These blocks of ice were used to fill the ice houses of the Wheat City Ice Co. (located north of Rosser Avenue on the west side of 15th Street, and south of Princess Avenue on the east side of 17th Street), the CPR icehouses (at the station and 3rd St. & Assiniboine Ave), and the CNR icehouse (at Forth Street and McTavish Avenue). In addition, large quantities of ice were shipped to smaller towns in railcars (usually old refrigerator cars).
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Cutting ice from the Assiniboine River
Notes
This is one of five images that show the method in which ice is cut into blocks and loaded onto sleighs or trucks. Note the large draft horses still in use at this date.
[Mr. Stuckey put five negatives into the same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them H12(1) to H12(5).]
Additional information provided by the Fred McGuinness collection (20-2009).
These blocks of ice were used to fill the ice houses of the Wheat City Ice Co. (located north of Rosser Avenue on the west side of 15th Street, and south of Princess Avenue on the east side of 17th Street), the CPR icehouses (at the station and 3rd St. & Assiniboine Ave), and the CNR icehouse (at Forth Street and McTavish Avenue). In addition, large quantities of ice were shipped to smaller towns in railcars (usually old refrigerator cars).
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Cutting ice from the Assiniboine River
Notes
This is one of five images that show the method in which ice is cut into blocks and loaded onto sleighs or trucks. Note the large draft horses still in use at this date.
[Mr. Stuckey put five negatives into the same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them H12(1) to H12(5).]
Additional information provided by the Fred McGuinness collection (20-2009).
These blocks of ice were used to fill the ice houses of the Wheat City Ice Co. (located north of Rosser Avenue on the west side of 15th Street, and south of Princess Avenue on the east side of 17th Street), the CPR icehouses (at the station and 3rd St. & Assiniboine Ave), and the CNR icehouse (at Forth Street and McTavish Avenue). In addition, large quantities of ice were shipped to smaller towns in railcars (usually old refrigerator cars).
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Cutting ice from the Assiniboine River
Notes
This is one of five images that show the method in which ice is cut into blocks and loaded onto sleighs or trucks. Note the large draft horses still in use at this date.
[Mr. Stuckey put five negatives into the same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them H12(1) to H12(5).]
Additional information provided by the Fred McGuinness collection (20-2009).
These blocks of ice were used to fill the ice houses of the Wheat City Ice Co. (located north of Rosser Avenue on the west side of 15th Street, and south of Princess Avenue on the east side of 17th Street), the CPR icehouses (at the station and 3rd St. & Assiniboine Ave), and the CNR icehouse (at Forth Street and McTavish Avenue). In addition, large quantities of ice were shipped to smaller towns in railcars (usually old refrigerator cars).
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Cutting ice from the Assiniboine River
Notes
This is one of five images that show the method in which ice is cut into blocks and loaded onto sleighs or trucks. Note the large draft horses still in use at this date.
[Mr. Stuckey put five negatives into the same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them H12(1) to H12(5).]
Additional information provided by the Fred McGuinness collection (20-2009).
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
CPR Ice House Fire with engine 701
Notes
This large ice house, located between the CPR tracks and Assiniboine Avenue at 3rd Street, was filled with blocks of ice from the Assiniboine River each winter. It had a long high platform for [loading ice blocks into] refrigerator cars, and also handled charcoal braziers for heating these same cars in winter. The new ice house structure that was built after this fire was much smaller, as it had an artificial ice plant.
With mechanically temperature-controlled cars replacing ice-cooled refrigerators, it was demolished in the 1970's.
This photograph shows how steam switch engines were used as fire engines. A hose carried in a box under the tender was fitted into a branch of the boiler feed pipe (discharge pipe). When the injector was turned on it gave a nozzle pressure of over 200 psi.
Probably the peak of the sawmilling industry in Brandon was "The Big Drive" in 1910, when 125 drivers brought 5 million board feet of timber down the Assiniboine to Hanbury's Mill
Most of these logs were cut in the Riding Mountains in winter and floated down the Little Saskatchewan and Birdtail Rivers to the Assiniboine.
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Scope and Content
Logs, destined for Hanbury Manufacturing Co., in the Assiniboine River
Notes
View from First Street North
Courtesy of the family of E.C. Higgins (Mrs. Millen Dunbar nee May Higgins).
Probably the peak of the sawmilling industry in Brandon was "The Big Drive" in 1910, when 125 drivers brought 5 million board feet of timber down the Assiniboine to Hanbury's Mill.
Most of these logs were cut in the Riding Mountains in winter and floated down the Little Saskatchewan and Birdtail Rivers to the Assiniboine.
Custodial History
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Scope and Content
Logs, destined for Hanbury Manufacturing Co., in the Assiniboine River
Notes
Looking north from 3rd Street.
[This negative was produced using a previously published image (P.E.).]
[Since its construction, this industrial chemical plant has been known as Hooker Chemicals, Canadian Occidental Chemicals, and Nexen Chemicals Canada. It is currently operated by Canexus Chemicals Canada. P.E. 03/07/09]
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Scope and Content
Canadian Occidental Chemicals
Notes
[Mr. Stuckey put two negatives in the same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them HA15(1) and HA15(2).]
[Since its construction, this industrial chemical plant has been known as Hooker Chemicals, Canadian Occidental Chemicals, and Nexen Chemicals Canada. It is currently operated by Canexus Chemicals Canada. P.E. 03/07/09]
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Scope and Content
Canadian Occidental Chemicals
Notes
[Mr. Stuckey put two negatives in the same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them HA15(1) and HA15(2).]
[Since its construction, this industrial chemical plant has been known as Hooker Chemicals, Canadian Occidental Chemicals, and Nexen Chemicals Canada. It is currently operated by Canexus Chemicals Canada. P.E. 03/07/09]
Custodial History
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.