Last 384 pages of bound, handwritten volume of minutes of Winnipeg's City Council between January 11 and December 25, 1875. The minutes briefly recount the proceedings of meetings and are the official, legal record of decisions made by Council. Recorded decisions reveal municipal governance, resource allocation, and service delivery. Minutes also refer to topics debated, reports considered, by-laws introduced, communications received, decisions reached and votes taken during council meetings.

Individual minute passages are marked with numbers in the margins that correspond with a hand-written index.

First 218 pages of bound, handwritten volume of minutes of Winnipeg's City Council between January 19 and December 28, 1874. The minutes briefly recount the proceedings of meetings and are the official, legal record of decisions made by Council. Recorded decisions reveal municipal governance, resource allocation, and service delivery. Minutes also refer to topics debated, reports considered, by-laws introduced, communications received, decisions reached and votes taken during council meetings.

Individual minute passages are marked with numbers in the margins that correspond with a hand-written index.

By-law number 10589, It amending By-law number 10020 (pensions of civic employees) to provide those who participated in the General Strike credit for their employment prior to the strike, rather than having to start over as new employees.

A letter from the City Clerk's Office to G.B. Clarke, Secretary of the Social Welfare Commission, informing him that Alderman J. Blumberg has been appointed to the Commission in the absence of Aldermen John Queen and A.A. Heaps.

A letter from the City Clerk's Office to Alderman J. Blumberg, informing him that Council appointed him to the Social Welfare Commission during the absence of Aldermen A.A. Heaps and John Queen.

A letter from G.B. Clarke, Secretary of the Social Welfare Commission, to C.J. Brown, City Clerk, requesting a representative from Ward 5 be appointed to the Commission, in lieu of the continued absence of Aldermen John Queen and A.A. Heaps.

A petition, signed by dozens of residents of Winnipeg's Ward 5, requesting that their representatives on City Council, Aldermen John Queen and A.A. Heaps - who were among the strike leaders arrested in the General Strike - be released from prison on bail.

A letter from C.H. Burgess, a railway worker, explaining to the Mayor and Council that the blame for the strike should be assigned to the owners of Vulcan Iron Works and the Manitoba Iron Workers.

A telegram from Mayor Gray to V. Cloutier, Clerk of a Parliamentary Committee, informing him that he cannot respond to the request for information until the "present attempt to overthrow constituted government is defeated”.

A telegram to Mayor Gray from V. Cloutier, Clerk of a Parliamentary Committee collecting data on abnormal pricing of food, clothing, and fuel, asking that several organizations be brought together to provide data.

A letter from G.S. Wilson, Assistant Secretary of the Union of Canadian Municipalities to Mayor Gray, expressing sympathy for his position during the strike and asking that he attend the Union's conference and share his "experience and wisdom".

A letter from V.M. McFarlane, Secretary-Treasurer for the Town of Stonewall Manitoba containing resolution passed by Stonewall's Council that other Manitoba municipalities join them in convincing the Provincial government to introduce legislation to limit sympathetic strike action.

A letter from C.J Brown, City Clerk, to the Mayor and City Council regarding a resolution passed at an informal meeting of Council that stated strikers' positions are to be filled and that each employee be required to sign a pact that they will not engage in sympathetic strike action.

A letter from A.K. Godfrey, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Citizen's Committee of One Thousand to the City Clerk's Office containing resolutions passed by the Citizens' Committee on May 24, asking that said resolutions be shared with City Council.

A letter from A.K. Godfrey, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Citizen's Committee of One Thousand to the City Clerk's Office containing resolutions passed by the Citizens' Committee on May 24, asking that said resolutions be shared with City Council.

A letter from the City Clerk's Office to J.G. Glassco, Manager of the City Light and Power Department, and Theo A. Hunt, City Solicitor, informing them that Council had come to agreement with striking civic electrical workers.

A letter from the City Clerk's Office to Theo. A. Hunt, City Solicitor, informing him that the settlement was adopted by Council and instructing him to prepare agreements with specific civic employees.

A letter from E. Robinson, Secretary of the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council, proposing points of settlement that the striking civic employees would agree to.

A letter from A.E. Boyle, Secretary of the Winnipeg Board of Trade, to C.J. Brown, City Clerk, containing a resolution passed by the Winnipeg Board of Trade that supports the City's handling of the civic strike.

A letter from the City Clerk's office to J.G. Classco, Manager of the City Light and Power Department, J.E. Buchanan, Chief of the Fire Department, T.H. Hooper, Superintendent of Waterworks Department, and the Board of Control, informing them that Council passed a resolution that those employees who did not go on strike are to be compensated for their extra work.