Len Coles Index 1947Len Cole’s Notes Index
Record Group:RG2 County of Oxford
Series:4 Clerk
RDA:WA\CK_002.995
Item:Scrapbook, compiled by Len Coles, Oxford County Clerk
1942-1970
Year:1947
Page 1 County Warden Election, Milton Betteridge, East
Nissouri (1947); Photograph of 1947 County Council
Page 2 Election of Warden; Warden’s Inaugural Remarks; 1946
County Surplus
Page 3 Reforestation and Conservation; 1947 County
Committees and Administrative Tasks; Japanese
Assimilation; Operation of County Home
Page 4 Ad for Farmer for County Home; Thames Valley
Conservation Authority; County Assistance for
Tillsonburg Hospital; Price of Milk
Page 5 Appeal for Canadian Aid to China; County Council
Routine Business; Warble Powder/Fox Bounty; Return of
Woodstock Fair
Page 6 Conservation Plan; Ex Warder Robert A. Webber Dies;
Farm Help Wanted at County Home; Bovine T.B.
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Woodlot Management; Warble Fly War; County Grants
Oxford County Short Course in Agriculture; Restocking
Streams in Oxford
Page 9 Thames Valley Authority Water Plan; Program of Oxford
County Short Course in Agriculture and Economics
Page 10 Wardens’ Facial Hair (yes, really); Plans for New
Registry Office Building; Cancer Fund Raiser Campaign
Page 11 Thames Valley Watershed; Oxford Museum Exhibits;
Provincial Police Officer, Jack Clarke, transfers to
Georgetown
Page 12 Editorials, Articles on Expansion of County of Oxford
Museum
Page 13 Price of Maple Syrup; Tax Rates; High School and
Prejudice
Page 14
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County of Oxford Seed Fair; Crop Improvement Group
Do You Remember???
Page 16 Train Freed from Snow; Good Roads and Association of
Rural Municipalities Convention Programmes
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County Snow Storm; Warble Fly Control
East Oxford Annexation; Seed Fair; High School Area
Realignment
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W.J. Cuthburt, West Oxford Reeve, Dies in Office
Seed Fair; Water Conservation
Falling Water Table; Pleas for Conservation; Seed Fair
County Council Administrative/Legislative Issues; List
of County Licenses; Appeal for Red Cross
Page 23 High Road Budget; Education Costs; Ingersoll Hospital
Grant
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Woodstock Hospital Grant; Warble Fly Programme
County Council Budget Request/Editorial; March Storm;
Closing of Continuation School in Burgessville
Page 26 County Council Page in Sentinel Review, Agricultural
Page
Page 27 Flood Control; Tree Planting; Replacement of Cuthburt
by Percy Sage; Closing of Innerkip/Bright Road; Tenders
Page 28 Photographs of County Flooding Secondary to
Unfavorable Weather
Page 29 Thames Valley Watershed Groups; Roy Sharpe Wins
Ontario School Oratory Contest
Page 30 Oxford County Museum; Tree Planting; County
Assessment
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Ontario Public Speaking Championship; Roy Sharpe
Tree Planting in Schools
Reforestation; School Tree Planting
Les McKerral’s Monthly Concerts at Oxford “Home”
Agricultural Issues...Tree Planting; Jersey Field Day;
Trilliums; Fox Bounty
Page 36 Farming Problems Associated with Wet Weather;
Pheasant Release Study; Norwich Mill Rate
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Thames Valley Authority Proposal Beaten
Oxford Childrens’ Aid Board Photograph; Hugh Harris
President
Page 39 Funding for Public Library; Zorra Pioneers; Farmers’
Income Hurt by Inclement Weather
Page 40 County Licenses; High School Area Plans; County Road
Expenditure
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Students Visit County Council
High School District Comes into Being; Pupils Get Civic
Lessons; Roy Sharpe Honoured
Page 43 Roy Sharpe Honoured, Burgessville Continuation School
Closes; Oxford Museum Incorporated; Lower Thames
Survey
Page 44 Photograph of County Court House, circa 1865; Victory
Loan Drive of “Fake” Bombed County Courthouse
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Tropical Fruits Grow on Oxford Farm
Convention Programme for Homes for Aged and Infirm;
Roy Sharpe Honoured
Page 47 County Refuses Support for Lower Thames Survey; Ex
Reeves Plan Association; Attendance Records Shattered
at Caledonian Games
Page 48 Focus on Courthouse Employee, Thomas Pye; James
Innes, President of Ex-Wardens’ Association
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High School Districts, Ex-Reeves’ Association Meeting
Stories, Photographs of First Grassland Day
Grasslands Days; C.A.S. Praised; Pipers at County
Home
Page 52
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Thames Valley Authority Creation
Blower Power Plant; Photograph of County Snow
Blower; Frost Damage in Tobacco Above $3,500,000
Page 54 County Assessor Proposal; Funds Set Aside for Registry;
County Council Session; Public Support for Museum
Page 55 Roads Program Budget; Snow Plow; Plowing Match
Plans; Women’s Beverage Rooms in Norwich
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School Area Plan; Ingersoll Fair with Photographs
Holdsworth, Secretary of High School District; Embro
and Tavistock Fall Fairs; Pheasant Shoot
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Tillsonburg, Drumbo and Norwich Fairs
Woodstock Fair, Cattle Parade
Opening of Drumbo School
Opening of Drumbo School; Norwich High School
Expansion
Page 62 Pheasant Shoot; Rural Education Plan Started at Fair
Grounds
Page 63 Rural Education Plan including Home Economics
(Photograph); Fair Tickets
Page 64 Editorial on Cases in Juvenile Court; Photographs of
Rusty McDonald at Holstein Artificial Breeding Unit;
Embro and West Zorra Fire Chief, Bates Manzer
Page 65 Pheasant Release; Emerson Boulton, Com Borer and
Weed Inspector
Page 66 Wolf Bounty; T. B. Testing of Cattle; Upper Thames
Valley Authority; School Forestry Contest
Page 67 Seed Survey, Photograph of Beautiful Oxford County of
Oxford; T.B. Testing of Cattle
Page 68 Oxford County Plowing Match; County Roads
Inspection; Pheasant Shoot
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Harry Blackman, Oxford’s Plowing Champion
Death of G.R. Green on Northern Hunting Trip
G.R. Green Mourned
Elaborate Displays at Museum; Upper Thames Valley
Tour; Repairs Sought for Dam; Beverage Rooms
Proposal Rejected
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Feed Grain Subsidy; School Lunch Program in Zorra
By-Law 1374, Tree Cutting
T.B. Testing in Cattle; Annexation of East Oxford by
Woodstock; Soil Conservation; Zorra Caledonia Society
Banquet
Page 76 Last County Council Session of 1947; Cost of Roads;
Reforestation; Increase in Application for Old Age
Pension; Development of Recreation Programme
Page 77 Development of Museum Systems; Gift for Warden;
County Grants $75,000 to Tillsonburg Hospital Fund
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Page 79
Warden’s Dinner and Programme
Prison Reform Discussed Warden’s Dinner Speaker and
Photograph
Page 80 Photographs of Warden’s Dinner; Norwich Farm Sold for
$25,000
Page 81 Photograph and Article on Work of Children’s Aid
Society; R.A. Baxter, Former Warden Dies
Page 82 Farming/Forestry Issues; Drainage Law Amendment;
Rising Hospital Rates; County Holstein Unit; 1951
Plowing Event
Page 83 Marriage of Queen Elizabeth; Gordon Sandick is Crop
Improvement Head
Page 84 Grassland Days Essay; Ray Green Memorial