Henry George Clopper Ketchum Fonds-Series 1-Early Professional Activities

Early professional activities [textual record]. -- 1857-1895. -- 13 cm of textual record

Scope and content: This series contains reports, memoranda, contracts, specifications, estimates, and minutes pertaining to the building of the Santos and São Paulo Railway, European and North American Railway, Intercolonial Railway, New Brunswick Railway and Quebec and New Brunswick Railway.

It also includes Ketchum's 1876 report on the sources of water supply for the city of Fredericton and an engineering notebook, possibly used by Ketchum while a student at King's, containing notes, diagrams and calculations relating to railway construction.

Title based on content of the series

File arrangement is chronological

Business correspondence relating to Ketchum's early career is located in series 3

Cartographic material and technical drawings relating to Ketchum's early career are located in series 6

1.		Report upon the proposed line of railway from Santos to Jundiahy in the province of San Paulo in the empire of Brazil/ by James Brunlees. - November 1857
2.		Memorandum of agreement between Robert Sharpe and Sons and Henry George Clopper Ketchum relating to Ketchum's work on the San Paulo Railway. - 1 October 1862
3.		Letters and testimonials (certified copy) attesting to H. G. C. Ketchum's work on the São Paulo Railway. - 26 November 1862
4.		Table of contractors' prices for different kinds of work on European and North Amn [American] Rway [Railway). - [186-?]
5.		Memorandum showing Alexander Luders Light's claims to the position of engineer-in-chief of the Intercolonial Railway. - 25 October 1867
6.		Certificate book section no. 1 containing returns of contract work done on Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (Intercolonial) Railway. - 1867-1869 Note: Includes date, section number, name of contractor, and itemized listing of work completed OVERSIZE
7.		Articles of contract between Edwin Clark and William Henry Punchard and Henry George Clopper Ketchum regarding construction of a line of the New Brunswick Railway. - 17 April 1868
8.		Estimate local traffic [Quebec and New Brunswick Railway?]. - [187-?]
9.		Estimate, Woodstock to River du Loup (Quebec and New Brunswick Railway). - [187-?]
10.		Power of attorney the provisional directors of The Quebec and New Brunswick Railway Company to H. G. C. Ketchum. - 19 September 1870 Note: Includes draft and signed copies
11.		Extract from minutes of special meeting of council of Montreal Board of Trade. - 19 November 1870 Note: Extract contains opinion of Board of Trade regarding Quebec and New Brunswick Railway
12.		Estimate of cost, Quebec and New Brunswick Railway. - 16 March 1871
13.		Pleas in the Supreme Court, Westmorland County, in the case of trespass (promissory note) Laban Laurence and Lucretia Laurence v. Charles Ward. - February 1872
14.		Report on the sources of water supply for the city of Fredericton with estimates of cost/ by H. G. C. Ketchum. - 7 December 1875
15.		River du Lievre, Quebec, specification for the construction of a lift lock and dam at Little Rapids.... - 7 February 1885
16.		Specification of 50,000 gallon water tanks at Oxford Junction, Pugwash and Wallace, Oxford and New Glasgow Railway. - [18-?]
17.		Notebook containing calculations, notes and diagrams. - [186-?]-[188-?] Note: Material relates to São Paulo Railway, European and North American Railway and Chignecto Ship Railway
18.		Summary statement of capital for the year ended 30th June 1895 (for numerous railway lines)

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