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PE002265 - 7 stereoscopic cards depicting Canadian scenery and people [The Canada View Company, Canadian Scenery]

Black and white [B&W] images that depict various scenes and people in Canada.

Cards include:
Untitled aerial view of city [identified by handwritten caption on verso as Brandon].
"Washing Gold by the "Pan" Process, N.W.T." depicting a man panning gold in a river.
"Chief Day, Blood Indian" depicting the side profile of a Kainai chief.
"Blackfoot Indians" depicting a Siksika family of 3 seated in front of a tipi with a horse.
"Indian and Horse" depicting a man holding a gun seated on a horse.
"Sarcee Indians and Tepee, Alberta" depicting 3 Tsuu T'ina women in front of a tipi.
"Cowboys at Home, N.W.T. - View on Line of Canadian Pacific Railway" depicting approximately 11 men lying together on grass or hay.

The Canada View Company

PE000778 - Souvenir Album Folder of Western Canada.

Nine (9) photographs depict images of Winnipeg, Brandon, Edmonton, Calgary, Moose Jaw, a standard passenger train, the train on the Canadian Pacific Railway, close-up of the Canadian Northern Railway Standard Passenger Train, and buffalo in the park at Wainwright, Alberta. These photographs are enclosed in a brown envelope containing various imagery typical of Western Canada. Printed by Hough Litho Limited (Toronto).

PE004863 - Photo Album of the Service Flying Training Centre Carberry

Photo album including photographs of RCAF Station Carberry, Service Flying Training School No. 33.

The album leaves devoted to the camp are preceded by about 26 photos illustrating the trajectory to the camp and succeeded by approximately 114 photos of Vancouver. The locations depicted in the photos include: New York City; Moncton, New Brunswick; Carberry, Manitoba; Brandon, Manitoba; various locations within Winnipeg; the Rockies (Jasper, Banff, AB); Regina, Saskatchewan; Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Drumheller, AB; Montreal, Quebec. Photographs of the camp include aerial views of the camp, the Carberry coat of arms, images of activities on base, images of cafeterias and technical stores in the camp, personnel photographs, harvest in Carberry, and images of the town.

PE002244 - The Sixth Annual Auction Sale of Pure Bred Cattle

Booklet advertising the Cattle Breeders' Association of Manitoba's 6th Annual Auction Sale of Pure Bred [Purebred] Cattle. Includes list of rules governing the auction sale, and list of Association officers for the year 1910. Final page is the application form for entry of animals into the auction sale.

Cattle Breeders' Association of Manitoba & Department of Agriculture (Ottawa, Ontario)

PE000899 - "The Brandon Built Body For the New Chevrolet International Model and Commercial Chassis" booklet

Title reads: "The Brandon Built Body For the New Chevrolet International Model and Commercial Chassis." Below the title is a brown maple leaf on a black circle background. The maple-leaf has the phrase: "The Brandon - Durability - The Brandon Built Bodies." Next to this the cover states: "Manufacture by A. R. McDiarmid Ltd. Brandon Built Bodies Division, Brandon-Man." Back cover is the same colour and blank, but does contain quite a few pencil notes of mathematical equations. The interior contains nineteen (19) glossy pages detailing the different bodies of trucks available, as well as additions to be added to the trucks. Pages include dimensions, painting, and style numbers, along with visual representations of each add-on.

PE004782 - Program for Performance by the Brandon Ladies’ Glee Club

The inner cover page is titled, "Brandon … Ladies’ Glee Club … 45 Voices. Mrs. Anna Watson-Bewell, Directress. Brandon Opera House, Friday evening, April 28th, 1905." The interior contains a list of members in 1905, a list of those assisting the club during the performance, (tenor, reader, etc), the program for the evening, and a list of lyrics, poems, etc. Printed by Sun Print of Brandon, MB.

PE002309 - WWI-era letter from family to POW A. F. Burton

A handwritten letter from a wife and sons to Sgt. Trumpeter [Private] Arthur F. Burton of the First Canadian Mounted Rifles while he was a prisoner in Camp III, Munster, Germany during World War I. Includes a list of supplies presumably sent as a package accompanying the letters.

Burton, Agnes