Council motions and notes relating to hydro-electric power.

Blank petitions “request[ing] your honorable body to obtain from the Hydro-Electric Power Commission an estimate of the cost to us, respectively, of supplying us with Hydro-Electric Light and Power…”

Correspondence between Bradford (representatives, clerk) and the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, dated 1917-1918. Items relate to costs, location of a sub-station, etc.

Correspondence and documents related to the sale of debentures by Bradford in order to fund the introduction of hydro-electric power in the area, dated 1918. Items include offers to buy the debentures. The offer from W. L. McKinnon & Co. was accepted by the Council.

Correspondence and documents relating to preserving the municipal rights as provided in the General Railway Act.

Correspondence relating to supplying the Bradford train station with power and light, dated 1918.

Letter regarding payment of a subscription in support of the Hydro-Electric Railway Association of Ontario, dated March 25, 1918.

Letter to Bradford Grand Trunk Railway agent about a motor driven pump, dated October 7, 1918.

An insert of rules from an Electric Meter Register book provided by the Department of Trade and Commerce.

Letter from Samuel Lukes dated July 12, 1918 and a response letter from the Municipal Clerk of Bradford dated July 13, 1918. Lukes' letter is in regards to using the new hydro-electric poles to hold his telephone line from his home to his flour mill. The lines were taken down with the telegraph poles when hydro-electric poles were to be put in place.