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Scrapbooks: Leadership Books.

This series contains fourteen scrapbooks all of which are assigned individual file numbers. These scrapbooks contain materials relating to the W.C.W.T.A.'s leadership training courses. Materials take the form of b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, correspondence, lists of course participants, course application forms, course schedules and outlines, course handouts, course evaluation sheets, meeting agendas, and ephemera.

Johnston, Mary

Scrapbooks: F.W.T.A.O./W.C.W.T.A. Scrapbooks.

This series contains twenty-three scrapbooks all of which are assigned individual file numbers. The first sixteen scrapbooks in this series have been numbered consecutively by the compiler of these scrapbooks as follows: 1-5, 7, 9, 10-11, 13-18, 20 (some scrapbooks are missing). The remaining scrapbooks have not been numbered by the compiler but also relate to W.C.W.T.A. and F.W.T.A.O. affairs and activities. These sixteen scrapbooks include materials relating to meetings, workshops, conferences, leadership courses and other events of the W.C.W.T.A. and of the F.W.T.A.O. Materials take the form of b&w and col. photographs, newsletters, meetings agendas and minutes, corrrespondence, ts. lists, reports, news clippings, and ephemera.

Johnston, Mary

Miscellaneous

Series consists of miscellaneous material prepared by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Miscellaneous

Series consists of miscellaneous materials prepared and collected by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Sound Recordings

Series is comprised of sound recordings created by Rienzi Crusz. Includes two audio compact discs of Rienzi Crusz reading his poetry.

Crusz, Rienzi

Video Recordings

Series consists of video recordings relating to the activities of Rienzi Crusz. Includes the judging of the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards.

Crusz, Rienzi

Video Recordings

Series consists of video recordings relating to the activities of Rienzi Crusz, including judging for the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards and an interview and poetry reading.

Crusz, Rienzi

Miscellaneous : Family

Series consists of material reating to the family of Rienzi Crusz. Includes an in memoriam publication for Crusz's father and an article written by his brother.

Crusz, Rienzi

Miscellaneous : Family

Series consists of material relating to the family of Rienzi Crusz. Includes ms. notes and drawings.

Crusz, Rienzi

Miscellaneous : Works by Others

Series consists of works by poets other than Rienzi Crusz. Includes tss. (originals and photocopies), clippings, and photocopies from published works.

Crusz, Rienzi

Publications

Series consists of publications of the Muskoka Lakes Association, including the Association handbook, newsletters, and the yearbook.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Scrapbooks

Series consists of two scrapbooks containing loose and pasted-in clippings, as well correspondence (letters and cards), speech notes, invitations, programs, photographs, and other ephemera predominantly relating to Dr. S.F. Leavine's election as Mayor of Kitchener in 1949. Also included are clippings from after he died in 1958, outlining his professional accomplishments and impact on the community.

Leavine, Stanley Francis

Research: Electronic Files

Series consists of 21 high-density 3.5" floppy diskettes and printouts of some of the files stored on them. In the case of the files for which printouts are available, they are stored on these floppy disks in one of four different directories created by Dendy: "BILLSDIS", "FHARCH", "FHPERMIT" and "SWARTZ" (as reflected in file titles for this series). Note, however, that due to problems converting files with extensions .bdc and .doc in the "BILLSDIS" directory, printouts could be generated for the majority but not all of the files in this directory.

The files on these twenty-one floppy disks are stored in one of seven different directories. Printouts of files for the four directories specified above are available in this series. However, note that printouts are not yet available for the remaining three directories: "FHSTREET", "FHLOSTTOR" and 'RLWAYSTA". Note that a file list for each of the seven directories is available in file 438 of this series. Moreover, a list of all files for which printouts are available is also contained in file 438.
A description of the information contained in the files for which printouts are available follows here:

  • Files contained in "BILLSDIS" directory (see archival files 425-428) take the form of correspondence, reports, feasability studies, terms of reference for individual projects and other documentation re projects which Dendy worked on as architectural historian to the Property Restoration Branch of the Ontario Heritage Foundation between 1987-1989. Information relating to individual projects is stored in separate files. The computer file name reflects the project name and are organized in alphabetical order.
  • Files contained in the "FHARCH" directory (see archival files 429-433) contain information re the building department files for Forest Hill organized alphabetically from A-Z by architect.
  • The files contained in the "FHPERMIT" directory (see archival files 434-436) include information from the building department files for Forest Hill organized by Permit no.
  • Files contained in the "SWARTZ" directory (see archival file 437) include correspondence sent by Dendy to Tom Schwartz, President of the Intraurban Projects which relates to the work which Dendy carried out as consultant architectural historian on the 1070 Queen Street East project.
  • Finally the last file (file 14) contained in this series is entitled "FILE LISTINGS" and contains file lists for the directories "BILLSDIS", "FHARCH", and "SWARTZ".

Dendy, William

Schantz family reunion.

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

Schantz Russell Family

Sound Recordings

Series consists of sound recordings. Some recordings relate to management theory, created or acquired for training purposes. Recordings also contain interviews with Electrohome employees, product advertisements, as well as other events including a board meeting and the 75th anniversary concert. Includes audiocassettes and audio reels.

Electrohome

Executive Officers Files : James Holmes

Series consists of records accumulated and used by James Holmes in his role as chairman of the board and CEO from 1976 to 1979. Includes press clippings, ms. notes, and an ms. draft of a paper.

Electrohome

Company Newsletters

Series consists of company newsletters, produced and distributed for internal communications and publicity purposes. The Cobbler, published by the Greb Shoes Employees' Association, was begun in 1952. It was replaced with the Greb Newshound in 1962, and was published until [ca. 1971?]. In 1978, a new company newsletter, Greb Footnotes, was launched. Series may not include a complete run of any one publication, and some issues may be missing.

Greb Industries Limited

Member of Provincial Parliament candidate.

This series includes material created or accumulated by Andrew Telegdi during his campaign to be nominated and elected as the Member of Provincial Parliament representing the Liberal Party in the riding of Waterloo North in the 1990 Ontario general election. Records include news releases, speech transcripts, a resume, correspondence, photographs, and election campaign material such as a candidate survey, press clippings, newspaper advertisement mock-ups, pamphlets, and invitations.

Telegdi, Andrew

Jacob's Little Giant

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Barbara Smucker relating to her work "Jacob's Little Giant." Includes tss., research notes, and reviews.

Smucker, Barbara

Fiction Works

Series consists of fiction works created by Bernard Suits. Includes both published and unpublished materials, primarily poems as well as short stories.

Suits, Bernard

Harvey J. Sims : Chicopee

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.

Sims family

Photographs

Photographs of Nazla L. Dane and others.

Dane, Nazla L.

Miscellaneous

Series consists of miscellaneous items: a flyer advertising a book by Hynes, and a card and photographs sent to him.

Hynes, H.B.N.

Research : Canada : Brenda Dougall Merriman

This series consists of research files belonging to Brenda Dougall Merriman whose work concentrated on settlements of Petworth emigrants in Canada. There is correspondence with the other project members in both Canada and England, as well as correspondence with descendants of and informants on Petworth emigrants and their settlement in Canada. A good deal of the research is on settling details of biography and genealogy of individual family names associated with the various geographical clusters of settlement.

The Jackman Foundation

Visual Materials

Series is comprised of visual materials accumulated by Bertram Davis. Includes a print of James Sharple's pastel portrait of Robert Southey.

Davis, Bertram R.

Miscellaneous : Works by Others

Contents: series consists of writing other than by Rienzi Crusz. Includes a handwritten document (original) and a typed document (photocopy), as well as a drawing and a poem by Crusz' son Michael.

Crusz, Rienzi

History Working Files

Series consists of material created, collected and accumulated for the purpose of researching and writing the history of the COAA. Most files were probably kept or acquired by Oreen Campbell, who was responsible for writing the history of the association during the 1980s. Includes files containing items removed from elsewhere in the fonds for the purpose of gathering key documents for the association's history and especially those containing information about important decisions and developments. Series includes correspondence, typed histories (including draft versions), flyers, announcements, membership lists, newsletters, exhibition catalogues, reports, minutes, lectures, articles, clippings, photographs, the association constitution and procedures manual, and other material.

Central Ontario Art Association

Personal

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.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

Committee Files

Series consists of records relating to the work of several MLA committees. Most records relate to the Regatta Committee and the planning, organization, and results of the annual sailing and aquatic regattas (1930-1932, 1965-1986). Series also includes one file each for the Antique Boat Committee (1978), the Election Committee (1979-1989), and the Recreational Safety Committee 1985-1986).

Includes correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes and agendas, handwritten and typed notes, reports, budgets, invoices, regatta results charts, regatta flyers and programs, newspaper clippings, and other material.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Dare Foods Limited : The Howe Candy Company Limited

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.

Dare Foods Limited

Administration : Subsidiary Plants

Series consists of a small amount of material relating to two subsidiary pants owned by kaufman, the Dushore Plant in Dushore, Pennsylvania, and the Sherbrooke, Québec plant. Contains correspondence, clippings, ephemera and memoranda.

Kaufman Footwear

Stanbrook Abbey Press

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Stanbrook Abbey Press. Includes printed prayer and bible verse sheets.

Decorations, Medals and Awards

Series consists of decorations, medals, and awards presented to John Gartshore Martin, John Alexander Martin, and Jessie Martin, as well as various military insignia and memorabilia.

Martin, John Gartshore

Board Minutes : Grand Valley Conservation Authority

Series consists of minutes of the general meetings of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority (GVCA) together with minutes of the GVCA Executive Committee. Includes minutes of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority Advisory Boards, whose number and official names varied over time. The name order of these bodies also varied, e.g. the Advisory Board on Recreation also appears as the Recreation Advisory Board.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Registered Nurses' Assocation of Ontario

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to her research and writing of the Registered Nurses' Assocation of Ontario historical appointment book. Includes research notes, correspondence, photographs, etc.

Rex, Kay

Nonesuch Press

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

Gill, Eric

Postwar.

Material created or accumulated by Cameron Hill and his family after the Second World War including certificates, war medals and ribbons, financial records, correspondence, and other related material.

Hill, Cameron Clare

University of Waterloo

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Stanton while he was a professor at the University of Waterloo. Includes department notes, information on the founding of the university and the mathematics department, correspondence, press cuttings, etc.

Stanton, Ralph G.

Schneider Family Genealogy

Series consists of material relating to the origins and genealogy of the Schneider family. Includes correspondence with relatives in Germany, photographs, copies of church documents, and family trees.

Schneider family

Financial Files

Series contains material relating to the management of Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation accounts pertaining to estates, Grand River Hospital, Freeport Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, and United Way. The majority of investments and accounts were held at Canada Trust Company. Includes annual, quarterly and monthly account statements, correspondence, memoranda, investment reports, account summaries, agendas, minutes, policies, and reports.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Scrapbooks and Clippings

Series consists of clippings and scrapbooks created primarily by Dana Porter. Some books also contain posthumous clippings on Dana Porter and his legacy collected by Julian Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence: Clark, Roger

Series is comprised of correspondence between Roger Clark (son-in-law of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Publications.

Printed items written or co-authored by Donald Cowan that were published in various journals, conference proceedings or as separate reports.

Cowan, Donald D.

Grand River Conservation Commission

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.

Pequegnat, Marcel

Administration : Financial : Accounts : Shand

Series consists of material relating to Shand Dam operating accounts, including expenditures for taxes, insurance, operation and general maintenance, cottage lots, equipment, saw mill, nursery, reforestation, woodlot management and uniforms. Each folder contains quarterly financial statement accompanied by correspondence, receipts, invoices, tax notices, ms. notes, etc.

Grand River Conservation Commission

Westmont Enterprises Limited

  • SCA220-GA207-6
  • Series
  • 1955-2001, predominant [196-]-[197-]
  • Part of Ross Dixon fonds.

Series consists of material accumulated by Ross Dixon relating to the activities of Westmont Enterprises Limited, a holding company that Ross Dixon formed ca. 1953 for the Westmount Construction Company and other subsidiary companies as well as rental properties. One of these subidiary companies was Jasco, a manufacturer of aluminum windows and doors in Baden, Ontario.

Series consists mainly of material relating to the advertising and sale of real estate in Kitchener and Waterloo, as well as the surrounding region; and real estate and rental properties mainly in the Belmont neighbourhood. Series includes correspondence, deeds and mortgages, agreements, photographs, architectural drawings, handwritten notes, invoices, and other material.

Dixon, Ross

Manuscripts

Series consists of ms. and ts. manuscripts written by G. Elmore Reaman. Includes draft and annotated versions of publications, articles, speeches, etc as well as accmpanying correspondence and notes.

Reaman, George Elmore

Betty Forbes's diaries.

Diaries belonging to Betty Forbes containing daily journal entries accompanied by photographs, letters, drawings, telegrams, press clippings, and cards. The diaries are primarily written during Betty's time as a student at the School for Nurses at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario and during the early years of her career as a nurse.

Forbes, Betty

Red Cross

Series consists of one folder of correspondence relating to W.H. Kaufman's work with the Canadian Red Cross Society.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Kaufman, Jacob and Mary

Series consists of material relating to Jacob and Mary Kaufman of Kitchener Ontario, belonging to their son, A.R. Kaufman. Includes clippings, estate correspondence and other papers, obituaries and one portrait of Jacob Kaufman.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Artifacts

Series consists of artifacts created or accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the various companies and newspapers that it has owned. Includes one vanity plate from owener J.E. Motz, and two printing plates.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Rittinger & Motz

Series is comprised of materials relating to the company Rittinger & Motz as well as the newspapers that it owned and operated. Includes stationary, ephemera, legal documents, clippings, etc.

Motz Family

Sales & Marketing

File is comprised of material produced by RMS for sales & marketing. Includes product brochures, leaflets, and major equipment listings; company portfolios and directories; packages given out at trade shows; advertising proofs; and a pamphlet titled How we Build a Tire.

Rubber Machinery Shops

Collective Agreements : other companies.

Collective agreements from other organizations, presumably used by the Schneider Employees' Association as reference for preparing their own collective agreements. Includes those from the Kitchener-Waterloo area, as well as from across Canada, and many that related to the meat preparation and packaging industries.

Rieder, Talmon Henry

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.

Rieder and Anthes family

Notebooks

Series consists of notebooks or "commonplace books" kept by James Downey between 1986 and 2003. Includes ms. check lists, aide-memoires, speech notes, meeting notes, letter drafts, clippings, ephemera, snapshots.

Downey, James

Personnel

Series consists of files created and maintained by the K-W YWCA on personnel related issues. Includes information on the union and collective agreements, position salaries and descriptions, a time book, annual personnel reports, and files on positions filled through various government grants and programs.

Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo

Alpha Delta Kappa

Series consists of material relating to the honourary women educators sorority Alpha Delta Kappa. Includes photographs, clippings, audio-visual material, newsletters, and international convention proceedings.

Alpha Delta Kappa. Province of Ontario Chapter

Clippings

Series consists of folders and envelopes of clippings relating to a wide variety of topics of interest to Jenny Pincock and Fred and Minnie Maines, including art, literature, politics, war, spiritualism, friends and family.

Maines Pincock Family

Schantz, Sophie Emma.

Material created and accumulated by Sophie Emma Schantz. Includes one book of song lyrics presented to Sophie as a gift.

Schantz Russell Family

Garret Theatre

Series consists of materials relating to John Herbert's Garret Theatre.

Herbert, John

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

Visual : Photographs : Corporate

Series consists of photographs depicting GRCA corporate activities, events and personnel. Many of these had originally been located in other series; they were pulled by GRCA personnel from other files and grouped in new folders for an undetermined purpose.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Visual : Negatives

Series consists of binders of negatives and contact strips: 14 numbered volumes contain 596 pages, each page holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip (page 596 contains only 1 strip). One unnumbered volume contains negatives in a variety of sizes. Includes an index maintained on rolodex cards.

Grand River Conservation Authority

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