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Faculty representation and academic status.

Records created and accumulated by the Librarians' Association of the University of Waterloo (LAUW) related to the associations attempts to obtain faculty representation and academic status. Includes meeting minutes, reports, timelines, lists, correspondence, notes, reference items, and other textual materials.

Librarians' and Archivists' Association of the University of Waterloo

Families Files

This series supplements Series 2 and contains correspondence to and from Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude, Brenda Dougall Merriman, Sheila Haines and family correspondents, photocopies of original documents, articles and other sources. It is organized alphabetically by family name.

The Jackman Foundation

Family Files

Series consists of records documenting aspects of the lives, careers, and interests of Charles E. Greb, Harry Greb, Clara May Greb, Erwin C. Greb, and Charles E. Greb Sr.; and the lives and disappearance of basset hounds Velvet and Jasmine. Includes press clippings; correspondence; birth, marriage, and death certificates; wills; photographs; certificates and awards; ephemera; and other material. Material probably collected and compiled by Charles E. Greb.

Greb, Charles E. family

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

Family Information Sheets: Master Files

Series consists of masters of the Family Information Sheets used to compile the list of "Emigrants on Petworth ships, 1832-1837", which comprises Part 2 of Assisting Immigration. These sheets were "intended as a snapshot of families at the time of emigration" and were used to compile an electronic database as well as the published list. The "masters" in this case actually consist of dated and initialled copies of all the sheets created for each name over time, and are chronologically organized within each name so that the progress of accumulation or duplication of information can be followed.

The Jackman Foundation

Family Papers.

Includes a diary written by Mary Ham detailing the events of her summer trip from Port McNicol, Ontario to the Canadian west including Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

Family Papers.

Material related to the lives and activities of members of the Augustine and Kaufman families of Kitchener, Ontario and of the Ham family of Toronto, Ontario, in particular of the parents, aunt and grandparents of Mary Ham.

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

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

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.

Files

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Walter Bean Grand River Community Foundation. Includes all unpublished written materials including office files, correspondence, etc.

Walter Bean Grand River Community Trails Foundation

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

Files Related to Zoological Books by Anne Innis Dagg.

Series consists of material relating primarily to the publication of Anne Innis Dagg's zoological books, including Canadian wildlife and man, The giraffe, Running, walking and jumping, Camel quest and The camel. Includes correspondence, clippings, ms. notes, typescripts, contracts, reviews, invoices, receipts and ephemera. Also includes two publications.

Dagg, Anne Innis

Films

Series consists of two local history films accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Includes one of downtown Kitchener, and one of the 118th battalion of Kitchener during First World War.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Films

Series consists of film reels and DVD copies of home movies shot by the Guy family. Includes films showing family members and friends participating in various activities both on vacation and at home in Waterloo. Many of the films show 110 John Boulevard and the early development of the Westmount region of Waterloo.

Guy, James Rutherford and George Harrington

Financial

Series is comprised of financial materials created by the George Pattinson Woollen Mill and its predecessors. Includes journals, a general ledger, figure slips, a coal account book and a ledger index.

George Pattinson Woollen Mill

Financial : Donations, Bequests

Series consists of files containing materials relating to donations and bequests by individuals and organizations to the K-W YWCA. Includes correspondence, legal information and budgetary information. Also includes information on the K-W YWCA corporate donation campaigns.

Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo

Financial : Fundraising Campaigns

Series consists of files containing materials on various K-W YWCA fundraising campaigns and events. Includes programme brochures, event information, correspondence, reports, budgets, etc. Also includes all fundraising materials relating to the United Way and their allocations to the K-W YWCA.

Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo

Financial Files

Series contains material relating to the management of Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation accounts pertaining to estates, Grand River Hospital, Freeport Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, and United Way. The majority of investments and accounts were held at Canada Trust Company. Includes annual, quarterly and monthly account statements, correspondence, memoranda, investment reports, account summaries, agendas, minutes, policies, and reports.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fish Hatchery Investigations

Series consists of material relating to fish hatchery investigations and brook trout feeding experiments carried out by Dr. John D. Detwiler from 1920-1932 in Ontario. Includes notebooks, diaries, reviews of activities, minutes, correspondence, etc.

Detwiler, John D.

Forbes family notebooks.

A wedding planner and two notebooks created by Betty Forbes, George Alexander Forbes, and Peg Forbes.

Forbes, Betty

Forms, Publications : Unnumbered

Series consists of printed and ts. material issued by the Parents' Information Bureau, but not as part of the numbered series, in 1969 and 1976. Two are tss. by A.R. Kaufman relating to birth control.

Parents' Information Bureau

Founder and Executive Director, Youth in Conflict with the Law.

This series includes material created or accumulated by Andrew Telegdi while he worked with Youth in Conflict with the Law. Telegdi was a founding member of the organization and served as Executive Director from 1976-1993 and 2013-2017. Records include Telegdi’s name badge, correspondence, reports, a scrapbook, bulletins and newsletters, an invitation, material related to the planning of Crime and Justice in the Community Week and Law Day, and other textual items.

Telegdi, Andrew

Garret Theatre

Series consists of materials relating to John Herbert's Garret Theatre.

Herbert, John

Garth and the Mermaid

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Barbara Smucker relating to her work "Garth and the Mermaid." Includes tss., research notes, and reviews.

Smucker, Barbara

Genealogical records.

Detailed family relationships are outlined in genealogical documents prepared by Gordon Wagner.

Wagner Hailer family

Genealogy

Series consists of genealogical materials on the Hagey family. Includes a biography of Menno Hagey and a genealogical chart.

Hagey, Joseph Gerald

General Files

Series consists of material relating to the life and activities of A.R. Kaufman. Includes speech texts and travel reminiscences written by him, biographical information in the form of clippings and correspondence, as well as information relating to the Dorothea Palmer Birth Control trial.

Parents' Information Bureau

George Cluthé Files

Series consists of material relating to the management of the George Cluthé Foundation. The George Cluthé Foundation, currently a fund managed by KWCF, was founded Oct. 8, 1974 by George Joseph Cluthé. Includes records pertaining to the incorporation of the Foundation and its charitable status, the Foundation's seal, by-laws, lists of directors, lists of members, accounts, minutes, correspondence, donation requests, tax records, bank statements, and receipts.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

George Davidson and Margaret Garden Family

Records documenting the family of George Davidson and his wife Margaret Garden, their daughters Margaret Kempt and Elizabeth Roos, and Elizabeth Roos' daughter Florence (the future wife of Harvey Sims.) Although there are very few letters from George extant, they are enough to show his genial and good-natured love of family, his keen and self-deprecating sense of humour, and his stoic acceptance of circumstances beyond his control. He had an unspecified affliction that require him to walk with canes; and two letters from New York City in 1880 describe in vivid detail the treatments he is receiving, most likely some form of electro-magnetic therapy.
Records making up the series include correspondence from George to his wife Margaret, letters written to Margaret by her daughter Maggie Kempt in Glasgow, letters from family in Scotland and friends in Canada, correspondence from Margaret to her granddaughter Florence, ephemera, and printed music. Some of the correspondence concerns Davidson and Sims genealogy.

Sims family

Gill, Eric and Family

Series consists of materials created or accumulated by Eric Gill and members of his family. Includes one item of correspondence and two Christmas cards.

Gill, Eric

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

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

Golden Cockerel Press

Series consists of materials printed by, or about, the Golden Cockerel Press. Includes prospecti, specimin pages, and ephemera.

Gill, Eric

Grand River Conservation Commission

Series consists of records accumulated and used by Marcel Pequegnat in his role as vice-chairman of the Grand River Conservation Commission. Records pertain to the administration and activities of the Commission. Includes correspondence (including carbon copies) and minutes of regular, annual, and executive committee meetings.

Pequegnat, Marcel

Grants

Series consists of materials relating to grant applications made by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Grants

Series consists of material relating to grant applications made by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Grants

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Rienzi Crusz relating to various work and travel grants.

Crusz, Rienzi

Grants

Series consists of materials relating to grant applications made by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Grants

Series consists of material relating to grant applications made by Rienzi Crusz. Includes photocopies and forms.

Crusz, Rienzi

Graphic Material

Series consists of framed and unframed graphic material owned by Dendy, including engravings and etchings, original artwork, posters, photographs, and illustrations cut out of Harper's Weekly and The Illustrated London News. These items reflect Dendy's interests in architectural history, but also in art, opera, theatre, and literature.

This series includes single original paintings by A.Y. Jackson and Nicholas Hornyansky; an original colour cartoon by E.W.Kemble; hand-coloured photographs by H. Marshall Gardiner and W. R. MacAskill; engraved work by A. Sterner.

Dendy, William

Hague and Gill

Series consists of materials printed by, or about, the Hague and Gill Press. Includes prospecti, specimin pages, and ephemera.

Gill, Eric

Harold A. Innis

Series consists of Anne Innis Dagg's files about her father, Harold Adams Innis. Includes typescripts of his autobiography and diaries, correspondence, information about royalties, biographial and critical material about Harold A. Innis, including papers written by Anne Innis Dagg.

Dagg, Anne Innis

Harvey J. Sims : Chicopee

Records relating to the Harvey J. Sims' development of Chicopee, a 45-acre estate near Kitchener, Ont., where he built a home designed by Forsey Page and Steele, Architects, and designed and landscaped the grounds with the help of Carl Borgstrom of Carl Borgstrom and H.M.S. Carver, Landscape Architects. He was instrumental in the reforestation of the contiguous properties in Chicopee Hills, and in only a few years planted on his property more than 700 varieties of trees and shrubs.
Includes correspondence to and from architects, landscape planners, nurseries, and government agencies concerning the development of Harvey's house and grounds, also the reforestation of the surrounding area, dated 1927 to 1941. The correspondence files described in this series are together as found. Harvey's Personal Business Files in Series 8 contain a great deal of supplementary material in the way of correspondence, invoices, lists, time sheets, etc., with seed houses, nurseries, companies, and individuals supplying material and furnishings for the home and grounds, from water heaters and wiring to billiard table lights.
Harvey was particularly interested in collecting as many native species of trees and shrubs as would grow in this climate and his collecting activities are documented by correspondence with arboreta, university horticulture departments, government nurseries, and government officials and employees who were at that time developing botanical garden plans in Hamilton and Niagara.

Sims family

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.

Sims family

Harvey J. Sims : personal business.

Files created and maintained by Harvey J. Sims in the course of daily household business relating to household expenses, personal expenses, and expenses incurred in planning and maintaining his property at Chicopee. These files were also used by Harvey for his personal interests and activities, such as clubs, memberships, investments, and circular letters. They contain correspondence, invoices, receipts, ephemera, and hand-written notes. Many invoices from nurseries or seed suppliers present here relate to those in series 6.

Sims family

Harvey J. Sims: correspondence with William Lyon Mackenzie King

Ninety pieces of correspondence, of which 73 are letters to Harvey J. and/or Florence Sims. Another letter is in Series 11, sending regrets for the invitation to the wedding of Kenneth Sims and Mabel Alguire Cameron.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, was a boyhood friend of Harvey J. Sims, and consistently addresses him as "Peter" in his letters. The letters in this series range from Christmas greetings to political, literary and spiritual topics.
Letters in this series are both handwritten and typewritten. Letters from Mackenzie King to Florence Sims are usually handwritten.

Sims family

Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos Family

Records documenting the family life of Harvey J. Sims and his wife Florence Katherine Roos, who married October 29, 1902. Correspondence to Florence is sparse but includes three letters from her old friend Isabel Grace Christina "Bella" King, sister of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Florence had a literary bent and some of her writing is present in the collection, including her biography of Sheriff George Davidson.

A quantity of letters from Peter H. Sims to his son Harvey are present from 1888 (when Harvey was 17) to 1912. Peter gives opinions, advice, and instruction on every aspect of Harvey's life. He attempts to guide Harvey through the narrow path to success in the legal profession, counselling frugality, moral rectitude, and duty to family above all. He even gives Harvey step-by-step instructions on cleaning and painting his basement to make it healthy.

Correspondence from Harvey's mother Jemima is not as sympathetic. In 1898, on hearing a report that Harvey had been struck by a ball, she advises him strongly to give up football as "beneath the dignity of a practising barrister." Harvey never took this advice as he had a strong interest in many sports and made his mark in all of them: football, curling, and lawn bowling.
Also present in this series is correspondence from his sister Rella and her family, legal agreements, ephemera, football ephemera, lawn bowling scrapbook and trip ephemera.

Sims family

Hawkings, Jean May.

Series consists of material relating to the family of Jean May Hawkings. Includes correspondence and photographs.

Schneider family

Historical

Series consists of materials documenting the history of Dare Foods Ltd. Includes meeting minutes, clippings, advertising, logos, ephemera and more. Also includes materials documenting the Dare strike of 1972,

Dare Foods Limited

Historical and Topical

Series consists of historical and topical materials relating to Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. Includes an information package created by Walter Bean, and biographies and interviews with past-presidents of KWCF.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Historical and Topical

Series consists of material collected by Kenneth G. Murray and the Our millennium scrapbook. Includes an agenda, correspondence, notes, brochures, booklets, photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, announcements, reports and "Our millennium" gift registry.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Historical material.

Materials related to the history of the Carold Institute. Includes historical records and objects, legal materials related to the incorporation of the Institute as a registered charity in Canada, bylaws, materials related to the life and work of Clare Clark and Harold Clark, materials related to the life and research of Alan Thomas, and materials related to events organized to celebrate the history of the Institute.

Carold Institute

Historical Materials

File consists of materials accumulated by Gordon Good relating to local and national history. Includes one map, one programme, two magazines and one World War Two brochure.

Good, Gordon

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

Historical, Topical Files: News Clippings.

This series includes news clippings from The Globe and Mail, from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, and from The Waterloo Chronicle. These clippings relate to educational issues. Some of them are relevant to educational matters at a national level e.g some articles report on the educational system in Canada, while anoher article focuses on the likely impact of computers for schools in Canada. Other clippings report on educational issues at a provincial level e.g. Ontario teachers' actions to oppose the anti-strike legislation in 1973. Moreover, some clippings relate to the activities of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario. Finally, this series contains news clippings which relate to educational affairs in Waterloo County including the activities of the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

Johnston, Mary

History Files

Series consists of files created and maintained by the K-W YWCA that attempt to record the history of the organization in various ways. Includes chronologies, clippings, essays, and materials created and accumulated for anniversaries.

Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo

History of Education in Waterloo

Materials collected by Mary Johnston documenting the history of education both in the Waterloo Region and broadly in Ontario. Includes school registers, minute books, historical notebooks kept by students, etc.

Johnston, Mary

History Working Files

Series consists of material created, collected and accumulated for the purpose of researching and writing the history of the COAA. Most files were probably kept or acquired by Oreen Campbell, who was responsible for writing the history of the association during the 1980s. Includes files containing items removed from elsewhere in the fonds for the purpose of gathering key documents for the association's history and especially those containing information about important decisions and developments. Series includes correspondence, typed histories (including draft versions), flyers, announcements, membership lists, newsletters, exhibition catalogues, reports, minutes, lectures, articles, clippings, photographs, the association constitution and procedures manual, and other material.

Central Ontario Art Association

Hush Puppies Brand

Series consists of records relating to the Hush Puppies brand of footwear and international meetings of Hush Puppies licencees. Includes newsletters; conference presentations; and correspondence, press clippings, and other material relating to the organization and publicity of the 1974 Hush Puppies World Conference, part of which was hosted by Greb Industries Limited in Kitchener.

Greb Industries Limited

Idea Books

Series is comprised of idea books created by Tony Urquhart with materials spanning five decades. The books include handwritten notes, ephemera, and drawings.

Urquhart, Tony

Incorporation

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation of Dominion Electrohome Industries Limited and its predecessors, the Phonola Company of Canada, Pollock-Welker Limited, and the Grimes Radio Corporation Limited; as well as the incorporation of Pollock Enterprises Limited. Series also includes records relating to the administration of Grimes Radio Corporation from 1925 to 1939 and Pollock Enterprises from 1947 to 1959. Includes share certificates, letters patent, by-laws, board of directors' meeting minutes, registers of shareholders and directors, and stock subscription applications.

Electrohome

Incorporation

Series consists of material relating to the incorporation and organization of the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. Includes originals and photocopies of bills, by-laws and an Order in the Supreme Court of Ontario.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Incorporation : Acts and Bills

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation and organization of the Grand River Conservation Authority and its predecessors, the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes originals and photocopies of acts, bills, and letters patent.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Incorporation and Board of Directors

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation and administration of the Greb Shoe Company Limited. Includes letters patent; by-laws; minutes of meetings of the board of directors from the date of incorporation on June 9, 1916, to October 30, 1930; and agreements.

Greb Industries Limited

Incorporation and Legal Documents

Series consists of material relating to the incorporation of Dare Foods Limited, changes to the corporate name over the company's history, and other aspects of the company's legal existence. Includes letters patent, supplementary letters patent, by-laws, agreements, an insurance appraisal, and other legal documents.

Dare Foods Limited

Incredible Jumbo

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Barbara Smucker relating to her work "Incredible Jumbo." Includes tss., research notes, and reviews.

Smucker, Barbara

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

Interviews.

Series consists of cassette tapes of interviews conducted with Jerzy Pandera. The interviews were done by Aneta Magolon as part of her Honours BA in History. The interviews are primarily concerned with Pindera's early life and life during the Holocaust, but also discuss his founding of the German exchange program at the University of Waterloo.

Pindera, Jerzy Tadeusz

Invoices and payments.

Materials related to the building and remodelling of the house at 178 Claremont Avenue in Kitchener. Includes invoices, cheques, forms, and correspondence related to the different aspects of the process, including the plot purchase, design and construction of the building and rooms, and landscaping of the gardens.
Box arrived in archives with handwritten note by donor that read: “178 Claremont Ave., Kitchener. Building documents, invoices / cancelled cheques. Home of W. G. Reive / Mabel Reive.”

Reive Family

Ivan W. Keffer : F.W. Woolworth Co.

Series consists of material accumulated by Ivan W. Keffer relating to his career at the F.W. Woolworth Co. after his appointment to executive vice-president. Material relates to the performance of the company, the German company, and Keffer's work and personal interests in Germany. A small amount of material relates to his actual role as executive vice-president in North America. Series includes correspondence (from colleagues; some may also be personal), reports, legal documents, clippings, a speech, meeting minutes, photographs, and other material.

Keffer, Ivan Wilbur

Ivan W. Keffer : Personal

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Ivan W. Keffer relating primarily to his personal life. Includes includes diaries, correspondence, notices and certificates, a passport and other personal/identification documents, clippings, ephemera, photographs, a scrapbook, and other material. The diaries, relating to Keffer's career as well as his personal life, cover the period during which he and his family lived in Germany and include entries that illustrate the escalation of political tensions and economic difficulties in Germany leading up to World War II and their impact on business in the country. Other material of note includes certificates and notices from the National Air Protection League (Reichsluftschutzbund).

Keffer, Ivan Wilbur

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

Jacob's Little Giant

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Barbara Smucker relating to her work "Jacob's Little Giant." Includes tss., research notes, and reviews.

Smucker, Barbara

James Downey's Memorabilia.

Series consists of files relating to the activities and interests of James Downey from 1979 to 1996, most relating to New Brunswick. Includes clippings, biographical material about him, reports, and published contributions by him. Includes as well material relating to his teaching and students.

Downey, James

James Downey's Memorabilia

Series is comprised of memorabilia created and accumulated by James Downey. Includes two books of notes given to Downey by colleagues.

Downey, James

James Downey's Papers and Articles from Carleton University Years

Series consists of files relating to the activities and interests of James Downey during his years at Carleton University. Includes clippings biographical material about him, reports, and published contributions by him. Includes as well material relating to his teaching and students.

Downey, James

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