What’s New: In brief (October 19, 2006)

Disaster Kleenup International (Canada) Ltd. (DKC) recently welcomed to new members to its group. The new members include Nova Scotia-based MECO Construction Disaster Kleenup and Montreal-based Refexio Inc.

The Peterborough Centennial Museum & Archives (PCMA), in collaboration with Rosco Document Restoration, recently unveiled the restored Balsillie Collection of Roy Studio Images. Following two years of restoration work, Rosco Document Restoration handed over 10,500 negatives of the Roy Collection, which had been damaged during the severe flooding, which struck Peterborough in July 2004. The Balsillie Collection of Roy Studio Images is a nationally significant photographic collection of 300,000 glass plate and film negatives. Three generations of the Roy family of photographers documented life in the Peterborough area from 1896 to 1992. In 2000 the collection was purchased and donated to the City of Peterborough by Jim Balsillie, chairman, Co-CEO and co-founder of Research-in-Motion (RIM). The Roy Studio collection is under the stewardship of the Archival department of the Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives, and has been kept in the PCMA’s off-site storage vault located at the Peterborough Public Library, since 2000. This is intended to be a temporary location until the Museum can secure a more permanent solution. The floodwater of July 14 -15, 2004 crested at 30.5 cm (12 inches) from the floor of the Library basement. Approximately 10 % of the collection lay under water for 24 hours. An estimated 30,000 negatives, plus related photographic documents were affected.