Series consists of photographs created and accumulated by the Rieder and Anthes families. Includes ones photograph of a Kiwanis club picnic at Puslinch Lake.

Material created and accumulated by Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz). Includes an autograph book, notebooks, and a Christmas card from her husband Ward White.

Series consists of photographs originally contained in a photograph album created to demonstrate the activities of the Kaufman Rubber Co. Limited. It includes photographs of the general offices and production departments.

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder relating to his personal life and his career, as well as material accumulated by Martha Rieder during the process of settling Talmon's estate. Material relating to Talmon's career pertains to his involvement in the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, Canadian Consolidated Felt Company, and Ames Holden McCready, as well as with the Westmount Improvement Company.

Series contains material relating to the construction of the Rieder house at 610 Belmont Avenue, Montreal; the vulcanization of rubber; the formation of the felt syndicate; and Talmon's property in Calgary. Includes:

• incoming and outgoing correspondence;
• agreements and other legal documents;
• diaries;
• ephemera;
• life insurace applications and policies;
• company newsletters (Foot-prints and The Dominion from the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, and From the Ground Up from Ames Holden McCready);
• membership cards, certificates, and other personal documents;
• clippings;
• ms. notes;
• estate statements;
• a prospectus (Westmount); and
• other material.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Martha Rieder. Includes financial records, ephemera, and textile materials.

Records documenting the lives, activities and interests of Peter Harvey Sims and his wife Jemima Cook, of Peter's interactions with his father James Sims, mother Janet Harvey Sims, step-brother John Robertson, sister Janet McQueen, and business partners, and childhood records and young adulthood records relating to their children Harvey and Rella.
Letters from Jemima's sisters shed light on girls' and women's lives in the latter half of the 19th century, the activities available, the desolation of being socially isolated, detailed recounting of the deaths of loved ones, all interspersed with everyday news of family and friends.
In his letters to family, Peter displays an articulate and caring nature, a love of his children and family, and good sense of humour. He writes long letters; the larger the paper the larger his writing, and he never hesitates to offer Harvey advice and opinions on Harvey's actions and activities, most of which fall short of Peter's expectations. Whenever Peter and Jemima travel together or alone, Peter surveys the social, economic, cultural, architectural state of the place visited, the habits, dress and morals of the inhabitants, and its agricultural and business prospects.

Series consists of poetry and prose written by Isabel Mackay. Includes mss., tss. and published works.

Series consists of photographs of members of the extended Bowlby and Boyd families.

Material created and accumulated by Hervey M. Bowman. Includes notebooks, ephemera, correspondence, etc.

Material created and accumulated by Issac Lucius Bowman. Includes ephemera, diaries, notebooks, estate information, correspondence, and materials related to the Freeport Academy.

Materials created by members of the Liberal Fourteenth Canadian Ministry with Prime Minister Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King (September 1926 – August 1930). Includes materials related to different official events and addresses.

Materials relating to the personal life of Harry J. Byers. Includes correspondence, ephemera, clippings, etc.

Series consists of works published by G. Elmore Reaman. Includes one article by Reaman.

Material created and accumulated by Franklin Abram Schantz. Includes household and personal accounts relating to the house on Schneider Ave and his homestead holdings in Alberta and Manitoba.

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation and administration of the Greb Shoe Company Limited. Includes letters patent; by-laws; minutes of meetings of the board of directors from the date of incorporation on June 9, 1916, to October 30, 1930; and agreements.

Series is comprised of ephemeral materials created and accumulated by Elizabeth Smith Shortt. Includes a wedding invitation, stock and bond records, and stationary.

Series is comprised of diaries kept by Elizabeth Smith Shortt for the years 1872-1932. Not all years are accounted for.

Series consists of material relating to fish hatchery investigations and brook trout feeding experiments carried out by Dr. John D. Detwiler from 1920-1932 in Ontario. Includes notebooks, diaries, reviews of activities, minutes, correspondence, etc.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of David Sovereign Bowlby and his wife Martha Esther Bowlby née Murphy. Includes clippings, correspondence, genealogical notes on the Murphy family, a print, and an article about David Sovereign from the Fifth Annual Report of the Waterloo History Society.

Series is comprised of ts. speeches given by Elizabeth Smith Shortt at various events and lectures.

Series consists of published articles and news stories by Alice Riggs Hunt, most reporting on conditions in Europe during and after the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Includes a folder of ephemera relating to a lecture tour she made in 1920-1921. Many of these pieces appear also in the scrapbook in File 60.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by G. Elmore Reaman relating to the Bowman Training School for Boys. Includes photographs, clippings, correspondence and ephemera.

Series contains materials relating to the estate of John Ratz. Includes correspondence, tax records, receipts and invoices, cheques, ledger books and legal documents.

Series consists of formulas for cookies and crackers, a copy of the Biscuit Division Production Control Procedures Manual, and the Biscuit Division Plant Tour. The records were probably kept at the head office in Kitchener, used in Kitchener and possibly Hamilton.

Series documents John Walter’s correspondence with William Daum Euler and the Kitchener Daily Record. The correspondence focus on Walter’s request for a public debate with Euler over capitalism and the economy. Other correspondence and newspaper clippings cover the Record’s refusal to publish, in their newspaper, the letters Walter sent about challenging Euler. There are also clippings of Euler's speech which Walter references in his letters.

Diaries of Dorothy Russell while at Normal School in Toronto and as a teacher in Kitchener, Ont.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Adam Shortt (husband of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Series is comprised of invitations and announcements created and accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family.

Series consists primarily of material created and /or accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt, documenting her life, interest and activities. Includes ephemera such as certificates, passports, travel documents and ration cards. Includes material relating to the International Congess of Women held in Zurich, 1919. Includes a trip diary as well as two notebooks, one recording suffrage campaigning in West Viginia and the other, notes about Europe after 1919. Includes a scrapbook of her published writings in newspapers and periodicals. Also includes articles by Thomas T.C. Gregory on Eastern Europe and Bela Kun, ca. 1919 a topic that A.R.H. also wrote about.

Series is comprised of various legal and educational certificates accumulated by Elizabeth Smith Shortt.

Material relating to the Schantz family reunions. Includes one reunion ribbon.

Series consists of manuscript and typescript notes and summaries of seances belonging to Jenny Pincock.

Series consists of three photographs: one image of the exterior of the Eastview Town Hall where the trial of Dorothea Palmer took place, one portrait of F.W. Wegenast who defended Dorothea Palmer in the Eastview trial, and one image of nurses marching in a parade.

Series consists of materials printed by, or about, the Nonesuch Press. Includes prospecti, and information about the press.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Grace Fennell (née Bowlby). Includes one obituary.

Series documents anti-war and anti-fascist sentiments during the early 1930s. Includes various leaflets of poems and songs on peace by William E. Dyer, a Toronto-based poet. Other leaflets relate to the 1934 Ontario provincial election and promotion for the Socialist Party of Canada in the Waterloo North constituency There is also a membership advertisement for the “American League against War and Fascism”, based in New York, and a Pax International issue from 1934 about the persecution of pacifists and promotion of peace.

Series contains reference materials including a 1937 edition of the Canadian Labour Press, book lists, ration coupons and scrips from Germany and United States, and a 1925 map of the city of Montreal.

Series consists of materials printed by, or about, the Golden Cockerel Press. Includes prospecti, specimin pages, and ephemera.

Series consists of material relating to the life and family of Johann Christoph Schneider. Includes clippings, ephemera, photographs, biographical information.

Series consists of prints created by Eric Gill, as well as two by his friend and collaborator Desmond Chute. Includes works for commissions, as well as for books published by Gill.

Series consists of other art created by Eric Gill. Includes drawings, architectural plans, and paintings.

Photographic prints and negatives. Prints include a ca. 1885 portrait of Peter H. Sims, three photographs of W.L. Mackenzie King given to Harvey by King, as well as negatives of Chicopee house and grounds, and of the Sims family.

Series consists of minutes of meetings of the Grand River Valley Boards of Trade, clippings and correspondence.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by G. Elmore Reaman relating to the Glen Lawrence School which he helped found. Includes clippings, yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, and artifacts.

Photographs primarily of Schantz Russell family members and possibly some friends of the family.

Series consists of two sheets of share transfers. The sheets were probably removed from a share certificate book, however, the connection has been lost. One sheet refers to the Howe Candy Company.

Material related to the Schantz family reunion. Includes publicity, correspondence, ephemera, planning and financial information.

Records relating to the Harvey J. Sims' development of Chicopee, a 45-acre estate near Kitchener, Ont., where he built a home designed by Forsey Page and Steele, Architects, and designed and landscaped the grounds with the help of Carl Borgstrom of Carl Borgstrom and H.M.S. Carver, Landscape Architects. He was instrumental in the reforestation of the contiguous properties in Chicopee Hills, and in only a few years planted on his property more than 700 varieties of trees and shrubs.
Includes correspondence to and from architects, landscape planners, nurseries, and government agencies concerning the development of Harvey's house and grounds, also the reforestation of the surrounding area, dated 1927 to 1941. The correspondence files described in this series are together as found. Harvey's Personal Business Files in Series 8 contain a great deal of supplementary material in the way of correspondence, invoices, lists, time sheets, etc., with seed houses, nurseries, companies, and individuals supplying material and furnishings for the home and grounds, from water heaters and wiring to billiard table lights.
Harvey was particularly interested in collecting as many native species of trees and shrubs as would grow in this climate and his collecting activities are documented by correspondence with arboreta, university horticulture departments, government nurseries, and government officials and employees who were at that time developing botanical garden plans in Hamilton and Niagara.

Records relating to Harvey J. Sims' development of a library of books at his Chicopee home, in which he was aided by Adam Strohm, Librarian at the Detroit Public Library and Charles R. Sanderson, Chief Librarian of the Toronto Public Library. Harvey turned his planned billiard room into a library instead and set about filling it with books. Although this series contains only two files, it represents a significant activity in Harvey's life.

Correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family and friends, including Moyer, Nash, Kolb and Russell relatives.

Material created or accumulated by Cameron Hill during his time enrolled in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) including photographs, a coupon, an invitation, and a book.

Series consists of files belonging to F.P. Adams, Secretary Treasurer of the Grand River Conservation Commission, dating from 1938 until 1941concerning all aspects of the organization, administration and operations of the Commission. Includes finance and accounting; personnel; land acquisition and management; dam project records; relations with municipalities, government departments and ordinary citizens. Includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, reports, clippings, blueprints, sketches and ephemera.

Series consists of maps of East and West Garafraxa Townships.

Material created and accumulated by Dorothy Etta Russell (nee White) during her career as a teacher. Includes teaching materials.

Series consists primarily of drawings by students prepared as coursework for classes taught by John D. Detwiler.

Material created or accumulated by Cameron Hill during the Second World War while he was deployed overseas in England and Egypt.

Series is comprised of miscellaneous materials created and accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family.

Three group portraits featuring members of the Augustine, Kaufman, Breithaupt, and Greb families.

Series consists of personal records created and accumulated by members of the extended Hobson family. Includes financial records of the home at 155 John Boulevard.

Files created and maintained by Harvey J. Sims in the course of daily household business relating to household expenses, personal expenses, and expenses incurred in planning and maintaining his property at Chicopee. These files were also used by Harvey for his personal interests and activities, such as clubs, memberships, investments, and circular letters. They contain correspondence, invoices, receipts, ephemera, and hand-written notes. Many invoices from nurseries or seed suppliers present here relate to those in series 6.

Series consists of supplementary letters patent for The C.H. Doerr Company, Limited and The Dare Company, Limited. The records pertain to company name changes, and include correspondence, land appraisals, trade name licence agreement, petitions, declarations and extracts from the general by-laws of The Dare Company, Limited.

Series consists of works authored by Dana Porter that are not on the topic of Shakespeare. Includes essays and a play.

Series is comprised of diaries created by Lorraine Shortt (daughter of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) for the years 1912-1943. Not all years are present.

Series consists of records accumulated and used by Marcel Pequegnat in his role as vice-chairman of the Grand River Conservation Commission. Records pertain to the administration and activities of the Commission. Includes correspondence (including carbon copies) and minutes of regular, annual, and executive committee meetings.

Series consists of originals and photocopies of documents which help delineate the history of ownership and incorporation of the company, particularly its beginning, its incorporation in 1911, and its change of ownership in 1928. Included here are abstracts of title from the Registry Offfice for transactions from the 1850's to the 1920's, agreements, by-laws, letters patent and, stock certificates.

Photograph albums created and accumulated by Dorothy Russell. Some of the albums were created by Dorothy, and others by members of her family that were in her possession. Many of the albums are annotated.

Series contains materials relating to the estate of Ratz Brothers Business, mostly pertaining to the work of John and George Ratz. Includes correspondence, tax records, receipts and invoices, cheques, ledger books, land deeds and legal documents.

Series consists of a collection of photographs originally contained in a photograph album created to showcase the activities of The Lang Tanning Company Limited. It tells the story of a three generation manufacturing company and depicts several steps in the leather tanning process. Each photo includes a typed caption indicating what is captured in the corresponding image. Employees, predominantly white men, appear throughout though a small number or photos include white women at work on various stages of leather processing. No employee identifications are included.

Series consists of financial statements including auditor’s reports, a candy manual, monthly comparative statements, deeds of land, correspondence, valuation of shares, merger documents, bills of sale and photographs.

Records documenting the family life of Harvey J. Sims and his wife Florence Katherine Roos, who married October 29, 1902. Correspondence to Florence is sparse but includes three letters from her old friend Isabel Grace Christina "Bella" King, sister of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Florence had a literary bent and some of her writing is present in the collection, including her biography of Sheriff George Davidson.

A quantity of letters from Peter H. Sims to his son Harvey are present from 1888 (when Harvey was 17) to 1912. Peter gives opinions, advice, and instruction on every aspect of Harvey's life. He attempts to guide Harvey through the narrow path to success in the legal profession, counselling frugality, moral rectitude, and duty to family above all. He even gives Harvey step-by-step instructions on cleaning and painting his basement to make it healthy.

Correspondence from Harvey's mother Jemima is not as sympathetic. In 1898, on hearing a report that Harvey had been struck by a ball, she advises him strongly to give up football as "beneath the dignity of a practising barrister." Harvey never took this advice as he had a strong interest in many sports and made his mark in all of them: football, curling, and lawn bowling.
Also present in this series is correspondence from his sister Rella and her family, legal agreements, ephemera, football ephemera, lawn bowling scrapbook and trip ephemera.

Material relating to Dorothy Russell's qualifications for teaching and to her performance in the classrooms. Includes certificates and inspector's reports.

Materials kept by Louis Henry Wagner. Includes diaries, notes, clippings, mss. etc.

Series consists of material relating to The Almer Company Limited and Sunbeam Shoes. Series contains letters patent, an agenda, correspondence, agreements, and financial statements.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Blanche Mildred Kelly née Clement and husband Frederick Bowman Kelly. Include clippings, and a birthday card sent to an infant Blanche by her grandmother.

Material created or accumulated by Cameron Hill during the Second World War after he was liberated by the British Second Army, near the town of Kittlitz in Germany and eventually repatriated back to Canada. Includes a compass, embarkation and identification cards, receipts, and other related material.

File consists of materials accumulated by Gordon Good relating to local and national history. Includes one map, one programme, two magazines and one World War Two brochure.

Uniform insignia and personal gear that was issued to or accumulated by Cameron Hill during the Second World War. Includes insignia badges, uniform buttons, a haversack as well as personal equipment such as a helmet, mess tin, compass, and other related material.

Series consists of material relating to the life and career of Charles Alexander Schneider.

Material relating to Franklin Abram Schantz's activities and interests, primarily property records and accounts. Includes ephemera, tax records, property records, a school notebook and a monograph detailing a 1935 hunting trip.

Correspondence to and from Harvey J. Sims and friends, acquaintances, and family connections written between 1927 and 1945.

Series is comprised of certificates accumulated by members of the Shortt family. Includes primarily educational certificates for Lorraine Shortt and Violet Smith.

Series consists of notebooks belonging to jenny Pincock, Minnie and Fred Maines containing addresses, ms. and ts. notes, including drafts of works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Jenny Pincock and others.

Series consists of the C.H. Doerr Company, Limited and The Dare Company, Limited minutes of annual and special meetings of the shareholders and Board of Directors. A book of share certificates is also included. The minutes consist primarily of decisions regarding the appointment of board members, salaries of board members, by-laws, issuing of stock, the name change from the C.H. Doerr Company, Limited to The Dare Company, Limited as well as other issues. The minutes were typewritten by the Secretary and signed by the President.

Series is comprised of materials relating to the life of William John Motz and his wife Rose Huck Motz. Includes correspondence, ephemera, legal documents and clippings. Also includes a scrapbook from a Candian Press Club trip to Europe in 1929.

Series consists of minutes of the Grand River Valley Boards of Trade.

Series consists of several pieces of correspondence extracted from the correspondence files of the Grand River Conservation Commission.

Material created and accumulated by Franklin Abram Schantz. Includes correspondence between Franklin Abram Schantz and Orpheus Moyer Schantz.

Series consists of materials created or accumulated by Eric Gill and members of his family. Includes one item of correspondence and two Christmas cards.

Material created and accumulated by Franklin Schantz. Includes one genealogical table, and two prints of a 1947 calendar with reproductions of the works of Homer Watson.