ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CONTROL
About Archives and Records Control
Civic records are created, kept and managed because they contain information about decision-making, daily operations and service delivery. The City ensures that records required to meet legal and fiscal obligations are retained and that information is available when and where it is required.
In addition to their operational importance, records may have historical value. Records help us to define and understand our City. They are an irreplaceable part of the collective memory and cultural heritage of the City of Winnipeg. Archival programming facilitates the selection, preservation and research use of City records.
Archives Make a Difference
Records held by the Archives are consulted by citizens, academics, historians, students and genealogists. Through their use of City records, researchers enhance their knowledge of Winnipeg's unique history.
| * | The contents of a time capsule placed in the cornerstone of Winnipeg's new City Hall in the fall of 1875 illustrate Council concerns for that year. The capsule contained a glass bottle of grasshopper specimens (originally preserved in "spirits"), and a copy of "The Grasshopper - Whence he cometh and whither he goeth. A Rocky Mountain Epic", printed in the Free Press on August 17, 1875. |
| * | A letter to Council dated January 14, 1883 asks the City to consider granting women property owners the same voting privileges as men who owned property. Women property owners received the civic franchise in 1887 and first exercised their right to vote in 1888. |
Records Committee
The Records Committee operates under Section 110 of The City of Winnipeg Charter to “make recommendations to council, and implement policies and procedures approved by council, for the management, retention, safekeeping, disposition and destruction of records.”
Records Committee 2007 Annual Report (pdf)
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