File consists of Brownline Daily Journal for 1972 belonging to H.A. Cameron, working from the Shand Dam station. Includes some weather observations. 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.

File consists of Brownline Daily Journal for 1973 belonging to H.A. Cameron, working from the Shand Dam station. Includes some weather observations. 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.

File consists of correspondence between F.P. Adams and E.H. Darling concerning the latter's application for a position as consulting engineer.. Includes newspaper article by E.H. Darling and one severely damaged photograph.

File consists of correspondence between F.P. Adams and DeMorest Drilling Ltd., re bidding on core drilling on proposed dam sites.

File consists of two pieces of correspondence from I. Kao to Mr. McMullen, Hydrometeorologist, Department of Commerce and Development relating to snow courses submitted for several areas. Includes ms. note.

File consists of a special permit for keeping and propagating game pheasants.

File consists of correspondence between E.F. Roberts and the Ontario dept. of Lands and Forests relating to game bird licenses. .

File consists of correspondence between F.P. Adams and the Ontario Dept. of Highways relating to roads affected by dam construction.

File consists of correspondence between the GRCC and the Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests Conservation Authorities Branch. The correspondence concerns amending the Grand River Conservation Act for the purposes of receiving grants from the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, and with the mechanics of transferring the Conservation Authorities Branch from the Dept. of Commerce and Development to the Dept. of Lands and Forests.

Correspondents include J.W. Spooner and A. Kelso Roberts, Ministers of Lands and Forests in 1961 and 1963 respectively and G.E. Fisher, Chairman GRCC. Includes ms. notes; Ilmar Kao's file

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.

File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, the GRCC and the Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests primarily relating to reforestation. Includes draft agreement for management of municipal forests, applications etc. for nursery stock.

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.

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.

File consists of ts. list of and information about Ontario planning areas and planning boards as well as a copy of a paper by Harold V. Miller, "Industrial zoning: a paper for the information of members ... of the Association of State Planning and Development Agencies, ... April 16, 1951."

File consists of correspondence between E.F. Roberts and A.H. Richardson, Chief Conservation Engineer for the Ontario Dept. of Planning and Development, Conservation Branch, concerning historical statistics relating to Dam operations. Also contains information pertaining to a conservation tour of the Nith River valley, Aug. 17, 1949.

File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and the Dept. of Planning and Development on a variety of topics. Correspondents include

• A.H. Richardson, Chief Conservation Engineer, Department of Planning and Development concerning elevation datum used at the gauge station at Brantford, work of the commission in general and discharge records for 1947 and 48 as a basis for storage need forecasting;
• A.E.K. Bunnell, Consultant, Community Planning Branch, Dept. of Planning & Development concerning enforcement of the Grand River Act.

Includes a copy of an address by A.E.K. Bunnell "Introducing Seminar Town Planning Problems" at the Conference of the Federation of Canadian Mayors and Municipalities, London, Ont., June 12, 1951.

File consists of material relating primarily to the Luther Marsh project. Includes correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, newspaper clippings, ms. notes.

File consists of correspondence between E.F. Roberts and A.H. Richardson, Chief Conservation Engineer, Department of Planning and Development, Ontario, relating to the Luther Marsh project, hydrometric gauges and gauge charts, a hearing in Orangeville, and the appointment of A.H. Richardson as Chief Engineer of the GRCC and to the GRCC Board of Engineers.

File consists of material relating to the Ontario Dept. of Planning and Development maintained by Ilmar Kao, first in his position as Manager and Assistant Secretary and later in the position of Secretary-Treasurer. Includes lists of conservation authorities in Ontario and their member municipalities; resolutions passed at the Conservation Authorities Conference held at Preston, 1960; correspondence relating to park development, amendments to the Grand River Conservation Act, background data, summer cottage subdivision plan in the Conestogo project and reforestation. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao.

File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, and the Dept. of Public Works relating to GRCC projects and accounts. Includes "Secretary-Treasurer's report for the year ending 1952". Includes ms. notes.

File consists of one piece of correspondence (ts. with ms. note by W. Philip) and a telegram to F.P. Adams from W.D. Euler, relating to the Grand River Conservation scheme.

File consists of correspondence to and from I. Kao and the Dept. of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. Includes notice of the Commission moving its head office from Brantford to the Commission's office building near the Shand Dam.

File consists of correspondence between the Dominion Bureau of statistics and E.F. Roberts, GRCC Secretary treasurer concerning submission of capital and repair estimates for 1954 and forecast for 1955. Includes form.

Official weather forecasts in the form of telegrams, received by the GRCC.

File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and the Dominion Water and Power Bureau, later the Water Resources Division of the federal Dept. of Resources and Development, and others relating to gauge readings, readers and gauge stations. Includes notes by W. Philip, completed discharge measurement forms for several locations, gauge height and flow records and ephemera relating to water level recorders.. Includes a copy of Norman Marr's "Surface run-off in the Thames and Grand River Basins in Ontario," reprinted from the Engineering Journal (Feb. 1938)

File consists of I. Kao's working papers for Commission meeting minutes.

File consists of I. Kao's working papers for Commission meeting minutes.

File consists of E.F. Roberts correspondence relating to his own routine Commission business. Includes expenses summary, invitation to the opening of the Kiwanis Club Camp on Lake Belwood, sketch, news clipping re hunting at James Bay, pamphlet from the Izaak Walton League of America dated July 1945, "A National Water Policy: Water the Orphan: a Discussion of the basic factors involved in All River Developments," and an ms. fisherman's grace, "offered at this season by W. P." [William Philip].

File consists of material relating to E.F. Robert's work as Secretary-Treasurer of the GRCC.

• Includes correspondence concerning visits, meetings and presentations given by him on conservation.
• Includes background research material including information received from the Ontario Dept. of Planning and Development in the form of reports on other conservation authorities, briefs and pamphlets concerning flood control and river valley development.
• Includes also issues of periodicals, offprints and reprints, including "Conservation and post-war rehabilitation: a report prepared by the Guelph Conference on the Conservation of the Natural resources of Ontario, February 1942," Robert F. Legget "Conservation and sanitation: a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Institute on Sewerage and Sanitation ... 1943," "A plan to grow wealth and eliminate waste" by the Grand Valley group of Engineers,
• Includes E.F. Roberts ms. and ts. notes for an address on conservation given to the Ontario Municipal Association, Aug. 28, 1947. Includes a 9 page mimeograph document dated Jan. 28, 1946: "Grand Valley Authority" that has an organization chart as a cover page.

File consists of "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, primarily relating to the Village of Elora. Includes correspondence and two blueprints concerning a proposed sewerage line across the Grand River.

File consists of "E" correspondence to E.F. Roberts: three letters from the Village of Elora.

Contents :File consists of "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, including with the Village of Elora.

File consists of "E" correspondence to E.F. Roberts: one letter from the Village of Elora.

File consists of "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, primarily relating to the Village of Elora, and the steam-pipe line and possible footbridge erected over the Grand River by John C. Mundell Co. Includes ms. notes and correspondence drafts by W.Philip (such as "Dec. 18/47. Dear Roberts, I have written to the editor Elora paper. Will get in touch with McDonald personally am in favour of a show down ... W.P.") and also ms. notes from Marcel Pequegnat. Also includes a small amount of general correspondence and correspondence to and from the Etobicoke River Conservation Authority.

File consists of "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts: one letter only from Katharine Marsden of the Elora Express.

File consists of routine "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and the Village of Elora.

File consists of "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts

File consists of routine "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, including with the Village of Elora.

File consists of "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts.

File consists of routine "E" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts concerning leases and blasting at the Elora Quarry.

Consists of a ts. (mimeographed) report on the East Side Recreation and Conservation Area, Kitchener, Ont. prepared by Dryden & Smith, Planning Consultants, Kitchener, Ont., possibly for the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes blueline drawings.

File consists of E.F. Roberts correspondence relating to his own routine Commission business. Includes expense summaries and a personal letter from A.R. Shinn of U.S. Pumps, Inc., accompanied by product ephemera..

File consists of E.F. Roberts correspondence relating to his own routine Commission business. Includes expenses summaries, correspondence with Edward I. Wood, Landscape architect, accompanied by a copy of his address to "Men of the Trees," Feb. 23, 1948, "Regional Planning for Parks."

File consists of E.F. Roberts expense summaries.

File consists of E.F. Roberts expenses, draft minutes, and correspondence.

File consists of ms. list of employees and pay rates for 1941 and 1942.

File consists of correspondence: one application to W. Philip for a position, one regarding compensation for loss of business, one re property rental and a copy of the 1934 Mackintosh-Morris report on assessing costs to municipalities.

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.

File consists of material relating to GRCC employee income tax. Includes correspondence, tax table booklets for 1953, unemployment insurance handbooks, ms. and ts. notes and lists.

File consists of one letter copy from H.A. Cameron re tractor purchase.

File consists of material relating to determining equipment rental rates. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao and ts. lists of rates from 1956 and 1959.

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.

File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and others relating to the lease of property by the Etobicoke-Queensway Lions Club, and construction of buildings thereon. Includes outline specifications, blue-prints, drawings and ms. notes.

File consists of material belonging to William Philip relating to GRCC executive committee meetings, to all aspects of business considered and carried out by the GRCC, including projects, operations, finances and personnel. Topics include the Luther project, hydrometric gauging stations and gauge reading, land, tenants, tree planting and forests,

Includes correspondence, agendas, minutes, financial statements, newspaper clippings and reports. Includes ms. notes, possibly for a speech or release, ms. draft Chairman's report for 1951, correspondence with federal and provincial and municipal governments, letters from companies in Galt reporting flood losses. Many items bear ms. annotations by Wm. Philip.

File consists of material belonging to William Philip relating to GRCC executive committee meetings, to all aspects of business considered and carried out by the GRCC, including projects, operations, finances and personnel. Topics include Conestogo Dam soil exploration, engineering firm contracts, land acquisition and rental, trees, agreements and relations with federal and provincial governments, Galt hydrographic station, and an ice-jam flooding complaint. Includes correspondence, agenda, minutes, financial statements and legal agreements. Includes Wm. Philip ms. notes and drafts. Includes letter to Wm. Philip expressing regret at his resignation as Chairman, Feb. 23, 1953

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.

Contains ts.(mimeographed) minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Grand River Conservation Commission pasted into a bound volume.
Also present are copies of correspondence and staff list.

Contains ts.(mimeographed) minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Grand River Conservation Commission pasted into a bound volume.
Also present are copies of a press release dated August 31, 1965 concerning the amalgamation of the Grand River Conservation Commission and Grand Valley Conservation Authority; budget estimates; organizational chart dated January 1, 1964 showing the administrative and organizational structure of the GRCC; and staff list.

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.

Consists of ts. minutes of the Executive Committee of the Grand River Conservation Commission pasted into a bound volume.

Also present are:

• correspondence from the Executive Committee to the Chairman and Members of the Grand River Conservation Commission;
• a printed copy of Province of Ontario legislation entitled An Act to Provide for the Conservation of Water in the Grand River Valley, 1938 which defined the powers of the Grand River Conservation Commission and established the guidelines for selection and composition of the Executive Committee;
• printed muncipal voting lists from West Garafaxa township, 1942; and
• a packet of cancelled cheques dated January to November, 1941.

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.

File consists of material relating to property acquired by the GRCC. Includes correspondence to and from F.P. Adams, H.J. Sims, K.C., and others as well as legal agreements.

File consists of cheque stubs from the Village of Fergus.

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts.

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts.

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts. Correspondents include the Village of Fergus and the Fergus Awning Co.,

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, including the Village of Fergus, and John Fowell and Son, Woodstock. Correspondence with the latter includes a catalogue of garden tractors.

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, the Town of Fergus and individuals including W. Philip. The correspondence deals primarily with the subject of the Fergus P.U.C. re dumping acid residue after treating a well.

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, including suppliers, individuals and the Village of Fergus. Includes product catalogues.

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, the Town of Fergus and individuals.

File consists of "F" correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts, in this case cheque stubs from the Village of Fergus.

File consists of ms. descriptions of properties owned by the GRCC, accompanied by some drawings. Notes are in I. Kao's hand.

File consists of correspondence between the Village of Fergus and F.P. Adams, Secretary Treasurer of the GRCC relating to assessment of costs to Fergus.

File consists of correspondence to and from E.F. Roberts and Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd. relating to purchases of tractors and other equipment. Includes service policy for a truck, product brochures for tractors, plows and accessories, saws and manure spreader.

File consists of carbon copies of weather forecasts issued for Southern Ontario, Jan.-Dec. 1964.

File consists of carbon copies of weather forecasts issued for Southern Ontario, Jan.-Dec. 1963.

File consists of carbon copies of weather forecasts issued for Southern Ontario, April-May, 1961.

File consists of mimeograph flood bulletin No. 1 dated April 8, 1964. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of Flood Bulletin No. 1 dated March 18, 1960 and labelled "Field office Copy." I. Kao's file.

File consists of mimeograph memoranda, lists, Flood Bulletin no. 1, March 8, 1962 attached to a report re the GRCC Flood Warning System, established Jan. 11, 1962, rev. March 8, 1962.

File consists of mimeograph flood bulletins. no. 1 dated March 5 1963, no. 2 dated March 28 1963, one thermofax ms. report to I. Kao, March 29, 1963.

Consists of an issue of the periodical, Engineering Journal, Vol. XX1, no. 2 (February, 1938), devoted to flood control measures and water flow issues in southwestern Ontario, including the Grand River Water Basin. Accompanying the periodical is an Ontario Department of Planning Development memorandum from A.E.K. Bunnell to A.H. Richardson, Conservation Branch.

Also present is a photocopy of an obituary of A.H. Richardson, December 27, 1971 and a periodical article by P.C. Perry titled : "Stream Control in relation to droughts and floods," The Engineering Journal, June, 1939 : 269-274.

File consists of material relating to a flood warning system. Includes Shand Dam operating record March-April 1959 (date, lake level, precipitation, etc.), correspondence to and from Ilmar Kao in regards to telephone lists for warning purposes, a telegram warning of Hurricane Gracie, circular letter from W.M. Nickle, Ontario Minister of Planning and Development containing instructions for action to be taken re flood warning and control. Ilmar Kao's file (Manager); contains his ms. notes and calculations.

File consists of one mimeograph document issued by the GRCC containing information about the flood warning system,

File consists of the Forester's Report of 1956, by P.M. Rogers.

File consists of the Forester's Report of 1957, by P.M. Rogers.

File consists of memoranda and other communications between Ilmar Kao and P.M. Rogers regarding forestry. Includes ms report dated Jan. 9, 1963 "Forestry report data to I. Kao, a ts. report "Luther Forest Fire" with drawing, Oct. 1963. Includes ms. notes and drafts re budgets, sale of logs from woodlots and other forestry activities.

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.

File consists of P.M. Rogers "Forestry department Report, Year 1965."

File consists of material maintained by I. Kao relating to forestry department operations supervised by P.M. Rogers. Includes correspondence and inter-office memoranda between I. Kao and P.M. Rogers, correspondence to and from suppliers and others, correspondence forwarded by and notes from E.F. Roberts to I. Kao. . Includes ts. "Notes on Lake Belwood forest tree nursery procedure," Sept. 15, 1959, material relating to the reforestation programme, including a ts. carbon report on the first season on planting, dated June 10, 1959.

File consists of material maintained by I. Kao relating to forestry department operations supervised by P.M. Rogers. Includes correspondence and inter-office memorandum between I. Kao and P.M. Rogers, correspondence to and from suppliers and others, brochures, information booklets and reports. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of correspondence and memoranda to and from I. Kao and P.M. Rogers and others relating to forestry operations of the GRCC. Includes GRCC Forestry Department annual report for 1960, logging operation report Aug. 1960-march 1961, ms. calculations of tree nursery costs 1954-1961, data sheet on tree nursery, price lists for Fall 1961-Spring 1962, lists of Christmas tree sales, etc. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of correspondence and memoranda to and from I. Kao and P.M. Rogers, Chief Forester and others relating to the activity and operations of the Forestry Department of the GRCC. Includes "Forestry programme : summary and review" dated January 1962.

File consists of report by P.M. Rogers, Chief Forester.

File consists of ts. mimeograph report, 28 leaves.

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.

File consists of one piece of correspondence to P.M. Rogers from a supplier.

File consists of "G" correspondence to and from F.P. Adams, the GRCC and others on a variety of topics, including requests for general information, land purchase, suppliers, complaints, etc. Correspondents include government officials, contractors, suppliers and individuals.