Due to the increasing volume of long-distance auto traffic in the 1920's, the city designated the block between Hill & Queen's Avenues and 9th & 10th streets as a "Tourist Camp" with a few basic facilities. LAS.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
First Tourist Camp
Notes
Courtesy of the Brandon Sun
[Mr. Stuckey put two negatives in the same envelope, numbered N4 and N4a. We have separated them.]
File consists of: photocopied viola parts, Kalmus edition, for Don Juan (2 copies, both with bowing and fingering annotations) and Til Eulenspiegel's lustige Streiche (1 copy, with bowing and fingering annotations).
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
Photograph shows a group of eleven young men posing in the brush at Y Point, Pelican Lake.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Leader training camp Y Point, Pelican Lake, 1925. Ozzie Doak, holding rod. G. Baldock with striped hat kneeling.
Note affixed to back of photograph reads: 1925 Leadership Training Camp - "Y" Point, Pelican Lake. Stand Left to Rigt. 1st unknown, Rainy River; Archie MacDonald, Carroll; Gordon MacDonald, Stonewall; Edward Armstrong, Wpg; Osborne Doak, Brandon; Roy Grassick, Carroll; Hayden Stewart, Wpg. Front Row. Left. Louis Schroeder, Wpg; Orville McKillop, Portage la Prairie; Sherman Black, Wpg; George Baldock (striped hat), Brandon.
Photograph shows a group of seven boys posing in front of a canvas tent. Five of the boys are wearing long sleeved shirts, the other two are in tank tops and shorts. Photo possibly taken at the YMCA Camp located at "Y" Point, Pelican Lake.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Trail Rangers. "Y" Camp. 1925.
Photograph shows the lake and shoreline of "Y" Point, Pelican Lake.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Scenes. "Y" Point YMCA camp at Pelian Lake. We took train to Belmont and farmer's wagon to Camp. 10.00 per week. I was there 1922-25 as camper and 1925 as leader and leader training camp.
Photograph shows a group of boys seated on a dock along the shoreline at "Y" Point, Pelican Lake. Canoes are tied to the dock and a couple of boys are walking and sitting along the pebble beach.
This photo was taken by C.J. Smith for Bryant Studio. Bryant Studio (I believe) was opened in 1907 by Smith for Bryant. Smith later bought the studio when Bryant planned to close it. The same studio was subsequently purchased by L.A. Stuckey on January 1, 1958. LAS.
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Scope and Content
Photo of Katherine Stinson and her aircraft at Camp Hughes, including Army officers and nurses.
Notes
See Lawrence Stuckey file (Finding Aids) for biography of Katherine Stinson.
According to Stuckey and Bain (1996), “The Brandon, Saskatchewan & Hudson’s Bay Railway was built and operated as a totally owned subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway. Construction commenced in late 1905 and by the end of 1905, less than a mile of track had been laid north of the boundary at St. John. In 1906, the remaining 68.6 miles to Brandon were laid and service commenced that year. During the Depression of the 1930s, traffic declined significantly and the entire branch was abandoned in 1936. Over much of the branch’s length, the ties and rails were laid on the prairie without ballast and today little remains of the line apart from traces where there were cuts and bridges.” (p. 18)
Stuckey, L. A., & Bain, D. M. (1996). The Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways in Canada. Calgary, Alberta: British Railway Modellers of North America.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Great Northern (Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson's Bay) Railway construction camp near Bunclody, Manitoba.
Notes
From the collection of Gilford Copeland of Bunclody, Manitoba
Lewis Richards was born on September 29, 1902 in Cornwall, England. He came to Beresford, MB in 1921, moved to Selkirk in 1926 and then to Kenton in 1928. Amy Isobel Paterson was born on November 4, 1906 in Kenton, MB. She married Lewis in Selkirk in 1926. Together they had four children: Lois, Vivian, Kaye and Barry, and took over the Paterson's home farm in the Verity district. Lewis was very musical and often shared his talents with the community. Amy enjoyed antiques and gardening, winning many prizes for flowers and vegetables as a member of the Horticultural Society. The couple moved to Kenton in 1986, where they were both ardent members of the Leisure Club. Ill health forced them to move to Brandon in 1994. Lewis Richards died on May 21, 1996. Amy Richards died on September 25, 1996. They are both buried at Shiloh 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 Lewis and Amy Richards about their life history. Interviewer is Shirley Hunt.
Notes
History/bio information from the records, the Kenton local histories "Cradle to combine vol. 2" and "Cradle to combine vol. 3." Description by Christy Henry. The records in the collection spell Lewis' name as "Louis" but all other records use "Lewis." The latter has been used in the description.
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