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CA ON00126 F2-F2-3-F2-3-1-F2-3-1-11 · Subseries · 1948-1991, predominant 1966-1988
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence between the City Solicitor, James A. Runions, and City of Guelph officials on a variety of issues affecting the City. Included in this sub-series are presentations, land and transfer deeds, final and draft by-laws, quit claims, petitions, affadavits, encroachment documents, agreements and offers of property purchase and sale, subdivision agreements, property leases, Guelph Township annexation records, Planning Act documents, billing hours for City Solicitor, employment application and labour relations records, tender and purchasing policies, Waterloo-Wellington Airport records, Ontario Municipal Board hearings, Committee of Adjustment decisions, signage by-laws, Administrative Services Committee minutes, Municipal Solicitors' Association minutes and budgets, Guelph Junction Railway leases, and title searches. These records document the wide range of activities in which the City Solicitor was involved on behalf of the City of Guelph.

These records have been arranged by the file codes provided by the City Solicitor and his staff.

CA ON00126 F2-F2-3-F2-3-1-F2-3-1-15 · Subseries · 1969-1975, 1978
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence between the City Solicitor, James A. Runions, and the Board of Commissioners of Police of the City of Guelph. Included in this sub-series are reports, court documents, discipline hearings, taxi cab by-law records, summons and building leases. These records document the City Solicitor's role in providing legal representation and advice to the Board of Commissioners of Police regarding a wide range of issues.

These records have been arranged by the file codes provided by the City Solicitor and his staff.

CA ON00126 F2-F2-3-F2-3-1-F2-3-1-13 · Subseries · 1969-1971
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence between the City Solicitor, James A. Runions, and the Board of Park Management, Guelph, Ontario. Included in this sub-series are draft agreements and legal advice and opinions. These records document the City Solicitor's role in advising the City on issues related to the Board of Park Management and the City of Guelph.

These records have been arranged by the file codes provided by the City Solicitor and his staff.

CA ON00126 F2-F2-3-F2-3-1-F2-3-1-2 · Subseries · 1972-1973, 1980-1987, predominant 1980-1984
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence between the City Solicitor, James A. Runions, the officers of Chartwood Developments Limited, and various City officials regarding the planning and development of the Guelph Eaton Centre. Included in this sub-series are draft and final agreements, surveys, plans, budgets, leases, expropriations documentation, easements, Ontario Municipal Board documents, and municipal services planning records. These records document the City Solicitor's role in the planning and legal processes in the development of the downtown Eaton Centre by the City of Guelph and Chartwoods Development Limited.

These records have been arranged by the file codes provided by the City Solicitor and his staff.

CA ON00126 F2-F2-5-F2-5-1 · Series · 1895-1897
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of four minutes books documenting the activities and decisions of the City of Guelph Board of Health for the years 1895-1967. Included in this series are the recording of meeting dates, places and times, items discussed, resolutions passed and related correspondence. These records document the mandate of the Board of Health to direct public health policy and practices in the City of Guelph.

The volumes are arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Board of Health
CA ON00126 F2-F2-6-F2-6-5 · Series · 1879-1909
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of four bound minute books of the Board of Works Committee for the period 1879-1909. Included in this series are minutes of committee meetings, copies of committee reports to Council, and committee resolutions regarding the construction, maintenance and inspection of roads, bridges and sidewalks, damage claims, accounts payment, purchase of public works supplies, land appropriations, maintenance and construction work at the Water Works, local improvement assessments and charges, tenders for equipment, machinery and public works projects, and labour relations related issues. These records document the role of the committee in overseeing the management of public works in the City of Guelph.

The volumes have been arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Board of Works Committee
CA ON00126 F2-F2-2-F2-2-2 · Series · 1878, 1885-1888, 1891-1939
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consist of sixty bound tax collector rolls, documenting the property taxes owed and received by the City of Guelph collector. These rolls include names of parties assessed, street and lot number, assessment value and amounts of real and personal property, school and city tax mill rate amounts, first and second tax instalments, local improvement charges, discounts or percentages added, remarks and tax amounts collected. These records document the City of Guelph's tax collection system.

The information recorded in the collector's roll is arranged by ward division. The volumes are arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Tax Collector
CA ON00126 F2-F2-3-F2-3-1-F2-3-1-3 · Subseries · 1930-1991, predominant 1971-1977
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence between the City Solicitor, James A. Runions, and various City officials from the City Clerk's, Mayor's, Planning and Works Offices, Guelph Hydro, County of Wellington government officials and the local Land Registry Office. Included in this series are plans, conveyances, easements, land sale and purhcase agreements, by-laws, legal opinions and advice, street name changes, and varied documents related to tax sales, animal control issues and back alleys. This sub-series also includes a small amount of unclassified correspondence related to City of Guelph issues. These records document the activities of the City Solicitor in his role as legal agent for the City of Guelph.

These records have been arranged by the file codes provided by the City Solicitor and his staff.

CA ON00126 F2-F2-1-F2-1-1 · Series · 1851-1962
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of sixteen minute books, five folders of correspondence and division lists and one poster from the Town and City Councils of Guelph dating from 1851 to 1962. These records document the deliberations and decisions of Council that affected life in Guelph and the operation and administration of city government. The minute books detail the date, meeting place, attendance, and a brief description of matters discussed, petitions and correspondence received for consideration, delegations appearing before Council, resolutions and by-laws passed, and other council business. Includes council correspondence, division lists, and a poster dating from 1901, proclaiming February 2, 1901 as a day of mourning for Queen Victoria's death. These records document the official business of Council and its actions.

The volumes are arranged chronologically by year. Loose correspondence and division lists have been filed separately from the minute books for conservation reasons.

CA ON00126 F2-F2-1-F2-1-2 · Series · 1879, 1913
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of two minute books detailing arbitration hearings regarding the separation of the City of Guelph from the County of Wellington in 1879 and the courtroom transcript of an investigation into the conduct of the Chief of Police of the City of Guelph. Included in this series are negotiations regarding the sharing of the costs of justice administration, court house, gaol, house of industry, and poor house maintenance, roads, equalization assessments, and the distribution of assets and liabilities between the county and the city. The records also include the courtroom transcription of the investigations into allegations of drunkenness against the City's Chief of Police.

The volumes are arranged chronologically by year.

CA ON00126 F2-F2-2-F2-2-5 · Series · 1933-1967
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of two minute books documenting the decisions of the Court of Revision regarding property assessments in the City of Guelph from the years 1933-1967.

The volumes are arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Court of Revision
CA ON00126 F2-F2-2-F2-2-3 · Series · 1869-1884, 1895-1966
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of twelve bound minute books, documenting the decisions of the City of Guelph Finance Committee regarding the fiscal activities of the City. The minute books record the recommendations of the Finance Committee concerning the payment of department, commision, committee and board accounts, activities of the City's Treasurer and Auditors, tenders and quotations, petitions from Guelph citizens for taxation and assessment relief and the authorization of expenditures on behalf of the City of Guelph. These records document the activities of the Finance Committee in managing the City's finances.

The volumes are arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Finance Committee
CA ON00126 F2-F2-4-F2-4-1 · Series · 1945, 1967
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of two reports,dated 1945 and 1967. The City Planning Commission report addresses the long term fifteen year planning forecast of the City of Guelph. The 1967 City Planner's report, written at the request of the Guelph Planning Board, is a brief to the Waterloo County Local Government Review, regarding the proposal for regional government in the Waterloo-Wellington Counties area. These reports document the planning issues facing city planning staff at the local level.

The reports are arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Planning Commission
CA ON00126 F2-F2-5-F2-5-2 · Series · 1908, 1910
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of 2 reports from the Medical Health Officer documenting the activities of this position. Included in this series are records discussing concerns over outbreaks of diseases and their possible origin. In addition, these records help to document the City's efforts in improving health care for Guelph residents.

City of Guelph Medical Officer
CA ON00126 F2-F2-6-F2-6-1 · Series · 1869-1879
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of the minutes of Road and Bridge Committee meetings for the years 1869-1879. Included in this series are reports of the street inspector and the committee with respect to the condition, construction and maintenance of roads and bridges in the Town of Guelph, and committee recommendations to Council regarding the development and improvement of roads and bridges, sidewalks, and ditches. These records document the role of the committee in managing the development of Guelph's road transportation system.

It is believed that the Road and Bridge Committee was superceded by the Board of Works Committee in early 1879, as the mandates of these two committees overlap with respect to mandate over road, bridge and sidewalk construction and maintenance.

City of Guelph Road and Bridge Committee
CA ON00126 F2-F2-6-F2-6-7 · Series · 1912-1918
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of three bound minute books which document the meetings of the Sewerage and Public Works Commission of the City of Guelph. Included in this series are meeting minutes, copies of correspondence sent by the commission, and recommendations of the commission with regard to the watering, paving and oiling of streets, accounts payment, construction, maintenance and inspection of bridges, roads, sidewalks, sewers and house sewer connections, determination of sewer and local improvement charges, land appropriations and the judgement of damage claims from local residents and businesses resulting from sewer and public works conducted by the City. These records document the work of the commission in administering and managing the City of Guelph's sewage and public works infrastructures.

The volumes have been arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Sewerage and Public Works Commission
CA ON00126 F2-F2-6-F2-6-4 · Series · 1901-1909
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of one bound minute book of the Sewerage Committee for the period of 1901-1909. Included in this series are committee reports and recommendations for sewage disposal, waste water treatment, local improvement assesments, sewer pipe connections, construction and maintenance, payment of accounts, labour relations and salary issues for sewerage employees, and consideration of tenders for sewage disposal plant and sewer pipe connections work. These records document the role of the committee in directing sewerage operations in the City of Guelph.

City of Guelph Sewerage Committee
CA ON00126 F2-F2-2-F2-2-4 · Series · [1925?]-1939, 1959
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of eleven bound ledgers, which document the amount of school and city taxes and local improvement charges paid and still owing by residents to the City of Guelph. These records document the tax collection system in Guelph.

The volumes are arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Tax Collector
CA ON00126 F2-F2-6-F2-6-2 · Series · 1878-1884, 1907-1918
Part of City of Guelph fonds

Series consists of three bound ledgers of meeting minutes of the Water Commissioners for the period 1878-1884 and 1907-1918. Included in this series are reports and recommendations of the commmissioners with respect to the development of the water supply system in Guelph, payment of accounts, and authorizations for water and sewage works. These records document the commission management of the water supply system in Guelph.

The volumes are arranged chronologically by year.

City of Guelph Water Commissioners