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The Voice.

Three wartime issues of The Voice, an in-house Schneider's publication, belonging to Norman C. Schneider.

  • "Army week" issue of The Voice (June 29-July 4, 1942) containing portraits of employee enlistees.
  • Fall 1943 issue of The Voice with portraits of further employee enlistees. The issue also includes a reproduction of the Pope-Hartford car, a picture of the packages ready to be mailed to Schneider employees in the forces, and a picture of the company office in the new building.
  • June 1944 issue of The Voice with portraits of further employee enlistees and letters from overseas. The issue also includes an announcement of the 25-Year Club inauguration, fourth annual concert of the Schneider Male Choir, new pension plan, and an article and reproduced clipping from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record about Ethel Schneider's Red Cross work.

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Letters to servicemen, 1942-1945.

Seven returned envelopes marked with reasons for no delivery to Schneider employees in the forces in World War II. Six of the envelopes contain mimeograph letters signed by Norman C. Schneider, Cyril E. Hayes and E.J. "Jack" Stone.

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World War II : ephemera.

Printed material relating to service in WWII. Includes pamphlets published by Gutta Percha & Rubber Lts. of medals and insignia, as well as a portfolio of reproductions of the documents of surrender, no. 1603 of a limited edition "presented by the National War Finance Committee."

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Welcome home dinner for ex-service personnel.

Material belonging to Norman C. Schneider relating to the welcome home dinner given to ex-service personnel at the Walper House, December 4, 1946. Includes carbon typescript programme with manuscript notes by Schneider, a page of manuscript speech notes and a 2 page manuscript speech given by Schneider.

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Employees in service.

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

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Employee picnics : women's picnic.

Negatives taken at a women's Schneider employee picnic. Includes informal shots of games being played and the group seated for a meal. Irmengarde Hagen appears in two of the nail drive photos (#7 and 9).

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Employee picnics : women's picnic.

Negatives taken at a women's Schneider employee picnic. Includes group portraits, informal shots, and games like baseball being played. Irmengarde Hagen appears in several of the photos.

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Employee picnics : women's picnic.

Group portrait of women Schneider employees posed outdoors. Lillian Daniels is standing fourth from left, partially hidden, and Irmengarde Hagen is seated second from right.

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Employee picnics : men's picnic.

Negatives taken at a men's Schneider employee picnic in 1939. Attendees are seen seated in groups on a grassy slope. Includes a shot of a group standing and looking at something off camera.

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Schneider Male Chorus : Ottawa.

One group portrait of the Schneider Male Chorus taken on the steps of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario. The group is seen smiling at the camera, dressed in their performance suits. Norman C. Schneider is standing in the front row, at the extreme right, holding a jacket a hat.

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Schneider Male Chorus.

One group portrait one enlarged and mounted, one printed as a snapshot. Note on mount : Schneider's Koral Klub, 1939. Includes four negatives of two group portraits, one taken inside the Church of the Good Shepherd, and one taken outside.

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Office staff.

One photograph of Irmengarde Hagen, Norman C. Schneider's secretary, smiling toward the camera while making an entry in a ledger.

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Office staff.

Negatives of groups of staff, including J.M. Schneider, taken at the offices of J.M. Schneider.

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Office staff.

Negatives of Harry Schmidt and Irmengarde Hagen at the J.M. Schneider office. Also includes one negative of the fountain at the J.M. Schneider home, mentioned elsewhere.

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Office staff.

Image of office staff, all men, seated at desks in front of typewriters and turned toward camera.

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Office staff.

Image of office staff, all men, seated the length of tables working, some with calculators.

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Office staff.

Image of office staff, five men and one woman, seated at desks, turned toward camera.

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Office staff.

Four snapshots of pairs of husbands and wives employed at Schneiders and three snapshots of employees working in the office, most identified. Couples include: Cyril and Mrs. Hayes, Harry and Mrs. Schmidt, Norman C. and Ethel Schneider, and Charlie and Mrs Thurlow.

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J.M. Schneider 25 Year Club.

Group portrait of the Schneider's 25 Year Club. Norman C. Schneider (far left) and Frederick H. Schneider (far right) are standing in the back row, and Irmengarde Hagen (left) and Lillian Daniels (right) are standing at centre in the second row.

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Female staff.

One large group portrait of women staff at J.M. Schneiders, taken outside of the plant. Subjects unidentified. Irmengarde Hagen (9th from left) and Lillian Daniels (centre) appear in front row.

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Female office staff.

Informal group portrait of six office staff employees. Lillian Daniels is standing at left and Irmengarde Hagen seated at left.

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Employee picnics : men's picnic.

Six snapshots taken at men's Schneider employee picnic. Includes photos of attendees in white paper hats eating and conversing, and photos of entertainers at the event.

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J.M. Schneider Inc. : Employees : photographs

Subseries consists of photographs of J.M. Schneider Inc employees taking part in social activities and working at the company office. Includes photos of the Schneider Male Chorus while on tour in and outside of Canada.

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Small, J.D.

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

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Schneider Male Choir.

Three clippings regarding the Schneider Male Choir. One about the 1965 trip to Bermuda and two about the death of choir director Paul Berg.

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Employee picnic.

Employee signatures on a "thank-you" document dated July 30, 1934 regarding an employee picnic that gook place on July 28, 1934.

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Clippings.

Clipping of a picture of a group of Schneider's workers, taken in 1924, published in the company newsletter in the late 1940's.

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J.M. Schneider new plant.

Negatives 1925 New plant: exterior loading rail car with Wiltshire sides; power house equipment; truck out back; pigs in pen; coal burner power house equipment; Pork Cut dept.; construction of plant 1924; pigs and lambs entering pens; J.M. Schneider’s Men's Picnic "Popeyes".

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J.M. Schneider plant.

Ten snapshots of the exterior of the Schneider plant on Courtland Avenue in Kitchener, Ontario likely taken by Norman C. Schneider. These are part of a series, numbered on the verso: 1-5, 7-8, 11, 13-14. They include the views of Schneider sign, bicycle and vehicle parking areas, the doorway to the general offices, and a view of the plant taken from a distance.

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J.M. Schneider plant.

Publicity photographs (one exterior and seven interior) taken in 1925 by Brigden's Ltd. after completion of the plant:

  1. Exterior: the home of Schneider quality products;
  2. Section of the general office;
  3. Section of finished stock-room and slicing department;
  4. Section of our new sausage kitchens showing roasting ovens;
  5. Bacon slicing department;
  6. Roasting kitchens;
  7. Section of our shipping department.

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J.M. Schneider, Inc.

One photograph album featuring snapshots taken by Norman C. Schneider of J.M. Schneider, Inc. Includes snapshots of the first abattoir behind J.M.'s home, construction progress photographs, 1924, news clippings, Frank Waechter's first homemade electric cattle goad. Includes clippings from 1927 and 1931.

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J.M. Schneider original plant at 63 Courtland Ave. E.

One modern print of a photograph taken by Norman Schneider in 1912. The photograph shows the exterior of the original Schneider plant on Courtland Ave. It includes 11 adults posed standing and two seated at various point along the front of the building. A child is visible at right looking on. John Metz Schneider is standing fourth from left, in partial profile, wearing a hat.

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Vehicles.

Two photographs of a Schneiders Meats truck outside of a brick building.

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Filling the ice house.

One modern print of a photograph taken by Norman Schneider ca. 1910. The photograph shows the exterior of the "Ice House" with a horse-drawn ice wagon being loaded with ice by three unidentified people.

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Vehicles.

Photograph of cars parked in a row along a large pile of earth with Schneider's factory in background.

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Vehicles.

Photograph of a Schneider's truck in a parade with a costumed individual, dressed as J.M. Schneider, sitting on the wheel cover.

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Vehicles.

Ten snapshots in a paper jacket from the processor. Photos are of a parade (one float says Happy Birthday Waterloo 1957) and of the Schneider's float outside the plant.

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Vehicles

1936 truck parade. Negatives of 1968 parade of Schneiders trucks. Note on envelope by Norman C. Schneider : "Truck parade - big ham, pig on truck."

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Vehicles.

Negative by Norman C. Schneider of Sam Humphrey with truck after hitting 100,000 miles.

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Vehicles.

Refrigerated truck. Note on envelope by Norman C. Schneider : "Best film of Reo Truck."

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Vehicles.

Modern prints of a photograph taken by Norman C. Schneider of the first Schneider truck called the "Brantford truck." Elsewhere in the collection it is tentatively dated at 1912 but in a speech Norman Schneider indicates that it was manufactured in Brantford ca. 1914.

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Toronto Stock Exchange.

One photograph taken at the Toronto Stock Exchange on the occasion of J.M. Schneider Ltd. shares being listed.
Left to right: Herbert J. Schneider, Fred P. Schneider, J.R. Kimber, N.C. Schneider, Howard G. Schneider.

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Television commercial.

Stills from a television commercial in French. Note on file: first J.M. Schneider film : French TV commercials, Friday June 26, 1981, Henry Bergen.

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J.M. Schneider : shop addition.

One photograph of the J.M. Schneider addition built in 1909 with four adults in white aprons standing on the front porch and steps. From left to right: [Charles Alexander], [?], [?] and Norman.

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Shipping.

First shipment of Schneider meats from Waterloo-Wellington Airport. Left to right: N.C. Schneider, Carman Brunk, Clifford E. Brownell of Brownell Foods Co., Buffalo, N.Y., plane "Ryan Havion".

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Shipping.

Photograph of Beaver Brand Wiltshire cut bacon packages piled on skids.

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J.M. Schneider : first shop.

One photograph showing J.M. Schneider and Charles Schneider standing on the outside front steps of the "first shop". A free-standing sign is visible with "J.M. Schneider" painted on it; J.M. Schneider is leaning against a large lantern on a pole.

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Clippings.

"J.M. Schneider and Sons conduct packing plant," Financial Post, Apr. 17, 1930.

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Clippings.

"Development of pork packing industry by Schneider romantic," [by] J.P. Jaffray.

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Articles.

"making it better ... and better," by Douglas W. Dodds. CMA Magazine (Feb. 1992): 16-21, ill.

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Articles.

"Bouncing back," by John Harris. Exchange 9, no. 5 (Feb. 1992): 22-35, ill.

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Union : strike.

Photocopy of clippings from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, June 1985 about the first strike by Schneider employees.

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Schneider Corporation sale.

Clippings relating to the sale of the Schneider Corporation to Smithfield. Includes material about Maple Leaf and about plants undergoing sale and re-structuring. Includes background material on McCain dated 1994.

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Guinness Book of World Records.

"Sausage," Guiness Book of Records 1996, p. 213: reference to the longest sausage created by M&M Meat Shops in partnership with J.M. Schneider Inc., Apr. 28-29, 1995.

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Recipes.

Philadelphia scrapple, Ed Henhoeffer's summer sausage; G.W. Neil of Chicago's dry sausage, and pan haus. Pan haus results are dated March 1931.

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Articles.

"The company that J.M. built", by Peter Grainger. Excellence 1, no. 3 (Fall 1984): 5, 11, ill.

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