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Angus McPherson; Murray McPherson; Hugh McPherson; Georgie McPherson; Hattie McPherson Morrison; George Richardson

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Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1909-1956
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
File Number
15.1 - 15.15
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Box O
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1909-1956
Physical Description
17 cm
History / Biographical
For biographical information on Angus McPherson and Hattie McPherson Morrison see the description for Box 6 of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection. For biographical information on Murray McPherson see the fonds level description for the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection. For biographical information on Hugh McPherson see the description for Box 5 of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection. For biographical information on Georgie McPherson see the description for Box 4 of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection. There is no biographical information for George Richardson.
Scope and Content
Contains the following files: 15.1 Medical receipts 1945-1950 15.2 Miscellaneous farm receipts 1945-1950 15.3 Cattle and grain papers 1941-1953 15.4 Correspondence 1943-1951 15.5 Insurance 1909-1952 15.6 Angus McPherson wills 1937-1953 15.7 Angus McPherson - income tax forms and papers 1946-1956 (includes Farmers Income Tax Guides and Farm account book) 15.8 Murray McPherson correspondence 1934-1956 15.9 Hugh McPherson - blank form for Fenian Raid Volunteer Bount Act 1912 15.10 Miscellaneous 1929-1950 15.11 Angus McPherson income tax forms and papers 1943-1947 15.12 Income tax forms/papers 1943-1947 for George Richardson (1947), George McPherson and Hattie McPherson 15.13 Angus McPherson - income tax forms 1918 15.14 Receipts 1947 15.15 Receipts 1949
Notes
Part of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection.
Storage Location
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection Box 13
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Johnston and Ella McPherson and miscellaneous

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Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1884-1968
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
File Number
1.1 - 1.18
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Box A
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1884-1968
Scope and Content
Contains the following files: 1.1 Johnston McPherson's drivers licenses and membership cards 1923-1963 (includes 2 photos) 1.2 Miss Ella McKay/Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1903-1919 1.3 Mrs. Johnston McPherson miscellaneous [1903-1968] 1.4 Mr. and Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1960 (includes "Story of the Brandon Hills" and "Fun and Happiness on Treasure Trail" 1.5 Mr. and Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1961 1.6 Mr. and Mrs. Johnston McPherson correspondence 1962-1963 1.7 (Possibly Johnston McPherson) hay account book 1902; same volume contains a travel diary 1.8 Johston McPherson - Land Title (1910) and correspondence re: land purchase (1909) 1.9 Transcript of History of Justice, Manitoba 1956 1.10 Brandon Hills Busy Bees account book 1927-1934 1.11 Basil McDonald's land patent 1884 1.12 List of electors 1938 1.13 Brandon Hills School teacher's notebook 1927 1.14 List of electors in Glenwood [1915-1941] and Blanchard 1933 1.15 Unidentified correspondence [1902-1929] 1.16 Ella McPherson unsorted correspondence 1915-1952 1.17 Address book with newsclippings ca. 1940 (the bigger of the two address books) 1.18 Ella McPherson address book 1913-1939 (includes 2 photographs; was given to Ella McPherson by Ethel McPherson in 1913; the smaller of the two address books).
Storage Location
Margaret McPherson family fonds Box 1
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Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection

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Part Of
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection
Description Level
Collection
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1862-1978
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection
Description Level
Collection
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Formerly the Margaret McPherson family fonds
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1862-1978
Physical Description
4 m
Physical Condition
Some of the older materials are fragile.
History / Biographical
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson was born February 15, 1923 in Brandon, MB. The middle son of Angus and Annie Ethel (Pentland) McPherson, Murray grew up on the family farm in the Brandon Hills District. Following high school he obtained a B.Sc. degree from Brandon College, before enrolling in the Faculty of Eduction at the University of Manitoba in 1947 where he received his B.Ed. and M.Ed. Murray completed his Ph.D. in Educational Curriculum in 1975 at Michigan State University. Murray's teaching career began at Brandon College as a chemistry instructor. After the year of teacher training he taught in Daupin Collegiate, then Luxton Junior High School and St. Johns High School in Winnipeg. In 1962, Murray joined the University of Manitoba Faculty of Education where he taught methods in mathematics and served as Head of the Deparment of Curriculum: Mathematics and Natural Sciences for sixteen years, before assuming the position of Co-ordinator of Student Teaching. During his career Murray co-edited a series of textbooks for elementary grades and was a strong supporter of the Manitoba Association of Mathematics Teachers. Following his retirement in 1988, Murray volunteered with Creative Retirement, Mentors Club and Habitat for Humanity. He also remained active in the United Church. Murray McPherson married Margaret Elinore Raven on July 14, 1951 in Winnipeg. Margaret Elinore (Raven) McPherson was born in Winnipeg, MB on March 11, 1927. Educated at the University of Manitoba, where she earned a B.Sc. (1947), a Dip. Education (1948) and a B.Ed. (1966), Margaret taught school in Dauphin (1948-1953) and the Winnipeg School Division (Spring 1954). Together they had two children: John Angus Murray McPherson (b. March 19, 1955), an orthopedic surgeon in Winnipeg, and Kathryn May McPherson (b. November 20, 1957), a professor of history at York University, Toronto. Alfred Angus Murray McPherson died on November 25, 2001 at the Charleswood Care Centre in Winnipeg, MB. Margaret continues to live in Winnipeg, MB. The MacPherson family originally came from the County of Sutherlandshire in the north of Scotland. The need for wool during the Napoleonic Wars resulted in the "Highland Clearances" of the early 1800's, which forced the small farmers or "crofters" to leave their farms and to move to the villages, such as Kildonan, Helmsdale and Golspie along the east coast. In 1814, Hugh MacPherson (1779-1843) with his wife Anne Sutherland (1783-1857) and their family, immigrated to Nova Scotia and acquired a farm at Watervale, a community on the West River at Pictou. Following the issue of the land title, the "Mac" spelling of MacPherson became "Mc." Alexander McPherson, the son of Hugh and Anne, married Elizabeth Murray at West River on April 10, 1840. They lived on the family farm at Watervale where they had a family of eleven children, a number of whom died in infancy. Their oldest son Hugh (1845-1916) and their youngest, Johnston (1857-1944), later came to Brandon Hills, MB. Angus Sellars McPherson, a son of Hugh and Margaret (Sellars) McPherson, was born in Brandon Hills, MB on March 1, 1884. A farmer in the area his whole life, Angus married Annie Ethel Pentland in 1913. Together they had three sons: Howard, Murray and Kenneth. Angus died at Brandon General Hospital on September 5, 1953. Alfred Angus Murray McPherson's mother, Annie Ethel (Pentland) McPherson, was born into a family that originally came from the ancient Scottish Midlothian or the more modern County of Edinburgh, from the Pentland Hills County, and in and around the towns of Pentland and Carrington. Around the year 1700, at the time of the large movement of immigrants from Scotland and England into Northern Ireland, several families of the clan settled in counties Down and Arnaugh in Ireland. Between 1790 and 1820, a number from both Scotland and Ireland immigrated to Canada settling mainly in Eastern Ontario in the Counties of Hastings, Lennox and Addington and on Amherst Island. Around 1860, some moved to Huron County in Western Ontario to carve homes out of the bush. In 1881, Thomas James Pentland came from Goderich to Manitoba and settled near Douglas. He had learned the trade of a blacksmith and found one was needed so badly he gave up the intention to homestead and built a shop northwest of Douglas, on the South East quarter of Section 17-11-17. He later added a store and house there. On July 22, 1885, Thomas James Pentland and Annie Isobel McVety were married at the home of the bride's parents at High Bluff and lived northwest of Douglas until 1890, when he made a deal with Isaac and Fred Lewis. Thomas took their homesteads on Section 14-12-18 and they took over the store, which they moved to Oakenside. T.J. Pentland continued to farm there until his death in June of 1919. T.J. Pentland was elected to the Council of the RM of Elton for Ward 1 in the fall of 1884 and served three years as councilor and fourteen years as Reeve. The McVety and Owens families both came from County Fernanagh, Northern Ireland to Ontario during the first half of the nineteenth century. Henry McVety and Elizabeth Owens were married March 11, 1856, at Belgrave and lived at Morris until the spring of 1882, when they moved to High Bluff, Manitoba and fifteen years later to Bagot. In 1882, their daughter Annie Isobel came to Douglas to teach at the first Elton School situated 2.5 miles north and 1 mile east of present Douglas. The family of Thomas and Annie Pentland consisted of three sons and three daughters. Fred, who served overseas in the 78th Battalion in the First World War and was killed in September 1917; Harry, who farmed in Justice until 1922, then lived in Brandon until his death in 1948; Ethel (Mrs. Angus McPherson), now living in Brandon; Evelyn (Mrs. N.C. Thompson) now living in Brandon; Wesley, living at Justice on the home farm; and Grace who died in 1908. Harry Pentland's son, H. Clare Pentland, was born October 17, 1914, on a farm near Justice, MB, where Harry had taken up farming. Clare graduated from Brandon College in 1940, with an Economics degree and attended the University of Oregon, where he completed a Master's degree in 1942. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1961. His dissertation was later published as "Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860." A noted economist and a founder of the history of labour in Canada, H. Clare Pentland died on October 13, 1978.
Custodial History
Prior to the death of Murray McPherson, Margaret McPherson's husband, he and his daughter Katherine McPherson, professor of history at York University, searched through various farm houses previously occupied by members of the McPherson family and gathered together family archival materials to safeguard them from destruction. These materials were tranferred to the McPherson residence in Winnipeg and upon the death of Murry McPherson, Margaret became the sole custodian of the records. The decision to place the records at the McKee Archives was arrived at for two reasons. First, the records relate to the Brandon Hills and the history of this region. Second, Murray McPherson attended Brandon College in the 1940s, and felt kinship with the institution. The records came to the McKee Archives courtesy of the good offices of Diane Hageland of the Association for Manitoba Archives. Margaret McPherson donated the records to the McKee Archives on May 4, 2006.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of personal and business records for various members of the McPherson and Pentland families. These were generated in the course of settlement in the Brandon Hills, travel, participation in the First World War and various forms of associational life, in particular the Orange Lodge. The fonds includes correspondence, financial records/ledgers, legal documents, postcards, photographs, scrapbooks, greeting cards, livestock records, Brandon College Sickles, school records, electoral records, diaries, membership records, certificates, income tax records, ration cards, notebooks, newsclippings, autograph albums, poetry, receipts and speeches.
Notes
Biographical information for the fonds was provided by Margaret McPherson. Processing done by Deidra Wallace and Christy Henry summer/fall 2006. Description by Christy Henry. Numerous spellings of the surname "McVety" appear in the fonds, including McVetie and McVitie. The oldest documented spelling in documents of a legal nature is McVety. This spelling therefore will appear throughout the finding aid.
Accruals
Further accruals expected.
Storage Location
2006 accessions
Storage Range
2006 accessions
Arrangement
Original file order has been maintained, while some boxes have been combined to provide a more suitable environment for the preservation of print materials. The boxes have been renumbered accordingly. Due to the original file order, however, the file numbers in the database have been prefaced by their original box numbers. For example, File 3.5 refers to the fifth file of the original third box.
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Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection miscellaneous

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Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1883-1952
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
File Number
13.1 - 13.8
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Box M
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1883-1952
Physical Description
25 cm
Scope and Content
Contains the following files: 13.1 Georgina McPherson newspaper clippings 1897-1949 (arranged by Margaret McPherson in 1952) 13.2 Angus McPherson autograph album 1901 13.3 Ella McKay McPherson 1903 13.4 Jessie Sellers autograph album 1883 13.5 Postcard albums [early 1900's] - some are loose 13.6 Souvenir cards and photo album 13.7 Angus and Ethel McPherson photograph album 1909-1915 13.8 Photograph album [turn of the 20th century] - many of the photographs appear to be of Roseland, B.C.
Notes
Part of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection.
Storage Location
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection Box 10 (13.1) Box 11 (13.2 - 13.8)
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Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection miscellaneous

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Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1862 - ca.1970
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
File Number
17.1 - 17.30
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Box Q
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1862 - ca.1970
Scope and Content
Contains the following files: 17.1 Trail B.C. advertisement 1911 17.2 Angus McPherson beaver license 1900's 17.3 "The Angels of Mons" by Lieutenant Dougald MacEchern 17.4 Brandon General Hospital school graduation invitations 1925 and 1927 17.5 Machinery catalogues [1909-1928] 17.6 Watkins Stock Raisers manual [1920's] 17.7 List and map of Indian Reserves and Metis communties 1959 17.8 Wes Pentland Orange Lodge documents and materials 1862-1940 17.9 Brandon Collegiate reunion ribbon October 9, 1908 17.10 Victory Loan documents 1943-1945 17.11 Boys and Girls Service Clubs exhibit ribbons 1927 17.12 Prize lists for Justice Boys and Girls Clubs 1923-1926 17.13 Voluntary War Aid bulletin #12 [World War One] 17.14 "Canada's War Record" July 1942 17.15 Douglas war memorial unveiling ceremony programme November 17, 1922 17.16 Travel: Waghorns Guide 1898; Manitoba Driver's Guide 1935; southland Chicago-Florida train route and schedule 1916-1917; Manitoba road map 1941-1942; CPR western lines timetables 1918 17.17 Movie programme for "Gone with the Wind" [1939] 17.18 Magazine insert of funeral of Edward VII from Illustrated London News May 24, 1910 17.19 Manitoba Telephone Systems directory with provincial exchanges March 1930 17.20 Brandon Sun articles re: Brandon Hills picnic 1963 17.21 "The Academy Critic" December 1909 17.22 Weldon's Famous Dress catalogue [1920's] 17.23 Alex M. Brown, Pharmacist calendar 1935 17.24 Empire contest from the Winnipeg Free Press (undated) 17.25 Annnie I. Pentland speech re: Barbara Heck 17.26 Electoral division of Landsdowne Municipality map 1949 17.27 Speech on wheat sales (author unknown) 17.28 Site and situation project on Brandon history (author unknown) [1970's] 17.29 Annual report from Protestant Orphans' Home 1937 17.30 Orange Lodge memorabilia (gavel, pin) 1881-1933
Notes
Part of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection.
Storage Location
Margaret McPherson family fonds Box 14 (Files 17.1-17.29) Box 15 (File 17.30 and Orange Lodge ribbons and certificates)
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Henry Forbes Angus

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Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
c. 1914
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
8
Item Number
8.A.9
GMD
graphic
Date Range
c. 1914
Physical Description
3.5" x 4.25" (b/w)
History / Biographical
Henry Forbes Angus (1891-1991) graduated from McGill University in 1911 and in 1914 he went to Oxford University. His studies were interupted by the First World War. In 1919, he joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia in the Economics Department. Angus was likely an associate of William Burton Hurd, a faculty member at Brandon College and former student at Oxford University (around the same time that Angus attended that institution).
Scope and Content
Portrait of Henry Forbes Angus, a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
Related Material
Angus family fonds at the University of British Columbia Archives.
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Ethel Hall interview

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Part Of
Westman Oral History collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
sound recordings
Date Range
June 16, 1982
Accession Number
35-1998
{add= Hall, Ethel 1981-06-16 1 Westman Oral History Collection Interview Date
  1 audio     1 document  
Part Of
Westman Oral History collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
OH297.Hal
Accession Number
35-1998
GMD
sound recordings
Date Range
June 16, 1982
Physical Description
1 audio cassette [00:07:35]
History / Biographical
Ethel Maude Hall was born in the Cameron Municipality around 1901. She worked as a housekeeper and never married. Until 1965, she also farmed in the Millerway district northeast of Hartney with her brother William J "Bill" Hall (1899-1989), sister Mary E "Nellie" (1904-1983) and Joseph E. "Joe" Clark (1893-1981). When they sold the farm, the family moved to Hartney. Nellie and Ethel were active in a variety of organizations including the United Church, the Horticultural Society and the Willing Workers. The family all enjoyed travel as well as the Hart-Cam Centre and sports at the rink. Ethel Hall died on May 5, 1991 in Hartney, MB and is buried in the Elgin 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 Ethel Hall about threshing. Interviewer is Mary Thomas.
Notes
History/bio information taken from the records and the RM of Cameron local history "A Community with Spirit: 1982-2002." Transcript by Nathan Qumsieh (2014). Description by Christy Henry.
Language Note
English
Audio Tracks
Documents

OH279_Hall_transcript.pdf

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Ethel Allen interview

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Part Of
Westman Oral History collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
sound recordings
Date Range
November 22, 1982
Accession Number
35-1998
{add= 0 of 5 Allen, Ethel January 25, 2023 Westman Oral History Collection
  1 audio     1 document  
Part Of
Westman Oral History collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
OH181.All
Accession Number
35-1998
GMD
sound recordings
Date Range
November 22, 1982
Physical Description
1 audio cassette [00:10:00]
History / Biographical
Ethel Elizabeth Mary Allen (nee Baker) was born on June 30, 1915 on Springhill Farm in the RM of Rosedale. She attended Springhill School and Neepawa Collegiate. An accomplished pianist, she formed a band with her brothers and together they played many dances. Ethel married William Allen (1902-1964) in June 1938 and together they had one son, Larry. Following the marriage, the couple lived in the residence at Howden elevator where Bill was the elevator agent for the Ogilvie company. Ethel helped Bill with bookkeeping. When Bill died, Ethel moved to Neepawa, where she worked for the Osborone Senior Citizens Home for a number of years. A long time member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Naomi Chapter No. 11, Ethel enjoyed curling, sewing and travel. Ethel Allen died on May 14, 2001 in Neepawa, MB. She is buried at Riverside 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 Ethel Allen about the history of the Potter-Baker Centennial Farm. Interviewer is Isabelle Heeney.
Notes
History/bio information from the records and the local history "The Beautiful Plains Story, 1983-2008." Transcript by Sarah Gerdis-Filipchuk (2023). Description by Christy Henry.
Language Note
English
Audio Tracks
Documents

OH181_Allen_transcript.pdf

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Ella Kerr Nicholson interview

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Part Of
Westman Oral History collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
sound recordings
Date Range
May 14, 1981
Accession Number
35-1998
Part Of
Westman Oral History collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
OH240.Nic
Accession Number
35-1998
GMD
sound recordings
Date Range
May 14, 1981
Physical Description
1 audio cassette [00:35:00]
History / Biographical
Ella Alma Nicholson (nee Kerr) was born in 1896 in the Franklin district. Her father George Kerr operated a logging mill at Kerr Lake and her mother Margaret (nee Reilly) named the area "Franklin." Ella attended Coldstream and Franklin school, before completing a two-year diploma at Agricultural College in Winnipeg. She then trained as a nurse at Winnipeg General Hospital, graduating in 1919. Following gradution she worked in Winnipeg before going to Vancouver. On February 7, 1922, she married Charles Nicholson (1890-1979), a teacher from the Franklin district. The couple returned to Manitoba, where they lived on the Nicholson family farm until they retired to Neepawa in 1950. Both of their sons, William and Patrick, were born in the Franklin district. Ella was active with The Inner Wheel, the Iriquois Women's Institute, her bowling league, and the nurses association. With Charlie, she traveled worldwide to various Rotary conventions. Ella Nicholson died on July 23, 1993 in Neepawa, MB. She is buried at Riverside 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 Ella Nicholson about homesteading in the Franklin district of Manitoba. Interviewer is Winnie Cheetham.
Notes
History/bio information from the records, the Neepawa local history "Heritage" and Nicholson's obituary. Description by Christy Henry.
Language Note
English
Audio Tracks
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Wayne Henry Johnston

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Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1962
Part Of
Brandon University Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
8
Item Number
8.J.2
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1962
Physical Description
2.5" x 3.5" (b/w)
Scope and Content
Graduation portrait of Wayne Henry Johnston, president of the class of 1962.
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Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1906-1939
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
File Number
4.1 - 4.13
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Box D
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1906-1939
History / Biographical
Georgina Jane McPherson, daughter of Hugh and Margaret (Sellers) McPherson, was born in 1875 in Nova Scotia. Georgie never married and lived at home most of her life. She was a loyal member and supporter of the Women's Missionary Society, the Busy Bees and Brandon Hills Church. Due to ill health she lived for a time in the 1940s at Ninette Sanatorium. During her last years she resided with her sister Hattie Morrison, at Rounthwaite. Georgie died in Brandon, MB in 1953.
Scope and Content
Contains the following files: 4.1 Chattel mortgage documents 1906-1939 (includes 1906 Land Title and 1919 Agreement for land sale) 4.2 Greeting postcards 4.3 Non-greeting postcards 4.4 Undated correspondence 4.5 Correspondence 1939-1946 4.6 Correspondence 1937 4.7 Correspondence 1936 4.8 Correspondence 1935 4.9 Correspondence 1934 4.10 Correspondence 1933 4.11 Correspondence 1932 4.12 Correspondence 1931 4.13 Correspondence 1918-1930
Notes
Part of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection.
Storage Location
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection Box 3 (4.1 - 4.12) Box 4 (4.13)
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McPherson scrapbooks

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Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1879 - ca.1947
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
File Number
12.1 - 12.7
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Box L
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1879 - ca.1947
Physical Description
File 12.6 is very fragile and has some water damage that has warped the pages, but hasn't damaged the clippings.
Physical Condition
12.5 cm
History / Biographical
For biographical information on Angus and Ethel McPherson see the description for Box 6 of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection. For biographical information on Annie I. McVety (Pentland) see the descrption for Box 10 of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection.
Scope and Content
Contains the following files: 12.1 Angus McPherson album (clippings, poems, etc.) - MISSING 12.2 Ethel McPherson scrapbook 1920-1942 12.3 Ethel McPherson scrapbook 1942-1947 12.4 Ethel McPherson scrapbook 1941-1954 (loose entries) 12.5 Ethel McPherson scrapbook (loose entries) 12.6 Annie I. McVitie scrapbook (poems etc. on an old school register) 12.7 Annie I. McVitie poetry 1879
Notes
Part of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection.
Storage Location
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection Box 10
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Cecil Herbert Edward Johnston fonds

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Part Of
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection
Description Level
Collection
GMD
textual records
Accession Number
64-1997
Part Of
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection
Description Level
Collection
Accession Number
64-1997
GMD
textual records
Physical Description
7 cm
History / Biographical
Cecil Herbert Edward Johnston was the second child born to Herbert Marmaduke Johnston and Amelia Jane Bird. He was born November 9, 1914, on the family homestead, NE 25-11-18, Elton Municipality, Manitoba. When Johnston was six years old, the family moved to Shingle Creek Community in Florida. Johnston graduated from the Osceola High School at Kissimmee in June of 1932. He received his B.A.E. from the University of Florida in 1936, his M.A.E. from the same institution in August 1941, and his "doctor equivalency" in 1950. Johnston taught for thirty-seven years in Florida, twenty eight of which he served as an elementary school principal. He retired from public school teaching at the end of June 1973, although he taught Spanish on a part-time basis at the St. John Lutheran School in Ocala from 1975-1977. Johnston married Helen Mable Cocke on June 22, 1939, in Alachua, Florida. Together they had four childred: Cecil Edward, Kathryn Rebecca, Stephen Robert and David Herbert.
Custodial History
This fonds was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1997. Prior custoridal history is unknown.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a copy (2 volumes) of the transcript of "A History of the Branches of My Family" by Cecil Herbert Edward Johnston. Divisions in the transcript include: The Johnston family; the James Johnston family; the Margaret Johnston family; the John Johnston family; the Sarah Johnston family; the McFarlane family; the Bird family, the Bird brothers of Lime Lake (Ontario); the Jane Bird family; the Catherine Bird family; the Sarah Bird family; the Henderson family; Ottawa area families; the Shillington family; and the Nelson family.
Notes
History/Bio taken from Johnston's family history (pp. 18-19, 39). Description by Christy Henry.
Storage Location
1997 accessions
Storage Range
1997 accessions
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Former McPherson & Bedford Funeral Home

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Part Of
RG 11 Lawrence Stuckey fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
March 23, 1980
Accession Number
1-2002
Part Of
RG 11 Lawrence Stuckey fonds
Creator
L.A. Stuckey
Description Level
Item
Series Number
3.1
Item Number
1-2002.3.1EA28
Accession Number
1-2002
GMD
graphic
Date Range
March 23, 1980
Physical Description
2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Material Details
Negative
History / Biographical
Before becoming the McPherson & Bedford funeral home, I am pretty sure this was the home of Dr. A.T. Condell, who arrived in 1904, left in 1906, returned in 1908, was district coroner for 30 years and died in 1943 (Barker). LAS.
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Former McPherson & Bedford Funeral Home
Notes
Located on the west side of the 100 block of 11th Street
Name Access
McPherson & Bedford Funeral Home
Subject Access
businesses
funeral homes
Brandon business buildings & facilities after 1940
Repro Restriction
The McKee Archives is the copyright holder for the Stuckey materials.
Storage Location
Lawrence Stuckey collection
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National Revenue- Taxation John & Sterling Jolly (Jack Johnston CA)

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Part Of
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Description Level
File
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1991
Part Of
RG 6 Brandon University fonds
Description Level
File
Series Number
MG 3 1.14.1
File Number
805
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1991
Physical Description
1 file
Scope and Content
File consists of correspondence
Storage Location
RG 6 Brandon University fonds MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration 1.14.1 W. Leland Clark - political career Box 31
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Hugh and Margaret McPherson; Libby Sellars; Kitty and Winnie Prowse

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Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1871-1936
Accession Number
21-2006
Part Of
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Description Level
Box
File Number
5.1-5.15
Accession Number
21-2006
Other Numbers
Box E
GMD
textual records
Date Range
1871-1936
History / Biographical
Hugh McPherson was born January 25, 1845 at West River, Nova Scotia. He married Margaret Esther Sellers (b. March 18, 1849 at Six Mile Brook, Nova Scotia) on February 5, 1875 at Six Mile Brook, Nova Scotia. The couple moved to Brandon Hills, MB c. 1880. Together they had four children: Georgina (Georgie) Jane; Harriet (Hattie); Johnston (Jack); and Angus. The couple lived at Watervale, NS until they moved to Manitoba with the Brandon Hills settlers. Hugh travelled to Brandon Hills with the Roddick group in 1879, leaving his wife and three children in Nova Scotia. He selected the N.E. 1/4 of section 10, township 9, range 18 as his homestead. Margaret and the children joined Hugh in 1880. Situated as it was just north of the river and slightly to the east of the end of the hills, the McPherson home became a sopttin house for travellers from the south making their way to and from Grand Valley and later Brandon. The family records show that literally scores of people stayed with the family during the early years. The fee charged for a meal for the driver plus feed for a team was thirty-five cents. Nellie McClung later described the farm and the stopping-house in one of her early books. Hugh McPherson died at Brandon Hills, MB on March 7, 1916. Margaret Esther Sellers McPherson died at Brandon Hills, MB on July 13, 1935. In the fall of 1892, Margaret's brother, Angus Sellers and his family arrived at the McPherson home. Included in this part was Margaret's two sisters Jessie Murray and Libby Sellers. The Sellers family remained with the McPherson's until mid-summer of 1893, when they moved to their new farm at Bunclody. In 1902, after the death of his wife Blanche, Arthur Prowse accepted Margaret McPherson's offer to foster his daughters Winnie and Kitty. The girls stayed with the McPherson's until their marriages; Winnie to Alex Brown and Kitty to Frank Allbright.
Scope and Content
Contains the following files: 5.1 Margaret McPherson correspondence 1903-1926 5.2 Margaret McPherson correspondence 1927-1931 5.3 Margaret McPherson correspondence 1932-1935 5.4 Margaret McPherson correspondence (undated) 5.5 Margaret McPherson burial/marriage notices 1895-1924 5.6 Margaret McPherson greeting postcards 5.7 Mr. and Mrs. H. McPherson non-greeting postcards 5.8 Margaret McPherson non-greeting postcards 5.9 Hugh Mcpherson notebook 1871 5.10 Hugh McPherson financial records 1913-1918 5.11 Hugh McPherson postcards 5.12 Libby Sellers non-greeting postcards 5.13 Libby Sellers greeting postcards 5.14 Libby Sellers correspondence 1882-1936 (some undated) 5.15 Kitty and Winnie Prowse correspondence and postcards 1916-1923
Notes
Part of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection
Storage Location
Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection Box 4
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