Papers Relating To The Alberta Railway And Irrigation, St. Mary's River Irrigation District, And Other Irrigation Districts
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- Material Type
- Manuscript
- Date Range
- 1905-1956
- Accession No.
- 19871008000
- Physical Description
- 14 Files. 62 items
- Scope and Content
- 19871008001 - 6 Items. Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company Reports and Accounts.1905, 1906, 1908-1911 19871008002 - 2 Items. Porter, S.G. Report on the possibilities of increasing the area irrigated under the A.R.& I. canal (2 copies). Each copy comes with a set of 3 maps illustrating the propos…
- Material Type
- Manuscript
- Date Range
- 1905-1956
- Physical Description
- 14 Files. 62 items
- Physical Condition
- Very Good
- History Biographical
- Alberta, Southern.
- Acquisition Source
- Nelson William and Margaret
- Scope and Content
- 19871008001 - 6 Items. Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company Reports and Accounts.1905, 1906, 1908-1911 19871008002 - 2 Items. Porter, S.G. Report on the possibilities of increasing the area irrigated under the A.R.& I. canal (2 copies). Each copy comes with a set of 3 maps illustrating the proposals discussed in the report. The second copy also includes 2 supplementary memorandums. 1922. 19871008003 - 1 item. Burley, R. J. & Jones B.E. Water supply for the St. Mary and Milk Rivers (Washington, 1920). Report includes 16 maps and charts. 19871008004 - 3 items. 2 copies of a memorandum dealing with the International water Agreement for the St. Mary and Milk River, and a report on the proposed St. Mary Spring Coulee Storage Project, both by Ben Russell, Senior (P.F.R.A) Prairie Fram Rehabilitation Act Engineer. 19871008005 - 21 items. Correspondence, memoranda, and reports from the files of Frederick G. Cross of the CPR (Canadian Pacifac Railway) Natural Resourses Department. All the material deals with the development of the St. Mary River Irrigation Distrtict 1935-1941. 19871008006 - 1 item. Report and recommendations fo the western water problems committee of the engineering Institute of Canada, complete with background research papers from each member of the committee: H.J. McLean, P.M.Sauder, D.W. Hays, F.G. Cross, and G.N. Houston. 1940 19871008007 - 1 item. St. Mary's and Mile Rivers Water Development Committee. Report on further storage and irrigation works required to utilize fully Canada's share of international streams in southern Alberta (Ottawa 1942) One map accompanies the report. 19871008008 - 1 item. St. Mary's and Milk Rivers Development Western Division Annual Report 1956. 19871008009 - 5 items. Reports and memoranda dealing with the C.P.R.'s Eastern Irrigation Section. Particularly concerns with land classification and massive settler exodus. 1926-1934. 19871008010 - 6 items. Canadian Pacifac Railway Department of Natural Resources Annual Report, Lethbridge section. 1927,1932,1939, 1941, 1945. Also a C.P.R. tender for construction of a wood stave siphon to replace the Willow Creek flume on the main canal, Lethbridge section 1928. 19871008011 - 3 items. Correspondance and reports dealing with the Magrath, Raymond, Taber Irrigation Districts's water supply history and financing 1935-36. 19871008012 - 4 items. Proposal by William Pearse to divert water from the Saskathchewn River to Buffalo Lake for stock watering. Sketch illustrating proposed water diversion (located in Grey boxes). Also memorandrums dealing with water conservation and International Joint Commission, 1919-1921. 19871008013 - 4 items. Porter, Sam .G. and Raley, Charles. A brief history of the development of irrigation in the Lethbridge District (2 copies), 1925. Also handwritten notes concerning significant events in the history of irrigation in this region. 19871008014 - 6 items. Series of drawings showing who held land in the McLean District south of Lethbridge in 1927. Located on plan holder.
- Access Restrictions
- Public Access
- Accession No.
- 19871008000
- Collection
- Archive
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