Item consists of twenty five contact prints. Images include photographs of campus taken from the roof of McMaster Hall as well as photographs of residence rooms, bathrooms and common rooms in McMaster Hall.
Photograph is looking west and shows the north half of McMaster Hall, as well as the walkway between McMaster and the H-Huts. Portions of the Main Dining Room and Darrach Hall are visible in the background.
Item consists of nine contact prints. Images were taken at the opening of McMaster Hall, the towers residence. 1. Lyle Dick (at microphone) 2. ? 3. Mayor William (Bill) Wilton (at microphone) 4. Walter Dinsdale (at microphone) 5. Walter Dinsdale 6. Lloyd Dulmage (at microphone) 7. Prof R. Murray Simmons (at microphone) 8. Prof. Murray Simmons.
Item is three contact prints taken at the opening of McMaster Hall.
Print 1 (L toR): ?, Murray(?) Simmons, Lloyd Dulmage (Microphone); ?, Walter Dinsdale (M.P.), Bill Wilton (Mayor), Scott Bateman (Chairman of University Grants Commission), ?, ?
Print 2 (L to R): Lyle Dick (?), holding ribbon (?), Lloyd Dulmage, Murray(?) Simmons, (?) holding ribbon, Walter Dinsdale, Bill Wilton, Scott Bateman
Print 3 (L to R): Lyle Dick (?), ?, Lloyd Dulmage, Murray(?) Simmons, ?, Walter Dinsdale, Bil Wilton, Scott Bateman
The idea of the Keystone Centre was first mentioned in 1958, at a meeting of the board of directors of the Manitoba Winter Fair. The Manitoba Winter Fair wanted a new facility because the old Wheat City Arena had a leaking roof and a deteriorating west wall. The old facility also had limited space and the Winter Fair felt it needed more space for expansion. The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba also had problems with their facilities, such as old barns and poor display areas. The idea of the Keystone Centre was put on hold until 1969, when the boards of the Provincial Exhibition and the Manitoba Winter Fair joined together as the Provincial Exhibition Association of Manitoba and the Wheat City Arena was sold and demolished. The original estimate for the cost of the Keystone Centre facilities was $4.5 million and funding would be proportioned so that the federal and provincial governments would each put in one-third of the money, with the rest coming from local donations. The financial campaign for the Keystone Centre began in 1970, and construction began in November 1970. The grand opening of the Centre was in March 1973, and coincided with the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair of that year.
Custodial History
This fonds was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1998. Prior custodial history is unknown.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains many folders full of correspondence, financial statements, meeting minutes and other documents relating to the development and construction of the Keystone Centre from 1970-1974, including those from the Keystone Executive Committee, as well as the Building Committee. Fonds also contains one folder that pertains to the Brandon Area Agricultural Development Survey from 1959. This folder contains the names and locations of all farmers in the Brandon area in 1959. The Brandon Area Agricultural Development Survey was created in 1959, in order to make farming in the Brandon area more profitable. The survey was aided by Doane Agricultural Service from St. Louis, Missouri, who had success creating agricultural development programs in the United States. Fonds also contains folders from the Provincial Exhibition with correspondence, pamphlets, estimates, and studies from the 1960's. There is also one folder belonging to the Manitoba Winter Fair, which contains correspondence and financial statements relating to the Wheat City Arena. Fonds also contains information pertaining to the proposals made in the 1960's, for the building of the Keystone Centre, as well as one folder about the Keystone campaign from 1970-73. There is also one folder about the opening of the Keystone Centre, which contains newspaper clippings and guest lists. Finally, the fonds contains information about a court case involving Albert Bobyk and Robert Stewart. Stewart was the project manager for the Building Committee and Bobyk worked on the Keystone Center. The fonds includes a report about the trial of the two men who were charged with fraud involving their work on the Keystone Centre.
Photograph is looking north northeast and shows Darrach Hall with the Main Dining Room and the Citizens' Science Building in the background during winter. A number of cars are parked along the street and on the campus grounds.
