The Franklin Cooperative Elevator Association Ltd was located in Franklin, Manitoba. The association was formed and incorporated on May 19, 1927 under certificate # 68 of the Cooperative Association Act. The first provisional meeting was held on June 27, 1927 with R.A Storey as Chairman and O. Douglas as Secretary. There was a meeting held after the incorporation meeting and the first board of directors was elected on June 28, 1927 with R. A Storey as Chairman and E.A White as Secretary. The cooperative was run by an elected board of directors.
The Franklin Cooperative Elevator Association was a part of the Manitoba Pool Elevators Ltd which was a subsidiary elevator company of the Manitoba Wheat Pool. Manitoba Pool Elevators was incorporated on April 9,1925 with 1,000 000 capitol stocks being sold for $1.00 per share. Manitoba Pool elevators ran on the principal of local ownership through the cooperatives.
The Franklin Cooperative Elevator Association was involved in issues on a local and provincial scale. An example of local concerns was that in October 1948, it is on record that it was a bad crop year with a delayed harvest because of inclement weather. The elevators become plugged up and as a result grain had to be shipped to oppositional elevators. In 1952 the Franklin Cooperative Elevator Association built a forty five thousand bushel annex building and later that year issues arose over cost overages in its construction. The cooperative was also concerned about provincial matters such as on Sept 18, 1952 a strike was arranged by the workers of Manitoba Pool. It was averted when a settlement was reached in Winnipeg.
Custodial History
Records in accession 10-2013, were delivered to the Archives of Manitoba on March 20, 1970 by Bob Douglas, son of Oliver Douglas. Those records were deaccessioned by the Archives of Manitoba in January 2012 and transferred to the McKee Archives later that year. All other records were donated to the McKee Archives by Manitoba Pool Elevators.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of ledger books containing minutes of monthly meetings as well as annual general meetings for the Franklin Co-operative Elevator Association. The first meeting had thirty members in attendance. From incorporation the cooperative had a list of objectives they wanted to accomplish including building or acquiring, and payment of a grain elevator and building documentation. They also needed to be licensed under the Canadian Grain Act. The ledger books also contains a list of bylaws. Records also included membership rosters and contract numbers for shipping grain. Auditor's year-end financial records are also included in the fonds. Attendance records from 1958 to 1963 have been recorded.
Franklin Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1929 - 1961 Certificate of indebtedness, 31 July 1929 Memo re: association, By-laws 8-11, no date Application for share of stock, 31 July 1931 Minutes of Directors meeting, 31 July 1931 Minutes of Shareholders meeting, 31 July 1931 By-law nos. 12 and 13, 31 July 1931 Agreement between Franklin CEA, MPE, Manitoba Wheat Pool and The King, 1 August 1931 By-law no. 14, 12 November 1931 Certificate for one share of stock, 1 December 1931 Letter re: stock acceptance, 14 January 1932 Agreement between Franklin CEA and MPE, 1 February 1933 Special Board of Directors meeting re: By-law no. 15, 16 February 1933 Letter re: By-law no. 14, 18 February 1938 Agreement between MPE and Fraklin CEA, 30 November 1948 Agreement between MPE and Franklin CEA, 1 August 1951 Memo re: above agreement, 13 June 1952 By-law no. 23, 2 November 1951 MPE By-laws 1961-148, 1961-149, 1961-150, 1961-151, 12 October 1961 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, 1 August 1969 - 10 December 1982 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1929 - 1967 (13 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of surplus, 1937 - 1955 (15 reports) Final statements, 1934 - 1952 (16 reports) Auditors' reports, 1928 - 1968 (33 reports) Analysis of Operating Results, 1951 - 1963 (9 reports) Review of Operating Results, 1960 - 1966 (5 reports) Detail of grain earnings, 1963 - 1968 (4 reports) Analysis of Operating Results, 1951 - 1952 (5 reports) Statement of grain account and handle, 15 June 1931 Annual financial statement, no date Correspondence, 1927 - 1962 Membership list, 1935 - 1962 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1945 - 1959 (8 reports) Directors' attendance lists, 1980 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Rosedale; local Pool Committee minutes February 21, 1983 - July 4, 1991.
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Administrative history taken from the records. Description by Jill Sutherland (2010) and Barb Manko (October 2013).
Manitoba Pool Elevators was established in 1925 as a subsidiary of the Pool in response to local member complaints about the unfair business practices of privately owned elevators. The Katrime Elevator appears to have been established in 1940; no records in the Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds mention the Katrime elevator before 1940. In 1969 the Katrime Pool joined the Manitoba Pool.
The Katrime local was operated by a board of directors elected from the members of the Katrime elevator. Regular meetings took place sporadically throughout the year, often before and after harvest. An annual meeting for the local took place every November, at which members were chosen for the board of directors and members were selected to attend the annual Manitoba Pool convention. Occasionally in October or in the Annual meetings in November the board of directors would ask the head office to compose a letter to the rail companies to thank them for keeping the elevator supplied with cars throughout the harvest season. This would change through the 1970’s and into the 90’s as congestion became a problem for the railcars.
In 1998 Manitoba Pool Elevators merged with the Alberta Wheat Pool to form Agricore Co-operative Ltd. In 2001, this organization merged with the United Grain Growers to become Agricore United, and in 2007, Agricore United was taken over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool; the new company was known as Viterra. The fate of the Katrime elevator is unclear. Tthere is no mention in the included records regarding the merger to Agricore or the closing of the elevator.
Custodial History
Records in accession 9-2013, were deposited at the Archives of Manitoba in 1971, with a fourth minute book being deposited in 2011. The records were deaccessioned by the Archives of Manitoba in January 2012 and transferred to the McKee Archives later that year.
Scope and Content
Fonds consist of the minutes of the board of directors of the Katrime elevator. Meetings discussed pool business, including membership into the Katrime elevator co-operation and a list of new members is usually included in the minutes. In addition to membership another main topic of the meetings was the salary of the agent including the agents home and expenses. In 1953, the building of a new elevator, which eventually expanded to include new offices and storage sheds was a topic of discussion. Local annual meetings generally discussed the report of the auditor and any unsold surplus, but no details were recorded. A note on the content of the minutes: there is generally mention of a lengthy discussion of a topic but there is no explanation of what was discussed. Also, at each annual meeting there is a discussion of the annual convention and the resolutions adopted from this convention, however there are no details on what the resolutions were.
Katrime Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1961 Directors' Resolution, 18 October 1961 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Westbourne.
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Description by Jill Sutherland (2010) and Clint Howie (October 2013).
The United Grain Growers, a farmer controlled co-operative elevator association, was established in 1917, with the amalgamation of the Grain Growers Grain Company (1906), and the Alberta Farmer's Co-operative Elevator company (1913). Its original purpose was to provide a co-operative alternative to privately owned grain elevators.
Custodial History
This collection was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1997. Prior custodial history is unknown.
Scope and Content
Collection includes copies of correspondence between T.A. Crerar, President of United Grain Growers and Colin Burnell, President, Manitoba Co-operative Wheat Producers (1925-26); correspondence directed to the Shareholders of United Grain Growers (1926-38); minutes of a meeting between representatives of the United Grain Growers and the provincial wheat pools (1937); as well as a variety of publications about the history and activities of the United Grain Growers (1917-18, 1927, 1929, 1951, 1956).
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.
See collection level description of the Joseph H. Hughes collection for biographical information.
Custodial History
See collection level description of the Joseph H. Hughes collection for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Accession 1-2008 (32 cm textual records and 1 map; 1906-1916; predominant 1909-1915). As mayor, city Alderman and prominent city businessman, J.H. Hughes came into possession of many city government, civic, and business records during the first decade and a half of the twentieth century.
The accession consists of city records, information on contemporary city utility services and companies including tenders for the construction of the Brandon street railway, documents concerning grain elevators, lumber production, newspaper clippings, as well as personal and city correspondence - including a proposal from the Canadian Northern Railway to construct the Prince Edward Hotel.
Accession 6-2009 (2.26 m textual records; 1882-1920). Records in the accession deal with the business affairs of Hughes & Company. Accession also contains records related to the personal affairs of J.H. Hughes.
Records from 1882-1889; predominant 1882 include: business corresondence. Much of the correspondence is between Hughes and his business associates T.T. Atkinson and Mr. Kennedy at Rat Portage in Ontario. Mr. Bambridge, who ran the Souris Yard is also mentioned frequently. There is also corresopndence related to the Reid Farm, Hughes' first commercial faming venture. Various documents are concerned with J.H. Ashtown Hardware, the Manitoba Government Immigration and Intellegence Office, Butler Paper & Co., Canadian Pacific Rail, Boston and Maine Rail, Keewatin Mills, Charmichael Clothing, The Hudson's Bay Company and the City of Brandon
Records from 1889-1893 include: financial records including debts owed to or by J.H. Hughes & Company; correspondence between the company and partners and employees regarding the running of the lumber company in Brandon, Souris, Rat Portage and Rainy River (shipping of goods, camp supplies, maintenance of mills, ordering of goods, trade with other lumber companies); legal records pertaining to litigation regarding debts; correspondence with the Department of the Interior, the Department of Crown Lands, and the Department of Indian Affairs; correspondence regarding real estate in Brandon and land sales in the various regions of the lumber and grain company's operation; correspondence between J.H. Hughes and his borthers A.J. Hughes, Charles B. Hughes, his cousin J.R. Hughes and his father J.C. Hughes regarding both business and personal matters. Also includes telegraphs, postcards, magazine subscriptions, and Masonic brochures.
Records from 1893-1895 include: business correspondence between Hughes & Atkinson Co. and lumber supliers in Ontario and the midwestern United States. The records deal with the activities of the company, including payment of accounts, ordering and shipping of lumber and lumber related goods.
Records from 1897-1901 include: business letters, postcards, telegrams and memorandum of the Hughes and Long Lumber Company.
Records from 1907, 1913-1915; predominant 1914 include: business correspondence, product information and legal correspondence generated and/or recieved during business activities. There are also a series of miscellaneous files containing material related to Brandon municipal politics.
Records from 1915 include: business and personal correspondence to Hughes & Company pertaining to the J.H. Hughes Lumber Co. and farming ventures in Saskatchewan.
Records from 1911-1920; predominant 1919 include: business receipts and correspondence of Hughes & Company under the management of Willard C. Hughes, as well as family correspondence that is both personal and business-related. Business activities are largely related to the company's rental property in Brandon and farms in south eastern Saskatchewan, including Storybooks, ASK. It also includes some correspondence related to the Brandon Board of Trade and Civics (Willed Hughes was Chairman of the Power Committee). Records also include correspondence urging the province to construct an electrical transmission line to Brandon from Winnipeg, the possibility of a detachment of the Royal North West Mounted Police re-locating to Brandon, the operation of the Soldiers Re-Settlement Board, and the vacating of the Winter Fair building, which had been used to house interned World War I prisoners starting in the spring of 1915. References to the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 and the Teamsters Strike in Brandon of 1919 also occur in the correspondence.
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Accession 21-2008 was processed and described as part of a Historiography class assignment in September and October 2008. The fonds was broken down into smaller components (1-3 boxes of records) spanning a few years and each student was assigned all the records in a particular time frame. Description by Christy Henry, Tom Mitchell, Andrew Dagley, Jill Sutherland, Laurel Neustaedter, Kylie Staslia, Tim Banman, Christine Shumay, Aimee Brown and Erica Smith.
See fonds level description of RG 4 for history/bio of MPE
Scope and Content
This artificially created sub-series consists of documents and correspondence pertaining to MPE's acquisition of private companies. The records include the following:
1. Kenmore Industries 1959-1977
2. Seed Plant 1945-1971
3. Northern Canadian Seed Sales Ltd. 1947-1971
4. Fairway Milling and Grain Co. 1970-1971
5. Terminal #2 – Horne Elevator 1937-1977
6. Douglas Depot 1968-1972
7. Ogilvie – Lake of the Woods Purchase 1955-1961
8. Western Canada Elevators 1940
9. Northern Canadian Seed Sales Ltd. 1965-1970
10. Westland Elevators Limited
11. Kenmore Industries Share Certificates 1959-1975
12. Gillespie Grain Company Ltd. 1935-1944
Kenmore Industries Minute Book 1959-1975
13. Burns Foods Ltd. (Pool Packers Ltd. Purchase) 1969-1971
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
Menteith Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: Certificate of incorporation May 1927 Memorandum of association and general by-laws May 1927 General by-laws to October 27, 1952 Amending Supplementary Agreement October 15, 1936 Minutes of a meeting of the provisional Directors of Menteith June 24, 1927 Minutes of the first general meeting of shareholders June 24, 1927 Directors resolution October 1961. Minutes of Executive Board Meetings, Loosely bound 1927 - 1930, Volume 1, 25 November 1930 - Volume 8, 2 February 1987. Minutes of Shareholders Annual Meetings, 1930 - 1987 (61 reports) Financial records & statistics, Statement of surplus August 1948 - July 1949 Annual Financial Statement & Report July 1928 Statement of cost of Menteith Elevator April 13, no year. Correspondence, Letters dated 1927, 1943, 1962, 1963 1974 & 1979 Memo - no date. Membership, Membership lists - March 1943, February 27, 1957, December 14, 1962 & May 1968 List of surviving members as of December 28, 1974. Miscellaneous, Receipt from John Deere Plow Company Dec. 5, 1941 Record of attendance 1944-1945 & 1977-1978 Map of MPE's Districts & Sub-districts, Pool Locals & Associations Requisitions for minute book May 4, 1982 Program - no date DRP Grain Value Table 1954 No. 8 Summary of Traffic Rules & Regulations on Bulk Grain Shipments from country elevators August 1968 "The Canada Grain Act" January 1952 Book- "Storage Reckoner" October 1957 "Canada Grain Act" 1952 Pamphlet on Co-op Hospitality week July 30 - August 5, 1973 Book "People and Progress" Correspondence and plans for the 50th Anniversary of MPE Guest book MPE 50th Anniversary 50th Annual MPE report 1975 Pamphlet "50 Years of Service at Cost" Framed certificate certifying Menteith as being a member of the Co-operative Union of Manitoba - April 4, 1960 DRP Grain Code.Corporate Name: Municipality of Glenwood
Starbuck Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1925 - 1961Permission to sell Wheat and Coarse Grains, 22 September 1925 Permission to sell Wheat and Coarse Grains, 27 February 1926 Permission to sell Wheat and Coarse Grains, 24 May 1926 Permission to sell Wheat and Coarse Grains, 6 October 1926 Indenture between Starbuck CEA and MPE, 1 August 1927 Starbuck Elevator Petition, 1927 - 1928 By-law nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11, no date By-law nos. 12 and 13, 23 July 1931 Shareholders meeting re: By-laws 12 and 13, 23 July 1931 Directors meeting re: By-laws 12 and 13, 23 July 1931 Agreement between Starbuck CEA and MPE, 1 August 1931 By-law no. 14, 19 November 1931 One share of capital stock, 1 December 1931 Meeting re: By-law no. 15, 1933 Agreement between Starbuck CEA and MPE, 1 February 1933 Agreement between Starbuck CEA and MPE, 15 October 1936 By-law no. 16, 24 October 1939 Agreement for sale, 22 October 1940 By-law authorizing cancellation of share capital, 22 October 1940 By-law authorizing cancellation of share capital, 30 October 1941 By-law nos. 18, 19, 20 and General By-laws, 30 October 1941 By-law nos. 18, 19, 20 and General By-law, no date By-law no. 21, 11 June 1948 Allocation of surplus, 15 January 1949 By-law no. 22, 17 November 1949 Agreement between MPE and Starbuck CEA, 1 August 1960 Directors' Resoltuion, 18 October 1961 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1929 (1 report) Financial records and statistics Analysis of Operating Results, 1951 - 1958 (6 reports) Statement of surplus, 1940 - 1954 (11 reports) Final statement, 1929 - 1952 (21 reports) Auditors reports, 1928 - 1967 (23 reports) Cost of Starbuck Elevator, no date Review of Operating Result, 1960 - 1961 Capital loan summary, 31 July 1951 Sales of Grain and Screenings, no date Payment of surplus earnings, 1946 - 1953 Physical capacities of elevators, 29 October 1959 Surplus payments, 1948 - 1953 (3 reports) Allocation of surplus, 1954 - 1955 Receipts, 1927 - 1928 (7 receipts) Correspondence, 1927 - 1967 Membership list, 1929 - 1949 Miscellaneous Directors Attendance list, 1945 - 1959 (8 reports) Officers and Directors, 1954 - 1955 Application to sell Wheat or Coarse Grain, 5 March 1927 - 22 April 1927 (3 reports) Minutes of meeting of Red River Valley Pool Local Association, 16 February 1951 Blueprint - Improved Pneumatic Wagon and Sleigh, no date Index of activities, 1928 Notice of Pool Elevator meeting, 8 March 1927 Newspaper article (first annual convention of Manitoba Wheat Pool, no date Control sample certificate, 1928 (2 reports). Blank forms to list certificates for Wheat and Coarse grains. Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of MacDonald
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
Bernie Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: Memo on information of Incorporation of Associations (no date) By-law re members equity Memo on "Repeal" by-law No., 19 By-laws No. 18, 19, 20 and general by-laws Memo re by-laws No. 8, 9, 10 & 11 Sample copy of the indenture between MPE Ltd. 1926 Certificate of Incorporation May 2, 1927 Signed indenture August 1, 1927 By-law No. 12 July/31 Agreement between Birnie and MPE August 1, 1931 By-law No. 13 July/31 By-law No. 14 Nov/31 Agreement between Birnie & MPE Ltd. February 1, 1933 Agreement between Birnie & MPE Ltd. October 15, 1936 By-law No. 16 Nov/39 By-law to authorize the cancellation of the Associations authorized share capital Nov/40 By-law No. 20 July/41 By-law No. 18 July/41 General by-laws July/41 By-law No. 19 July/41 Draft resolutions for special meetings to deal with by-law amending general by-laws Nov/47 By-law No. 21 Nov/47 Amendment to General by-laws May/49 By-law No. 22 Nov/49 By-law No. 23 Nov/51 Agreement between Bernie Elevator & MPE August 1, 1951 General by-laws Oct/52 Agreement between Bernie Co-op Elevator & MPE December 15, 1966 By-law 26 Nov/66. Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 10 October 1939 - volume 5, 5 June 1973. Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1928 - 1971 (42 reports). Annual meetings file contains minutes of various annual meetings dated November 1954 - November 1969. Financial records and statistics; Annual financial statements 1928-1931 Comparative statement 1932 Summary of Manitoba Pool Elevator Operations January 1935 Invoice from C.N.R. dated January 31, 1928 Cost of Birnie Elevator Birnie Co-operative Elevator Association - Analysis of operating results 1951-1963 Details of grain earnings and general expenses 1954-1956 & 1964-1968 Auditors reports 1960, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1968 1967 Highlights Consolidated Statement of Operations Estimate June 22, 1951 Birnie - letter of operations for a three year period (1930) MPE List of Country organization expenses Financial standing July 31, 1972 Birnie statement as of July 31, 1951 recording fiscal years 1932-1939 statement of contributions, payments, assistance, deficits and net credits Allocation of surplus 1953/54 Analysis of operating results 1951/52 Assessment notice 1928 & 1932 Statement of surplus by years August 1, 1947/55 Final statement 1932, 1947-1952 Statement of Grain A/C and handle June 25, 1929 Analysis of operating results 1958-1960. Correspondence, Agents letters November 6, 1947 - February 16, 1972 Letters from Manitoba Pool Elevators to Birnie Elevator Letter to Birnie Elevator from Scarth & Scarth Barristers & Solicitors May 2, 1957 Letters to Birnie Elevator from various people for the tender of the annex, 1947 Letter to Mr. G.M. Hall from Birnie Elevators Letter to Birnie Elevator from the Western Producer Letter to Birnie Elevator from Neepawa Consumers Co-op Ltd. Membership list, Secretaries membership list March 1943, April 1946, May 1950, November 1956, October 1961 Membership roster May 1968 Changes in membership Letters indicating new members dated 1946-1969. Miscellaneous Banquet Expenses March 1950 Heating Contract 1967 Receipt for donation to Children's Aid Society Invoice from Bell Lumber Co. Ltd. Record of Directors' attendance at meetings 1952-1969 Record of members attendance at Pool Committee meetings 1971/72 Notebook of meetings dated October 25, 1965 List of parties who signed Birnie Elevator petition list, 1927 Pamphlet commemorating the 25th anniversary of MPE, October 26, 1949 Pamphlet on Barley varieties in Manitoba dated March 1938 Pamphlet on Act of Incorporation and general by-laws MPE pamphlet on 25 years of service Cut- out from newspaper of Pool symbol dated 1965 Advertisement of Anthes furnaces advanced design Page 17 of "Operating Tools to be Supplies" Why grain producers should become members of Pool Elevators Association Membership in Manitoba Pool Elevators Ltd. December 4, 1931 Petition signed by people from Birnie desirous of having Manitoba Co-op Wheat producers aquire an elevator at Birnie Agriculture policy October 27, 1941 MPE directors report 1964-1965 Co-operation Life Insurance Company policy.
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
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"
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
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.
Glenora Co-operative Elevator Association Limited Organizational papers: 1925 - 1982 Petition for membership in MPE, 1925 Memorandum of Association and General By-laws, 14 March 1927 Minutes of Provisional Directors meeting, 8 June 1927 Minutes of First Shareholders meeting, 8 June 1927 Minutes of Permanent Directors meeting, 8 June 1927 Lease, 1 August 1927 Application for share of stock, 22 July 1931 Shareholders meeting, 22 July 1931 Directors meeting, 22 July 1931 By-law no. 12 and 13, 22 July 1931 By-law no. 14, 1 December 1931 Agreement, 1 August 1931 Agreement, 1 February 1933 Minutes of special Board of Directors meeting, 15 February 1933 Approving of cancellation of share capital, 29 October 1949 By-law 18, 20 and General By-laws, 11 November 1941 Approval of By-laws no. 18, 19, 20, and General By-laws, no. date Amending supplementary agreement, 19 June 1944 Guarantee - Agreement, June 1947 By-law no. 21, 27 August 1948 Agreement, 1 August 1951 By-law no. 23, 15 April 1952 By-law no. 1961-149, 12 October 1961 By-law no. 24 and 25, 7 November 1961 By-law no. 26, 15 December 1966 Agreement, 15 December 1966 Agreement, 1 August 1972 Consolidation order no. 1162/76, 4 March 1976 New operating agreement March 4, 1976 Certification of dissolution, 18 May 1982 Minutes of Executive Board meetings, volume 1, 2 April 1927 - volume 7, 12 December 1977 Minutes of Shareholders Annual meetings, 1929 - 1967 (13 reports) Financial records and statistics Statement of surplus, 1940 - 1955 (12 reports) Final statements, 1939 - 1952 (8 reports) Auditors' reports, 1928 - 1975 (40 reports) Analysis of Operating Results, 1952 - 1963 (8 reports) Detail of Grain earnings, 1964 - 1967 (4 reports) Statement of Grain account and Handle, 15 July 1931 Capital loan statement, 31 July 1951 Outstanding coal accounts, 12 March 1953 Outstanding coal accounts, 30 January 1953 Distribution of surplus, 31 July 1946 Resolutions, 1951 (2 pieces) Review of Operating Results, 1961 - 1964 (2 reports) Correspondence, 1928 - 1961 Membership list, 1953 Miscellaneous Directors' attendance lists, 1944 - 1966 (12 reports) Board meeting held at Glenora, 8 June 1936 Requisition for payment of Directors fees, 20 November 1965 Requisition for payment of Directors fees, 19 November 1966 Record of attendance 1978 A meeting of the Members of Glenora Elevator Association January 21 1976 List of Country Organization Expenses Letter re forms for use in requisitioning payment of fees and attached forms Pamphlet "Act of Incorporation" General By-laws 1977 Historical Data Manitoba Pool Elevators and Grain Industry 1977 Corporate Name: Rural Municipality of Argyle
