During the mid-1930s the economy and popularity of light, fast passenger trains were proven in the USA by the Burlington’s "Zephyr", the Rock Island’s "Rocket", and the Milwaukee Road’s "Hiawatha". In 1936 the CPR built engines 3000-3004, designing each to haul a lightweight baggage car and three day coaches. Before being assigned to "The Chinook" between Calgary and Edmonton, engine 3001 and its train made an extensive publicity tour of western Canada.
[Built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1936, this class of five F2a 4-4-4 locomotives (3000 - 3004) were named "Jubilee" type in honour of the 50th anniversary of CPR transcontinental service. P.E.]
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
CPR streamlined engine No. 3001 & train
Notes
Canadian Pacific Railway's first streamlined engine [class] on display in Brandon.
Mrs. McVicar was Brandon's/Grand Valley's first postmistress. Biographical details about Mrs. McVicar can be found in a newspaper clipping [F.A. ROSSER, “Sunbeams – The Birds Dived Down Like Fighters on Gopher,” Brandon Sun, September 16, 1978, 3] in McG 4.1 File 67.
Custodial History
Photograph was brought to Fred McGuinness by Owen Anderson of Cypress River, Manitoba.
Scope and Content
Photograph is a portrait of Mrs. McVicar sitting outside of her home in Texas.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph consists of greetings and salutations to the unknown recipients. Photograph "finished by Edrington's Studio, Weslaco, Texas."
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
CPR No. 3, the westbound "Dominion", with engine 2829 under 1st Street Bridge
Notes
View includes former Empire Brewery, [then] in use by Bell Bottling Co.; Safe crossing over the CPR eliminated the need for a flagman. "Telltails" warn switchmen riding on top of railcars of low overhead clearance. Old Empire Brewery was (late 1950's) a feed mill, making grain feeds for livestock.
Seeking temporary housing, a parade of patients walked from the Brandon Asylum to the Winter Fair Building (located on the 500 block of 10th Street) the day after fire completely destroyed the asylum.
This photo shows the First Street Bridge as built and opened in 1909.
Note the pile of kegs next to the Empire Brewery. [The building was then] owned by Dave Weiss of Brandon Scrap Iron & Metals Recycling Co.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Brandon asylum patients crossing the First Street Bridge
Crack down vertical length of the photo just to the right of centre
Scope and Content
Composite portrait of the members of Brandon College's first year academic class, 1909-1910. The motto of the class was “Labor Omnia Vincit”
Top Row (L to R): E. Vicksburg; W.J. Roddick; A.S. Young; W.A. Branton; B.A. Toger; and A. McPherson.
Second Row (L to R): E.G. Cambridge; E.M. Irwin; L.J. Powers; B.A Fletcher; Dr. A.P. McDiarmid; I.A. Wright; F.H. Rogers; I. Drummond; and G.C. Cumming.
Third Row (L to R): R. Wood; V.L. Duncan; A.A. Pinder; D.A. McGibbon (Sup’r); Dr. S. J. McKee; G. Ruttan; G. Kelly; E.W. Osborne; and O. Larson.
Fourth Row (L to R): R. Lang; A.T. Andrews; W.M. Courtice; K. Sinclair; K.B. Cole; J. Curtis (President); R. Hutchison; E. Gimby; O. deMille; A. Mooney; and C.M. Strome.
Bottom Row (L to R): I.R. Graham; L.J. Cross; O. Nordine; B. deMille; B. Lane; and J.W. Pickard.
File consists of the proposal of the Planning Committee for the organizational structure of Central United Church, Brandon, MB and related reports, minutes, correspondence, tasks and budget information.
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Series 4: Office of the Vice-President
4.2 Office of the Vice-President (Administration & Finance)
Box 5
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference of Agricultural Economists, held at the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 21-30 August 1967 : The economist and farm people in a rapidly changing world
Photograph shows CNR train No.44 carrying loads of lumber. Engineers pose with the locomotive. Several men pose on the railway tracks. Snow and ice appear in the ditch.
Notes
Writing on the front of the photograph reads: The First of Several Trains of Lumber for HUGHES & CO., Via C.N.R., Brandon, Man. Photograph is stamped on the back: Huhges & Co. Ltd., 1009 Princess Ave., Brandon, Man.
Cooperative democracy through voluntary association of the people as consumers : a discussion of the cooperative movement, its philosophy, methods, accomplishments, and possibilities, and its relation to the state, to science, art, and commerce, and to other systems of economic organization
