Scope and Content: This series contains office files of the Citizens' Bridge Committee from 1968 to 1977. Contents include newspaper clippings, mailing lists, office log book, annotated name index, maps and diagrams, etc. It also includes reports, press releases, and submissions and briefs. Of particular interest is file 25 with signatures of people who were opposed to the Westmorland bridge site and the size and cost of the bridge. In this same file, one can also find petitions that were drawn up by the Committee with regards to the bridge controversy.
Arrangement is alphabetical.
Notes:
Title: Title based on content of the series.
Other: Files 11 and 24 contained miscellaneous correspondence which was transferred to Series 2 - Correspondence.
Other: A file containing an audio recording of a public meeting
was moved to Series 3 - Audio- visual Materials.
Box 2
File 13: Name Index of Members, Supporters, and Contacts, n.d.
File 14: Newspaper Clippings, September 23, 1971 - August 2, 1974,
n.d.
File 15: Newspaper Clippings - Daily Gleaner, May 16, 1974 -
December 7, 1974;
Telegraph Journal, June 8, 1974 - October 1, 1974.
File 16: Newspaper Clippings, October 11, 1974 - April 26, 1975.
File 17: Newspaper Clippings - Daily Gleaner, January 4, 1975
- December 10, 1975;
Telegraph Journal, January 7, 1975 - December 12, 1975.
File 18: Newspaper Clippings - Daily Gleaner, December 22, 1975
- May 12, 1976;
Telegraph Journal, December 9, 1976 - January 2, 1976.
File 19: Newspaper Clippings - Daily Gleaner, December 15, 1976
- June 16, 1977;
Telegraph Journal, January 17, 1977 - August 22, 1977.
File 20: Notebooks (3) - includes names and telephone numbers of committee
members; listing of articles that were sent to the Daily Gleaner,
November 13, 1974 - April 16, 1975; and an office schedule.
File 21: Policy (Background), March 21, 1975.
File 22: Press Releases, November 15, 1974 - May 27, 1975.
File 23: Public Landings, n.d.
File 24: Save Our City - includes facts about the Westmorland Street
Bridge; federal legislation; and house committees, 1977.
Box 3
File 25: Signatures - Approvals and Oppositions, [1974].
File 26: Studies, January 28, 1975 - May 27, 1975.
File 27: Submissions and Briefs, February 1973 - May 13, 1975.
File 28: Window Bulletins, n.d.