The interview was conducted by Richard Bee in the office of Bill Turner at 880 CKLQ AM/94.7 STAR FM radio station on July 7, 2015. The interview was created for the class Advanced Topics in Oral History for the project Music in the Brandon Community.
Custodial History
Item was in Richard Bee's possession until he donated it to the McKee Archives in 2015.
Scope and Content
Item is an oral history interview with Bill Turner discussing his life, his radio career and community in Brandon.
Repro Restriction
The SJ McKee Archives is the copyright holder for the Music and the Brandon community collection and as such is providing access to this item for educational and research purposes only. To publish, copy or otherwise use this item, written permission must be obtained from the SJ McKee Archives. Any issues arising from the use of an item is the responsibility of the persons desiring to use the item, as is the securing of any necessary permissions for use.
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A tape log was created by Richard Bee for each of the interviews he conducted as part of the Music and the Brandon community project.
Custodial History
Item was in Richard Bee's possession until he donated it to the McKee Archives in 2015.
Scope and Content
Item is the tape log Richard Bee created for his interview with Bill Turner. The log provides a time breakdown for the interview, along with more details about the subjects discussed.
Repro Restriction
The SJ McKee Archives is the copyright holder for the Music and the Brandon community collection and as such is providing access to this item for educational and research purposes only. To publish, copy or otherwise use this item, written permission must be obtained from the SJ McKee Archives. Any issues arising from the use of an item is the responsibility of the persons desiring to use the item, as is the securing of any necessary permissions for use.
31 cm textual records;
1 b&w photograph - approx. 50 x 20cm (torn in half);
1 ribbon from the International Pool Conference of 1928
History / Biographical
Leslie Victor Robson was born in Deleau, Manitoba in 1893. Following graduation from the Manitoba Agricultural College in 1915, he began a career in farming near Deleau, Manitoba. Robson married Edna Chapman in 1917. He was active in farm organizations, the co-operative movement and the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. Robson focused his farming activities on raising purebread polled herefords. His stock was exhibited across Canada and the United States and sold in Great Britain, Japan and Czechoslovakia. In 1977, he was made a member of the Canadian Hereford Honour Roll. Leslie Victor Robson died in 1977.
Custodial History
This fonds was donated to the McKee Archives in 1995 by Clarke M. Robson of Deleau, Manitoba.
Scope and Content
This fonds contains booklets and issues of newspapers from the Canadian prairie provinces concerning the CCF, the Independant Labor Party, the UFM, the Canadian farming co-op movement, Manitoba Pool Elevators, and the early NDP. Also included are publications of the CCF including "The Commonwealth," the Canadian Department of Agriculture, the League for Social Reconstruction, the NDP, the UFM, and Manitoba Pool Elevators. The single photograph is a group picture of mostly men taken at the International Wheat Conference of 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota. It includes Colin H. Burnell, Fawcett W. Ransom, and Dick Mahoney.
