Brandon Heritage :
Print Resources
Books and Pamphlets
Barker, G.F., Brandon: A City (Self-Published, 1977)
Berton, Pierre, The National Dream (Penguin Books Canada,1989)
Berton, Pierre, The Last Spike (Toronto: McLelland and Stewart
Ltd.,
1971)
Brown, Roy, The Brandon Hill Connection, (Tourism
Unlimited, Brandon MB.)
Brown, Roy, The Fort Brandon Story, (Tourism Unlimited, 158 8th St.
Brandon
Mb.)
Brown, Roy, Steamboats on the Assiniboine, (Tourism Unlimited, Brandon
MB)
Coates, Ken, and McGuiness, Fred, Manitoba : The Province and
People
(Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1987)
Coates, Ken, and McGuiness, Fred, The Keystone Province : An
Illustrated
History of Manitoba Enterprise (Windsor Publications, 1988)
Coleman, MacDonald, The Face of Yesterday, 1957, Brandon Junior Chamber of Commerce
Fleming, Sandford, C.M.G., Report : Canadian Pacific Railway 1880,
(Ottawa,:
Maclean, Roger & Co.1880)
Hume, Mary : Brandon, A Prospect of a City, 1981, Brandon Association , Manitoba Teachers Society
McVicar, Mrs. Dougald, Reminiscenses of early Brandon (Unpublished
Memoir,
1946)
Kavanagh, Martin, The Assiniboine Basin, (The Gresham Press, Old
Woking,
Surrey, England 1966 Ed.)
Palmer, Gary: The Way We Were - A Look at Brandon As It Used to Be 1900 - 1920, 1997 Brandon Books
Secretan, J.H.E., Canada’s Great Highway: From the First Stake to
the Last
Spike (London, 1924)
Trotter, Beecham, A Horseman and The West (Toronto: Macmillan
Company
of Canada Ltd., 1925),
Welsted, John, Everitt, John, And Stadel,
Christoph : The Geography of Manitoba
: Its Land and People (University of Manitoba Press)
Brandonography - A Compilation
Brandonography: Historical Writings on Manitoba’s “Wheat
City”
This feature accompanies Manitoba History, Number 56 (October 2007), a
special commemorative issue for the 125th anniversary of the founding
of the City of Brandon, in 1882.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/features/brandonography/
Brandon Sun Special Centennial Edition : June 30, 1882
Brandon Bibliography By Topic
Brandon Friendship Centre
“Three Mere Housewives” and the History of the Brandon
Friendship Centre by Scott M. Kukurudz, Vancouver, BC
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/56/friendshipcentre.shtml
Brandon House
by Dr. Ross Mitchell, Manitoba Pageant, January 1962, Volume 7, Number 2
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/07/brandonhouse.shtml
Brandon Sun History
http://www.brandonsun.com/media_guide_2.php
Brandon History General
Early Days in Brandon, by Hartwell Bowsfield, Manitoba Pageant, September 1957, Volume 3, Number 1
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/03/brandonearlydays.shtml
Brandon,
Manitoba, Canada: A city with a
great future, where ambition will succeed. Brandon Commercial Bureau
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3700.html
Brandon in the
year 1913.
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3840.html
A handbook of
the county of Brandon (the
garden of the province) and the city of Brandon (the metropolis of the
West), Brandon Board of Trade
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1764.html
Christmas,
1892: [Special issue], no.1, Brandon Times (
On Brandon and vicinity.)
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1981.html
The British
Northwest: Pen and sun sketches in
the Canadian wheat lands: The illustrations from photographs taken upon
the spot.
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1052.html
The Assiniboine
basin: A social study of
the discovery, exploration and settlement of Manitoba.
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/6860.html
Brandon,
Manitoba, Canada, and her industries.
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1102.html
A horseman and
the West.
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5033.html
The Brandon Wheat Kings - 1887 Vintage, Doerksen, A. D., (Manitoba
Pageant,
Winter 1977, Volume 22, Number 1)
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/22/wheatkings.shtml
Historical Tour of Brandon
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/06/brandonwalkingtour.shtml
Manitoba Homecoming
http://www.manitobahomecoming2010.com/home/contest/
Mayors of Brandon
Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/municipalities/brandon.shtml
McKee of Brandon College
by Tommy McLeod, Victoria, BC
Manitoba History, Number 40, Autumn / Winter 2000-2001
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/40/mckeebrandoncollege.shtml
People
Every Stone a Story
http://www.manitobasburiedhistory.com/
Postal History
http://bnaps.org/philatelic/brandon125/phistory.htm
Postcards of Brandon
Brandon History in Postcards - by Jack Stothard, Brandon, Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/56/brandonpostcards.shtml
Photos
lllustrated Souvenir of Brandon, Manitoba
http://westmancoalition.ca/BrandonSouvenir/index.html
Railway
Canada’s Great Highway: From the
First Stake to the Last
Spike, Secretan, J.H.E., (London, 1924)
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/4949.html
Alpheus B. Stickney (1840-1916) General
Superintendent
of the C.P.R. in April of 1881
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/stickney_ab.shtml
Settlement
A reliable guide for settlers,
travellers & investors
in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba and the new North-West, Wyatt, George H.
(Toronto:
s.n., 1881.)
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1021.html
Street Names
Brandon Street Names
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/brandonstreets/index.shtml
Transit
Brandon Transit History
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/brandon-mb.html
Virtual Tours of Brandon MB.
http://hillmans2002.tripod.com/
Historical
Tour of Brandon
McKee
Archives
Renaissance
Brandon Heritage Buildiings
Online Items / Ken Storie
Brandon
Souvenir Booklet Project
http://216.147.75.89/Trains/BrandonSouvenir/index.html
River
Journeys in Southwestern Manitoba
http://216.147.75.89/CanoePage/index.html
The Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson Bay Railway
http://216.147.75.89/Trains/GNR/index.htm
General Rosser's Legacy
http://216.147.75.89/Trains/Rosser/index.htm
Grand Valley
http://216.147.75.89/Trains/GV/index.htm