Part Of

Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

McG 9

Item Number

1-2015.64

Accession Number

1-2015

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1914]

Physical Description

7" x 5" (b/w)

Physical Condition

Photograph was removed from a photo album. Photograph is creased and has tape residue.

Custodial History

Photograph was given to Fred McGuinness by Linda Bilkoski (nee Lepard) of Lac du Bonnet, MB.

Scope and Content

Photograph shows the interior of Brandon Fire Hall No. 2. The wagon engines are in the foreground. The firemen stand in the background, holding the bridles of the horses that are standing at the entrances of their stalls. The interior of the hall shows a brick floor and tin ceiling. Stairs lead to a wooden door that is likely the entrance to the living quarters and offices on the second floor.

Notes

Writing on the back of photograph reads: Ed Harden, Driver on the left, 1914, 11th McTavish. This picture is the same as the negative in the Lawrence Stuckey collection. Stuckey obtained a copy of the photo from George Lepard, father of Linda Bilkoski (nee Lepard).

Name Access

Brandon Fire Department Ladder Wagon

Brandon Fire Department

Fire Station No. 2

Brandon Fire Department Personnel

Brandon fire halls

Subject Access

Brandon business buildings & facilities before 1940

Brandon Fire Department Stations & Equipment

horses

fire halls

fire engines

building interiors

firefighters

Storage Location

RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)

Related Material

Lawrence Stuckey collection 1-2002.3.1F7

Arrangement

McG 4.1 File 27

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Part Of

Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

McG 9

Item Number

1-2015.239

Accession Number

1-2015

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[c.1984]

Physical Description

8" x 10" (b/w)

Physical Condition

A typed label has been taped to the back of the photograph. Back of photograph has yellowed. No other degredation observed. ST/2016

Custodial History

Photograph sent to Fred McGuinness from the Winnipeg Free Press Photo Department

Scope and Content

Photograph shows a platform party in front of the Westman Centennial Auditorium. At the microphone is Mayor Ken Burgess. Seated on the mayor's left is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to his right Lorne Watson. The party may have been assembled for the founding of the Brandon University School of Music's Queen Elizabeth II building.

Notes

Photograph was collected during the research phase of the monograph "Manitoba: The Province & The People" (1987) written by Fred McGuinness and Ken Coates. Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Ab Gowanlock 85 years old of Dauphin, two-time winner of the Brier (once in 1938 at Toronto and once in Sudbury in 1953) at the wheel of a Rumley Oil Pull tractor during the Thursday afternoon parade of steam and oil and gas tractors. Mr. Gowanlock is not a newcomer to threshing as he was involved with it on a regular basis from 1916 to 1947. dirk...shot directly into sun and was hard to print...

Name Access

Ab Gowanlock

Subject Access

Tractors

parades

Repro Restriction

Photograph may be subject to Canadian Copy Right Laws.

Storage Location

RG 5 photograph storage drawer 2 (hanging photos)

Arrangement

McG 5.4 File 2

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