As a boy my father pointed out this pile of bricks, and pit beside it, and told me a small brick plant had been established here in the early days. The product was of poor quality and the business never became established. LAS.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Spring Park brick pile near the CPR grade
Notes
Located just south of the CPR mainline at Mile 3 [three miles west of Brandon. P.E.]
[Mr. Stuckey put three negatives in same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them H13(1), H13(2) and H13(3).]
As a boy my father pointed out an old pile of bricks, and pit beside it, and told me a small brick plant had been established here in the early days. The product was of poor quality and the business never became established. LAS.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Area nearby the Spring Park brick pile
Notes
Located just south of the CPR mainline at Mile 3 [three miles west of Brandon. P.E.]
[Mr. Stuckey put three negatives in same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them H13(1), H13(2) and H13(3).]
As a boy my father pointed out an old pile of bricks, and pit beside it, and told me a small brick plant had been established here in the early days. The product was of poor quality and the business never became established. LAS.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Area nearby the Spring Park brick pile
Notes
Located just south of the CPR mainline at Mile 3 [three miles west of Brandon. P.E.]
[Mr. Stuckey put three negatives in same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them H13(1), H13(2) and H13(3).]
Brandon Sand & Brick Co. was better known as "Samson's Brick" for owner-proprietor Samson.
Plant located at 29th Street & Princess Avenue; Offices located in Smith Block.
Used Huennekes (German) system, whereby dried sand was mixed and ground with lime in a tube mill as water was added to slake the lime. The mixture was formed into bricks in a press, then steamed in a cylinder 6 ft. in diameter and 62 ft. long for 10 hours, under pressure of 120 psi, to form a compound like cement. Bricks were ready for use when taken from cylinder. (Ritchie, T. Canada Builds. pp. 219)
In addition to the Belvedere Apartments, many houses are faced with this brick. The rear of the 9th St. MTS building and others downtown buildings were also formed of it. Also used in interior walls of Prince Edward Hotel, Alexander School and many other buildings that were faced with more expensive brick. The product was so good, the plant's demise was likely caused by the post-WWI depression.(LAS)
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Brandon Sand & Brick Co. (Samson's Brick)
Notes
Great Northern Railway enginehouse visible in background [Fred McGuinness collection (20-2009)].
William A. Fleming, Brandon's first water dealer, is said to have begun his business in 1881. He sold drinking water for 5 cents per pail from the 1920s through the mid 1930s. The source of his water was a well located on the east side of the 100 block of 12th Street. Fleming's business was taken over by two men with a water tank on a truck, and continued till 1946 when it was closed due to contamination.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Mr. Wm. Fleming, Water Dealer, with horse and water cart
Notes
Ad on cart: W.H. Mallett Jeweller Issuer of Marriage Licenses.
Photo courtesy of the Assiniboine Historical Society.
See sub-series level description for MG 1 1.12 Wilfred Whyte McCutcheon fonds for biographical information.
Custodial History
See sub-series level description for MG 1 1.12 Wilfred Whyte McCutcheon fonds for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Wilfred Whyte McCutcheon with two former staff members Dr. Betty Gibson and Dr. Isabelle Mills (Saskatoon) at the Teacher Training Course Class of 1962 25th reunion in Brandon July 1987.
Located on the east side of the 100 block 6th Street, Trotter & Trotter Livery Stable is not listed in the 1894 edition of the Henderson's Directory. It is noted in the 1897 edition.
Custodial History
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George White's No. 2 plant was located in Brandon, north of the CPR tracks about 15th Street. These steam engines were assembled here, but the actual extent of manufacture is not known. LAS.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
George White steam traction engine
Notes
Photo taken in Killarney, Manitoba
Sign on smoke box door (front end) reads: George White & Sons; London and Brandon; First Quality Line
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