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Financial Services sous-fonds
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442 cm of textual records
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At the first council meeting of the newly formed Village of Grande Prairie on June 15, 1914, G.R. Wilson was appointed secretary-treasurer at a salary of $150 for the 6 month term of the remainder of that year. The assessment of property owners was one the first orders of business, and that fall the first tax levy was announced: 5 mills for school tax and 3 mills for municipal tax. With only 100 residents in the village, and many of those struggling to establish themselves, payment of taxes was sporadic.
In 1917, a by-law providing for a business tax on businesses along the main streets of commerce was passed, with a mill rate of 12 mills. The total budget that year was $1,500 and since taxes were not collected until fall, the budget amount was borrowed from the Union Bank. That same year the town went into debt for the first time, borrowing $15,000 for a suitable system of firefighting.
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The sous-fonds consists of Accounting records and Assessment/Taxation records. Under Accounting there are financial statements, Department of Municipal Affairs statistics, and a series of over-sized ledgers: Town Cash Book Receipts, Town Cash Book Expenditures, Journal Entries and Debenture Register. The Assessment/Taxation records include assessment cards, assessment and tax rolls, tax collection ledgers and documents for tax recovery of unpaid taxes.
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A finding aid is available at http://southpeacearchives.org/finding-aids/financial-services-sous-fonds/
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- English