Otaco Limited : warning slips.
- SCA220-GA207-2-74
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Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of a warning slip in triplicate.
Dixon, Ross
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Otaco Limited : warning slips.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of a warning slip in triplicate.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material relating to the Grand Valley Human Resources Professionals Association, formerly the K-W Personnel Association, of which Dixon served as president (1952). Includes correspondence, flyers, a membership directory, chapter by-laws, and one set of mintues from the Conestoga College of Applied Arts & Technology Personnel Program Advisory Committee, of which Dixon was a member.
Dixon, Ross
Presentation of Melvin Pine & Co., Inc., for Ross Dixon.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of a presentation containing information about Melvin Pine & Co. Inc. and its activities as export managers for manufacutring companies. Includes typed information and handwritten notes.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material from the Quebec Industrial Relations Institute. Includes a letter, a memorandum to members, and the auditor's report for Institute for 1976.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of typed and handwritten resumes created by Dixon.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material relating to workplace safety. Includes newspaper clippings about safety at Merchants Rubber, Merchants Rubber newsletters, safety manuals (including one from Research Enterprises Limited), typed safety rules, and a typed speech given by Dixon at an Industrial Accident Prevention Association event.
Dixon, Ross
Coalition press releases, clippings.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of an advertisement from the National Citizens' Coalition clipped from the newspaper.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
Series consists of accounting records for the Westmount Construction Company, as well as for Westmont Enterprises Limited and its subsidiaries, from around 1952 to 1989. Also present are some accounting records for Ross Dixon Financial Services from around 1982 to 1989. Includes accounting journal pages, general ledger pages, and handwritten notes.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of securities charts for April 1966, for the mining and oil section and the industrial section of the Toronto and Montreal Stock Exchanges. Issued by Fraser Research Ltd.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of twenty-six rubber stamps used by Dixon in his various businesses as well as personally. Includes stamps used for Westmount Construction Co., Westmont Enterprises Ltd., Ross Dixon Invesments Inc., Jasco Sales, Industrial Construction Company, and Ross Dixon & Associates.
Dixon, Ross
Advertisements and folders I produced.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of publicity material relating to the centennial of Dominion Rubber. Includes a brochure featuring the Footwear Division, Merchants Rubber Factory (multiple copies), a program for a long service dinner, a song sheet, and two folders.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of correspondence with and regarding the American Motors Corporation, accumulated by Dixon as Director of Industrial Relations.
Dixon, Ross
Applications for employment addressed to R.V. Dixon.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material relating to automation in the rubber industry. Includes a photoreproduction of an article on automation, typed extracts of an article, a memorandum and a letter to Dixon.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of newspaper clippings and a pamphlet regarding employee benefits in general and for salared employees at Uniroyal.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of newspaper clippings regarding Dixon's roles and activities at Uniroyal.
Dixon, Ross
Communications : profits, plant publications, etc.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of issues of company publications. Includes 5 issues of Uniroyal Management, 1 issue of Uniroyal Management Review, 1 issue of Uniroyal World, 41 issues of Plain Talks, 3 issues of Uniroyal News, 1 issue of Uniroyal Liaison, 1 issue of Chemnews, 1 issue of The Dominion, 5 issues of The Merchanteer, a clipping, and a letter from Dixon to members of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association (I.A.P.A.).
Dixon, Ross
Conference Board : Canadian Business Outlook.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of a newsletter from the Conference Board in Canada and a newspaper clipping regarding economics and politics in Ontario.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
Series consists of material relating to the philanthropic activities of Ross and Doris Dixon, and in particular their charitiable giving to the Big Brothers Association of Kitchener-Waterloo, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, and other charities and organizations in the Kitchener-Waterloo region and in Hamilton. Includes some material relating to the Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation and student awards and scholarships provided by the Dixons.
Series includes correspondence and thank-you letters, certificates and plaques, newspaper clippings, statements of contributions, award applications and agreements, donation appeals and other material from charities, financial statements and committee and annual reports of charities, photographs, etc.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence and photocopied newspaper clippings. Items relate to the construction of an arts centre in Kitchener, actions of the Hon. John Turner (MP), and replies to invitations.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material relating to the corporate name change of Dominion Rubber to Uniroyal (1966) Ltd. and from U.S. Rubber to Uniroyal. Includes a marketing consultant case study of the name change, corporate publications and news releases, typed copies of speeches and comments by management, and a public relations proposal by Dixon regarding the name change.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of a small amount of miscellaneous incoming and outgoing correspondence of Dixon. File also includes an index to Dixon's personal files and other material.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of photocopied readings for a course about sales called "Smooth Selling" offered by George N. Kahn Co. Inc. (New York, NY).
Dixon, Ross
The economy : productivity, inflation.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material relating to the economy and productivity. Includes newspaper clippings and newsletters from various organizations.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material relating to employee relations, public relations, and management. Includes photocopied magazine and newspaper articles, newsletters from various associations and companies, draft copies of notes by Dixon (e.g. how to improve wage employee relations), memoranda, an agenda and minutes for a Labour Management Relations Committee meeting of the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, and other material.
Dixon, Ross
Federal Business Development Bank.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of a brochure and the 1975 annual report of the Industrial Development Bank (succeeded by Federal Business Development Bank).
Dixon, Ross
Footwear & General Products Division. : annual supervisory conference.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of conference programs for the 1955 and 1956 annual supervisory conferences of the Footwear & General Products Division of the Dominion Rubber Company.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of blank forms required by the Industrial Relations Department relating to all aspects of employment at Dominion Rubber. File also includes a Dominion Rubber employee manual.
Dixon, Ross
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of material relating to the Golden Jubilee celebration of Dominion Rubber, and specifically the activities in Kitchener. Includes memoranda, guest lists for receptions and luncheons, etc. Material received by D. McAsey (Head Office).
Dixon, Ross
Goverment policy, Laskin speech, etc.
Part of Ross Dixon fonds.
File consists of newspaper clippings relating to federal and provincial government policy and typed excerpts from a speech by Bora Laskin.
Dixon, Ross
Fonds consists of material accumulated and kept by Ross Dixon relating to his entrepreneurial interests, career, and personal life, and to the philanthropic activities of Ross and Doris Dixon. The material documents some aspects of his personal interests and childhood, his early career, and his career in industrial relations at Uniroyal Canada (formerly the Dominion Rubber Company).
A significant portion of the fonds relates to the businesses he formed outside of his professional career, the Westmount Construction Company and Westmont Enterprises Limited, for the period from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. These records document trends in suburban home-building and design during that time and include a large number of architectural drawings.
The fonds is not comprehensive, lacking documentation relating to the formation and administration of the Westmount Construction Company and Westmont Enterprises Limited and containing only a small amount of material relating the other area of his entrepreneurial activities, investment and financial services.
Fonds includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, advertising material, architectural drawings, legal documents, photographs, accounting records, reports, handwritten notes, certificates, speeches, company publications, minutes, financial statements, ephemera, and other material.
Dixon, Ross