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Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd.
Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. sous-fonds
1901-1998
6.39 m of textual records
A.98-63, A.99-85
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 WCCL 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
WCCL 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 (CDCC). The Winnipeg Commodity
Clearing Ltd. dissolved and ceased operations on July 31, 1999.
The material was donated to the University of Manitoba Archives
& Special Collections by the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd.
in two separate accessions in 1998 and 1999.
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 collection
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 WCCL.
Title based on contents of the fonds.
There are no restrictions on this material.
No further accruals are expected.
Finding aids available:
A.98-63
A.99-85
The Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. sous-fonds is a component
part of the Winnipeg
Commodity Exchange Inc. fonds
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