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Publicity

Series consists of publicity materials accumulated by Claire Wallace relating to the advertising of radio stations and radio shows.

Wallace, Claire

Branch Files

Files containing primarily historical and biographical material on the Canadian Women's Press Club Branches across the country. They contain some correspondence, typescripts, ephemera, clippings, and many photocopied documents and news items. Most are items gathered by or sent to Kay Rex.

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Photographs

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.

Martin, John Gartshore

Administration : Financial : Accounts : Salvage and Other

Series consists of material relating to GRCC salvage, miscellaneous and special accounts. Folders contain quarterly financial statements for a particular account, accompanied by correspondence, receipts, invoices, tax notices, ms. notes, etc. The salvage account tracked revenue received from the sale of materials such as fence posts, demolition and or/sale of buildings on GRCA property.

Grand River Conservation Commission

Architectural Drawings

  • SCA220-GA207-5
  • Series
  • [19-], 1947-1977, predominant 1954-1965
  • Part of Ross Dixon fonds.

File consists of architectural drawings prepared for the Westmount Construction Company. Includes mainly house plans but also some plans for an apartment building and several commercial buildings. Many of the drawings do not include the creator's name, but some were prepared by C.E. Voelker, N.O Hipel (Preston), J. Crebolder, and others. A small number of drawings were mass-produced (published in magazines).

Many drawings contain handwritten annotations; some are original plans and some are revisions to plans. The construction jobs for the Westmount Construction Company appear to have been classified as either "residential" or "miscellaneous" and in each category were generally assigned a Job # in chronological order. A log of jobs was kept and can be found in Series 4, File 250. There are duplicate drawings corresponding with many of the job numbers.

Dixon, Ross

Subject Files

Series consists of subject clipping files created and maintained by Long. The subjects are varied but in general relate to women's interests.

Long, Elizabeth

Motz, John Edward and Motz, Mary Stoody

Series is comprised of materials relating to the life of John Edward Motz and his wife Mary Stoody Motz. Includes correspondence, ephemera, legal documents, etc.

Motz Family

Typescripts

Series consists of ts. drafts of writings such as speeches, articles etc. by John D. Detwiler.

Detwiler, John D.

Publicity

Series consists of materials created by RMS and its parent companies for the purpose of publicity. This includes photographs that were used for sales manuals, publications, and advertising that show products, machinery, staff and facilities of RMS; a leaflet titled Facts About Uniroyal; a company portfolio for Uniroyal Goodrich giving information about products, equipment and facilities; and quotes illustrating the RMS values and attitudes.

Rubber Machinery Shops

Correspondence.

Professional and personal correspondence sent and received by James Walker to and from different people and organizations mostly before communications moved to an electronic medium. Includes correspondence related to his research, the University of Waterloo, programs and courses he taught at the University of Waterloo, events he attended and in which he participated, and correspondence from colleagues, friends, and students.

Walker, James

Research Files : England : Wendy Cameron

This series consists of files maintained by Wendy Cameron on research on English sources. Contains correspondence, memos, notes, material shared and passed to and from researchers in England and in Canada.

The Jackman Foundation

Personal.

Materials relating to Dr. Ralph Chou. Includes CVs, information on his MSc research and more.

Chou, Ralph

Bertram R. Davis Research Files

Series consists of research files created and accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on his various areas of interest. Includes files on Coleridge, Wordsworth, Chatterton, Southey, Lamb, and others, as well as personal research files.

Davis, Bertram R.

Environmental Portfolio Chairperson's Files : Peter W. Hand

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Peter Hand in his role as Chair of the Environmental Portfolio from 1997-1999 and co-chair in 2000-2001. The Environmental Portfolio was responsible for addressing issues of water quality, forest, land use, waste management and wildlife; during this period, much of the focus was on land use, especially resort development on the Muskoka lakes.

The series contains material relating to MLA responses, sometimes in partnership with other local associations, to proposed developments at the Lake Joseph Club, the Lake Rosseau Beach Resort, the Muskoka Sands Resort, and other locations. Responses include submissions to the Township of Muskoka Lakes and the District Municipality of Muskoka relating to re-zoning applications and amendments to site plans, as well as appeals to the Ontario Municipal Board.

Series includes correspondence and memoranda, reports, notices, handwritten and typed notes, photocopied newspaper clippings, meeting minutes and agendas, draft amendments and by-laws, photocopied plans and maps, and other material. Most material is faxed or photocopied.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Portraits

Series consists of three portraits of William H. Kaufman, one with his father A.R. Kaufman.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Kaufman, A.R. : Trips

Series consists of autobiographical accounts by A.R. Kaufman of trips taken to England and France in 1929, around the world in 1958, and to Russia in 1963. A.R.K.'s trip accounts contain many personal observations on the economy, architecture, living conditions and way of life in the countries visited.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Russell, Dorothy : Photograph albums.

Photograph albums created and accumulated by Dorothy Russell. Some of the albums were created by Dorothy, and others by members of her family that were in her possession. Many of the albums are annotated.

Schantz Russell Family

Miscellaneous Correspondence

Series is comprised of ca. 5000 items of personal and professional correspondence between James Downey and others. Includes letters, memoranda, cards, as well as inserted materials including photographs. Correspondents are listed at the file level.

Downey, James

Committees : Minutes

Series consists of material relating to the meetings of the committees of the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. Includes minutes and supporting documents from meetings of the:

  • Ad Hoc Committee,
  • Advisory Council
  • Asset Development Committee
  • Donor Recognition Task Force
  • Audit Committee
  • Canada Trust Merv Lahn Community Development Fund Committee
  • Communications Committee
  • Executive Committee
  • Fundraising and Public Relations Committee
  • Fundraising Committee
  • Grand River Project Committee
  • Grants Committee
  • International Plowing Match Grants Committee
  • Investment Committee
  • Nominating Committee
  • Operating Committee
  • Operating Endowment Committee
  • Promotion and Public Relations Committee
  • Youth Advisory Council Committee

Series also contains agendas, accounts, donor lists and donation records, memoranda, corresopndence, policies, reports, and grant records.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

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

Research: Card Files

Series consists of the detailed hand-written card files prepared by Dendy as a guide to research materials available in his fields of interest in the subject area of Architectural History.
These card files provide different types of information:

  • Bibliographic references to materials in a number of subject areas. This includes special interest topics of Dendy's such as Frank Darling's library and the Massey Patronay. Additionally, an A-Z index of architects (mostly Canadian) is also available. This features bibliographic references to journal articles where information on each architect can be found. In some cases these cards also provide information on the office or home address of these architects.
  • Building permit information for Canada (mainly Toronto) for late nineteenth century or early twentieth century. This includes building permit no. and year, address of building, description of building, and name of architect. This information is organized either by architect, by date, or by street or region. However, in some cases no apparent order applies.
  • Alphabetical index to architects. Information provided on these card files includes the name of the building, address of the building, and year of construction of the building designed by each architect listed. In some cases a brief description of the building is also provided in additin to a bibliographic reference to the source from which information on the building was obtained. Most of the buildings listed in this index were designed in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
  • Architect and subject index. Card files are filed alphabetically by name of architect, author name, publication title, or architectural topic. These cards take the form of bibliographic references to publications.
  • Subject indexes. This includes an alphabetical subject index to various Canadian and foreign architectural topics, as well as a subject index relating specifically to the history of Toronto's architecture.
  • Miscellaneous card files. Some small sections of card files can also be found which relate to various topics and which are organized in different ways. This includes an index of designs (pencil drawings, prints, and photographs) for buildings in Toronto and other parts of Ontario, an index to topics relating to foreign architecture, and miscellaneous card files re Toronto architecture.

Dendy, William

Rieder, Martha

Series consists of material created, collected, and accumulated by Martha Rieder relating to her family, personal life, interests, volunteer work, and significant life events; some material was added later by other family members, probably her daughter Margaret Paisley. Contains some material relating to Martha's volunteer work with the YWCA and with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board: Consumer Branch (Kitchener).

Series includes diaries; ephemera; cards and letters; funeral notices; manuscript notes; genealogy materials; clippings; school report cards, baptism certificates, and diplomas of her children; agreements, wills, insurance policies, and other personal documents; reports and agendas; newsletters; cashbooks; artifacts; an autograph album; her wedding album; and other material.

Rieder and Anthes family

Executive Director's Files.

Series consists of files created and maintained by successive Executive Director's of the K-W YWCA. Includes correspondence, memorandum, reports, management information, etc. on programs, services and projects of the K-W YWCA, and records regarding interactions with other community groups.

Series consists of files created and maintained by successive Executive Director's of the K-W YWCA on interactions with other community groups.

Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo

City and Regional Councillor.

This series documents Andrew Telegdi’s career in municipal and regional politics, primarily his activities as a Councillor for the City of Waterloo and the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The material in this series reflects Telegdi’s efforts to represent constituents and support the interests, services, policies, and operations of the city and region.

Telegdi, Andrew Peter

Non-Fiction Works

Series consists of non-fiction works created and accumulated by Bernard Suits. Includes both published and unpublished essays, commentaries, reviews and chapters of his book "The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia" as well as the unpublished sequel "Return of the Grasshopper: Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia." Also includes materials relating to the copyright of his book "The Grasshopper."

Suits, Bernard

Correspondence: Clark, Muriel

Series is comprised of correspondence between Muriel Shortt Clark (daughter of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Political and Legal Career

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Dana Porter during the course of his political and legal career. Includes legal and political notes, legal proceedings and judgements, commissions, etc.

Porter, Dana Harris

Photographs : Ontario Architecture

Series is comprised of photographs that were later reproduced in Rempel's work "Ontario architecture", prepared for a class on the History of Architecture that he taught at Danforth Technical School.

Rempel, John I.

Works by Others

Series consists of works written by other authors that were sent to Virgil Burnett. Includes the works themselves as well as correspondence and notes. Includes a copy of the manuscript "Yrs. V" by Athur Morey which is a collection of letters and drawings sent to Morey from Burnett.

Burnett, Virgil

Exhibitions: One-Person.

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

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Photographs

Series consists of photographs of John Herbert, his personal and professional life.

Herbert, John

Exhibitions: One-Person.

This series contains folders maintained by Nancy-Lou Patterson. For separately published and printed items relating to Nancy-Lou Patterson's exhibitions, see Series 9: Publications and Printed Items.

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Publications, Printed Materials: Government of Ontario.

This series contains government publications including educational legislation, curriculum guidelines, school programme requirements, reports and booklets on various topics, as well as a news release and issues of a journal. Included in this series are publications of the Government of Ontario, as well as of the Ministry of Education of Ontario, and of the Ministry of Education and Training of Ontario.

Johnston, Mary

Exhibitions: Group.

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

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Exhibitions: Group.

This series contains folders maintained by Nancy-Lou Patterson. For separately published and printed items relating to Nancy-Lou Patterson's exhibitions, see Series 9: Publications and Printed Items.

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Exhibitions: Curator.

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

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Publications, Printed Materials: The Waterloo County Board of Education.

This series contains publications and printed materials issued by the Waterloo County Board of Education. These materials include booklets, an educational position paper, reports, a submission to the Standing Committee on Social Development of the Ontario Legislature, telephone directories, and serial publications.

Johnston, Mary

Canadian Artists' Representation

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Tony Urquhart relating to artists' representation in Canada. Includes materials related to his work with CARFAC as well as to artists' representation organizations to which he belongs.

Urquhart, Tony

Publications, Printed Materials: Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

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.

Johnston, Mary

Publications, Printed Materials: Other Educational/Teachers' Organizations and Associations.

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.

Johnston, Mary

Visual Material

Series consists of visual material produced and accumulated by various personnel and departments within Electrohome. Some of the material may have been used by Robert Lovell, Public Relations Manager (1963 to ca. 1988), or his successors, as it appears that some photographs were taken for internal and external publicity purposes.

Some of the material appears to have been pulled from elsewhere in collection, probably for use in Raymond Stanton's book Visionary Thinking: The Story of Canada's Electrohome, or for other purposes associated with the 90th anniversary celebration or researching company history. Includes photographs, slides, negatives, transparencies, contact sheets, and printing proofs.

Electrohome

Sound Recordings

Series consists of sound recordings containing mainly interviews with Electrohome employees. Includes audio cassettes and an audio reel.

Electrohome

Computer Disks

Series consists of computer disks originally found in other files. Includes 5 1/4 " and 3.5" computer disks.

Electrohome

Artifacts

Series consists of discrete items, including Carl A. Pollock's rolodex, gramophone records, radio tubes, and a Kodak Brownie camera.

Electrohome

Visual : Moving Images : Videocassettes : Transfers from Film

Consists of videocassette transfers from original films, several of which were acquired by the GRCA from donors. Includes transfers of original films made by Hugh Templin, a GRCA commissioner. During the 1940s, Templin took footage of the construction phases of the Shand Dam, near Belwood, Ont. and its subsequent opening and early operation.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Visual : Moving Images : DVDs

Series consists of DVD transfers from original films and videocassettes, several of which were acquired by the GRCA from donors. Includes transfers of original films made by Hugh Templin, a GRCA commissioner. During the 1940s, Templin took footage of the construction phases of the Shand Dam, near Belwood, Ont. and its subsequent opening and early operation. DVD transfers of slide-show presentations of Grand River Conservation Authority Annual Reports, and Special Recognition Awards.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Visual : Negatives

Series consists of binders of negatives and contact strips: 14 numbered volumes contain 596 pages, each page holding seven 6-frame strips of 35 mm negatives. On the front of each sleeve is taped the corresponding 35 mm contact strip (page 596 contains only 1 strip). One unnumbered volume contains negatives in a variety of sizes. Includes an index maintained on rolodex cards.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Visual : Photographs : Corporate

Series consists of photographs depicting GRCA corporate activities, events and personnel. Many of these had originally been located in other series; they were pulled by GRCA personnel from other files and grouped in new folders for an undetermined purpose.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Publications

Series consists of publications of the Muskoka Lakes Association, including the Association handbook, newsletters, and the yearbook.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Schantz family reunion.

Material related to the Schantz family reunion. Includes publicity, correspondence, ephemera, planning and financial information.

Schantz Russell Family

Company Newsletters

Series consists of company newsletters, produced and distributed for internal communications and publicity purposes. The Cobbler, published by the Greb Shoes Employees' Association, was begun in 1952. It was replaced with the Greb Newshound in 1962, and was published until [ca. 1971?]. In 1978, a new company newsletter, Greb Footnotes, was launched. Series may not include a complete run of any one publication, and some issues may be missing.

Greb Industries Limited

Executive Officers Files : James Holmes

Series consists of records accumulated and used by James Holmes in his role as chairman of the board and CEO from 1976 to 1979. Includes press clippings, ms. notes, and an ms. draft of a paper.

Electrohome

Sound Recordings

Series consists of sound recordings. Some recordings relate to management theory, created or acquired for training purposes. Recordings also contain interviews with Electrohome employees, product advertisements, as well as other events including a board meeting and the 75th anniversary concert. Includes audiocassettes and audio reels.

Electrohome

Scrapbooks

Series consists of two scrapbooks containing loose and pasted-in clippings, as well correspondence (letters and cards), speech notes, invitations, programs, photographs, and other ephemera predominantly relating to Dr. S.F. Leavine's election as Mayor of Kitchener in 1949. Also included are clippings from after he died in 1958, outlining his professional accomplishments and impact on the community.

Leavine, Stanley Francis

Research: Electronic Files

Series consists of 21 high-density 3.5" floppy diskettes and printouts of some of the files stored on them. In the case of the files for which printouts are available, they are stored on these floppy disks in one of four different directories created by Dendy: "BILLSDIS", "FHARCH", "FHPERMIT" and "SWARTZ" (as reflected in file titles for this series). Note, however, that due to problems converting files with extensions .bdc and .doc in the "BILLSDIS" directory, printouts could be generated for the majority but not all of the files in this directory.

The files on these twenty-one floppy disks are stored in one of seven different directories. Printouts of files for the four directories specified above are available in this series. However, note that printouts are not yet available for the remaining three directories: "FHSTREET", "FHLOSTTOR" and 'RLWAYSTA". Note that a file list for each of the seven directories is available in file 438 of this series. Moreover, a list of all files for which printouts are available is also contained in file 438.
A description of the information contained in the files for which printouts are available follows here:

  • Files contained in "BILLSDIS" directory (see archival files 425-428) take the form of correspondence, reports, feasability studies, terms of reference for individual projects and other documentation re projects which Dendy worked on as architectural historian to the Property Restoration Branch of the Ontario Heritage Foundation between 1987-1989. Information relating to individual projects is stored in separate files. The computer file name reflects the project name and are organized in alphabetical order.
  • Files contained in the "FHARCH" directory (see archival files 429-433) contain information re the building department files for Forest Hill organized alphabetically from A-Z by architect.
  • The files contained in the "FHPERMIT" directory (see archival files 434-436) include information from the building department files for Forest Hill organized by Permit no.
  • Files contained in the "SWARTZ" directory (see archival file 437) include correspondence sent by Dendy to Tom Schwartz, President of the Intraurban Projects which relates to the work which Dendy carried out as consultant architectural historian on the 1070 Queen Street East project.
  • Finally the last file (file 14) contained in this series is entitled "FILE LISTINGS" and contains file lists for the directories "BILLSDIS", "FHARCH", and "SWARTZ".

Dendy, William

Member of Provincial Parliament candidate.

This series includes material created or accumulated by Andrew Telegdi during his campaign to be nominated and elected as the Member of Provincial Parliament representing the Liberal Party in the riding of Waterloo North in the 1990 Ontario general election. Records include news releases, speech transcripts, a resume, correspondence, photographs, and election campaign material such as a candidate survey, press clippings, newspaper advertisement mock-ups, pamphlets, and invitations.

Telegdi, Andrew Peter

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

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

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

Photographs

Photographs of Nazla L. Dane and others.

Dane, Nazla L.

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