See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains mainly physical and human geography (of Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Assiniboine flooding in date order - Brandon; Brandon - the Assiniboine; dams; Brandon Hills; land forms - SW - Manitoba; Bald Head Hills - Spruce woods; Flin Flon; Manitoba flooding; floods/flood protection - Maniotba; Manitoba, areas of; signs and monuments; landforms of SW Manitoba; Souris River; Assiniboine at Brandon; towns and villages - Manitoba; barns; Brandon - Ukrainian area; Manitoba satellite views; and Hutterites.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains mainly physical and human geography (of Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Fieldwork; floods and flood protection - Canada; Manitoba physical airphotos; Manitoba small water projects; weather and climate - for archives; Lake Agassiz; Canada Games 1997; Winnipeg; Souris River; pelican lake paper; clouds - Manitoba; Lake of the Prairies; Pelican Lake; Manitoba flooding; Brandon and the Assiniboine; vegetation - Manitoba; Portage diversion; Souris-Pembina trench; Red River; Riding Mountain; and Devils Lake.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (of Manitoba), as well as physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides.
Physical and human geography (of Manitoba) subjects in this box include:
Brandon housing; Brandon - the Assiniboine; atmospheric pollution - Brandon; brandon; Brandon commerce and industries; Brandon - Prince Eddy; Brandon - Rosser Ave.; Brandon - 9th and 10th Streets; Brandon elevators; views from BU (Brandon University); Brandon maps and diagrams; Manitoba maps; Assiniboine - other than Brandon; "animals" - Manitoba; and Riding Mountain - West Lake, Interlake.
Physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) subjects in this box include:
Coastal erosion and protection; coasts - general; beaches; tidal deposits; Ottawa-Hull; Saskatoon; Regina; Montreal; Newfoundland; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; St. Johns; Halifax; Toronto; Ontario; Alberta and British Columbia; Canadian cities; Canadian landforms; St. Lawrence Seaway; Table Mountain - Newfoundland; hydro Canada; remote sensing; sewage; periglacial; coasts - air views; log transport; dunes; deltas; floods and flood protection - others; highland coasts; and water erosion and transport.
Notes
Physical and human geography (of Manitoba) slides from original box 1. Physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides from original box 2.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Saskatchewan; Quebec; Luxembourg; Belgium; Introduction to Denmark; Netherlands; Italy; England - Norfolk and Suffolk; England - Cambridge; England; English landforms; Eire, Scotland, Wales, Sweden; Eastern Europe and USSR; Australia; striations, grooves, gouges etc.; shore platforms; rainsplash; stacks; rain gully erosion; caves and arches; archaeology; cliffs; mass wasting; Brisbane dams; volcanic cones and craters; springs; gorges and canyons; and terraces.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
Australia; New Zealand; U.S.A.; St. Pierre and Miquelon; France; Germany; Vancouver; London; Britain - mainly coasts; clouds; vegetation; water erosion and deposition; coasts; waterfalls and rapids; coasts - erosion; glaciation; Bay of Fundy; rivers - meandering and braiding; and irrigation.
Notes
Slides up to and including "vegetation " are from original box 3. Remaining slides are from original box 4.
See MG 3 1.7 John Welsted fonds for History/Bio information.
Custodial History
See MG 3 1.7 for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Box contains physical and human geography (other than Manitoba) slides. Slide subjects in this box include:
S. Saskatchewan scheme; mass wasting; limestone scenery; 160? glaciers; measurement water; badlands and hoo doos; weathering; 278 mass wasting; 278 coasts deposition and vegetation; 291 water and wind soil erosion; and 278 rocks and relief.
In July 1928, Verna Althea Whitfield married William Arthur Gamey (b. 1892) in Winnipeg. For the first year of their marriage they both taught at Lockport, before moving to Winnipeg in 1929. Their only child, William Roy, was born there. In 1933, the Gameys moved to the Gamey family farm located at N1/2 12-16-22, near Strathclair. Verna's nephew Robert Kerr, from Kelowna, B.C. joined the family in 1949. Art and Verna left the farm in the spring of 1956, and moved into the house formerly owned by an aunt, Miss Bella Gamey. Art Gamey was a staunch supporter of the Co-operative movement and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He died in January 1968.
Custodial History
This fonds was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1997. Prior custoridal history is unknown.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains documents relating to the Manitoba Farmer's Union, including copies of its publication "The Voice of the Farmer" (1961); the United Church of Canada, primarily Strathclair (1960-1989); the Manitoba Women's Institute and the National Institute for the Blind (1959-1976); the Manitoba Federation of Agriculture (1945-1961); the Birtle Presbyterian Church (1986-1989); the Social Credit League in Manitoba and B.C. (1947, 1953); the Manitoba Provincial Council of Women (1958-1959); the Manitoba Centennial Corporation (1966-1968); and the Shoal Lake Fair and Hamiota Exhibition (1949-1981).
Fonds also contains diaries (1923-1926); various political publications, newspaper clippings, and correspondance, primarily concerning the CCF and the New Democrats (1945-1971); the Cooperative Union of Canada (1949-1964); and the Manitoba Farm Forum (1942-1963). Included as well, are clippings from the Brandon Sun dealing with a wide variety of topics (1970-1991); publications on home/farm/highway safety (1949-1975); and the Manitoba Pool Elevators (1950-1955).
Fonds also contains correspondence to and from both Verna and Art Gamey.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from "Our Story to 1970" published by the R.M. of Strathclair and compiled by The Centennial History Committee (pp. 255-257).
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevators; Women's Institute collections: Manitoba (8-2002), Strathclair (7-2002), Rathwell (6-2002), Minnedosa (2-2002), Cordova (4-2002), Clanwilliam (3-2002), Crocus (5-2002), Douglas (20-2006), Binscarth (12-1997), Southwest A Region (26-1997); and the Greenway Fair (35-2006).