Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on the history of the Waterloo Region as well as scrapbooks kept by the Record. Includes clippings, publications, ephemera, scrapbooks and a series of correspondence from "Joe Klotzkopp", the pseudonym of John Rittinger.

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

Series consists of reviews of works by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of formal group portraits of employees taken beteen 1912 and 1928, as well as photographs and slides at staff recognition events such as milestone nights, and retirements from the 1960's to the 1990's.

Series consists of one folder of correspondence to W.H. Kaufman, including cards, clipping, one typed note, colour photocopy of a photograph.

Series consists of files of photographs accumulated and used mainly by Robert Lovell in his role as Public Relations Manager (from 1963 to ca. 1988) for internal and external publicity purposes. Many photographs were taken for use in the company newsletters Sparks and Chips, Electrohome World, and Electrohome Update, and include markings for cropping and sizing.

Series includes photographs of production processes, products, events in the life of the company, employees working and participating in recreational activities, employee headshots, and other subjects. Includes photographs, negatives, and other visual material; typed cutlines; news releases; press clippings; and memoranda.

Series consists of product literature promoting commercial electronic products and services available from Electrohome, including display monitors, projection systems, Jazz systems, educational monitor/receivers, projection television, circuit board operations, computer graphics-related products, and contract assembly. Includes single-sheet advertisements intended for insertion into a binder or portfolio with other product literature, brochures, leaflets, price lists, and product bulletins.

Series consists of files containing legal correspondence on lawsuits involving the YWCA.

Articles and short stories written by Lydia Dotto that were both published and unpublished.

Series consists of material relating to Herbert J. Schneider's activities in connection with J.M. Schneider Inc. Includes artifacts, correspondence, ephemera, minutes, photographs, speeches, etc.

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.

Series consists of materials relating to the Ontario Alpha Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa. Includes photographs, one scrapbook, and the chapter charter.

Series consists of material about the history of the Kaufman Rubber Co. collected by or submitted to the Centenary Committee for the purpose of preparing a history for the 100th Anniversary of the company. Includes information about the premises, operations and individuals associated with the company. Consists of articles, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, interviews, photographs, and information from previous anniversaries.

Series consists of materials relating to Stanton's personal life and interests. Includes an address book, correspondence, and files kept on topics of personal interest.

Series consists of materials created and accumulate by Dare Foods Limited relating to the administration, organization and history of Dare Foods Limited. Includes ephemera such as candy wrapping, advertising and stationary, clippings, sales manuals, historical information, information on the biscuit industry as well as Dare recipes and information on the 1971 strike.

Series consists of title-pages, contents tables and illustrations for books by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of criticisms and reviews of works by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of photographs taken as publicity to document significant Kaufman Footwear events.

Series consists of architectural drawings and plans for the Kitchener Plant of Kaufman Footwear, created between 1920 and 1996. Includes work by Albert Kahn, Barnett & Rieder and the Walter Fedy Partnership. Includes blueprints blackprints and blueline prints.

Series consists of biographical notes on other poets.

Series consists of material relating to zoological papers written by Anne Innis Dagg, some published and some not. Includes correspondence, clippings, research notes, typescripts, offprints, and reprints.

Series consists of material relating to the production and marketing of splashguards, which are installed on trucks to control spray from the tires. The series is not comprehensive. Includes correspondence, designs, ephemera, memoranda and photographs.

Series consists of categorized hanging pages and boxes of slides primarily concerned with natural features, buildings and programs associated with Grand River Conservation Authority conservation areas. Also contains slides relating to GRCA water management and land use programs and general topics such as conservation techniques, educational programs and the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation.

The slides are organized topically in hanging pages. A ts. listing of the slide collection by topic including alphabetical codes to the storage system is included. The slides are in no particular order within each topical section; some of the slides are not present.

Series consists of company newsletters and bulletins, produced and distributed for internal communications and publicity purposes.

The employee newsletter Sparks and Chips was begun by Carl A. Pollock to foster inter-employee relationships and management-employee relations. The first issue was published on December 18, 1942, with Pollock as the first editor. It ran until ca. 1977. In 1980, a new company newsletter, Electrohome Update, was introduced to provide employees news on company people, products, and policies. In 1990, this newsletter was merged with Electrohome World, which contained news of the corporation's marketing activities for the dealer/distributor network in North America and abroad; the new Electrohome World was published for employees and dealer/distributors. Sparks and Chips: the next generation was introduced in 1994 as an informal newsletter for reporting plant activities, news, and ideas.

Several other internal newsletters and bulletins were published over the history of Electrohome.

Publications in the series include:

• Sparks and Chips (employee/company newsletter), 1943-1977, 1994-1997
• Super-News (supervisor's newsletter), 1946-1962
• Electrohome World/E World (dealer/distributor newsletter), 1963-1964, 1968-1974, 1983-1989
• E Dealer News (US dealers), 1967-1968
• AV E News (US commercial distributors), 1973
• E Service Now (Electrohome Service newsletter), 1974
• Cambridge Capers (Plant 10 newsletter), 1975-1977
• Electrohome Update (company newsletter), 1980-1989
• AABEXpress (AABEX newsletter), 1983
• Electrohome International (international marketing bulletin for distributors), 1985-1987
• Motor Mania (Plant 10 newsletter), 1985
• CAPsule (CAP Communications newsletter), 1985
• Electrohome Display Systems (Display Systems newsletter), 1986
• Electrohome World/E World (company newsletter), 1990-1992

Series may not include a complete run of any one publication, and some issues may be missing.

Series consists of records accumulated and used by William M. Alguire in his role as secretary of the Board of Directors from 1992 to ca. 1997, as well as by his predecessor Robert Bolden. Includes correspondence, agreements, reports, company and management information, and other material.

Series consists of material pertaining to the employees of J.M. Schneider Inc.

Series consists of materials created or accumulated by Barbara Smucker related to other works or activities. Includes published and self published works, materials relating to awards, events and readings, and advertising materials for Smucker's various works.

Series consists of correspondence written by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of business and financial information maintained by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of one photograph of Stanton and one videocassette showing him receiving his honourary doctorate from the University of Natal.

Series consists of three video recordings documenting the Kaufman Footwear 90th anniversary picnic in 1997, the Oktoberfest Parade in 1997 and the dedication of a mural in 1995.

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to the research and publication of her book No Daughter of Mine based on the history of the Canadian Women's Press Club. Includes notes, research, photographs, correspondence, clippings, photocopies, excperts from the book as well as a guest book from the book launch and a Toronto Arts Council grant application.

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to her professional life and writings. Includes clippings of published articles, short stories, poems, TV dramas, etc.

Series consists of personal and biographical materials created and accumulate by Barbara Smucker. Includes correspondence, biographical and critical articles and notes, as well as clippings.

Series consists of records relating to the celebration of Electrohome's anniversaries and to the history of the company. Includes material relating to the planning, organization, and publicity of the company's 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 75th, and 90th anniversaries; material relating to the recording of company history; and material relating to subsidiary and other affiliated companies. Series also includes material collected and used by John Koegler in his role as company historian, which he assumed ca. 1956.

Includes correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, ephemera, press clippings, ms. and typed notes, photographs, speeches, programs and schedules, fliers, brochures, ms. and typed histories, and other material. Some of the anniversary-related files were likely compiled and used in the planning of subsequent anniversary celebrations.

Material documenting Herbert Ratz's professional activities in and outside his role as university Professor and administrator. Includes certificates, curriculum vitae, copies of presentations and publications, sabbatical and fellowship applications and teaching material.

Series consists of records relating to the organization and promotion of activities of the COAA, and in particular to workshops, exhibitions, sketching trips, field trips, and social events organized by the association. The material was accumulated by various individuals in the association and is not comprehensive as most records are from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. Series includes: flyers, brochures, announcements, programs, exhibitors' catalogues, correspondence, registration forms, membership lists, handwritten notes, newsletters, minutes, budgets, ephemera, and other material.

Series consists of typed and handwritten poems by Rienzi Crusz. Some include comments by the author or editor.

Series consists of handwritten document and typed drafts of books published by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of materials relating to readings given by Rienzi Crusz.

This series contains book reviews of Eric McCormack's works of fiction including Inspecting the Vaults, The Paradise Motel, The Mysterium, and First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. Some press announcements for these works of fiction are also contained in this series. This series also includes reviews of anthologies in which a short-story by Eric McCormack is contained.

Two other reviews relate to works of fiction written by other authors whose literary style is compared to that of Eric McCormack by the reviewer.

This series contains manuscripts of Eric McCormack's works of fiction including Inspecting the Vaults, The Paradise Motel, The Mysterium, and First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. They take the form of holograph notes, and handwritten and typed (both computer output and photocopies) drafts of Eric McCormack's works of fiction. Many of these are working drafts with holograph corrections and revisions, while some are described as "penultimate" or "final" drafts.

Series consists of photographs of the Kaufman Footwear plant on King St. in Kitchener, Ontario as well as other plants and facilities owned by Kaufman. Includes exterior and interior views.

Series consists of typescripts and manuscripts of plays written by John Herbert between 1964 to 1997, many of them with notes and corrections. There are also unfinished and first drafts of plays.

File consists of typescripts of speeches given by Panabaker at various events, including convocations, as president of Mutual Life, and relating to his other volunteer and professional commitments.

Series consists of photographs and negatives depicting GRCA conservation activities, stuctures and locations of interest, such as properties, rivers, dams, etc.

Series consists of news releases accompanied by photographs, prepared and issued by the Communications Department of the GRCA.

Series consists of material relating to the proposal, production, distribution, and lanuch of the corporate history Visionary Thinking : The Story of Canada's Electrohome by Raymond Stanton, published by Canadian Corporate Histories (Kitchener, ON) in 1997. Includes files of research material about the history of Electrohome, probably compiled by Nicola McLaughlin for Stanton's use, and files of visual material used in the book, pulled from other files in the collection most likely by McLaughlin.

Includes photocopies of product literature, press clippings, correspondence, reports, news releases, and other documents; slides, transparencies, photographs, and other graphic material;original product literature, including brochures, leaflets, parts price lists, instruction manuals, and sales manuals; news releases; press clippings; correspondence; memoranda; ms. notes; forms; and other material.

Series consists of correspondence recieved by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of records relating to the administration of the COAA and to the association membership, accumulated by various individuals in the association. Records primarily relate to the development of the constitution and by-laws, the maintenance of membership lists for the COAA and for the association's teachers' council, and to some specific positions and committees: president, secretary, secretary-treasurer, and program committee. Series includes correspondence; membership lists; minutes of annual, executive, and teachers' council meetings (including the original minute book); the association constitution and by-laws (as well as drafts of these); reports; notebooks and handwritten notes; flyers, event programs, and exhibitors' lists; and other material. The series is not comprehensive in that not all years are equally documented and not all aspects of the association's administration and governance are represented in the records.

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.

This series contains correspondence sent by or received by Mary Johnston as well as other administrative and legal documents maintained by her relating to the activities and affairs of the teachers' organizations of which she was a member. These include the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, The Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

This series also includes materials maintained by Mary Johnston when she worked for the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association in various capacitites including Key Teacher, President of Unit 1, as a W.C.W.T.A. Past President, as the association's County Adviser and P.R., and as a member of the Book Project Committee.

Also included in this series is a file containing correspondence sent to parents by Mary Johnston when she worked with the Kindergarten at Brighton School.

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Robert Topp in his role as Chair of the Political Portfolio and its Taxation Committee (1994-1995) and member of the Political Portfolio and Chair of its Taxation Committee (1995-1996).

The Political Portfolio was involved in political and tax-related issues, and during this period was especially focused on property taxation and a group appeal of the 1992 property assessment to the Assessment Review Board launched in 1995 on behalf of over 1000 MLA members with property on Lakes Muskoka, Rosseau, and Joseph.

The appeal resulted in a decision favourable for the association that was then appealed by the Assessment Commissioner to the Ontario Municipal Board, where the association was partly successful and was granted leave to appeal to the Ontario Divisional Court.

Series includes correspondence (some drafts), reports, presentations, newspaper clippings (some photocopied), ARB and OMB notices and decisions, lists of members of the group appeal, handwritten notes, news releases, and other material.

Series consists of material relting to the Centenary Committee's research on creating a company archive and on publicizing the company's history through participation in the Kitchener Downtown Mural Programme. Includes correspondence, ephemera, clippings, memoranda, and articles.

Series consists of copies of the weekly bulletin for the Rotary Club of Kitchener. The weekly bulletin provides a summary of the events of the weekly meeting, as well as other member and Rotary news. One copy of the bulletin from the Kitchener-Conestoga club is also present.

This series includes materials relating to various conferences, workshops, and other courses of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association respectively. They include correspondence, forms, questionnaires, course handouts, ephemera, information booklets produced for conference delegates and attendees at workshops, as well as summary reports of the Waterloo County Principals' Conferences.

Includes publications and printed items of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association including issues of a newsletter, a guidebook, a submission made by the W.C.W.T.A. to the Social Development Committee of the Ontario Legislature, and a report on the teachers' provincial protest action of 1997.

Series is comprised of materials created by members of the Kaufman family relating to their personal interests. Includes genealogy, clippings, ephemera, blueprints and three scrapbooks relating to birth control in Canada.

Series consists of artwork, cartoons and comics created by John Herbert between 1964 and 1998. Many of the drawings illustrate story development and ideas for his plays as well as comics and advertisements. The series is divided into files and arranged chronologically.

Series consists of a small amount of material relating to two subsidiary pants owned by kaufman, the Dushore Plant in Dushore, Pennsylvania, and the Sherbrooke, Québec plant. Contains correspondence, clippings, ephemera and memoranda.

Series consists of financial records for Electrohome and its subsidiary companies, including Hawkesville Lumber (acquired 1965), Campbell Electric (acquired 1960), International Electrohome (incorporated 1962), Electrohome Communications (incorporated 1970), and Flexsteel Industries (Canada) (acquired 1972). Series also includes material compiled for presentations to the Canadian government's Enterprise Development Board, which insured part of a $25 million term loan to the company from the Royal Bank of Canada in 1977. Includes financial statements and reports, a ledger, and other material.

Series is comprised of short stories published by Alice Munro that were not taken from an anthology or collection. The materials were collected by Walter Martin and Warren Ober for their research.

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.

Series is comprised of personal books used by Kay Rex to record her daily life, financials, and contact information. Includes diaries, account books and address books.

Series consists of slides taken by Robert Dorney that document the environment and animals in many sites across North America.

Series consists of categorized hanging pages and boxes of slides primarily concerned with natural features, buildings and programs associated with Grand River Conservation Authority conservation areas. Also contains slides relating to GRCA water management and land use programs and general topics such as conservation techniques, educational programs and the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation.

The slides are organized topically in hanging pages. A ts. listing of the slide collection by topic including alphabetical codes to the storage system is included. The slides are in no particular order within each topical section; some of the slides are not present.

Series consists of categorized hanging pages and boxes of slides primarily concerned with natural features, buildings and programs associated with Grand River Conservation Authority conservation areas. Also contains slides relating to GRCA water management and land use programs and general topics such as conservation techniques, educational programs and the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation.

The slides are organized topically in hanging pages. A ts. listing of the slide collection by topic including alphabetical codes to the storage system is included. The slides are in no particular order within each topical section; some of the slides are not present.

Series consists of records relating to J.M. Schneider, Inc., its history, employees, and sale to Smithfield in 1998 including the construction of the new plant in 1924, trucks used over the years, employees and employee activities such as picnics, the Schneider Male Chorus, and employee service in World War II. Primarily photographic and topical in nature, the series contains correspondence, clippings, ephemera, newsletters, photographs, negatives, and slides.

Series is comprised of critques, articles and essays written about Alice Munro. The materials were collected by Walter Martin and Warren Ober for their research.

Photographs relating to the families and lives of John Gartshore and Mary Ann Martin, John Alexander and Jessie Martin, Richard and Margaret Wilson, and Rev.William M. and Christena Martin. Includes snapshots, individual and group portraits (some mounted), and photograph albums containing snapshots, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia.

Series also includes photographs taken in Normandy and Holland during World War II and photographs of other subjects. The albums contain snapshots of John Alexander and Jessie Martin and their children growing up, Jamie Martin's grave, John Martin at an army training camp, Mary Ann Kabel and her friends, and a trip by members of the Wilson family.

This series includes materials relating to the annual dinners of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, of the Ontario Teachers' Federation, and of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association. These materials include a small number of col. photographs, as well as booklets produced for guests who attended these dinners. The contents of these booklets vary depending on the organization involved but typically include menus, programs, agendas, biographical notes on retiring teachers to be honoured at these dinners, as well as lists of past presidents, executive members, committtee chairs, key teachers, twenty-five year members, and retiring members. Some files just include flyers which were sent out to organization members featuring details of the date, location etc. of these annual dinners.

This series contains publications and printed materials issued by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario. This includes books (including guidebooks and handbooks), reports, position papers, serial publications, a fact sheet, and informational leaflets and flyers.

This series contains just two files. The first file includes ephemera relating to Waterloo County Board of Education events and activitities, while the second file includes ephemera which relates to events and activities of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

Series consists of material relating to the research for and publication of Anne Innis Dagg's work The 50% Solution : Why Should Women Pay for Men's Culture? published in 1986 by Otter Press. Includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, ms notes, articles, newsletters, reviews, typescripts, and other material. Includes copies of publications.

Series consists of materials relating to Jerzy Pindera's life during World War II and his time as a prisoner of war in Sachsenhausen concentration camp during the Holocaust. Includes primarily photocopies of correspondence (including those sent to his mother from Sachsenhausen), war records, articles, etc. Also includes ts. copies of Pindera's short stories on the Holocaust that make up "Fragments of Reports" and "Records of Life".

Series consists of photographs and an architectural drawing of the Southland plant in South Carolina.

Series consists of news releases issued by Electrohome. Some news releases are accompanied by transcripts of speeches by Carl A. Pollock, memoranda and reports from Carl A. Pollock and John A. Pollock to shareholders and employees, press kits, and photographs.

Series consists of records accumulated and used mainly by Robert Lovell in his role as Public Relations Manager (from 1963 to ca. 1988), and especially in the preparation and distribution of news releases and other publicity materials. Includes news releases, draft news releases, photographs and other visual material, press clippings, lists of media contacts, master and in-process press kits, product literature, correspondence, memoranda, and other material.

Series consists of files created and maintained by the K-W YWCA on personnel related issues. Includes information on the union and collective agreements, position salaries and descriptions, a time book, annual personnel reports, and files on positions filled through various government grants and programs.

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.

This series contains booklets and serial publications published by the Ontario Teachers' Federation.

Includes publications and printed items of the various educational and teachers' organizations in Ontario including the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the Ontario Public School Men Teachers' Federation, the Teacher's Superannuation Commission and other organizations. Materials in this series include serial publications, reports, and informational booklets.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Herbert John Schneider.

Consists of photograph albums from Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Inc.

Series consists of correspondence written by others to others about Rienzi Crusz.