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Organizational and Administrative Files

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Rotary Club of Kitchener during the course of the day to day operations, meeting and projects of the club. Includes minutes, financial and legal documents, information on projects, membership proposals, and other materials created for club members.

Rotary Club of Kitchener

Uniform insignia and personal gear.

Uniform insignia and personal gear that was issued to or accumulated by Cameron Hill during the Second World War. Includes insignia badges, uniform buttons, a haversack as well as personal equipment such as a helmet, mess tin, compass, and other related material.

Hill, Cameron Clare

Administration : Financial Files

Series consists of financial reports for Electrohome and the various segments or groups within the company as well as some subsidiaries (Robotel and Fakespace). Reports cover the years 1985-1989 and 1991-2000, and some reports include memoranda to the board of directors. Some of the records probably belonged to J.G. Gingerich, vice-president, finance, and later corporate controller, and then chief financial officer and treasurer.

Electrohome

Teaching

Series consists of materials created or accumulated by Stan Johannesen during the course of his teaching career. Includes syllabi for courses taught at University of Waterloo, a discussion paper regarding the History department’s undergraduate curriculum at University of Waterloo and a course description with discussion questions copies of readings for a continuing education course at Wilfred Laurier University.

Johannesen, S.K.

Professional Life and Writing

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Jane Urquhart relating to her professional commitments and writing. Includes handwritten and typed drafts of many of Urquhart's works, research for her works, as well as material relating to other professional commitments including prize judging, readings, etc.

Urquhart, Jane

Ephemera

Series is comprised of ephemera created and accumulated by the George Pattinson Woollen Mill and its predecessors. Includes an architect contract, coal analysis slips and a clipping.

George Pattinson Woollen Mill

Consulting and Advisory Files

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by James Downey relating to his consulting and advisory work for universities and organization. Also includes consulting and advisory done by others. Includes reports, correspondence, ephemera, etc.

Downey, James

Tire Production

Series consists of materials relating tire production, both in general and at the Dominion Tire plant in Kitchener. Includes production data, tire history, information on tire machinery, etc.

Dominion Rubber Company

Visual Materials

Series consists of photographs of members of the extended Bowlby and Boyd families.

Bowlby Boyd Family

Miscellaneous

Series consists of miscellaneous materials created and accumulated by Claire Wallace. Includes notes, scripts, articles and ephemera.

Wallace, Claire

Berlin Water Works Company

Series consists of records relating to the operation and activities of the Berlin Water Works Company and the sale of the company to the Corporation of the Town of Berlin. Includes correspondence, reports, contracts and other legal documents, architectural drawings, and other material.

Pequegnat, Marcel

Charles E. Greb : Ontario Summer Games

Series consists of material relating to the Ontario Summer Games, held in Waterloo on August 26-29, 1977, and also includes some material relating to the City of Waterloo's bid to host the 1981 Canada Summer Games. Includes press clippings, scrapbooks, ephemera, promotional material, correspondence, and other material. Charles E. Greb was Chairman of the Ontario Summer Games committee from 1975-1977, and in this role also sat on the Canada Summer Games bid submission committee.

Greb, Charles E. family

Schmalz, W.H.E.

Series comprises materials created by W.H.E. Schmalz, primarily when he was a student at RMC and during his professional life. Includes maps, drawings, paintings and architectural plans.

Schmalz, W.H.E.

Files of Gordon Couling

Series consists of records kept by Gordon Couling, charter member and first chair of the teachers' council executive, relating to the formation, administration, and activities of the COAA, mainly for the period from 1953 to 1960. Includes yearly files kept by Couling documenting the administration and activities of the association, as well as Couling's files relating to the annual Leader's Institute at the Macdonald Insitute in Guelph, offered by the Community Programs Branch of the Ontario Department of Education. Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, exhibitors' lists, flyers and programs, course outlines and resource lists, course notes and handouts, forms and surveys, lists of student participants, and other material.

Couling, Gordon

Photographs.

Photographs of members of the Augustine and Kaufman families of Kitchener, Ontario and of the Ham family of Toronto, Ontario.

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

Photographs.

Three group portraits featuring members of the Augustine, Kaufman, Breithaupt, and Greb families.

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

Professional

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt documenting her professional life. Includes primarily manuscripts, as well as materials relating to the publication and review of her works.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

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.

Parents' Information Bureau : Financial Records

Series consists of material relating to accounting and financial affairs of the Parents' Information Bureau, Ltd. in Kitchener, Ontario. Includes accounting records, shre certificates, tax returns and year end files. Includes information about the Toronto Clinic as well.

Parents' Information Bureau

Medical career

Series consists of records pertaining to Leavine's medical training and career, including his study schedule at Queen's, an article submitted to the British Medical Journal, and news clippings regarding hospital patients he attended to in Kitchener, Ontario.

Leavine, Stanley Francis

Burrett, Alida : Women's Rights

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alida Burrett relating to her interest and work in women's rights. Includes materials from the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, material created as part of Alida's work with the Kitchener-Waterloo Status of Women Group and miscellaneous materials. Contents include memos, handouts, minutes, correspondence, notes, agendas, speeches, ephemera and more.

Burrett, Alida and George

Professional Organizations

Materials relating to professional organizations of which Mary Johnston was a part. These include the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association, the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, Association of Catholic Principals, North Waterloo Federation of Women Teachers, the North Waterloo Teachers Institute and the organization for Women in Education Administration.

Johnston, Mary

Personal.

Contents: series consists of materials relating to the personal life of Anne Innis Dagg. Includes correspondence, childhood records, journals, materials relating to her family and more.

Dagg, Anne Innis

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

Rieder, Peter family.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Peter Rieder and his family. Includes a mid nineteenth century scrapbook, correspondence, and ephemera.

Rieder, Peter

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

Publications.

Published materials associated with events and projects organized and co-organized by the Carold Institute. Includes brochures, booklets, ephemera, publications, and digital files related to different events.

Carold Institute

Research

Research files for Michael Bird, including his research on folk art, fraktur, religious iconography, film, and more.

Bird, Michael

Book reviews, documentaries, and speeches.

Materials created or accumulated by Lydia Dotto as part of her professional life as an author, public speaker, and journalist. Includes book reviews for Dotto's books in different media; articles about Dotto; speeches given by Dotto at different events; awards received by Dotto; and video documentaries in which Dotto participated, collaborated, or accumulated for research purposes.
Also contains related correspondence, photographs, and research notes.

Also includes Dotto's thesis for the Master's Degree Honours in Journalism from the School of Journalism at Carleton University. And a calendar for the year 1987 with the topic "Canada in Space."

Dotto, Lydia

Organization and Administration

Series consists of records concerning the organizational structure and functions of the Grand River Conservation Authority and its predecessors, the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes lists of organization members.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Bowman, Hervey M.

Material created and accumulated by Hervey M. Bowman. Includes notebooks, ephemera, correspondence, etc.

Bowman family

William J. Hopp

Series consists of material accumulated by William J. Hopp in his role as a baker and plant supervisor at the Dare Company.

Includes material relating to correspondence courses, conferences, and research activities of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company of Chicago; recipe books containing cookie and cracker formulae used at Dare and possibly other companies (Perrin's Forest City Confectionery and Biscuit Works in London Ontario, Paulin-Chambers Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba); and material relating to the ingredients and manufacture of cookies and crackers.

Includes lessons and manuals, bulletins, correspondence, recipe books, research reports, article reprints, conference programs, catalogues and brochures, and other material.

Dare Foods Limited

Ephemera and Artefacts

Series consists of ephemera and artefacts created by Dare Foods Ltd. Includes programmes, cards, invitations, a ruler, and more.

Dare Foods Limited

Manufacturing.

Materials created by Electrohome Limited and its predecessors relating to the manufacturing processes and products made at the factories. Includes technical drawings, notes, parts lists, service manuals, and more.

Electrohome

Gofton, Alfred S.

Series consists of material relating to Alfred S. Gofton family. Includes correspondence, World War I ephemera, certificates and artifacts, one piece of J.M. Schneider ephemera, genealogical information about the Braun family and the will of Elizabeth Schneider.

Schneider family

Glen Lawrence School

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by G. Elmore Reaman relating to the Glen Lawrence School which he helped found. Includes clippings, yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, and artifacts.

Reaman, George Elmore

Scrapbooks.

Two scrapbooks containing correspondence, press clippings, ephemera, and photographs related to the Forbes family. The scrapbooks were likely created by Betty Forbes.

Forbes, Betty

Meetings.

This series contains meeting agendas and minutes, Board of Director's reports, and Presidential addresses, as well as other supporting documents relating to the meetings of the teachers' organizations of which Mary Johnston was a member. These include the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, the Ontario Teachers' Federation, the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association. These meetings include annual member meetings, executive meetings, committee meetings, and meetings of the North Unit of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

Johnston, Mary

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.

Seagram Family: Biographical

Series consists of clippings, correspondence, ephemera, essays, a genealogical chart, obituaries, etc. relating to the lives, interests and activities of Seagram family members and their place in community, political and social spheres from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Seagram Family

Publications

Series consists of materials published by the Walter Bean Grand River Community Trails Foundation, or related to the Walter Bean Trail. Includes brochures, studies, and newsletters.

Walter Bean Grand River Community Trails Foundation

Urban Wildlife Papers Correspondence

Series consists of material relating to Anne Innis Dagg's research on urban wildlife. Includes correspondence, minutes and agendas, memoranda, typescripts and offprints.

Dagg, Anne Innis

Photographs.

Photographs of the extended Schantz family, as well as friends and dwellings. Includes one snapshot of an unidentified family group.

Schantz Russell Family

Correspondence.

282 pieces of correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family and friends, including Moyer, Nash, Kolb and Russell relatives.

Schantz Russell Family

Kaufman, A.R. : Personal Files

Series consists of fragmentary files maintained by A.R Kaufman relating to his personal life and interests. Includes an address book, correspondence, records of awards and honours received, and a report written by him as outgoing president of the YMCA ca. 1921 summarizing two years of re-organization. Arranged alphabetically.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Business Files

Series consists of a small amount of material belonging to William Kaufman, relating to Kaufman Furniture Ltd. in Collingwood, Ont. and Kaufman Footwear in Kitchener, Ont. Includes biographical and topical information, agreements, clippings, correspondence, drafts, notes, reports, etc. Arranged alphabetically.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Schantz Russell family history.

Records related to the Schantz Russell family history. Includes ephemera, drawings, a floor plan of the Schantz family home in Kitchener, Ont., correspondence and family histories written by Harold Russell.

Schantz Russell Family

Correspondence

Twenty-two letters received by E.M. Catley. Correspondents include Nellie McClung (2 letters), Laura Goodman Salverson, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts. Most are in response to correspondence from Catley about her writing, with personal updates included throughout.

Catley, Elaine Maud

Ratz Brothers business estate.

Series contains materials relating to the estate of Ratz Brothers Business, mostly pertaining to the work of John and George Ratz. Includes correspondence, tax records, receipts and invoices, cheques, ledger books, land deeds and legal documents.

Ratz Family

University of Waterloo : employment and professional files.

Records documenting Donald Cowan's activities at the University of Waterloo as a faculty member and administrator in the Department of Computer Science, including his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Applied Analysis and Computer Science. These files also document Donald Cowan's involvement in groups such as the National Research Council of Canada Grant Selection Committee, Centre for Information Technology for the Environment (CITE) as well as the Institute for Computer Studies and the University of Waterloo’s alliance partnership. Includes correspondence, reports, articles, computer printouts, conference materials, notes, grant proposals, and other items.

Cowan, Donald D.

The Lang Tanning Company, Ltd. photograph album.

Series consists of a collection of photographs originally contained in a photograph album created to showcase the activities of The Lang Tanning Company Limited. It tells the story of a three generation manufacturing company and depicts several steps in the leather tanning process. Each photo includes a typed caption indicating what is captured in the corresponding image. Employees, predominantly white men, appear throughout though a small number or photos include white women at work on various stages of leather processing. No employee identifications are included.

Lang Tanning Company, Ltd.

Administration : Chairman's Files : Wm. Philip

Series consists of William A. Philip's files accumulated and maintained primarily during his tenure as Chairman of the Grand River Conservation Commission, and relating to its operations and activities. Includes correspondence (some legal), minutes, reports, ms. notes, plans etc., concerning land acquisition, dam projects, reforestation, flood control, agreements and relations with federal and provincial governments.

Grand River Conservation Commission

Career

Series consists of material documenting Ross Dixon's search for employment and his career up until the time he began working at the Dominion Rubber Company, and includes material from his time at Toronto Radio & Sports, Research Enterprises Limited, Otaco Limited, and other companies.

Series also includes material documenting his professional activities and associations from throughout his career, such as his involvement with the Industrial Accident Prevention Association, the Grand Valley Personnel Association, the Canadian Public Relations Society, and the Canadian Manufacturers' Association.

Series includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, forms, manuals, brochures, certificates, financial statements, agendas, handwritten notes, resumes, ephemera, and other material.

Dixon, Ross

Research

Series consists of material relating to research conducted by Hynes for various projects throughout his career. Includes ms. and ts. notes taken by Hynes from the scientific literature; reports by Hynes and other researchers; correspondence; several draft papers by Hynes; drawings, charts, and maps; and note cards.

Hynes, H.B.N.

Employment.

Series consists of materials relating to Jerzy Pindera's time employed as both a professor and a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Includes primarily correspondence and memos.

Pindera, Jerzy Tadeusz

The Kaufman Rubber Company Ltd. : Time Books

File consists of time books for the factory office and industrial engineering department kept by Gordon Good while he was an employee at Kaufman Rubber. Includes time books for the years 1931-1971.

Good, Gordon

Interests and Activities.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Robert Dorney relating to his interests and activities that were not part of his teaching career or work with Ecoplans Ltd.

Dorney, Robert

Family Information Sheets : Questionnaires and Data

Series consists of questionnaires and other data collected from descendants and other informants about families. It is arranged alphabetically by family name of the Petworth emigrant with the name of the correspondent(s) also noted in the file title. These files contain correspondence to and from Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude and Brenda Dougall Merriman, as well as questionnaires and photocopies from sources containing information about individuals or families.

The Jackman Foundation

Historical Records.

Series consists of historical records accumulated by the Hobson family relating to the history of Kitchener-Waterloo. Includes newspaper clippings and sections, special publications and prints.

Hobson Family

Correspondence to Eric P. McCormack.

This series includes correspondence to Eric McCormack in the form of letters, faxes, and a few e-mail print-outs. Also includes some supporting documents including news clippings, application forms, grant agreements, press releases, typed literary biographies, handwritten notes, typed copies of book reviews written by Eric McCormack, and ephemera. This includes correspondence conducted by Eric McCormack with his publishers as well as with the editors of literary journals and anthologies to which this author has contributed his work.

Some of this correspondence was conducted with other authors, poets, and artists regarding Eric McCormack's works or their own work. Also contains correspondence with the organizers of conferences, workshops, readings/lecture series, literary festivals and other literary events in which Eric McCormack took part. Some correspondence relates to reviews of Eric McCormack's works, while other correspondence relates to reviews of other peoples' works written by him primarily for The Globe and Mail.

Additional correspondence relates to literary competitions in which Eric McCormack was invited to be an adjudicator. Applications for grants from the Canadian government, literary awards won by this author, requests for permission to reproduce Eric McCormack's works of fiction, as well as praise for this author's works from fans, form the subjects of other correspondence.

Note that the large majority of correspondence in this series consists of correspondence received by Eric McCormack, which was subsequently divided into titled folders by him. A small amount of the correspondence in this series was sent by Eric McCormack.

There is much overlap in terms of themes and correspondents between series 2.1 and series 2.2 and in some cases where the topic or matter being addressed in correspondence in one file is unclear, this is often clarified by reference to other files where the same topic forms the subject of the correspondence.

McCormack, Eric P.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Incorporation and Ownership.

Series consists of originals and photocopies of documents which help delineate the history of ownership and incorporation of the company, particularly its beginning, its incorporation in 1911, and its change of ownership in 1928. Included here are abstracts of title from the Registry Offfice for transactions from the 1850's to the 1920's, agreements, by-laws, letters patent and, stock certificates.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence between John Herbert and others regarding his plays and the production of the film "Fortune and men's eyes". The correspondence date from 1967 to 2000. There are also two coloured photographs with two of the letters.

Herbert, John

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Operations: General

Series consists of originals and photocopies of several items which relate to Seagram Co. operations at a level beyond the Waterloo plant. Included is a weekly time book from the Amhersburg plant dated 1928, plot plans and organization charts from several other distilleries owned by the company.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Correspondence : Published

Series consists of items of correspondence between John Herbert and others that have been published.

Herbert, John

Correspondence From Eric P. McCormack.

This series includes correspondence from Eric McCormack in the form of letters, faxes, and a few e-mail print-outs. Also includes some supporting documents including news clippings, application forms, grant agreements, press releases, typed literary biographies, handwritten notes, typed copies of book reviews written by Eric McCormack, and ephemera. This includes correspondence conducted by Eric McCormack with his publishers as well as with the editors of literary journals and anthologies to which this author has contributed his work.

Some of this correspondence was conducted with other authors, poets, and artists regarding Eric McCormack's works or their own work. Also contains correspondence with the organizers of conferences, workshops, readings/lecture series, literary festivals and other literary events in which Eric McCormack took part. Some correspondence relates to reviews of Eric McCormack's works, while other correspondence relates to reviews of other peoples' works written by him primarily for The Globe and Mail.

Additional correspondence relates to literary competitions in which Eric McCormack was invited to be an adjudicator. Applications for grants from the Canadian government, literary awards won by this author, requests for permission to reproduce Eric McCormack's works of fiction, as well as praise for this author's works from fans, form the subjects of other correspondence.

There is much overlap in terms of themes and correspondents between series 2.1 and series 2.2 and in some cases where the topic or matter being addressed in correspondence in one file is unclear, this is often clarified by reference to other files where the same topic forms the subject of the correspondence.

McCormack, Eric P.

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.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Site Records: Waterloo Plant

Series consists of correspondence, site plans and reports, all relating in some way to the physical site of the plant. Included are fire insurance reports and other documents which concern Laurel Creek, a wartime construction application , site plans ranging from a negative of an 1855 plan of Waterloo to photographic reproductions of 1940's fire insurance plans to 1980's site plans.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Topical

This series consists of originals and photocopies of correspondence, clippings, ephemera, essays, newspapers, photographs, etc. relating to all aspects of the history of the Seagram Company and distilling in general, to other business interests such as CanBar and Hopewell Farms, to the history of the plant site itself and the place of Seagram's in the larger context of Waterloo and the industrial history of the area from the 1850's to the plant's closing in 1990.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

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.

Sunbeam Shoes Limited

Series consists of letters patent, shares, correspondence, shareholders' meeting records, accounts, financial statements, and bankruptcy records. Contains records pertaining to The Humberstone Shoe Company and Sunbeam Shoes Limited. The series is arranged chronologically.

Dare Foods Limited

Public Relations Manager's Files

Series consists of records accumulated and used mainly by Robert Lovell in his role as Public Relations Manager (from 1963 to ca. 1988). Series includes correspondence files (including correspondence with community organizations, shareholders, and customers); subject files; records relating to the preparation and distribution of annual reports and the planning of annual meetings; records relating to the publicity of products, events, and board and management appointments; and other records relating to publicity of Electrohome.

Includes correspondence; memoranda; news releases (including some drafts); press clippings; draft speeches prepared for Carl A. Pollock, John A. Pollock, and other senior managers; reports to shareholders; product literature; photographs and other visual material; internal publications; and other material.

Electrohome

Publications

Series consists of publications issued by Kaufman Footwear, or publications maintained in its offices pertaining to the rubber industry. Includes scattered issues of the company newsletter "The Footprint".

Kaufman Footwear

Jacksonia

Series consists of materials relating to A.Y. Jackson and his connection to the Clement-Bowlby family. Includes clippings, photocopies of correspondence between A.Y. and Florence Grace Clement, authentication information for a painting, genealogy notes, and notes on Jackson and the Group of Seven. Also includes an article on A.Y. Jackson from the September 1945 edition of Mayfair Magazine.

Clement Bowlby Family

Audio-visual

Series consists of material relating to audio-visual presentations prepared by the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. Includes slides, audio cassettes, audio reels and corresponding scripts. The presentations were prepared to promote the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

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