2007-10-08 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture: -- Damaged by fire February 5, 1917 and rebuilt as Op. 696. -Database Manager
2010-01-26 - Updated through on-line information from Douglas Adams. -- Great division was damaged by fire, then replaced by Casavant Frères as their opus 696 (1917). Organ was sold to Stuart A. Kolbinson of Kindersley, Saskatchewan in 1955. The 1893 building, "Mother Church of Methodism in the West", was sold to a developer and demolished in 1957 to build a parking lot. Reference: Hartman, James, "The Organ in Manitoba: The Instruments, the Builders, the Players, and the Critics", University of Manitoba -Database Manager
2017-06-21 - Badly damaged by fire February 5, 1917; rebuild in 1917 as Casavant Op. 696 included a new Great division and Pedal division (except for the Trombone), and 'partly reconstructed' Choir and Solo; the Swell division was repaired and cleaned; the console was rebuilt and updated, the case cleaned and repaired and replacement facade pipes installed as needed; the blower was retained. -Database Manager
Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives Date not recorded
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Grace Methodist Church
Casavant Op. 301 1907 4/46
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GREAT CHOIR
16' Double Open 65 8' Violin Diapason 61
8' Open Diapason 65 8' Melodia 61
8' Geigen Principal 65 8' Dulciana 61
8' Doppel Flute 65 4' Harmonic Flute 61
8' Gemshorn 65 2' Flageolet 61
4' Principal 65 8' Clarinet 61
4' Wald Flute 65 Tremolo
2' Fifteenth 61
III Mixture 195 SOLO
8' Trumpet 65
8' Stentorphone 61
SWELL 8' Quintadena 61
8' Rohr Flute 61
16' Bourdon 61 4' Harmonic Flute 61
8' Open Diapason 61 8' Tuba 61
8' Stopped Diapason 61 8' Cor Anglais 61
8' Clarabella Flute 61 8' Orchestral Oboe 61
8' Viola di Gamba 61 Tremolo
8' Voix Céleste 49
8' Dolcissimo 61 PEDAL
4' Traverse Flute 61
4' Violina 61 16' Double Open 30
2' Flautino 61 16' Bourdon 30
III Cornet 183 16' Gedeckt SW
8' Cornopean 61 8' Flute 12
8' Oboe & Bassoon 61 8' Cello 30
8' Vox Humana 61 8' Bourdon 12
Tremolo 16' Trombone 30
8' Trumpet 12
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