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“Only Brandon Men Can and Will Save It”
5/3/2007 at 1:17 PM
In compiling my "This Day in Manitoba History" for newwinnipeg I came across something really interesting for those interested in Brandon History.
"May 4, 1938 a groups of 60 community leaders from Brandon and around WestMan left for Winnipeg to lobby the Provincial government to save Brandon College from closing".
The essay that I found this date in is actually an interesting read about the creation of modern Brandon. There's a great background about the history of BU, including constant money woes noting that " Brandon College was always short of money", and how it was worked out that it would survive to this day. It also details the growing separations in the community between the business elite and the increasingly independent city council. Rifts between labour and the business community that had grown out of the 1919 general strike and other social changes that were taking place that likely has an impact on Brandon to this day.
A really great read
“Only Brandon Men Can and Will Save It”: Boosterism, Brandon College, and the Crisis of the Great Depression
www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/24/brandonboosterism.shtml