Gilbert Plains Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1936 - 1955 Agreement between Gilbert Plains CEAL and MPEL, 15 October 1936 By-law no. 16, 30 October 1939 By-law no. 16 (signed later), 1 November 1939 By-law to authorize cancellation of capital, 28 October 1940 Agreement for sale between MPEL and Gilbert Plains CEAL Memo re to authorize cancellation of capital, 24 March 1941 General By-laws and By-laws 18, 19, and 20, 4 July 1941 Memo of repeal By-law no. 19, no date Letter re Agreement for sale, 14 March 1944 Letter Agreement, 19 June 1944 Draft resolutions for special meetings (By-law no. 21), 13 November 1947 By-law no. 22, 14 November 1949 Letter re By-law no. 22, 7 March 1950 Agreement between Gilbert CEA and MPE, 1 August 1951 Agreement between Gilbert Plains CEA and MPE, 1 August 1953 Agreement between Gilbert Plains CEA and MPE, 1 August 1955 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 21 August 1926 - volume 5, 3 October 1968 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1947 - 1963 (3 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of surplus, 1938 - 1955 (7 reports) Final statements, 1931 - 1947 (12 reports) Auditors' reports, 1941 - 1957 (10 reports) Analysis of Operating Results, 1953 - 1962 (3 reports) Surplus Repayment, 1933 - 1936 (1 report) Financial Statements, 1952 Correspondence, 1946 - 1957 Membership list, 1946 - 1961 Miscellaneous Building costs - Montgomery House, 1964 Bills from Gilbert Plains Consumers Co-op, 1964 Lumber supply estimates, rough sheets Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Gilbert Plains
Speeches and addresses given by executives of the Manitoba Wheat Pool and MPE as well as argricultural experts and supporters of the co-operative movement helped to spread and solidify support for the Pools. They also served to educate rural members on a variety of topics. See fonds level description of RG 4 for complete history/bio of MPE.
Scope and Content
Sub-series MPE B.8 consists of speeches made by various important members and executives of Manitoba Pool Elevators. Records include the following:
1a. Addresses 1930 -1946
1b. Addresses 1946 -1954
2. Addresses 1954 -1960
3. Addresses 1969 -1975
4a. Addresses 1972 -1979
4b. Addresses 1972 -1979
5a. F.W. Hamilton Speeches 1967 -1973
5b. F.W. Hamilton Speeches 1962 -1966
5c. F.W. Hamilton Speeches 1960 -1962
5d. F.W. Hamilton Speeches 1949 -1960
6a. W.J. Parker Speeches 1945
6b. W.J. Parker Speeches 1940 -1944
7a. W.J. Parker Speeches 1948 -1950
7b. W.J. Parker Speeches 1946 -1948
8a. W.J. Parker Speeches 1954 -1958
8b. W.J. Parker Speeches 1951 -1954
9a. W.J. Parker Speeches 1968 -1970
9b. W.J. Parker Speeches 1960 -1967
10. F.W. Ransom Addresses 1942 - 1948
11. Miscellaneous Addresses 1948 - 1955; no dates
12. Miscellaneous Addresses 1960; no dates
13. E.S. Russenholt Addresses
14. V. Martens " The Implications of Including Protein in Segregrating Canadian Wheat"
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.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
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.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
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.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
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.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
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.
Notes
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.
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.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
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.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
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.
See also fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
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.
See fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This sub-series consists of historical topics created by MPE:
1. P.F. Bredt Invovement with MPE and death 1935-1940
2. MPE history 1941-1973
3a. Manitoba Wheat Pool and MPE history 1930-1939
3b. Manitoba Wheat Pool and MPE history 1925-1929
4. Manitoba Wheat Pool history 1924-1971
5a. On to Ottawa and Manitoba Delegation Committee 1958-1960
5b. MPE Miscellaneous history 1934-1959
6. Manitoba Wheat Pool history 1925-1929
7. Manitoba Wheat Pool 1925-1931
8. Pool Grain Marketing after 1929 Overpayment 1928-1936
9. Historical Review of Grain Trade and MPE
10. MPE Library 1948-1952
11. Coarse Grain Handling 1948-1953
12. Canadian Wheat Board 1935-1960
13. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 1949
14. 1929 Overpayment and Williams/Stamp Commission Newspaper Clippings 1929-1931
15. Leonard Harman 1972
16. Historical Publications 1995-1996; no dates
17. Miscellaneous Historical
18. Western Agricultural Conference and Farm Bureau 1963-1965
19. Canadian Co-operatives 1961-1969
20. Miscellaneous Historical Topics 1930
21. Miscellaneous Historical Topics 1934-1936
22. International Wheat Agreement 1941-1948
23. World War Two 1939, 1944
24. Canadian National Railway System
25. Overpayment Aftermath 1932-1938
26. Miscellaneous Pool History 1925-1931
27. Miscellaneous History
28a. MPE History (Acquisitions, Philosophy) up to 1979 1931-1979
28b. MPE History (Acquisitions, Philosophy) up to 1979 1931-1979
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.
Oakville Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1961 - 1969 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Agreement between OCE and MPE, 15 December 1966 By-law no. 26, 1 November 1966 Notice to all members, 16 June 1969 Arrangement, 16 June 1969 Transfer agreement, 16 June 1969 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 20 February 1962 - 16 June 1969 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1967 (1 report) Financial records and statistics Statement of equity, 31 December 1966 Detail of Grain earnings, 1967 - 1968 (1 report) Auditors' reports, 1967 (1 report) Correspondence, 1968 - 1969 Membership list, 1968 - 1969 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1964 -1969Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Portage La Prairie
Arden Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1926 - 1969 Memorandum of association and General By-laws, 21 June 1926 Certificate of Incorporation, June 1926 Lease, 1 September 1926 Application of one share of stock, 17 July 1931 By-law nos. 12 and 13, 17 July 1931 Shareholders meeting, 17 July 1931 Directors' meeting, 17 July 1931 Agreement, 1 August 1931 By-law no. 14, 25 November 1931 Agreement, 1 February 1933 Agreement, 15 October 1936 By-law no. 16, 7 November 1939 Agreement for sale, 5 November 1940 Approval of cancellation of share capital, 5 November 1940 By-law, 5 November 1940 By-law nos. 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, 17 July 1941 By-laws 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, no date Agreement, 30 August 1947 By-law no. 21, 4 November 1947 By-law no. 22, 18 November 1949 Agreement, 1 August 1951 By-law no. 23 (2 copies), 14 November 1951 Agreement, 1 August 1953 Agreement for sale, 23 March 1960 Agreement, 15 December 1966 By-law no. 26, 7 March 1967 Arrangement, 23 May 1969 Transfer agreement, 31 July 1969 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 4 August 1926 - volume 16, December 1969 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1933 - 1968 (29 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of surplus, 1940 - 1955 (16 reports) Final statements, 1938 - 1952 (14 reports) Auditors' reports, 1947 - 1968 (25 reports) Analysis of Operating Results, 1951 - 1963 (12 reports) Allocation of surplus statements, 1943 - 1946 (3 reports) Detail of Grain earnings, 1964 - 1967 (4 reports) Annual financial statements and reports, 1928 - 1929 (2 reports) Receipts, 1936 - 1959 (11 receipts) Statement of grain account and handle, 16 June 1931 Capital loan (budget), 31 July 1951 Correspondence, 1933 - 1976 Membership list, 1929 - 1969 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1948 - 1966, (17 reports) Directors' report, 1947 - 1968 (19 reports) Directors' report, 1940 Newspaper item, Weekly Market News - ``Detailed study made of Drum Wheat during winter" Press reports, 1963 - 1968 (5 reports) MPEA Anniversary celebration speech, no date Application by CPR to close station at Arden - submission to Board of Transport Commissioners, 26 July 1967 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Landsdown.
Decker Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1928 - 1967 Certificate of Incorporation, 17 January 1928 Memorandum of Association, 17 January 1928 Meeting re: By-laws 1-7, 22 February 1928 Lease, 1 August 1928 Agreement between DCE and MPE, 1 August 1951 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Agreement between DCE and MPE, 15 December 1966 By-law no. 26, 6 March 1967 By-law re: Members' equities, no date Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 21 March 1928 - volume 12, 9 November 1967 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1937 - 1967 (25 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of surplus, 1937 - 1954 (14 reports) Final statements, 1935 - 1951 (15 reports) Auditors' reports, 1938 - 1968 (26 reports) Detail of Grain earnings, 1963 - 1968 (5 reports) Review of Operating Results, 1961 - 1966 (2 reports) Capital loan statement, 31 July 1951 Decker repairs, 26 November 1956 Decker raising job, no date Breakdown in costs - motorizing of elevator, 21 October 1966 Correspondence, 1928 - 1967 Membership list, 1953 - 1968 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Hamiota, Meeting Attendance and Closure Brief
Notes
File 96h item Closure Brief contains a large photo of the Decker Elevator, circa 1960-1976
Ipswich Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1928 - 1969 Certificate of Incorporation, 4 May 1928 Memorandum of Association, 4 May 1928 Meeting re: By-laws 1-7, 26 May 1928 By-laws 8, 9, 10, and 11, no date By-law nos. 12 and 13, 27 July 1931 Shareholders' meeting, 27 July 1931 Directors' meeting, 27 July 1931 Agreement between ICE and MPE, 1 August 1931 By-law no. 14, 16 November 1931 Agreement between ICE and MPE, 1 February 1933 Meeting re: By-law no. 15, 14 February 1933 Agreement between ICE and MPE, 15 October 1936 By-law no. 16, 6 November 1939 By-law to authorize cancellation of share capital, 4 November 1940 By-law nos. 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, 23 July 1941 By-laws 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, no date Allocation of surplus, 15 January 1948 By-law no. 22, 2 June 1949 Agreement between ICE and MPE, 1 August 1951 By-law no. 23, 1 December 1951 Agreement between ICE and MPE, 1 August 1953 Allocation of surplus, 19 November 1953 Agreement between ICE and MPE, 15 December 1966 By-law no. 26, 2 March 1967 Arrangement and Transfer agreement, 19 June 1969 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 3 July 1928 - volume 9, 9 June 1969 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1940 - 1968 (9 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of surplus, 1938 - 1948 (10 reports) Final statements, 1932 - 1948 (14 reports) Auditors' reports, 1929 - 1961 (19 reports) Operating results, 1960 - 1961 Analysis of Operating Results, 1959 - 1961 (1 report) Draft, 14 December 1954 Correspondence, 1928 - 1974 Membership list, 1928 - 1961 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1961 - 1969 (7 reports) Officers and Directors, 1946 - 1947 Canadian Federation of Agriculture newspaper, March 1941 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Strathclair
Manitou Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1936 - 1969 Approval of annual financial statement, no date Agreement between MCE and MPE, 15 October 1936 Resolution re: Supplementary agreement, 15 October 1936 Members from active to non-active status, no date By-law nos. 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, 2 July 1941 Approval of By-laws 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, no date General By-laws, 2 July 1941 Resolution re: surplus, 1941 - 1942 Resolution re: surplus, 1942 - 1943 Resolution re: By-law no. 21, 29 October 1947 Allocation of surplus, 15 January 1948 Agreement between MCE and MPE, 1 August 1951 By-law no. 23, 20 November 1951 Agreement between MCE and MPE, 1 August 1953 Agreement between MCE and MPE, 12 March 1960 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Agreement between MCE and MPE, 15December 1966 By-law no. 26, 11 March 1967 Arrangement, Transfer agreement, 5 June 1969 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 12 July 1926 - volume 9, 19 February 1988. Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1930 - 1987 (85 reports). Financial records and statistics Statement of Equity, 1967 - 1968 Statement of investment income, 1967 Auditors' reports, 1966 - 1968 (2 reports) Detail of Grain earnings, 1964 - 1968 (3 reports) Review of Operating Results, 1965 - 1966 Capital debt, 8 August 1966 Agreement to purchase house design, 19 May 1960 Crop year information, 31 July 1976 Donation form, no date Tenders, 1967 Application for shares, 15 September 1960 Re: 1970-71 salary - Manitou A and B, 27 July 1970 Canada Packers - livestock payment, 9 July 1973 Receipts, 1973 (2 receipts) Correspondence, 1960 - 1976 Membership list, 1961 - 1968 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1943 - 1976 (14 reports) Officers and Directors, 1942 - 1943 Names and addresses of members and councillors, 1969 - 1970. Manitou Co-operative Elevator Association Ltd. by-law No. 16 dated Nov. 2, 1939. Manitou Co-operative Elevator Association Ltd. by-law to authorize the cancellation of the associations authorized share capital dated Oct. 24, 1940. Changes in membership dated August 3, 1967. Resolutions of Local Annual Meeting October 24, 1940.Note: Additional material on file. Annual and regular council meetings at Manitou dated October 4, 1929 to September 24, 1938. Note: In the minute book dated Dec. 1969 - Dec. 1977, there is a special report on the opening of the new MPE annex dated Dec. 16, 1977. Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Pembina
Elgin Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1926 - 1965 Memorandum of association and general bylaws, June 1, l 1926 Certificate of incorporation, June 4, 1926 Meeting - Bylaws no. 1 - 7, June 17, 1926 Lease between MPE-ECE, August 1, 1931 Memorandum re Bylaws no. 8, 9, 10, 11, no date Bylaw no. 12, July 27, 1931 Bylaw no. 13, July 27, 1931 Shareholders' meeting - Bylaws no. 12 and 13, July 27, 1931 Directors' meeting - Bylaws no. 12 and 13, July, 1931 Bylaw no. 14, November 6, 1931 Agreement between MPE-ECE, October 15, 1936 Meeting - Bylaw no. 15, March 6, 1933 Agreement between MPE-ECE, October 15, 1936 Bylaw no. 16, October 23, 1939 Bylaw to authorize cancellation of association authorized share capital, October 21, 1940 Approval of resolution - share capital, October 21, 1940 General Bylaws, June 19, 1941 Bylaw no. 18, June 19, 1941 Bylaw no. 19, June 19, 1941 Bylaw no. 20, June 19, 1941 Bylaw no. 21, April 2, 1948 Bylaw no. 22, May 9, 1949 Agreement between MPE-ECE, August 1, 1951 Bylaw no. 23, October 31, 1951 Agreement between MPE-ECE, August 1, 1952 Allocation of Surplus, January 15, 1958 Directors' Resolution, October 18, 1961 Cancellation of Manitoba Pool Elevators Capital Stock Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 17 June 1926 - volume 7, 7 October 1982 Minutes of shareholders annual meetings, 1946 - 1964 (19 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of Surplus, 1939 - 1953 (14 reports) Final statements, 1933 - 1952 (13 reports) Auditors reports, 1928 - 1931 (3 reports) Comparative statement, July 31, 1932 Interim elevator receipt, July 8, 1964 Cost of transfer engine, no date Motion to approve the Annual Financial statement no date Membership list, 1950 - 1961 Miscellaneous - Certificate of post office registration 1927 Minutes of a special meeting of Elgin & Fairfax Elevators January 26, 1981 to discuss future grain handling facilities in the Elgin-Fairfax area. Elgin & Fairfax local Pool Committee minutes Oct 20 1982 - Nov 28 1990.
Carmen Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1928 - 1961 Bylaw No. 3, no date Approval of Financial Statement, no date Bylaw re Member's Equities, no date Meeting - Bylaws No. 1 - 7, January 5, 1928 Agreement between CCE-MPE, February 1, 1933 Meeting re Bylaw No. 15, March 8, 1933 Resolution re Supplementary Agreement, October 15, 1936 Directors' Resolution, October 18, 1961 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, January 7, 1928 volume 6, November 9, 1967 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1932 - 1967 (16 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of Surplus (5 reports), 1938 - 1952 Final Statements (16 reports), 1929 - 1952 Auditors Report (4 reports), 1929 - 1932 Comparative Statement, July 31, 1932 Cost of Elevator and Equipment, May 31, 1929 Report on Activities in Business, November 2, 1934 Quotas and Space Available, August 9, 1965 Monthly Report to the Board of Directors, 1960 - 1967 (2 reports) Receipts (5), 1939 - 1946 Statements of Account (58), 1941 - 1946 Correspondence, 1927 - 1959 Membership list, 1965 Miscellaneous Directors Attendance List, 1945 - 1946 (1 report) Officers and Directors, 1942 - 1943 Officers and Directors, 1945 - 1946 Directors Report, 1930 - 1966 (22 reports) Newspaper Article "CEA Holds Meeting", no date Newspaper Article "Grain Annex Mooted for Pool Elevator", no date Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Dufferin.
