File consists of press clippings relating to Carl A. Pollock for the year 1961. Subjects include Pollock's involvement with the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, the National Design Council, and the Ontario Research Foundation; his comments about free enterprise, Canadian industry, and education; and Pollock's house.

Membership cards, invitations, etc.

Clipping from an unsourced publication with a brief mention of the death of Dr. Mary Bird, "one of Canada's first women doctors". Envelope with "The National Council of Women of Canada" letterhead included in file.

Pages torn from Chatelaine of the article "Chatelaine drops in on Daphne Dumarier" by Eva-Lis Wuorio.

Clippings of articles from various publications regarding American anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Contains material relating to the 1960 strike. Includes correspondence to and from A.R. Kaufman, newspaper clippings, memoranda, and a telegraph.

File consists of material relating to the 1961 conference of the Ontario Recreation Association, which took place in Hamilton, Ontario. Gordon Couling participated as a resource person in one of the conference discussions. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and memoranda, papers prepared by the Ontario Recreation Association, handwritten notes, and a conference program.

File consists of personal documents of Ivan W. Keffer. Includes a Canadian passport, a German driver's license, a laminated alien registration card (US), a resident alien border crossing card, Canadian immigration identification cards for both Keffer and his wife Mary, an international certificate of vaccination, and a marriage certificate. Also included are manuscript notes and several American stamps. File also includes a typescript page containing information about the alien registration cards for each of the Keffers.

File consists of press coverage relating to Electrohome and Carl A. Pollock. Includes clippings from Canadian newspapers and industry-related publications. Subjects of clippings include Pollock's speeches and activities; the development of industry, creativity, and engineering training in Canada; export and import activity and policy; management issues; pensions; and Electrohome's history and success.

File consists of one wedding invitation for the wedding of Julain Porter and Susan McCutcheon.

Clipping from the January 21, 1961 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled (port.) "Appointed : Norman C. Schneider," announcing the election of Norman C. Schneider as a member of the Board of Directors of the Economical Mutual Insurance Co.

Clippings from various publications about career and death of Cairine Wilson, Canada's first woman senator.

Ephemera related to The Kindness Club which was started by Aida Flemming for children under eighteen who pledge to protect animals from suffering. Includes a handwritten note addressed "To the Librarian" with biographical information about Flemming.

Clipping of Winnipeg Tribune article "The first lady of Canadian surgery" by Maggie Grant about Dr. Jessie Gray.

Clipping of Halifax Chronicle-Herald article "Mark Anniversary of N.S. Author's Birth" about the life and career of Canadian author Margaret Marshall Saunders.

Clipping from the March 17, 1961 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Norman Schneider injured in crash".

Poem by William Powell titled "Growing old" cut from The Rotarian, March 1961.

Newspaper clippings, booklets and a Christmas card related to Schneider's time in office, some of which are duplicates of records found elsewhere in fonds. Includes a typescript letter titled "Will you help our committee" soliciting donations for John Diefenbaker; a booklet regarding the Supreme Court of Canada (1956); a handbook titled "Know your government" (1957) with Shneider's name written on front cover; a copy of a floor map for the 22nd Parliament, 3rd session (April 18, 1956); a booklet containing a June 15, 1964 address by Lester B. Pearson; information about the 24th Parliament (1958); and a Christmas card from Schneider featuring illustrations of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa and the pioneer settlers memorial tower in Waterloo County (1956).

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "Former Skating Champion Returns to First Love" about Canadian Suzanne Morrow Francis about her love of dogs and career as a veterinarian.

Clipping of articles from various publications about American writer Katherine Anne Porter.

File consists of one dinner invitation to an informal dinner for commissioners and their wives at the Porter residence to meet the Prime Minster.

This open house was held to mark the "75th year of daily newspaper publishing in Kitchener-Waterloo". File contains correspondence, facsimile of the first issue of the )Daily News, Feb. 9, 1878, instructions for guides, tour scripts, invitations, reports.

Clippings relating to the life and career of Alice Hagen. Includes typescript transcripts of items published in 1897.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "Glenbow Buys Paintings of Mystery Lady" about artwork by [Nora] Drummond Davis.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "Flower's 'Courage' Inspires This Artist" about Canadian painter Rose Leonard.

Clipping of Globe and Mail article "Mark the Birthplace of Dr. Stowe-Gullen" about the unveiling of a plaque at Mount Pleasant in honour of Stowe-Gullen, who was Canada's first woman graduate in medicine.

File consists of press clippings relating to Electrohome for 1962.

Two pieces of currency: a German hundred million mark note, a note for one million dollars in gold from "The Bank of the United States". File also includes postcards and clippings from The Rotarian.

Ephemera relating to Nancy-Lou Patterson's first one-person exhibition held at the Emory Gallery, Everett, Washington, 1962.

File consists of press clippings relating to Electrohome for 1962.

File consists of a programme for the convocation at Osgoode Hall, June 22 1962. One of the graduates was Julian Porter.

File consists of one large scrapbook with pasted-in clippings, magazine articles, ephemera and correspondence created and accumulated by Porter, relating to his work, family and interests.

Clippings and ephemera related to LeRoy cars, including one purchased by Norman C. Schneider in 1956:

• Original operating instruction manual [1899], missing first 4 pages. Very fragile.
• Biographical newspaper story about Milton H. Good from the August 4, 1950 edition of _Wasaga Beach Weekly. Very Fragile
• Clippings regarding Sandy Rider's discovery and restoration of the LeRoy car in Stratford, 1954.
• Ephemera, correspondence, clippings and publicity about Norman C. Schneider's purchase of the LeRoy in 1956 and his subsequent donation to Doon Pioneer Village, 1956-1962
• Norman C. Schneider's manuscript and typescript original operating instructions for the LeRoy car, ca. 1956.

Manuscript note written by Elizabeth Long about English-Canadian performer Anna Russell's early years in Toronto with a small clipping pinned to the top from an October 1962 edition of the London Times Sunday Edition that reads: "Anna Russell (St. Martin's) is described as "the funniest woman in the world." And she very nearly is."

Clippings from various publications with reviews of books by Simone De Beauvoir including The Prime of Life, Djamila Boupacha, Les Belles Images, and Force of Circumstance.

Clippings of Winnipeg Free Press article about Barbara Johnstone following her appointment as superintendent of the Lower Fort Garry National Historic Park after having previously served as curator of the Hudson's Bay Company museum.

A 1 volume (400 p.) calendar of historical international, national and local events, organized chronologically with one page for each day of the year. According to the donor, entries date from about 1886 (although events prior to this date are recorded) and are in the handwriting of W.J. Motz, J.E. Motz and Cully Schmidt. Newspaper clippings of "Today in History" are also pasted in. An alphabetical name and subject index is present. This volumes is a condensation of local information and forms an important, albeit selective, index to the Record. Title from the contents.

Agenda and guest lists for the North Waterloo Liberal Association meeting of March 15, 1963.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "Marsh-Crawling Author Doesn't Look the Park" about Scottish author Sheila Burnford.

Two clippings of articles about Canadian author and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personality Mary Grannan.

The Sims family collection encompasses records of the Sims and Cook, Davidson and Garden families retained by members of the two family branches that came together when Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos married in 1902. Their Sims and Davidson forbears were equally significant in the history of the Waterloo-Wellington area and in the growth and development of agriculture, education, business and government. Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos were deeply involved in their local community of Berlin, (later Kitchener) Ontario and their own records contain significant additions to our knowledge of local personalities and affairs. Harvey was a childhood and lifelong friend of William Lyon Mackenzie King; they wrote and visited each other regularly. King's sister Bella was also a close friend of Florence from school days on.

Article by Marilyn Bolton, "Pseudo-Eggheads Rankle Professor," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Dec. 28, 1963, p. 23.

Leather-bound scrapbook with mementos of the Kaufman family history. Scrapbook is organized into two sections. First section is titled “Grandmother Kaufman’s favourite poems from Helen, Bill, and Jean Xmas 1935” and includes poems either received by Mary Eidt Kaufman or copied by her grandchildren Helen Mary, William Hutton, and Sally Jean in her honour (some poems are written in German). Second section is titled “Clippings & poems Jean and Alvin” and includes correspondence, ephemera, postcards, poems, newspaper clippings, and an invitation to A. R. and Jean Kaufman wedding.

Clipping from unknown publication of article "'Messiah' Born to Writer" about Patricia Jourdy, playwright and spiritualist medium.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "Artist Kahane Hews Sculpture" about artist Anne Kahane.

Clipping of Telegram of column "Duval on Art" proposing sculptor France Loring's "goalkeeper" as a fitting tribute to Donald Summerville.

File consists of two photographs from the 1963 National Sales Executive Club award night. One photograph shows G. William Allendorf receiving an award from Carl Dare and the other shows a group of award winners. Also includes a clipping on the event from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

Photo caption from clipping reads: "TOP SALESMEN - Eight Twin City companies honored their top 1963 salesmen last night at the K-W Sales Marketing Executive Club's president night. Shown are (left to right) G. William Allendorf of Galt, Leonard Riley who accepted the award for Reginal Bingeman of Cornwall, Henry Brule of Montreal; (back) Douglas Hall, Joseph Shantzenbacher, who accepted for Marcel Beland of Kapuskasing, Joseph Kustra of Galt and Robert Mitchell."

Clipping of article (ill.) from the December 6, 1963 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "W-W Airport Commission sums-up year's activities." Norman Schneider is in the photograph accompanying article.

One press clipping from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record regarding the death of King George V of Great Britain published in 1936. File also includes two press clippings about the death of John F. Kennedy from an unknown publication with handwritten notes by Judith Collier (nee Ball), age 10. Judith Collier is Joshua Bolender's mother.

Clipping about the Economical Mutual Insurance Company. Norman C. Schneider is included in the portraits of the Board of Directors.

Clipping (ill.) from the January 29, 1963 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Schneider to head plowmen," regarding the election of Norman C. Schneider as president of the Waterloo Township Plowmen's Association.

One ribbon from the official opening of Freeport diversion of Highway No. 8. on September 19, 1963.

Clipping from an unidentified newspaper of "The Doctor Ignored University Rules" by Jo Carson about Dr. Emily Stowe and a typescript reproduction of biographical information about Stowe and daughter Dr. Augusta Stowe Gullen from the Autumn 1963 newsletter of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada.

Clippings, ephemera and a photograph related to Canadian rug hooker Margaret Rowan and the Rittermere Farm Studio in Vineland, Ontario that she ran with her husband Ted. File also includes a typescript biography about Margaret Rowan and her mother, and a manuscript note from Margaret addressed to Mrs. Clarke about press clippings and the photograph.

Clippings of articles from the August 12, 1963 edition of The Christian Science Monitor and the November 1960 edition of The Unesco Courier about Jane Addams.

Page from an issue of Maclean's featuring an article written by Dorothy Eber about Canadian textile artist Micheline Beauchemin.

Clippings of Winnipeg Free Press articles that mention Charlotte Bingham, including a review of her memoir Coronet Among the Weeds.

Two long-form articles about Clementine Churchill from Weekend Magazine (no. 29) and Life.

Clipping of Weekend Magazine (no. 40) article "Canada Through Chinese Eyes" by Donald Stainby about Chinese-born Canadian artist Betty Shuet-Wah Ng.

Clipping of captioned Winnipeg Free Press photo of war time nurses who gathered to honour Elizabeth Smellie. Photo caption reads: "Wartime nursing sisters met with their colonel Tuesday evening at a supper party in honor of Elizabeth Smellie (left front), matron-in-chief of the Canadian army medical corps' nursing service during the Second World War. Also a former chief superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses of Canada, Miss Smellie came from her home in Fort William, Ont. to attend the Canadian Public Health Association meeting. She is show with (from left) Katherine Morton, Evelyn Pepper of Ottawa, and Mrs. Alex Noble at the party in Deer Lodge Hospital nurses' lounge, arranged by the Canadian Nursing Sisters Association, Winnipeg Unit."

Clipping of article (ill.) titled "Waterloo North has long loved the Liberals," from the Saturday, March 30, 1963 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Includes photos of Ivan Bowman, Hugo Kranz, Joseph E. Seagram, Mike Weichel and Norman Schneider, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Billy Weichel, Senator Euler, and L.O. Breithaupt.

Scrapbook of news clippings and ephemera collected by the Toronto branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club regarding their activities and members from 1963-1964. Includes obituaries for Toronto Telegram reporter Lillian Foster and Globe and Mail writer Peal McCarthy Sabiston, clippings of the Gladys Taylor column "Dissent", and articles about mystery writer Mignon Eberhart and astronomer Dr. Helen S. Hogg.

File consists of material relating to the Keffer reunion held in Waterloo in 1964 and the reunion committee's appeal to raise funds for the Keffer Memorial Chapel at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. Includes correspondence and a clipping.

File consists of clippings and sections of newspapers from various editions of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Includes pages from: 1919; 1933; May-June, 1933; July 11, 1946; July 13, 1946; July 18, 1946; 1964. Articles of note include those on the name change riots, W.D. Euler, a pilgrimage tour and Germany under Hitler.

Clipping of photo with caption from the June 26, 1964 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record concerning a tea sponsored by the North Waterloo Liberal Women's Association.

Caption from photo: "TEA AND POLITICS - Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Schneider, RR 1, Preston, listen to folk singers at a tea held in their garden yesterday sponsored by the North Waterloo Liberal Women's Association."

File consists of invoices and receipts received by Keffer for various goods and services (e.g. rugs, meat, gravestone, hospital services, hotel services). File also includes four photographs of rugs from a Berlin rug store.

Clipping of The Independent Business Man article "Family Business Changes with Times" about the Seagram family’s purchase of the company from the Mueller Cooperage and its later transition into Canbar Marine Company.

Clipping (ill.) from a January 1964 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "C[hamber] of C[ommerce] presidents receive tribute".

Clippings of reviews from various publications of books by English author Rebecca West and a clipping of The Observer Weekend Review article "Authors in Edinburgh" that makes reference to West.

Clippings from various publications about Nina Petrovna Khrushchev.

Two clippings about author Madge Macbeth.

Clippings from various publications about the life of Nancy Astor.

Clipping from the January 24, 1964 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Norman Schneider active skiing enthusiast at 76," by Ray Stanton. Article includes portrait taken by Kay Simpson.

Typescript speech by Rev. Paul Zacharias and clippings related to dedication of the Schneider Memorial Fountain at Rockway Gardens on September 27, 1964.

Weekend Magazine (no. 47) article "Nurse Bennett of the Outports" by Cyril Robinson about the Myra Bennett (nee Grimsley), who began working as a nurse in Newfoundland in 1921.

Clippings from various publications that mention Canadian artist Emily Carr.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "Writer Nan Shipley Woman of the Year" about Manitoba author Nan [Nancy Evelyn Sommerville] Shipley being named Woman of the Year by the Women's Advertising and Sales Club of Winnipeg.

File consists of completed registration forms for a design and sketching weekend held in Doon in October, 1965. Also present are handwritten notes and a small amount of correspondence.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "Contest Revives Reign of Influence on King" about Isabel Grace King, the mother of William Lyon Mackenzie King.

File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated during the process of researching and writing the history of the COAA, mainly relating to the association membership. Includes handwritten and typed membership lists, lists of potential teachers and of participants at a workshop, correspondence, flyers, and an exhibition catalogue.

Correspondence and clippings relating to the K-W Junior Chamber of Commerce award for Citizen of the Year, awarded to A.R. Kaufman January 1965.

File consists of correspondence addressed to Mrs. Mary Keffer regarding her husband's estate. The letters, some personal and some written on behalf of an organization, acknowledge gifts from Keffer made in his will. Also present is a newspaper clipping about his will.

Loose ephemeral material regarding the career and death of Dr. S. F. Leavine, including event programs, orders of service, promotional election material and a receipt for legal services related to the handling of Leavine's estate.

The programs relate to "Graduation Exercises" at St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing in Kitchener, Ont. on June 1945, where Leavine gave congratulatory greetings, and in May 1957, where a medical nursing award was given by Leavine and presented by Mrs. Leavine. Also included is a program from the official opening of the Stanley F. Leavine Building by Hon. M.B. Dymond, Minister of Health for Ontario on May 5, 1965. The orders of service pertain to Remembrance Day in 1950, which Leavine attended as Chairman, and a ceremony at the Memorial Arena in Waterloo in observance of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953. Along with the order of service for the coronation there are two certificates awarded to Leavine, M.L.A, and Mrs. Leavine and medals worn at the service.

Flyers, stickers and other promotional material related to Leavine's election campaigns in 1945 and 1955, appear in the file along with a floor plan of the Legislative Assembly in Toronto in 1952, where Leavine held a seat representing Waterloo North, and a booklet titled "A Report to the People of Ontario" written by Hon. Leslie Frost, Premier and Provincial Treasurer of Ontario and dated May 9, 1955. Also in the file is a July 1958 notice issued by N. MacKenzie, City Personnel Director in Kitchener, outlining the arrangements for the funeral of Mayor S.F. Leavine, M.D. that took place at the King Street Baptist Church in Kitchener on July 30, 1958; and a receipt regarding services provided by James Richardson & Sons regarding the transfer of securities to Leavine's wife, daughters, and the executrices of Leavine's estate.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record clippings regarding Schneider's run for Waterloo Township councillor. Includes a circular titled "Vote Schneider" and a feature about Betty Schneider in The Party Line column by Kathryn Hansuld.

• "3 on Slate to Win Township Seats" (ill.) from the December 3, 1963 edition of the newspaper
• "Third Man Seeking Seat In Township" from the November 13, 1963 edition of the newspaper

Clipping of a poem about aging titled "A prayer".

Clippings relating to Ivan W. Keffer, including an obituary.

Clipping (ill.) from the December 10, 1965 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Honor founder," regarding Waterloo-Wellington Airport Commission award given to Norman C. Schneider.

File consists of one "passport to friendship" given out by Rotary International. The passport was intended to be taken by members of Rotary International to various clubs and to receive a stamp.

File consists of various newspaper and magazine clippings on the personal and professional life of Martha Black.

File consists of clippings from newspapers and magazines about Frances Loring and Florence Wyle and their artwork. One article includes a manuscript annotation by Loring. Also included is a review of a book of poetry by Wyle.

Clippings of articles from various publications about Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. File also includes two biographies.

Clippings of articles from The Business and Professional Woman and the Winnipeg Free Press regarding Canadian Irene Parlby, an activist, politician and member of the Famous Five.

File consists of ephemera accumulated by Keffer. Includes dinner menus, programs, and guest lists; prayer cards; a concert program (Hart House, University of Toronto); an order of service for the institution of a rector; and a bon voyage card (with two snapshots, probably early self-developing film). Included in one of the dinner menus is a clipping about the F.W. Woolworth company and five snapshots probably taken on a trip to Germany.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "The Pretty Little Countess Who Gave Her Name to the Steam Engine" by Mary Mindess about The Countess of Dufferin.

Clippings about Canadian film director Beryl Fox. Includes MacLean's article "One Woman's War" written by Fox about the Vietnam War.

Clippings from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Observer Weekend Review and the New York Times Magazine about actress Greta Garbo.

Clippings and book reviews from various publications about Canadian author and artist Dora Geneva Lent, and two promotional pamphlets about Lent's paintings, including watercolours of Haida totem poles.

Clipping of Winnipeg Free Press article "French-Canadian Novelist Relishes Her Way Of Life" by Linda Crawford about author Claire Martin.