Robert Ireland Oral History - Buller Building Explosion Excerpt
Channel: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
Date: 24/08/2012

An excerpt of an oral history interview conducted by University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections Head Archivist, Dr. Shelley Sweeney, with Robert Ireland, the son of a Manitoba Agricultural College farmhand who grew up on campus in the 1930s.  The interview was conducted during a drive around the university's Fort Garry campus on January 17, 2007.  In this interview excerpt, Mr. Ireland discusses his memories of the 1939 gas explosion that decimated the Buller Building.