City of Winnipeg Archives

Omand's Creek Park and Linear Playground

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[ca. 1955]

Part of Parks and Recreation Photograph collection

Photograph shows children and adults on a hill tobogganing. Date of photograph is unknown.

La Verendrye Band in front of the St. Boniface Cathedral

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1954

Part of Owen Clark collection

Organizational Development of the City of Winnipeg

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5 Oct. 1971

Part of City Clerk's Library collection

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.

Plunkett, Thomas J.

Survey of Refuse Collection

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27 Jul. 1953

Part of City Clerk's Library collection

A survey conducted by J.D. Woods and Gordon Limited and submitted to the Special Committee on Efficiency at the request of City of Winnipeg Engineer W.D. Hurst with the purpose of comparing Winnipeg's refuse collection services to a similar survey conducted by the University of California.

The survey examines several refuse collection routes and draws conclusion about their efficiency and costs. The survey makes reference to appendices, such as the initial letter sent by Hurst, but no appendices are attached.

Winnipeg (Man.). Special Committee on Efficiency

Programme of Competition for a new city hall

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Jul. 1912

Part of City Clerk's Library collection

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.

Winnipeg (Man.)

Report on Housing Survey of Certain Selected Areas

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1921

Part of City of Winnipeg (1874-1971)

Survey of housing in select areas of Winnipeg, prepared by Ernest W.J. Hague, Assistant Chief Health Inspector in the City of Winnipeg Health Department. Survey contains demographic, economic, geographic, and other information about housing and its effect on overall health.

The file was listed as containing maps and photographs, but no such records were found with this survey.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Recreation - Arts and Crafts