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.
This box contains minutes generated by local MPE associations, collected by the central office. Records include the following:
115a. Brunkild Nov 28 1972 – Dec 2 1974
115b. Brunkild Oct 29 1970 – Nov 8 1972
115c. Brunkild Nov 14 1968 – Nov 9 1970
116a. Beresford Feb 19 1992 – May 13 1998
116b. Beresford August 17 1992 – Dec 14 1991
117. Dunrea Jan 12 1990 – May 31 1993
118a. Jordan Feb 11 1994 – May 27 1996
118b. Jordan Nov 21 1989 – Nov 25 1993
This box contains bound volumes of audited financial statements for local MPE associations. The records include the following:
Local Association Financial Statements 1955-56 A-Dro; 1955-56 Duf-Kat; 1955-56 Kel-Oak; 1955-56 Oak-Woo; 1956-57 A-Fan; 1956-57 Fis-Men; 1956-57 Mia-Woo; 1957-58 A-Fan; 1957-58 Fis-Men; 1957-58 Mia-Woo
W.M.C.A.Convocation '79 Spring. H. Perkins, Pres, stg., L to R (front row) E.R. McGill, M.A., Robert Beamish, G. Longphee, ?, D. R. McKay, background: B. Parsons
Dauphin local Pool Elevator minutes April 26 1927 - May 26 1934, April 6 1935 - Oct 14 1940, Dec 30 1944 - Dec 7 1946, Feb 11 1947 - Nov 6 1948, April 9 1949 - Nov 10 - 1952, Dec 11 1952 - June 2 1956, July 21 1956 - Aug 15 1959, Sept 22 1959 - Oct 23 1962, Nov 12 1962 - Nov 17 1965, Nov 17 1965 - July 6 1970, July 6 1970 - July 25 1975, Oct 22 1975 - Nov 25 1980, Jan 20 1981 - Oct 13 1987, Nov 16 1987 - Nov 13 1991; Crop Improvement Club March 5 1938 - April 16 1951; Annual Meeting Minutes Nov 1919 - July 1947, 1963 - 1974; Various Minutes Nov 15 1930 - Nov 4 1944; Documents April 5 1927 - August 1 1972; J.T. Taylor 1941 - 1947; Miscellaneous 1946 - 1976
Notes
File 3 contains attendance records from the era before the Pool was organized (1919 - 1923)
Edwin Association Minutes 1928-1981; Sub-district #101 Minutes Oct 6 1969-July 18 1978; Agent's Letters Dec 24 1928-July 15 1947; Cirrculars Spet 19 1969-August 15 1978; Correspondence Nov 7 1960-Sept 8 1978; Memo of Association and By-laws 1928-1953; Member Certificates 1947-1953; Newsletters Jan 1976-August 1978; Attendance records 1946-1962; Financial 1929-1983; Miscellaneous (correspondance, Grain Handling Commission, Crop Development and Seed Clubs, publications) 1951-1978; Membership Lists 1955-1978
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Description by Jill Sutherland (2010)
The records for Edwin Association are unique in that more that just minute books were sent to the McKee archives
Forrest Association Minutes 1927-1991; Circulars April 21 1965-Oct 19 1981; Correspondance May 22 1927-May 25 1981; Documents Feb 11 1927-July 31 1969; Financial 1928-1968; Membership 1948-1969; Miscellaneous 1952-1980
Notes
Description by Jill Sutherland (2010)
The records for Forrest Association are unique in that more that just minute books were sent to the McKee archives
