This is an artificially created series containing records retained by Manitoba Pool Elevators of official commissions, committee and inquiries that dealt directly with the organization and it's interests. Subjects include commission investigation as well and committee and inquiries into government policy and bills.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
.This series has been divided into seven sub-series, including: (1) Royal Commission on Co-operatives, (2) Royal Commission on Manitoba Pool Elevators, (3) Transportation Commissions and Inquiries, (4) Box Car Inquiry, (5) Grain Commissions and Inquiries, (6) Agricultural Commissions and Policy, (7) Miscellaneous Committes, Commissions and Inquiries
This commission was appointed in late 1944 and made it's reports and recommendations in late 1945. The commission's tasks were the following: (1) give a legal opinion on existing taxation legislation affecting co-operatives, (2) reccomend taxation legislation in respect to co-operatives, with due regard to current tax burdens on privately owned busniess, (3) provide a picture of the actual structure of co-operative enterprise in Canada, its growth, and the effects of taxation upon it.
The commission's findings were, briefly: (1) Section 4, paragraph (p) of the Income War Tax Act is so ambiguous as to justify its repeal, (2) commission reccomended legislation permitting both co-operative and joint stock companies to deduct patronage dividends in computing taxes, whether paid out or available on demand, (3) appendicies of research staff findings that provide statistical and historical information on the origin, growth and distribution of co-operatives in Canada.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
.This sub-series contains volumes 1 - 31 of the Royal Commission on Co-operatives, the brief and report on the Commission, an outline of argument on behalf of certain co-operative organizations.
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.
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
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
File consists of: brochure for music competition Concours OSM 1988 Strings and Winds, score of Carleton Weir Elliott String Quartet No. 1 in c minor, press release from Canada Council Touring Office regarding Tour Organizers' Workshops at the Banff Centre School of Management.
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
See RG 6 Brandon University fonds, 7.4.1 Dean of Music for biographical information.
Custodial History
The records were collected during the course of Jones' career as a member of the School of Music and as Dean of the School of Music. They remained in his possession until their donation to the McKee Archives on June 29, 2011.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of records created and collected during the course of Lawrence Jones' teaching career in the School of Music and during his tenure as Dean of the School of Music at Brandon University.
Records include: dean's log books; recital programs and related materials; personal documents; academic papers; planning documents; contracts; administration documents; workshop documents; teaching documents; proposals; reviews; evaluations; violin concerto by S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatte, piano score, edited by Lawrence Jones. Topics include: planning for the School of Music; Master's degree program; award winners; the music building expansion; adjudicating; the New Brandon University Trio; and the National Music Festival.
File consists of: photocopied score, cello and violin parts to Chan Ka Nin: Among Friends, 1949.
Publisher info: Toronto, ON: Canadian Music Centre, 1990.
File also consists of: single photocopied first page of Walter Piston: Violin Sonata.
Publisher info: New York, NY: G. Schirmer/Associated Music Publishers, 1931.
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
File consists of: score and parts for Haydn Trio No. 4, opus 11, no. 4 in F Major for flute (or treble recorder), violin and cello. First and third movements from Baryton Trio Hob.XI:11; second movement from Baryton Trio Hob.XI:17, mvt.3.
Publisher info: Amsterdam: J.J. Hummel, n.d.(1771), Plate 248.
Reprinted: London, UK: Schott & Co. Ltd, 1951
Arranger: Walter Bergmann, from the figured bass edition
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
File consists of: parts for Schubert Trio no. 2, D. 581 in B-flat major. Various photocopied pages from violin part.
Publisher Info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1890, plate F.S. ??? (Series XXI, No.5)
Reprint: New York, NY: Schirmer/International Music Company, nd.
parts for Schubert Trio no. 1, D. 471 in B-flat major
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1890. Plate F.S. 38
Reprint: New York, NY: Schirmer/International Music Company, nd.
File also consists of: photocopy of Violin 1 part to Mozart String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458.
Publisher info: Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.[ca.1882]. Ed.16. Plate 6686.
Some bowings, fingerings, other interpretive markings added.
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
File consists of: score and parts for Milhaud: Sonatine a Trois for violin, viola and violoncello, opus 221b.
Publisher info: Bryn Mawr, PA: Mercury Music Corp, 1947.
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
File consists of: photocopied score to Beethoven String Quartet no. 10, opus 74 in E-flat major.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1863. Plate B.670
Reprinted: Milan, IT: G. Ricordi & C., nd.
hardcover parts (violin 1, violin 2, cello) for Beethoven String Quartets op. 127, 130-133 & 135.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1863. Plate B.8868
Reprinted: New York, NY: CF Peters Corporation, nd.
original score of Beethoven: Two Romances, op. 40 and 50 for violin and piano.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1862-1890. Plate 2720.
Reprinted: New York, NY: International Music Company, 1974.
Arranger: Zino Francescatti
File also consists of: original score of Kenneth Leighton trio for violin, cello and piano.
Publisher info: London, UK: Novello & Co. Ltd., 1968. Plate 19680a
Some bowings, articulations, other markings added to all scores and parts.
File also consists of: poster for International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
File consists of: original parts for Beethoven string quartets op. 18, nos 1-6.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.(ca.1890).
Reprinted: Scarsdale, NY: Edwin F. Kalmus, nd.
Some fingerings, other markings added.
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
File consists of: original score for J. S. Bach: 15 Terzetti (after 3-part Inventions) for two violins and cello.
Publisher info: New York, NY: International Music Company, nd.
Arranger: Richard Hofmann
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
