arrival in Brandon in 1926. Fonds also includes a taped conversation with former Brandon Mayor Stephen Magnacca concerned with various features of political life in Brandon.
