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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 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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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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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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Grand River Conservation Commission : Conestogo Dam : report on hydraulic model tests of sluiceway, 1953.

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.

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Grand Valley Conservation Authority : Speed River : tender submission on sluice gates on the Speed River in the City of Guelph.

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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Wildflower slides : no. 1.

Consists of slides of various wildflowers identified by species on an ms. list on the interior lid of the slide tray case. Includes large groupings of orchids and lilies.
According to the original GRCA listing, the slides were taken by Bill Miller.

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Wildflower slides : no. 2

Consists of slides of various wildflowers identified by species on an ms. list on the interior lid of the slide tray case. Also includes slides of insects and amphibians.
According to the original GRCA listing, the slides were taken by Bill Miller.

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Plan for flood control and water conservation in the Grand River Watershed : submitted to the Government of Ontario represented by the Honourable J.R. Simonett, Minister, the Department of Energy and Resources Management, and the Government of Canada represented by the Honourable Arthur Laing, Minister of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources.

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.

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