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Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance
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Request from Board of Police Commissioners to have payment approved for settlement with ex Police Chief MacPherson

A letter from G.F. Richards, Secretary to the Board of Police Commissioners, to C.J. Brown, City Clerk, asking that the Committee approve a $5000 payment for a legal settlement with D. MacPherson, whose employment as Chief of Police was terminated during the General Strike.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance

Board of Police Commissioners to Committee on Finance regarding settlement with ex Police Chief MacPherson

A letter from G.F. Richards, Secretary to the Board of Police Commissioners, to M. Peterson, Secretary of the Committee on Finance, enclosing a letter he (Richards) sent to the City Comptroller regarding the settlement payment of $5000 to ex Police Chief Donald MacPherson.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance

Letter from H. H. Clark to City regarding donation of embroidered badge of 27th Winnipeg Battalion

Letter from G. L. Gardner, City Clerk, to the Committee on Finance, enclosing a letter addressed to Mayor Stephen Juba from Herbert H. Clark of the 27th Winnipeg Battalion, regarding his wish to donate an embroidery he made of the battalion’s badge. Clark also included a photo of himself during his service in the First World War.

Clark, Herbert Henry

Reports

Forms part of Series 54. Subseries consists of the reports of the Committee on Finance from the years 1874-1903. Reports include dates read and adopted, and contain correspondence to committees, appropriation balance forms, tenders, records of attendance at meetings, and accounts to and from the comptroller.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance

Communications

Series consists of the communications packfiles of the Committee on Legislation and Reception, and Committee on Personnel and Legislation, as the Committee was later named. Records include letters sent and received by the Committees, reports of committees, files on royal visits, copies of telegrams, petitions about adult suffrage, nominations for Employees' representative on the Employer-Employee Advisory Board.

Legislation files typically consist of correspondence with City Council and the provincial government and occasionally with the governments of other jurisdictions in Canada as well as draft copies of legislation and correspondence with members of the public.

Personnel files include staffing and salary recommendations from City departments, negotiations with unions as well as various reports on employee salaries and working conditions. These include information about specific employees as well as about general positions and job classes.

Files relating to receptions may include correspondence with visitors, invoices from suppliers, programs and menus, photographs, architectural drawings or artefacts such as buttons and ribbons.

In 1958 the duties of the Committee on Personnel and Legislation were taken over by the Committee on Finance. In 1960 the Standing Committee on Utilities and Personnel was formed by By-Law 18236 to perform the combined functions of the former Committee on Personnel and Legislation and Committee on Public Works.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Legislation and Reception

Communications

Forms part of Series 54. Subseries consists of Communications packfiles from the Committee on Finance. Packfiles include letters, estimates, and reports from other committees and organizations.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance

Supply of Special Constable badges

Contains several requests to replace, return, or hand out new special constable badges that gave certain City staff such as inspectors their authority. Note that this does not include the Special Police Constables used during the General Strike.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance

Committee on Finance to City Engineer regarding wages for employee injured during strike

A letter from M. Peterson, Secretary of the Committee on Finance, to W.P. Brereton, City Engineer, informing him that the Committee has authorized payment to Robert Thomas Murdock, Domestic Waterworks staff, as he had not been able to return to his job due to injuries sustained during the General Strike.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance

Finance Committee to H.A. Robson regarding food stuffs destroyed from May 15 to July 31, 1919

A letter from the Committee on Finance to H.A. Robson, Chairman of the Board of Commerce for the Dominion of Canada, containing a report from J.H. Pearson, Chief Health Inspector, regarding the quantity and value of the food destroyed between May 15 and July 31, 1919, including that resulting from the General Strike.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Finance

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