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Conestogo : A. Stanners, 1964.
File consists of I. Kao's file relating to A. Stanners, Conestogo Area Supervisor. Includes correspondence and inter-office memoranda, ms. notes and calculations.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo and Shand rents, cottage lots, 1964.
File consists of cottage lot rental records entered on oversize ledger pages.
Grand River Conservation Commission
General information meeting, Preston, Ont., March 20, 1964.
File consists of agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes extensive ms. notes and signatures. Includes 13 p. ts. carbon "Address by M.A. MacKrell at G.R.C.C. information meeting, March 20, 1964," a 5 p. ts. mimeograph GRCC information package. Includes a resolution to allow members of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority to attend all general meetings of the GRCA.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Salvage account : no. 3 : accounts paid 1964, January, February, March.
File consists of summaries of salvage account amounts passed at executive meetings, accompanied by receipts and invoices.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Salvage account : no. 4 : accounts paid 1964, April, May, June.
File consists of summaries of salvage account amounts passed at executive meetings, accompanied by receipts and invoices.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo : cottage rentals, 1964.
File consists of form letters, lot rental lists and labels. Includes ms. draft letter by I. Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of five loose blueprints.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Executive Committee correspondence and general, 1964.
File consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, ms. notes by Ilmar Kao. Also includes E.F. Roberts correspondence and clipping from 1952 re federal Minister of Resources and Development Robert Winters.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of mimeograph flood bulletin No. 1 dated April 8, 1964. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material relating to possible amalgamation held with the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes original organization charts of both the GVCA and the GRCC, drawn up by Ilmar Kao and dated Nov. 3, 1963. Includes also copies of proposed organization charts, memoranda and correspondence from Ilmar Kao to G. E. Fisher, Chairman GRCC, re cost apportionment report from Ayr and Montrose reservoirs.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence, invoices, completed tax forms and information booklet.
Grand River Conservation Commission
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
Motor Pool : machine maintenance records, 1964.
File consists of vehicle maintenance record sheets and ms. summary.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool operating accounts : no. 10, April, May, June 1964.
File consists of lists of accounts with supporting invoices, receipts and account balances.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool : rental reports : typed copies, 1964.
File consists of ts. vehicle rental reports submitted by L. Dunn.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ontario hospital insurance, 1964.
File consists of correspondence, remittance and other forms, information booklets. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Shand Dam : control room equipment.
File consists of sketch of a desk by H.A. Cameron.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of TD1 forms, "Employee's Tax Deduction Declaration", filled in by GRCC employees. Includes personal information.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Township of East Garafraxa : assessment notices made in 1964.
File consists of tax assessments for properties owned by the GRCC.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Township of East Luther : assessment notices made in 1964.
File consists of tax assessments for properties owned by the GRCC and leased to individuals. Includes correspondence to and from I. Kao and others, envelope with stamp, ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Township of Maryborough : assessment notices made in 1964.
File consists of assessment notice for properties owned by the GRCC, calculations by Ilmar Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of Brownline Daily Journal for 1964 belonging to H.A. Cameron, working from the Shand Dam station. Daily entries are used primarily to record details of work done by the writer and others, in the office on the property and at other locations: construction, repairs, machinery, inspections, incidents, etc. Not all days have entries; information recorded varies.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Annual meeting, Galt, Ont., Feb. 21, 1964.
File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and minutes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Minutes of Commission meetings, 1964.
File consists of minutes, quarterly financial statements, thermofax copies of memorandum re and minutes of a meeting called by the Minister of Energy and Resources Management concerning the possible amalgamation of the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Grand Valley Conservation Authority.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Salvage account : no. 5 : accounts paid 1964, July, August, September.
File consists of summaries of salvage account amounts passed at executive meetings, accompanied by receipts and invoices.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Salvage account : no. 6 : accounts paid, 1964, October, November, December.
File consists of summaries of salvage account amounts passed at executive meetings, accompanied by receipts and invoices.
Grand River Conservation Commission
GRCC and GVCA : notes regarding meetings, 1963.
File consists of material assembled by Ilmar Kao relating to meetings held over the years with the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes material relating to amalgamation of the GRCA and GRCC and to disagreement over Commission use of land. Includes Ilmar Kao's notes and analyses of shared and separate areas of operation, notes on the history of conservation in the Grand River watershed, notes of discussions at meetings, etc. Includes correspondence, meetings of minutes pulled from other files, reports, organizational charts, newspaper clipping.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of ms. and ts. "Trial balances" for accounting purposes..
Grand River Conservation Commission
12th Line culvert : site plan, Jan. 17, 1964.
File consists of one loose blueprint.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ayr and Montrose Reservoirs : submissions to the Governments.
File consists material relating to the proposed capital works programme submitted to Conservation Authorities Branch of the Dept. of Energy and Resources Management June 23, 1964. Includes copies of resolutions passed by member municipalities, correspondence to and from I. Kao and others, ms. notes by I. Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo : cottage lot rentals : no. 1, 1964.
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao, the GRCC and individuals regarding cottage lots, leases and payments. Includes invoices and receipts. Includes ms. notes, envelopes with stamp.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo cottages : collection : Ballachey and Moore, 1964.
File consists of correspondence relating to collections of rents owing on GRCA properties. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Department of Northern Affairs : gauging stations.
File consists of correspondence between Ilmar Kao and the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Water Resources Branch. As well as routine correspondence, file contains correspondence explaining policies relating to release of river flow data. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Five day forecast for Southern Ontario, 1964.
File consists of carbon copies of weather forecasts issued for Southern Ontario, Jan.-Dec. 1964.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of memoranda and other communications between Ilmar Kao and P.M. Rogers regarding forestry. Includes a ts. report "Conestogo property fire, April 18, 1964" with drawing. Includes ms. notes and calculations re budgets, sale of logs from woodlots and other forestry activities.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1964.
File consists of correspondence to and from Ilmar Kao in his position as Secretary-Treasurer of the GRCC.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool operating accounts : no. 12, October, November, December 1964.
File consists of lists of accounts with supporting invoices, receipts and account balances.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool : vehicle mileage/work reports, no.1, 1964.
File consists of vehicle mileage/work report forms submitted by L. Dunn and others. For each vehicle a description of trip and driver is entered.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool : vehicle mileage/work reports, no. 2, 1964.
File consists of vehicle mileage/work report forms submitted by L. Dunn and others. For each vehicle a description of trip and driver is entered.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Purchasing and quotations, 1964.
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao and suppliers. Includes as well quotations, ephemera, ms. notes relating to purchase of items from uniforms to boat motors. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ts. , 7 leaves, legal-size paper. Report submitted to the GRCC by M.A. MacKrell, P. Eng.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Shand Park ticket selling reports, 1964.
File consists of admission ticket sales sheets and summary in I. Kao's hand. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Sinclair Bridge : blueprints, April 3, 1964.
Four loose blueprints.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Tours and general information, 1964.
File consists of correspondence to and from Ilmar Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Township of West Garafraxa : assessment notices made in 1964.
File consists of tax assessments for properties owned by the GRCC and leased to individuals. Includes correspondence to and from I. Kao and others.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Township of West Garafraxa : assessment notices made in 1964 : Commission property, 1964.
File consists of tax assessments for properties owned by the GRCC and leased to individuals.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Salvage fund : no. 2 : accounts paid 1963
File consists of summaries of salvage account amounts passed at executive meetings, accompanied by receipts and invoices.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Shand operating paid accounts : no. 119 , October, November, December 1963.
File consists of quarterly financial statement for Shand operating accounts for the fourth quarter of 1963, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices. Includes tax notices for Townships of East and West Luther paid in 1963.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Shand operating paid accounts : no. 121 , April, May, June 1964.
File consists of quarterly financial statement for Shand operating accounts for the second quarter of 1964, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices. Includes tax notices for the Townships of West Garafraxa and West Luther.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Shand operating paid accounts : no. 122 , July, August and September 1964.
File consists of quarterly financial statement for Shand operating accounts for the third quarter of 1964, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices. Includes tax notices for the Township of East Luther.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Commission meeting, Galt, Ont., Jan. 24, 1964.
File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman. Includes ms. notes and calculations by I. Kao and others.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Commission meeting, Shand Dam, June 18, 1964.
File consists of agenda, supporting documents, minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes and annotated agenda.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of two booklets containing pre-printed pages for entering snow data. One is filled in as an ms. draft; the other is the final ts. copy, with data recorded intermittently for several locations by H.A. Cameron.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ayr and Montrose Dam Sites Letters re cottage lots to rent.
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao and the GRCC regarding cottage lots.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ayr and Montrose Reservoirs : submissions to the municipalities.
File consists of correspondence between I. Kao and member municipalities concerning the proposed capital works project of the GRCC.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Belwood : cottage lot rentals, 1964.
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao, the GRCC and individuals regarding cottage lots, leases and payments, lists of cottage lots and names, labels, invoices and receipts. Includes ms. notes, envelopes with stamp.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Belwood : house rentals, 1964.
File consists of letters accompanying payments.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of Brownline Daily Journal for 1963 belonging to H.A. Cameron, working from the Shand Dam station. Daily entries are used to record some climactic information such as snowfall and ice. Also recorded are details of work done by the writer and others, in the office on the property and at other locations: construction, repairs, machinery, inspections, incidents, etc. Not all days have entries; information recorded varies.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of two booklets containing pre-printed pages for entering snow data. One is filled in as an ms. draft; the other is the final ts. copy, with data recorded intermittently for several locations by H.A. Cameron.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Annual meeting, Brantford, Ont., Feb. 15, 1963.
File consists of ts. mimeograph agenda and minutes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Annual meeting, Brantford, Ont., Feb. 15, 1963.
File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman. Includes ms. draft report and other ms. notes by Ilmar Kao..
Grand River Conservation Commission
Inspection tour, July 10, 1963.
File includes material relating to the GRCC Annual Inspection Tour. Includes correspondence to and from I. Kao, list of members and guests, signatures of attendees, ms. schedule and instructions by I. Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Assessment : I.K. notes, 1963.
File consists of material relating to proposed Ayr and Montrose projects. Includes ts. draft report, tables, newspaper clipping, ms. tables and calculations by Ilmar Kao..
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ayr and Montrose Dams : Mr. M. A. MacKrell and Dr. R. Pinola.
File consists of material relating to drafting a proposal for construction of Ayr and Montrose Dams, as well as an overall plan for development of the watershed to be used for obtaining government assistance. The initial report proposal by M.A. MacKrell of J.M. Tomlinson & Associates, Consulting Engineers, for the engineering and final submission portion of the proposal was accepted by the GRCC executive.
J.M. Tomlinson & Associates were appointed to "undertake and engineering study of the Grand River watershed in general, and of the proposed Ayr Dam and Reservoir Site on the Nith River and the proposed Montrose Dam and Reservoir Site on the Grand River in particular." (memo, G.E. Fisher, undated). Rudolph Pinola of University of Waterloo was appointed to prepare cost-benefit study portion.
Includes correspondence, a draft appendix containing data for stream discharge measurement stations in the Grand River Basin, 1913-1963, tables drawn up by I. Kao and a thermofax copy of a 7 p. document: "Data required for a cost-benefit study for the Grand River Conservation Commission.".
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of five letters accompanying payments.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo : A. Stanners, 1963.
File consists of material relating to work done by and for Andrew Stanners, GRCC employee. Includes correspondence, tenders re work to be carried out at the "operators" residence and workshops, memoranda and ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo : cottage rentals, 1963 (file 1 of 2).
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao and the GRCC regarding cottage lots, leases and payments, lists of cottage lots and names, labels, invoices and receipts. Includes ms. notes. Includes stamped envelopes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Executive Committee : correspondence and general, 1962-1963.
File consists of correspondence to and from Ilmar Kao relating to Executive Committee meetings. Includes a newspaper clipping dated June 13, 1962, reporting a speech given 50 years earlier by W.H. Breithaupt to the Paris Board of Trade. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Gauge Stations : 8 : re readers, charts etc., 1963
File consists of material relating to delivery of gauge books and charts to eight gauge stations. Includes correspondence from I. Kao, ms. tables, ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of communications between A. Ridzins, area operator for Luther, and Ilmar Kao. Includes correspondence to others relating to services for and use of facilities.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of an invitation, correspondence from Ilmar Kao, business card and report by G. Ross Lord.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1963.
File consists of correspondence to and from Ilmar Kao in his position as Secretary-treasurer of the GRCC. Includes receipts, ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Miss Linda Sharer : instructions : address and telephone numbers etc., 1963.
File consists of I. Kao's file of information for an employee. Includes contact lists and instructions, ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool accounts : no. 5, January, February, March, 1963.
File consists of Motor Pool acccount statement for the first quarter of 1963. Includes summaries of amounts passed at meetings, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices. Includes summary list of expenses.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool operating accounts : July - August - September 1963.
File consists of lists of accounts with supporting invoices, receipts and account balances.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Payroll Deductions : re. P.S.I., Un. Ins., Inc. tax, O.H.S.C., 1963
File consists of I. Kao's working file re payroll deductions for individuals and groups. Includes ms notes, calculations, inter-office memoranda, etc..
Grand River Conservation Commission
Physicians' Services Inc., 1963.
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao re subscription and individual changes. Includes ephemera.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao and suppliers. Includes as well quotations, ephemera, ms. notes relating to purchase of items as water conditioners to snowshoes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao and suppliers.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of requisitions submitted to I. Kao. Includes, for example, requests for herbicides and insecticides for specified forest areas.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Township of West Luther : assessment notices, 1963.
File consists of tax assessments for properties owned by the GRCC.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao, supporting documentation and remittance forms. Includes an envelope of forms labelled "Individual earnings cards." Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Shand operating paid accounts : no 117, April, May, June, 1963.
File consists of quarterly financial statement for Shand operating accounts for the second quarter of 1963, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices. Includes tax notices for the Township of West Garafraxa.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Shand operating paid accounts : no. 118 , July, August and September 1963.
File consists of quarterly financial statement for Shand operating accounts for the third quarter of 1963, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of two ms. notes, communications from an employee to I. Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ayr and Montrose Dam sites : letters regarding cottage lots, 1963.
File consists of correspondence. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ayr and Montrose Dams : consulting engineers.
File consists of material relating to selection of engineering consultants for the "hydrological and economic study of the Grand River watershed." Includes correspondence to and from I. Kao, submissions and expressions of interest.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Ayr and Montrose Dams : general correspondence, 1961-1963.
File consists of correspondence to and from Ilmar Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Belwood : cottage lot rentals : active, 1957-1963.
File consists of correspondence, lists of renters. Includes ms. notes and legal documents. Earliest correspondence is E.F. Roberts
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestoga operating accounts : no. 23, July, August, September 1963.
File consists of material relating to the Conestogo operating accounts for the third quarter of 1963. Includes summaries of amounts passed at meetings, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices. Includes tax notices for Township of Maryborough for 1963.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo : cottage rentals, 1963 (file 2 of 2).
File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao and the GRCC regarding cottage lots, leases and payments, lists of cottage lots and names, labels, invoices and receipts. Includes ms. notes. Includes stamped envelopes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conestogo operating accounts : no. 24, October, November, December, 1963.
File consists of quarterly financial statement for the Conestogo operating accounts for the fourth quarter of 1963, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, and invoices. I. Kao's file.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Conservation authorities : correspondence, reports, etc., 1963.
File consists of Ilmar Kao's file relating to other conservation authorities. Includes information about a tour of the Grand River watershed by members and staff of the Muskingum Conservancy district and Ohio Water Commission, hosted by the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes reports, correspondence with the GVCA and Otonabee Region Conservation Authority and ephemera. Includes ms. notes.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of ms. transcribed emergency flood warning "from McMullen's office" dated Wed. march 27, 1963.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of material relating to GRCA accounting and information for the bookkeeper (initialled J.B. Jean Baker). Includes lists of account numbers and ledger headings, trial balances, reconciliations etc, information about employees and their remuneration, and a sheet of ts. procedural instructions re payroll..
Grand River Conservation Commission
Lake Belwood : cottage lots : up to date Aug. 28, 1963.
File consists of lists with corrections of cottage owners and cottage numbers.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Lake Conestogo: cottage lots : up to date Aug. 30, 1963.
File consists of corrected lists of cottage lots and names.
Grand River Conservation Commission
File consists of a document: "A proposal for engineering services for Grand River Conservation Commission, July 1963, M.M. Dillon Co. Ltd." This proposal was submitted "at the request of Mr. I. Kao" for hydrological and economic studies of the Grand River watershed.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Minutes of commission meetings, 1963.
I. Kao's annotated file consists of minutes, agenda and supporting documentation.
Grand River Conservation Commission
Motor Pool : gas reports, 1963.
File consists of gas use records for GRCA vehicles. Includes gas consumption sheets, draft and final summaries. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao.
Grand River Conservation Commission