Fonds consists of records documenting John Patterson's involvement with both the Muskoka Lakes Association and the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain. Fonds is divided into two series, the Muskoka Lakes Association series and the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain series. Fonds contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, financial reports, budgets, Muskoka Lakes Association Newsletters, Muskoka Lakes Association Yearbooks, reports, notes, advertisements, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Patterson, John
Fonds consists of the records of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain documenting all aspects of its activities and operations during its 10-year existence from 1981-1991. These include correspondence, minutes and reports, research files, financial records, legal records, publications, ephemera, audio-visual material, realia, and other material created or received by the CCAR and CAPF in the course of their business, and constitute a study in Canada-U.S. environmental relations.
Diary kept by Louis Henry Wagner. Diary recounts in detail the illness and death of Mary Staebler Wagner on May 10, 1887.
File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from April 25, 1898, to July 11, 1899. Diary was kept in ink and pencil in an unlined notebook, and the author has dated the entries and separated them with a horizontal line. Enclosures: cutout of three roses, invitation.
Contains a photocopy of Harry Byers' diary from 1930-1931, while in Russia. The diary is titled "Mile stones a five year diary", is ring-bound, and has ca. 202 one-sided leaves, with two days per leaf. The diary includes daily entries detailing general activities, conditions in Russia, places Harry and hist wife Violet Byers stayed, meals, sickness and health, agricultural details, how the Grain Trust Russian Five Year Plan was going, details of social activities and events, notes from friends, lists of books read while in Russia, and lists of names and addresses of acquaintances. Byers mentions Violet quite often, and some entries are written by her.
The fonds contains material relating to the life and career of James Wesley Graham.
File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from March 1, 1895, to April 24, 1898. Diary was kept in ink and pencil in an unlined notebook, and the author has dated the entries and separated them with a horizontal line. Note after last entry: "Finis 1st book, continued in Book No. II."
Rieder and Anthes family
File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from December 15, 1904, to December 27, 1905. Diary was kept in ink in a printed pocket diary.