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Operations : Wartime Production

Series consists of records relating to the involvement of Electrohome in the engineering and manufacture of products during WWII, including material relating to production councils from the company's three divisions (furniture and woodworking, radio and communications, and appliances and metal products), the Radio Production Alliance, the Canadian Aircraft Workers' Association, and contract renegotiation after the war. Includes photographs, correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, instruction manuals, ms. notes, technical drawings, and other material.

Electrohome

Harvey J. Sims: correspondence with William Lyon Mackenzie King

Ninety pieces of correspondence, of which 73 are letters to Harvey J. and/or Florence Sims. Another letter is in Series 11, sending regrets for the invitation to the wedding of Kenneth Sims and Mabel Alguire Cameron.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, was a boyhood friend of Harvey J. Sims, and consistently addresses him as "Peter" in his letters. The letters in this series range from Christmas greetings to political, literary and spiritual topics.
Letters in this series are both handwritten and typewritten. Letters from Mackenzie King to Florence Sims are usually handwritten.

Sims family

Memorial exhibit typescripts and pamphlets

Series contains leaflets relating to Homer Watson’s life and memorial exhibits. Leaflets contain information about memorial exhibits such as one held by the Waterloo Trust and Savings Company building in Kitchener. One of the leaflets also contains a photocopied sketch of a graveyard scene. The series also contains a typescript biography of Watson written by his friend, Ross Hamilton. Another typescript covers a speech by Watson to shareholders of the Waterloo County Grand River Park. The speech calls for the conservation of a woodland area called Cressman Bush.

Typescripts
14. Address by H. Watson “Conservation of Cressman Bush for Waterloo County”
15. Homer Watson Paintings
16. Expense Account of Ross Hamilton in Connection with H. Watson Estate Feb. 4-10

Pamphlets
17. Homer Watson, Artist - A Tribute
18. Biography of Homer Watson by Ross Hamilton
19. Catalogue Memorial Exhibition of Original Paintings by Homer Watson, R.C.A., L.L.D. 1947

Exhibit clippings

Series contains clippings documenting memorial exhibits for Homer Watson and articles reviewing his life. There are two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings between 1936 and 1947. One scrapbook contains mostly newspaper memorabilia and exhibition advertisements, while the other contains clippings focused mainly on announcing exhibits throughout Ontario along with press and editorial comments. There are also files of clippings that discuss the closure of Watson’s art gallery and studio in 1947. One of the clippings is a print, from a magazine, depicting Homer Watson.

Teaching and Miscellaneous Notes

Series consists of material prepared by John D. Detwiler for instructional purposes. Includes course outlines, lecture notes, exam questions, references, student attendance and marks, and illustrations.

Detwiler, John D.

Education

Series consists of materials relating to the mathematical education of Ralph Stanton. Includes course and lecture notes, as well as an essay and an examination.

Stanton, Ralph G.

Russell, Dorothy : Diaries.

Diaries and notebooks created by Dorothy Russell. Includes a personal diary, a pocket notebook of bird sightings and other material, as well as a pocket notebook of books read.

Schantz Russell Family

Correspondence

Series documents the management of Homer Watson’s paintings by Ross Hamilton and the Waterloo Trust and Savings Company. Consisting of correspondence between 1942 and 1949, many of the letters are addressed to Hamilton, from various galleries and museums, regarding the possible purchase or exhibition of Watson’s paintings. Other correspondence to note is a letter from the Waterloo Trust and Savings Company to Prime Minister Leslie M. Frost on displaying Watson’s work in Canada’s parliamentary buildings. There is also a letter dating to July 14, 1917 that was written by Watson’s adopted daughter, Mary Margaret.

Correspondence
1. to Alma from Mary Margaret Watson, Doon July 14, 1917

Correspondence re: Homer Watson
2. to Ross Hamilton from Estates Manager Oct. 13, 1942
3. to Ross Hamilton, Waterloo Trust from O.W. Scott Feb. 28, 1944
4. to Ross Hamilton from Lillian MacIntyre, St. Catharines Dec. 30, 1947
5. to Ross Hamilton from D. I. McLeod, Toronto Jan. 23, 1948
6. to Ross Hamilton from Max Stern, Dominion Gallery, Montreal Feb. 23, 1948
7. to Ross Hamilton from Paul Rainville, Provincial Museum, Quebec April 1, 1948
8. to Ross Hamilton from Robert Tyler Davis, Art Association Montreal April 30, 1948
9. to Ross Hamilton from Blake- More Godwin, Toledo Museum of Art Oct. 2, 1948
10. to P.V. Wilson, Waterloo Trust from D. A. Wanklyn, Montreal Feb. 3, 1948
11. to Hon. Leslie M. Frost from P.V. Wilson Nov. 24, 1949
12. to P.V. Wilson from E. J. Young, Waterloo Trust, Toronto Nov. 30, 1949
13. note re Homer Watson's paintings

Hamilton, Ross

Correspondence: Smith, Violet

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

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Family Papers.

Includes a diary written by Mary Ham detailing the events of her summer trip from Port McNicol, Ontario to the Canadian west including Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

Personal Papers

Series consists of personal papers created and accumulated by Harry Byers. Includes epehemera, clippings, certifcates, correspondence, a passport, employment and education information, and a diary detailing Byers' time working in Russia.

Byers, Harry J.

Conservation and Scientific Organizations and Conferences

Series consists of material relating to Dr. Detwiler's involvement in conservation organizations and attendance at various conferences. Includes ms. notes, correspondence, ephemera, maps, minutes of meetings, presentations. Miscellaneous material and files of invoices etc. would not appear to belong to this series.

Detwiler, John D.

Prisoner of War.

Material created or accumulated by Cameron Hill during the Second World War while he was held in custody as a prisoner of war (POW) and sent to POW camps in Libya, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Poland, and Germany. Includes a log, identification tags, correspondence, maps, and other related material.

Hill, Cameron Clare

Audio Visual and Realia

Series consists of audio visual materials including radio and television advertisements, data tapes, and artefacts relating to tires, Dominion Rubber, and Uniroyal.

Dominion Rubber Company

Correspondence.

Series consists of correspondence from William Lyon Mackenzie King to his nephew Arthur King, also to Arthur's wife Kathleen Marion King, written between January 8, 1923 and July 5, 1950. Although Mackenzie King's first letters are directed towards the interests of a growing boy, over the years he stays involved in Arthur's progress through school, university and ultimately in the workplace. He mentions his own activities although often not in detail, sends thank you letters and holiday greetings. He gives Arthur advice on his career, mentions books of interest, and talks about politics, friends, family and visitors to Kingsmere.
Arranged chronologically.

King, William Lyon Mackenzie

Ratz, Clara, estate.

Series contains materials relating to the estate of Clara Ratz. Includes correspondence, tax records, insurance documents, and lists of assets.

Ratz Family

Correspondence

Series consists of seventy seven items of correspondence to and from Alice Riggs Hunt and a number of correspondents. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Romain Rolland and Phyllis E. Wheelock. Arranged by name of correspondent.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

Dare Foods Limited : Price Pages and Lists

Series consists of C.H. Doerr Company Limited price lists for cookie and candy products. The price lists are organized by region with lists for individual stores. Series includes H.S. McCabe’s price lists, formulas for cookies and candies, and “Cookie Sheets.”

Dare Foods Limited

Manuscripts

Series consists of manuscript and typescript notes for and drafts of works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Jenny Pincock and others.

Maines Pincock Family

Photographs.

Photographs created and accumulated by members of the extended Schantz family. Includes photographs of residences, families and friends including both snapshots and studio portraits.

Schantz Russell Family

Maps and Plans

File consists of maps created by, or relevant to, the GRCA. Includes an historic conservation map, as well as a historic watershed act.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Hague and Gill

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

Gill, Eric

King Family : photographs

Series consists of photographs of William Lyon Mackenzie King, his family and friends. Includes formal and informal portraits as well as snapshots taken in Toronto, Ottawa, Denver and Kingsmere.
Arranged in chronological order.

Financial

Series is comprised of financial materials created by the George Pattinson Woollen Mill and its predecessors. Includes journals, a general ledger, figure slips, a coal account book and a ledger index.

George Pattinson Woollen Mill

Architectural drawings.

Working and architectural drawings drawn by local architect Theophilus Hughes Wells for the house at 178 Claremont Avenue.
Box arrived in archives with handwritten note by donor that read: “T. Hughes Wells, architect, working drawings (5 scrolls) to scale for Reive home, 178 Claremont Avenue, Kitchener.”

Reive Family

Films

Series consists of film reels and DVD copies of home movies shot by the Guy family. Includes films showing family members and friends participating in various activities both on vacation and at home in Waterloo. Many of the films show 110 John Boulevard and the early development of the Westmount region of Waterloo.

Guy, James Rutherford and George Harrington

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

W.L. Mackenzie King : death, funeral and estate

Series consists of documents received by Arthur King after the death of Mackenzie King on July 22, 1950: ephemera issued to participants in the memorial and funeral services, press releases, legal documents relating to the estate of Mackenzie King including his will and estate accounts, and commentary on his bequests.

Travel

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt documenting her travels both within the United States and abroad. Includes primarily ephemera as well as two trip diaries.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

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

Photographs

Series consists of photographs taken by members of the Guy family. Includes nineteen slides showing the home at 110 John Boulevard as well as the surrounding area in the winter of 1952.

Guy, James Rutherford and George Harrington

Shortt Family: Speeches

Series is comprised of transcripts of speeches given by members of the Smith-Shortt family including Lorraine Shortt and Violet Smith. Also includes one scrapbook of speeches.

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Pamphlets

Series is comprised of pamphlets accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family that relate to a variety of subjects.

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

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

Correspondence: Smith, Gertrude

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

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Schneider, J.M.

Series consists of material relating to the immediate family of John Metz Schneider, including his wife Helena (Ahrens) Schneider and children (to the age of majority or marriage), and his parents Johann Christoph Schneider and Anna Elizabeth (Metz) Schneider.

Schneider family

Notebooks.

Series consists of notebooks kept by Claire Wallace.

Wallace, Claire

Russell, Dorothy : Personal.

Material created or accumulated by Dorothy Russell that does not fit into any other series category previously established. Includes ephemera, an address book and a notebook.

Schantz Russell Family

Scrapbooks

Series consists of scrapbooks created by Claire Wallace, primarily composed of her writing and materials relating to her work.

Wallace, Claire

Artifacts

  • SCA233-GA231-10
  • Series
  • [ca. 1500], [18--?]-1955
  • Part of Kay Rex fonds.

Series is comprised of artifacts accumulated by Kay Rex. Includes two arrowheads, a sock darner, tatting and lace samples and gifts given to her aunt Frances Kathleen Montgomery.

Rex, Kay

Juvenalia.

Contents: series consists of materials relating to the childhood and education of Anne Innis Dagg. Includes materials from her time in the Toronto Public School system, at Bishop Strachan School and at the University of Toronto.

Dagg, Anne Innis

Clippings

Series consists of clippings from newspapers, some containing articles or editorials by John D. Detwiler, some about him and/or his work and some collected by him as of subject interest.

Detwiler, John D.

Incorporation

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation of Dominion Electrohome Industries Limited and its predecessors, the Phonola Company of Canada, Pollock-Welker Limited, and the Grimes Radio Corporation Limited; as well as the incorporation of Pollock Enterprises Limited. Series also includes records relating to the administration of Grimes Radio Corporation from 1925 to 1939 and Pollock Enterprises from 1947 to 1959. Includes share certificates, letters patent, by-laws, board of directors' meeting minutes, registers of shareholders and directors, and stock subscription applications.

Electrohome

Photographs

Series consists of photographs created and accumulated by Harry Byers. Includes five loose photographs, as well as those from a family album. The photographs show Harry Byers and his family and friends, as well as those detailing his time working in Russia.

Byers, Harry J.

Books

Series is comprised of various published materials created and accumulateed primarily by Elizabeth Smith Shortt. Includes mostly materials on medical and women's rights concerns, as well as an alumnae news letter and extracts from books regarding Elizabeth Smith Shortt.

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Diaries

Diaries and diary pages kept by Nazla L. Dane documenting her life and activities.

Dane, Nazla L.

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

Dare Foods Limited : Financial Statements

  • SCA188-GA163-3
  • Series
  • 1919-1958, 2004, predominant 1919-1947, 1956-1958
  • Part of Dare Foods Limited.

Series consists of C.H. Doerr Company, Limited and The Dare Company, Limited, financial statements. Series also includes a summary of financial reports. The series is arranged chronologically.

Dare Foods Limited

Photographs

Series consists of photographs and negatives of Dare employees, products, and locations. Includes photographs of Dare subsidiaries as well.

Dare Foods Limited

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.

Juvenilia

Series consists of materials created or accumulated by Bernard Suits when he was a student in both public school and at university. Includes student work, class notes, term papers, one bound manuscript with manuscript notes and a year book.

Suits, Bernard

Administration : Financial : Accounts : Conestogo

Series consists of material relating to the capital and land clearing accounts for financing and construction of the Conestogo Dam Project, including gauge stations. Each folder contains quarterly financial statements for a particular account, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, invoices, tax notices, ms. notes, etc.

Grand River Conservation Commission

Photographs

Series consists of photographs of the Dare factories in Kitchener (includes both interior and exterior shots) and photographs of Dare employees. Some photographs were accumulated by William J. Hopp.

Dare Foods Limited

Advertising : Working Files : Television and Stereo

Series consists of material used in the production of advertisements, catalogues, and brochures for Electrohome television and stereo products, as well as the company's Acoustech, Marantz, Planar, and Soundesign lines, and Ortofon components. Includes transparencies, photographs, negatives, slides, and printing proofs, as well as final versions of some advertisements, catalogues, and brochures.

Electrohome

Schneider, Frederick H.

Series consists of material relating to the life and career of Frederick H. Schneider, as well as material relating to his wife Ella (Daniels) Schneider. Consists primarily of photographs, biographical information, genealogical information about Ella Daniels family, ephemera relating to the marriage and funerals of Frederick H. and Ella Schneider, and photographs and publications relating to the Industrial and Development Council of Canadian Meat Packers and the Kitchener-Waterloo Rotary Club.

Schneider family

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