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Correspondence 1931.

Correspondence to and from Harvey J. Sims (carbons), relating to ongoing work at Chicopee, such as the pergola, log cabin, frog fountains, plantings, trees, and shrubs, and problems with wiring for road lights and flood lights. Includes detailed lists of nursery stock. Correspondents include Carl A. Borgstrom, Ball Brothers, Lorne Park Nurseries, A.H. Tomlinson (Department of Horticulture, University of Guelph), and the Mattell & Bierwagen Electric Company.

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Correspondence 1931-1933.

Correspondence to and from Harvey J. Sims and Carl A. Borgstrom of Carl Borgstrom & H.S.M. Carver, Landscape Architects and Town Planners, relating to nursery stock supplied through Lorne Park Nurseries. Includes a hand-drawn orchard plan.

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Tree lists.

Includes one list of trees planted at the North Western entrance to Hamilton, otherwise contains lists of Harvey J. Sims' collection of trees and shrubs dated 1931, 1936, and 1939, with many marks and annotations by Harvey. The 1936 list is labelled "Lorne Park" and has attached many invoices for stock supplied by Lorne Park Nurseries (started by Carl Borgstrom). Two envelopes contain leaf specimens, labelled "Rock Elm" and "White Elm."

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Correspondence with Col. H.D. Smith.

Correspondence from and to Harvey J. Sims and H.D. Smith, K.C., R.A. McLaren, and Charles C. Bell in Chatham, Ont. about sourcing and procuring seedlings of specific native trees and shrubs found at Rondeau Park and vicinity.

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Correspondence with Mr. Alfred Rehder.

Correspondence from and to Harvey J. Sims and Alfred Rehder, Curator of the Herbarium at The Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plains, New York, attempting to identify specimens Harvey is sending.

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Harvey J. Sims : Library

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.

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King, William Lyon Mackenzie.

Formal studio portrait in photographer's folder of William Lyon Mackenzie King, seated, by Champion Studios, New York, inscribed to Harvey J. Sims: "To H.J. Sims, from his friend, W.L. Mackenzie King, Ottawa, ‘Xmas 1922."

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Newspapers.

One copy each of The Globe and The Daily Record, Thursday September 14, 1922, reporting on the previous day's visit of King to Kitchener-Waterloo. The Globe article is titled "Canada's gallant Prime Minister (in remarkable address on return to his birthplace) condemns ultra-modern woman." The Daily Record headline is "City's distinguished son is welcomed at Victoria Park. Inspiring scenes enacted in conntion with demonstrative reception accorded Canada's Prime Minister and native of city; hopeful note sounded by Premier in address."

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Boyd, Jimmy to Kenneth Sims.

Letter from Jimmy Boyd (Dr. James Boyd) dated February 10, 1942 in England to Kenneth Sims, describing life in the hospital he is at and asking that any overdue accounts be collected for him.

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Boyd, Jimmy to Kenneth Sims.

Airmail letter from Jimmy Boyd dated September 3, 1943 in England to Kenneth Sims, describing his billets and activities in England over the past year, writing while waiting for a mobile clinic to be set up in Wales. Return Address is Maj. J.W. Boyd.

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Luxton, J.H. to Kenneth Sims.

Letter from 2nd Lieut. J.H. Luxton, Scots Fusiliers of Canada, dated March 13, 1942, Kitchener to Major J.K. Sims on behalf of "D" Company in appreciation of his leadership. He attaches a list of signatures of the men in the company who had paraded together for the last time as a group, and of whom half of those eligible had offered their names for immediate enlistment.

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Strohm, Adam to Kenneth Sims.

Letter from Adam Strohm dated August 4, 1945, Manistee, Michigan to Kenneth Sims. He encloses a letter written to him on July 30, 1945 by Harry Bullock, an old friend of both Adam and Harvey, who says of another friend Fred Burden's troubles from feeling his age: "Harvey Sims passing was part of his trouble and yours and mine too. I think he was the finest Canadian I ever knew."

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Women's Press Club of Toronto fonds

Fonds contains materials collected by and sent to Kay Rex for the purpose of writing a history of the Canadian Women's Press Club, as well as records of the Toronto Branch given into her keeping when the Club ceased operation. These were intended for eventual deposit at the University of Waterloo to join the book collection of the C.W.P.C. which was donated to the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room in 1977.

The fonds consists of records documenting Toronto Branch operation during the period of the 1960's to 1980's, including constitution and by-laws, correspondence 1965-1991, minutes of regular and executive meetings, 1968-1989, a file on the closing of the Club's premises at 44 York St., Toronto, and scrapbooks of club activities and personalities. Historical materials include textual records, photographs, publications and scrapbooks. The earliest scrapbook is dated 1921 and contains biographies and photographs of members. Trips taken by C.W.P.C members in 1950 and 1955 to the United Kingdom, Europe and Russia are documented through members' files, photographs, and scrapbooks.

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Minutes of Branch Meetings.

Minutes, accounts, reports and notes for annual and general meetings (September 23, 1969-May 30., 1972) of the Canadian Women's Press Club, Toronto Branch to 1971 and of the Media Club of Canada, Toronto Branch thereafter.

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Careers in Writing

Correspondence, announcements, some draft materials regarding financing and publishing a book on writing containing submissions by members.

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Miscellaneous Biographical and Historical Research

Documents, mostly printed items, found loose among the other papers, containing information on the following: Kathleen Blake "Kit" Coleman, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Kate Aitken, and a story on the 1947 By-Line Ball written by Ruth Hammond and Cay Moore Miller. Included is a May 1978 edition of Content: Canada's National News Media Magazine (Number 85) with a feature about Kit Watkins and an article regarding women journalists in the west, such as Isobel Armstrong, E. Cora Hind, and the Beynon sisters - Lillian and Frances Marion. Also in the file is information about Judith Robinson: a note by Kay Rex and a copy of News, the paper Robinson started during the war.

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New Brunswick, Nova Scotia Branches

File includes:

  • News Clippings 1968-1974;
  • interview with Dorothy Dearborn, marked printout, photograph with identifications on verso, 1987;
  • Vera Ayling typescript recollections "Early Days ofthe C.W.P.C in New Brunswick", 1987;
  • photocopied correspondence ca. 1965-1966 from Glen Hancock, sent to Kay Rex in 1987;
  • correspondence and clippings re Marshall Saunders, 1993.

Verso of Dearborn photo reads: "L. to R. Corinne Noonan, Vera Ayling, Sharon Saveed Pond, Esther Crandall, Dorothy Dearborn, Mary Savard, Sharon's mother, since deceased."

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Saskatoon

Notes, photocopies, some biographical material on Violet Mcnaughton, and a copy of the Western Producer.

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Canadian Women's Press club: National.

Photocopied documents 1940-1971, some from the Public Archives of Canada, as well as a small amount of original material. Includes correspondence from 1940, 1941, 1945 regarding wartime conditions, arrangements for meetings, correspondence from members, notes and correspondence carbons regarding trip to Soviet Union, 1955, photocopies of Executive Circulars, photocopy of the undated Brief of the Canadian Women's Press Club to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, ephemera, minutes, notes, mailing lists, photocopy of the C.W.P.C submission to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women dated April, 1968.

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Media Club of Canada: Canadian Women of Note Computerized

Correspondence, original and photocopies, minutes, list of names to be included. This was a project to build a computerized database of biographical information about notable Canadian women, for which the Media Club received a Grant from the Minister of National Health and Welfare. It was done in honour of International Women's Year.

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Ephemera

Two folded flyers dated 1965 and 1968 containing "a brief resume of the history of the C.W.P.C." Includes lists of Presidents from 1904-1968.

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Open Line

Incomplete set of issues dating 1976-1988 of Open Line, a newsletter for members put out [monthly?] by the Women's Press Club of Toronto.

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Who's Who: C.W.C.P.

An alphabetical tab-indexed scrapbook containing typescript biographies, photographs, and some signatures of members, by members. The photographs are notable for their candid nature. Unbound inclusions from the 1930's include a typescript obituaries and biographies for Mamie C. G. Fraser, Dora Olive Thompson, and Louis Rorke, as well as a "Memorandum" autographed by Marshall Saunders accompanying a typescript carbon list of first editions of her works.

Contributors and subjects in scrapbook:

  • Florence Deacon Black
  • Annie Grey Butcher
  • Hazel Cleaver
  • Myrtle Leeta Cherry
  • Emily Orr Elliott
  • Margaret Laing Fairbairn
  • Muriel Stevenson Folinsbee
  • Amelia Warnock Garvin (Katherine Hale)
  • Jean Graham
  • Bertha Foster Golder
  • Mrs. J. W. F. Harrison (Seranus)
  • Maude Pettit Hill
  • Mary Isabel Houston (Sinclair Dunlop - Isabel Letfern)
  • Kate Fleury Jaffray
  • Jane Fraser Keith
  • Jane Stuart Larrington
  • Florence Randal Livesay (Kilmeny)
  • Marjory MacMurchy
  • Mary Agnes Pease
  • Claire I. Prime
  • Mona Cleaver Purse (Mrs. Buylow - Polly Peele)
  • Mabel Crews Ringland, B.A. (Jack Thorne)
  • Louise Richardson Rorke
  • Marshall Saunders
  • Abbie Lyon Sharman (Lyon Sharman)
  • Bessie Stanbury
  • Virna Staunton Sheard
  • Florence B. Steiner
  • Mary Dawson Snider
  • Agnes Swinarton (Helen McFarlane)
  • Charlotte Miriam Storey (Kitty Hardcastle)
  • G. C. M. White [not photo included]

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