Prose piece called "Isle of Mann"

Typescript poem titled "Liquor lengthens life."

Prose typescript titled "Sum up of have what it takes to take it."

Clipping of a poem by Etienne de Grellet and quotation from E.W. Howe on success, originally from Forbes Magazine.

Prose typescript and photocopy of "The wonders of being eighty plus."

Manuscript version of a poem by "Stubby", Walter Stuebing titled "Yesterday in Kitchener"

Clipping of article from the April 29, 1940 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Boy Scouts doing their daily good turn," featuring photograph by Norman C. Schneider. Also includes a letter to the editor by Norman C. Schneider titled "Well done, Scouts". The reforestation was done at the request of the Chicopee Ski Club.

Reproduction of a prize winning photograph titled "Sumac Hill" taken by Norman C. Schneider on a page from the Waterloo County Scenic Calendar.

Programme of service and manuscript speech notes by Herb Schneider regarding the dedication of a gift piano in memory of Norman C. Schneider on April 12, 1987.

Clipping of "First men on moon," (ill.) from the July 21, 1969 edition of the Hamilton Spectator.

Resolution 1950 regarding Highway 401 and a 1969-1975 membership list.

Original typescript poem titled "A little piece of tail" by L.B. Lawrance and a business card sent to Norman Schneider in appreciation after a Kitchener Young Mens' Club held at Norman Schneider's Freeport farm, October 21, 1932.

Material relating to two cruises, one in 1973 to the Pacific and one in 1976 to Scandinavia, Holland and Iceland.

Clipping of article from the February 19, 1975 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Zeller a leading merchant," by Ernie Ronnenberg. Walter Zeller was a boyhood friend of Norman C. Schneider.

Material relating to search for information about a plane in a local photograph. Includes correspondence, clippings and photocopied information

Clipping of article (ill.) from the June 5, 1969 edition of the Galt Reporter titled "$ Multimillion airport began in farmer's field,"by Walter W. Gowing consisting of a brief history of the Waterloo-Wellington Airport on its 20th anniversary. Includes a portrait of Norman C. Schneider.

Clipping (ill.) from the February 29, 1972 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Schneider is honored for airport service."

Two copies of an invitation to the opening of the "Norman C. Schneider Terminal Building" at the Waterloo-Wellington Airport Commission on September 17, 1973.

Clipping of portraits with caption from unidentified newspaper: "By-election candidates in May 26 voting include (left to right) Herbert Roy Scott, 54-year-old Seagrave farmer and CCF choice in Ontario riding; Miss Elizabeth Janzen of Kitchener, Progressive Conservative candidate in Waterloo North, and her Liberal opponent Norman C. Schneider, packinghouse executive."

Clippings (ill) from an undated edition of the Waterloo Chronicle titled: "Schneider Retains Seat for Liberals; Miss Janzen Predicts New Election in 18 Months with P.C.'s Victorious." Includes table with vote counts for Janzen, Schneider, and Schroeder.

Floor plan of the 21st Parliament, 6th Session of House of Commons, with Norman C. Schneider's name pencilled in, dated June 3, 1952.

Clipping of photo with caption from the June 7, 1952 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record: "GREET DEFENCE MINISTER - Henry A. Hosking, MP for Wellington South (left), of Guelph, and Norman C. Schneider, MP elect for Waterloo North, welcomed Defence Minister Claxton (right) when he landed at the Waterloo-Wellington airport yesterday after a flight from Ottawa. Behind Mr. Claxton is Russell Daly, Guelph, president of the Western Ontario Liberal Association."

Clipping of full-page advertisement (ill.) from an undated edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "What Has Schneider Done?" featuring headlines from the newspaper highlighting Norman C. Schneider's political accomplishments. Footer of ad asks for re-eletion support.

Clipping of a captioned family portrait by Trussler from an unidentified and undated newspaper with the title "Every Waterloo North Candidate a Winner - If Vote is Counted Just in the Family."

Photo caption: "SCHNEIDER FAMILY CIRCLE - Norman Schneider, Liberal Candidate, poses with three generations of the family. Shown are (front, left to right) Gretchen Schneider, daughter of Herbert; Mrs. Howard Schneider, holding son, Gregory; Mrs. Norman Schneider, holding grandson, Michael, son of Herbert; Mr. Schneider, holding grand-daughter Nancy, daughter of Herbert; Eric Schneider, son of Herbert; (back) Howard George Schneider; Brita May and husband Robert White of Toronto; Mrs. Herbert (Betty) Schneider and her husband."

Clippings of article (ill.) from the Saturday, October 28, 1972 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Political foes still disagree as friends," regarding Elizabeth Janzen Dreger and Norman C. Schneider.

Photo caption from photo of Dreger: "Elizabeth Janzen Dreger shown in her home near Breslau, looks back 10 years to recall her campaign as a Waterloo North federal candidate."

Photo caption from photos of Dreger and Schneider: "Norman Schneider gave Elizabeth Janzen a kiss (left photo) after his '52 byelection win. At 83, he still rides motorcycle (right photo)."

Two copies of a Christmas card featuring a photo of Highwood, the Schneider's home on R.R. 1 in Preston, Ontario.

Christmas card from Norman C. Schneider, M.P. featuring illustrations of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa and the Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower.

An invitation given to Cameron Hill inviting him to James ‘Jimmie’ Alexander Brown’s (1922-1942) British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) Wings Parade on December 5, 1941 in Moncton, New Brunswick.

File consists of an article from the Imprint on the 2015 Trans* march at Toronto Pride.

File consists of posthumous materials relating to the life of Donald Innis, including obituaries, a funerary programme, and an invitation to a memorial dinner.

File consists of biographical information on the life of Mary Quayle Innis. Includes correspondence to researchers from both Anne Innis Dagg and Mary Cates as well as a draft article by David Burns.

Newspaper clipping of an obituary for Frederick H. Ahrens.

Clippings, correspondence, manuscript notes related to Ahrens Pottery in Paris, Ontario.

Denton Photo Service envelope addressed to Charles A. Ahrens, Esq.

One piece of correspondence, notice of death of Charlotte Gofton, manuscript notes on genealogy of Goftons.

Memorial card and obituary for "Christopher" Schneider.

Clipping of article published in the March 25, 1971 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record regarding re-zoning of former Frederick Schneider estate titled "Apartment density: Thomson haunted by 1970 statement".

Correspondence to and from Nancy-Lou Patterson, ephemera.

Clippings, correspondence, ephemera, handwritten notes

Clippings relating to the various bids for the Schneider Corporation, including Maple Leaf's.

Programs.

One issue of the Dutch Girl News v. 10, no. 29 (March 1968) containing a biographical piece on J.D. Small on the occasion of his retirement

List of Schneider employees in service published in the January 1943 edition of Canada Food Packer titled "We carry on."

Clipping about Karl Knauff's photographs of early Berlin.

Clipping titled "Local historians paint scholarly picture of Kitchener including barbs, bouquets" from the December 10, 1983 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record consisting of a review of Kitchener: an illustrated history by John English and Kenneth McLaughlin.

Clippings regarding weddings and obituaries; photocopies of genealogical information and photocopies of photographs.

Clippings and promotional material.

This folder actually contains material on a variety of topics and probably belonged to F.J.T. Maines. Includes two envelopes of material dating from 1915-1916. These include manuscript material: untitled sermon (?) on loyalty and war, 7 leaves; a hymn with music; a second untitled ms. sermon, 4 p.; manuscript notes on "Christian brotherhood". Includes ephemera and pamphlets produced for troops "On Active Service." Includes clippings relating to the war, to politics, and to topics of interest to F.J.T. Maines. A third gathering of material dates from 1931- 1939 and consists of clippings on topics such as world politics, Grey Owl, Niagara Falls, hawks, liquor legislation, poems, letters to the editor, etc.

Contains biographical materials regarding Jenny Pincock, Minnie and Fred Maines, family and friends. Includes clippings of recitals, wedding invitations, reviews of concerts, letters of reference, etc.

Two recital announcements, one grade report from the Toronto Conservatory of music for a pupil.

Contents:

• Galt YMCA Circus Program 1928
• F.T. Maines: correspondence & ephemera regarding subscription to "light".
• Minnie Maines: Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir ephemera.
• Minnie Maines: membership cards and receipts: K-W YMCA and YWCA.
  5: Minnie Maines: household receipts and ephemera.

File consists of one notebook kept by Frederick J.T. Maines with reference materials on a variety of topics for sermons. The subjects are indexed at the beginning of the notebook and include topics such as demonic possession, Buddha, ectoplasm, necromancy, superstition and more. Also included are clippings and notes that were inset into various pages.

File consists of material relating to administration and activities of the Five Counties Art Association for 1957. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, meeting agendas and one set of minutes (possibly draft copy), handwritten notes, an exhibition program, and a newspaper clipping.

File consists of material relating to the administration and activities of the Five Counties Art Assoication for 1958. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, exhibitors' lists, minutes for meetings of the teacher's council and for a Leaders Institute planning meeting, handwritten jury score sheets from an exhibition, handwritten notes, etc.

File consists of material relating to the administration and activities of the Five Counties Art Association for 1960. Includes a bulletin, an exhibitors' list, newspaper clippings, ts. notes regarding the teachers' council, etc.

File consists of material relating to the Leader's Institute held at the Macdonald Institute (Guelph) in 1956. Includes typed reports and feedback about the conference, handwritten notes, correspondence (including a draft), reports on discussion sessions, a list of participants, and statements of purpose for the Leader's Institute.

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.

File consists mainly of flyers, programs, and invitations for events and workshops organized by COAA for the years 1976 to 1980. Events include Christmas parties, field trips, sketching and painting trips, gallery weekends, workshops, and annual meetings. File also includes some correspondence and applications forms relating to grants from the Ontario Arts Council and some correspondence relating to arrangements for a sketching weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

File consists of material relating to programs organized by the COAA, and mainly the annual workshops at Geneva Park (Longford Mills, Ontario) for 1994-1996 and the annual juried exhibition called Crossection for 1980-1982. Material relates to the organization and arrangement of the events. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, flyers and invitations, brochures, programs, exhibition lists, minutes, budgets, draft workshop descriptions, etc.

File consists of some material relating to one or several art weekends at Geneva Park: a brochure, a program and workshop participant lists, and handwritten notes from an annual meeting. File also includes a guest list for a K-W Society of Artists exhibition, and completed surveys of art teachers in the five counties area.

File consists of a sketch pad belonging to artist and COAA member Pat Walsh. The spiral-bound notebook contains mainly photographs of buildings in and around London, Ontario, and also contains ephemera, newspaper clippings, and other material. It appears to have been created in preparation for or after a COAA sketching trip.

File consists mainly of material relating to international tours by the Sheridan College Society of Painters and Photographers. Includes flyers and mailings regarding the tours, as well as some flyers for COAA workshops.

File consists of two copies of a flyer advertising a three-day watercolour workshop by California artist Christopher Schink, sponsored by the COAA.

File consists of miscellaneous material accumulated by association members. Includes correspondence, advertisements, page proofs for a bulletin, COAA letterhead, a completed questionnaire, a newspaper clipping (relating to a sculpture at Wilfrid Laurier University), etc.

File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated by association member Ruth Camplin (also President, 1969). Includes exhibitors lists for various exhibitions (most but not all by the association), association news bulletins (incomplete, without cover pages and some loose pages), correspondence, flyers, and other material.

File consists of material relating to the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario, and mainly to legislation changes in the early 1980s affecting the McMichael Canadian Collection and the response of interested parties (including COAA members) regarding the changes. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, newspaper clippings, politicians' statements given at the Legislative Assebmly of Ontario, transcripts of parliamentary committee meetings (Standing Committee on Social Development), newsletters, fliers, etc. File also contains copies of the Act to Establish the McMichael Canadian Collection (1972) and the Act to amend the McMichael Canadian Collection Act (1981). File probably belonged to Oreen Campbell and most correspondence belongs to Campbell, but some correspondence is also addressed to Doris Law. Includes a letter from Premier William G. Davis.

File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated during the process of researching and writing the history of the COAA. Includes published material relating to community development and recreation (pamphlets, minutes of proceedings in the House of Commons (Ottawa) of the special committee on reconstruction and re-establishment), material prepared by the Teachers' Council of the association (lectures, articles), handwritten and typed notes, lists of workshop and sketching trip participants. a typed history of the association, an exhibition catalogue, and other material.

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.

Letters, cards, and postcards written to Betty Forbes and Bill Land from Millicent Lyall Forbes, Helene, Isabelle Alexandra Burt (Aunt Diddy), and Uncle Art. File also includes letters from Ray McMurphy to Betty Forbes, an account with Smuck's China and Gift Shop in Kitchener, and a wedding program for Thomas Land and Sylvia Wink.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1948. Several entries describe Betty’s work in British Columbia, family events, dances, a trip to Alaska, holidays, and Peg Forbes’s wedding to Colin Andrew (Joe) Wilson. The diary contains letters, invitations, lists, a patch, and press clippings including one titled, Girls advised to train for career and marriage published in The Globe and Mail on January 27, 1948.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1949. Several entries describe Betty’s work as a nurse, family events, and holidays. The diary includes press clippings, postcards, notes, letters, invitations, a program from Maple Leaf Gardens, tickets, a national credit card from Imperial Oil Limited and four photographs of unknown individuals.

File consists of correspondence to and from G. Elmore Reaman during his tenure as the first Canadian president of the International Platform Association, a non-profit organization for promoting to the public "high grade platform presentations." (Flyer, ca. 1950). The correspondence is mostly to and from other members and is concerned with internal affairs of the organization. Includes two letters from John Diefenbaker dated Nov. 3, 1949 and Jan. 28, 1950. Also includes a small amount of ephemera from individual artists.

Envelopes saved by R. Crusz as significant. Some bear signatures, eg. Irving Layton.

Material relating to readings given by Rienzi Crusz, by hismself and with others. Contains clippings, ephemera, ms. notes. Contents overlap with material in other files, eg. Speeches and presentations.

File consists of two clippings on Rienzi Crusz.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters interspersed with details about family life such as Ulrich Sommer and Cornelius Sommer’s studies in university, Angelika Sommer’s pending visit with her grandparents, and Lina Neumeyer Raatz’s declining health. Lina Neumeyer Raatz was Ulrich Sommer’s aunt and she lived in Germany. Also contains correspondence between the Sommer family and the Altenmueller family from Cooksville, Ontario. Records include letters, postcards, and pamphlets.

An envelope addressed to Mr. A. W. Augustine, postmarked Berlin 1910, stamped.

A valentine's card sent to Mary Kaufman in 1874. Also includes a Christmas card from Mary Kaufman [ca. 1920] with a Japanese Christmas card to her attached and one pink and blue embroidered book mark

Material relating to a "pre-birthday party" held for Emma Kaufman at Covenant College in Toronto, Ontario. Contains an invitation, guest-book sheets, regrets list, snapshots, photographs, and party ephemera.

File consists of two articles clipped from the Globe and Mail on July 22 and July 24, 1998. One article is about pollution in the Great Lakes, and one is an opinion piece about canoes.

Three clippings regarding Leavine in his capacity an alderman in the 1940s. One from the Kitchener Daily Record, dated Tuesday, December 31, 1940, reports that Leavine had been named chairman of the finance committee of City Council at the pre-inaugural caucus held on Dec. 30, 1940. Another, also from the Record, dated December 8, 1942 includes names and portraits of Kichener's newly elected 1943 city council, including Leavine. The final clipping is undated and outlines the results of the municipal election in Kitchener during which Leavine was once again elected to city council by 6,169 votes, receiving more votes than any other individual elected to the Kitchener council that year.

Two clippings which include references to the K-W Collegiate Institute where Dr. S.F. Leavine's eldest daughter, Desta Leavine, was a student. The first, undated, describes how Desta was one of three public speaking contest winners to address the K-W Kiwanis Club at one of their weekly luncheon meetings. Desta's speech focused on the Mary Celeste, a mystery ship of the last century found adrift and crewless in mid-Atlantic. The second clipping, from the July 7, 1945 edition of the Kitchener Record, includes promotion results for the K-W Collegiate .

McCormack Eric. "A Demanding Expedition". Review of Daisy Circus, by Rita Donovan. Books in Canada 20, no. 8 (November 1991): 45-46.

McCormack Eric. "Deranged Hellmouth Sucks You In". Review of The Hellmouths of Bewdley, by Tony Burgess. The Globe and Mail, Saturday, 31 May 1997, sec. D, page 13.

McCormack Eric. "All Hits, No Errors". Review of Rat Palms, by David Homel. Books in Canada 21, no. 3 (April 1992): 36.

McCormack Eric. "Stranger than Fiction". Review of Savage Messiah, by Paul Kaihla and Ross Laver, and of Descent into Madness, by Vernon Frolick. Books in Canada 23, no. 2 (March 1994): 28-29.

McCormack Eric. "Abracadabra in Las Vegas". Review of The Spirit Cabinet, by Paul Quarrington. The Globe and Mail (www.GlobeAndMail.CA), 10 April 1999.

McCormack Eric. "Perfectly Abnormal". Review of We So Seldom Look on Love, by Barbara Gowdy. Books in Canada 22, no. 7 (October 1992): 34.

Article "C.W.A. Meet, Waterloo, July 1st and 2nd," Saturday Globe, June 22, 1895: [1]. This article concerns the annual meet of the C.W.A. [Canadian Wheelman's Association?] to be held in Waterloo, Ont. in 1895. Joseph E. Seagram was Honorary President of the Waterloo Bicycle Club and donated a horse as a prize for this meet. The article also includes two images of the Waterloo Bicycle Club Track, as well as portraits of local individuals: D. Hybner, Mayor, Berlin; Simon Snyder, Mayor, Waterloo; Waterloo Bicycle Club officers J.W. Fear, J.M. Scully, Geo. Wegenast, F.G. Hughes, A.H. Snyder, C.W. Wells; also W.G. Roos, C.H. Froelich.

Contains material relating to an article by Anne Innis Dagg on "Sexist bias in the Globe and Mail. Includes a final draft of the article, 1986, 7 [1] leaves, ts., original, an early draft of the same article, 1986, 7 leaves, ts., original, a draft of an article titled "Bias in newspapers", [1986], 7 leaves, ts., original, a shortened version of the article "Bias in the Globe and Mail", [1986], 5 leaves, ts., original, memoranda, correspondence to and from Anne Dagg, statistical data, newspaper clippings, and notes.

Contents: file consists of a programme for the Bishop Strachan School Report and Distribution of Prizes.

File consists of clippings about Anne Innis Dagg. Includes clippings relating to her tennis playing, raising money for the Red Cross during the Second World War, and marks at school.

File consists of correspondence, ephemera, articles, and more for the 1960's.

File consists of correspondence, ephemera, articles, and more for the years 1975-1976