Altona Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Minutes of Executive Board Meetings, Volume 1, 19 January 1980 - 24 July 1990; local Pool Committee mintues July 26, 1988 - June 11, 1991.
Sub-district #305-306 Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Minutes of Executive Board meetings, Loose 1971 - 1976 Volume 1, 15 December 1977 - Volume 3 - 22 February 1989. Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, December 1969 - November 1988 (21 reports). Financial reports and statistics Manitoba Pool Elevators country organization expenses November 1981. Membership, Delegate nomination papers dated July 24, 1978.
Bernie Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: Memo on information of Incorporation of Associations (no date) By-law re members equity Memo on "Repeal" by-law No., 19 By-laws No. 18, 19, 20 and general by-laws Memo re by-laws No. 8, 9, 10 & 11 Sample copy of the indenture between MPE Ltd. 1926 Certificate of Incorporation May 2, 1927 Signed indenture August 1, 1927 By-law No. 12 July/31 Agreement between Birnie and MPE August 1, 1931 By-law No. 13 July/31 By-law No. 14 Nov/31 Agreement between Birnie & MPE Ltd. February 1, 1933 Agreement between Birnie & MPE Ltd. October 15, 1936 By-law No. 16 Nov/39 By-law to authorize the cancellation of the Associations authorized share capital Nov/40 By-law No. 20 July/41 By-law No. 18 July/41 General by-laws July/41 By-law No. 19 July/41 Draft resolutions for special meetings to deal with by-law amending general by-laws Nov/47 By-law No. 21 Nov/47 Amendment to General by-laws May/49 By-law No. 22 Nov/49 By-law No. 23 Nov/51 Agreement between Bernie Elevator & MPE August 1, 1951 General by-laws Oct/52 Agreement between Bernie Co-op Elevator & MPE December 15, 1966 By-law 26 Nov/66. Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 10 October 1939 - volume 5, 5 June 1973. Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1928 - 1971 (42 reports). Annual meetings file contains minutes of various annual meetings dated November 1954 - November 1969. Financial records and statistics; Annual financial statements 1928-1931 Comparative statement 1932 Summary of Manitoba Pool Elevator Operations January 1935 Invoice from C.N.R. dated January 31, 1928 Cost of Birnie Elevator Birnie Co-operative Elevator Association - Analysis of operating results 1951-1963 Details of grain earnings and general expenses 1954-1956 & 1964-1968 Auditors reports 1960, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1968 1967 Highlights Consolidated Statement of Operations Estimate June 22, 1951 Birnie - letter of operations for a three year period (1930) MPE List of Country organization expenses Financial standing July 31, 1972 Birnie statement as of July 31, 1951 recording fiscal years 1932-1939 statement of contributions, payments, assistance, deficits and net credits Allocation of surplus 1953/54 Analysis of operating results 1951/52 Assessment notice 1928 & 1932 Statement of surplus by years August 1, 1947/55 Final statement 1932, 1947-1952 Statement of Grain A/C and handle June 25, 1929 Analysis of operating results 1958-1960. Correspondence, Agents letters November 6, 1947 - February 16, 1972 Letters from Manitoba Pool Elevators to Birnie Elevator Letter to Birnie Elevator from Scarth & Scarth Barristers & Solicitors May 2, 1957 Letters to Birnie Elevator from various people for the tender of the annex, 1947 Letter to Mr. G.M. Hall from Birnie Elevators Letter to Birnie Elevator from the Western Producer Letter to Birnie Elevator from Neepawa Consumers Co-op Ltd. Membership list, Secretaries membership list March 1943, April 1946, May 1950, November 1956, October 1961 Membership roster May 1968 Changes in membership Letters indicating new members dated 1946-1969. Miscellaneous Banquet Expenses March 1950 Heating Contract 1967 Receipt for donation to Children's Aid Society Invoice from Bell Lumber Co. Ltd. Record of Directors' attendance at meetings 1952-1969 Record of members attendance at Pool Committee meetings 1971/72 Notebook of meetings dated October 25, 1965 List of parties who signed Birnie Elevator petition list, 1927 Pamphlet commemorating the 25th anniversary of MPE, October 26, 1949 Pamphlet on Barley varieties in Manitoba dated March 1938 Pamphlet on Act of Incorporation and general by-laws MPE pamphlet on 25 years of service Cut- out from newspaper of Pool symbol dated 1965 Advertisement of Anthes furnaces advanced design Page 17 of "Operating Tools to be Supplies" Why grain producers should become members of Pool Elevators Association Membership in Manitoba Pool Elevators Ltd. December 4, 1931 Petition signed by people from Birnie desirous of having Manitoba Co-op Wheat producers aquire an elevator at Birnie Agriculture policy October 27, 1941 MPE directors report 1964-1965 Co-operation Life Insurance Company policy.
See fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of summaries of elevator operations. The records include the following:
Box 1:
Summary of Operations 1925-1968 Alexander-Gretna
Summary of Operations 1925-1968 Hamiota-Morris
Summary of Operations 1925-1968 Napinka-Woodnorth
Box 2:
Association Financial and Debt Repayment Summary 1925-1963
Association Financial and Debt Repayment Summary 1925-1963
Box 3:
Summary of Operations 1964-1968
Summary of Operations 1964-1968
Summary of Operations 1964-1968
Box 4:
Summary of Operations A-K 1925-1996
Summary of Operations L-Z 1925-1996
Elevator Points Closed A-L 1926-1987
Elevator Points Closed M-Z 1926-1987
See fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of MPE's involvement in four different inter-provincial committees: Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers, Inter-provincial Co-operative Ltd, Inter-provincial Pool Board, and Canadian Pool Agencies. The records include the following:
Box 1:
Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers Minute Book 1924-1944
Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers / Prairie Pools Minute Book 1945-1983
1a. Inter-provincial Co-operative Ltd. 1966-1979
1b. Inter-provincial Co-operative Ltd. 1965-1979
1c. Inter-provincial Co-operative Ltd. meeting in Toronto Sept 25 1979
1d. Inter-provincial Co-operative Ltd. By-laws 1960-1963
2a. Inter-provincial Pool Board Minutes 1971-1983
2b. Inter-provincial Pool Board Minutes & By-laws 1971-1983
2c. Inter-provincial Co-operative Limited Board and Annual Meeting Minutes 1980, 1982
3a. Co-operative Union of Manitoba Organizing Documents and Minutes 1953-1964
3b. Co-operative Union of Manitoba Minutes March 31 1959 - June 16 1966
4. POS Pilot Plant 1973 - 1975
Box 2:
Inter-provincial Pool Board Minute Book 1945-1984
Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers Limited / Canadian Pool Agencies Limited Minute Book 1924-1944
Canadian Pool Agencies Limited Minute Book 1945-1980
5. Co-operative Crop Development Group Constitution and Annual Reports 1984-1993
6. Prairie Pools Inc. Directors Reports 1985-1986
Notes
Description by Jillian Sutherland (2009)
Documents for the Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers can be found in MPE B.2
See fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of financial records of the central office of MPE:
1-7 Audited Financial Statements 1968-1997
8-9 Capital Budgets 1979-1997
10. Annual Returns
11. Miscellaneous Financial
12. General Expenses 1930-1977
See fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of records concerning the organization, democratic structure and various policies of MPE:
1 Branch Line Abandonment March 1970
2 Rail Line Abandonment 1978-1979
3 Grain Transportation 1969-1975
4 Elevator Statistics by Rail Line 1971-1973
5-7b Democratic Structure Review
8 Amalgamation 1988
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
.This sub-series contains the following:
Box 1:
1. Canadian Agricultural Miscellaneous 1967-1972
2. Canadian Agricultural Miscellaneous 1973-1975
3. Canadian Agricultural Miscellaneous 1970-1975
4. Bill C-175 An act respecting grain
5. Bill C-196 Canada Grain Act 1970
Box 2:
6a. Canadian Agricultural Miscellaneous 1971
6b. Canadian Agricultural Miscellaneous 1971
7a. Bill C-41 The Western Grain Stabilization Act 1975
7b. Bill C-41 The Western Grain Stabilization Act 1975
8. General Agricultural Policy
9. Manitoba Agriculture 1936
Commissions dealing with transportation by rail and by sea were important to Manitoba Pool Elevators, as the cost and effiecincy of transport affected the cost of service to its members.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
.This sub-series contains the following:
Box 1:
1. St. Lawrence Seaway 1961-1971
2. Royal Commission on Transportation - excerpt from the evidence of Sir Henry Thornton 1931-1932
3. Royal Commission on Transportation 1949-1950
4. Report of the Royal Commission on Transportation February 9, 1951
5. The Royal Commission on Transportation 1960
6. The Royal Commission on Transportation 1960-1967
7. The Canadian Transport Commission 1985
Box 2:
8. The Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1975-1976
9a. Submissions to the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1975-1977
9b. Submissions to the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1975-1977
10. Submissions to the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976
11. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976
12. Submissions to the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976
13. Submissions to the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976
14. Appendix to Final Submission of CN Railways to GH&TC 1976
15. Submission by the Province of Manitoba to the GH&TC 1976
16. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1975-1976
17. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1974-1976
18a. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976-1977
18b. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976
19. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission Public Hearings 1976
20. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976
21. Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1976
22. MPE Submission to the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission 1975
Sub-district #404 Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Minutes of Executive Board meetings, Volume 1, 12 February 1976 - Volume 2, 24 July 1985; Sub-district Council minutes February 11, 1986 - October 21, 1992. Elgin & Fairfax Pool Local meeting minutes Oct 20 1982 - Nov 28 1990.
The Manitoba Wheat Pool and Manitoba Pool Elevators kept and preserved a chronological record of the meetings of the MPE Board of Directors and annual delegate meetings. The minutes were typed and bound, then placed in the MPE reference library so that employees and members could access them.
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of minutes of organizational meetings and later meetings held by the Central Office of the Manitoba Wheat Co-operative Producers, Ltd (later known as the Manitoba Wheat Pool) from 1923 until it went under in 1934, and of meetings held by the central office of Manitoba Pool Elevators from 1925 until 1997.
A copy of a Local Associations (later the Local Pool Committees) would be sent to the Central Office, where it was stored until a microfilm copy could be made. Records were only transferred to microfilm until 1957.
Custodial History
Local Association records recieved by the Central Office dating from 1925 to 1957 are on microfilm. Records subsequent to 1957 are hardcopies.
Scope and Content
Sub-series MPE B.3 consists of Local Association records from the formation of the association until 1993 or said association's closure. See Box level entries for B.3 for detailed contents of records.
Notes
Description by Jillian Sutherland (2009). Records contained in Series B.3 on microfilm or in hardcopy may also be contained in Series A.
A commission to inquire into the formation and operation of the Manitoba Pool up until 1931. Charges were brought against the Pool by J.R. Murray, then Assistant General Manager of UGG. The four charges were, briefly: (1) producers had been mislead into forming elevator associations, (2) members are bound by contract to the association, (3) financial statements sent out to associations are inaccurate, (4) Pool members are not getting as good a deal as they would on the free market.
The first two charges were deemed provable by the commission, while the last two were not. It was noted by the commissioner that no pool members had come forward with complaints.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
.This sub-series contains volumes 1 - 25 of the Royal Commission on Manitoba Pool Elevators.
