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Administration : Board Minutes : Secretary-Treasurer's Files

Series consists of successive Secretary-Treasurer's copies of GRCC minutes and supporting documentation. Files contain in addition to minutes all pertinent correspondence sent and received by the Secretary-Treasurer, some copies of executive minutes, ms. notes and drafts of correspondence and documents. Annual meeting files contain lists of commission members for the year commencing, also correspondence form the various municipalities re attendance, members, etc.

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Grand Valley Authority, Kitchener, Ont., Oct. 3, 1944.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. originals of some items. Includes newspaper clippings and ms. notes. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss with other county and township councils the "advisability of organizing a conservation association throughout the territory bordering the Grand River and tributary streams and in Grey County to the north for the purpose of carrying out conservation in all its branches." Includes a memorandum from J.R. Dymond, Secretary, concerning the "Guelph Conference," forwarded to E.F. Roberts by Wm. Philip with note: "This is your baby, Roberts. "

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Administration : Secretary Treasurer's Files : 1960-1966 : Ilmar Kao

Series consists of records created and maintained by Ilmar Kao in his position as Secretary Treasurer of the Grand River Conservation Commission, with some overlap to his previous position as Manager and Assistant Secretary. Includes material relating to the Ayr and Montrose Dams proposal, to assessment costs and notices, insurance, personnel, relations with municipalities and government departments, operations including dam, forestry, maintenance, land acquisition and management, cottage lots and rentals, etc. Contains correspondence, financial records, reports, memoranda, blueprints, ms. notes and calculations.

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Correspondence.

File consists of material relating to the proposed Waldemar Dam and to the Shand Dam. Includes correspondence and reports re progress on the Shand Dam, reforestation, etc. Includes correspondence and a 2 p. ts. by W.W. Breithaupt on "Grand River Conservation." Includes a ts. carbon letter from T.H. Hogg and L.V. Rorke to the Minister of lands and Forests for Ontario on the topic of Grand River Drainage, dated Feb. 11, 1932. Includes charts, reports, ms. notes and draft correspondence by Wm. Philip.

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Ayr and Montrose Dams : Department of Lands and Forests.

File consists of material relating to the amalgamation of the GRCC and GVCA as well as to submission of the Ayr and Montrose Dam proposal. . Includes correspondence with A. Kelso Roberts, Minister of the Dept. of lands and Forests concerning receipt of a report by Prof. D.J. Clough, as well as other correspondence. One letter annotated by G.E. Fisher "A hot reply."

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Ayr and Montrose Dams : Mr. M. A. MacKrell and Dr. R. Pinola.

File consists of material relating to drafting a proposal for construction of Ayr and Montrose Dams, as well as an overall plan for development of the watershed to be used for obtaining government assistance. The initial report proposal by M.A. MacKrell of J.M. Tomlinson & Associates, Consulting Engineers, for the engineering and final submission portion of the proposal was accepted by the GRCC executive.

J.M. Tomlinson & Associates were appointed to "undertake and engineering study of the Grand River watershed in general, and of the proposed Ayr Dam and Reservoir Site on the Nith River and the proposed Montrose Dam and Reservoir Site on the Grand River in particular." (memo, G.E. Fisher, undated). Rudolph Pinola of University of Waterloo was appointed to prepare cost-benefit study portion.

Includes correspondence, a draft appendix containing data for stream discharge measurement stations in the Grand River Basin, 1913-1963, tables drawn up by I. Kao and a thermofax copy of a 7 p. document: "Data required for a cost-benefit study for the Grand River Conservation Commission.".

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Correspondence.

File consists of material relating primarily to drainage and drains. Includes correspondence to and from Wm. Philip and others and ms. notes.

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Conestogo : A. Stanners, 1963.

File consists of material relating to work done by and for Andrew Stanners, GRCC employee. Includes correspondence, tenders re work to be carried out at the "operators" residence and workshops, memoranda and ms. notes.

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Conservation authorities : correspondence, reports, etc., 1963.

File consists of Ilmar Kao's file relating to other conservation authorities. Includes information about a tour of the Grand River watershed by members and staff of the Muskingum Conservancy district and Ohio Water Commission, hosted by the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes reports, correspondence with the GVCA and Otonabee Region Conservation Authority and ephemera. Includes ms. notes.

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Department of Lands and Forests : Grand River Conservation Act, 1938.

File consists of correspondence between the GRCC and the Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests Conservation Authorities Branch. The correspondence concerns amending the Grand River Conservation Act for the purposes of receiving grants from the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, and with the mechanics of transferring the Conservation Authorities Branch from the Dept. of Commerce and Development to the Dept. of Lands and Forests.

Correspondents include J.W. Spooner and A. Kelso Roberts, Ministers of Lands and Forests in 1961 and 1963 respectively and G.E. Fisher, Chairman GRCC. Includes ms. notes; Ilmar Kao's file

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Forestry : P.M. Rogers, 1963.

File consists of memoranda and other communications between Ilmar Kao and P.M. Rogers regarding forestry. Includes ms report dated Jan. 9, 1963 "Forestry report data to I. Kao, a ts. report "Luther Forest Fire" with drawing, Oct. 1963. Includes ms. notes and drafts re budgets, sale of logs from woodlots and other forestry activities.

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Correspondence.

File consists of Wm. Philip's copies of two letters signed by E.F. Roberts re insurance and an agreement with the CPR re relocation of the railway in its Elora subdivision.

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GRCC and GVCA : notes regarding meetings, 1963.

File consists of material assembled by Ilmar Kao relating to meetings held over the years with the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes material relating to amalgamation of the GRCA and GRCC and to disagreement over Commission use of land. Includes Ilmar Kao's notes and analyses of shared and separate areas of operation, notes on the history of conservation in the Grand River watershed, notes of discussions at meetings, etc. Includes correspondence, meetings of minutes pulled from other files, reports, organizational charts, newspaper clipping.

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Instructions, 1963.

File consists of material relating to GRCA accounting and information for the bookkeeper (initialled J.B. Jean Baker). Includes lists of account numbers and ledger headings, trial balances, reconciliations etc, information about employees and their remuneration, and a sheet of ts. procedural instructions re payroll..

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Correspondence.

File consists of correspondence copies to and from E.F. Roberts re funding for Conestogo Project from provincial and federal governments. .

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M.M Dillon and Company.

File consists of a document: "A proposal for engineering services for Grand River Conservation Commission, July 1963, M.M. Dillon Co. Ltd." This proposal was submitted "at the request of Mr. I. Kao" for hydrological and economic studies of the Grand River watershed.

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Motor Pool : L. Dunn, 1963.

File consists of Ilmar Kao's file containing ms. notes, receipts etc. relating to the motor pool, including memoranda from P.M. Rogers. L. Dunn, Motor Pool employee, signed for several deliveries.

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Correspondence.

File consists of a copy of a resolution passed by the City of Galt Council with cover letter addressed to E.F. Roberts, dated Apr. 3, 1951.

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Correspondence.

File consists of 2 pieces of correspondence, one from H.G.Acres to Wm. Philip dated 1953; one undated from Philip Breithaupt. Includes Wm. Philip's ms. notes.

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Ontario Hydro : Elmira, 1963.

File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao, the Elmira Area Office of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission and lessees, relating primarily to hydro service to Belwood cottage lots.

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Ontario Hydro : Listowel, 1963.

File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao, the Listowel Area Office of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission and lessees, relating primarily to hydro service to Conestogo cottage lots.

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Executive.

File consists of material belonging to William Philip relating to GRCC executive committee meetings, to all aspects of business considered and carried out by the GRCC, including projects, operations, finances and personnel. Topics include the Luther project, hydrometric gauging stations and gauge reading, land, tenants, tree planting and forests,

Includes correspondence, agendas, minutes, financial statements, newspaper clippings and reports. Includes ms. notes, possibly for a speech or release, ms. draft Chairman's report for 1951, correspondence with federal and provincial and municipal governments, letters from companies in Galt reporting flood losses. Many items bear ms. annotations by Wm. Philip.

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