Slides featuring photographs of an unidentified event at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring photographs of unidentified individuals working with computer equipment that are likely reproduced from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection and the Graphic Services fonds. Includes a portrait of Paul Dirksen.

Slides featuring portraits of Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, and an unknown individual.

Loose pages of a photograph album with various photographs and corresponding captions glued to to the pages. The photographs feature the IBM System 360 Model 44, the IBM 2260 display terminal, keypunched cards, a card reader, the Calcomp tape unit, the console panel and typewriter, auxiliary storage devices, tape drives, disk drives, storage drum, data cell, printer, and Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

One negative featuring a group portrait of a hockey team.

Slides featuring photographs of unidentified individuals windsurfing and waterskiing.

Slides featuring images of text that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Computer science education, University of Waterloo experience."

Slides featuring photographs possibly of Computer Science Day at the University of Waterloo in 1967. Includes images of Dana Porter Library, the Physics Building, and unidentified individuals using computer equipment.

Slides featuring photographs of the Red Room and other computer labs in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring photographs of the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo including the Red Room.

Slides featuring text, diagrams and illustrations that were used during a presentation on new equipment and techniques at the Annual Computing Centre meeting in 1969.

Slides featuring images of text that were used during a presentation likely titled, "The evolution of computer systems for student use at the University of Waterloo."

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams used during a presentation about WATBOL and the Waterloo Interactive Debugging Job Entry Terminal (WIDJET) system. Also includes one slide featuring an image of students working at computer stations.

Negatives featuring images of text, diagrams and illustrations used during a presentation about computing at the University of Waterloo and the Waterloo Interactive Debugging Job Entry Terminal (WIDJET) system.

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams used during a presentation about the Computing Centre and educational software at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring images of text that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Challenge of the 80s."

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Local area network." The slides are numbered 0 to 41. Slide number 37 is not included in this file.

Slides featuring images of text, diagrams and graphics that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Need for a network." Twelve slides are numbered 25-36. The other twelve slides are duplicate copies. The diagrams were created by Peter J. Ponzo, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo.

Slides and negatives featuring images of text, diagrams and graphics used during a presentation likely titled, "Waterloo microcomputer systems for the 1980s." The diagrams were created by Peter J. Ponzo, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo. The presentation may have been delivered at the ACM Dallas Conference in 1982.

Slides featuring photographs of the Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring photographs of computer labs and the Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring photographs of IBM computer equipment at the University of Waterloo.

Audio cassettes with recordings of interviews Donald Cowan likely participated in recounting the history of computer science at the University of Waterloo. One cassette is a recording of a group interview. These interviews may have taken place as part of the 25th anniversary of computer science at the University of Waterloo in 1992. It is not clear who is serving as the interviewer on any of the tapes.

Material created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to his studies and career at the University of Waterloo, research and contributions to the field of computer science.

A letter from Ralph G. Stanton to Donald Cowan regarding graduate courses available at the University of Waterloo in the Faculty of Mathematics in Fall 1960. In the letter, Stanton requests that Cowan review a list of course descriptions (not included in this file) and select which he would be most interested in as required for a Masters degree. File also includes Donald Cowan's reply to Stanton outlining the five courses that held the most interest for him.

Copies of the University of Waterloo quarterly and Alumni courier that include articles related to the establishment of the Faculty of Mathematics, the Computer Centre, WATFOR, and awards won by students in mathematics. Includes

1. University of Waterloo quarterly (v.7, n.2) June 1966.

2. University of Waterloo quarterly (v.7, n.2) November 1966.

3. University of Waterloo quarterly (v.8, n.1) April 19, 1967.

4. Unidentified publication, pages 3-6. Includes article, "Five new buildings under construction." These pages are possibly from the University of Waterloo quarterly or Alumni Courier. One of the buildings featured in the article is the Mathematics and Computer Building.

5. Unidentified publication, pages 3-6. Includes article, "Mathematics becomes faculty." These pages are possibly from the University of Waterloo quarterly or Alumni courier.

A copy of The Coupler, (v.42, n.9). An announcement about Donald Cowan's appointment as Chairman of the Applied Analysis and Computer Science Department at the University of Waterloo is included on page 4.

Two booklets published by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in 1968 and 1969. The booklets provide an overview of the history of the faculty, departments within the faculty, careers in mathematics, programmes in mathematics at Waterloo, the co-operative mathematics programme, the Mathematics and Computer Building, student information, elective courses, and general information about the history of the University. These booklets were likely distributed to prospective students.

A photograph of Donald Cowan and an unidentified individual, possibly a student, working at a computer.

File consists of a photocopy of the first page of the letters patent incorporating the Berlin and Racycle Manufacturing Company Limited.

File consists of a clock catalogue for 1928. Includes four copies; one copy is marked "wholesale" and includes handwritten price annotations.

File consists of records relating to the construction of the Berlin water works system by Moffett, Hodgkins & Clarke (Watertown, NY); the contract between the Berlin Water Works Company and the Corporation of the Town of Berlin for the construction, maintenance and operation of the system; approval of the system by the Provincial Board of Health; and bylaws of the Town of Berlin relating to the construction.

Includes a contract (plus a carbon copy), correspondence (including a telegram), a report, an inventory of water mains and hydrant connections, and other documents.

File consists of correspondence from the period of March to July, 1898, relating to the negotiations between the Berlin Water Works Company and the Fire and Water Committee of the Town of Berlin about the purchase of the water works by the Town. Correspondence, which includes originals and carbon copies, is among the Berlin Water Works Company, Karl Mueller (chairman of the Fire and Water Committee of Berlin), Willis Chipman (civil engineer and consultant on the case), Bowlby & Clement (solicitors), and others.

File also includes one press clipping.

File consists of the first, second, and third annual reports of the Water Commissioners of the Town of Berlin.

File consists of material relating to the laying of water mains in Berlin by contractors Boehmer and Bishop in 1899. Includes project specfications, a tender, and a contract.

File consists of material relating to the settlement of claims between workers and the Board of Water Commissioners for accidents sustained by workers. Includes signed forms releasing and discharging the commissioners from further claims and liabilities, and a typed statement by a worker regarding an accident.

File consists of a tender and a memorandum from R. Boehmer & Co. regarding the delivery of coal to a pump house.

File consists of a tender and an agreement regarding the supply of lead water services to the Berlin water works system by Peter Hymmen, plumber and hardware merchant.

File consists of a carbon copy of the Town of Berlin by-law number 1143, to fix the salary of Water Commissioner H.J. Bowman for the year 1912.

File consists of a report by Henry C. Hodgkins, consulting engineer, to the Board of Water Commissioners of the Town of Berlin regarding the conservation of the town's water supply.

File consists of a blueprint drawn by L.J. Mensch, general contractor (Chicago, IL) of the 500,000 gallon reinforced concrete tank to be built on Edward Street (later Duke Street) in Berlin.

File consists of material relating to a proposal by the American Water Softener Company (Philadelphia, PA) to install a filtration system for water from Shoemaker's Lake. Includes the proposal, operating instructions, and technical drawings of various components of the system.

File consists of material relating to the contracting out of water tank and tower repair work and well-drilling by the Kitchener Water Commission. Parties contracted include the Western Waterproofing Company (Toronto, ON), G.E. Hartley (driller of wells), The Canada Gunite Company Ltd. (Montreal, QC), and H. Boehmer & Company Ltd. (Kitchener, ON). Includes correspondence, tenders, guarantees, invoices, and a bond. Most correspondence is with Marcel Pequegnat, superintendent of the commission.

Series consists of incoming correspondence relating to the operation of the Berlin Water Commission for the years 1899, and 1901-1905. Correspondence is addressed to the water commissioners in general, or to individual commissioners (mainly chairman J.C. Breithaupt) or the superintendent (W. Mahlon Davis and his successor Henry Hymmen).

File consists of six pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "A".

File consists of 17 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "C". Includes a telegram.

File consists of 30 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "H". Includes tenders. File also includes a sketch of proposed counter railing for the water works office in Berlin.

File consists of 12 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "T". Includes receipts.

File consists of nine pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "W". Includes a tender.

File consists of three pieces of incoming correspondence from corporate bodies beginning with "A".

File consists of 8 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "N" and "O". Includes receipts.

File consists of 7 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "S".

File consists of 12 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "T", "U", and "V". Includes a telegram and receipts.

File consists of 8 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "A".

File consists of 5 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "D".

File consists of 4 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "E" and "F". Includes receipts.

File consists of 7 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "T". Includes receipts.

File consists of 12 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "B". Includes boiler inspection reports, tenders, and a flier.

File consists of 25 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "C". Includes tenders and a telegram.

File consists of four pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "E". Includes an invoice.

File consists of four pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "R". Includes an invoice.

File consists of four pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "S". Includes tenders.

File consists of one piece of incoming correspondence from an individual whose name begins with "A".

File consists of 19 pieces of incoming correspondence from individuals and corporate bodies beginning with "M". Includes tenders, invoices and receipts.

File consists of minutes of meetings of the Grand River Conservation Commission from 1938 to 1943. Includes minutes of annual meetings from 1939 to 1943, and minutes of executive committee meetings from 1942 and 1943. File also includes copies of reports and statements of accounts, as well as meeting notices and covering letters for the minutes addressed to Marcel Pequegnat from secretary-treasurer F.P. Adams (to 1941), and his successors P.A. Ballachey (1941-1942), and E.F. Roberts (from 1942).

File consists of progress photographs of the construction of the Conestogo Dam and associated roads and bridges in the form of montly reports from H.G. Acres & Company, Limited, consulting engineers (Niagara Falls, ON) to the Grand River Conservation Commission. Photographs are mounted on paper with typed captions, and pages are stapled together to form the montly reports. File also includes an artist's sketch of the dam and a CD-ROM containing the scanned images of the pages.

File consists of two photographs and a postcard of the Edward Street (now Duke Street) water tower in Kitchener.

File consists of a photograph of members of the Grand River Conservation Commission inspecting the construction of the Shand dam near Fergus, Ontario. Identification beneath photograph: Udney Richardson (commissioner), W. Phillips (president), K. Fellows (resident engineer, in charge of construction), M. Pequegnat (vice-president), G.W. Waring (general superintendent, Rayner Construction Ltd.), and Hugh Templin (commissioner).

File consists of a photograph of the exterior of the Lancaster Street pump house.

File consists of a portrait of an unidentified woman.

File consists of photographs relating to the construction of the Shand Dam, near Belwood, ON. Includes photographs of the construction progress, photographs taken from Belwood Road and Orangeville Road, and photographs of a group of men visiting the dam. Some photographs include descriptions on verso.

File consists of a photograph of a 2400 gallon per minute pumping unit at the Shoemaker Avenue pumping station. Photograph has been mounted on board and retouched.

File consists of seven photographs (plus one duplicate) of the interior of the Shoemaker Avenue pumping station. Photographs show pumping machinery, including Goldie-McCullock pumps (two million gallons per day) and 150 horsepower English electric motors. Photographs include descriptions on verso.

File consists of four mounted photographs (plus duplicates) of artesian wells, probably located near the pumping station at Shoemaker's Lake. Two of the photographs show two men near the wells, and one photograph shows 10 men gathered around a well and the drilling rig.

File consists of two photographs (plus duplicates) of the water tower on St. George Street in Kitchener, one taken during construction, and one upon completion.

File consists of three photographs of the construction of what is probably the Strange Street pump house.

File consists of a mounted photograph of six men (including some or all of the Kitchener water commissioners) standing outside the Strange Street pumping station, constructed in 1922. Includes Marcel Pequegnat, second from right.

File consists of photographs of artesian wells. Includes three photographs of Roberts well at the Shoemaker Avenue pumping station; two photographs of well 30A, or the Hartley well, also at Shoemaker Avenue; one photograph of #20 well (location not identified); and one photograph of two boys at the Kelly well (location not identified). The boys are identified on a modern handwritten note as Robert and James Pequegnat.

Series consists of material relating to the Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship established by the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation. Includes a letter to Pequegnat and an issue of the Grand River Conservation Authority's newsletter, On the Grand.

File consists of material relating to the Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship established by the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation. Includes a letter to Pequegnat and an issue of the Grand River Conservation Authority's newsletter On the Grand (vol. 14, no. 3, Autumn 1986), containing an article about the scholarship's first recipient.

Fonds consists primarily of records relating to the operation and activities of the Grand River Conservation Commission from 1938 to 1966, mostly records maintained by successive secretary-treasurers, but including some chairman's files (William Philip), and operations files. Includes a wide range of documentation, including correspondence, financial records, minutes, personnel records, reports, maps and plans and environmental monitoring records. Documentation includes construction of the Shand and Conestogo Dams, property acquisition and management, relations and interactions with municipalities and government departments at the provincial and federal levels, flood management and monitoring, implementation and management of health care, unemployment insurance, provincial and federal taxes, rental and leasing of cottage lots and other properties, reforestation and nursery operations, management of motor vehicles and other equipment.

File consists of mimeograph copies of correspondence from O. Holden, Chief Hydraulic Engineer at the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, listing the plans and hydrographs submitted to the Commission for their use. Includes attached tables summarizing flow data at Fergus and Galt from 1914 to 1936.

File consists of minutes, meeting notices and related correspondence. The "first regular meeting of the Grand River Conservation Commission was called by the Hon. Colin Campbell, Minister of Public Works, on Wednesday June 27th, 1938 at 2:30 p.m. at the residence of Commissioner Hugh Templin, Fergus, Ontario."

File consists of E.F. Roberts budget working documents and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes.

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. "

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes ts. carbon Chairman's report and ts. original Secretary-Treasurer's report, a motion on organizing a general conservation authority dated Nov. 14, 1945 and an untitled 5 p. ts. on conservation.

File consists of minutes and related correspondence. Includes ms. notes for the meeting.

File consists of minutes, annotated agenda, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence.

File consists of minutes, agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes a later report dated April 17, 1953: "Report of a meeting called by the Chief Conservation Engineer, Dept. of Planning and Development, of the Executive, Grand River Conservation Commission, and a Committee appointed by the Grand Valley Conservation Authority" Includes ms. notes.

File consists of minutes, meeting notice and ts. mimeograph list of tenderers for the Conestogo Project.

File consists of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence, some original, for a special meeting held to "inform the Commission concerning the results of the Special Committee's meeting with the Minister, Department of Planning and Development, subsequent correspondence and a personal meeting the Chairman had with the Minister regarding the use of lands owned by the Commission in the Conestogo Area."

Includes correspondence between Chairman M. Pequegnat and W.M. Nickle, Minister of the Dept. of Planning and Development, concerning the Commission's legal authority to lease cottage lots. At this meeting Ilmar Kao was appointed as Manager and Assistant Secretary as of Oct. 15, 1958. Includes ms. notes.

File consists of agenda, minutes, supporting documents including financial statements, and related correspondence. Includes a newspaper clipping re Thames water supply. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao.

File consists of agenda, minutes and supporting documents. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Chairman Geo. E. Fisher and a 4 p. ts. carbon report by E.F. Roberts: "Water supply to municipalities and other users within the Grand River watershed." Includes ms. draft minutes by I. Kao. Also in this file are copies of a "Memorandum to the County Road Committee of the County of Wellington re: the Conestogo project of the Grand River Conservation Commission" dated July 30, 1956 and marked "Exhibit A." Its presence in this file is unaccounted for.

File consists of ts. carbon copies of minutes, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes 8 p. ts. mimeograph report by E.F. Roberts, Chief Engineer, concerning work completed and subsequent effect on flood control and flow regulation. Includes ms. notes by I. Kao.

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, ts. report.

File consists of ts. mimeograph agenda and minutes.

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..

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.

File consists of annotated agenda, supporting documents and related correspondence. Includes original correspondence to the Commission from Geo. E. Fisher, Chairman. Includes ms. notes and calculations by Ilmar Kao..