Classification scheme:
Hist. Mss. 1.143 (s.c.)
Dates of creation: 1923,1952, 1956, [196-]
Physical description: 2 cm of textual records
Biographical sketch: Herb Groh (1883-1971) was the eldest child of Anson and Lovina (Bechtel) Groh. He grew up in the Wanner congregation. He attended Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Toronto and became a civil servant, working for the Department of Agriculture except for a ten-year period (1911-1921) when he managed the home farm. The second half of his life was spent in the Ottawa area, though he maintained his membership in the Wanner congregation. He had a lifelong interest children's camps, helping to found the Woodland Camp in 1938. When living in Ottawa he attended a United Church.
Custodial history: Donated to the Archives before 2007
Scope and content: The fonds consists of items collected and written by Herb Groh.
Note: Original description created by Sam Steiner
File list:
- Tribute to Herb Groh written by Bill Dick in the 1960s
- Woodland Camp brochure
- Chronology of Herb Groh's life, 1963
- Scrapbook containing several writings by Groh
- Herb Groh, Natural history for young campers (Ottawa, 1952)
- Herb Groh, A campsite in the making (Ottawa, 1956)
- Herb Groh, "C.S.E.T and the Ottawa Boys' Work Board: reminiscence of one who was there"
- Herb Groh, "The trees of Cedarhurst" (1923)