File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1956.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1957.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1960.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1954.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1959.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1953.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1958.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1961.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1962.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1965.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1963.

File consists of one pocket diary for the year 1966.

Series consists of pocket diaries and one daily diary kept by Dana Porter. The pocket dairies cover the period 1953-1966, excepting the years 1955 and 1964. The daily diary covers the years 1955-1959.

Series consists of materials relating to the family of Dana Porter, including his wife Dorothy Porter (nee Parker), and his sons Dana Jr. and Julian. Also includes materials created about Dana Porter posthumously and collected by his family.

Fonds consists of materials created and accumulate by Dana Porter during his personal and professional career, as well as materials collected posthumously and created and accumulated by his wife and children. Includes photographs, correspondence, research notes, essays and other writings, ephemera, scrapbooks and clippings.

File consists of a daily diary for Dana Porter from October 6, 1951- July 24, 1959. Not all dates feature an entry. Gives a detailed account of how he received the position of Attorney-General of Ontario.

File consists of a an appeal judgement in the case of Regina v. C. Coles Ltd. The case involved an obscenity charge relating from the selling of the book Fanny Hill - Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

File consists of materials related to Dana Porter's patronage of the Stratford Festival of Canada Foundation. Includes information on the foundation, as well as five items of correspondence between Dana Porter and employees of the foundation.

File consists of three items of correspondence regarding speeches given by Dana Porter. These items do not correspond with a speech in the collection.

File consists of correspondence between Dana Porter and D.D. Findlay regarding a speech that Porter gave at a Ontario Provincial Police picnic.

File consists of thirteen items of correspondence between Dana Porter and others regarding his interest in Shakespeare. Many items include clippings or articles on Shakespeare and Shakespearean research. Also included are copies of responses from Porter.

File consists of forty-eight items of correspondence to and from Dana Porter and his secretary regarding the Report of the Royal Commission on Banking and Finance.
Correspondents include:

• Abbott, Justice Douglas
• Barber, Clarence L.
• Cromer, The Earl of
• Diefenbaker, John
• Frost, Leslie
• Gillanders, E.B.
• Hampson, H.A.
• Harris, W.C.
• Haug, Edgar
• Heward, Brian
• Hewitt, H.J.
• Holtroy, Marius
• Johnson, Harry G.
• Keir, David Lindsay
• Kim, John
• Lafrance, Leo
• Litchfield, E.
• Lundberg, Erik
• McKinnon, Neil J.
• McLaughlin, W. Earle
• Mansur, David B.
• Matthews, Beverley
• Mercure, G.
• Neufeld, E.P.
• Parizeau, Jacques
• Prentis, Margaret R.
• Shearer, Ronald A.
• Sproul, Allan
• Stanley, David
• Tanz, Mark M.
• Trudeau, Pierre.

File consists of sixty five items of correspondence regarding the review and potential publication of Dana Porter's manuscripts on the Sonnets of Shakespeare. Includes correspondence between Dana Porter, publication houses, reviewers, and friends who he asked to read the works.

File consists of two items of correspondence between the secretary of Dana Porter and Financial Times of Canada librarian, Alice Kudo, regarding a request for photographs of Porter.

File consists of two items of correspondence regarding Dana Porter being unable to attend the opening of the river diversion works at Brampton.

File consists of three items of correspondence between G.D. Sanagan and Dana Porter regarding a request for a transcript of Porter's address to the County of York Law Association.

• Pepper, Elliott R.
• Porteous, J.G.
• Purcell, G.M.
• Portstein, Meyer
• Powel, W. Kent
• Reilly, Gladys and Edward
• Rigney, T.J.
• Robbins, Harry M.
• Robertson, N.S.
• Robinette, T.L.
• Robinson, Cecil W.
• Rodgers, A.B.
• Rogers, Arthur W.
• Rogers, H.W.
• Roebuck, Joseph
• Rooney, Veronica Plunkett
• Rosenburg, Henry
• Ross, A.
• Ross, Allan
• Ross, Douglas
• Ross, James F.W.
• Sale, Rhys M.
• Samuel, Sigmund
• Sedgwick, Joseph
• Sowby, Rev. C.W.
• Schwenger, William F.
• Savage, Claude C.
• Schmon, Arthur A.
• Seed, Jack A.
• Seitz, Joseph L.
• Shenstone, Norman S.
• Simpson, D.G.
• Slemin, J.A.D.
• Smalley-Baker, Dean C. E.
• Smith, Adam W. Simpson
• Soward, Reginald H.
• St. John, Bascom, Starr, Anne
• Stephen, Alan G.A.
• Sullivan, Joseph A.
• Tayts, Paddy
• Templeton, Gilbert
• Thaufrou, Joe
• Torrance, F.W.
• Trebilcock, A.J.
• Tyrrell, T.A.C.
• Wadsworth, J.P.R.
• Walker, C.L.
• Walker, David J.
• Walker, J.W.
• Ward, Alfred B.
• Wardrope, G.C.
• Warrender, W.K.
• Weiss, Herbert J.
• Weldon, D.B.
• Weldon, J.O.
• Whalley, J.F.C.
• Williams, E.K.
• Wilson, Harry H.
• Wilson, Roland F.
• Wilton, Glen
• Wintermeyer, John J.
• Winters, Robert
• Woodland, F.A.L.
• Wren, Albert
• Yaremko, John
• Yavell, L.L.

• H. Mary
• Hall, Emmett M.
• Hamilton, William E.
• Hammell, John E.
• Hanna, John W.
• Harkness, W.U.K.
• Harris, Roland A.
• Hart, G. Arnold
• Hastings, Mable
• Heal, R.F.
• Hearing, George J.
• Herbert, Rober
• Hermant, Sydney
• Hewitt, Gordon; Hilton, John D.
• Hobson, J.A.
• Hasting, R.S.
• Huffman, John
• Hughes, Frank J.
• Hukee, Margie Magone
• Hungerford, Jack
• Inch, George
• Innes, H.B.
• Isber, Rose M.
• Jamieson, H.T.
• Jasperson, Fred K.
• Johnston, Roddy
• Jones, Oakah L.
• Kelly, J.M.
• Kents, Palmer
• Kingston, R.A.
• Kirkpatricks, A.M.
• Kirkwood, Helen
• Kucherepa, John
• Laidlaw, Robert
• Langford, Henry
• Leal, Allan H.
• Leal, W. Allen
• Levinter, Isodore
• Lough, Donald
• Lewis, Dev
• Long, Norman W.
• Lowe, Carl
• Luxenberg, Benjamin
• Lyle, F.
• MacLean, Ian
• McLaughlin, Hugh J.
• McCutcheon, M. Wallace
• McGibbon, J.A.
• McLead, Douglas J.
• McKenzie, A.C.
• McTague, Charles P.
• Mabee, Oliver B.
• Mack, Ron L.
• Maddocks, Fred
• Mahoney, Ed.
• Martin, Walter M.
• Mauskell, J.Q.
• Mendels, M.M.
• Mernill, S.B.
• Millar, J.D.
• Mills, Ralph S.
• Milner, H.R.
• Mitchell, George
• Montague, W.H.
• Moore, Trevor
• Morrison, William
• Mungovan, Lenore
• Monteith, J. Waldo
• Murray, Gladstone
• Nickle, W.M.
• Normandin, Rodrigue
• Ormsly, Gerald
• Osborne, L.
• Pepler, H.W.E.

File consists of two hundred and forty six items of correspondence congratulating Dana Porter on his appointment as Ontario Chief Justice, as Chancellor of the University of Waterloo and as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Toronto.
Correspondents include :

• Allen, Francis J.
• Althouse, Mayme
• Anderson, Hugh A.
• Archer, William L.
• Armstrong, C.H.A.
• Armstong, James S.P.
• Armstrong, V.W.
• Ash, W.M.V.
• Ball, Gordon R.
• Band, James S.
• Beaudoin, Gerard
• Beck, Frederick A.
• Bell, Dick
• Bell, Thomas H.
• Belyea, Roy E.
• Berlin, S.S.
• Berry, Nixon T.
• Berry, J. Wilson
• Bickle, E.W.
• Bigelow, S. Tupper
• Biggar, H.W.
• Bishop, A.L.
• Bissell, Claude
• Bind, H.I.
• Birbaum, S.U.
• Blackwell, Leslie
• Blaird, Sid
• Blair, Willis L.
• Blatz, Anne and Bill
• Boland, John F.
• Borden, Henry
• Bowlby, A.T.
• Bowman, W.C.
• Brebner, F.R.
• Brown, Mannie
• Bruce, Herbert A.
• Bruce, Maxwell
• Buckland, Babs and Bert
• Bunnell, Arthur E.K.
• Campbell, Fred A.
• Cawthorne, Frederick
• Chalmers, Floyd S.
• Clark, Christie T.
• Coon, Burwell R.
• Crate, Alexander V.
• Currey, Jessie G.
• Davies, Robertson
• Duggan, R.B.
• Duncan, James S.
• Dunlop, W.J.
• Durie, Helen
• Dymond, M.B.
• Edmonds, George E.
• Erichsen-Brown, F.
• Farewell, C.A.
• Featherstone, Edna
• Feinberg, Rabbi Abraham L.
• Fell, Charles P.
• Forsyth, Bob
• Frankel, Egmont
• Fraser, D.G.
• Gelber, Marvin
• Gibson, D.H.
• Gilmour, G.P.
• Glassco, U. Grant
• Goodman, E.A.
• Goodwin, L.H.; Graham, Beatrice B.
• Graydon, Allan
• Green, Robert M.
• Gregory, Wilfrid P.
• Griffin, John
• Grossberg, Ben
• Gundy, Clarke

File consists of three items of correspondence. Two are between Admiral A.R. Parker (Dana Porter's father-in-law) and Dalton Davies. The other item is possibly from Porter's mother-in-law to him or to his wife. All three items were in the same envelope and the letter from Mrs. Ramsey discusses the estate of Dalton Davies.

File consists of ten items of correspondence from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker from the time of their engagement. These letters are the same as those in the spiral bound collection. Also includes copies of the other materials that are in the bound volume.

File consists of a photocopy of one item of correspondence from Henry Moetzing regarding the verdict in his libel case against P.J. Brunner.

File consists of eighteen items of correspondence between the secretaries of Yousuf Karsh (Joyce Large) and Dana Porter (Margaret Saunderson) regarding portraits of Porter.

File consists of two items of correspondence between Garfield A. King and Dana Porter regarding Porter's essays on Shakespearean Sonnets.

File consists of one item of correspondence from R.A. Farrell of the News Bulletin of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.

File consists of five items of correspondence between Dana Porter and Morris Chariton regarding Chariton's request to lecture in Shakespeare at the University of Waterloo, as well as an essay on Shakespeare that Chariton sent to Porter.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Ed Black along with a campaign brochure for the YMCA that features a baby with a resemblance to Leslie Frost.

File consists of one postcard addressed to Dana Porter from Bill [?] featuring a photo of an Atomic Detonation in Nevada.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Dana Porter to J.W. McAree of Mail and Empire, regarding the Empire Club of Canada.

Series consists of correspondence to and from Dana Porter regarding a variety of topics in his personal and professional life. Includes approximately three hundred and thirty-six items. Correspondents are listed at the file level. Note that where applicable items of correspondence have been left in their original file and subsequently correspondence can also be found in :

• Series 2. Dana Porter and Dorothy Parker Family ;
• Series 4. Ephemera ;
• Series 5. Political and Legal Career ;
• Series 6. Scrapbooks and Clippings ;
• Series 7. Shakespeare ;
• Series 8. Speeches and Addresses ;
• Series 9. Visual Materials.

File consists of materials relating to the Conservative Party Port Hope Conference of 1942. Includes notes, copies of the Port Hope Proposals, ephemera, and forty five items of correspondence. Correspondence relates primarily to concerns with leadership and amendments to the Conservative Party constitution, as well as to the Port Hope Proposal. Correspondents include:

• Bell, John A.M.
• Benson, Donald
• Bowlby, A.T.
• Bryce, Robert A.
• Diefenbaker, John
• Easterbrook, W.T.
• Finlayson, R.K.
• Frost, Cecil
• Hopper, Harry
• McClinton, James
• Mackay, Hugh
• Martin, Argue
• Milner, H.R.
• Monette, Gustav
• Nobel Scott Company
• Reid, Fred H.
• Sabourin, Ivan
• Smith, Charles B.
• Smith, Sidney
• Thomas, W.H.A.
• Thorvaldson, G.S.
• Timmins, Harold W.
• Tupper, R.H. ;

File also includes one item of correspondence to Dana Porter from the Deputy Provincial Secretary regarding the commissions.

File consists of clippings on Shakespeare, including one on Dana Porter's works regarding Shakespearean Sonnets.

File consists of clippings primarily related to the interests of Dana Porter, including ones on higher education and book reviews. Also includes two from 1968 on the George Drew years of Ontario parliament.

File consists of clippings accumulated by Dana Porter and family on Dana Porter, his work, personal life, and interests.

File consists of two photocopies of a clipping from the May 20, 1948 edition of the Toronto Evening Telegram. Clipping discusses Porter's position as Minister of Planning and Development.

File consists of one reprint of Dana Porter's article Civil Status and Disabilities of Trade Unions in Ontario from The Canadian Bar Review, March 1943.

File consists of one leaf of paper with drawings by a child on it. Possibly by Julian or Dana Porter Jr.

File consists of materials relating to a CBC roundtable discussion on safe driving at Christmas time, in which Dana Porter participated.

File consists of one portrait of Flight Lieutenant P.H. Carrere.

File consists of a copy of the September-October 1967 (vol. 45, no. 6) edition of the Canadian School Journal which features an obituary for Dana Porter.

File consists of five photographs showing the grand opening of the Canadian International Paper Company's Hygrade Containers Limited plant, and tree planting ceremony.

File consists of two photographs showing Dana Porter and others at the signing of the Canadian General Electric maintenance Contract for the O.P.P. Radio system. Also includes one item of correspondence regarding the photographs.

File consists of transcriptions of speeches and articles by Dana Porter from when he was campaigning in anticipation of the 1943 election.

File consists of campaign materials for the 1955 election. Includes materials for Dana Porter, George Drew, James H. Rooney, George Hees, Roly Michener, and Joe Keenan.

File consists of one campaign flyer for Dana Porter for the Progressive Conservative party for the St. George's Riding Toronto in 1943.

File consists of a campaign blotter for Dana Porter for when he was running for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the St. George's riding in Toronto.

File consists of five business cards from associates of Dana Porter. There are for: F.J. Lyle, Director Trade and Industry Branch ; E.V. McNeill, Commissioner of Police for Ontario ; Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Carrere ; Ray Timson, London Free Press ; Arthur Welsh, Department of Planning and Development.

File consists of one business card for Dana Porter which reads "With the Compliments of Hon. Dana Porter, Q.C. Treasurer of Ontario. Parliament Buildings, Toronto."

File consists of two book reviews by Dana Porter on works about Shakespeare : Shakespeare Unmasked by Pierre S. Porohovshikov and The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare by Calvin Hoffman.

File consists of a spiral bound volume with copies of love letters sent from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker during their courtship. Also included are photos of Dorothy, the Porter family, and a print out of a news article by Dana and Dorothy's grand-daughter regarding the letters.

File consists of a photocopy from an unknown contemporary publication of the case Attorney-Gernal for Ontario and others vs. Isreal Winnrer (Doing Business Under theName and Style of MacKenzie Couch Lines) and Others in which Dana Porter was involved.

File consists of one photograph showing attendees of the graduation exercised of the 42nd Session of the FBI National Academy. Left to right:

• Mr. W.V. Scott, Fire Marshal for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
• Mr. W.B. Common, Director of Public Prosecutions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
• J. Edgar Hoover, Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ;
• Honourable Dana Porter, Attorney General for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
• Mr. Clifford R. Magone, Deputy Attorney General for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
• Honourable William H. Stringer, commissioner of Police for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

File consists of an appeals book and legal briefings for a case in which Dana Porter was counsel.

File consists of materials relating to John Wellington Pickup's time as the "Administrator of the Government of the Province of Ontario" (in the absence of the Lieutenant Governor). Includes commissions appointing John Wellington Pickup interim administrator, instructions for the administrator of the Province of Ontario, a Speech From the Throne regarding the death of Queen Mary, and correspondence.

File consists of a transcript of Porter's speech as well as accompanying correspondence.