Part Of

Fred McGuinness collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

McG 9

Item Number

1-2015.277.A7

Accession Number

1-2015

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900s]

Physical Description

4" x 2.5" (b/w)

Material Details

mounted in album

Physical Condition

Photo is warped

Scope and Content

Photograph shows a family before a log cabin. A man wearing a long-sleeved shirt, tie, and vest with watch fob stands at the entryway to the home. A woman wearing a white blouse and long skirt sits on a rocking chair on a rough a rough-hewn porch. A boy wearing a pea coat sits on the porch to the right of the man and woman. Lace curtains are hanging in the window.

Notes

Writing beneath the photograph in the album reads: Mr. D.H. Hopkins and family

Subject Access

families

log cabins

Storage Location

1-2015 McG 1.4 Box 1 (in stacks, top shelf)

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.10

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.5" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6.44" x 4.1")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

The Fowler Block in Baldur, MB was built in 1899 by Alex Fowler.

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Alex Fowler standing at the counter in his store. The shelves behind him are stacked with tins of dry good, while the shelves to his side are stacked with china and glass items. The post office operated out of the back of the store.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection

Creator

Davidson & Gowen

Description Level

Fonds

Accession Number

6-1999

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1912

Physical Description

105 b/w photographs

History / Biographical

Alfred Fowler was born in 1903, in Toronto, Ontario. At the age of 23 he began working for Canadian National Railways (C.N.R.) in the company's telegraph accounting department. He remained employed there for 45 years, with the exception of the years 1940-45 when he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery during World War II. During his service he was stationed at Shilo, Manitoba, where he met his future wife, Elsie Bowen. They were married late in 1944, and in 1945 returned to Toronto. Fowler remained in Toronto until his death in 1969. Throughout his life, Mr. Fowler was an ardent amateur photographer.

Custodial History

All 105 prints in this collection were created by Davidson & Gowen, a photography business located in Brandon. It seems likely that they were created for display and/or for commercial sale as part of the November 7, 1912 "Harvest" edition of The Brandon Sun. Alfred Fowler acquired a copy of the Davidson and Gowen prints during his stay at C.F.B. Shilo during the Second World War. In 1946 Alfred Fowler left Brandon returning to his home in Toronto. With the death of Alfred in 1969 the collection passed to his wife, Elsie Fowler. Elsie died in 1987, also in Toronto. Her estate passed to her nephew, Byron Forsyth, a Brandon resident. Byron brought the collection back to Brandon and in 1999 donated it to the McKee Archives.

Scope and Content

The prints concern various subjects in Brandon, Manitoba c. 1911-1912 including Brandon residences, store fronts/businesses, streetscapes, churches, the Brandon Fair, parks, hotels, institutional structures (ie hospitals, City Hall) and rail yards (both Canadian Northern and Canadian Pacific) in the city. These images provide a visual record of Brandon in the years just before the Great War.

Notes

CAIN No. 202647. All addresses listed for photographs in the Fowler collection were derived from Henderson's Directories (1911, 1913).

Location Copy

Copies of the photographs are in the green binder on the reference shelf in the reading room. Negatives for CPR photographs have been placed with 6-1999.10 (CPR Railway depot).

Storage Location

RG 5 photograph storage drawer.

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.23

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1904

Physical Description

4.75" x 3.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (8.4" x 6.4")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the men's hockey team from Baldur, MB.

Notes

Writing on the back of the image reads: "Baldur Hockey Bums Abroad 1904"

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.1

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1903]

Physical Description

8" x 6" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (12" x 10")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image shows a view of Baldur, MB with a body of water and train tracks in the foreground.

Notes

12-2004.15 indicates the water was caused by spring flooding.

Subject Access

rural images

Location Copy

Same as 12-2004.15

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.14

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1903

Physical Description

6.6" x 4.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (8.75" x 7")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Baldur, MB, including grain elevators.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.13

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

September 13, 1903

Physical Description

6.6" x 4.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9" x 7")

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Baldur, MB with a field in the foreground. The field has a light snow coverng and stacks of hay. Baldur is in the background.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.15

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1903

Physical Description

8" x 6" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (12" x 10")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Baldur, MB, with a body of water, possibly from spring flooding, in the foreground.

Subject Access

rural images

Location Copy

Same as 12-2004.1

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.7

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.6" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (7.5" x 5.6")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the town of Baldur, MB. Visible is the L. Curtis Block. Canadian Northern rail cars are in the foreground with horse drawn carts and men working on road and town buildings behind.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.6

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1903

Physical Description

6.75" x 4.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9" x 7")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the town of Baldur, MB. Looking south a body of water is in the foreground.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.17

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

4" x 3" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6" x 5")

Physical Condition

Some bright spots/discoloration along the top and right side of the photo

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the Bateman house, located in Baldur, MB, in winter.

Subject Access

rural images

winter

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Creator

Photographer: E.L. Lane, Glenboro, MB

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.29

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1903-1904]

Physical Description

3.5" x 5.1" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (5.25" x 7.25")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

Benedict Anderson married Millie Goodman on February 21, 1929 (Grund District info from Baldur book, page 435, RM of Argyle)

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Studio portrait of a man, probably Benedict Anderson, from Baldur, MB.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

RG 12 Brandon and Area Photograph Collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

1

Item Number

BAPC 1.4

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[19-?]

Physical Description

5" x 7" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting

Scope and Content

Photograph shows the Bradley Bros. threshing crew of Wheatland, MB posing in a field. Faint writing in pencil on the back of the photo reads: Bill Le Paga(?), Tom B, Dave R., Andy R.

Subject Access

Agriculture

farming

agricultural machinery

rural life

threshing crews

agricultural labourers

Storage Location

BAPC oversize storage drawer

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Part Of

CKX fonds

Creator

CKX

Description Level

Item

Item Number

11-2010.B3c(1)

Accession Number

11-2010

GMD

graphic

Date Range

after 1954

Physical Description

2.25" x 2.25" (b/w)

Material Details

Negative

Custodial History

See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.

Scope and Content

Image consists of British American dealers - Fowler & Sons in Virden.

Name Access

CKX

British American Dealers

Virden, Manitoba

Subject Access

automobile dealerships

Storage Location

CKX fonds - 2010 accessions

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Part Of

CKX fonds

Creator

CKX

Description Level

Item

Item Number

11-2010.B3c(2)

Accession Number

11-2010

GMD

graphic

Date Range

after 1954

Physical Description

2.25" x 2.25" (b/w)

Material Details

Negative

Custodial History

See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.

Scope and Content

Image consists of British American dealers - Fowler & Sons in Virden.

Name Access

CKX

British American Dealers

Virden, Manitoba

Subject Access

automobile dealerships

Storage Location

CKX fonds - 2010 accessions

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Part Of

CKX fonds

Creator

CKX

Description Level

Item

Item Number

11-2010.B3c(3)

Accession Number

11-2010

GMD

graphic

Date Range

after 1954

Physical Description

2.25" x 2.25" (b/w)

Material Details

Negative

Custodial History

See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.

Scope and Content

Image consists of British American dealers - Fowler & Sons in Virden.

Name Access

CKX

British American Dealers

Virden, Manitoba

Subject Access

automobile dealerships

Storage Location

CKX fonds - 2010 accessions

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Part Of

CKX fonds

Creator

CKX

Description Level

Item

Item Number

11-2010.B2h(1) and (2)

Accession Number

11-2010

GMD

graphic

Date Range

after 1954

Physical Description

2 negatives - each 2.25" x 2.25" (b/w)

Material Details

Negative

Custodial History

See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.

Scope and Content

Image consists of British American dealers (Virden (Fowler)).

Name Access

CKX

British American Dealers

Virden, Manitoba

Subject Access

automobile dealerships

Storage Location

CKX fonds - 2010 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.22

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

7" x 5" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9.25" x 7.25")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

From the back of the photo: In 1922 to become Canadian National Railway. Building moved to Austin, MB to the Manitoba Agriculture Museum (CNP).

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the station agent inside the Canadian Northern Railway station in Baldur, MB.

Subject Access

rural images

railway stations

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

RG 11 Lawrence Stuckey fonds

Creator

L.A. Stuckey

Description Level

Item

Series Number

3.3

Item Number

1-2002.3.3.CNR[210]

Accession Number

1-2002

GMD

graphic

Date Range

February 28, 1979

Physical Description

2.25" x 2.25" (b/w)

Material Details

Negative

Custodial History

For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.

Scope and Content

Image of a church at Beulah, Manitoba [Mr. Stuckey consistently spelt it "Buelah"], taken along the CNR line, Rapid City substation.

Name Access

CNR

Beulah, Manitoba

Subject Access

railways

Church buildings/Churches

Repro Restriction

The McKee Archives is the copyright holder of the Stuckey materials.

Storage Location

Lawrence Stuckey collection

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.11

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.5" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6.44" x 4.1")

Physical Condition

Tiny piece of the photo is missing from the bottom edge and there are a few hairline cracks along the top of the photo

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of three men standing in front of a building that appears to be Cleghorn's drug store.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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