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C.H. Doerr and Company : staff and exterior of plant.

Photograph of employees standing outside of C.H. Doerr & Co. Biscuit & Confectionery Works looking at camera. They are seen standing on the front steps of the building and next to horse-drawn delivery buggies parked along the side.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : exterior of plant.

Photograph of the exterior of the C.H. Doerr & Co. Confectionery Works building. A man in a suit and hat is standing in the front doorway and a driver is visible standing on a horse drawn cart piled with boxes at the side of the building.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : shipping room.

Print copy photograph of three employees in the C.H. Doerr and Company shipping room. Two are seen standing behind a long counter and another is standing beside piles of boxes.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : interior of plant.

Photograph of men and women employees, some seen wearing white aprons, standing beside machinery inside the C.H. Doerr & Company building, likely the the biscuit manufacturing section of the plant.

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The Dare Company Limited : photos.

Contains one binder labelled "Photos." The binder contains a black and white newspaper advertisement "Our first customer" [ca. 1967]; a Union Carbide plastic products advertisement featuring Dare biscuits; black and white photographs of products; portraits of staff; the interior and exterior of the plant in Surrey, B.C.; new wage agreement at the Surrey plant; an advertisement for a contest; and store displays. The majority of the photographs are labelled.

  • Bill Mitchell, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • J.D. Burke, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • John McKay, 2 photographs : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
  • John McKay, Doug Soanes, Ken O’Hara, Jack Graham, and C.M. Dare at the plant in Surrey, B.C. January, 1962, 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm
  • Dare Coconut creams, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare Whole Wheat Digestive biscuits, 2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
  • Dare Potato Chips, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare Candy Chest of Fruit Jellies, 2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
  • Bert Luckhurst, Peterboro, 1 photograph : b&w; on mount 22 x 27 cm
  • Dare Foods personnel, Mr. J. M. Lumby (left), members of the Employees’ Committee, and Mr. K. K. O’Hara (left centre) are shown with Mr. William White of Local 457 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union, after satisfactory negotiation of a new wage agreement at the Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
  • Mr. K. K. O’Hara (left) of Dare Foods shown here with Mr. William White of Local 475 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union after satisfactory negotiation of a new wage agreement., 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
  • Bill Gill, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Tom Warren, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm
  • John Bull, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
  • B. Sanders, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm
  • D. Grischow, 1photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • C.A. Preistman, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • J.M. Langley, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Deal B, 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 26 cm
  • Deal A, 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 26 cm
  • Dare biscuit display, 1 photograph : colour ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare's potato chip display, 1 photograph : colour ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare Lemon Cremes, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Product display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 26 cm
  • Dare's and Dare potato chips, 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 26 cm
  • Dare Chocolate Chip cookies, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Saratoga by Dare's potato chips, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Dare products and space exploration buttons, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Devonsheer Melba Toast by Dare's, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 10 cm
  • Dare Romper Room and Peanut Crunch biscuits, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Step Right Up Folks promotion, 1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 17 cm
  • Dare Delicious! display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 26 cm
  • John McKay standing beside machinery at the Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm ; 21 x 26 cm
  • Machinery at the Surrey plant, 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm ; 21 x 26 cm
  • Interior of Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 15 cm
  • Exterior of Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 11 cm

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Miko, Gerry, February 12, 1996.

Contains one black and white photograph portrait of Gerry Miko. The back of the photograph is stamped by Gibson Photo, 107 Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Photos of the new (post-fire) Dare factory in Sunnyside, Kitchener, approx. 1944.

File consists of five photographs of employees at work in the Dare Company Limited biscuit plant in Sunnyside, Kitchener. Duplicates are present. Some photographs contain captions on verso: moving trays of cookies into/out of the reel oven; dough forming, near the entrance to the reel oven; filling tins of soda crackers; 1944 - production for Defense Dept.; behind the reel oven.

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C.H. Doerr Christmas samples.

File consists of one real photograph postcard showing the C.H. Doerr Christmas samples. A description on an accompanying paper reads "Jo. Kerr in Elmira Oct. 16, 1907 xmas samples R.B. Doerr."

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Dare, C.M. and unidentifed man.

File consists of one snapshot of C.M. Dare and an unidentified man. Verso reads "Howe Candy Christmas party Roberts Marine Room, Hamilton. Dec. 17/52. C.M. Dare (right)."

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Dare Co. Ltd. Employees.

File consists of two identical photographs of unidentified employees of Dare Co. Ltd. at Carl Dargell's 50th anniversary at the Blue Moon Hotel in Petersburg, October 3, 1958.

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Dare Co. Ltd. factory employees.

File consists of two identical photographs of factory employees of Dare Co. Ltd. from 1951. The photograph was taken on the grounds outside of the factory and the employees are mostly women and are dressed in white baking outfits. Employees are identified on a separate piece of paper.

Included in the photo:

Atkinson, [?]
Beirs, Amanda
Burkhardt, Emmerson
Clendenrusig, Bill
Crooks, [?]
Crooks, Phoebe
Dare, Carl
Dargell, Carl
Dawe, Marg
de Uries, [?]
Dodge, George
Erb, Erma
Erb, Wilma
Fehreubach, [?]
Fischer, [?]
Forler, Inez
Gellner, Susan
Grishow, Doug
Hopp, Oscar
Headley, Lila
Heintz, Mary
Homuth, Howard
Hopf, Bill
Huntz, Martha
Jantzi, John
Kaufman, Lorraine
Kinzie, Orpha
Kwiakoski, Bill
Lotzke, Lorne
Lwandowski, Rose
Meinzinger, Dolores
Menyes, Maria
Mezer, Kay
Montag, Mari
Norton, Edith
Reist, Orval
Rouse, Vi
Ruhl, Joan
Russell, Jack
Schmidt, Reggie
Schmitt, Cully
Schuster, [?]
Shantz, [?]
Shantz, Abe
Shantz, Eileen
Shoemaker, Marybelle
Sider, Johnny
Stelmach, Joan
Street, Dorothy
Stuckerat, Helen
Trompke, Emdie
Wagner, Russell
Weber, Jeanette
Weiler, Alma
White, Jenny
Windsor, Marion
Wittie, Harold
Wright, Ruby
[?], Ann
[?], Anna
[?], Barb
[?], Bill
[?], Connie
[?], Evelyn
[?], George
[?], George
[?], Gladys
[?], Gwen
[?], Joan
[?], Johnny
[?], Margaret
[?], Margaret
[?], Olga
[?], Olga
[?], Rose
[?], Sally
[?], Steve
[?], Tom
[?], Winnie

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Dare Co. Ltd., Kitchener.

File consists of one photograph of employees of the Kitchener office of Dare Foods. Some employees are identified on a separate piece of paper.

Included in the photo:

Bloomin, Joan
Brubacher, Dorothy
Dargell, Carl
Dunbar, Les
Farenbach, [?]
Gaeler, Vela
Haas, Harry
Hanamel, [?]
Heffesin, [?]
Hopp, Oscar
Katush, Bernice
Miller, Belle
Ringwald, [?]
Scanin, Stella
Schlitt, Marg
Schmitt, Cully
Schultz, Bernice
Schuster, [?]
Smiley, Dorothy
Smiley, Marjorie
West, Frank
[?], George
[?], Jenny
[?], Scuster

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Doerr candy factory fire.

File consists of ten photographs showing the aftermath of the fire at the Dare factory on Breithaupt street in March of 1943.

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Howe Candy Company Christmas party Knight Hall, Hamilton.

File consists of one photograph of the Howe Candy Company Christmas party at Knight Hall in Hamilton in 1944. Some employees are identified on a separate piece of paper.

Identified in the photo:

Bloomin, Joan
Brubacher, Dorothy
Dunbar, Les
Miller, Belle
Nolan, Mary
Peters, Ben
Schultz, Bernice
Smiley, Dorothy
Smiley, [?]
[?], Jenny

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Dare family and friends.

File consists of four photographs showing members of the Dare family and their friends at both the Dare family home at 221 Pandora Cres. and the Walper Terrace hotel. Identifications present on versos include:

  • Russell, Jack
  • Dare, Carl
  • O'Hara, Kevin
  • McFadzen, Ralph
  • Lumby, Jim
  • McFadzen, Gath
  • Hopp, Oscar
  • Wild, Les
  • Russell, Em
  • Dare, Ruth
  • Lumby, Marie
  • O'Hara, Marion
  • Wild, Jean

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Dare Foods employees.

File consists of one photograph of employees of the Dare Foods plant in Kitchener. The employees are lined up outside for a group shot. Some identifications on verso:

Happ, Oscar
McFadzen, Ralph
Dare, Carl
Jantzi, John O.

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Dare Foods factory.

File consists of four photographs of employees working on various stages of cookie production in the Dare factory.

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Dare Foods Hamilton.

File consists of two photographs of the exterior of the Dare Foods plant in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Dare Foods warehouse.

File consists of one photograph of a Dare Foods warehouse in Moncton, New Brunswick.

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Dare sales wagon.

File consists of two photographs of Ralph Doerr and William Kittleborne with a C.H. Doerr horse-drawn sales wagon Wellesley, Ontario. One photograph shows the two in front of H.K. Forler's grocery and the other shows them in the wagon, along a dirt road.

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Dare sales wagon at H. K. Forler

Photograph of Ralph Doerr and William Kettleborne standing next to a horse-drawn C.H. Doerr & Co. sales wagon outside of the H. K. Forler storefront in Wellesley.

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Delawana Inn.

File consists of three photographs of Dare employees at the Delawana Inn in Muskoka. Includes Carl Dare, Bob Sanders, and Les Wild.

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Ledger sheets and press clippings.

Original ledger sheets used by the Dare Foods Limited Western Division in Surrey, British Columbia to record petty cash, inventory, accounts receivable, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, and banking information. Also includes a schedule of male employees job classifications and wage rates. In addition, the file contains press clippings related to Dare Foods Limited Western Division, particularly its cookie factory in Surrey, British Columbia .

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Dare Foods Limited : head office.

A photograph of Dare Foods Limited's head office located at 2481 Kingsway Drive, Kitchener, Ontario likely taken soon after the building was constructed.

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