Clippings : 1939-1945 : scrapbook.
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- 1939-1945
Grand River Conservation Authority
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Clippings : 1939-1945 : scrapbook.
Grand River Conservation Authority
File consists of legal correspondence to and from Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims relating to lands acquired by the GRCC. Includes descriptions of properties, reports and an agreement. Includes ms. notes. Correspondents include C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Grand River and Canada Grain Co., and Manchee.
File consists of correspondence between Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims and C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor, relating to lands acquired by the GRCC. Includes descriptions of properties.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence between Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims and C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor relating to lands acquired by the GRCC. Includes descriptions of properties.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Grand River Board of Engineers : Stapleton farm.
File consists of material relating to the valuations of several properties, primarily the Stapleton farm. Includes correspondence, reports, hand drawn map of land plots, ms. notes and receipt. The file appears to have belonged to C.C. Fairchild, Secretary, Board of Engineers, GRCC.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Assessment of costs: details, April 18, 1939.
File consists of copies of a 3 page document outlining details of cost assessments to participating municipalities by the GRCC for water supply, sewage disposal and flood control.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of "Option to Purchase" documents, lists of owners and properties.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Minister of Transport, Ottawa : C.D. Howe.
File consists of correspondence to and from P.P. Adams, C.D. Howe, Minister of Transport and others concerning the effect of the proposed dam and flooding on CPR tracks.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ontario Dept. of Health : A.E. Berry.
File consists of material relating primarily to water quality on the Grand River. Includes correspondence between F.P. Adams, Secretary Treasurer of the GRCC and A.E. Berry, Director of the Sanitary Engineering Division of the Ontario Dept. of Health. Includes chemical analyses of sewage from various municipalities and a report of an investigation done in the Brantford area in 1956. Also includes material relating to the appeal of municipalities against their assessment for the Grand River Project.
Grand River Conservation Commission
The Ontario Municipal Board, Toronto.
File consists of correspondence to and from the Ontario Municipal Board, Frank P. Adams, the GRCC and others concerning the GRCC application for approval of salaries and expenses officers and members of the commission, also concerning the hearing before the OMB of appeals by municipalities against the GRCC assessment of their costs.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of "S" correspondence to and from F.P. Adams. Includes correspondence with individuals, contractors and government officials on a variety of topics including land purchases.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material relating to the Shand Dam project. Includes correspondence to and from F.P. Adams relating to land purchases, information relating to the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, correspondence relating to insurance.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Statement of accounts, Dec. 20, 1939.
File consists of "Statement of accounts Dec. 20, 1939." Includes material relating to progress on the Shand Dam, correspondence and invoices. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Statement of accounts, Nov. 10, 1939.
File consists of "Statement of accounts Nov. 10, 1939." Includes material relating to progress on the Shand dam, correspondence and invoices. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of copies of this one-page report.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Tenders : test-pit digging etc.
File consists of correspondence to and from F.P. Adams and contractors relating to tenders.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Consists of a ts.(photocopy) report dated July 31, 1939 by James Mackintosh [Grand River Conservation Commission?] to Frank P. Adams, Secretary-Treasurer of the Grand River Conservation Commission. The report is in the form of a letter and details the history and development of the GRCC and assessments of the financial benefits and costs accruing to various communities in the Grand River Valley from GRCA sewage disposal, flood prevention and water supply activities.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Mackintosh Morris report : original assessment, 1939.
File consists of correspondence to F.P. Adams, Secretary, G.R.C.C. relating to a review of the report done in 1934 by James. L. Morris, Engineer for the Dept. of Lands and Forests, and James Mackintosh of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Engineering staff to allot proprtions of costs for improvements on the Grand River to municipalities. Includes 32 p. ts. original "detailed report on the assessment of municipalities" dated July 31, 1939 forwarded in parts by James Mackintosh.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Land options : East Garafraxa.
File consists of "Option to Purchase" documents, lists of owners and properties, correspondence copies and ms notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence from F.P. Adams to the Mayor of Galt re expenses and Commission meetings.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of one letter to F.P. Adams from the Provincial Secretary declining the invitation to be present at the turning of the first sod on the Grand River Conservation Project at the site of the Shand Dam, July 11, 1939.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of , ts. carbon agreements and specifications relating to test pits and testing at the Shand Dam by G.F. Sterne and Sons Ltd. Includes original and carbon copies of GRCC financial statement for 1938
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of "W" correspondence to and from F.P. Adams, in this case with potential suppliers Chas. Warner and Co. Ltd. and Waterous Ltd.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Young, C.R., Consulting Engineer.
File consists of material relating to soil analysis investigation work on the Shand Dam site to be carried out by C.R. Young. Includes correspondence with F.P. Adams. Includes also an 8 page ts. carbon set of specifications for digging test pits at the dam site,.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Two oversized rolled maps attached to each other: map of interference with roads, West Garafraxa Township by the Grand River Conservation Commission for the Shand Dam, by Herbert Johnston, Ontario Land Surveyor, November 12, 1941, shows property ownership. Second attached map showing lands required in the Township of East Garafraxa, County of Dufferin, by C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor October 13, 1939. Includes the Belwood area.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Two oversized rolled maps attached to each other: map of interference with roads, West Garafraxa Township by the Grand River Conservation Commission for the Shand Dam, by Herbert Johnston, Ontario Land Surveyor, November 12, 1941, shows property ownership, and is annotated in pencil with notes regarding incidents including an airplane crash and deaths due to drowning. Second attached map showing lands required in the Township of East Garafraxa, County of Dufferin, by C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor October 13, 1939. Includes the Belwood area.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Department of Lands and Forests : Hon. Peter Heenan and Dr. J.L. Morris.
File consists of correspondence between F.P. Adams, Secretary, Grand River Conservation Commission and Dr. J.L. Morris of the Surveys Branch of the Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests concerning the appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board from municipalities concerning costs assessed against them by the GRCC. Morris was one of the authors of the original report or 1934 and of the revised report done in 1939. Includes one letter to the Minister of Lands & Forests, Hon. Peter Heenan.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of items assembled by an unknown person from other files. Contains GRCA employee list, 1986, a letter from the Toronto Field Naturalists Club to F.P. Adams, Dec. 29, 1939, regarding a talk to be given by him; an application by R.H. Smith to be Overseer and Valuator; letter from F.P. Adams re hospitalization expenses, Feb. 29, 1940; letter from Hugh Templin re his address, Aug. 2, 1940.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Grand River Conservation Commission : assessment of costs.
File consists of one letter to F.P. Adams from the Dept. of Lands and Forest Surveys Branch concerning assessment of costs to municipalities re Grand River control works, signed by engineers J. Morris, James Mackintosh.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of "Option to Purchase" documents, lists of owners and properties.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of "Option to Purchase" documents, lists of owners and properties, correspondence copies and ms notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence between the Town of Paris and F.P. Adams, Secretary Treasurer of the GRCC relating to assessment of costs to Paris. Includes ts. carbon appeal by the Town before the Ontario Municipal Board.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Material removed from original files at some later date for an unknown purpose, also material found loose as a result of file box damage. Contains four maps and plans: "Road map of the County of Wellington," 1939, marked with green pencil numbers; "Shand Dam Geologic Section" dated Feb. 15, 1939, two copies (one ink on linen, one blueprint) of a "Plan of that part of the Village of Belwood formerly Douglas lying South of the Grand River, Plan No. 78," by C.C. Fairchild, Aug. 22, 1939.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of one piece of correspondence from F.P. Adams to Wm. Youngson re GRCC purchase of his property..
Grand River Conservation Commission
Belwood descriptions : miscellaneous.
File consists of correspondence between Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims and C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor, relating to lands acquired by the GRCC; also contains correspondence signed by F.P. Adams, Secretary-Treasurer, GRCC and Herbert Johnston, Civil Engineer. Includes descriptions of properties, reports, an agreement and ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Clippings : 1939-1952 : scrapbook.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists of 1 volume ts.(carbon copy) report prepared by H.G. Acres, Chief Engineer, [H.G. Acres & Company Limited?] for the Grand River Conservation Commission concerning the investigation of dam sites on the upper Grand River. Includes a cover letter from H.G. Acres to F.P. Adams, Secretary-Treasurer of the Grand River Conservation, February 15, 1939.
Also present are blackline maps of the Grand River Valley and Luther Marsh Area, and blackline plans of Shand, Belwood and Pilkington Dam Sites. Also contains photographs of [core samples?] from the Shand, Belwood and Pilkington sites. A blueline drawing of the Conestogo Dam Foundation , No. 5, 1954 by H. Barnett, H.G. & Acres Co., Ltd., is inserted.
Grand River Conservation Authority
File consists of material relating to acquisition of land by the GRCC. Includes land transfer documents, four blueprint surveys and one original pen and ink survey by C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material removed from original files at some later date for an unknown purpose, also material found loose as a result of file box damage. Includes correspondence to Frank P. Adams, Secretary, Grand River Conservation Commission and others. letters include H.G. Acres concerning properties and clearing in the Shand flowage; W. Philip to W.L. Mackenzie King, June 11, 1940(ts. carbon). Includes a drawing with title "P.W.C. : Shand Dam, Ont. : construction 1939-1940", which includes inset sections, some hand colouring.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence and forms relating to inventory of frequency sensitive materials in preparation for conversion to 60 cycle operation. Canadian Comstock Co. was the contractor for the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material relating to acquisition of land by the GRCC. Consists of original pencil survey drawings of properties, such as Rodgers and Goodall, as well as some lot descriptions, probably by C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor..
Grand River Conservation Commission
Grand River and Tebbutt Estate.
File consists of correspondence between Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims and C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor, relating to lands acquired by the GRCC. Includes descriptions of properties, and C.C. Fairchild signed correspondence copy.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Grand River and William Rodger.
File consists of legal correspondence between Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims and C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor, relating to lands acquired by the GRCC. Includes description of property and ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
United Church, Belwood : Rev. M. F. Stewart, 1940-1960.
File consists of correspondence relating to water problems at the St. John's United Church manse property in Belwood between 1940 and 1944 (with E.F. Roberts) and again in 1960(with Ilmar Kao). Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of legal correspondence between Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims and C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor, relating to lands acquired by the GRCC. Includes description of property and ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Concrete and grouting : reports by Raymond E. Davis, University of California.
Three separate reports stapled together.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of weekly reports sent to the GRCC by the Ministry of Labour relating to labour on the Shand Dam. Includes comParisons of quotas and hours worked, percentage tables, lists of names, occupations, hours worked for several municipalities. The cover letter for each week is signed by N.O. Hipel, Minister of labour.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from F.P. Adams, Secretary Treasurer, H.G. Acres and others. Includes ms. sketch of bridge.
Grand River Conservation Commission
H.G. Acres and Co., Niagara Falls, Ontario.
File consists of E.F. Roberts (1943 and later) and F.P. Adams (1942 and earlier) copies of H.G. Acres and Co. correspondence, relating to primarily construction and operation of the Shand Dam. Includes estimates, charts, instructions and reports on work progress, financing, etc. and copies of correspondence to and from H.A. Cameron. The 1947 correspondence relates primarily to flood damage.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Report on Grand River improvement scheme.
Consists of ts.report by H.G. Acres, Hydraulic and Hydro-Electric Engineer, Niagara Falls, Ont. dated February 8, 1940 for the Grand River Conservation Commission concerning preliminary study and exploratory work on the proposed Luther-Shand water control structure on the upper Grand River. The report summarizes investigatory work performed in 1938-1939.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Bell Telephone Company of Canada.
File consists of one package of correspondence and agreements between the GRCC and the Bell Telephone Co. of Canada on the Shand Project, forwarded at his request to P.A. Ballachey, Barrister and Solicitor by E.F. Roberts on May 7, 1956.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material removed from original files at some later date for an unknown purpose, also material found loose as a result of file box damage. Includes correspondence to and from F.P. Adams and P.A. Ballachey, respectively secretaries of the GRCC. Includes ts. carbon " Shand Dam expenditures to date," dated Sept. 8, 1941, 4 p. ms. list of dam names, 2 leaves ts. carbon "Re: C.P.R. abandonment," dated Jan. 30, 1941.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and H.A. Cameron and others relating to GRCC business and operations, including personnel, land buildings and services. Includes H.A. Cameron's original letter of application to Hugh Templin for the position of operator at the dam; further correspondence follows regarding taking up his position, and arrangements to renovate a residence for his use. Includes ts. carbon statements, one an interview with Hugh Templin, re C.P.R. application to close the Cataract-Fergus line.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of legal correspondence between Sims, McIntosh, Schofield & Sims and C.C. Fairchild, Ontario Land Surveyor, relating to lands acquired by the GRCC. Includes descriptions of properties and ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Financial statements, Feb. 1, 1940-Jan. 31, 1941.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Residence, Shand Dam : repairs and installation correspondence.
File consists of correspondence to and from H.A. Cameron regarding a residence at the Shand Dam, blueprint, invoices, ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Annual and other meeting agendas and minutes.
File contains minutes and financial statements of the GRCC, annual meeting agendas and supporting documents and reports for several years between 1942 and 1959, some marked by Wm. Philip. Includes Wm. Philips ms. notes on assessments to municipalities. Includes a separate group of material relating to setting up a county forest, submitted by I.C. Marritt, Zone Forester.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Blue print map of proposed road between 6th and 7th lines, Township of West Garafraxa dated June 15, 1942.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Water level data : operating instructions, 1942.
File consists primarily of E.F. Roberts correspondence copies from H.G. Acres to H.A. Cameron relating to regulating water levels.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material relating to E.F. Robert's work as Secretary-Treasurer of the GRCC.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Executive Committee minutes, March 10, 1942 to November 4, 1943.
Consists of ts. minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Grand River Conservation Commission pasted into a bound volume. Also present are GRCC statements of accounts.
Grand River Conservation Authority
File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts regarding insurance policies, coverage schedules, payments for goods and properties owned by the GRCC. Includes ms. notes from W. Philips, ms. and ts. lists of buildings, policies, etc.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Payroll sheets.
Grand River Conservation Commission
One letter, ts. carbon.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Minute Book no. 3, February 27, 1942 to November 14, 1945.
Consists of ts. minutes of meetings of the Grand River Conservation Commission pasted into a bound volume. Includes minutes of annual meetings of the GRCC, 1942-1945.
Also includes a statement of order of business conducted at GRCC meetings, statement of accounts, reports and correspondence. Enclosed in the volume are : audited financial statements of the GRCC for the years ended January 31, 1944 and January 31, 1945 and an ms. list [of attendees at a meeting?].
Grand River Conservation Authority
File consists of Wm. Philip's copies of two letters signed by E.F. Roberts re insurance and an agreement with the CPR re relocation of the railway in its Elora subdivision.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of application letters for the post of Resident Operator of the Shand Dam and further correspondence with H.A. Cameron who was awarded the position.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of ms. list of employees and pay rates for 1941 and 1942.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of index to and lists of land purchase. Includes ms. and ts. drafts.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and H.A. Cameron and others relating to GRCC business and operations, including personnel, land, leases, services, water and weather, equipment and vehicles.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material removed from original files at some later date for an unknown purpose, also material found loose as a result of file box damage.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Department of National Revenue : income tax.
File consists of material relating to income tax, 1942-1945. Includes Dominion of Canada table of tax deductions under the Income War Tax Act, 1942. Includes completed individual income tax forms and ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Scully and Scully, Kitchener, Ont., 1942.
File consists of financial statements prepared by Scully and Scully as of Jan. 31, 1940, Jan 31, 1942. Includes ms. draft statements. Scully & Scully were retained April 18, 1939.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of E.F. Roberts budget working documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ledger sheets removed Dec. 31, 1958 : capital 1943-1949.
One bundle of "balance ledger" sheets.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ledger sheets removed Dec. 31, 1958 : operating 1943-1955.
One bundle of "balance ledger" sheets.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Consists of ts.(carbon copy) decision of the Ontario Municipal Board concerning compensation owing to William H. Norris, Township of West Garafaxa, Ont. by the Grand River Conservation Commission for expropriation of farm lands belonging to the former.
Grand River Conservation Authority
File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and later to and from Ilmar Kao relating to a property purchased by the Commission and an ensuing fence-line dispute. Includes legal correspondence, and correspondence with later owners.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Minutes, November 23, 1943 to June 28, 1950.
Consists of ts. minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Grand River Conservation Commission, pasted into a bound volume.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Consists of a ts. (carbon copy) of an agreement issued by the Minister of Public Works concerning percentages and amounts of capital costs payable by the Province of Ontario to the Grand River Conservation Commission for the purchase of lands, erection of works and creation of reservoir. Includes a covering letter from R.A. McAllister, Deputy Minister of Public Works to the Grand River Conservation Commission, March 19, 1943. The agreement probably relates to the construction of the Shand Dam and Reservoir.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Annual meeting, Brantford, Ont., Feb. 18, 1944.
File consists of agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. and ms original Chairman's and ts. original Secretary-Treasurer's reports. Includes ts. lists of forestry plots. Includes ms. notes
Grand River Conservation Commission
Forestry Department reports, 1959.
File consists of material relating to history and operation of the forestry Department. Includes abstracts from Chairman's and Secretary-Treasurer's reports on reforestation from 1943 to 1958; information about forest policy, planting in East Luther, insects and diseases.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, H.A. Cameron and others relating to tree planting and reforestation. Includes "Report on Reforestation Planting for 1945 at the Grand Valley Dam"; "Work plan, Belwood Forest"; as well as reports on three woodlots owned by the GRCC, accompanied by detailed species list. Includes snapshots of plow and tree planter, 1945.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material removed from original files at some later date for an unknown purpose, also material found loose as a result of file box damage.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Grand Valley Authority, Kitchener, Ont., Oct. 3, 1944.
File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. originals of some items. Includes newspaper clippings and ms. notes. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss with other county and township councils the "advisability of organizing a conservation association throughout the territory bordering the Grand River and tributary streams and in Grey County to the north for the purpose of carrying out conservation in all its branches." Includes a memorandum from J.R. Dymond, Secretary, concerning the "Guelph Conference," forwarded to E.F. Roberts by Wm. Philip with note: "This is your baby, Roberts. "
Grand River Conservation Commission
H. G. Acres and Co., Niagara Falls, Ontario.
File consists of E.F. Roberts copies of H.G. Acres and Co. correspondence, some of which is to H.A. Cameron re "minimum flow" at the Grand Valley Dam.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and H.A. Cameron and others relating to GRCC business and operations, including personnel, land buildings and services. Includes a letter dated March 12, 1945 from H.G. Acres to E.F. Roberts concerning operating procedure at the Shand Dam and the timing of raising the lake level, with the comment that "facilities for keeping track of the operations at Shand are still rather primitive on account of the lack of recording gauges..."
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, the GRCC and individuals regarding lots, leases and payments, primarily at Belwood. Includes lease forms and sketches.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from H.A. Cameron re rentals, payment of accounts, work inspection, drainage report. Includes one letter from the Department of Reconstruction and Supply, Air Services, Radio Division in response to difficulties experienced by the GRCC in setting up effective radiotelephone circuit between Brantford and the "Grand Valley Dam" using Canadian Army No. 19 sets purchased for that purpose.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Annual meeting, Brantford, Ont., Feb. 16, 1945.
File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. Chairman's report by Wm. Philip, as well as newspaper clippings.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Consists of a printed programme for a Conference on River Valley Development in Southern Ontario sponsored by the Ontario Department of Planning and Development in London, Ont., October 13-14, 1944.
Grand River Conservation Authority
Kiwanis Club of Guelph, up to 1964.
File consists of correspondence to and from Ilmar Kao relating to a lease of GRCC property for a Kiwanis Club camp at Lake Belwood. Includes drawings.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Invoices since Oct. 18, 1944..
File consists of invoices from Beatty Bros., Fergus, Ont.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Lake front lease : correspondence with E.F.Roberts, H.A.C., Sept. 1944.
Contains correspondence between E.F. Roberts and H.A. Cameron re individuals leasing lakefront lots.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Reports on sanitation, pollution of upper river, etc.
File consists of correspondence between H.A. Cameron and E.F. Roberts and others regarding contamination of river at Grand Valley.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material removed from original files at some later date for an unknown purpose, also material found loose as a result of file box damage. Contains clippings, product ephemera for a fire pump, ts. list of cottage lots leased, one piece of correspondence concerning leasing. The item of correspondence contains Anti-Semitic and racist rhetoric.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Road repairs and alterations, Oct. 18, 1944.
File consists of one ms. work report, May 13, 1944, "from Marcel Pequegnat," initialled by H.A. Cameron.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of "M" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, relating to insurance, license for game birds, and general information inquiry. Includes a letter and sketch map by L.C. Meinzinger forwarded to E.F. Roberts by W. Philip, concerning the forthcoming visit of W.L. Mackenzie King, deploring the state of the Grand River at Mr. King's childhood home at Woodside, and suggesting that King and L.O. Breithaupt tour the area.
This letter is accompanied by a hand drawn plan of a proposed park on the river behind Woodside that would incorporate deep channels for fish. Mr. Philips cover letter to E.F. Roberts reads: "Dear Roberts, Enclosed in a letter from L.C. Meinzinger. Please bring before a commission meeting. It would please him to get his name in the paper and would give us another strong supporter. It would be well to be in Kitchener when Mackenzie King visits his home town."
Grand River Conservation Commission
Belwood Bridge : Blyth Contract, June 14, 1944.
File consists of Wm. Philip's copies of correspondence to and from the GRCC relating to a tender for the raising and re-construction of the Belwood highway bridge. Includes a report by H.G. Acres on the execution of the contract.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Estimates and repair to farm property : correspondence : Grand River Conservation Commission.
File consists of correspondence between H.A. Cameron and E.F. Roberts re work authorized for property repairs, as well as correspondence relating to a stoker.
Grand River Conservation Commission