Contains the following files:
1.1 Johnston McPherson's drivers licenses and membership cards 1923-1963 (includes 2 photos)
1.2 Miss Ella McKay/Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1903-1919
1.3 Mrs. Johnston McPherson miscellaneous [1903-1968]
1.4 Mr. and Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1960 (includes "Story of the Brandon Hills" and "Fun and Happiness on Treasure Trail"
1.5 Mr. and Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1961
1.6 Mr. and Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1962-1963
1.7 (Possibly Johnston McPherson) hay account book 1902; same volume contains a travel diary
1.8 Johston McPherson - Land Title (1910) and correspondence re: land purchase (1909)
1.9 Transcript of History of Justice, Manitoba 1956
1.10 Brandon Hills Busy Bees account book 1927-1934
1.11 Basil McDonald's land patent 1884
1.12 List of electors 1938
1.13 Brandon Hills School teacher's notebook 1927
1.14 List of electors in Glenwood [1915-1941] and Blanchard 1933
1.15 Unidentified correspondence [1902-1929]
1.16 Ella McPherson unsorted correspondence 1915-1952
1.17 Address book with newsclippings ca. 1940 (the bigger of the two address books)
1.18 Ella McPherson address book 1913-1939 (includes 2 photographs; was given to Ella McPherson by Ethel McPherson in 1913; the smaller of the two address books).
Angus Sellers McPherson, son of Hugh and Margaret (Sellers) McPherson, was born March 1, 1884 in Brandon Hills, MB. He died on September 5, 1953 in Brandon, MB. Angus married Ethel Pentland on July 16, 1913. Together they had three sons: Howard Johnston McPherson (m. Jessie Walsh); Alfred Angus Murray McPherson (m. Margaret Raven); and Kenneth George McPherson (m. Mary Spratt).
Ethel (Pentland) McPherson was born May 7, 1890 to Thomas (T.J.) and Annie Isabel (McVety) Pentland. Raised at Justice, MB, Ethel was agraduate of the Winnipeg Normal School; she taught for a number of years at Orange Hall and Brandon Hills. After her husband's death, Ethel remained on the family farm with her sons until she moved to Brandon in 1957. She died on September 20, 1976, in Brandon, MB.
Johnston McPherson, son of Hugh and Margaret (Sellers) McPherson, was born February 7, 1879 in Nova Scotia. He died on September 17, 1966 in Brandon, MB (Johnston McPherson was the last of the original party that settled the Brandon Hills). From 1896 until 1914, he farmed at Brandon Hills. Johnston married Ella Harvey McKay on July 26, 1918. They had no children.
Ella Harvey McKay, daughter of Simon and Sarah McKay, was born September 5, 1885 at Brandon Hills. Her family moved to Alberta and then British Columbia sometime after her birth. Ella worked in Trail, B.C. for Consolidated Mining and Smelting, before her marriage to Johnston "Jack" McPherson. She died on November 25, 1971 in Brandon, MB.
Harriet (Hattie) McPherson Morrison, daughter of Hugh and Margaret (Sellers) McPherson, was born at Watervale, NS in 1877. She attended Brandon Hills and Central School in Brandon before receiving her teacher training; she taught school at Chatfield and Dunrea. Hattie married Robert Morrison at Brandon Hills in 1920 and together they had two children: Robert Morrison Jr. (m. Lila Berdux) and Margaret Morrison (m. George Walton). The family owned a farm at Rounthwaite until 1964, at which point Hattie and Robert moved to Brandon. Hattie died in Brandon, MB in 1965.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains mainly physical and human geography (of Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Assiniboine flooding in date order - Brandon; Brandon - the Assiniboine; dams; Brandon Hills; land forms - SW - Manitoba; Bald Head Hills - Spruce woods; Flin Flon; Manitoba flooding; floods/flood protection - Maniotba; Manitoba, areas of; signs and monuments; landforms of SW Manitoba; Souris River; Assiniboine at Brandon; towns and villages - Manitoba; barns; Brandon - Ukrainian area; Manitoba satellite views; and Hutterites.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains mainly physical and human geography (of Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Fieldwork; floods and flood protection - Canada; Manitoba physical airphotos; Manitoba small water projects; weather and climate - for archives; Lake Agassiz; Canada Games 1997; Winnipeg; Souris River; pelican lake paper; clouds - Manitoba; Lake of the Prairies; Pelican Lake; Manitoba flooding; Brandon and the Assiniboine; vegetation - Manitoba; Portage diversion; Souris-Pembina trench; Red River; Riding Mountain; and Devils Lake.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (of Manitoba), as well as physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides.
Physical and human geography (of Manitoba) subjects in this box include:
Brandon housing; Brandon - the Assiniboine; atmospheric pollution - Brandon; brandon; Brandon commerce and industries; Brandon - Prince Eddy; Brandon - Rosser Ave.; Brandon - 9th and 10th Streets; Brandon elevators; views from BU (Brandon University); Brandon maps and diagrams; Manitoba maps; Assiniboine - other than Brandon; "animals" - Manitoba; and Riding Mountain - West Lake, Interlake.
Physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) subjects in this box include:
Coastal erosion and protection; coasts - general; beaches; tidal deposits; Ottawa-Hull; Saskatoon; Regina; Montreal; Newfoundland; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; St. Johns; Halifax; Toronto; Ontario; Alberta and British Columbia; Canadian cities; Canadian landforms; St. Lawrence Seaway; Table Mountain - Newfoundland; hydro Canada; remote sensing; sewage; periglacial; coasts - air views; log transport; dunes; deltas; floods and flood protection - others; highland coasts; and water erosion and transport.
Notes
Physical and human geography (of Manitoba) slides from original box 1. Physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides from original box 2.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Saskatchewan; Quebec; Luxembourg; Belgium; Introduction to Denmark; Netherlands; Italy; England - Norfolk and Suffolk; England - Cambridge; England; English landforms; Eire, Scotland, Wales, Sweden; Eastern Europe and USSR; Australia; striations, grooves, gouges etc.; shore platforms; rainsplash; stacks; rain gully erosion; caves and arches; archaeology; cliffs; mass wasting; Brisbane dams; volcanic cones and craters; springs; gorges and canyons; and terraces.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Australia; New Zealand; U.S.A.; St. Pierre and Miquelon; France; Germany; Vancouver; London; Britain - mainly coasts; clouds; vegetation; water erosion and deposition; coasts; waterfalls and rapids; coasts - erosion; glaciation; Bay of Fundy; rivers - meandering and braiding; and irrigation.
Notes
Slides up to and including "vegetation " are from original box 3. Remaining slides are from original box 4.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
S. Saskatchewan scheme; mass wasting; limestone scenery; 160? glaciers; measurement water; badlands and hoo doos; weathering; 278 mass wasting; 278 coasts deposition and vegetation; 291 water and wind soil erosion; and 278 rocks and relief.
