oseph McLaren was a teacher who also helped found the Cadet and Girl Guides programs in the city. He served as a Major during WWI and was killed at Ypres in April 1915. (Source: Brandon Daily Sun. Accessed through Manitobia.)

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Hangar was constructed in 1941 for use as a training facility during WWII. This image depicts the hangar shortly after it was built. (Source: Peel's Prairie Provinces, a digital initiative of the University of Alberta Libraries)

World War I Soldiers March Down Rosser Avenue ca. 1914. (Source: Brandon and Area photograph collection (BAPC 2.12), S.J. McKee Archives, Brandon University)