Group photograph mounted on cardboard of General Foreman S.C. Hill and his City foremen – likely from the City Engineer’s Department - 1898-1909. Each man is numbered and named below the photograph. seated, left to right: Bob Wilson, Dick Jones, S.C. Hill, J.S. Nicholas, L.O. Bailey; standing, left to right: Mr. Garfield, Jack Cassop, Tom McMunn, unknown, Sandy Cathcart, William Reid, G. Spence, John Burns, William Burke, and unknown. Photograph by Meyers Studios, Limited.

A copy of nominations for Mayor for the year 1875, written down by the City Clerk during a meeting of the electors of the City of Winnipeg on December 28, 1874. Francis E. Cornish was nominated by Andrew Strang and Alexander Logan, and William Nassau Kennedy was nominated by J.H. Ashdown and [H.L. Shelton?].

Nomination paper for William Nassau Kennedy for Mayor of Winnipeg for the year 1875, signed by J.H. Ashdown and [H.L. Shelton?] at a meeting of the electors of the City of Winnipeg on December 28, 1874.

Nomination paper for Francis E. Cornish for Mayor of Winnipeg for the year 1875, signed by Andrew Strang and Alexander Logan at a meeting of the electors of the City of Winnipeg on December 28, 1874.

A voting tabulation sheet for Winnipeg’s first civic election on January 5, 1874 in West Ward. Voters’ names are recorded, along with who they voted for (Mayor and Aldermen), and the document was confirmed by William Nassau Kennedy, who was acting City Clerk.

Statutory declaration of Alexander MacDougall Brown when he was sworn in as City Clerk in March, 1874.

Statutory declaration of Francis E. Cornish when he was sworn in as Mayor on January 19, 1874.