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Visual : Slides by Category : Nature Centres.

Series consists of categorized hanging pages and boxes of slides primarily concerned with natural features, buildings and programs associated with Grand River Conservation Authority conservation areas. Also contains slides relating to GRCA water management and land use programs and general topics such as conservation techniques, educational programs and the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation.

The slides are organized topically in hanging pages. A ts. listing of the slide collection by topic including alphabetical codes to the storage system is included. The slides are in no particular order within each topical section; some of the slides are not present.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Flood inquiry, May, 1974.

Consists of background materials assembled by the Grand River Conservation Authority for presentation at the hearings of the Ontario Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Grand River Flood, May, 1974. Primarily contains ts. (photocopy and original) correspondence between the Grand River Conservation Authority and federal, provincial and municipal governments concerning flood control programs and projects, including dams and reservoirs, on the Grand River and its tributaries. A large proportion of the correspondence is concerned with matters of funding.

Inserted in the file are : a Kitchener-Waterloo Record article titled : Flood wiped out pair's $10,000 dream, May 6, 1972; and a Regional Municipality of Waterloo pamphlet titled : Flood Warning System, amended March 20, 1980.

The following ms. note is inscribed on the folder : "Do not take apart: file assembled for Flood Inquiry, May, 1974."

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Submissions of the Grand River Conservation Authority to the Commission of Inquiry into the Nature, Extent and Cause of Flooding on the Grand River on May 16th to 18th, 1974.

Consists of a document including recommendations, submitted on behalf of the Grand River Conservation Authority by R.J. Miller to Judge W. Leach of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Grand River Flood, 1974.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Flood Inquiry, 1974.

Consists of materials assembled by the Grand River Conservation Authority apparently in connection with a trial commencing in June, 1980 involving a lawsuit against the GRCA for property damage sustained by plaintiffs during the 1974 flood of the Grand River. Contains ts. (original and photocopy) correspondence to and from the Grand River Conservation Authority from their legal representatives, the firm of Lochead Sills Barristers, Kitchener, Ont.

Also includes ts.(original and photocopies) correspondence from 1948 to 1969 between the GRCA and federal and provincial authorities concerning flood control projects, and between the GRCA and legal firms, which appears to have been collated as evidence. Also includes ts.(photocopy) schedule of evidence presented by the GRCA at the hearings of the Ontario Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Grand River Flood, 1974; and ms.(original) report titled : Report on Grand River Flood Event, May 16-19, 1974, by the Grand River Conservation Authority.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Visual : Slides by Category : Water Management

Series consists of categorized hanging pages and boxes of slides primarily concerned with natural features, buildings and programs associated with Grand River Conservation Authority conservation areas. Also contains slides relating to GRCA water management and land use programs and general topics such as conservation techniques, educational programs and the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation.

The slides are organized topically in hanging pages. A ts. listing of the slide collection by topic including alphabetical codes to the storage system is included. The slides are in no particular order within each topical section; some of the slides are not present.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Visual : Slides by Category : Land Use

Series consists of categorized hanging pages and boxes of slides primarily concerned with natural features, buildings and programs associated with Grand River Conservation Authority conservation areas. Also contains slides relating to GRCA water management and land use programs and general topics such as conservation techniques, educational programs and the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation.

The slides are organized topically in hanging pages. A ts. listing of the slide collection by topic including alphabetical codes to the storage system is included. The slides are in no particular order within each topical section; some of the slides are not present.

Grand River Conservation Authority

State of the Grand River CD Rom : working slides.

Contents:

  1. Elora Gorge (13 slides with code EG in hanging slide page);
  2. Flood : Guelph, May 1994 (17 slides with code FL in hanging slide page);
  3. Untitled [Boating] (19 slides with code BV in slide holder designed for 30 slides. Slides are individually numbered, 13 missing);
  4. Untitled (80 slides with assorted codes in 3 slide pages designed to hold 33 slides each; many missing);
  5. Untitled [Doon Pioneer Village] (20 slides in slide page designed to hold 21 slides);
  6. Suncor (13 slides in slide page designed to fit 15 slides);
  7. Elora Mill (7 slides in page designed to hold 12 slides);
  8. Ontario park (3 slides);
  9. Guelph (3 slides));
  10. Loose slides (2 slides: Belwood, Conestogo).

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