Chillon Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1928 - 1969 Certificate of Incorporation, 24 February 1928 Memorandum of Association, 24 February 1928 Lease, 1 August 1928 Memo re: lease, 13 November 1929 By-law nos. 8-11, no date Minutes of Directors meeting, 18 July 1931 Minutes of Shareholders meeting, 18 July 1931 Application for share of stock, 18 July 1931 By-law nos. 12 and 13, 18 July 1931 Agreement between Chillon CEA, MPE, Manitoba Wheat Pool and The King, 1 August 1931 By-law no. 14, 18 November 1931 Agreement between Chillon CEA and MPE, 1 February 1933 Special Board of Directors meeting, 3 March 1933 Special General meeting, 3 March 1933 Agreement between Chillon CEA and MPE, 15 October 1936 By-law no. 16, 3 November 1939 By-law to authorize cancellation of share capital, 1 November 1940 By-law nos. 18, 19, 20 and General By-laws, 25 July 1941 Motion sheet for By-laws 18, 19, 20 and General By-laws, no date By-law no. 21, 28 October 1947 Memo re: amendment to General By-law, 6 May 1949 By-law no. 22, 7 November 1949 Agreement between Chillon CEA and MPE, 1 August 1951 By-law no. 23, 4 April 1952 General By-laws, 27 October 1952 Agreement between Chillon CEA and MPE, 1 August 1953 Agreement between MPE and Chillon CEA, 15 December 1966 By-law no. 26, 16 June 1967 Arrangement, 11 June 1969 Arrangement (duplicate), 11 June 1969 Transfer agreement, 31 July 1969 By-law no. 74, no date By-law re: members equities Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 17 April 1928 - volume 5, 5 April 1971 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1930 - 1970 (16 reports) Financial records and statistics Auditors report, 1929 - 1931 (3 reports) Revised physical capacities of the elevator, 29 October 1959 Directors' Resolution, no date Correspondence, 1928 - 1971 Membership list, 1928 - 1974 Miscellaneous Directors Attendance list, 1964 - 1969 (4 reports) 50th Anniversary speech, 1975 Directors Report, no date Chillon Pool Committee meeting, 22 September 1969 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Ellice
Crandall Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 5 June 1957 - volume 3, 26 January 1981 Financial records and statistics Request for funds from sub-district 504, no date Correspondence, 1964 - 1967 Miscellaneous Directors Attendance list, 1978, 1981 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Miniota
Gordon Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1960 - 1969 Agreement between MPE and Gordon CEA (7), 6 August 1960 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Arrangement (1), 23 June 1969 Transfer agreement between MPE and Gordon CEA (2), 23 June 1969 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 12 October 1942 - volume 2, 12 April 1970 Membership list, 1961 - 1966 Note: Gordon Co-operative joined with Bergen elevator in 1987. Rosser Elevator replaced the Bergen-Gordon Elevator, cross reference with Bergen and Rosser. Minutes from meetings for Bergen-Gordon are in the MPE A 200 Rosser file. Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Rosser
Pool Insurance Limited was created in 1939 and re-incorporated at Pool Insurance Company in 1940. It was designed to internalize some of the insurance risk of MPE, which had previously been carried by an extenal company.
Co-operative Life Insurance Company was formed in 1945 to offer pool members affordable life insurance tailored to their lives as producers.
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Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of documents and minutes.
Border Fertilizers Ltd was a parnership agreement between the Pool and M.G. Smerchanski to provide better fertilizer services to Pool members. MPE entered the agreement in 1963 but sold their shares in 1969 due to heavy losses.
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Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of legal documents, financial statements, proposals and reports.
Co-enerco was a co-operative energy company that resulted from the Co-operative Resources Project.
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Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of records pertaining to the formation of Co-enerco.
Manitoba Pool Elevators was a part of and associated with many other producer co-operatives in Manitoba.
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Scope and Content
.This sub-series consists of records from the following co-operative organizations: Canadian Poultry Pool Ltd, Canadian Poutry Sales, Manitoba Co-operative Poultry Marketing Association, Manitoba Dairy and Poultry Co-operative Ltd, The Co-operative Promotion Board, Manitoba Fish Products, Pool Co-operative Seed Association, XCAN Grain Pool
Records for the above organizations may include but do not necessarily include the following: financial records, minutes, correpondence, reports, addresses, and memoranda.
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Description by Jillian Sutherland (2010)
Original order in this sub-series was rearranged by Eileen McFadden. The order established by her has been left intact.
The Wasagaming Foundation was founded in 1964 to plan an educational centre at Clear Lake, part of which would become Camp Wannakumbac in 1965. The Foundation was the joint effort of MPE, Federated Co-opertives Limited, Manitoba Farm Bureau, and United Grain Growers.
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Scope and Content
.This sub-series consists of two files of the Wasagaming Foundation.
CSP Foods Ltd resulted from an amalgamtion of Co-op Vegetable Oils Ltd with MPE in 1975. The company operated crushing plants in Altona, Manitoba and in Saskatchewan, and was overseen by members of MPE and the Sask Wheat Pool.
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Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, and promotional materials.
Notes
Description by Jillian Sutherland (2010)
History taken from F.W. Hamilton's "Service at Cost"
Co-op Farm Implements was a subsidiary company designed to serve Pool members in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
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Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of general documents and photographs.
The Pool livestock advisory boards and livestock markets were organized under the MPE when MPE merger with the Manitoba Co-operative Livestock Producers Ltd in 1948. The livestock pools operated in much the same way the grain pools did. The MPE Livestock Division was overseen by the Canadian Livestock Co-operative (Western) Limited (known as the C.L.C.). Local shipping associations shipped livestock to a central selling agency in St. Boniface, although this changed with the development of the rural highway system in Manitoba and the founding of Pool Packers.
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Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of Livestock Division records, Virden Auction Market records, Brandon Livestock Advisory Committee records, Elkhorn Co-operative Livestock records, and Swan River Livestock Association Ltd.
