Brandon Normal School

Brandon Normal School is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Brandon, Manitoba.

Manitoba · 1129 Queens Avenue, Brandon · location approximate

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This building was constructed in l9l2-l3. Designed by Victor Horwood, then Provincial Architect, the School was devoted to teacher training in Manitoba. The classically-styled building was one of four Normal Schools built in Manitoba: St. Boniface (l903); Manitou (l904, demolished); and Winnipeg (l905-06). Benjamin J. Hales was the first principal of the School. He retired in l938, with an established reputation as an educator, author and naturalist. He founded the B.J. Hales Museum of Natural History which became permanently established at Brandon University in l965. The school was a centre for rural teaching instruction until l943 when the building was occupied by the Department of National Defence during World War II. The building was turned over to the Manitoba Department of Agriculture in l946 for its southwestern operations. It became the Agricultural Extension Centre in l959.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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