James (Jock) W. G. MacDonald was born in Thurso, Scotland in 1867. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art, and later worked as a fabric designer. He taught at Lincoln School of Art; Vancouver School of Art; School of Decorative and Applied Arts, Vancouver; Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, Calgary; and at Ontario College of Art after 1947. MacDonald was a member of Canadian Group of Painters and Painters Eleven. He died in Toronto in 1960. The artist was conducting independent experiments in Vancouver while the others worked in Winnipeg and Toronto. He had painted 'automatics' by 1934 and completely abstract or non-objective works by 1935 or 1936. (Painting in Canada: A History. Harper J. Russel. U of Toronto Press, 1977. P 327) Jock MacDonald was one of Canada's first painters to explore the relationship between abstraction and landscape. What MacDonald did is take the formal qualities of his subjects and isolate or abstract them form the landscape. (The History of Painting in Canada. Barry Lord. Toronto: NC Press, 1974. P 205-7)
Dimensions
23.5 X 33.5 cm
Size Overall
45 X 52.5 cm
Medium
watercolor
Condition
Slight cockling of surface.
Primary Support
paper
Secondary Support
mat, plexiglass, backing board; frame - wood and plaster with gild
Photograph is a proposed model for a centennial auditorium for western Manitoba prepared by Ward and Macdonald Associates - Architects. View is southeast from the northwest corner of Princess Avenue and 20th Street. The model includes the proposed auditorium as well as a number of buildings on the Brandon College campus.
Kathleen Emily Kenner was born in Pierson, Manitoba on December 6, 1903. Her father, W.S. Kenner, was a General Merchant there. Kathleen had one brother, Ewing. She took her early education in Pierson, then moved to Brandon to take her Grade XI course in 1919. The following year, Kathleen moved to the Clark Hall Annex on Louise and 11th, in order to attend Brandon College (B.C.) as a student in the Music Department. In the fall of 1921, she entered the Arts Department of Brandon College. During her time at the college, Kathleen was very involved with student life. She was elected Lady Stick for the school year 1924-1925, the highest position in student government that a woman could attain. In the spring of 1925, she graduated with her B.A., then begain studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto.
Kathleen taught school in Melfort, Saskatchewan from approximately 1930-1949, and for several years after that was an instructor at the Saskatchewan Government Correspondence School. Sometime during this period, Kathleen left to serve in the Air Force during the Second World War.
Kathleen Kenner married William A. Kennedy in 1950, and through marriage she gained one son, John Kennedy, and two daughters, Mrs. Claire H. A. Still and Mrs. Janet Sheridan. Around the same time, Kathleen and William moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba where Kathleen was very active in the church and the community. Kathleen Kenner Kennedy died suddenly on November 28, 1967 at the age of 61.
Custodial History
This fonds was accessioned by the McKee archives in 1997. Prior custodial history is unknown.
Scope and Content
The Kathleen Kenner Fonds are organized in three series:
Series 1 – scrapbook (6.5 cm.)
Series 2 - file of correspondence (8 mm.)
Series 3 - newspaper clippings (1 mm.)
The scrapbook contains pictures of Kathleen’s life and times at Brandon College and the University in Toronto. There are pictures of students and friends, Brandon College, the University of Toronto, Victoria College, Toronto City Hall, Grandpa Ewing’s Farm in Ontario, grad pictures, a train station, and much more. The pictures show dress, women’s activities, the ladies’ Basketball team, and what Brandon itself looked like in the 1920’s. She also included personal notes, cards, invitations to dinners, dances, and luncheons, poems, dance cards, hockey tickets, and various other university mementos.
There are numerous newspaper clippings. One file contains poetry, mainly from her friend Mary McLaughin MacDonald, letters from her father and mother, a list of College yells, and a copy of "Hail Our College". Kenner has various excerpts from The Quill, letters from former students, and a grapho-analyst report (1933) that she received. An interesting possession in this collection are two speeches that Kenner delivered and kept originals of. The first is her reply to being nominated for Lady Stick in 1924. The second is a speech that she made when she invested her duties of Lady Stick to the new Lady Stick, Rose Vasey in 1925.
Notes
A portion of the description was written by Kathleen Scammell (2000).
Donated to the McKee Archives by the Souris Museum in 2000.
Scope and Content
Portrait of the County Council of the County of Brandon.
Back Row: Reeve Pettit of Daly Municipality, Reeve Clegg of Elton Municipality, Reeve Whitehead of Cornwallis Municipality.
Front Row: Reeve Steele of Glenwood Municipality, W.A. MacDonald, County Solicitor (Justice Supreme Court of British Columbia); Reeve Hannah of Whitehead Municipality, J. Weatherall, County Clerk, J.H. Brownlee, County Engineer
Library Reading Room, 2nd floor McKenzie Building looking south Naming of the Library, etc.L to R ?, Dr. M.V. Naidu, Dr. W.H.M. Hargreaves-Mauwdsley, G.P. Sutherland, ?, c. Kennedy, Michael Angel, ?,?,?,?, Dick MacDonald, ?,?, L.D. Whitehead, J. Hardy, D. McNamee, P. Constans, ?, T.S. Gonzalez, ?,?,?,?, Mrs. Sutherland, Gli Dimoinlongan, ?,?,?,?,?, Anne Harris, ?, Ella Mae Perdue, H.S. Perdue, ?, W. Entz, Hazel Oakey, Gerald R. Brown, Mary Hume, Molly Vance, Alice Londry, ?,?,?
Portrait of the Brandon Bobcats women's basketball team. Front Row (L to R): Laurie King, Rona Henderson, Shauna McKinnon, Kirsty Henderson, Bev Morrison. Back Row (L to R): Kevin MacDonald (Coach), Ray Houssin (Ass’t Coach), Tracy McKim, Deb Goleski, Karen Simpkin, Linda Davis, Brenda Johnson, Debbie Morris (Ass’t Coach), Marie Lindbloom (Manager)
Image surface is severely degraded (cracking, discoloration).
Scope and Content
Portrait of the Brandon University Bobcats men's basketball team. Back Row (L to R): Bob Fosker, Peter Bertram, Frank Bauche, Bohdan Pisak, Lloyd Small, Tom Ford, Brian Pallister, Ryan Gray, Ken Rucker, Mike Vaira, Murray rodgers, Jim Henderson. Front Row (L to R): Kevin MacDonald (Manager), Joe Parks (Assistant Coach), Jerry Hemmings (Coach), Dan Majcher (Statistician). Missing: Elwood Kelher.
Portrait of the Brandon University Bobcats men's basketball team. Back Row (L to R): Gord Campbell, Ellis Ware, Bob Campbell, Lew Worrell, Lloyd Small, Ryan Gray, Dave Smith, Nelson Burrell, Dave Price, Bohdan Pisak, Murray Rodgers, George Rugg, Gord Carmichael. Front Row (L to R): Dan Majcher (Statistician), , Bill Moody (Assistant Coach), Jerry Hemmings (Coach), Kevin MacDonald (Manager) .
Portrait of the Brandon College Caps hockey team. Back Row (L to R): Ernie Birkinshaw, Gus Juckes, Johnny MacLean, Graham Hunt, Ernie Shaw, Fin Campbell, Neil McKellar, Bill Rolston, Jack Scott, Ken Campbell (Equipment Manager), Doc Hannah (Manager). Front Row (L to R): Murray MacDonald, Harry George, Harold Moffat, Don Sumner, Bill Black, Blair MacRae, Jim McKibbon.
Portrait of the Brandon University Bobcats men's basketball team. Back Row (L to R): Mike Howry, Bruce Lyons, Bohdan Pisak, John Weber, Dave Price, Ryan Gray, Bob Dodds, Nelson Burrell, Rick Kartzmark, Clyde Van Caeyzelle, Mike Bourg, Lew Worell, Frank Bauche, Grant Griffith. Front Row (L to R): Kevin MacDonald (Manager), Willie Reimer (Ass’t Coach), Jerry Hemmings (Coach), Dan Majcher (Statistician)
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