The 1960s campus expansion necessitated a large, updated heat source so a central steam plant fueled by coal was built north of the campus adjacent to the CPR rail lines on Pacific Avenue. A 25-year agreement was made between the University and John R. Brodie of the Great West Coal Company, which guaranteed BU lower coal prices tendered by the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways on an annual basis. Brandon College Engineer John Kasiurak officially opened the Heating Plant on 24 January 1962. An extension and/or upgrade of the steam plant appears to have occurred in 1970.
Until the 1990s, heat was piped underground to the campus from the Pacific Avenue Heating Plant but inspection standards were outpacing the maintenance and repairs required to keep the plant operating smoothly. Consequently, a new steam plant was built immediately adjacent to the University to the west of Darrach Hall on 20th Street. This building was essential to handling additional loads from the proposed library expansion. The original steam plant was subsequently sold.
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Photograph is looking east and shows the exterior of Brandon University's steam generating plant located at 20th Street and Pacific Avenue beside the railroad tracks. McKenzie Seeds is visible in the background.
Photograph features two muddy players with Professor Douglas Durkin on the field west of the Brandon College Building. The photograph was labelled with the words "a football incident."
Portrait of the 1910-1911 Brandon College football team. Front left: W. C. Smalley. Front centre: Archie Gordon. Back row (second from right): J.R.C. Evans.
Portrait of the Brandon College men's basketball team. Back Row (L to R): Ross George, Peter Prokaska, Ron Bell, Dave Brodie, Keith McCulloch, Blair MacRae. Front Row (L to R): Gordon Hunter, Johnny Miller, John Blackwood.
Photograph of the tip off of an inter-squad game. Bobcats in white uniforms (L-R): Jude Kelly, Brian Ackroyd, Jerry Abernathy(?), Grant Coulter, Earl Roberts.
Photograph of various signs on the Brandon University gym wall that were put up to congratulate the Bobcat men upon winning the CIAU championship for 1986-1987. They read: “All-Star Patrick Jebbison #44”; “#50 Scott Drapper”; “Point Guard C. B. Bailey #10”; “’Mr.Whit’ Whitney Dabney #40”; “’Mouse’ Dave Malowski #20”; “’Watski’ Warren Watt #12”; “Mike Thomas #20”; Greg "Video" Steeves; "Wild" Bill Haycock; and “Super Job We Are Proud Of You.”