McConnell Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1928 - 1969 Memorandum re: MPE policy, March 1928 Agreement between MPE and MCE, August 1931 General By-laws, 8 September 1941 Arrangement between MCE and MPE, 24 June 1969 By-law no. 4, no date Directors' Resolutions, 18 October 1961 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 11 April 1928 - volume 11, 21 July 1980 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1928 - 1935 (4 reports) Financial records and statistics Operating account, 31 July 1929 (2 reports) Monthly report, 17 October 1968 Auditors' reports, 31 July 1968 - 1969 McConnell and MPE statistics, 18 January 1979 Correspondence, 1923 - 1978 Membership list, 1933 - 1961 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1973 - 1974 Picture negatives, 1975 Crop Improvement Club record book, 1951 Newspaper item, no date. Program for Testimonial Dinner tendered to Mr. George N. McConnell December 7, 1956. Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Hamiota.
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
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CPR Ice House Fire with engine 701
Notes
This large ice house, located between the CPR tracks and Assiniboine Avenue at 3rd Street, was filled with blocks of ice from the Assiniboine River each winter. It had a long high platform for [loading ice blocks into] refrigerator cars, and also handled charcoal braziers for heating these same cars in winter. The new ice house structure that was built after this fire was much smaller, as it had an artificial ice plant.
With mechanically temperature-controlled cars replacing ice-cooled refrigerators, it was demolished in the 1970's.
This photograph shows how steam switch engines were used as fire engines. A hose carried in a box under the tender was fitted into a branch of the boiler feed pipe (discharge pipe). When the injector was turned on it gave a nozzle pressure of over 200 psi.