Forms part of Fonds 15. Series consists of numbered contracts and agreements entered into by the Greater Winnipeg Water District. Contracts and agreements are typically for the supply of building materials such as steel rails, steel splice bars or telephone lines, as well as for specific projects like the construction of a gate house or for clearance of a right-of-way. Plans and specifications are included with some contracts. The series is incomplete.
Photograph of Winnipeg Aqueduct officials and their families having a picnic at Indian Bay. The men in the foreground, from left to right: unknown, Controller John James Wallace, Controller John William Astley, "Irving" [caption on negative], St. Boniface Mayor John Power Howden[?], "Shamin" [caption on negative], unknown. Photographer unknown.
Photograph of a hydrostatic pressure test on a "P.S." section of pipe for the Winnipeg Aqueduct at Canada Lock Joint Pipe Ltd. in Transcona. The pipe was designed for crossing railways and the Seine River. Photographer is unknown.
Photograph of a hydrostatic pressure test on a "P.S." section of pipe for the Winnipeg Aqueduct at Canada Lock Joint Pipe Ltd. in Transcona. The pipe was designed for crossing railways and the Seine River. Photographer is unknown.
Photograph of the route of the Winnipeg Aqueduct's 66 inch diameter reinforced concrete pipeline, looking southeast towards where the Canadian Northern Railway line crosses Rue St. Joseph. Photograph taken from a concrete tower near the Taché surge tower by an unknown photographer.
Photograph of engineers standing next to a completed section of the Winnipeg Aqueduct being backfilled by a dragline, somewhere between Prawda, Manitoba, and McMunn, Manitoba. From left to right: Engineer of Design Maxwell V. Sauer (at aqueduct), Division Engineers George F. Richan and C.J. Bruce, and unknown. Photographer is unknown.
Photograph of invert steel reinforcing for the Winnipeg Aqueduct being bent according to a template south of Anola, Manitoba. Division Engineer C.J. Bruce is at centre with his hands on his hips. Photographer is unknown.
Photograph of workers putting in box drains for a section of the Winnipeg Aqueduct between East Braintree, Manitoba, and Shoal Lake. Photographer is unknown.
A photograph of the building of the Shoal Lake Aqueduct. Officially opened on September 9, 1919. Item appears to be a photographic reproduction of an image dated June 24, 1915.
Series consists of 269 numbered by-laws of the Greater Winnipeg Water District. Two indices are available: Index to By-Laws 1-163 and Index to By-Laws 164-258. The last eleven by-laws are not included in either index. The indices list by-laws in number order and provide a description of their purpose. By-laws were drafted for a variety of reasons, including appointments to District boards, to define duties of District officers, to borrow and/or spend money, to establish rates for municipalities served by the District, and to repeal existing District by-laws.
Photograph of William G. Chace, Chief Engineer of the Winnipeg Aqueduct, standing in front of a completed aqueduct arch east of Brokenhead River. Photographer is unknown.
Forms part of Fonds 15. Series consists of communications and reports created or received by the Greater Winnipeg Water District. Included are copies of a 1912 report by Charles Slichter and Rudolph Hering’s Report on a Water Supply from Shoal Lake for the Greater Winnipeg Water District, 1913. Also included are various maps and plans for the aqueduct, aqueduct operating and intake records, correspondence regarding land right of ways and correspondence regarding the rail line constructed by the GWWD.
Photograph of a concrete section of the Winnipeg Aqueduct near Spruce Siding, Manitoba. The aqueduct section is packed with backfill and ready for more to be placed by machine. Photographer is unknown.