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Birtles, Mary Ellen

  • 2000.28.13
  • Person
  • 1859-1943

Mary Ellen Birtles was born January 24, 1859 at Yorkshire, England to Joseph Birtles Sr. (1824-1859) and Hephzibah Milnes (1823-1908). She immigrated with her family from Sheffield, England to Alexander, Manitoba in 1883. In 1886, she began working at Winnipeg General Hospital, where she received nurses' training from 1887 to 1889. Her nursing career took her to many new hospitals in the Canadian West. She worked at Medicine Hat General Hospital in Medicine Hat, Alberta (1890-1892); Brandon General Hospital in Brandon, Manitoba (1892-1894 and 1898-1919); and Calgary General Hospital in Calgary, Alberta (1894-1898). In 1935, Mary Ellen received the Order of the British Empire for her nursing service. She passed away in Alexander in 1943.

Clement, Aleta Elizabeth

  • DHM
  • Person
  • 1876-1950

Aleta Elizabeth (Paisley) Clement was a first-wave feminist, committed social reformer, and political activist in Brandon and southwestern Manitoba. Born January 18, 1876 in Petrolia, Ontario to Melissa Elizabeth Bull (1848-1922) and James Paisley (1843-1908), she moved at age 10 with her family to Brandon, where she would later distinguish herself as a public speaker. In 1893, Aleta graduated from Alma College in St. Thomas, Ontario. The following year, she returned home and gave private elocution lessons while teaching Grade 3 for the Brandon School District. On August 30, 1899, she married Stephen Emmett Clement, Jr. (1867-1947) in Brandon. They had four children: Harold Dixon, Ethel Ruth, Robert James, and David William. Aleta's dedication to social equality grew out of her family's financial hardships and her work as an underpaid elementary school teacher. In her commitment to social issues, Aleta followed in the path of her mother who, in 1892, was the first secretary of the newly formed Brandon Hospital Aid Society. Aleta's activism was also shaped by her involvement with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and by progressive initiatives within the Methodist Church. She was a member of the first YWCA board as well as the provincial child welfare board and the First Church United board. As president of the Brandon Local Council of Women (LCW), Aleta played a key role in forming a free Child Welfare Station in 1918 in leading the fight against Spanish flu. Aleta played a prominent role in the 1922 Brandon School Controversy by advocating for equal pay between men and women educators. She was also an active organizer for the Progressive Party in the elections of 1925 and 1926. Aleta served as a convenor for the National Council of Women and as an executive member of the League of Nations in Canada. She was also prominent in the Brandon Art Club and Brandon Little Theatre. Aleta died in Winnipeg on November 9, 1950 and is buried in Brandon Municipal Cemetery.

de Forest, Claude

  • WAF cdeforest
  • Person
  • 1931-2013

Claude was born in 1931 in Basel, Switzerland to George and Esther De Forest. Immigrating to Canada in 1949, the de Forest family landed in Montreal before settling in Winnipeg in the early fifties. Claude's natural drawing abilities and long family line of architects led him to pursue a BArch from the University of Manitoba in 1955 followed by a Masters in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, Claude was hired as a junior designer with the prestigious Eero Saarinen and Associates office outside of Detroit. In 1958, he took an architectural pilgrimage through Asia and it was during this trip that he met his future wife Yoshiko in Kyoto, Japan. They were married in 1960 and returned to Winnipeg where he had begun teaching in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba under the Deanship of John A. Russell. He became a Registered Architect, with the Manitoba Association of Architects, in 1962. In 1994, he retired as Full Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies.

Known for his energetic and imaginative teaching style, Claude was also prescient in his teachings of alternative energy sources and ecological awareness. A committed activist and believer in social justice, he was dedicated to disability issues and socially responsible design and was a leading force in the establishment of the Universal Design Institute at the University of Manitoba. Claude taught Environmental Studies at the inner city based Winnipeg Education Centre and served as Executive Director for the Canadian Institute for Barrier Free Design. He was also Chair of the Education Committee for the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies and received the Lifetime Achievement Winnipeg Accessibility Award for community leadership in Universal Design from the City of Winnipeg in 2007.

Claude's connection to Japan led him to organize the Shimizu-Manitoba Architect Exchange Fellowship which hosted Japanese architects for 18 years and sent young Canadian architects to Japan. He also spent two sabbaticals studying and living in Kyoto with Yoshiko where they enjoyed seeing the many sites and visiting with family and friends.

Hutchings, Walter

  • Person
  • 1883-1949

Walter Hutchings was born in St. Mary's, Ontario on August 7, 1883. He arrived in Brandon, Manitoba in 1907 and worked as a clerk at the Red Cross Drug Store. He married Louisa Monk in on April 22, 1910. They had three children: Robert, Margaret, and Edith (aka Snookie). In 1913, Walter was employed as a druggist at Geo. McCulloch's Drug Store. The following year, he opened Hutchings' Drug Store at 658 10th Street on the corner of 10th and Princess Avenue. He was president of the Brandon Druggists' Association and a representative to the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association. He also served on the Brandon Chamber of Commerce and was president of the Kiwanis Club. Hutchings passed away on November 24, 1949. His son Robert and daughter Margaret continued to operate his drugstore until 1975.

Marshall, Grant

  • WAF gmarshall
  • Person
  • 1931-2012

Charles Grant Marshall was born in Winnipeg on December 23, 1931. He graduated high school at West Kildonan Collegiate in 1948 and received the Governor General's Medal. Marshall's first love of fashion and costume design was not available for study in Canada at that time so he decided on his second choice, interior design.

Upon graduating from the University of Manitoba in 1955, with the Gold Medal, Marshall went on to teach at the faculty, serving as head of the department from 1989 until 1994. He loved teaching and was a well-liked professor at the Faculty of Interior Design. He was a founding member of the Interior Designers of Canada Foundation, and was later made a Fellow of the Professional Interior Designers of Winnipeg. Amongst his several awards and accolades he was particularly proud of his receipt of the University of Manitoba Alumni Jubilee Award (1980), and the Manitoba Premier's Award of Excellence for Interior Design, for his work on the Anne Ross Daycare Centre (1985). Marshall's first design practice, Design Associates later became Grant Marshall Interiors Limited. He designed thousands of beautiful residential interiors in Winnipeg, Toronto, Saskatoon, Calgary, Victoria and Florida.

Marshall was a champion of the arts and theatre. He designed the sets and costumes for seven works of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet as well as for the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers and Rainbow Stage. He was a board member of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and Rainbow Stage. He chaired the decorations committee of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, designing five gala fundraisers, and sat on the advisory committee of the Manitoba Craft Guild. Marshall was inducted into the Rainbow Stage Wall of Fame in 2009. He also volunteered his design time for several non-profit institutions including Ronald MacDonald House, where he was both a member of the steering committee and the designer. He sat on the board of the Mount Carmel Clinic and the Anne Ross Daycare Centre in Winnipeg.

Painting was Marshall’s passion and he was considered a superior landscape water colour painter. Numerous solo exhibitions included Leonard Marcoe Studio Gallery, Winnipeg (six shows, 1980 – 2012) and two exhibitions at the University of Manitoba. He also participated in group exhibitions at Site Gallery (1995-2012) and at the Charles Herman Gallery in Vancouver. One of the first private art galleries in Winnipeg was opened on Osborne Street by Grant Marshall, Bruce Head and Winston Leathers in the 1960s.

Misericordia General Hospital

  • F2
  • Corporate body
  • 1917-1998

In 1917, Misericordia General Hospital (MGH) was created to serve the growing surgical and health care needs of its surrounding neighbourhoods of Wolseley, River Heights, Crescentwood, and Fort Rouge in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Like its predecessor, Winnipeg Maternity Hospital, MGH was owned and founded by the Misericordia Sisters whose motherhouse was in Montreal. Throughout its existence, The Misericordia Sisters continued to be active in the operations of MGH. Over 45 sisters were involved throughout the 1950s, for example.

In 1917, MGH had 125 beds, fifty bassinets, and fifty medical practitioners. An additional 100 beds were added in 1927. With the addition of the Maryland Wing in 1950, the total number of beds became 305. In 1954, as construction began on the Cornish and Wolseley West additions, a total number of 418 beds and 60 bassinets were accommodated, and a full range of diagnostic services were available.

In 1922, MGH was awarded a Grade “A” facility approval from the Catholic Association of Federated Hospitals and the American College of Surgeons.

In 1971, a new Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit was added in the newly constructed Riverview Annex.

In 1993, Eye Care Centre of Excellence was consolidated and established at MGH, while pediatrics and Inpatient Psychiatry were removed from MGH’s purview, along with the Obstetrics Department in 1997.

In 1998, MGH's emergency room was closed, and it was re-established as the Misericordia Health Centre, which served as an urgent care centre, and houses a diverse range of health-care programs.

Misericordia Sisters

  • F5
  • Corporate body
  • 1898-2004

In 1898, three Misericordia Sisters (Soeurs de Misericorde) departed their motherhouse in Montreal, and, along with a trained nurse, established a mission in Winnipeg to provide care and instruction for unwed mothers and their babies. They began their work in a small house in St. Boniface, and eventually purchased property on Sherbrook Street and Ida (now Wolsely). From 1900 to 1917, the Misericordia Sisters, founded, funded, and operated the Winnipeg Maternity Hospital located between Sherbrook Street and Maryland Street. In addition, they established a home for single mothers and their children, and an orphanage with 100 children, in St. Norbert. In 1916, they founded a School of Nursing, which was a well respected and faith-based school. In 1917, The Maternity Hospital became the Misericordia General Hospital in response to a growing municipal need for additional medical and surgical services and care. Throughout the Hospital’s history, the Sisters were active leaders and participants. Throughout the 1950s, 45 sisters worked at the hospital. Between 2000 to 20004, two Sisters remained in Winnipeg and lived in the hospital’s personal care home, Misericordia Place, before departing for their motherhouse in Montreal.
A lit cross sits atop Misericordia to honour their legacy. The Misericordia Health Centre continues to follow the legacy of the Sisters, and the faith-based values that led their mission.
Ownership of Misericordia Health Centre was transferred from the Misericordia Sisters to the Misericordia Corporation members within the Archdiocese of Winnipeg.

Speakman, Richard E.

  • Person
  • 1857-1917

Richard E. Speakman was city engineer for the city of Brandon, Manitoba from 1909 until 1916. Born in Cheshire, England in 1857, he immigrated to Canada in 1892. He worked as a civil engineer in Toronto and St. Catharines, Ontario before becoming city engineer for Regina, Saskatchewan and, later, Calgary, Alberta. In Calgary, he designed the city's sewage and streetcar systems, built the waterworks, and installed the municipal electric light plant. He came to Brandon in 1909 and ushered in street paving and streetcars, among other modernizations. He was apparently amiable and well-liked by many. Speakman resigned in 1916 due to poor health. Suffering from rheumatism, he attended the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he contracted pneumonia and died on January 13, 1917.

Thompson, Harlyn Elwood

  • hthompson
  • Person
  • 1933-2021

Harlyn Elwood Thompson was born in Fargo, North Dakota, on July 3, 1933. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from North Dakota State University in 1956. He then studied at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) receiving a masters of Architecture in 1960. After graduation, he moved to London, England and worked for Chamberlin, Powell & Bon Architects, the architects for the Barbican. He was a ‘Block’ Architect responsible for large scale 'flat' housing.

Returning to the USA, he worked for a year with Vincent G. Kling & Associates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Norfolk Civic Center, Norfork, Virginia. From 1962-64, he worked with Louis I. Kahn, in Philadelphia. Projects underway included the Salk Institute in LaJolla, California. Thompson was Project Architect on the Bryn Mawr College Dormitory, Pennsylvania.

From 1964-1973, Thompson taught in the Department of Architecture & Planning, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland; the Department of Architecture, North Dakota State University, and the Department of Architecture, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

In 1973, he became a Professor at the New Jersey School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was also appointed as the new school's first dean. He was accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in 1978.

In 1980, Harlyn Thompson came to the University of Manitoba and joined the Faculty of Architecture as a professor and then as Dean, as well as working in private practice. He continued with the University in teaching and management roles until 1996. From 1997-2007, Thompson was Senior Scholar in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba.

Thompson also served as a consultant on a range of international projects. From 1990-96, he worked with the Architecture & Rural Planning, Nepal Education Project, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). From 1996-2005, he was a volunteer advisor through CES/SACO on the following projects: Site Analysis/Site Planning for a Motel, Grand Rapids First Nation (1996); Space Planning, Neechi Foods Co-op, Winnipeg (1998); Site Report, Outdoor Recreation Facility, Fisher River First Nation (1998); Introduce Architectural Consulting Services using CAD via the Internet, Chisinau, Moldova (2002).

Harlyn Thompson continued to contribute to Winnipeg’s architectural community through support of the annual Harlyn Thompson lecture series at the University of Manitoba and participation as a member of the Faculty of Architecture Partners Programme.

Harlyn Thompson passed away on August 17, 2021.

Thornborough, Kathy

  • Person
  • 1978-2012 (career duration)

Kathy Thornborough joined the Brandon Public Library in 1978 and rose to become Chief Librarian of the Western Manitoba Regional Library, which serves Brandon, Carberry, Neepawa, Glenboro South Cypress and Grassland, and North Cypress-Langford. She retired in 2012. For some time afterwards, she voluntarily provided a "clipping" service to Daly House Museum.

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