- CA UMASC Mss Sc 124
- Fonds
- 1910-1974
The fonds consists of ledger books, farm accounts, records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a family history and genealogy.
Davidson Family
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The fonds consists of ledger books, farm accounts, records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a family history and genealogy.
Davidson Family
The fonds consists of a copy of the family tree, a brief history of Jennie Maude Little's life, and diaries detailing aspects of life on the family farm.
Little, Jennie Maude
Pierre Magne Collection (Beaconsfield Homesteads)
The collection consists of copies of letters to the Postmaster in Beaconsfield, Manitoba from John Boulton, dated January 20, 1925, to Jean Magne in Beaconsfield from John Boulton dated February 15, 1925, and to Paul Magne from John Boulton dated April 5, 1925. The letters discuss homesteading and homesteaders in Beaconsfield, Manitoba during the late nineteenth-century. A photocopy of a list of Beaconsfield postmasters is included. Also included in the collection is a photocopy of an autobiography by A. F. Willis (nee Boulton), the wife of John L. Willis, entitled The Days of My Pilgrimage [1972?].
Magne, Pierre
The fonds consists of photographs, farm account books and a history of the Hallama family and farm.
Hallama Family
The fonds consists of grain permit books, income tax returns and farm account books belonging to Robert J. MacDonald and income tax returns, bank books, notebooks, diaries and receipts belonging to John D. MacDonald. Also included in the fonds is a copy of the MacDonald family history.
MacDonald Family
The fonds consists of one letter from Charles Lennox dated at Brighton, August 7, 1806. The contents of the letter include a discussion of the defence works on the south coast of England in Brighton as well as the proposed invasion of England.
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of
Manitoba Dairy & Poultry Co-operative Ltd. fonds
The fonds consists of a laminated certificate identifying James E. McComb of Shoal Lake, Manitoba, as the owner of two one-dollar shares of Manitoba Dairy & Poultry Co-operative Ltd.
Manitoba Dairy & Poultry Co-operative Ltd.
K.B. Stoddart and Company Ltd. fonds
The fonds consists of a scrapbook containing Bank of Montreal crop reports, newspaper clippings regarding agriculture and commodities, The Northwest Grain Dealers' Association crop estimates, Canadian Pacific Railway crop estimates, and Manitoba Free Press crop reports from July 1926 to December 1929.
K. B. Stoddart and Company Ltd.
The fonds consists of John Skirving Ewart's notes and draft of his unfinished manuscript, Political History of Canada. The fonds also contains material collected by Thomas Seaton Ewart while he was a student at St. John's College and while he was a civil servant in the Manitoba provincial government of John Bracken. This material includes the "First and Second Interim Reports of the Royal Commission Constituted to Inquire Into All Matters Pertaining to the Manitoba Agricultural College" submitted by Judge A. O. Galt in May 1917, and extracts from the "Report of the Royal Commission Constituted to Inquire Into an Report on All Expenditures for Road Work During the Year 1914" submitted by Judge G. Paterson. It also contains reviews on his book on waivers: Waiver Distributed (1917); correspondence with Prof. S. Williston, Harvard Law School (1917); newspaper clippings, transcripts of speeches by Premier Bracken, provincial government papers and correspondence of John Bracken. The photograph collections features photographs of John Skirving Ewart and a photograph relating to John Bracken's re-election bid in 1936.
Ewart Family
The fonds consists of genealogical information about the Dixon and Baker families between 1851 and 1963. It also contains land title deeds, farm receipts, and photographs of agricultural scenes in the early twentieth century.
Dixon, Baker Family
The fonds consists of a manuscript titled Popular Literature: The Publishing History of 'Acting Plays' 1710-1793 by William J. Cameron, and a program for The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Winnipeg October 12, 13, 14, 1984. Cameron presented his paper at a joint session of the CSECS and the Department of Archives & Special Collections, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, the University of Manitoba on 16 October.
Cameron, William J.
Edith Johnson and Betty Zurba fonds
The fonds consists of the diaries of Edith Maude (Stone) Johnston (1934-1937, 1943, 1944) and her daughter Betty (Johnson) Zurba (1968-1971, 1977). The fonds also contains nine leaves of farm expense accounts from October 1947 to November 1949.
Johnson, Edith
The fonds consists of a cash-book of the Burrows Community Hall for the period 1961 to 1975, and a minute book for the period 1961 to 1976.
Burrows Community Hall
The collection consists of a booklet titled Wandering in Wattsview, Wattsview History 1879-1967. The book contains maps, biographical information, general history of the community, family histories and photographs. It was put together and published by the Wattsview Centennial Club Committee. The fonds also includes an audio tape of the reminiscences of Mrs. Butcher, who was a resident of Wattsview. It was recorded by her son, John Butcher on December 26, 1966. The recording also contains information about Fort Ellice. The audio tape is located at TC 82.
Drysdale, Allan
Gamma Phi Beta. Kappa Gamma chapter fonds
The fonds consists of the original charter of the Kappa Gamma (University of Manitoba) chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, dated May 16, 1925. Names of the founding members of the chapter are listed on the charter.
Gamma Phi Beta. Kappa Gamma chapter.
Machray Defalcation Scandal Collection
The fonds consists of two scrapbooks detailing University of Manitoba Bursar John A. Machray's embezzlement of $900,000 of the University's endowment fund. Each scrapbook contains articles about the scandal from the Winnipeg Tribune and the Manitoba Free Press.
Machray, John A.
The fonds consists of Canadian Wheat Board Permit Books. These were issued to grain producers Donald and Kevin Coubrough, and identified as landlords Mrs. Merle Bailey and John Crosland. The permit books for Donald Coubrough cover the years 1954 through 1995 while those for Kevin Coubrough cover the years 1982 through 1995.
Coubrough Family
Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota fonds
The fonds consists of the published proceedings of the LCMND annual conferences. Most proceedings include a foreword detailing the history of the LCMND, a listing of its officers, and a brief summary of all the papers to be presented at the annual conference. The collection includes original copies of all proceedings, photoccopies of several early proceedings, a publication entitled Papers Presented to the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota: 1989-1993, and an unbound [10x14 inches, legal paper] copy of v. 1 (1959) - v. 19 (1979). The collection also includes four folders containing conference programs, a copy of a proceeding, the full text of Juan Bahk's "Dadaism, Zen Buddhism and Tristan Tzara," presented at the 1991 conference, as well as correspondence detailing the donation between Dr. Gaby Divay, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, and Professor Erc Annandale. The fonds also includes a copy of a speech given by then LCMND president Neil Besner on October 28, 1994, entitled "The Great Canadian Shields." In his speech, Besner addresses the biography and the creative writings of author Carol Shields who was to receive the Pulitzer Prize half a year later, in 1995.
Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota
Manitoba Federation of Agriculture, Arborg Chapter, Women's Section fonds
The fonds consists of two folders. Folder 1 contains four minute books for the Manitoba Federation of Agriculture, Arborg Chapter, Women's Section. The first minute book, beginning in 1932, details the activities of the United Farmer's Women of Manitoba of Arborg throughout the 1930s until their name change to the MFA. The second minute book chronicles the group's activities between 1940 and 1947. The third minute book is dated 1947-1950. The final book is dated 1953-1957. Topics covered in the minute books include the group's involvement in the community and various fundraising activities. The second folder contains assorted documents relating to the MFA Women's Section, Arborg Chapter. The folder includes assorted correspondence, newspaper clippings, certificates, and programmes.
Manitoba Federation of Agriculture, Arborg Chapter, Women's Section
The fonds consists of one letter from W.E. Gladstone to George Grub, A.M. (1812-1892) dated June 22, 1863, London. George Grub is the author of An ecclesiastical history of Scotland: from the introduction of Christianity to the present time (1861). In the letter, Gladstone demonstrates considerable support for Mr. Cheyne's work in the Church.
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
The fonds consists of two North-West Territories Public School Leaving Examinations booklets from June 1897 and June 1898. The Department of Education in Medicine Hat was part of the North-West Territories until the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were created out of the Territories in 1905. Although the first schools in Alberta were founded by Catholic and Protestant missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century, the North-West Territories School Ordinance of 1884 established a dual confessional system of Catholic and Protestant schooling based on the Quebec model. A photocopy of a group photograph including Ms. Ireland and her father, Thomas, owner of the local brewery, is also included.
Ireland, Margaret Wilson
The fonds consists of a thesis entitled Johann Nikolaus Becker (1773-1809) and the Development of German Travel Literature in the Eighteenth Century.
Krueger, Karl
The fonds consists of two documents. The first is a preliminary specification of the material and labour to be used in the erection of an Engineering & Mechanical Building for the Agricultural College of the University of Manitoba, dated May 1908. The second document is a memo detailing the changes proposed to the first document, dated June 1908.
Hooper, Samuel
Diocese of Rupert's Land fonds
The fonds consists of three bound volumes. Volume 1 contains discourses on John 13.22, Matthew 7.11, and Luke 13.7 and is dated September 1, 1850. It could have been written by Bishop David Anderson. Volume 2 contains a day-to-day summary of the collections at St. John's Cathedral and is dated December 3, 1865 - March 26, 1882. Volume 3 contains questions and answers on the history of the primitive church and could have been written by Rupert's Land Bishop Robert Machray.
Church of England. Diocese of Rupert's Land
The fonds consists of a letter written by Leacock to the Winnipeg Free Press on Winnipeg Free Press Company letterhead. In the letter, dated 18 November 1932, Leacock thanks the Free Press for a positive review of his book Dry Pickwick.
Leacock, Stephen
The fonds consists mainly of his geological papers. Included are some biographical materials on Brownell and a biographical note on J.S. Delury. TC 3 consists of an oral history recording of Dr. Brownell conducted by Richard Bennett on October 11, 1978.
Brownell, G. M. (George McLeod)
The fonds contains some of Dr. Gordon S. Fahrni's personal and professional papers dating from 1924 to 1977. Included are Fahrni's genealogical table, a German translation of his father's biography, Christian Fahrni, his recollections of medicine and of the Manitoba Medical School (1906-1946), and an interview with Gordon Fahrni by Jean Morrison. Also included is a collection of offprints of his research papers.
Fahrni, Gordon S.
MSS SC 26 contains a copy of Professor Butler's lecture "The Form of the Book and the Shape of the Mind", delivered in 1978 at the Winnipeg Centennial Library as part of the Manitoba Library Event, a press release and a calendar of events for Manitoba Library Event and Children's Book Festival in November 1978. MSS SC 65 consists of a photocopy of Loys Le Roy's pamphlet, "De la Vicissitude des Choses," and a bibliographic history of the first edition prepared by Butler.
Butler, Royce
Imperial Academy of Music and Arts fonds
The fonds consists of a program entitled "Concert by the Faculty of the Imperial Academy of Music and Arts at the Royal Alexander Hotel, Saturday evening January 30, 1909 at 8:30." The performers were Milan Sokoloff on piano, Louis Persinger on violin, George Soeller on flute, Alexander Savine, voice, all of whom were accompanied by Fred M. Gee on the piano. Milan Sokoloff earned a LL.B. from the University of Manitoba in 1928.
Imperial Academy of Music and Arts (Winnipeg, Man.)
The fonds consists of two letters from Joe Clark, Leader of the Opposition, to W. Royce Butler, Director of Libraries, University of Manitoba, dated 1978 and 1979 respectively. The letters are responses to Butler's concern that the federal government was considering reducing financial support of libraries.
Clark, Joe