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.

File consists of a 1. p. mimeograph resolution by the "Committee appointed by the Provincial Government to discuss the allocation of costs of the Grand River Improvement plan."

File consists of ts. carbon cover letter and report submitted to the G.R.C.C. by H.G. Acres: "Interim report on progress of operations to December 15, 1938."

Series consists of William A. Philip's files accumulated and maintained primarily during his tenure as Chairman of the Grand River Conservation Commission, and relating to its operations and activities. Includes correspondence (some legal), minutes, reports, ms. notes, plans etc., concerning land acquisition, dam projects, reforestation, flood control, agreements and relations with federal and provincial governments.

File consists of mimeograph copies of correspondence from O. Holden, Chief Hydraulic Engineer at the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, listing the plans and hydrographs submitted to the Commission for their use. Includes attached tables summarizing flow data at Fergus and Galt from 1914 to 1936.

Series consists of incomplete financial records of the Grand River Conservation Commission from 1936 to 1965. Includes bank books, cash journals, journals, cheque registers, ledgers and cost studies.

File consists of memoranda, financial statements and other documents distributed by F.P. Adams, including "Duties of Executive," "Duties of Chief Engineer," "Banking resolution passed at meeting of the Commission, July 26th, 1938," as well as an announcement of the appointment of H.G. Acres as Chief Engineer.

Series consists of material relating to the capital and land clearing accounts for financing and construction of the Conestogo Dam Project, including gauge stations. Each folder contains quarterly financial statements for a particular account, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, invoices, tax notices, ms. notes, etc.

File consists of correspondence to F.P. Adams, Secretary, G.R.C.C. relating to a review of the report done in 1934 by James. L. Morris, Engineer for the Dept. of Lands and Forests, and James Mackintosh of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Engineering staff to allot proprtions of costs for improvements on the Grand River to municipalities. Includes 32 p. ts. original "detailed report on the assessment of municipalities" dated July 31, 1939 forwarded in parts by James Mackintosh.

File consists of minutes, meeting notices and related correspondence. The "first regular meeting of the Grand River Conservation Commission was called by the Hon. Colin Campbell, Minister of Public Works, on Wednesday June 27th, 1938 at 2:30 p.m. at the residence of Commissioner Hugh Templin, Fergus, Ontario."

Series consists of material relating to GRCC salvage, miscellaneous and special accounts. Folders contain quarterly financial statements for a particular account, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, invoices, tax notices, ms. notes, etc. The salvage account tracked revenue received from the sale of materials such as fence posts, demolition and or/sale of buildings on GRCA property.

Series consists of material relating to Shand Dam operating accounts, including expenditures for taxes, insurance, operation and general maintenance, cottage lots, equipment, saw mill, nursery, reforestation, woodlot management and uniforms. Each folder contains quarterly financial statement accompanied by correspondence, receipts, invoices, tax notices, ms. notes, etc.

File consists of financial statements prepared by Scully and Scully as of Jan. 31, 1940, Jan 31, 1942. Includes ms. draft statements. Scully & Scully were retained April 18, 1939.

File consists of E.F. Roberts budget working documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes.

Series consists of files created and maintained by Ilmar Kao in his position as Manager and Assistant Secretary of the Grand River Conservation Commission during 1958 and 1959. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, invoices, ms. notes and calculations etc. relating to land acquisition, cottage and property rental, services, insurance, dam operations, forestry operations, Mechanical and Maintenance Department operations, relations with municipalities and government departments, and personnel.

Series consists of files belonging to F.P. Adams, Secretary Treasurer of the Grand River Conservation Commission, dating from 1938 until 1941concerning all aspects of the organization, administration and operations of the Commission. Includes finance and accounting; personnel; land acquisition and management; dam project records; relations with municipalities, government departments and ordinary citizens. Includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, reports, clippings, blueprints, sketches and ephemera.

File consists of agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. and ms original Chairman's and ts. original Secretary-Treasurer's reports. Includes ts. lists of forestry plots. Includes ms. notes

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. "

Series consists of files belonging to E.F. Roberts, Secretary Treasurer of the Grand River Conservation Commission, dating from 1942 until 1960 concerning all aspects of the organization, administration and operations of the Commission. The Secretary-Treasurer's position was where all roads crossed with one person overseeing finance and accounting; personnel; land acquisition and management; dam project management; relations with municipalities, government departments and ordinary citizens; environmental monitoring and reforestation. Includes correspondence, financial statements accompanied by supporting invoices etc., minutes, reports, clippings, land deeds, blueprints, sketches and ephemera. The early years of E.F. Roberts tenure are not well represented in these records, most likely the result of a space-saving exercise conducted at some time in the past.

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.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. Chairman's report by Wm. Philip, as well as newspaper clippings.

Series consists of two pieces of correspondence relating to weather reporting equipment found loose, and material dating from 1971-1990 not obviously related to the other series in the fonds, including maintenance and operating manuals and information about the Water Management Division.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes.

Series consists of material created and maintained by Hugh A. Cameron from 1942-1973, consisting primarily of daily journals recording details of work done by the writer and others, in the office, on GRCC property and at other locations: construction, repairs, machinery, inspections, incidents, weather conditions, etc. Also includes correspondence, reports, maps and plans, etc. relating to construction, repairs, equipment, forestry and logging and roads.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon Chairman's report and ts. original Secretary-Treasurer's report, a motion on organizing a general conservation authority dated Nov. 14, 1945 and an untitled 5 p. ts. on conservation.

Series consists of environmental monitoring raw data in the form of anemograph charts (1955-1970), gauge cards (1955-1967), rainfall charts (1955-1959, 1971) and snow surveys (1963-1964). An anemograph chart is a paper record of the direction and force of the wind; gauge cards contain data recorded manually by gauge readers at gauge stations along the Grand River; rainfall charts contain daily entries recording rainfall; snow surveys consist of booklets containing pre-printed pages for entering snow data. Although this data is not complete it is nonetheless important for providing a means whereby climatic and environmental change over time can be analyzed.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence. Includes ms. meeting notes.

Series consists of reports on areas of Luther Marsh . The cover page of each consists contains a block image taken from an air photo, with further compartment lines superimposed, labelled and highlighted. Each report contains a "Wildlife Compartment Data Record" (8. p.) and a "Wetland Evaluation Record" (3 p.).

File consists of annotated agenda, minutes and related correspondence. Includes newspaper clipping.

Series consists of reports on areas of Luther Marsh . The cover page of each contains a block image taken from an air photo, with further compartment lines superimposed, labelled and highlighted. Each report contains a "Wildlife Compartment Data Record" (8. p.) and a "Wetland Evaluation Record" (3 p.).

File consists of minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes for the meeting.

File consists of agenda, minutes and meeting notice. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of minutes, annotated agenda, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence. Includes ts. originals of Chairman's address and Secretary Treasurer's reports.

File consists of minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes. This Special Meeting was called to consider a report on the 1947 run-off and operating procedure at Grand Valley Dam.

File consists of ms. and ts. draft minutes and related correspondence.

File consists of annotated agenda, minutes and related correspondence.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. and ts. original communications to the Commission by Wm. Philip, Chairman. Includes unattributed 3 p. ts. original document: "Proper land use policy for the Province of Ontario in Relation to Conservation Authorities." Includes ts. original Secretary-Treasurer's report.

File consists of ts. mimeograph and ms. minutes and related correspondence. This was a Special Meeting called to consider a report on low flow regulation .

File consists of minutes and related correspondence. The meeting was called to discuss plans and specifications for the Conestogo Dam.

File consists of minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. minutes. The meeting was called to discuss the Conestogo Project.

File consists of minutes, annotated agenda, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. This meeting was called to discuss "the Commission's problems with members of the Press within the Grand Valley." Includes ts. report (original) signed by Marcel Pequegnat concerning water supply in municipalities of the Grand River Valley after the summer of 1949. Includes ts. mimeograph "memo re Grand River watershed," Nov. 17, 1949, outlining the history of the river and the work of the Commission. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of material relating to the Grand Valley Conservation authority. Includes correspondence to and from the Authority and the GRCC. Includes an agenda for a meeting of representatives of Conservation authorities and O.C.R.A. to discuss forming an Association of Conservation Authorities, with ms. comments from Wm. Philip to E.F. Roberts opposing such an association. Includes ts. mimeograph list of invitations sent for Nith Valley Tour, Aug. 17, 1949. Includes also an undated ts. mimeograph "Brief on conservation submitted by the Grand Valley Conservation Authority to the Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature appointed to gather information on matters pertaining to conservation."

File consists of minutes, annotated agenda, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence.

File consists of agenda, supporting documents including financial statements and related correspondence. Includes ms. meeting notes.

File consists of annotated agenda, ts. mimeograph Chairman's and Secretary Treasurer's reports dated Feb. 22, 1952 (for 1951), financial statements dated Dec. 31, 1952 and ms. draft Secretary Treasurer's report, prepared for the Annual meeting, Feb. 17, 1953. Includes annotated agenda for the latter.

File consists of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes newspaper clipping (K-W Record, Mar. 1, 1952) of a portrait of the members of the commission taken at this meeting.

File consists of minutes, agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes a later report dated April 17, 1953: "Report of a meeting called by the Chief Conservation Engineer, Dept. of Planning and Development, of the Executive, Grand River Conservation Commission, and a Committee appointed by the Grand Valley Conservation Authority" Includes ms. notes.

File consists of minutes, agenda, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence. Includes ms. meeting and other notes.

File consists of ts. mimeograph budget for 1958 for capital and operating costs, submitted by E.F. Roberts for approval.

File consists of minutes, meeting notice and ts. mimeograph list of tenderers for the Conestogo Project.

File consists of annotated agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon Chairman's report signed by Marcel Pequegnat. File also contains "Interim report re Conestogo Project" by E.F. Roberts, dated April 1, 1955.

File consists of annotated agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon Chairman's report signed by Marcel Pequegnat, ms. draft financial statements and ms. notes. Minutes of special meeting April 5 1956 (held later) also in this file.

File consists of agenda and ms. meeting notes.

File consists of annotated agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon Chairman's report signed by Marcel Pequegnat, ms. draft financial statements.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence, including ts. original legal opinion from Ballachey and Moore: "Opinion on powers of Grand River Conservation Commission under enabling statute. Includes ms. meeting notes.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence . Includes and ms. carbon copy of By-Law #1 and ms. Notes. Secretary Treasurer's report for 1958 is also in this file, signed by E.F. Roberts, Chief Engineer and Treasurer and N.R. Drimmie, Secretary. Secretary Treasurer's report for 1957 signed by E.F. Roberts.

File consists of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence, some original, for a special meeting held to "inform the Commission concerning the results of the Special Committee's meeting with the Minister, Department of Planning and Development, subsequent correspondence and a personal meeting the Chairman had with the Minister regarding the use of lands owned by the Commission in the Conestogo Area."

Includes correspondence between Chairman M. Pequegnat and W.M. Nickle, Minister of the Dept. of Planning and Development, concerning the Commission's legal authority to lease cottage lots. At this meeting Ilmar Kao was appointed as Manager and Assistant Secretary as of Oct. 15, 1958. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of minutes and related correspondence.

File consists of budget estimates for 1959. Includes ms. and ts. notes and drafts, etc. Includes review of work done since 1938.

File consists of annotated agenda, minutes, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence. Includes ms. meeting notes.

File consists of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes, draft minutes and an Agreement between Grand River Conservation Commission and Grand Valley Conservation Authority.

File consists of Ilmar Kao's working papers for Commission meetings, including executive meetings, in 1959. Includes ts. carbon, mimeograph and ms. draft minutes, quarterly and other financial statements, original ts. addenda to the minutes, related correspondence and supporting documents. Includes ms. notes and drafts.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence. Includes a newspaper clipping re Thames water supply. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao.

File consists of annotated agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Working file includes ms. notes and calculations, draft budget, draft meeting notes and minutes by I. Kao.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. original memorandum re "Conference with the Hon. Alvin Hamilton, Minister Northern Affairs and National Resources" held in Ottawa, March 25, 1960. Includes ms. notes and draft minutes by I. Kao.

File consists of ts. mimeograph and ts. carbon minutes of meetings, including executive meetings, for 1960.

File consists of agenda, minutes and supporting documents. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Chairman Geo. E. Fisher and a 4 p. ts. carbon report by E.F. Roberts: "Water supply to municipalities and other users within the Grand River watershed." Includes ms. draft minutes by I. Kao. Also in this file are copies of a "Memorandum to the County Road Committee of the County of Wellington re: the Conestogo project of the Grand River Conservation Commission" dated July 30, 1956 and marked "Exhibit A." Its presence in this file is unaccounted for.

File consists of ts. carbon copies of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes 8 p. ts. mimeograph report by E.F. Roberts, Chief Engineer, concerning work completed and subsequent effect on flood control and flow regulation. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao.

File consists of annotated agenda, ms. draft minutes by I. Kao, Assistant Secretary. Includes original and carbon copies of motions signed by movers and seconders.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes memoranda from I. Kao to E.F. Roberts accompanied by ms. budget check list for 1960, draft 1961 budget, expenses and revenues re logging and sawmill operations 1959-1960. Includes "Inventory values of buildings and equipment" and ts. carbon report to the Commission by Chairman Geo. F. Fisher. Includes ms. notes and calculations by Ilmar Kao.

File consists of Ilmar Kao's work on budget estimates for 1961. Includes notes, ms. and ts,. drafts, etc.

File includes material relating to the GRCC Annual Inspection Tour. Includes correspondence to and from I. Kao, list of members and guests, signatures of attendees, ts. report.

File consists of an annotated agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon report by the Chairman Geo. E. Fisher. Includes original and carbon copies of motions. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao. Death of E.F. Roberts noted in these minutes.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence, including a letter dated Nov. 21, 1961 from A.H. Richardson, Chief Conservation Engineer, Conservation Branch of the Ontario Dept. of Commerce and Development announcing the transfer of the Conservation Branch to the Dept. of Lands and Forests as of Dec. 1, 1961. Includes ts. carbon report by the Chairman. Includes ms. notes, minutes and calculations by I. Kao.

File consists of ts. mimeograph and ts. carbon minutes of meetings, including executive meetings, for 1961. Includes third and fourth quarterly financial statements,.

File consists of annotated agenda and minutes.

File consists of a copy of the agenda for the annual meeting held Feb. 16, 1962 annotated by I. Kao, accompanied by ts. mimeograph copies of the Chairman's and the Secretary-Treasurer's reports.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman. Includes original ts. "Report of executive meetings with municipalities" signed by R.K. Pequegnat, Vice-Chairman.

File consists of minutes and related correspondence.

File consists of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Contains ms. notes and calculations by I. Kao.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman, accompanied by a news clipping on amalgamation. Includes 2. p. ts. carbon copy of the Vice-Chairman R.K. Pequegnat's report "The effect of prolonged, hot, dry weather on our water supply." Contains ms. notes by I. Kao concerning discharge records at the Shand Conestogo dams.

File consists of agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon of a letter to the Hon. J.W. Spooner, Minister of Lands and Forests from Geo. E. Fisher, Chair of the GRCC concerning amalgamation with the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Also contains ts. carbon of a letter to the Hon. Wm. Goodfellow, Minister of Highways, signed by Marcel Pequegnat concerning Wellington County roads, as well as other correspondence and documents concerning the same.

File consists of ts. mimeograph agenda and minutes.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman. Includes ms. draft report and other ms. notes by Ilmar Kao..

File consists of ts. mimeograph operating budget for 1963.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes Executive Committee material containing extensive ms. notes by I. Kao.

File consists of a ts. mimeograph special committee report including Chairman's letter of May 30, 1963, report by assessors, review of assessments.

File includes material relating to the GRCC Annual Inspection Tour. Includes correspondence to and from I. Kao, list of members and guests, signatures of attendees, ms. schedule and instructions by I. Kao.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes and calculations by I. Kao. The meeting was held to present executive recommendations on wildlife management agreement for the Luther Area and the file includes a 2 p. ts. carbon of "Points to be included in an agreement between the Grand River Commission and the Department of Lands and Forests providing for wildlife management on Luther Marsh."

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and minutes.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman. Includes ms. notes and calculations by I. Kao and others.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman. Includes ms. notes and calculations by Ilmar Kao..

File consists of minutes, quarterly financial statements, thermofax copies of memorandum re and minutes of a meeting called by the Minister of Energy and Resources Management concerning the possible amalgamation of the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Grand Valley Conservation Authority.

File consists of agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes extensive ms. notes and signatures. Includes 13 p. ts. carbon "Address by M.A. MacKrell at G.R.C.C. information meeting, March 20, 1964," a 5 p. ts. mimeograph GRCC information package. Includes a resolution to allow members of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority to attend all general meetings of the GRCA.

File consists of agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes and annotated agenda.

File consists of material relating to the GRCC Annual Inspection Tour. Includes timetables, related correspondence and signatures.

File consists of agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence to and from Ilmar J. Kao, government officials and others. This meeting was called to discuss and act upon the executive "Report on the resources management, present & future, in the Grand River watershed," Nov. 24, 1964, concerning amalgamation of the GRCC and the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. This file also contains minutes of executive and general meetings from June to November 1964. Contains ms. draft correspondence and ms. notes.

File consists of agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence to and from Ilmar J. Kao.