William Currie was born on February 28, 1834 in Lanark County, ON. In 1860, he moved to St. Mary's, where he worked in mercantile and grain businesses until 1879, when he emigrated to Manitoba. The following year, he took up homesteading along the Assiniboine River, at a site known as Currie's Landing. He received and forwarded frieght from steamboats travelling the river. From 1893-1902, he served as baliff for the Brandon District, before resigning and moving to Brandon where he engaged in the real estate and fire insurance business.
Currie married Ellen Creighton of Blanchard, ON in 1861. Together they had six chrildren: Robert Wilson Currie, Margaret Anne Currie, Harriet Ellen Currie, William James Currie, James Weldon Currie, and Lottie Louise Currie.
William Currie died on March 30, 1931 in Brandon, MB.
Scope and Content
Item is a studio portrait of William Currie.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Manitoba Historical Society website (http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/currie_w.shtml)
Item consists of portraits of members of the Brandon College Commercial and Stenographic Department 1904.
Top Row (L to R): Joy Merrill; J. Menzie; E. J. Davies; N. Brown; M. McKenzie; Jas. Good; M. Parkin; and M.J. Greaves.
Second Row (L to R): Albert Kabe; D. McKinnon; R. Hartney; C. Hopper; E.R. Greenwood; M. L. Brandon; F.W. Kerr; S.W. Young; and G. McTavish.
Third Row (L to R): Ethel Ross; S. Donaldson; J.B. Beveridge; S.L. DeMoine; F.L. Werry; G. Beveridge; and W. Magwood.
Fourth Row (L to R): G.S. Nichol; K.W. Conn; Jas. Murdock; P. MacGregor; R.K. Gibson; Roland Bell; and J. Baldwin.
Fifth Row (L to R): W.C.F. Fine; G. K. Honeyman; Geo. Wickie; and Alex Dagleish.
Sixth Row (L to R): F.P. Clark; L. Stark; G. Bedford; E. Laidlaw; G. Koester; L. Henderson; F.J.C. Barber; W.G. Robertson; and W.F. Baker.
Seventh Row (L to R): G. Davies; W.G. Wakefield; E.C. Ramsay; D.K. Bell; J.B. Kerr; John McCaul; C.D. Gainer; and ? (name is cut off).
Earle Marshall Currie was born on March 29, 1891 on section 4-3-19 near Boissevain, MB. He attended Fairburn and Boissevain schools. In 1911, he moved to British Columbia where he owned a poultry farm. Earle married Verlie Annie Merle Jones (1898-1997) on September 3, 1919 and together they had four children, including Glenn and Marshall. The Currie's returned to Boissevain for the 100th anniversary of settlement in the area and the 75th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Boissevain in 1981. Earle Currie died on April 12, 1983 in Chilliwack, BC.
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 Earle Currie about early Boissevain, as well as the cement and cement block industry owned by his father George Comer Currie. The interviewer is Phyllis Hallett.
Notes
History/bio information taken from the records. Description by Christy Henry.
Language Note
English
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Duncan Alexander MacGibbon, economist, was born in Lochaber Bay, Quebec, on 12 March 1882. He was educated at McMaster University and then went to Brandon College, Manitoba, to teach. He left Brandon to enrol at the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 1915. He began to teach at McMaster University but his teaching career was halted by World War I. After the war he joined the University of Alberta as professor and head of the Department of Political Economy. He served as Commissioner for the Alberta Government on banking and credit with respect to the industry of agriculture in 1922. He was a member of the Royal Grain Inquiry Commission, Canada, 1923-1924. He left the University of Alberta in 1929 to become a member of the Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners, a post he held until his retirement in 1949. In 1930 he was attached to the Canadian delegation to Imperial Conference, London; in 1932 he served the same role at the imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa in 1932. After his retirement, he returned to McMaster University to teach part-time. Among his many writings, MacGibbon published two definitive books on the grain trade: The Canadian Grain Trade (1932) and The Canadian Grain Trade, 1931-1951 (1952). He died in Hamilton, Ont. on 10 October 1969.
Scope and Content
Item is Duncan Alexander MacGibbon's Bachelor of Arts degree (1908) from McMaster University.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Duncan Alexander MacGibbon fonds (McMaster University Archives.)
Language Note
Diploma is in Latin, although liberties have been taken with the language, particularly in the case of names.
Storage Range
Oversized drawer 2
Related Material
Duncan Alexander MacGibbon fonds (McMaster University Archives)
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