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James Duncan McGregor fonds

  • CA MCK 4-1998
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1935, predominant c. 1899

Contents include photos and slides principally of the Klondike during the gold rush era (1897-1902), Government House seating plans and speeches from a wide variety of events (1912-1934), correspondence of McGregor's, primarily from his time as Lieutenant Governor (1912-1934), a (23 3/4 oz.) gold bag, a state publication "Instructions for Lieutenant Governors", documents pertaining to the history of the Manitoba Winter Fair, and documents dealing with the early career of Winston Churchill.

James Duncan McGregor

Keystone Centre Development and Construction fonds

  • CA MCK 22-1998
  • Fonds
  • 1957-1974, predominant 1970-1974

This fonds contains many folders full of correspondence, financial statements, meeting minutes and other documents relating to the development and construction of the Keystone Centre from 1970-1974, including those from the Keystone Executive Committee as well as the Building Committee. Fonds also contains one folder that pertains to the Brandon Area Agricultural Development Survey from 1959. This folder contains the names and locations of all farmers in the Brandon area in 1959. The Brandon Area Agricultural Development Survey was created in 1959 in order to make farming in the Brandon area more profitable. The survey was aided by Doane Agricultural Service from St. Louis, Missouri, who had success creating agricultural development programs in the United States. Fonds also contains folders from the Provincial Exhibition with correspondence, pamphlets, estimates, and studies from the 1960's. There is also one folder belonging to the Manitoba Winter Fair, which contains correspondence and financial statements relating to the Wheat City Arena. Fonds also contains information pertaining to the proposals made in the 1960's for the building of the Keystone Centre, as well as one folder about the Keystone campaign from 1970-73. There is also one folder about the opening of the Keystone Centre, which contains newspaper clippings and guest lists. Finally, the fonds contains information about a court case involving Albert Bobyk and Robert Stewart. Stewart was the project manager for the Building Committee and Bobyk worked on the Keystone Center. The fonds includes a report about the trial of the two men who were charged with fraud involving their work on the Keystone Centre.

Keystone Centre

Wheat City Kennel Club fonds

  • CA CPA 2009.06, 2010.04, 2010.26, 2011.08
  • Fonds
  • 1978 to date, predominant 1978-2011

Fonds consists of minutes of the first organizational meeting of the club, minutes of subsequent meetings, copies of an early club newsletter called "Canine Communique", one photo album containing pictures and documents from the 1978 Sanction Match, a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and photos of the March 1985 show, plus miscellaneous documents concerning the club's activities from 1985 to 1990 (including premium lists and judging schedules for the years 1986, 1987, 1989 & 1990) and eight photo albums and three large cardboard envelopes containing profession photographs (Mikron Photos)of the winners at the Wheat City Kennel Club dog shows in the years from 1987 to 1997 inclusive. Other documents as follows: Show catalogues from 1985 to 2008 (1990 missing); premium lists, judging schedules, constitution, minutes, activites other than dog shows (including one VHS tape of a Walk-A-D0g-A-Thon and 2 CDs of an interview by Community College students, and miscellaneous show correspondence from 1989 to 2008 (1990, 1996-99 incl missing, and no show in 2007)Accession 2010.04 contains the premium list and show catalogue for the 2010 Brandon Dog Shows of which Wheat City hosted two of the four shows.

Wheat City Kennel Club