Harley Lashbrook research file: Infrastructure history
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives163769
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1970-2000
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Location
- W9 B8 F3
- 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
- W9 B8 F3
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1970-2000
- 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 public utilities history research of Aldborough township. Records created or compiled from ca. 1970 to 1990. Records include:
- -a transcript of an Elgin Sun article, November 28, 1912, about the Wallaceburg-Rodney Oil and Gas Company. Also, articles relating to oil exploration and sites in Aldborough Township.
- -a scan of a photograph of the Official Opening of Hwy #75 from New Glasgow to Rodney on August 11, 1937. Also, information and identifications relating to the photograph.
- -"New Main Street Lighting Turned on First Time Monday", The Mercury-Sun, June 9, 1938.
- -"Await Final Word from Railway on Waterworks Idea / Village Calls for tenders on Proposed Waterworks System", December 1, 1938 (photocopy).
- -"West Lorne Waterworks Formally Opened Friday / Waterworks at West Lorne ready for use this week", October 19, 1939 (photocopy).
- "Town Justly Proud of Lighting System", 1947 article (photocopy) about Rodney's lighting system.
- -"New telephone system now effective in Rodney", The Mercury-Sun, February 1948.
- -" The Rural Party Telephone", St. Thomas Times-Journal, ca. 1950.
- -"Motoring made easy of County roads today", 1950.
- -"Beck makes good promises to farmers: Rural Hydro first shown to Elgin County farmers near city forty years ago", St. Thomas Times-Journal, August 1, 1952.
- -"History of Hydro, West Lorne" by Mary Lou Phoenix Sheeler, ca. 1970.
- -"West Lorne PUC chairman announces his resignation", ca. 1975.
- -"Wardsville's old iron bridge", Transcript & Free Press, August 27, 1981.
- -"WL Electric Light Co. started in 1900 next to McKillop mill", April 26, 1984.
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