Concept for Research Centre for Regional Development. Proposal by Norman S. Grace, February 16, 1972. Arising from a feasibility study supported by a grant from the National Research Council to the Faculty of Science, Lakehead University.
News bulletins and news releases of the Northwestern Ontario Development Council, 1972.
Industrial site listings, maps, statistical information from the City of Fort William.
"The Terminal Grain Elevators; Lakehead Harbour; Canada's Mid-Continent Seaport." Published by the Lakehead Harbour Commission, March 1966.
Ojibwa Fisheries in Northwestern Ontario. Report by Edward S. Rogers, Department of Ethnology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. February 2, 1972.
The Kinsey Report: A series of articles by Gywn Kinsey reporting on the hearings of the Ontario Legislature's Select Committee on Conservation, October 1966. Package of correspondence regarding wage rates in Northwestern Ontario.
Papers given at the Wood Products Seminar; Fort William and North Bay; March 27, 29, 1968.
Material from Dialogue on Regional Government, held at the Quetico Centre, February 21-23, 1969. Relates to Design for Development Phase Two.
News bulletins of the Northwestern Ontario Development Association, Northwestern Ontario Development Council.
Correspondence, relating to the Corporation of the Improvement District of Barclay.
News clippings, correspondence, reports. "Opportunities for Plywood Plant in the Dryden Area, Province of Ontario" presented by A.B. Smith, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, July 31 1957. Correspondence and notes regarding Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) history. (Includes racist language.) "Supplement on Dryden's 50th Anniversary" by Alexander Phillips. Issue of The Dryden Observer, November 27, 1969 with focus on Red Lake and Ear Falls areas.
Correspondence, news clippings, reports. "Geraldton: This is what we are doing now. Find out what we can do for you," Geraldton Chamber of Commerce, 1957. Response to Design for Development Phase 2. Submission by the Town of Geraldton to the Ontario Law Reform Commission. "Pertinent data with regard to the Geraldton District as compiled by the Geraldton District Chamber of Commerce." "A Brief for Television Service to Geraldton and Adjacent Area." Material relating to establishing a Home for the Aged; an airstrip.
News clippings, correspondence, including regarding telecommunications.
Correspondence regarding transportation planning.
Correspondence, news clippings. "Industrial Opportunity in Keewatin, Ontario," Canadian Pacific memorandum, 1964.
Correspondence, news clippings. Relates to the Lakehead cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, during the period when amalgamation was expected but a name not yet decided upon.
Correspondence.
Correspondence regarding plans to build a causeway between Cochenour and McKenzie Island in Red Lake. "Presentation submitted by the Red Lake District Chamber of Commerce to the Government of the Province of Ontario and their Departments of Highways and Mining." "Brief presented by McKenzie Island Causeway Committee."
Correspondence, news clippings. Material especially relating to roads & highways, development of provincial parks. Map of the Town of Nipigon. Brief Submitted to the Ontario Water Resources Commission by the Township of Nipigon, September 20th, 1956, Subject: The Water Supply and Needs of the Township of Nipigon, and Pollution of the Nipigon River.
Summary document describing the District of Patricia.
Correspondence, statistical information.
News clippings, municipal statistics.
Photograph of Port Arthur pulp mill.
Aerial photograph of Atikokan, 1956.
Photographs of construction of the Canadian Inn in Fort William.