Title: Lawrence Adne Stuckey
Dates: 1900
Collection Number: 00774
Quantity: 1 item
Abstract: Copy of photograph of Great Northern Railway locomotive #208 with crew and others standing near it. A coal car, freight car and passenger cars are behind the locomotive at the depot.
Provenance: Lawrence Adne Stuckey, a professional photographer in Brandon (Man.), loaned the original photograph to the State Historical Society of North Dakota for copying on June 30, 1989. Originally accessioned as 89AV046.
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Biographical Sketch: Lawrence Adne Stuckey
Lawrence Adne Stuckey was born in Brandon, Manitoba in 1921 to Adne and Catherine Stuckey, and was the grandson of a Brandon pioneer family, the Gilmours. Mr. Stuckey attended both Fleming and Earl Oxford schools, as well as the Brandon Collegiate Institute; in May of 1941 he began working for the CPR as a wiper/fireman. In October of the following year he joined the RCAF. During World War II Mr. Stuckey served overseas as a Navigator/Bomb Aimer and was promoted to the rank of Flight Sergeant. He continued his work with the CPR after the war, and was promoted to fireman/engineer in 1950. Mr. Stuckey left the CPR in January of 1958 to purchase Clark-Smith Photo Studio in Brandon. Mr. Stuckey and his wife Mavis, who he married in 1946, ran the studio until their retirement in the mid-1980s. Throughout his life Mr. Stuckey pursued a number of interests, such as botany, history, photography and politics and was active in many local, provincial and national organizations. He was a member of the Brandon Stamp Club, the Allied Arts Council, Brandon Horticultural Society, Brandon Model Railroad Club, the Brandon Historical Society, and the Fort Whyte Centre. Mr. Stuckey was also the author of four books, as well as numerous articles on horticulture, railways, and Brandon area history. In 1987 he received the Manitoba Order of the Buffalo Hunt and in 1997 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from Brandon University. Mr. Stuckey passed away on June 13, 2001. [S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University Reference code CA MCK 1-2002]
Sources:
Bismarck Tribune, Ancestry.com, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
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00775-00001 Great Northern Railway locomotive #208 with crew and others standing nearby 1900
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