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Flooding (file 1 of 5).

Folder contains images of flooding, some original and some copy prints and negatives. Includes New Hamburg, Dunnville (1912, 1930), Ayr (1883, 1977), Fergus (1899-1900), Galt (1929, 1936, 1948), Paris (1971), Grand Valley (1972), Preston (1972), West Montrose

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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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Dunnville, Ontario : Grand River.

Consists of three photographs taped onto looseleaf depicting scenes on the Grand River at Dunnville, Ont. The photographs bear the following identifications printed on recto: Bird's Eye View of River, Dunnville, Ont., Canada; Dunnville, Ont. Long Bridge and Dam; Canal and Lower Lock, Dunnville, Ont.

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Shand Dam and Belwood Lake Conservation Area, also Conestogo Dam.

Three copy prints: one of construction machinery clearing the lake bed, one a group photograph of six men with a construction trailer[?] behind, and one of two men in a doorway, labelled Russell Faulkner, Sandy MacDonald. Includes 16 copy negatives, one dated 1939 of the GRCC members at Shand Dam, 1939, the others dated 1956 and 1957 of the Conestogo Dam construction.

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Dunnville Flood, 1912.

Copy negatives and prints of the Dunnville flood, April 1912. Envelopes containing negatives and reference prints include location annotations:

  • Lower River (pp 18)
  • East of Dunnville Dam Looking Downstream
  • Dunvnille Dam (pp 18)
  • Bridge at Byng
  • Slingsby Mill - on Site of Present Arena
  • Intersection of Queen & Chestnut Streets (pp 19)
  • Queen St. - Queen's Hotel on Left
  • Looking West on Broad St. From Corner of Chestnut 1930 (pp 20)
  • Mill St. - Old Kohler Mil: Dunnville Dam in Background (pg 17)

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Galt flood, 1929.

Copy prints of the 1929 flood in Galt, and also in Blair. Also includes eight original photographs taken by [?] MacGregor accompanied by relevant correspondence.

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Shand and Conestogo reservoirs before dams were constructed.

One binder containing photographs, maps and illustrations removed from publications, and pages of historical text (ts. carbon). Sections are as follows:

  1. Photographs of the City of Galt, 1929-1947, especially concerned with spring flooding (16);
  2. Photographs of roads and farms, townships of Maryborough and Peel, Conestogo Dam (65);
  3. Photographs of roads, township of West Garafraxa, Belwood Reservoir (Shand Dam) (26);
  4. Pictures taken from Map of Township of Nicol. (1 leaf of text, 3 pages illustrations removed from an unidentified publication);
  5. Partial history of the Grand River Watershed, p. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12.

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Miscellaneous.

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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Shand dam : construction.

Consists of six photographs of the Shand Dam site on the Grand River above Fergus, Ontario, during the construction phase. The following identifications are provided on verso:

  • Shand : widening and deepening river diversion.
  • Shand : looking west across dam showing forms for east wing wall;
  • Shand : commencing concrete operations on east wing wall; Shand: pouring concrete by means of pumpcrete machine;
  • Shand : east wing wall completed for winter, showing backfill; Shand : floor of spillway prepared for winter.

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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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Grand River : glass plate negatives.

File consists of seven glass plate negatives showing scenes of the Grand River and of the Kitchener-Waterloo region. Includes scenes of the Shand Dam construction, river fortification, houses and businesses along the river and of a Scout troupe.

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Water management.

An ms. note added to the listing accompanying the slides relates that the Water management slides contain "some key May' 74 flood aerials."

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