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Note: These are research notes of primary sources – links below may no longer be current
Ottawa Motor Boat Association
Department of Railways and Canals fonds
Canals – General – Ottawa vicinity – Ottawa Motor Boat Association – improvement of waterways
1910-1912
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=1287470
Department of Railways and Canals fonds | Page 2 | Canal Branch | Correspondence, registers and indexes | Correspondence received and subject files
lease of land – Ottawa Motor Boat Club
1911-1931
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=1286376
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lease of land – Dow’s Lake – Ottawa Power Boat Association
1935
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=1288407
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Department of Justice Fonds
Ottawa Motor Boat Association – Ottawa – Protest against suspended sentences in cases of theft from summer cottages and camps along the Rideau
1917/01
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=1350597
Department of Justice Fonds | Central registry | Numbered central registry files
Department of Railways and Canals – Duty of Ottawa Motor Boat Club to remove buildings, boats, etc. from site of cancelled lease.
1930/12
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=1370248
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Other material
Map of leased canal water rights, from Privy Council order
http://ottawasouthhistoryproject.googlegroups.com/web/LAC+-+Plan+showing+the+site+on+the+Rideau+Canal+leased+to+Ottawa+Motor+Boat+Association%2C+Order+in+Council+PC982%2C+25+April+1912+(50%25).jmc.tif.jpg *file unavailable via googlegroups – contact OSHP for access