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James Buckley fonds

  • CA MCK 11-2004
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1939, predominant 1918-1939

Fonds includes Conductors' Local Passenger tariff No. C 6 Brandon to Moose Jaw in effect June 23, 1918; Constitution of Railway Conductors of America revised and adopted May 4, 1925; CPR Rules for Heating, Ventilating, Lighting and for operation of water rising system on passenger equipment, revised January 1924; Souvenir, Canada's Great Inland Port Fort William and Port Arthur [n.d.] 127 illustrations; poster The Spirit of 1918: Sticking To It, supplement to The Graphic, The Railway Conductor, July, 1939 Royal Visit Edition; Wonderland of Canada, The Rocky Mountains Specially Selected Views of the Canadian Rockies on the Canadian Pacific Line , photographs by WM Notman & Son. Valentine & Sons, Publishing Company, Montreal and Toronto[n.d.]; Over the Kettle Valley Route British Columbia published for Canadian Pacific Railway News Service 20 pp. [n.d.]; postcard with steam engine traveling through a flooded rail-line and CNR key.

James Buckley

Binscarth Women's Institute fonds

  • CA MCK 12-1997
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1988, predominant 1928-1967

Fonds contains minutes, financial records, and other material created by the Binscarth Women's Institute from its creation in 1928 to its final gathering in 1967. Aside from minutes and financial records, the fonds contains records of the Canadian Centennial celebrations of 1967 planned by the Institute.

Binscarth Women's Institute

Griswold School District fonds

  • CA MCK 13-1997
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1943

The single minute book in this fonds contains minutes on meetings held by the Griswold School District, in Griswold Manitoba, from 1907 to 1943. The minutes deal with questions related to teacher hiring and general administration in the school district.

Griswold School District #425

Manitoba School Trustee's Regional Association - Miniota, Hamiota, Blanchard fonds

  • CA MCK 14-1997
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1960

This fonds contains a minute book of the Regional Association for the years 1920-1960. The minutes provide detailed summaries of discussions held by the Association and addresses heard by its members. Fonds also contains a file of notes and documents pertaining to the 1960 convention of the Manitoba School Trustee's Association, including a registration list.

Manitoba School Trustee's Regional Association

Robert D. Howland Collection

  • CA MCK 15-1999
  • Fonds
  • 1885 - 1918

The Howland Collection includes a wide range of books, pamphlets, and assorted publications of the Fabian Society assembled by Dr. Howland. The books included in the collection are by well-known Fabians such as George Bernard Shaw, Berniece and Sidney Webb, and Graham Wallas. The collection finally includes many of the Fabian Tracts as well as other documents related to the Fabian Society that Howland compiled.

Robert Howland

International Toastmistress Club Land O'Lakes Region fonds

  • CA MCK 15-2002
  • Fonds
  • 1963-1992

This is quite a large fonds that consists of many miscellaneous items. Fonds includes a scrapbook made by the Urban Acres Toastmistress Club of Brandon, which spans the years 1963-1977. The scrapbook includes pictures, newspaper clippings, and programs. The fonds also includes the minutes of the Urban Acres Club from 1973-1986 and the club's reports from 1964-1986. A large number of newsletters such as the C4 News, Land O'Lakes Schooner, Ten-Talk, The Communicator, Pieces of Eight, and The Gavel, running from 1967-1990, as well as the official newsletter of the International Toastmistress Club "Toastmistress" from 1963-1972 are included. Fonds contains a history of the Winnipeg Toastmistress Club as well as a history of the North Central Region, which later became the Land O'Lakes Region. There are also brief histories of the Yellow Quill, Urban Acres, Greenmantle, and Nellie McClung Toastmistress Clubs. Included in the fonds are bylaws and standing rules of the Land O'Lakes clubs, as well as the charters of the Yellow Quill, Colleen, Cornucopia, Fort La Bosse, Dauphin, and Prairie Horizons Clubs. A large part of the record consists of the minutes from international and regional meetings for the years 1969 to 1988. The collection includes a public relations survey from the Land O'Lakes Region 1977-78, evaluations of various council meetings, Land O'Lakes' agendas and budgets from 1980-1985, and lists of Land O'Lakes executives. Finally, the fonds contains reports from various Land O'Lakes clubs from 1968-1992, as well as Land O'Lakes rosters from 1979-1985.

International Toastmistress Club Land O'Lakes Region

Errol Black Collection

  • CA MCK 17-1997, 03-2003, 15-2003
  • Fonds
  • 1930-2002, predominant 1930-1939, 1971-2002

This collection consists of twelve of the thirteen issues of the Unemployed Worker, published in Brandon in the 1930's. The Unemployed Worker was the organ of the Brandon Unemployed Workers' Council. This Council, like its counterparts in other communities, was created by Canadian Communist Party militants. The Unemployed Worker covered the activities of the Unemployed Workers' Council, the plight of Brandon's unemployed, efforts by the city's unemployed to improve their lives, and City Council decisions, specifically those regarding relief policy. Collection also contains extensive clippings from Canadian Communist Party publications The Worker and the Daily Clarion from the years 1930-1939; 21 personal and family photographs (b/w 3x5) of the Forkin family of Brandon many of whom were active in the Canadian Communist Party; various historical photographs (b/w 8x10) related to the history of labour in Brandon, Manitoba; personal files containing correspondence, letters and opinion pieces to various newspaper, course outlines, research materials and draft publications, arbitration awards and documents related to Mr. Black?s involvement with the Manitoba Organization of faculty Associations (MOFA). Collection also contains extensive correspondence from former Brandon University Economic Professor Don Wheeler to Errol Black. In addition an important body of correspondence received by Professor Black from Taimi Davis written by Pat Forkin and his wife Phoebe Forkin to family members in Canada during the years 1936-1939 while Pat was Moscow based correspondent for the Canadian Communist Party Clarion. Fonds also contains personal correspondence of Errol Black dating from c. 1970, drafts of papers, newspaper clippings, pamphlets related to labour and labour political matters. Two publications of note: Labour in Brandon published by the Brandon and District Labour Council and a student guide to labour law written by George MacDowell. Collection also includes several documents related to Professor Black's involvement in the provincial Industrial Adjustment Committee.

Black, Errol

Berbank Red Cross fonds

  • CA MCK 18-1997
  • Fonds
  • 1917-1919

This fonds includes a minute book, which provides a complete record of every meeting held by the Berbank Red Cross, from its creation in 1917 to 1919, when it became the Berbank Ladies Aid. Fonds also includes a roll call, financial records, and meeting minutes.

Berbank Red Cross

Archibald E. Wilson fonds

  • CA MCK 18-2000
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1932; 1971

This fonds includes publications, which provide an uncritical celebration of the development and activities of the Elkhorn Industrial School during Wilson's tenure as Principal. Fonds includes journals, testimonials and newpaper articles relating to Aboriginal issues, primarily Indian Industrial schools.

Wilson, Archibald E.

Fred McGuiness fonds

  • CA MCK 16-2002
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1980

The fonds consists of research material including copies of documents drawn from the records of the Kinsmen Club and a variety of research notes and early drafts, particularly chapters five and six. These materials were assembled during the writing of Only in Canada: Kinsmen and Kinettes by Fred McGuiness and Ken Coates. The book was commissioned by the Association of the Kinsmen Clubs of Canada and published in 1987. Fonds also contains six videotapes dealing with Kin activities.

McGuiness, Fred

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