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Ab Gowanlock of Dauphin

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Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
[c.1984]
Accession Number
1-2015
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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