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Grand River Conservation Authority : Special Recognition Committee : honour roll photos and scripts.
Consists of correspondence, samples of award certificates, minutes of meetings of the Special Recognition of Individuals and Historical events Committee of the GRCA, newspaper clippings, ts. lists and profiles of recipients of Special Recognition Awards, and photographs of recipients, most of whom are identified on verso.
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Grand River Conservation Authority : news releases, May 7, 1975 to June 8, 1981.
Consists of ts.(photocopy) news releases and accompanying original photographs issued by the Grand River Conservation Authority.
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Grand River Conservation Authority : news releases, May 10, 1983 to December 7, 1984.
Consists of ts.(photocopy) news releases and accompanying original photographs issued by the Grand River Conservation Authority.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Grand River Conservation Authority : news releases, January 25, 1985 to December 8, 1987
Consists of ts.(photocopy) news releases and accompanying original photographs issued by the Grand River Conservation Authority.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Grand River Conservation Authority : news releases, May 5, 1989 to December 1, 1997
Consists of ts.(photocopy) news releases and accompanying original photographs issued by the Grand River Conservation Authority.
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Project SWEEP : Grand River Experience : report, 1972.
Consists of a ts. report prepared by the Grand River Conservation Authority regarding the activities of students employed by the GRCA in the Grand River Experience Project, under the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Project SWEEP student employment program during the summer of 1972. Includes photographs of student employees.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists of materials relating to the early history of the Grand River Conservation Commission and the development of the Grand River Conservation Authority.
Includes newspaper clippings, including two articles by Hugh Templin (1966), ms. notes by an unidentified author concerning the development of the GRCC from 1931 to 1946, four negatives in an envelope labelled "Drayton: Conestogo river, May 22, 1952," an advance proof of a cover page of a publication titled : Flood Control in Southwestern Ontario, and a pamphlet by the Grand Valley Group of Engineers titled : A Plan to Grow Wealth and Eliminate Waste, 1936.
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Grand River conservation lands study : first draft.
Consists of a ts. (carbon copy) corrected draft report on the existing state and future development of conservation lands managed by the Grand Valley Conservation Authority / [by] C. Edward Spearin, August 21, 1964. Includes photographs and blueline maps of GVCA conservation lands in the Paris-Brantford, Kitchener and Galt-Preston areas.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists a binder containing ts. materials relating to the construction of a composite bridge and the undertaking of channel improvement on the Conestogo River at Drayton, Ont. Includes correspondence to and from the Grand River Conservation Authority and provincial and municipal governments. Also includes photographs of the Conestogo River near Drayton, Ont., including views of the existing bridges.
Also present is a ts. (photocopy) report titled "Report on the Main Street Bridge over the Conestogo River, Village of Drayton, County of Wellington," by V.R. Astrop, Consulting Engineers, Ancaster, including blueline drawings of the proposed bridge. In addition, there are two blueline drawings of the channel improvement plan by an unidentified creator, possibly the GRCA.
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Cambridge Dike : building inventory : phase 1.
Consists of ts. inventory of houses and other buildings in the vicinity of the Parkhill Dam in the Water Street, Concession Street , Grand Avenue and Parkhill Road areas of downtown Cambridge, Ont. Includes photographs of the buildings and demolition dates.
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Cambrige Dike : building inventory : phase 2.
Consists of ts. inventory undertaken by the Grand River Conservation Authority concerning houses and other buildings in the vicinity of the Parkhill Dam in the Water Street and Grand Avenue areas of downtown Cambridge, Ont. Includes photographs of buildings. Also present are blueline and photocopy maps, and a draft copy of legal agreement concerning flood protection measures by the GRCA.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Cambridge Dike : building inventory : phase 3.
Consists of ts. inventory undertaken by the Grand River Conservation Authority concerning houses and other buildings in the vicinity of the Parkhill Dam in the Concession Street, Water Street and Grand Avenue areas of downtown Cambridge, Ont. Includes photographs of buildings. Also includes correspondence between homeowners and the Mayor and City Council, Cambridge, Ont. and the Grand River Conservation Authority.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists of ts. report prepared by H.G. Acres & Company, Limited, Niagara Falls, Ont. for the Grand River Conservation Commission regarding design and testing of a model sluiceway for the Conestogo Dam, near Glen Allan, Ont. undertaken in 1953. Includes blueline drawings of the general arrangement of spillway, dam model, and stilling basin, prepared by H.G. Acres and Company in November, 1953, and photographs of the sluiceway model. Correspondence between the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Ontario Department of Planning and Development is inserted.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists of ts. (photocopy) preliminary study of subsoil and foundations conditions on the site of the proposed Hespeler Conservation Dam on the Speed River, Township of Guelph, Wellington County, Ont., prepared by William A. Trow & Associates Ltd., Weston, Ont. for R.K. Kilborn & Associates, Toronto, Ont. on behalf of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority.
Includes photographs of the damsite which have been pasted into the study and 1 blueline drawing prepared by William A. Trow & Associates Ltd., titled : Inverted Subsoil Stratigraphy, which includes a site plan of the proposed Hespeler conservation dam,
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Consists of a ts. appraisal report regarding Shade's Mills Resevoir and Conservation Area, Township of North Dumfries, County of Waterloo, prepared for the Grand River Conservation Authority and the Government of Ontario, by L.J. Simmons, Senior Appraiser and R.T.C. Hilton, A.A.C.I, S.R.A, Ontario Land Economist, Manager of Appraisals, Associated Property Appraisers Limited, Don Mills, Ont.
The report includes site plans of the Shade's Mills Reservoir and Conservation Area; the addenda consists of 9 aerial photographs of the site and a report titled, "Forest product evaluation : Shade's Mills Conservation Area, Grand River Conservation Authority," by C.J.R. Wilde, R.P.F., Consulting Professional Forester for Associated Property Appraisers Limited.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists of a binder containing ts. tender documents relating to the construction of sluice gates on the Speed River in Guelph, Ont., prepared by Ardelt Industries of Canada Limited, Kitchener, for submission to the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes completed form of tender, technical description, blueprints of sluice gates, blueline schematic wiring diagram and 5 photographs of samples of gates supplied by Fried, Krupp, Germany, the parent company of Ardelt Industries.
Inserted are the following : cover letter and additional correspondence from Ardelt Industries to the Grand Valley Conservation Authority and correspondence from R.K. Kilborn & Associates, Toronto, Ont. to the Grand River Conservation Authority.
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Rockwood Mill : preservation plan, July 1977 : report with both current and historic photos.
Folder containing material relating to the Rockwood Mill. Includes a report with tile "Preservation Plan for the Rockwood Mill" by Elizabeth Kruse dated July 4 1977, that contains 33 b&w photographs pasted in. Also includes a pamphlet entitled Rockwood Conservation Area : Times Past to Times Present, ca. 1975; a Harris Woolen Mill floor plan and number key, 1974; a topographical view; two original sketches.
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Consists of a ts.brief prepared by the Grand River Conservation Commission to demonstrate to federal and provincial authorities the need for proposed multi-purpose reservoirs and other control work the Grand River Watershed.
Includes four blackline maps of proposed reservoir catchment areas in Ayr and West Montrose, Ont. and flood stage maps of the cities of Brantford, Paris and Galt, Ont., prepared by J.M. Tomlinson & Associates Ltd, Consulting Engineers, January, 1964. Also present are photographs of floodwaters in the Grand River Watershed at Brantford, Galt and Paris, March 20-22,1948.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists of a binder containing snapshots of the Caledonia Dam, Caledonia Ontario, the Woolwich Dam near Floradale, Ont. and gabion walls surrounding the Grand River at Paris, Ont. Identifications are provided on the sheets onto which the snapshots have been pasted.
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Grand River Conservation Authority : Ayr Ponds Dredging Study.
Consists of a binder containing materials relating to the dredging of the Ayr ponds. Includes photocopies, original photographs, and photographic negatives of the Ayr ponds and scenes from the town of Ayr, Ont. , photocopies of blackline maps of ponds and ms. notes. Also includes a blackline design for Watson Dam at the Ayr Community Pond, prepared by A. Shivas, October, 15, 1985.
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Grand River Conservation Authority : erosion control on the Nith River Watershed : original draft.
Consists of ts.draft student work report prepared by Harold A. Cockburn for the Department of Co-ordination and Placement, University of Waterloo. The report studies methods to control erosion along the Nith River Valley and is based upon the author's experience as a co-op student with the GRCA from August to December, 1969. Includes blueline contour and site maps and drawings of erosion control structures; also present are photographs of the Nith River
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 1, p. 1-50.
Volume 1 contains 50 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the correspondeng 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 2, p. 51-101.
Volume 2 contains 51 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 3, p. 102-150.
Volume 3 contains 49 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 4, p. 151-182.
Volume 4 contains 32 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 5, p. 183-207.
Volume 5 contains 25 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 6, p. 208-224.
Volume 6 contains 17 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 7, p. 225-280.
Volume 7 contains 56 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 8, p. 281-320.
Volume 8 contains 40 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 9, p. 321-360.
Volume 9 contains 40 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 10, p. 361-410.
Volume 10 contains 40 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 11, p. 411-452, Aug. 1989-Dec. 1990.
Volume 11 contains 42 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 12, p. 453-500, March 1991-Dec. 1991.
Volume 12 contains 48 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 13, p. 501-550, Feb. 1992-Aug. 1994.
Volume 13 contains 50 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Black and white negative files : vol. 14, p. 551-596.
Volume 13 contains 45 pages, each holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Negative files : vol. 15 : 2 1/4 inch format.
Volume 15 contains 85 numbered and 12 unnumbered pages, each holding 4 strips of negatives in a variety of sizes, with from 4 to 16 neagtives per page. On the front of most sleeves is taped the corresponding contact strip.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Biennial Tour of conservation authorities, Sept. 30, 1979 , Holiday Inn, Cambridge.
Group portrait (4 copies): Gordon Pennington, John Stephen, Jim Bauer, Brock Harris, Dr. N.R. Richards, Lorne Murray, Dr. J.K. Reynolds.
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Elora Cataract Trailway ceremony.
Unidentified, untitled, undated photograph of a ceremony: speaker at microphone in front of the trailway board.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Unidentified, untitled, undated photograph (2 copies) of presentation ceremony.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Group portrait (5 copies), identifications provided.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Unidentified, untitled, undated photographs of the 1994 ceremony designating the Grand as a Heritage River. Peter Gzowski is among the speakers.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : Joe Connell : portrait (file 12 of 16).
Studio portrait.
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Group portraits. Some identifications provided on the verso of one print.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Group portraits. Some identifications provided on the verso of one print.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : board and staff (file 3 of 16).
Unidentified, undated group portraits. Some identifications provided on the verso of one print.
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Group portraits. Some identifications provided on the verso of one print.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : staff meeting at Shand dam, March 29, 1967 (file 5 of 16).
Candid group portrait. Some identifications provided on the negative envelope.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : Board of Directors, Lake Belwood, June 21, 1967 (file 6 of 16).
Some identifications provided on the negative envelope.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : Garfield Disher at Byng Island (file 7 of 16).
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GRCA membership and staff photos : Hugh Cameron, Supervisor of Dams (file 8 of 16).
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GRCA membership and staff photos : Woolwich Dam sod turning (file 9 of 16).
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GRCA membership and staff photos : staff portraits (file 10 of 16).
Candid group portraits. Some identifications provided on the verso.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : Haworth (file 11 of 16).
Studio portrait.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : Gordon Chaplin : portrait (file 13 of 16).
Studio portrait.
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Candid snapshot.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : board tours and meetings (file 15 of 16).
Snapshots taken on several tours in 1967, pasted on three pages labelled "General page 1, 2 and 3" . Includes Western Tour, Executive Tour, Brantford Board of Trade Tour, as well as meetings.
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GRCA membership and staff photos : unidentified portrait (file 16 of 16).
Unidentified, undated candid portrait of two men with painting in background.
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Honour roll citation recipients.
Studio portraits and duplicate prints of identified individuals: H.A. Cameron; Garfield Disher; Hugh Crall Elliott; George E. Fisher; Robert H. Haworth; Perry Richard Hilborn; Charles Henry Janzen; Harold Gordon Mack; Katharine Marston; I.C. Marritt; George Albert McWilliams; William A. Philip (first Chairman, GRCC 1934, first Chairman, Grand Valley Conservation Authority, 1949); Marcel Pequegnat; Robert Pequegnat; Gerald N. Ruhnke; Clarence D. Suter; Oliver Wright.
Includes a photo of a drawing of a Conestogo wagon. The three copy negatives are of Hugh Cameron, Robert Pequegnat and the Conestogo wagon.
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Shand Dam : Grand Valley Boards of Trade tour, 1935 (file 1 of 7).
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Shand Dam sod-turning ceremony and official opening, 1939 (file 2 of 7).
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Shand Dam : Belwood (file 3 of 7).
Consists of snapshots marked "belwood": includes landscapes, bridges, roads and a sawmill.
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Shand Dam : bridges (file 4 of 7).
Consists of snapshots and negatives of Hollen Bridge and 6th Line Bridge dated March 1959.
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Shand Dam : Belwood (file 5 of 7).
Consists of snapshots and negatives of Hollen Bridge and 6th Line Bridge dated March 1959.
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Shand Dam : Belwood Lake sawmill, June 11, 1970 (file 6 of 7).
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Shand Dam : Belwood undated, unidentified (file 7 of 7).
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Undated snapshots (multiple copies) of GRCA Chairman Peter Krause presenting awards to identified individuals.
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Assorted openings and tours : Taquanyah opening (file 12 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : gauge housing, Grand watershed, Sept. 2, 1953 (file 1 of 21).
Note on envelope: "Plus photos of GRCC tour, Luther Dam, Shand dam, Foxboro staion." Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : unidentified snapshots and negatives, July 1956 (file 2 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Assorted openings and tours : unidentified snapshots and negatives, May-June 1957 (file 3 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Garfield Disher, Dec. 1957 (file 4 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Whiteman Creek board tour, Grand Valley CA, Oct. 1959 (file 5 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Grand Valley Conservation Authority board tour (file 6 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : unidentified snapshots and negatives, Nov. 1961 (file 7 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Rockwood tour and official opening, June 1962 (file 8 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : unidentified presentation (file 9 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Luther opening (file 10 of 21).
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Assorted openings and tours : Special Committee, Shand Dam downstream, June 1 1967 (file 11 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Guelph Dam opening (file 13 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : unidentified plaque unveiling (file 14 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Byng Island opening (file 15 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : J.M. Schneider Grove, Laurel Creek Conservation Area (file 17 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : Shade's Mills official opening (file 18 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted openings and tours : unidentified field study negatives, undated (file 19 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Assorted openings and tours : unidentified snapshots and negatives, undated (file 20 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Assorted openings and tours : Doon Pioneer Village official opening (file 21 of 21).
Some identifications provided on the verso.
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Assorted flood years : New Hamburg, West Montrose, etc.
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Belwood Lake photos, Shand dam
Five copy prints of construction machinery clearing the lake bed, one photograph of Shand Dam, Aug. 14, 1940 and 16 col. snapshots of Belwood Lake in the 1960's. These latter have tape on the verso and have adhered to each other. Also includes a photocopy of the Aug. 8, 1942 Globe and Mail account of the opening of the Shand Dam.
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Brant Conservation Area : construction and Campvention, 1971.
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Bridgeport riverbank erosion : original control works, 1957
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