Typed minutes and related correspondences of the Board of Administration of the Greater Winnipeg Water District for 5 May 1916. Consists of minute numbers 1581-1598, visible in the left margin. These numbers correspond to numbers in the index.
Typed minutes of the Board of Administration of the Greater Winnipeg Water District for 19 May 1916. Consists of numbers 1599-1614, visible in the left margin. These numbers correspond to numbers in the index.
Typed minutes of the Board of Administration of the Greater Winnipeg Water District for 21 Aug. 1916. Consists of minute numbers 1731-1736, visible in the left margin. These numbers correspond to numbers in the index.
Typed minutes of the Board of Administration of the Greater Winnipeg Water District for 20 Oct. 1916. Consists of minute numbers 1804-1815, visible in the left margin. These numbers correspond to numbers in the index.
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.
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.
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 the only station woman for the construction of the Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway holding the hand of a child in front of a shelter, possibly near Shoal Lake. Photograph taken by C.J. Bruce, one of the Division Engineers for the Winnipeg Aqueduct.
Photograph of a test section of the Winnipeg Aqueduct at the Winnipeg Exhibition Grounds. Photograph faces west towards McPhillips Street and was taken by an unknown photographer.
Photograph of workers using a contractor's device for moving outside arch forms of the Winnipeg Aqueduct near Spruce Siding, Manitoba. Photographer is unknown.
Photograph of the side of a Greater Winnipeg Water District 20 cubic yard dump car at the McCorkell Pit, west of Ostenfeld, Manitoba. 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.
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 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 dump cars filling in last gap of a cofferdam between dykes at the intake of the Winnipeg Aqueduct at Indian Bay, taken from the west dyke. Photographer is unknown.