Personal business, 1940-1942 : S.
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- 1940-1942
Part of Sims Family collection.
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Personal business, 1940-1942 : S.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Sims family
Part of Sims Family collection.
Correspondents include Donald J. MacDonald from London, Ontario, Minnie O'Hara Maines on behalf of the Local Council of Women of Kitchener, and M.P. Johnson, secretary, on behalf Albert Edward Matthews, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, all addressing Harvey as Col. Sims and thanking him for his hospitality. Arthur R. Mortimer, Dept. of National Defence, responds to Harvey's letter of congratulations on his promotion. Violet Martin from Kennebunk Beach, Maine, regrets not being able to meet at Regina as her husband has cancer, and Harvey asks Bruce Matson in 1933 about obtaining prints of the photographs the latter took of Chicopee, some of which were published.
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Personal business, 1940-1942 : C.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Sims family
Personal business, 1940-1942 : M.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Sims family
Part of Sims Family collection.
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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Sims, Harvey J. to Kenneth Sims.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from Harvey J. Sims dated January 25, 1945, Delray Beach, Florida to his son Kenneth, urging him to come to Florida for the month of April, which he has already booked and paid for. He needs Kenneth to let him know definitely.
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Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from Francis Alexander Anglin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario, dated July 2, 1945 to Kenneth Sims, with sympathy on the death of his father Harvey J. Sims.
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Part of Sims Family collection.
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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Correspondence between Harvey J. Sims, Arthur Forbes Nicol, and families.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Letters (approximately 16) between members of the Arthur Forbes Nicol and Harvey J. Sims families from 1928 to 1941. Harvey J. Sim's wife Florence Katherine Roos and Arthur F. Nicol's wife Florence Helen Kempt were first cousins: their mothers were sisters Elizabeth and Margaret Davidson. Letters concern mutual interests, politics and family.
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King, William Lyon Mackenzie to Kenneth Sims.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to J. Kenneth Sims dated September 22, 1947, thanking Kenneth for having him to tea at Chicopee. He mentions the library and says of Harvey J. Sims, who had died two years previously, "I am glad to think that he now knows that I have seen it." He also mentions preservation of Woodside. Salutation and signature in Mackenzie King's handwriting.
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Sharpe, Nellie to Kenneth Sims.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from Nellie Sharpe, dated March 28, 1948 Winnipeg, Manitoba, thanking Kenneth for writing with information about Rella. Very difficult handwriting.
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Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from Adam Strohm dated October 21, 1949, Kensington, MD, reporting to Kenneth Sims that Fred Burden had died "two weeks ago" at the age of 86.
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Kempt, Nigel to Mabel and Kenneth Sims.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from Nigel Kempt, cousin of Kenneth Sims, dated January 6, 1950, thanking Mabel and Kenneth Sims for the "lovely piece of beef" sent at Christmas. "New Year is usually rather a wearisome time with us as our staff always have to get off, leaving us to feed the hens & do the cooking and so on."
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Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from E.G. Barrie dated June 18, 1951, Kitchener, to Mabel Sims, thanking her for taking care of table arrangements for an annual celebration, possible of the Chicopee Tennis Club. The letter is written on The Barrie Glove & Knitting Co. Limited, Kitchener, Ontario letterhead with a drawing of the factory.
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Goldsworthy, Manette to Mabel Sims.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from Manette Goldsworthy dated August 25, 1953, Kitchener asking Mabel Sims for a loan.
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Letters to Mabel and Kenneth Sims on the death of William Harvey Sims.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Letters from Elizabeth dated January 10, 1953[sic], Winnipeg; from Sophia and Dick in Guelph , undated, and from Gay Estill Sims, January 10, 1954, Washington D.C , with sympathy on the death of William Harvey Sims who had died on January 7.
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Part of Sims Family collection.
Letter from Ed Knorr, Secretary Treasurer of the Woelfle Shoe Co., dated January 14, 1955, informing Kenneth Sims that the board of directors of the company had passed a resolution at the annual meeting of May 4, 1954 on the death of William Sims, to be recorded in the minutes.
Sims family
The Sims family collection encompasses records of the Sims and Cook, Davidson and Garden families retained by members of the two family branches that came together when Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos married in 1902. Their Sims and Davidson forbears were equally significant in the history of the Waterloo-Wellington area and in the growth and development of agriculture, education, business and government. Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos were deeply involved in their local community of Berlin, (later Kitchener) Ontario and their own records contain significant additions to our knowledge of local personalities and affairs. Harvey was a childhood and lifelong friend of William Lyon Mackenzie King; they wrote and visited each other regularly. King's sister Bella was also a close friend of Florence from school days on.
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