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University of Waterloo. Special Collections & Archives Series
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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.

Topical Files.

Series consists of folders and envelopes of material 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. Includes clippings, ephemera, ms. and ts. notes, etc.

Maines Pincock Family

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Operations: Waterloo Plant

Series consists of originals and photocopies, mostly "dept. files," detailing various operations in the Waterloo plant relating primarily to the production of alcohol. Includes applications, correspondence, declarations, ephemera, legal instruments, licenses, newsletters, permits, and photographs which document commercial feed stuffs registration from 1928-1953, distilling licenses, information about exports from the plant between 1887 to 1959, imports for re-distillation 1897-1942, label approval and registration doumentation from 1927-1941, also product evidence files all dating from ca. 1960, possibly used in a legal case, documenting the brands produced and exported in the early years of the twentierth century, accompanied by declarations by former employees.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Visual : Moving Images : Films

Series consists of 8mm and 16mm films accumulated by, and produced for the Grand River Conservation Authority. The majority of these films have been transferred to videocassette and DVD, which are also found in the GRCA fonds. Also contains masters and working prints of a number of films produced for the Grand River Conservation Authority by Summit Film Productions. These films depict scenes along the Lower, Mid and Upper Grand; dam construction outside Guelph, Ontario; GRCA conservation areas; and also contain footage of Grand River flooding.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Advertising

Series consists of advertising materials for Dominion and Uniroyal products. Includes print, radio and television ads as well as mockups.

Dominion Rubber Company

Employees.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the various newspaper and companies that make up the history of its operations. Contains materials relating to employees of the newspaper. Includes staff lists, staff party information, staff newsletters, etc.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence to and from John Herbert Brundage and includes letters written by him and published in newspapers. John Herbert has annotated much of the correspondence.

Herbert, John

About John Herbert

Series consists of materials about John Herbert, primarily clippings.

Herbert, John

Photographs

Series consists of photographs documenting the operations, products, events and personnel of Dominion Rubber and later Uniroyal.

Dominion Rubber Company

Short Stories

Series consists of manuscripts and typescripts of short stories by John Herbert.

Herbert, John

Executive Officers Files : Donald S. Sykes

Series consists of records accumulated and used by Donald S. Sykes in his role as secretary-treasurer and executive vice-president, finance and corporate relations. Includes correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and records of incorporation for Video-Q Systems, and other material.

Electrohome

Scrapbooks

Series consists of four scrapbooks containing press clippings, photographs, and ephemera relating to Carl A. Pollock and his activities as Electrohome president and chairman of the board of directors, his involvement in the community, and his personal life. One of the scrapbooks was presented to Pollock by the Canadian Manufacturers' Association in memory of his term as association president (1962-1963).

Electrohome

Negatives: K-W Record History

Series consists of negatives created by the K-W Record of the history of the newspapers and the companies which owned it. Contains approxamitely 2500 negatives.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Manuscripts and Research

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by John Rempel relating to his research, as well as manuscripts created by Rempel. Includes manuscripts of "Building with wood" and "A Primer on the construction and preservation of early buildings", correspondence, and research notes on various topics.

Rempel, John I.

Ratz family estate papers.

Material related to the estates of George Ratz, Clara E. Ratz and Elmer Ratz. Includes statements of accounts, correspondence, blueprints and legal documents.

Ratz Family

Sales and Marketing : Reports and Plans

Series consists of records relating to the sales and marketing activities of Electrohome, and in particular to Canadian consumer attitudes and patterns toward stereos, televisions, and other home electronics; and the company's corporate marketing policies and guidelines. Includes reports and accompanying material.

Electrohome

Ahrens family.

Series consists of material relating to the Charles A. Ahrens family, primarily photographs, genealogical and biographical information.

Schneider family

Bowlby Family

Series consists of materials relating to the history and genealogy of the extended Bowlby family. Includes information on the Bowlby, Sovereign, Murphy, and Powell families. Includes clippings, a family crest sample, correspondence, and genealogical notes on the families.

Clement Bowlby Family

Works by Rienzi Crusz : Announcements

Series is comprised of materials advertising and announcing works by Rienzi Crusz. Includes one announcement for "Elephant and ice" from a publisher's catalogue.

Crusz, Rienzi

Russell, Dorothy : Correspondence.

432 pieces of correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family. Includes letters to and from Dorothy Russell and Franklin Abram Schantz, and letters from Dorothy's husband Clarke Russell.

Schantz Russell Family

Clement Family

Series consists of materials relating to the history and genealogy of the extended Clement family. Includes information on the Clement, Pope, and Colquhoun families. Includes clippings, genealogical notes on the family, and ephemera.

Clement Bowlby Family

Activities

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by John Rempel relating to his professional and personal activities. Includes materials relating to LACAC and historic preservation and restoration as well as teaching materials created by Rempel while at Danforth Technical School.

Rempel, John I.

Advertising : Working Files : Furniture

Series consists of material used in the production of advertisements for furniture collections, mainly Deilcraft but also Trendholm, Flexsteel, and Electrohome. Includes photographs, negatives, transparencies, and other visual material, as well as final versions of the single-sheet advertisements, which were intended for insertion into a portfolio with other product literature.

Electrohome

Legal Documents

Series consists of documents of a legal and incorporative nature essential to the operation of the Muskoka Lakes Association as a legal entity. Includes the Association's constitution, letters patent, by-laws, and correspondence.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Ephemera

Series consists of ephemera including advertisements, business cards, calendars, labels, signs, stationery, trade cards, etc. which illustrate some aspect of Seagram history.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Proposals : Publications, Research

Series consists of material relating to proposals for research and publications prepared by Rienzi Crusz. Includes ms. and ts. drafts of proposals and other material.

Crusz, Rienzi

Burrett, Alida : Personal

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alida Burrett relating to her personal life and interests. Includes a CV, an essay written as a student and two copies of a student newspaper from when she attended Trent University.

Burrett, Alida and George

Administration : Flood Warning System

Series consists of materials relating to the planning and procedures and operation of the Grand River Conservation Authority Flood Warning System. Includes correspondence, reports, minutes of planning meetings, and flood warning messages and bulletins.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Exhibitions: Curator.

This series contains folders maintained by Nancy-Lou Patterson. For separately published and printed items relating to Nancy-Lou Patterson's exhibitions, see Series: Publications and Printed Items.

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Public Relations Manager's Files

Series consists of records accumulated and used by Robert Lovell in his role as Public Relations Manager (1963-1988). Includes mainly material relating to services provided by Electrohome for NASA at the John F. Kennedy Space Centre for the launch of the space shuttle Columbia on November 12, 1981: correspondence and memoranda, ms. notes, newsletters, advertising and promotional material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other material.

Series also includes records accumulated by Lovell in his role on the board of directors for Junior Achievement of Kitchener-Waterloo Inc.: agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence to board members, etc.

Electrohome

Trips

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to trips taken both for pleasure and for business. Includes materials from trips to Mexico, Nigeria and Yugoslavia including photographs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, etc.

Rex, Kay

Uniroyal World Junior Curling Championship

Series consists of materials relating to the Uniroyal world junior curling championship. Includes teem rosters, statistics, correspondence, etc. The championship was held in: East York, Ontario in 1975; Aviemore, Scotland in 1976; Quebec City, Quebec in 1977; Grindewald, Switzerland in 1978; Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1979; Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario in 1980; Megeve, France in 1981; Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1982; Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1983; Cornwall, Ontario in 1984.

Dominion Rubber Company

Seagram Family: Photographs.

Series consists of photographs of members of the Seagram family, MacLachlan Family, residences, horses and horse racing, and photographs of local sports teams which include a Seagram family member.

Seagram Family

Tire Sales

Series consists of materials relating to sales of Dominion and Uniroyal tires, primarily price guides as well as information sheets, sales manuals, and surveys of tire stores in Canada.

Dominion Rubber Company

Office Files

Series is comprised of files regarding the operations of RMS including salary records and employee lists; company organization and hierarchy; and industrial relations including the opening of an addition of RMS and an order for $1 million dollars worth of tire twisting machines. Series includes newspaper clippings, press releases, correspondence and office files.

Rubber Machinery Shops

Days of Terror

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Barbara Smucker relating to her work Days of Terror. Includes typescripts, research notes, reviews and more.

Smucker, Barbara

National

Series consists of materials relating to the national sales and ad club organizations including the Federation of Canadian Advertising and Sales Clubs and the Canadian Advertising and Sales Association. Also includes materials relating to other sales and ad clubs in Canada.

Kitchener Waterloo Sales and Ad Club

Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks created by Nazla L. Dane primarily documenting her activities and travels with the Business and Professional Women�s Club.

Dane, Nazla L.

Birth Control

Series consists of materials regarding birth control and other related maters. Includes newspaper clippings, articles, and ephemera.

Stopes, Marie

Operations : Vice-President Manufacturing : Irvin E. Weber

Material relating to the factory and its manufacturing operations, belonging to Irvin E. Weber. According to secondary sources, Irvin E. Weber joined Kaufman in 1945. His father, Irvin K. Weber, had worked at Kaufman for 52 years, starting in 1909. Some of the material in this series belonged to Irvin K. Weber and subsequently to his son Irvin E. Weber. Includes much material, such as the compound sheets, that would have originated in the Laboratory, but concerned with ingredients and costs rather than formulae and mixing. Includes correspondence, ephemera, invoices, notes, memoranda, and clippings.

Kaufman Footwear

Miscellaneous

Series consists of miscellaneous materials relating to the life and interests of the Pincock and Maines families and friends. Includes photographs, manuscript and typescript. notes and drafts, ephemera, etc.

Maines Pincock Family

Research

Series consists of materials used by Stanton for research, as well as research published and presented by Stanton. Includes ms. notes, articles, essays and information sheets on various mathematical concepts as well as ms. draft copies of chapters of books written by Stanton.

Stanton, Ralph G.

Field Notes

Series consists of material relating to field work conducted by Hynes in various locations throughout his career, including the British Isles, Africa, the British West Indies, Australia, and North America. Includes mainly notebooks and loose papers containing ms. and ts. field notes, most recorded by Hynes but some also recorded by research assistants or technicians. Notebooks include drawings, charts, graphs, maps, etc. Series also includes some ms. notes by Hynes from the scientific literature as well as a small amount of correspondence.

Hynes, H.B.N.

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

Nuclear Disarmament and Peace

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alida Burrett and George Burrett relating to their shared interest and work in nuclear disarmament. Includes materials on the topic from Voice of Women, federal publications, and notes. Also includes materials created and accumulated by George Burrett relating to the Waterloo Region Peace Network including Peace Network News, materials relating to the symphony for survival and to the peace caravan campaign.

Burrett, Alida and George

Photographs and realia.

Photographs and realia created and collected by Harry J. Byers. Includes coins and banknotes, photographs of Harry with family and friends and more. Most of the materials were created or collected during Harry's time in Russia.

Byers, Harry J.

Marcel Pequegnat : Personal

Series consists of material relating to the Marcel Pequegnat Scholarship established by the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation. Includes a letter to Pequegnat and an issue of the Grand River Conservation Authority's newsletter, On the Grand.

Pequegnat, Marcel

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

Amish Adventure

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Barbara Smucker relating to her work "Amish Adventure." Includes tss. and reviews.

Smucker, Barbara

White Mist

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Barbara Smucker relating to her work White Mist. Includes typescripts, a bibliography, research notes, and reviews.

Smucker, Barbara

Miscellaneous

Series is comprised of miscellaneous materials related to Alice Munro. The materials were created or accumulated by Walter Martin and Warren Ober for their research.

Martin, Walter R.

Personal, Biographical

Series consits of personal and biographical materials created and accumulated by members of the Reaman family. Includes one scrapbook, three valentine's cards, degrees and certificates.

Reaman, George Elmore

President's Files : Michael Vaughan

Series consists of the working files of Michael Vaughan containing material created, accumulated and used by Vaughan during his involvement with the MLA from 1969 to 1986. Records relate mainly to his role as member (1969-1975), vice-chair (1975-1977), chair (1977-1982), and past chair (1982-1984) of the Committee on Land Use, Taxation, and Highways; and as vice-president (1982-1984) and president (1984-1986) of the association.

Series also includes records relating to various other committees, issues, and events. The Committee on Land Use, Taxation, and Highways was responsible for examining and responding to town planning, development, and other land use issues in the Muskoka region. One of the developments of major concern during Vaughan's tenure as chair was a proposed resort at the Roseneath property on Beaumaris Island, and several files in this series relate to this issue.

Series includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, presentations, meeting agendas and minutes, handwritten and typed notes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, agreements, maps and plans, and other material.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Alcohol General: ephemera

Series consists of alcohol-related ephemera for which no direct Seagram connection is apparent, and includes an advertisement, bill of lading, charter, invoice from a Galt merchant, liquor permits, a temperance pledge card, prohibition ribbon, and wine lists.

Seagram Museum

Administration

Series consists of material relating to the administration of various aspects of Kaufman Rubber operations from 1927 to 1986. There are many gaps and the files are from several departments. Includes annual production reports from 1933 to 1955, sales reports from 1932-1964, records of special orders, government contracts, memoranda, and cost accounting information.

Kaufman Footwear

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

Videocassettes.

This series includes two videocassettes (copy 1 and copy 2). Each videocassette show the same film footage.They both include programs re the architectural history of Toronto shown on CBLT MORNING. Dendy was a regular contributor in the fields of architecture and architechtural history for CBLT MORNING between 1985-1986.

The first program (ca. 10 mins. in duration) is entitled "Lost Horizons" and focuses on the history of the development of high rise buildings in Toronto especially commercial architecture. Dendy provides extensive commentary during this program.

The second item (about 5-10 minutes in duration) forms part of a program re Wytchwood Park which also includes commentary by Dendy re the architectural history of this neighbourhood.

Dendy, William

Publications by Others

Series consists of published works authored by others. Also included are several reports by bodies with which Hynes was associated.

Hynes, H.B.N.

Dare Foods Limited : Builders and Boosters

Series consists of one copy of the book Builders and Boosters, Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, 100th Anniversary, 1886-1986. The book was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce. The book includes information on S. Merner and C.H. Doerr.

Dare Foods Limited

Publicity : Press Kits

Series consists of press kits prepared by Public Relations Manager Robert Lovell, relating to the introduction of new products and product lines, furniture shows, and other exhibitions and events. Press kits contain news releases, photographs, typed cutlines, product literature, etc.

Electrohome

Office and Operations Files : General

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the various newspaper and companies that make up the history of its operations. Contains office and operations files from the Record. Includes clippings, advertisements, surveys, inventories, ephemera, correspondence, etc.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Speeches, Presentations, Conferences

Series consists of material relating to speeches and presentations given by Rienzi Crusz and conferences attended by Crusz. Includes ms. and ts. speech drafts, ms. and ts. notes, and ephemera.

Crusz, Rienzi

Awards and Activities

Series consists of material relating to awards received by Rienzi Crusz and his involvement as a judge for literary awards. Includes ms. note, ephemera, clippings, and other material.

Crusz, Rienzi

Business and Financial

Series consists of material relating to the business and financial affairs of Rienzi Crusz. Includes receipts, invoices, agreements, and other material.

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

Annual Meetings and Committee Minutes

Series consists of records relating to the administration and activities of the Muskoka Lakes Association, and in particular the annual meetings, meetings of the executive committee, and meetings of association directors. The records demonstrate the concern for and activity surrounding the MLA's involvement in issues affecting the environment and the quality of life in the Muskokas and address such topics as water quality, acid rain, planning and land use, water levels, taxation, etc. Series includes minutes for the annual meeting of the MLA (1894-1947), meetings of the executive committee (1972-1980), and meetings of association directors (1980-1986), as well as attachments and supporting documents including agendas, financial statements, budgets, association newsletters, correspondence, lists of board members, reports, surveys and questionnaires, minutes of board sub-committees, ephemera, photocopied clippings, etc.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Visual : Slides : Donations : Violet Fair Collection

Series consists of slides donated to the GRCA by Violet Fair: Ontario badlands (5); Wilkes Dam sunsets (21); other Wilkes Dam area snapshots (22); other Grand River snaps in Brantford Area (46); Grand River in Glen Morris area (4); Grand River watershed areas (54); photo essay: "A dam for all seasons" (34); large trees in Grand River watershed (20); Elmira Sugar Festival, 1970 (9); Kitchener Farmer's Market, 1972 (20).

Grand River Conservation Authority

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