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State of the Grand River CD Rom : working slides.

Contents:

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

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Shand Dam and Belwood Lake Conservation Area, also Conestogo Dam.

Three copy prints: one of construction machinery clearing the lake bed, one a group photograph of six men with a construction trailer[?] behind, and one of two men in a doorway, labelled Russell Faulkner, Sandy MacDonald. Includes 16 copy negatives, one dated 1939 of the GRCC members at Shand Dam, 1939, the others dated 1956 and 1957 of the Conestogo Dam construction.

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Shand dam : construction.

Consists of six photographs of the Shand Dam site on the Grand River above Fergus, Ontario, during the construction phase. The following identifications are provided on verso:

  • Shand : widening and deepening river diversion.
  • Shand : looking west across dam showing forms for east wing wall;
  • Shand : commencing concrete operations on east wing wall; Shand: pouring concrete by means of pumpcrete machine;
  • Shand : east wing wall completed for winter, showing backfill; Shand : floor of spillway prepared for winter.

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Shand and Conestogo reservoirs before dams were constructed.

One binder containing photographs, maps and illustrations removed from publications, and pages of historical text (ts. carbon). Sections are as follows:

  1. Photographs of the City of Galt, 1929-1947, especially concerned with spring flooding (16);
  2. Photographs of roads and farms, townships of Maryborough and Peel, Conestogo Dam (65);
  3. Photographs of roads, township of West Garafraxa, Belwood Reservoir (Shand Dam) (26);
  4. Pictures taken from Map of Township of Nicol. (1 leaf of text, 3 pages illustrations removed from an unidentified publication);
  5. Partial history of the Grand River Watershed, p. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12.

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Shade's Mills Reservoir and Conservation Area, Township of North Dumfries, County of Waterloo, Ont. : appraisal report and addenda.

Consists of a ts. appraisal report regarding Shade's Mills Resevoir and Conservation Area, Township of North Dumfries, County of Waterloo, prepared for the Grand River Conservation Authority and the Government of Ontario, by L.J. Simmons, Senior Appraiser and R.T.C. Hilton, A.A.C.I, S.R.A, Ontario Land Economist, Manager of Appraisals, Associated Property Appraisers Limited, Don Mills, Ont.

The report includes site plans of the Shade's Mills Reservoir and Conservation Area; the addenda consists of 9 aerial photographs of the site and a report titled, "Forest product evaluation : Shade's Mills Conservation Area, Grand River Conservation Authority," by C.J.R. Wilde, R.P.F., Consulting Professional Forester for Associated Property Appraisers Limited.

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Rockwood Mill : preservation plan, July 1977 : report with both current and historic photos.

Folder containing material relating to the Rockwood Mill. Includes a report with tile "Preservation Plan for the Rockwood Mill" by Elizabeth Kruse dated July 4 1977, that contains 33 b&w photographs pasted in. Also includes a pamphlet entitled Rockwood Conservation Area : Times Past to Times Present, ca. 1975; a Harris Woolen Mill floor plan and number key, 1974; a topographical view; two original sketches.

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Project SWEEP : Grand River Experience : report, 1972.

Consists of a ts. report prepared by the Grand River Conservation Authority regarding the activities of students employed by the GRCA in the Grand River Experience Project, under the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Project SWEEP student employment program during the summer of 1972. Includes photographs of student employees.

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Plan for flood control and water conservation in the Grand River Watershed : submitted to the Government of Ontario represented by the Honourable J.R. Simonett, Minister, the Department of Energy and Resources Management, and the Government of Canada represented by the Honourable Arthur Laing, Minister of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources.

Consists of a ts.brief prepared by the Grand River Conservation Commission to demonstrate to federal and provincial authorities the need for proposed multi-purpose reservoirs and other control work the Grand River Watershed.

Includes four blackline maps of proposed reservoir catchment areas in Ayr and West Montrose, Ont. and flood stage maps of the cities of Brantford, Paris and Galt, Ont., prepared by J.M. Tomlinson & Associates Ltd, Consulting Engineers, January, 1964. Also present are photographs of floodwaters in the Grand River Watershed at Brantford, Galt and Paris, March 20-22,1948.

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