Collection consists of current and historic material that documents the development of the City of Winnipeg and amalgamated municipalities. It includes hard-to-find published and unpublished reports, many of which did not receive wide distribution.
Item consists of 1 report (126 pages), prepared by Terry Cook of Clio Consulting (Gloucester, Ontario). Date of item is November 29, 1999. The Cook Report was adopted in principle by City Council on January 26, 2000 (Minute No. 239).
Item consists of 1 report (72 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report provides background on the Comprehensive Plan for Greater Winnipeg. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg master plan reports.
Item consists of 1 report (27 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report provides a summary and recommendations based on a series of metropolitan planning studies conducted between 1944 and 1949. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg master plan reports.
A report prepared by Thomas J. Plunkett, who was the chief advisor on the amalgamation of the Greater Winnipeg Metropolitan Area. The report was created to aid Council members with organizational questions Plunkett assessed they would be confronted with. He described it as a first attempt at setting out a working model of the organizational development of the newly unified City of Winnipeg.
Item consists of 1 brief (63 pages), prepared by H. Carl Goldenberg, Special Counsel for the City of Winnipeg, and submitted to the Province of Manitoba. Date of item is May 15, 1948.
Item consists of 1 report (31 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg - number 9 of master plan reports.
Item consists of 1 report (42 pages) that outlines the findings of the committee on the status of women in the employ of the City of Winnipeg. The committee was appointed by the Board of Commissioners (City of Winnipeg) and was comprised of civic employees. Merle McCullough of the City Clerk's Department served as chairperson of the committee. Item is dated April 1977.
Item consists of 1 report (71 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report focuses on residential areas of the Greater Winnipeg Area. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg - number 8 of master plan reports.
Similar to a request for proposals, this programme, titled, "Programme of Competition for the Selection of an Architect for the Erection of a New City Hall, Winnipeg, Man.", invites architects and architectural firms to bid for the contract to construct a new city hall. It contains information about design and administrative requirements, as well as funding, and includes a rough map of the new city hall's location. This iteration of a new city hall was never built and the project was scrapped.
Item consists of 1 annual report (36 pages) for the year 1947, prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and the Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. Item was created in 1948.
Item consists of 1 report (43 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report focuses on transit in the Greater Winnipeg Area. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg - number 4 of master plan reports.
Item consists of 1 report (56 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report focuses on zoning in the Greater Winnipeg Area. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg - number 6 of master plan reports.
Item consists of 1 report (83 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report focuses on neighbourhoods, schools, recreation, and parks in the Greater Winnipeg Area. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg - number 5 of master plan reports.
A program and invitation for a dinner held on June 18, 1924 to celebrate Winnipeg’s 50th anniversary. The booklet contains a list of those invited, a dinner menu, a list of past and present mayors and councillors, and a space to collect autographs.
Item consists of 1 report (15 pages) compiled in the Survey, Town Planning and Property Department of the City of Winnipeg. Item likely served as an internal resource. Date of item is June 1970.
Item consists of 1 pamphlet (16 pages) with information on emergency service provided in the City of Winnipeg and the "999" call center, another first for Winnipeg. Item is dated 1968 and contains a series of reproduced photographs. On verso, it says: "LITHOGRAPHED IN CANADA BY BULMAN BROS. LIMITED, WPG."
Item consists of 1 report (41 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report focuses on transportation in the Greater Winnipeg Area. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg - number 3 of master plan reports.
Item consists of 1 report (60 pages), jointly prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee and Winnipeg Town Planning Commission. The report focuses on residential areas in the Greater Winnipeg Area. Part of the Metropolitan Plan for Greater Winnipeg - number 7 of master plan reports.