Len Coles Notes Index 1946Len Cole’s Notes Index
Record Group:RG2 County of Oxford
Series:4 Clerk
RDA:WA\CK_002995
Item:Scrapbook, compiled by Len Coles, Oxford County Clerk
1942-1970
Year:1946
Page 1 County Warden Election, J. Winston Nichols (1946)
Wednesday, January 16, 1946
Page 2 Inaugural Session of County Council
Meeting of Western Ontario Wardens
Election of Warden
Old Mother Hubbard.. .the Liquor Store Shelves
Page 3 Editorial regarding New Warden
Do you remember? 25 years ago
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Photographs of County Council
Photographs of County Council
County Council strikes 1946 Committees
Road Subsidy Resolution
$40 Million Victory Bonds
Page 8 $39,700 Expense for Maintenance Machinery; Building
of “War Houses
Page 9 Treacherous, Icy Oxford Roads; Lighting at Courthouse;
Fox Bounty; Cartoon
Page 10
Page 11
Evergreen Hedges Effective as Snow Fences
1946 Tax Levy; Cost of Operating the County Home and
Farm; Chairman of County Old Age Pensions and
Mothers’ Allowance Board
Page 12 Summary of Accomplishments of Oxford County
Juvenile and Family Court since 1944
Page 13 County Council Road SubsidyPage 14Health Week,
1946 (National Social Hygiene Day); Health of Boys
versus Bulls
Page 15 Health Unit Activities; Sanitary Inspector; Mental Health
Clinics, Collaboration between City and County Health
to Create Joint Health Unit; Horse Radish and T.B.
testing
Page 16 Photograph of Newly Created Health Board
Page 17 County Health Unit Developments; Poultry and Dental
Health
Page 18 Plan for Larger, Better County High Schools; Editorial
regarding Agricultural Education for Farm Boys
Page 19 Appointment of Oxford County Education Chair;
President of Crop Improvement; Development of Larger
Secondary Education Administration
Page 20 Pinecrest Home, Children’s Aid Society Home; 1945
Operating Surplus; Field Crop Returns; Fox Bounty;
Good Roads Convention; Contest
Page 21
Page 22
Forestry Competition, County Schools
Request for Use of County Building for City Court/Well
Baby Clinics
Page 23 Programmes for Ontario Association of Rural
Muncipalities Convention and Ontario Good Roads
Association
Page 24 County Committees’ Business; Secret Red Cross Work in
County during War Years; Future of Pinecrest Home
(C.A.S.)
Page 25 Oxford County Cattle Breeders, Editorial on
Pasteurization
Page 26
Page 27
Oxford County Seed Fair
Health Unit Direction on Pasteurization; Decreasing
Water Supply in County
Page 28 Oxford Reforestation by School Children; Installation of
Sewage in Tavistock
Page 29 Photograph of Oxford County Seed Fair; Military Camp
Closes
Page 30 Age of Farmers in County; Condition of County Roads;
Care of Well Water
Page 31
Page 32
Pasteurization of Milk; Sick Students in County Schools
County Health Unit Development; Pasteurization;
Sterilization Law; Poor Condition of Roads
Page 33
Page 34
County Council Communications; Mental Health Clinics
Overcrowded Ingersoll Hospital; Woodstock General
Hospital Deficit; Road Paving; County Clerk Registers
Guns
Page 35 Costs of County Education; Social Issues related to War;
Ingersoll Hospital Appeal
Page 36 Reeve Facey, Beekeeper; Oxford Farmers and Potash
Shortage
Page 37 Ambitious Road Program; $ Appeal for Hospitals;
Springbank Snow Countess Photograph
Page 38 County Assessment/Equalization; Pollution of School
Wells; Opening of Child Welfare Centre
Page 39 Advertisement, Oxford-The Banner County of Canada,
Diversified Farming at Its Best
Page 40 Middlesex Courthouse Dispute; Reforestation;
Relationship of Council and the Press Editorial; Health
Unit and Cancer
Page 41
Page 42
Destruction by Fire of Drumbo School
County Communications on Road Work, Paving of
Hamilton Road, Tenders for Road Work, Fox Bounty;
Health Unit Recommends Use of D.D.T
Page 43 County Council Asked for Support for Western
University Development; Photograph on Erosion;
Norwich Reunion Parade; Airport Plan; Health Clinics
Page 44 Operation of County Woodlots; Photographs of Strip
Farming
Page 45 Fox and Deer Hunting; Oxford Retains Last of Crown
Church Grants; F.G. Jackson Retirement(East Oxford
Clerk-Treasurer)
Page 46 School Bus Hit by County Health Nurse; Do You
Remember the Escape, Trial and Execution of Norman
Garfield; Western University Grant
Page 47
Page 48
Forestation, Tree Planting, County Woodlots
Notice Regarding Clean Up of Putrid and Decaying
Animals; Breeding Ground for Rats; Semi Annual
County Roads Tour
Page 49 School Photographs of Children Planting Trees (East
Oxford)
Page 50 School Photographs of Children Planting Trees (West
Zorra)
Page 51
Page 52
Reforestation; Council Meets on Bus Tour
School Photographs of Children Planting Trees
(Embro/Lakeside)
Page 53
Page 54
Conservation of Trout Creek
Reforestation by Students
Page 55 Photograph of Students Involved with Reforestation;
Streamlining of County Police System
Page 56 Photograph of Students Involved with Reforestation;
Health Unit Meeting; Valley Drainage
Page 57 Photograph of Students Involved with Reforestation;
Retirement of East Oxford Clerk
Page 58 Editorial on Sound Municipal Government; Artificial
Insemination at Woodstock Fairgrounds; Annie
Anopheles (Malarial Mosquito)
Page 59 Photographs of Students Planting Trees, Good Roads
Convention
Page 60
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Page 62
County Eyesores, Photograph of Fox Hunt
Photograph on County Roadside Garbage
School Bell to County Museum (County Courthouse);
Association of Agricultural Societies Local
Appointments; Health Unit Report
Page 63
Page 64
Erosion, Preservation of Soil
Rat Eradication in District; Health Unit Report; Soil
Erosion
Page 65 Dental Health Clinics, Day Light Saving Time; Game
Warden Appointment; Sheriff Colin Sutherland Retires
Page 66 Council/Pupils Involved in Reforestation, Sheriff
Recommendation; Health Unit Meeting/Baby Clinics
Page 67 Soil Erosion/Weed Control; County Health Unit
Approved
Page 68 Soil Erosion and Conservation; Courthouse Guns are
Collectors’ Items; Farmers Drinking Impure Water
Page 69 Woodlot Regulations; Weed Battles; Do You Remember
the Warden’s Garden Party???? Rubber Tires on
Tractors?
Page 70 Weed Inspector Appointed; Photograph of Weed
Eradication
Page 71 Warden Addressed June County Council Meeting; Newly
Appointed Sheriff; Growth of Trees
Page 72 Road Work Committee; Replacement of Court Bible
After 75 Years
Page 73 Annual Meeting of Former Wardens; Chance of
Epidemics in County of Oxford
Page 74 Reorganization of School Districts Across Province;
Flying Club Organizeds; Highland Games
Page 75 Crop Production; County Roads; Bats in County Clerk’s
Office
Page 76 Parents Asked to Report Illness Related to Poliomyelitis;
Addition to County Roads; Health Inspectors’ Meeting
Page 77
Page 78
Delegate Tickets
Precautions Against Polio; Children’s Aid to Sell Park
Row Property; Condition of Side Roads
Page 79 Preservation of Land from Erosion; Restoration of the
Soul through a Drive in the Country; “Girl Wanted for
Health Office”
Page 80 Weed Control; Various County Announcements,
Appointments
Page 81 Fire Protection at County Home, Pipeline versus
Reservoir
Page 82 Trees Conservation Committee; Modernization of
County Registry; Fire Protection at County Home
Page 83 Weed Control Program; Negotiations for Creation of
County Health Unit
Page 84
Page 85
Page 86
Editorial, County Health Unit Fills Important Role
World Championship Anchor Man’s Belt Photograph
Fire Protection in East Oxford; Control of Timber
Slashing; Fall Fairs
Page 87 Health Unit Announcements, Raw Milk Sales, Child
Clinics, Preschool Health Fairs
Page 88 Diptheria Case Related to Immunization Refusal;
Improved Oxford Forests; High Rating Given to
Children’s Aid
Page 89 Punkey Doodle Corners, Ploughing Match; Deer Season;
Increasing Traffic Deaths
Page 90 Ploughing Match; Museum Planning; Reginald Birchall
Hung 56 Years Ago
Page 91 Building Costs Climb; Butterfat Record of Springbank
Snow Countess Beaten; Overcrowding at Registry Office
Page 92
Page 93
Opposition to Thames Valley Authority; Soil Erosion
Thames Valley Authority Proposal; Tavistock’s Support
for Stratford Hospital
Page 94
Page 95
Thames Valley Authority; Warden Nichols Resigns
Reforestation; T.B. X Ray Plan; County Health Unit
Costs Increase
Page 96 T.B./X Ray Survey Planned for Province; Deer Hunt
Underway
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Page 98
Deer Season Underway; Proper Care for Elderly
Agreement with Woodstock, Ingersoll regarding County
Health Unit; December Sitting of County Council;
Hamilton Road as Provincial Highway
Page 99 Streamlining of Council; County Road Expenditure;
Forestry Report; “Japs Okay”
Page 100 Enlarged Health Unit; Sewage Disposal in Villages;
Weed Control; Hex Day
Page 101 Hybrid Corn Resistant to Corn Borer; T. B. Testing for
Cattle; Agricultural School and Community Centre;
County Home
Page 102 Ex-Reeves Association; County Council Wind Up;
Community Centre for Fair Grounds
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Page 105
Page 106
The Warden’s Dinner
The Warden’s Dinner; World Peace
Photographs of Warden’s Dinner
Dinner, Carols at the County Jail; Praise for Outgoing
Warden; Forestry Contest; Sanitary Inspector Named
Page 107 Hamilton Road Appeal, Crop Values in Oxford County;
County Council Book