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- 15:54, 11 August 2025 Deacon Reservoir (hist | edit) [317 bytes] Gcook (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Check out this summary by the City of Winnipeg. https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/water/treatment/plantBackground.stm")
- 12:33, 30 July 2025 Thomas Russ Deacon (hist | edit) [3,418 bytes] Gcook (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Thomas Russ Deacon was a civil engineer and the 24th Mayor of the City of Winnipeg in 1913 and 1914 who is remembered for advocating for a high-quality supply of water for the City of Winnipeg. ==Education== Deacon was born in Ontario. Leaving school at 11 he started work in a country store and by age 12, Deacon was working in logging camps where he became a foreman by the age of 20. Deacon realized the value of education and returned to school to earn his high school di...")
- 10:40, 29 July 2025 Engineering and Geoscience Education Foundation (hist | edit) [4,994 bytes] Gcook (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Background== In 2002, when the Association was seeking a way to support the construction of the new Engineering and Information Technology Complex (EITC) at the University of Manitoba, they found that under the Act, there was very little the Association was permitted to do in terms of direct financial assistance. The Association therefore determined to work with a number of members in establishing a charitable foundation, and in 2003 the APEGM Foundation Inc. was creat...")
- 00:39, 23 July 2025 Urban Drainage (hist | edit) [310 bytes] Gcook (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Darren Bernhardt of CBC News posted a great description of the history of drainage within the City of Winnipeg. Please follow the link to read his article. thumb")
- 16:44, 22 July 2025 Manufactured Gas and Distribution (hist | edit) [11,045 bytes] Gcook (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Early gas manufacturing and distribution in Winnipeg== As the population of Manitoba started to grow in the late 1800s, so did the energy needs of the blossoming communities. With technology emerging for electrical and gas lighting, a rivalry began among companies supplying these competing energy sources that continued for many years. In 1873, the population of the Red River settlement was a mere 1,000 people when the City of Winnipeg was incorporated. The Winnipeg...")
