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City and Shoal Lake No.40 Economic Partnership

Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz and Shoal Lake No.40 Chief Kelvin Redsky signed
a letter of intent to explore economic opportunities under the new proposed management model for Winnipeg’s water and waste utility.

This is a far cry from what occurred when the Shoal Lake aqueduct was originally proposed and built. At the time, no consultation was conducted [...]

Shoal Lake: Winnipeg’s best water option

The services of four engineers — G.C. Whipple and James H. Fuertes from New York, R.S. Lea from Montreal and J.E. Schwitzer, the assistant chief engineer of the CPR were engaged to investigate a new water supply for Winnipeg. Their August 29, 1907, report prepared by the engineers singled out Shoal Lake as a viable [...]

Construction of the Railway just before the Aqueduct

An experimental station was established at Reynolds by the Manitoba department of agriculture “with a view in helping the settlers already located and to demonstrate the possibilities of the district.”
The provincial government also established a prison farm, known as the- Provincial Gaol Farm, four kilometres west of East Braintree.
Building the railway was not an easy [...]

The 90th anniversary of Shoal Lake aqueduct–ruote went over swamp, muskeg, sand and rock

Actual construction on the aqueduct began after the opening of tenders on September 19, 1914. Three major Winnipeg-based companies — Tremblay McDiarmid Company, Thos. Kelly & Sons Ltd., and the Winnipeg Aqueduct Construction Company — were awarded the contracts for the aqueduct. The first phase involved the diversion of the Falcon River, which had previously [...]

History of Aqueduct and the Shoal Lake aqueduct project.

The Romans didn’t invent the aqueduct — it’s an honour which falls to the ancient Assyrians, whose engineers were well aware that water flows down hill. King Sennacherib (72 1-705 BC) ordered the world’s first recorded aqueduct and canal system to be built to supply his capital at Ninevah with water from mountain streams 16 [...]