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Harley Lashbrook research file: Disasters
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1972-2000
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Location
- W8 B5 F7
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- W8 B5 F7
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1972-2000
- Series
- Harley Lashbrook Collection - Research files series
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Photocopied and original newspaper articles and typed write-ups, compiled or created by Harley Lashbrook, of disasters in Aldborough Township. Records compiled from 1972 to approximately 2000. Records include:
- -a write-up from the Dutton Advance, June 14, 1906: "Rodney was in the direct part of the storm Friday night which did much damage throughout the area, the village suffering severely".
- -"The four victims of the horrible accident here", January 4, 1934. This article is about how four young people died when a fast Michigan Central Railway freight train crashed into their automobile at the crossing on Furnival Street (2 copies).
- -"Rodney asks 24-Hour gates at crossing", St. Thomas Times-Journal, January 3, 1934.
- -"Tornado causes $100,000 Damaage in W. Aldboro", March 7, 1956.
- -"June 11 not late for frost".
- -"Parents' rescue bid fails, four children die in fire", London Free Press, January 9, 1968.
- -Photocopied article from The West Lorne Sun, January 18, 1968: "Weekend storm drops foot snow; driving winds clog Aldboro roads".
- -articles relating to 1978 snowstorm, February 2, 1978.
- -"Tornado-like winds interrupt power 4 hours Monday in WL", June 1983.
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