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PE001336.47 · File
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Contains:

  • David Campbell Letters: Oct 2 1920, Investment advice fir the Brotherhood.
  • Morefield Letters: a Winnipeg brother got into trouble in AB and letters are regarding the repayments of debts. July 31 - Dec. 15 1920
  • Consumptive Allowance Letters: Brother Trites was injured and in order to get his Brotherhood EI he must undergo a medical exam. December 16 1920
  • Termination of Strike: Declaration of the end of a legal strike on Dec. 6 1920
  • November Bulletin: Nov. 1 1920. Contains the decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board in legal matters.
  • Mile Suggestion Letter: Suggestion from Brother green on how to continue to employ a large number of people during the winter months by slightly reducing everyone's millage.
  • Memorandum Of Agreement: Agreement between the North-West Commercial Travellers' Association of Canada and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen 127 (Jan 1 1921)
  • One blank ballot form: Ballot left blank, other side has a series of notes
  • 1922 Directory (43 pp): Directory listing Canadian and American members of the subject union
  • 2 completed beneficiary application forms: filled in by Archibald Alfred Dyer.
  • Monthly financial report:For the month of Dec 1914. has equations written in pencil on cover.
  • “Wage Reduction Movement of 1938":
  • Statement of financial secretary of Winnipeg Northern Lights Lodge, comprised of 4 large leaves (8 pages) in booklet form: stamp dated 18 Dec 1924. signed by general secretary A. H. Hawley/Hareley
  • Approximately 60 blank forms being “Notice of Acceptance of Application of Membership":
PE001336.42 · File · 1910-1912
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Contains filled-out application forms for membership in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginmen, Northern Lights Lodge No. 127. Each form contains the name and personal information of the applicant, including their profession and length of work, his the name of his sponsor, and the signatures of the approving committee members. In addition, in printed text, each form includes the terms and conditions associated with making an application to the brotherhood.

PE001336.44 · File · Sept. 12, 1916 - Apr. 18, 1918
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Forms, labelled as coming from Canadian Government Railways Transcona Longe No. 813, related to remittance of fees assessed from members. Each form has four parts:

  • A small area which totals fees, collected from local members, that are to be remitted back to head office
  • A table for tallying up back assessments due from members who were previously expelled, but rejoined
  • A table for listing members no longer liable for assessments.
  • A list of members of the lodge.

In addition, enclosed with a number of the forms are receipts for funds remitted by the lodge to head office.

PE001336.43 · File · July 28, 1919 - Dec. 24, 1920
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Assorted documents circulated by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. These include:

  • A Sept. 24, 1920 letter, from W. S. Sloane, clarifying the terms of the Chicago Joint Working Agreement with regards to the membership of associated organizations.
  • A Sept. 1, 1920 letter from A. H. Hawley, on winding-down of the Army and Navy fund, and giving instructions on the disposal of remaining funds, which were provided on an enclosed cheque.
  • An official circular, dated Nov. 20, 1920, on the need to leavy a new special General Assssment on members.
  • The October bulletin from the Brotherhood's Office of President, dated, in pencil, Nov. 30, 1920. The bulletin details ongoing deliberations by the United States Labor Board.
  • An official circular, dated July 28, 1919 issued by the Brotherhood's Office of the Assistant President, and Organizing Department. The circular details and discusses recent changes to the organization's constitution.
  • An official circular, dated Aug. 20, 1919, on a special action taken by the Brotherhood's 28th convention, to provide a war-related waiver, allowing members a longer period to apply for changes to their beneficiary status.
  • An official circular, dated Dec. 23, 1920, issued by the Brotherhood's Office of the President. The circular details and discusses recent changes to the organization's constitution, to accomodate member furloughed from work because of economic downturn.
  • A letter, dated Dec. 24, 1920, and addressed to the Bortherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Railroad Trainmen, in addition to that of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, from the respective heads of these organizations, which forewarns against activities by the International Workers of the World.
PE001336.46 · File
Part of Winnipeg Railway Union Records Collection

Comprised of two large hardcover notebooks containing primarily minutes of meetings over an approximately 30-year period, from March 1939 to December 1968, containing 350 pages of handwritten entries. Comprised primarily of original handwritten minutes of meetings, but includes ongoing listings of monthly financial receipts and disbursements, and lists of officers elected from time to time. Both (oversize) notebooks are bound in half leather and marbled cloth (hardcover). One ledger is in Fine condition. The second is complete except that spine is missing and covers are loose at hinge, but there is no loss of text. Both ledgers are internally and externally bright and clean, and the handwritten text is remarkably handsome and legible.

2008.1.1.1.1.382 · File · 05 Sep. 1914
Part of Sir Samuel Steele Collection

Handwritten letter from Marie in Winnipeg writing to SBS in Montreal, Quebec. This is an emotional letter, with Marie expressing her fears about Harwood possibly enlisting with the army corps to fight in World War 1. 2 pp. and envelope.

Steele, Marie (de Lotbinière Harwood), 1859-1951
2008.1.1.1.1.380 · File · 07 Dec. 1910
Part of Sir Samuel Steele Collection

Handwritten letter from Marie in Winnipeg to SBS on a trip to Ottawa. Attached with Marie's letter is a Union Bank of Canada memorandum of note payable in favor of Dr. J.W. Good.

Steele, Marie (de Lotbinière Harwood), 1859-1951
2008.1.1.1.1.369 · File · 13 Jun. 1915
Part of Sir Samuel Steele Collection

Two hand-written letters, dated June 13th, from Marie to Sam. Marie attaches a personal accounts sheet with incoming/outgoing notations for Sam's information to one of the letters.

Steele, Marie (de Lotbinière Harwood), 1859-1951