Archives Database

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.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Grand River Conservation Authority : news releases, May 5, 1989 to December 1, 1997

SCA205-GA183-13-171
File
1989-1997

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Consists of ts.(photocopy) news releases and accompanying original photographs issued by the Grand River Conservation Authority.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Grand Valley Conservation Authority : Speed River : preliminary study on proposed Hespler Conservation Dam on the Speed River, Township of Guelph, Wellington County, Ont.

SCA205-GA183-29-808
File
January 1965

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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,

Grand River Conservation Authority

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

SCA205-GA183-29-819
File
April 5, 1957

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Black and white negative files : vol. 3, p. 102-150.

SCA205-GA183-58-1113
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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. 10, p. 361-410.

SCA205-GA183-58-1120
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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. 13, p. 501-550, Feb. 1992-Aug. 1994.

SCA205-GA183-58-1123
File
1992-1994

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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

Grand River Conservation Commission : Commissioners of the former Grand River Conservation Commission assembled at Brantford for the 45th anniversary of the first meeting of the Grand River Conservation Commission, May 30, 1979.

SCA205-GA183-59-1131
File
1979

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Group portrait (5 copies), identifications provided.

Grand River Conservation Authority

GRCA membership and staff photos : Grand Valley Conservation Authority Board of Directors (file 4 of 16).

SCA205-GA183-59-1133d
File
[196-?]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Group portraits. Some identifications provided on the verso of one print.

Grand River Conservation Authority

GRCA membership and staff photos : staff meeting at Shand dam, March 29, 1967 (file 5 of 16).

SCA205-GA183-59-1133e
File
1967

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Candid group portrait. Some identifications provided on the negative envelope.

Grand River Conservation Authority

GRCA membership and staff photos : Hugh Cameron, Supervisor of Dams (file 8 of 16).

SCA205-GA183-59-1133h
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

GRCA membership and staff photos : Woolwich Dam sod turning (file 9 of 16).

SCA205-GA183-59-1133i
File
1973

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

GRCA membership and staff photos : Gordon Chaplin : portrait (file 13 of 16).

SCA205-GA183-59-1133m
File
1972

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Studio portrait.

Grand River Conservation Authority

GRCA membership and staff photos : unidentified portrait (file 16 of 16).

SCA205-GA183-59-1133p
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Unidentified, undated candid portrait of two men with painting in background.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Honour roll citation recipients.

SCA205-GA183-59-1134
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Shand Dam : Belwood (file 3 of 7).

SCA205-GA183-59-1136c
File
1943-1953

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Consists of snapshots marked "belwood": includes landscapes, bridges, roads and a sawmill.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Assorted openings and tours : unidentified snapshots and negatives, July 1956 (file 2 of 21).

SCA205-GA183-59-1138b
File
1956

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Some identifications provided on the verso.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Assorted openings and tours : Chicopee Ski Club : Norm Schneider, Jim Bauer, Gord Skinner (file 16 of 21).

SCA205-GA183-59-1138p
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Some identifications provided on the verso.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Assorted openings and tours : Shade's Mills official opening (file 18 of 21).

SCA205-GA183-59-1138r
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Some identifications provided on the verso.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Assorted small dams : Victoria Mills, Floradale, Columbia Street, Baden, Byng Island, Apps Mill, Taquanyah, Shade's Mills and some flood shots.

SCA205-GA183-60-1141
File
[195-]-1972

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Conestogo Dam, Aug. 17, 1956 : Hon. W.M. Nickle and Mrs. Nickle, M.A. MacKrell, Mrs. Barnes, H.C. Templin.

SCA205-GA183-60-1154
File
1955

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Conestogo Dam.

SCA205-GA183-60-1155
File
1958

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Conestogo Dam stilling basin inspection, Nov. 2, 1983.

SCA205-GA183-60-1156
File
1983

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Dickson Wilderness.

SCA205-GA183-60-1160
File
[197-]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Dunnville and Caledonia Dams before they were replaced, 1979.

SCA205-GA183-60-1162
File
1979

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Dunnville, Ontario : Grand River.

SCA205-GA183-60-1166
File
[19-]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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.

Grand River Conservation Authority

General forestry and land use and stream improvement photos.

SCA205-GA183-60-1174
File
1956-1965

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

[Grand River?] : unidentified photographs.

SCA205-GA183-60-1177
File
[19-]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Consists of 2 aerial photographs, possibly of the Grand River, showing a river and river bank and farm lands and buildings in the background.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Grand Valley village : dam repair.

SCA205-GA183-60-1180
File
1957-1958, 1965

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Hortop Mill in Everton.

SCA205-GA183-60-1181
File
1965

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Mennonite buggies

SCA205-GA183-60-1187
File
[199-?]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Muskingum Conservancy District photos from GVCA tour.

SCA205-GA183-60-1188
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Rockwood Conservation Area and Harris Woolen Mill.

SCA205-GA183-60-1194
File
1959-1968

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Shand Dam.

SCA205-GA183-60-1199
File
[194-]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Shand dam : construction.

SCA205-GA183-60-1201
File
[between 1940 and 1942]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Taquanyah.

SCA205-GA183-60-1203
File
1970-1972

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Woolwich Dam.

SCA205-GA183-60-1211
File
1971-1972

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Chicopee Conservation Area.

SCA205-GA183-61-1220
File
[197-?]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Conestogo Lake Conservation Area.

SCA205-GA183-61-1221
File
1956

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Guelph Lake Nature Centre.

SCA205-GA183-61-1222
File
1982-2000

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Luther Marsh Wildlife Area.

SCA205-GA183-61-1228
File
1973-1983

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Shades' Mills Conservation Area.

SCA205-GA183-61-1231
File
[196-?]-1989)

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Four photos of Shades' Mills' Field Office repairs pasted onto card, 1960s.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Silver Creek Conservation Area.

SCA205-GA183-61-1232
File
[19--]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Taquanyah Conservation Area.

SCA205-GA183-61-1233
File
1983-1989

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Miscellaneous, 1995.

SCA205-GA183-61-1236c
File
1994

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

File contains an assortment of images, some labelled "Tamarack, Pinehurst, 1994".

Grand River Conservation Authority

Apps' Mill Nature Centre.

SCA205-GA183-61-1240
File
1983

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Forestry (file 2 of 4)

SCA205-GA183-61-1242
File
1983-1985

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Cambrige Dike : building inventory : phase 2.

SCA205-GA183-29-766
File
1983-[1984]

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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.

SCA205-GA183-29-767
File
1986

Part of Grand River Conservation Authority fonds.

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

Burford Conservation Area and Nursery.