Roblin Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1925 - 1970 Meeting of Incorporation-Winnipeg, 4 July 1925 Elevator lease, 1 September 1925 Elevator lease, 1 August 1930 By-law no. 1, Power of Attorney, 8 October 1925 By-law no. 2 and 3, 11 February 1926 By-law no. 4, 10 March 1926 Resolutions passed at local meeting, 16 November 1926 Memorandum re: Pool elevator policy, March 1928 Operating agreement, 1 August 1931 By-law no. 14, 1 December 1931 Agreement between RCE and MPE, 1 February 1933 Special meeting re: By-law no. 15, (2 copies), 16 February 1933 Amending supplementary agreement, 15 October 1936 By-law no. 16, 24 March 1941 By-law nos. 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, 30 June 1941 Agreement for sale-MPE and RCE, 30 July 1943 Operating agreement, 30 July 1943 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Agreement amending operating agreement, 15 December 1966 By-law no. 26, 7 March 1967 Transfer agreement, 31 July 1969 Arrangement, 16 June 1969 Arrangement By-law re: members equities, 4 December 1969 Transfer agreement, 31 July 1970 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 24 August 1929 - volume 9, 6 January 1976 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1927 - 1971 (26 reports) Financial records and statistics Transfer of surplus capital, 1945 - 1946 Analysis of Operating Results, 1960 - 1963 (2 reports) Auditors' reports, 1926 - 1969 (25 reports) Allocation of surplus, no date Correspondence, 1927 - 1957 Membership list, 1927 - 1932 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1947 - 1949 (2 reports) Minutes of special Directors meeting, 18 July 1931 Minutes of special Directors meeting, 1 November 1932 Directors Resolution, 31 July 1956 District Council meeting, 9 August 1976 Average pool price per bushel, 1924 - 1927 Resolutions (16th Annual Meeting), 22 October 1941. Letter dated December 14, 1971 regarding resolutions. Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Shell River.
George F. MacDowell was born in 1913, in Prince Edward Island. He studied at Dalhousie University from 1930 to 1933, but did not complete a degree. During WWII, MacDowell served in Canada and Europe as a member of the Royal Canadian Signals Corps. After the war, he returned to Dalhousie University, graduating with a B.A. in 1947. Subsequently, he graduated with a Masters Degree in Economics from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. George McDowell taught at both Mount Allison University and the University of Alberta before coming to Brandon in 1957 to teach at Brandon College. He remained as a professor in the Economic Department until his retirement in 1979.
MacDowell's work was published in the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. In 1971, McClelland & Stewart published his account of the Brandon Packers strike of 1960 titled "The Brandon Packer's Strike: A Tragedy of Errors." In Brandon, MacDowell maintained a relationship with the local Association of Fire Fighters, aiding them with collective bargaining procedures. He also served as Chairman for the MacKenzie Seeds Board, and was a member of the Manitoba Development Corporation Board.
MacDowell never married and had no known children. He passed away on February 26th, 1986.
Custodial History
This collection was in the possesion of George MacDowell until his death. It was then held by the Brandon University Department of Economics until 1997, at which time it was transferred to the McKee Archives at Brandon University.
Scope and Content
The bulk of this fonds falls into five main categories:
1. Records dealing with the Brandon Packers Strike of 1960 and the subsequent legal actions against the owners, including all 2215 pages of the Brandon Packers Strike Commission;
2. Records dealing with the Commission of Inquiry into The Pas Forestry and Industrial Complex, including the complete transcript of the inquiry measuring approximately 5m. This Commission dealt with the conduct of Churchill Forest Industries, a company owned by a Swiss financial firm, which, in the 1960's, was given approximately 93 million dollars by the Roblin Provincial Government to develop The Pas Forestry and Industrial Complex. Churchill Forest Industries and its parent company subsequently came under suspicion of fraud and accused of fradulently transfering The Pas Forestry funds into other foreign business interests;
3. Records dealing with business loans awarded by the Manitoba Development Corporation during the 1970's and 1980's to businesses primarily within Manitoba;
4. Records dealing with McKenzie Seeds, and McKenzie Steele-Briggs Seeds during the early 1980's when George MacDowell was a board member of McKenzie Seeds;
5. Records dealing with Professor MacDowell's career as a Professor at Brandon University, including records relating to his courses and to administrative activities.
To a lesser extent, this collection includes records dealing with the University of Saskatchewan College of Commerce, the publication the "Manitoba New Democrat," issues associated with politics, labor and union in the prairie provinces from the 1960's to the 1980's, articles from various economic periodicals including "Economica" and "Public Finance," a variety of government reports from 1941 to 1981, and records dealing with George MacDowells' relationship with the Brandon Firefighters Association.
Notes
File level inventory available. Description written by Mike White (2002).
Manitoba Pool Elevators was quick to realize the usefulness of the radio medium as a educational and promotional tool. It was also often used to defend the Pool and the co-operative movement in general on programs such as Farm Radio Forum. See fonds level description of RG 4 for complete history/bio of MPE.
Scope and Content
Sub-series MPE B.10 consists of textual radio broadcast transcriptions. The records include transcriptions from 1930 until 1971. Radio broadcasts are on a wide variety of topics, including argicultural science, the grain market and general economy of Canada and the world, government acts and legislation that affected the producer, co-operatives and the co-operative movement, rural life, young people, WWII, Manitoba, and the Manitoba Pool Elevators.
