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Title: Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. fonds.
Dates: 1901-1998.
Extent: 6.39 m of textual records.
Administrative history: The Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. was a commodities' futures clearing business. It was incorporated in June 1901 under the Corporations Act of the Province of Manitoba as the Winnipeg Grain and Produce Clearing Association. Its sole purpose upon inception was to clear trades effected through the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange. It began doing so in February 1904. In later years, the W.C.C.L. cleared Commodity Futures and Options transactions for the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange. This function included ensuring that every trade had an appropriate counter-party, paying and collecting funds as a result of trading, and arranging for the delivery of exercise of items traded.
The Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. was a member-owned company consisting of numerous shareholders. Only good standing members of the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange could become shareholders. The W.C.C.L. was governed by the Canadian Grain Commission, as well as by a Board of Directors, all of whom were representatives of clearing members or clearing members themselves with the exception of one who was an outside director. Board members were elected by shareholders on an annual basis.
In August 1998, the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange ended its nearly century-long association with the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. when it announced that their new clearing provider would be the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (C.D.C.C.). The Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. dissolved and ceased operations on July 31, 1999.
Custodial history: The fonds was donated to University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections by the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. in two separate accessions in 1998 and 1999.
Scope and content: The fonds consists of financial statements and stock certificates of the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd.'s predecessor, the Winnipeg Grain & Produce Exchange Clearing Association. The fonds includes correspondence of this predecessor organization's correspondence with members, financial institutions, and government departments, as well as minute books and other textual records pertaining to annual general meetings. The second accession consists of financial statements, notices of meetings, correspondence, agendas, proxies, minutes, applications, membership listings, draft agreements, memorandums, and by-laws concerning the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. This material predominantly concerns the transition of the commodity clearing responsibilities for the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange from the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. to the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation and the subsequent dissolution of the W.C.C.L.
Source of supplied title: Title based on contents of fonds.
Restrictions: There are no restrictions on this material.
Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
Related material: Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc. fonds (A2001-42).
Finding aid: Preliminary inventories are available in the Archives reading room and on-line finding aids are available at the links below: