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Photo Collection Of Canadian West ing west. There are photos of al- Arctic Circle. most every fort from Winnipeg toto Victoria, from Montana to the false-fronted streeis| PURCHASED FIRM the North ad wanted someone handle business, Mr. Ade Bok was the best," says Miss Reeves,| The now 69 and custodian of the col- lection, "There wasn't a better photographer in the West." Mr, Brown's black mustache, high forehead and ever-present, half-smoked cigar became; well- known in Edmonton, His habit of | seribbling notes on his stiff shirt cuffs was often a topic of local | conversation. He meticulously re- corded the stories he heard and placed them in his files as foot- notes to the photographs. RUINED BY WAR In 1914, Mr. Brown owned a of financial' ruin turned hifn into a radical and he was active in an obscure labor party and published a peripatetic newspaper, The Glowworm--"A Little Light in the Dark" was its slogan. He and Miss Reeves parted in 1920 and she opened a photo- graphy studio which operated until 1949. Mr. Brown placed his collection in a leaky shack and didn't take an active interest in photography again until 1927 when the Hudson's Bay Company offered him $750 for photos of its| prints _and albums. Fortunately the negatives were in Vegreville, In the Depression years of the 1930s, Mr. Brown od 2 hall in Edmonton and started a museum with 22 truckloads of dinosaur bones, Indian artifacts, maps, visual displays and photos. He forgot socialism and con- centrated on showing the exhib. its to the thousands who visited thatched curator, But when the Second World {War came and the ing was the museum." Children listened) raptly to the stories of the white- THE OSHAWA TIMES; Wednesday, May 11, 1960 23 policeman's baton hitting head of show the circumstances up to the clubbing. He said a convicted and sentenced to two years in jail if he fails to deal with an unlawful assembly or riot, Inspector Davies spoke at the week-long detectives' seminar. at McMaster University. He described strike duty as one the a yo cannot possibly | Canadian police officer can be. cy rest with altruistic with politicians, but with the - lice," William Simpson, Metro's ser- goat of choot vas; og arson is hardest crime to prove be- cause the fire usually consumes the evidence. The dusty, of the frontier towns show ltt] Ms promise of what they were to be-|Iness jcome. Beyond the frontier, the erat of ploneer t a fur train at Fort Smith, Eskimos on , a suspicious herd of buffalo on a plain that now is farmland. if the deadliest for a policeman there is a h d he will become friendly ih pickets, se- curity police and ers. i Before a strike starts, he said, JONDOR om on ew Biter police should warn security police|¥, 5a tbs Dolly igs not to step beyond their authority the and warn pickets to allow free access to the plant and not use Najeies required for other purposes, Jhe was again evicted. The Alberta government saved Mr. Brown from penury by buy- ing the museum collection for, $50,000. He spent his remaining years writing, adding notes to the collection, but worry, work and the heartbreak of earlier years caught up to him in 1951 and he Mr. Mathers later sold his bus- to Mr. Brown and in 1908 sold him his entire collection of cam.|negatives. These became aphers basis of the Brown collection. Business boomed and in 1905 Mr, Brown hired Gladys Reeves, a bright teen-ager, as apprentice and secretary. Meanwhile, he re- turned to England for his wife, heavily mortgaged 66-foot bus- iness block and his studio was the largest in the West. The war the brought ruin. Almost 26,000/Mr. Brown used the money to people left Edmonton for England pyy leather albums and set up to join relatives while husbands| shop in Vegreville, Alta, making and fathers fought, or for the prints and sending them to Mics United States to avoid the pos-|Reeves' studio to be bound. sibility of being conscripted. By 1920, Mr. Brown was evicted. His FIRE IN STUDIO early forts. With the idea of selling a series ot .collections of his old pictures, SEA FILTER HAMILTON (CP)--Police are responsible for making democ- racy Wolk, Inspector Fred Davies Metropolitan Toronto po- for ships which have Molly, arriving back with $5. collection was dumped into the In 1929, fire flashed through the'died of a cerebral hemorrhage. go." |MOB R sea water into empty fuel first Canadian customer, i proudly in buckskins and flowing iy He had the pictire ates hi eserve the memory a he was before he traded buck- skins 1 wampum beads for a team horses and the white man's oo TRIBAL INITIATION In another photo, a ung Blackfoot Indian Jupasive y the rigors of a tr ation eeremony in Southern Al- bamia, tightly gripping two poles to keep himself upright as two weighted ropes stretch taut from thongs embedded in his chest muscles. The Brown collection contains negatives dating back to the 1880s when the CPR was push- BOUGHT MANY PHOTOS Though Mr. Brown took at least 17,000 pictures of Edmonton and 8000 photos in his collection were the work of earlier photograph- ers. He bought their collections and had compiled most of his before| the First World War. Later, he held onto his negatives though {1051, a tired 74, he was still working on the collection. an apprentice photographer at| 15. The Boer War depressed the business in England and he came | to Canada in 1902, working at odd | jobs in Toronto. | In 1904, he learned that an| Edmonton photographer, C. W.| "Brown's technical knowledge street as junk. Reeves studio, destroying 5,000 Cor ights of the negatives to maintain the ship's trim. district residents, most of the 70,-| = Born in 1877, Mr, Brown was is, mathers, was going on tour in TELEVIS CHCH-TV Channel 11---Hamilton WKBW-TV Channel 7-Buffale WGR-TV Channel 2--Buffale ION LOG| CBLT-TV Channel 6--Toronte WROC-TV Channel S---Rochester WBEN-TV Channel 4--Buffale successively ruined by war, fire|? and depression, When he died in WEDNESDAY EVE, 5:00 P.M, Family 6--Royal Ballet S--Playhouse 4--Chil Theatre Winnipeg dhood Literature 2-The Big Rascals 5:15 P.M. 4--Big Mac Show 5:30 P.M. 7--My Friend Flicka ti~Family Theatre 5-4-2News; Weather 6:45 P.M. S$--Huntley-Brinkley 11-8-4-2--News 7:00 P.M. 6--Tabloid 8:30 AM. 7-Fun House 9:00 AM, 11~Romper Room 5-Ding Dong School 4--Popeye 3-Byline 9:30 AM. 11--Movie 7--Romper room S5--Burns and Allen 4--Life of Riley 2--Checkers 10:00 A.M. 5-3--Dough Ra Mi 4--Red Rowe Show 7--Morning Show $3-Play Your Hunch 4~On The Go 11:00 A.M, 11-Jane Gray Show 5-2--Price Is Right 4--December Bride 12:00 NOON 11--Bugs Bunny and Friends 7--Restless Gun 82_Truth or THURSDAY EVE. 5:00 P.M, 11--Family Theatre 6~This Living World 5--Playhouse 2-Three Stooges 5:15 P.M. 4--Cartoon 5:30 P.M. 7--Rocky and Friends 6--Roy Rogers 2<«Huckleberry Hound 6:00 P.M. 11-6--Metro News = 7--Early Show 11--Family Theatre 5-4-2--News; Weather 6:45 P.M. S---Buntley. Brinkley R 4--Topper Series 3~Shotgun Slade 7:15 P.M. Ambani Weather 15 P.M. 6---Matinee aker of the House 43 perry Como Show 7-The Hawailan Eye 4--The Millionaire 23~Perry Como 9:30 P.M. 41 Got a Secret 10:00 P.M. 11:6---One Step Beyond 7--8ea Hunt 5-2-This Is Your Life 4--Circle Theatre 10.30 P.M. 11-8--Exploration 7-Interpol C. 7--Playhouse 6---Viewpoint 11:30 P.M. 11--Late Show 6--Stage Seven S$-3-Jack Parr 4~Theatre THURSDAY 8:00 A 7--Buffalo A. 2-Today 4--News Roundup 8:15 AM 4--8earch For morrow 12:45 P.M. 11--Movie Matinee 4--~Guiding Light 7---About Faces S5--Movie 4--~Meet The Millers 23-Mid-day matinee 1:30 P.M, 7---Divorce Hearing 4--As The World Turns 2:00 P.M, 7-Day In Court 6--Chez Helene 4--For Better or Worse 2-Queen For A Day 2:30 P.M. 11-6--Open House 7--Gale Storm S--Home Cooking 4--House Party 3-Loretta Young Theatre 3:00 P.M. 11-6--Playhouse 7--Beat The Clock 5-3-Dr, Malone 4--The Millionaire 11---Music For You 7-Who Do You Trust 6-~Fighting Words 5-2--From These Roots 4--Verdict Is Yours 4:00 P.M. 11--~Popeye 7--American Bandstand 6--Millionaire §5-2--Comedy Theatre 4--Serials 4:30 P.M. 6--Just Mary §.3--Adventure Theatre 4--Captain Kangaroo 4--Edge of Night 7:30 P.M. 7--Black Saddle 6--Provinetal Affaire S--DeGaulle's U.S. Tour 4--Panel 3~Law of the Plainsman 7:45 11--The Nation's Business 6--Scan 8:00 P.M. 11-8--Deputy 7--Donna Reed 5-2--Bat Masterson 4--Betty Hutton Show :30 P.M. 11-6--Talent Caravan 7-8--The Real McCoys 4--Ringo 2--Producers' Cholce :00 P.M. Boo! §-2--Bachelor Father 4--Zane Gray Theatre 9:30 P.M. 11-6--Man From Blackhawk. 7--Frank Sinatra 5-2--Tennessee . Ernie 4--Ray Milland 10:00 P.M, 11--Meet McGraw 6--Manhunt 5-3--You Bet Your Life | 4--Revion Revue 10:15 P.M. 11--Talking Sport 10:30 P.M. 11-1 Love Lucy 7--San Francisco Beat 6.0On The Scene 5-Not For Hire 3----Tombstone Territory 11:00 P.M. 11-7-6-5-4-2--News; Sports 11:15 K 7--Playhouse 6--Viewpoint 2---Sportsreel 11:30 P.M. 11-8--Late Show §-2--Jack Paar 4--Film Festival 4--Learn About Science f i | | SHOP WOOLWORTH'S | I | Easy-Care White "No-lron" Cotton Broadcloth Shirts Special Purchase ! Excellent For Business, Travelling . . . A Boon to Holiday-Minded Men ! Crisp, clear white cotton broadcloth, carefully tailored for year- 'round comfort. Shirts you can. wash yourself cost of repeated launderings, because they "drip dry' with little or no ironing needed ! 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