Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fees tinted by lature interesting gleaned from departmental reports of 1870-1374. By a. G. Dexter City the statements contained in 1 i e Tieso reports dated Only 50 x and May Nap Tju appear almost Unbe Lanny of the present generation Viil . Be interested visitors in the archives i the first Deputy minister of Public works Althou Gli he went under the Section 01 the provincial Horary was v. Beau. Which is being organized gradually and it his report which opens but thoroughly by the new librarian i the volume and covers the first legis w. J. Healy. The a commode la of the to 1s74. The Deputy s opening report Dis Tion and Lor this depart the 3tate of Winn ment Are. At present rather the air. There Are a number of books papery and letters thai have brought to Lig t and which be seen and reviewed by those who can House spare the time. I cause while rummaging of these volumes Tho Peg and the province at that time. He states without explanation that the Boon us pairs coming under his department were roads and Bridges Public build Ings parliament House government and. Finally supposedly be of least importance agriculture. The inclusion of this Branch of the government service would Al Tho most seem to be an afterthought Al writer came across one which is 01 though today it is the Basic Industry particular tit next at this time As i of the country and requires a Cabinet much because of the fait i minister and a very Large government present year is the 50lh anniversary j staff to attend to its needs of Tho Entrance of Manitoba into Eon j but let us look at some of the other As from the duet thai it is j entries. Roads and Bridges have also also tiie year that the. Government i in own from a Mere Side Issue to a took Possession of tiie new Parlia j position of great prominence. By or. Ment buildings. Tho Book mentioned Beaupre s detailed report later on contains the reports of the. Ministers shall see the activities in this Rind cd Piniy ministers of Public works connection upon which the first prov commencing at 1s7u. J Omni font of Tho province embarked. To those who Are not old timers. Under the Good roads commission at but came into the country at i later i the present time this department is time after Winnipeg had passed i doing Yeoman work for the province. Through the initial of grow to j tiie annual expenditures of which from a Village to a town in airy go merriment Heitst i and often More run into a million a year. Ali St government building. Or. Beaupre in opening his report writes As follows on the forma Tion of the government of Manitoba it was found necessary to procure and furnish suitable offices for the transaction of business and accordingly i received instructions from Hon. Alfred Boyd then acting minis Ter of Public works to proceed with the building which is now us Cumiea by the customs apparently the High Cost of living was quite a problem at that time to the meagre population of Marist Una for or. Beaupre continues tins was in the of the year when everything in the shape of lumber hardware Etc., was not Only scarce but very expensive and consequently the outlay incurred by the govern ment was proportionately great. The wages demanded by workmen were then very High and As an instance of the Cost of material at that time. I Mav state that the Only lumber pro curable was either Poplar Spruce or Oak five or six inches in Width sawn by whip saw and Selling at the very High Price of ?75 per feet. If or. Beaupre was alarmed concerning these conditions what would he think if he were alive today and i could read of the advances to work i men in later years what would to think if he could learn that Oak instead of being per feet was almost unobtainable Ami when obtainable at least 5350 or for the same amount but to continue the report. Notwithstanding that the -building1 selected required a Good Deal of alteration arid repairs i succeeded in making it comfortable and it was divided As follows first floor one room for two clerks one for the i lion provincial treasurer one for the i Library one waiting rom one Kitchen and one dining room for the care taker second floor one room for the i Hon. Provincial Secretary one for the i Hon. . One for the Honl the minister of Public works and sheriff s one bedroom for the caretaker s fam i of police and the report does not state who this fortunate caretaker was who could command his quarters including dining room and in the the e office of the chief a guard room. The second floor of the new Wing consisted of. The judge s room and the Crown prosecutor s room and on the eminent buildings of Manitoba and that at a time when space was Premium. Or. Beaupre. However runs on in the month of january 1871, received instructions to fit up a place for the purpose of holding the first pc estion of the first Parlia ment of Iman Toba. Accordingly .1 proceeded to the residence of a. G. B. B. A1 first floor were also the Protono office and the witnesses and grand jury rooms. All these alterations together with the necessary desks Pigeon holes tables chairs stoves and other furniture Cost the government a Large sum of troubles with Pontoon Bridges. The report continues with an account of the manner of Bridges by which Means of passage were Poss been tinder consideration for i space is Given to troubles experienced Era Days was h Paliy approved of i in connection Bridges. It Aiice the negotiations with or. Ban was found that the cables connecting Matyne for the e of the House were the pontoons were being frequently frequently in fact that or. Legislative Assembly chamber. Beaupre after repeatedly referring to l. The troubles arising in this connect the location of this House is Well i to finally names one of the parties it stood near the site of responsible. Shows set adrift or present of cuppa of the customs broken Loose from the moorings buildings the Corner of Meder Drift d Down and worked havoc with Mot Avenue and main Street. The pontoons across the River. The As soon As the government be f volunteers Volch apparently cured Possession of the building situated up the River some Dos want to won at once to a so jfl2-.tanoe from tha Pontoon Bridge across necessary alterations. On the f Rivers the River is not ground floor by pulling Down one named waa responsible for wrecking j partition. 1 formed a room for the d occasion and cans legislative Assembly 21 feet by 17 s state this lowering of the care connecting the two shores shall give no Tice to that effect to. The ferryman in charge at least one half hour pre Vious to such passage either verb ally in writing or by blowing the steam whistle three times that All Flat boats running Down the River shall cause notice of their passage to be Given to the ferryman thereby j saving a Good Deal of trouble and annoyance and that when a steam boat pleasure boat or any other River Craft will have to run up or Down the River the owner or persons in charge of said vessel shall furnish the men required for the removal and replacing of the so it will be seen that even in Thomas lusted furniture. For arbitration on and Pem Bina s60.92. Early times Manitoba was out after the Scalp of the Idle Rich. Ill. Beau pre before closing his report makes note of the fact that the new Wing of the courthouse received three Coats of paint on the inside and that the entire building was treated in a similar manner externally. Expenditures on Public buildings. 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On Wilher Side of thu i Tabia Vun Tho desks twelve in number Lii Fere being one Hietik for every two members. There wore however separate seats Asim Del Crich for the cleric and the ser Geant alarms. At one end i erected u Gillery for the use of the Public Sis Well As place for the of the the of the room is taken into cons de ration it will become apparent at once that or. Achieved no inconsiderable Leat in making so Many dispensations in so. I invited i. Room. But to was faced with even greater difficulties Ihan Are his 6uccebv.ors today for he had also to furnish space fur the upper House of As the coir Jill. Which after v. Period of 1 our yours was finally Clis solved. The present sheriff of the province. Colin Inkster was Tho Spe Altor of this House. Or. Beaupre deals with this latter problem As follow on the opposite site of the Hall i fitted up a Large room for the use of the legislative Council the furniture of which consisted of a throne Tor Tho lieutenant sufi nor. A Long table and the requisite number or chairs for the honorable members As we Lias a heat for honorable speaker of the upper the Deputy minister again announces that the fittings were rather expensive and in consequence Cost the government a Large sum of Money. With this he leaves this subject however and goes of to Deal with the manner in which the government provision for the roads of the province. Initial Road work. The opening of the roads next engr Agod the attention of the g Overmi enc and the fallowing were proceeded with without delay tiie Road loading from Pembina to Winnipeg from to the Indian Settle ment Bower fort Garry and from Winnipeg to Portage la Prairie. All i Hes e were placed in a state of re i pair and the government also established a Road on the East Side of the River from Riviere a la Seine to where the ferry was at that since that time All the roads mentioned have developed into the Prin Cipal one.1 leading from Winnipeg Pembina now a favorite driveway of motorists. As far As i it. Norbert it is Tir will of this sum Mer a Road. The. Road mentioned As leading toward fort Garry is Gravelled from Winnipeg to Selkirk. H was a Short distance from this Point that the Indian.re.-., serve referred to was situated being sold in recent years and the indians transferred to a Point farther to the North. The Road mentioned from j to Portage is the present ave to which bears the name. But this was not All that was entailed in Tho government Road programme of that Day. Or. Beaupre continues the summer of 1s71 the government undertook to construct Sev eral of the streets of Winnipeg main. Post office and notre Dame streets were then ditched Tho Neces Saiy culverts placed and a portion of the Road leading to port age la Prairie was treated in a. Like the matter of the Public purse however seemed very much in evidence. He continues these pub he works while carried on at a heavy Cost to the government were a source not Only of usefulness to the peo Polof the province but they were at the time of great assistance in employing discharged volunteers and emigrants who would have been out of work and unable to obtain a Means of this was also a. Situation not unlike thai which faced the province some 50 years later on demobilization of the Canadian overseas forces. Air. Beaupre. Continuing his report describes the influx. If settlers into the province which was sufficiently great in the eyes of the government at that time to cause u. Decision that Means be taken to provide for them. A log House was accordingly rented Tho very first immigration office in the from or. A. G. B. Bannatyne who had furnished the province with the parliament build Ings by the Way arid stocked with provisions Camp Beds and so Forth in order to meet the situation. During 1871, the report states 150 persons were aided in this manner. Provincial Library. The provincial Library is next re viewed and or. Beaupre informs us that it was furnished with shelves i which could be arranged to suit any j size of Book and that these shelves i were built in sections fourteen in number with a Crown Cornice Over All. This also provides a striking con Trast to show the development of the province. At the present time the provincial Library occupies several Large rooms in the Capitol and includes a total of some volumes. The report then continues the government offices were All now in Cier one roof and As conveniently arranged As it was possible to make them under the this has always been a state of affairs which or. Beaupre s successors have striven to attain and which at the present time is practically impossible j the Success of the first Deputy min ister however was not of Long Dura i Tion As will be seen later. J in the Spring of he it was found to build an j addition in the rear of the police Sta Tion in order to give More room for prisoners. There were four new cells in this thus increasing the total from three to seven and preventing the crowding of prisoners the j construction of a Wing to the court j House was also gone into and was decided the measurements of the addition being is feet in Width by 50 feet in length. This building stood on the Corner of William Avenue and main Street on or about the site at present occupied by the Union Bank. The construction of the new Wing however necessitated a readjustment of the a hour building which is de scribed by or. Beaupre As follows the ceiling of the court room was raised from eight feet to is feet. When finished the building was divided As follows a. Court room 38 feet by 50 feet considerably larger than the legislative with a ceiling 13 feet High and furnished with plenty of ventilation and Good i Light was on. The ground floor. Underneath were the prisoners cells the damage which required the government to spend some ?200 in Pur. Ting it to rights once More. Finally however or. Beaupre hit upon a so Lution to the problem which he expresses in his report by Way of a re commendation to the government. This a Lens As follows that All vessels whose passage up and Down the red River will Neces Ashdown plumbing work i furniture 5399.18 total the Toals Given May not Check up with the items published because in some instances these items have been left out. The Cost of the government offices says or. Beaupre which have Al ready been described amounted to this contains an item of s2.43, which amount was paid to the expenses for lumber and Tim ber in the government building pro gramme amounted to the total outlay for the parliament build Ings government offices police Sta Tion and. Courthouse amounted cd the roads and Bridges also How Ever had to be fixed up in the Man Ner mentioned at the Public expense and or. Beaupre gives the following amounts in this regard construction work on the Pembina Highway 133.16 construction work in Winni Peg construction work in St. Boniface construction work on the fort Garry Road 443.14 construction work on the Portage Road surveying work in the highways to port Garry Portage la Prairie Point do Cherie 8614.93 total As far As the ferries Are concern in they appeared also in the do tailed list of Tho expenditures amount stated to have been spen in their Upkeep being this brings the total under the administration of the apartment of Public works for till opening term of the legislature Manitoba up to the Large Cagura a approximately or an aver the 5-ears covered at per year. 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