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University of Waterloo. Special Collections & Archives Series
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Research

Series consists of material relating to research conducted by Hynes for various projects throughout his career. Includes ms. and ts. notes taken by Hynes from the scientific literature; reports by Hynes and other researchers; correspondence; several draft papers by Hynes; drawings, charts, and maps; and note cards.

Hynes, H.B.N.

Employment.

Series consists of materials relating to Jerzy Pindera's time employed as both a professor and a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Includes primarily correspondence and memos.

Pindera, Jerzy Tadeusz

Personal life.

Materials created or accumulated by Joan Hollobon as part of her personal life. Includes income tax, passports and other official documentation, educational materials related to Hollobon’s time at Columbia University, and materials related to house renovations. Also contains materials created by or about Kay Rex, such as information about Rex’s book launch, articles and correspondence, and posthumous materials.

Hollobon, Joan

Ninth and Eleventh Canadian Ministries.

Materials created by the Canadian Liberal Party during Conservative Ninth Canadian Ministry with Prime Minister Right Honourable Sir Robert Laird Borden (October 1911 – October 1917) and Unionist Eleventh Canadian Ministry with Prime Minister Right Honourable Arthur Meighen (July 1920 – December 1921).

King, William Lyon Mackenzie

Invoices and payments.

Materials related to the building and remodelling of the house at 178 Claremont Avenue in Kitchener. Includes invoices, cheques, forms, and correspondence related to the different aspects of the process, including the plot purchase, design and construction of the building and rooms, and landscaping of the gardens.
Box arrived in archives with handwritten note by donor that read: “178 Claremont Ave., Kitchener. Building documents, invoices / cancelled cheques. Home of W. G. Reive / Mabel Reive.”

Reive Family

Research: Planning and Process

This series consists of Wendy Cameron's files on work by the other researchers in Canada and England; Brenda Dougall Merriman, Sheila Haines, Leigh Lawson, etc.

The Jackman Foundation

Electronic Files

Series consists of electronic files received as e-mail attachments or as floppy disks all in WordPerfect 7. Also includes two databases in DBTextworks designed in-house to hold files converted from WordPerfect : I:\Working\Source Record Textbases\Petworth Emigrants and I:\Working\Source Record Textbases\Petworth Sponsors. The Emigrants database contains 682 records and the Sponsors database contains 103 records.

The Jackman Foundation

The Kaufman Rubber Company Ltd.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Gordon Good while he was an employee at The Kaufman Rubber Company. Includes Good's own work as well as work done by others in the company. File contains catalogues, an accounting manual, clippings, materials relating to strikes, ephemera and a register with cutting room scrap percentage information.

Good, Gordon

The Kaufman Rubber Company Ltd. : Time Books

File consists of time books for the factory office and industrial engineering department kept by Gordon Good while he was an employee at Kaufman Rubber. Includes time books for the years 1931-1971.

Good, Gordon

Company History

Series is comprised of textual material, photographs, architectural drawings, maps, and ephemera relating to the history of RMS and its parent companies from 1914 to 2003. The series documents the various ownership of RMS; its products, services, machines and employees; and its history and milestones. Includes photographs showing the RMS factory, employees, machines and products; publications by RMS as well as about RMS; newspaper clippings on the company; memoranda; drawings and prints for a calendar; and press releases.

Rubber Machinery Shops

Publications

File consists of publications put out by RMS, as well as by its parent companies Dominion Rubber Systems, Dominion Rubber Company, Uniroyal, and Uniroyal-Goodrich. This includes issues of The Dominion, The Dominion Magazine, Threads 'n Treads, Uniroyal Magazine, Uniroyal News, Liaison (French magazine for office in St. Jerome, QC), Uniroyal World, Link, UGTC News, and a photocopy of Saga. All issues except for Saga have been catalogued and are accessedd through the Library catalogue.

Rubber Machinery Shops

Slides and Glass Plates

Series consists of glass plate slides, both negative and positive, most likely used for teaching purposes by John D. Detwiler. Includes prepared microscope slides of salmon scales, negatives of cocoons and insect damage, positive images of scientific drawings.

Detwiler, John D.

National

Series consists of materials relating to the national sales and ad club organizations including the Federation of Canadian Advertising and Sales Clubs and the Canadian Advertising and Sales Association. Also includes materials relating to other sales and ad clubs in Canada.

Kitchener Waterloo Sales and Ad Club

Biographical and Personal

Series consists biographical and personal materials relating to the life of Robert Dorney. Also includes posthumous materials such as condolences, obituaries, and plans for the Robert Starbird Dorney Memorial Garden.

Dorney, Robert

Interests and Activities.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Robert Dorney relating to his interests and activities that were not part of his teaching career or work with Ecoplans Ltd.

Dorney, Robert

Education and Early Career

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Dorney from his time as a student at the University of Wisconsin and his early work in Wisconsin, particularly with grouse and animal parasites.

Dorney, Robert

Publications

Series consists of publications written by Dorney and others, as well as proceedings of conferences that Dorney spoke at and materials relating to the publication of Dorney's book "The professional practice of environmental management." The book was published posthumously in 1989 and was edited by Robert's wife Lindsay Dorney.

Dorney, Robert

Family Information Sheets : Questionnaires and Data

Series consists of questionnaires and other data collected from descendants and other informants about families. It is arranged alphabetically by family name of the Petworth emigrant with the name of the correspondent(s) also noted in the file title. These files contain correspondence to and from Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude and Brenda Dougall Merriman, as well as questionnaires and photocopies from sources containing information about individuals or families.

The Jackman Foundation

Kitchener-Waterloo and Area History: Slides

Series consists of slides showing the history of the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Slides have been sorted into basic subjects of:

  • Automotive Retailers;
  • Churches;
  • Education;
  • Entertainment;
  • Financial/Insurance;
  • Highways/Roads;
  • Housing;
  • Industry;
  • Miscellaneous;
  • Oktoberfest;
  • Public Buildings;
  • Restaurants;
  • Retailers.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Legal Documents

Series consists of legal documents created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record relating to mortgages, land and building ownership, taxes, stocks, etc. Includes indentures, correspondence, tax forms, etc.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Motz Family

Series is comprised of general materials related to the Motz family and their history. Includes a family history, and family correspondence.

Motz Family

Professional life.

Materials created by Donna Jean MacKinnon during her career as a journalist. Articles are either under the byline Donna Jean MacKinnon or Isabella Street, or ghostwritten by MacKinnon in different media. Media include:

  • Toronto Star
  • Washington Post
  • Great Expectations
  • City and Country Home
  • Toronto Life
  • Fifty-Five Plus 25
  • Canadian Living
  • House and Home
  • Select Homes
  • Free Saturday Star

Includes some materials related to the edition and publication of MacKinnon’s book Newsgirls : gutsy pioneers in Canada’s newsrooms. Call number: G24635.

MacKinnon, Donna Jean

Anniversaries, Events, Open Houses.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the various newspaper and companies that make up the history of its operations. Contains materials relating to anniversaries, events and open houses at the newspaper including correspondence, invitations, clippings, ephemera, etc.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

K-W Record History

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the various newspaper and companies that make up the history of its operations. Contains materials relating to the history of the Record. Includes biographical information on the Motz family, clippings, type books, ephemera, etc.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Physical Plant Files

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record relating to the buildings that the company owned and occupied. Includes correspondence, notes, clippings, floor plans, etc.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Historical Records.

Series consists of historical records accumulated by the Hobson family relating to the history of Kitchener-Waterloo. Includes newspaper clippings and sections, special publications and prints.

Hobson Family

Photographs

Series consists of photographs created and accumulated by the Hobson family, thier relatives and friends. Includes photographs of a drugstore, a banquet hall, a Kiwanis trip and Victoria Public School students.

Hobson Family

Correspondence

Series consists of approximately 2600 pieces of correspondence to and from Dr. J.D. Detwiler. Correspondents include many names prominent in science, conservation and public life, including William A. Albrecht, Ian McT. Cowan, L.A. DeWolfe, J.R. Dymond, Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman , W.W. Judd, Fred Landon, Robert F. Legget, Harrison F. Lewis, Georges Maheux, K.W. Neatby, Ernest C. Oberholtzer, Edward G. Pleva, Dana Porter, D.S. Rawson, A.H. Richardson, R. Omar Rilett, William Rowan, Jacques Rousseau (1905-1970), E.S. Russenholt, T.M. Sonneborn, Robert J.C. Stead, Hugh Templin, Ross B. Willis.

Detwiler, John D.

Newsgirls edition and publication.

Materials accumulated or created by Donna Jean MacKinnon during the writing, edition, and publication of her book Newsgirls : gutsy pioneers in Canada’s newsrooms, published in 2017. Includes drafts of the book in different phases of its creation, as well as manuscript evaluations and chapters that were not included in the final version of the book. Also contains correspondence with editors and publishers, and records related to the publication and promotion of Newsgirls.
Materials document the evolution of the project from title selection (which began as Newsgirls : pre-Feminism in print journalism) and authorship (the first drafts included Catherine Smyth as author (reporter at the Toronto Star and communications specialist)), to the chapters included in the book. The first drafts of the book included chapters for twenty journalists, whereas the final version covered ten (for more information about the journalists covered, refer to the General Note in the notes section of this series).
Materials also document the process of final edition and publication taken on by MacKinnon and different persons at York University (most of the edition and publication tasks were performed by Leaping Lion Books are undertaken by students as part of course activities). Newsgirls was published in 2017 by Leaping Lion Books at York University and promoted in different events and venues.

MacKinnon, Donna Jean

Personal notes.

Research materials created or accumulated by Robert Shipley related to different matters. Includes articles, research notes, newspaper clippings, bibliography lists, and related ephemera. Also contains personal correspondence and notes.

Shipley, Robert

Program files.

Materials related to the administration of the Carold Institute. Includes agendas and minutes for the Meeting of the Board of Directors, Meeting of the Members, and special meetings; financial information; information about different events and projects; reports by different committees, correspondence sent and received by the Institute regarding different matters; and newspieces about the Institute and its members.

Carold Institute

Lectures and Exhibits

Materials relating to lectures and exhibits given by, organized, or attended by Michael Bird.

Bird, Michael

Subject files.

Records created and accumulated by the Librarians' Association of the University of Waterloo (LAUW) on various topics and activities such as librarian job descriptions, librarian salaries, the LAUW constitution, the appointment and review of the University Librarian position, and more. Includes correspondence, reports, lists, and other textual records.

Librarians' and Archivists' Association of the University of Waterloo

Teaching

Materials relating to the teaching career of Michael Bird. Includes his time as a professor at Renison University College teaching in fine arts and religious studies, as well as teaching summer courses at Cape Breton University.

Bird, Michael

Realia.

Realia and artefacts collected by Lydia Dotto during the course of her professional life.

Dotto, Lydia

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