This open house was held to mark the "75th year of daily newspaper publishing in Kitchener-Waterloo". File contains correspondence, facsimile of the first issue of the )Daily News, Feb. 9, 1878, instructions for guides, tour scripts, invitations, reports.

Contains correspondence, news clippings in other newspapers, news coverage from the Record.

Correspondence, lists, financial data, notes, speech draft, etc. relating to collection of donations for a memorial plaque dedicated to John E. Motz, unveiled at the 100th Anniversary event in 1978.

Contains names, addresses, telephone numbers.

Contains printed programs/menus for the fifth, sixth and seventh annual banquets of the Daily Record Staff held in 1924, 1925 and 1926.

File consists of general genealogical information on the Motz family. Includes a family tree, a narrative history of the Motz family, a family record, information on how the Lang and Motz families are related and clippings on members of the Lang family.

File consists of obituary clippings for John Motz.

File consists of clippings collected by Rose Huck Motz that relate to friends and family. Includes an obituary for William John Motz, a wedding notice for Rose and William John, wedding notices for Joseph Huck, an article on Ernest Seitz, and an obituary for J.J. Seitz.

File consists of Rose Motz's press pass, with photo, for the 1934 A Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago. Motz is seen in partial profile, wearing a hat and looking off camera.

File consists of one marriage announcement for William John and Rose Huck Motz.

File consists of materials relating to the business partnership between W.J. Motz and W.D. Euler as well as materials created and accumulated by Euler. Includes shareholder information, clippings, legal documents, correspondence as well as materials about Euler including a statement regarding his will, and historical articles on Euler and the Record.

File consists of one receipt for a pendant from A.J. Cabel, watchmaker and optician.

File consists of one menu bearing the signatures of actors and actresses. Also includes a newspaper clipping regarding a film starring some of the signers.

File consists of clippings and sections of newspapers from various editions of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Includes pages from: 1919; 1933; May-June, 1933; July 11, 1946; July 13, 1946; July 18, 1946; 1964. Articles of note include those on the name change riots, W.D. Euler, a pilgrimage tour and Germany under Hitler.

File consists of buiness envelopes for Rittinger and Motz (both as publishers and proprietors) as well as from the Berliner Journal, Combined German Newspapers, the Kitchener-Waterloo Records and combinations of other newspapers they owned and ran. Also includes one envelope from John P. Becker, agent to Rittinger and Motz.

Materials related to the promotion and launch of the book Newsgirls during different book launch and promotion events. Includes information for events at the North Toronto Historical Society, the Literary Table of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, the Women’s Art Association of Canada, the S. Walter Stewart Library Auditorium, Belmont House, CBC Radio, the University Women's Club of Toronto, Victoria University Library, the Toronto Public Library, and the Toronto Hunt. Includes a promotional poster, bookmarks, and a nametag and lanyard. Also contains photographs of several presentations and events.

File consist of one paper napkin advertisement for Barrett and Couldings 99 cent store.

File consist of clippings relating to the city of Brockville.

File consists of one advertisement and order form for The Times weekly edition.

File consist of clippings relating to education.

File consist of clippings relating to Port Hope.

File consist of clippings relating to Hamilton.

File consists of a circular on the Canadian Institute.

File consist of clippings relating to the settlement of Niagara Township.

File consist of clippings relating to Coburg.

File consist of six tickets for the Toronto railway, and one for the Montreal railway.

File consist of clippings relating to missions.

File consists of one programme for the twelfth anniversary of the Bonar Presbyterian Church in Toronto.

File consist of clippings relating to the city of Brighton.

File consist of clippings relating to Niagara on the Lake.

File consists of a poster for a monster pageant depecting scenes of Confederation for the semi-centennial celebration in Brantford.

File consist of clippings relating to the origin of Empire Day.

File consists of one pamphlet on the history of the schooner Nancy.

File consists of one typescript of an obituary "death of the late Miss Gonder of Black Creek - a pioneer resident of Willoughby Township", a clipping of said obituary, and a manuscript tribute to her memory which was read at her funeral service.

Correspondence related to Hollobon’s studies at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Includes correspondence between Hollobon and the Columbia University in New York about writing programs and fellowships, grants, events; a pamphlet about the Journalism Day from Columbia; articles about Hollobon winning the Fellowship in the Advancement of Science Writing from Columbia University; correspondence with John Foster (Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University); Columbia alumni list; and a notebook with email addresses of staff and alumni from Columbia University.

Materials related to awards received by Joan Hollobon and the Hollobon Award. Includes biographical notes and articles about Hollobon, related newspaper clippings and correspondence, photographs of the Hollobon Award ceremony in 1987 and 1990, and a copy of Science Link by Canadian Science Writers’ Association, Vol. 9, No. 3 (June 1989). Also contains the following awards and certificates received by Hollobon:

• Lifetime Achievement Award by Science in Society Journalism Awards (2010),
• Certificate of appreciation by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association (1981),
• Award of Distinction by the Health Care Public Relations Association (1984),
• Honorary Member recognition of the Ontario Medical Association (1985),
• Congratulation certificate by the Government of Ontario (2015),

Dinner menus and programs of events hosted by Prime Minister Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King. Includes:

• A dinner given in honour of Colonel John Gilman Foster, Consul General of the United States of America, on June 7, 1927
• A dinner given in honour of the delegates of the Empire Parliamentary Association on their visit to Canada, on August 29, 1928
• A dinner given in honour of the Rt. Hon. James Ramsay MacDonald, P.C., LL.D., M.P., on September 8, 1928.

Scrapbook album created by Bettie Bernice Wilson with photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings related to her years in the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division. Includes photographs of Wilson, Wilson and her colleagues training and socializing, as well as her graduating class from No. 6 "M." Depot in Toronto; newspaper clippings about the R.C.A.F., the R.C.A.F. Women's Division, and Wilson's colleges; and related ephemera, including dinner menus and health clearence cards.

Leaflet detailing an account of torture while imprisoned for Suffrage actions, written by Mary Richardson.

Programme for Clara Butt's provincial tour of January-March 1917. A portion of the proceeds of the tour went to a fund for artists adversely affected by the First World War.

Envelopes addressed to Irene Hancock without accompanying correspondence. These are likely all from Ray Strachey. Also includes an envelope with Irene's handwritting indicating that a group of letters from Ray Strachey and regarding her leaving the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship were kept in it.

Letterhead of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship.

Leaflet distributed by the National Women's Social & Political Union of a satirical letter about the methods of the suffragettes versus the methods of men who wanted enfranchisement.

Leaflet on what the vote has done published by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. The leaflet discusses the changes that have happened since the enfranchisement of women over 30 with land holdings.

Materials related to book Stormthrower. Includes information related to public readings, leaflet for “Art bar Poetry Series,” newsletter from Wolsak and Wynn (Fall 2002) with information about the book, itinerary for Julia McCarthy and Deirdre Dwyer and invitation to reception for an event from them, photocopy of Poet’s corner, and bus ticket.
Also contains print-out of poem “Twa corbies” written by Don Domanski.

Materials related to the 2011 Canadian Authors Association (CAA) Literary Awards in which Julia McCarthy was awarded the CAA Award for poetry. Includes pamphlet for the ceremony, certificate of the award, and medal and lapel pin in a box.
Also contains a congratulatory letter from Garfield Dunlop, Member of Parliament for Simcoe North and certificates of achievement from the City of Orillia.

Materials created by Don Domanski, sent to and accumulated by Julia McCarthy. Includes correspondence received by McCarthy from Domanski with his poems.
Poems are titled “Beside the river,” “Words of surrender,” “Overshadows,” “A great space,” “The god in the crevice,” “Maker of dust,” “Spirits among weddings,” “Meditation,” “The star saliph,” “The star Betelgeuse," "Natal," "Supplications in a room," "Maker of dust," "Pearls," "Pathogens," "Meditation," "A clench of deity," "Walking through a field," "Three ribbons," "The daemon of walking," "The silence of remembered time," "A woman watching," "Thresholds gather round them," "Leviathan," "Dark medicines," "Speaking in the outer world," "The evening dress," "Under a star equal to locality," "All our wonder unavenged," "Untitled with invisible ink," "Anecdote," "A hummingbird's heart beats 1260 times a minute," "Leaning on silk," "Otherness of the little songs," "Ars poetica," "Twelve white chapters," "Aeon," "While clouds break twigs beside the river," "Dark graffiti," "Parish of the physic moon," "The leaf opera," "Cloudbursts in a lower world," "The planet asleep on your heart," "At the height of names," "The scarab," "Osprey and salmon," "Twelve corners of the earth," "Genius loci," and "In the field of orison."
Also contains a flyer for The Gallery Reading Series with Don Domanski (Saint Mary's University - Department of English, February 18, 2000).

Wooden board with a serigraph printing of a poster of an event organized by Malaspina University-College. Event is the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Chair presenting Cape Breton Poet Don Domanski: "Don Domanski: a conversation" (October 19) and "Poetry and the Sacred" (October 20). Board is signed by Domanski to McCarthy.

Materials related to the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) Annual Meeting in Victoria, B.C. Includes information about accommodation and travel for the conference, a copy of the conference proposal by John Leslie (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada) titled “Vision versus revision: Native peoples, government officials, and the Joint Senate/House of Commons Committees on Indian affairs, 1946-1949 and 1959-1961,” a newsletter for the CHA for Autumn 1989, correspondence related to the conference, extracts from “Learned societies conference, University of Victoria, May 20 to June 8,” business cards for different people, abstract of Walker’s talk titled “Public history and public policy in Canada: a case study of race relations since 1867,” guidelines for participants, program of the conference, and script for the talk.
Also contains a printout of the “List of delegates 5th annual public history conference, University of Waterloo, May 5-7, 1983.”

Materials related to the 19th Annual Canadian African Studies Conference organized by the Canadian Association for African Studies, in Halifax, in 1990 where James Walker participated in the panel “Black Diaspora Workshop (1): Round table on the Black diaspora: origins and diversity.” Includes printout of Walker's paper “Canada and the origins of the African diaspora,” related correspondence, handwritten notes about the conference, printout of “Commonwealth History Seminar, 29 October 1979,” printout of “Introductory remarks, African Diaspora session, 15 March 1979,” paper “Social and cultural relationships between diaspora and Indigenous groups in Sierra Leona,” memoranda related to travel expenses and organization of the conference, printout of “The challenge of public policy,” program of the event.

Materials related to the International Conference “Race relations in the United Kingdom and Canada: policy, practice and research,” at York University, in 1990 where James Walker participated with a paper titled “‘Race’ and the historian: some lessons from Canadian public policy.” Includes synopsis and printout of Walker's paper, related correspondence, conference program, and pamphlets for the conference.
Also contains a synopsis and printout of Walker’s “‘Race’ policy in Canada: a retrospective.”

Materials related to James Walker's talk delivered as part of the series “History as it happens” lunch-time talks at the University of Waterloo, on January 12, 2017, titled “Viola Desmond, race, and segregation in the Maritimes.” Includes promotional poster, bibliography, and script.

Materials related to the event “Ten Days for World Development” (a nationwide programme focusing on major global issues) during a campaign that focused on raising awareness of world hunger. Includes poster and information pamphlets.

Materials related to the creation and organization of the Public History Master’s program at the University of Waterloo. Includes proposals to introduce a public history programme at the University of Waterloo, a summary of the Master's option in Public History, newspaper clippings about the new program, information about programs for public history in other universities, and related correspondence, notes, and business cards.
Also contains the "Graduate Affairs Group Report to ARTS Faculty Council," information about seminar History in Public Policy for students of History and students of public policy, a printout of "Public History Work Report Department of External Affairs Historical Division" by Joan Murphy, a pamphlet and press release for the “Public History in Action: international perspectives. Fifth annual public History conference,” photocopy of “Rescuing records to make corporate history” by Betsy Matthews, and a printout of “UW Department of Recreation. Courses in Museum management, Fall term 1982.”

Correspondence received by James Walker from different people and institutions. Includes correspondence received by Prof. Allen P. Stouffer (from St. Francis Xavier University) and printout of writing “Toward a redrawing of mid-nineteenth-century Black Nova Scotian history.”
Also contains ephemera for different events, including “Fall teaching days, program and pre-registration form 1991” and a poster for an open forum in celebration of BHM “The Black experience in Canada: struggles against Racism. Past, present and future.”

Professional and personal correspondence sent and received by James Walker to and from different people and organizations. Includes correspondence related to his research, to the University of Waterloo, events he attended and in which he participated, and correspondence from colleagues, friends, and students.

Robert Shipley's two journals for the years 1992, 1993, and 1994. Includes two journals. First journal has Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal. Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal and a newspaper clipping from October 28, 1991.
Second journal is titled "China Diary" and covers Shipley's notes, drawings and collected ephemera from his trip to China in September and early October 1992.

Materials related to publications Robert Shipley wrote or in which he collaborated about the Welland Canals Preservation Association, Port Colborne, the Niagara College Centre for the Arts, and Shipley's books To mark our place: a history of Canadian War memorials and St. Catharines: Garden on the canal. Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings, flyers, booklets, drawings, and related publications.

Materials related to publications Robert Shipley wrote or in which he collaborated about the Welland Canals. Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings, flyers, booklets, presentations, and publications. Publications are:

• Lock 24. First Welland Canal by the Welland Canals Society (1988),
• Welland Canals corridor development guide. Prepared for the Regional Municipality of Niagara with the assistance of the Canada-Ontario Tourism Subsidiary Agreement (1988),
• Stroke of the pen: newsletter for the Niagara branch of the Canadian Authors Association (Vol. 5 No. 3, January 1988) that promoted Shipley's book St. Catharines: Garden on the canal,
• The economic development journal (June 1989) with an article by Shipley titled "Developing the business potential of the historic Welland Canals. Channelling energies,"
• Leisure Ontario (February 1989) with an article titled "The Welland Canals: and adventure in engineering and human enterprise" by Alan Hewetson mentioning Shipley.

Also contains materials related to Shipley's poetry writing, including a flyer for the event "Waterways. A festival of maritime culture and traditions" (September 9, 1990) where Shipley participated in the storytelling section with "Shipwreck" and There is. Niagara poetry anthology (Vol. 6) where Shipley published "Spanning Ages" (1988).

Materials related to publications Robert Shipley wrote or in which he collaborated. Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings, flyers and booklets related to the event "Playback 200" (1984) where Shipley was the festival coordinator, a printout for a guest lecture (March 15, 1984), and publications. Publications are:

• There is: Niagara poetry anthology (Vol. 3, 1985) where Robert Shipley published poems "Dad and grand dad - 1938," "Creative tension," and "Insect issues" and There is: Niagara poetry anthology 1984 with "Grenade bed," "Safe kitchen," and "The W o in man,"
• Welland Canals Preservation Association annual report (1986) and plans of Niagara South Rowing Club grand stand,
• Canalside '84 calendar. 12 views by Robert Shipley,
• Printout of Shipley's unpublished manuscript ...and nobody came (What if you had an orgasm and nobody came: stories of erotic transportation),
• Canadian author & bookman (Vol. 59, No. 2, Winter 1984 and Vol. 59, No. 4, Summer 1984) with Shipley's "The writer as promoter,"
• Goodwin's (Winer 1983-84) with drawings by Shipley,
• What's up Niagara (Vol. 3. No. 11, October 1984) with a profile by Shipley,
• History through drama edited by Shipley (1984) and related promotional ephemera,
• Poem book Relation ships (1984),
• Literaty gifts. Niagara branch Canadian Authors Association (Christmas 1984) with a poem by Shipley titled "Winter kitchen still life."

Also contains materials related to the Canadian Authors Association (CAA) Awards of 1985 with related ephemera and a draft of the chapter "Introduction" ("Introduction" was written by Shipley during the National Executive Meeting of the CAA, was read during the workshop orientation meeting, and was published as part of To build a book: a compendium of workshops on publishing by the CAA).

Materials related to publications Robert Shipley wrote or in which he collaborated. Includes newspaper clippings and photocopies, a legal agreement between Shipley and Norman Turner Bragg for Shipley to write for the book The mighty waterway, and publications. Publications are:

• Program for the "Ontario History and Social Science Teachers' Association presented 'in pursuit of the national dream'" where Shipley participated with a talk titled "'Slabtown revisited': an approach for studying local history" (1982)
• Articles by Shipley published in Alive and Well (1981-1982),
• Unpublished articles titled "The man, the poet: Irving Layton" (with Halia Zamkow), "Creativity... 'the inextinguishable flame'," "The arrival of the home computer," "I got it off my dad and he got it off his dad," "Women's world: the Nestle boycott: babies and you," and "Minor hockey: a major headache for the kids,"
• Channel Magazine (March 1982) with Shipley's article "Who owns the language of morality,"
• Perception Magazine (March-April 1981, January-February 1981) with drawings by Shipley,
• Niagara peninsula writers lovebook. St. Valentine's day 1982 with Shipley's "Love in the laneway,"
• Northern Travel Survey (1978).

Also contains scripts for the plays "The battle of Slabtown," "There goes my chicken salad," and "A legend from ashes" all developed by students of Banting Secondary School and Robert Shipley.

Personal correspondence sent and received by Robert Shipley between 1998 and 2002 to and from Dana Švihlová, sometimes printed on reused paper. Includes personal correspondence, related ephemera, and photographs.
Also contains a photocopy of pages from Švihlová's work Trvalo udržateľný rozvoj na miestnej úrovni.

Correspondence sent and received by Robert Shipley between 1991 and 1992 from different persons and institutions. Includes administrative correspondence related to letters of submission and acceptance for his work, different positions he had, trips, membership in committees, revenue income from books, letters thanking him for participating in events, and related ephemera. Also contains a certificate of his appointment as Lieutenant of His Majesty's Provincial Matrine Squadron on Lake Ontario.

Correspondence sent and received by Robert Shipley between 1993 and 1996 from different persons and institutions. Includes business correspondence related to the University of Waterloo, job applications, and applications for grants. Also contains personal correspondence, letters thanking him for participating in events, letters received from politicians, and ephemera received with the correspondence.

Research materials created or accumulated by Robert Shipley related to different matters, including Canadian politics, Canadian law, archives, history and heritage of Ontario, and cooking. Includes articles and newspaper clippings, research notes, and related ephemera. Also contains personal correspondence.

Research materials created or accumulated by Robert Shipley related to different matters, including Canadian politics, Canadian history, Canadian culture and heritage, and resources for writers. Includes articles, bibliography lists, research notes, newsletters, and related ephemera. Also contains personal correspondence and notes, and poems written by Shipley.

One coupon booklet given to attendees of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention. All of the coupons in this book have been removed, but a table of contents notes that it included coupons for hotels, dinners and a portrait.

One circular listing the dates of meetings of the National British Women's Temperance Association and World Woman's Christian Temperance Union for the month of June 1895.

One card noting that delegates of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention taking the train to Reigate are to ask for the Special Train of Lady Henry Somerset.

One small folded leaflet with the short story by Mrs. J.H. Earle titled "Wear the White Ribbon." A white ribbon was worn by temperance advocates and members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

One small booklet with rules, advice, and a bibliography of recommended books for members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

One small booklet "A Wider Outlook" written by Lady Henry Somerset, President for the British Empire. The booklet extols the virtues of the temperance movement.

File consists of correspondence to and from G. Elmore Reaman during his tenure as the first Canadian president of the International Platform Association, a non-profit organization for promoting to the public "high grade platform presentations." (Flyer, ca. 1950). The correspondence is mostly to and from other members and is concerned with internal affairs of the organization. Includes two letters from John Diefenbaker dated Nov. 3, 1949 and Jan. 28, 1950. Also includes a small amount of ephemera from individual artists.

This folder actually contains material on a variety of topics and probably belonged to F.J.T. Maines. Includes two envelopes of material dating from 1915-1916. These include manuscript material: untitled sermon (?) on loyalty and war, 7 leaves; a hymn with music; a second untitled ms. sermon, 4 p.; manuscript notes on "Christian brotherhood". Includes ephemera and pamphlets produced for troops "On Active Service." Includes clippings relating to the war, to politics, and to topics of interest to F.J.T. Maines. A third gathering of material dates from 1931- 1939 and consists of clippings on topics such as world politics, Grey Owl, Niagara Falls, hawks, liquor legislation, poems, letters to the editor, etc.

Contains biographical materials regarding Jenny Pincock, Minnie and Fred Maines, family and friends. Includes clippings of recitals, wedding invitations, reviews of concerts, letters of reference, etc.

Two recital announcements, one grade report from the Toronto Conservatory of music for a pupil.

Contents:

• Galt YMCA Circus Program 1928
• F.T. Maines: correspondence & ephemera regarding subscription to "light".
• Minnie Maines: Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir ephemera.
• Minnie Maines: membership cards and receipts: K-W YMCA and YWCA.
  5: Minnie Maines: household receipts and ephemera.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters interspersed with details about family life such as Ulrich Sommer and Cornelius Sommer’s studies in university, Angelika Sommer’s pending visit with her grandparents, and Lina Neumeyer Raatz’s declining health. Lina Neumeyer Raatz was Ulrich Sommer’s aunt and she lived in Germany. Also contains correspondence between the Sommer family and the Altenmueller family from Cooksville, Ontario. Records include letters, postcards, and pamphlets.

File consists of one notebook kept by Frederick J.T. Maines with reference materials on a variety of topics for sermons. The subjects are indexed at the beginning of the notebook and include topics such as demonic possession, Buddha, ectoplasm, necromancy, superstition and more. Also included are clippings and notes that were inset into various pages.

File consists of material relating to administration and activities of the Five Counties Art Association for 1957. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, meeting agendas and one set of minutes (possibly draft copy), handwritten notes, an exhibition program, and a newspaper clipping.

File consists of material relating to the administration and activities of the Five Counties Art Assoication for 1958. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, exhibitors' lists, minutes for meetings of the teacher's council and for a Leaders Institute planning meeting, handwritten jury score sheets from an exhibition, handwritten notes, etc.

File consists of material relating to the administration and activities of the Five Counties Art Association for 1960. Includes a bulletin, an exhibitors' list, newspaper clippings, ts. notes regarding the teachers' council, etc.

File consists of material relating to the Leader's Institute held at the Macdonald Institute (Guelph) in 1956. Includes typed reports and feedback about the conference, handwritten notes, correspondence (including a draft), reports on discussion sessions, a list of participants, and statements of purpose for the Leader's Institute.

File consists of completed registration forms for a design and sketching weekend held in Doon in October, 1965. Also present are handwritten notes and a small amount of correspondence.

File consists mainly of flyers, programs, and invitations for events and workshops organized by COAA for the years 1976 to 1980. Events include Christmas parties, field trips, sketching and painting trips, gallery weekends, workshops, and annual meetings. File also includes some correspondence and applications forms relating to grants from the Ontario Arts Council and some correspondence relating to arrangements for a sketching weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

File consists of material relating to programs organized by the COAA, and mainly the annual workshops at Geneva Park (Longford Mills, Ontario) for 1994-1996 and the annual juried exhibition called Crossection for 1980-1982. Material relates to the organization and arrangement of the events. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, flyers and invitations, brochures, programs, exhibition lists, minutes, budgets, draft workshop descriptions, etc.

File consists of some material relating to one or several art weekends at Geneva Park: a brochure, a program and workshop participant lists, and handwritten notes from an annual meeting. File also includes a guest list for a K-W Society of Artists exhibition, and completed surveys of art teachers in the five counties area.

File consists of a sketch pad belonging to artist and COAA member Pat Walsh. The spiral-bound notebook contains mainly photographs of buildings in and around London, Ontario, and also contains ephemera, newspaper clippings, and other material. It appears to have been created in preparation for or after a COAA sketching trip.

File consists mainly of material relating to international tours by the Sheridan College Society of Painters and Photographers. Includes flyers and mailings regarding the tours, as well as some flyers for COAA workshops.

File consists of two copies of a flyer advertising a three-day watercolour workshop by California artist Christopher Schink, sponsored by the COAA.

File consists of miscellaneous material accumulated by association members. Includes correspondence, advertisements, page proofs for a bulletin, COAA letterhead, a completed questionnaire, a newspaper clipping (relating to a sculpture at Wilfrid Laurier University), etc.

File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated by association member Ruth Camplin (also President, 1969). Includes exhibitors lists for various exhibitions (most but not all by the association), association news bulletins (incomplete, without cover pages and some loose pages), correspondence, flyers, and other material.

File consists of material relating to the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario, and mainly to legislation changes in the early 1980s affecting the McMichael Canadian Collection and the response of interested parties (including COAA members) regarding the changes. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, newspaper clippings, politicians' statements given at the Legislative Assebmly of Ontario, transcripts of parliamentary committee meetings (Standing Committee on Social Development), newsletters, fliers, etc. File also contains copies of the Act to Establish the McMichael Canadian Collection (1972) and the Act to amend the McMichael Canadian Collection Act (1981). File probably belonged to Oreen Campbell and most correspondence belongs to Campbell, but some correspondence is also addressed to Doris Law. Includes a letter from Premier William G. Davis.

File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated during the process of researching and writing the history of the COAA. Includes published material relating to community development and recreation (pamphlets, minutes of proceedings in the House of Commons (Ottawa) of the special committee on reconstruction and re-establishment), material prepared by the Teachers' Council of the association (lectures, articles), handwritten and typed notes, lists of workshop and sketching trip participants. a typed history of the association, an exhibition catalogue, and other material.

File consists of material relating to the Keffer reunion held in Waterloo in 1964 and the reunion committee's appeal to raise funds for the Keffer Memorial Chapel at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. Includes correspondence and a clipping.

Three clippings regarding Leavine in his capacity an alderman in the 1940s. One from the Kitchener Daily Record, dated Tuesday, December 31, 1940, reports that Leavine had been named chairman of the finance committee of City Council at the pre-inaugural caucus held on Dec. 30, 1940. Another, also from the Record, dated December 8, 1942 includes names and portraits of Kichener's newly elected 1943 city council, including Leavine. The final clipping is undated and outlines the results of the municipal election in Kitchener during which Leavine was once again elected to city council by 6,169 votes, receiving more votes than any other individual elected to the Kitchener council that year.

Two clippings which include references to the K-W Collegiate Institute where Dr. S.F. Leavine's eldest daughter, Desta Leavine, was a student. The first, undated, describes how Desta was one of three public speaking contest winners to address the K-W Kiwanis Club at one of their weekly luncheon meetings. Desta's speech focused on the Mary Celeste, a mystery ship of the last century found adrift and crewless in mid-Atlantic. The second clipping, from the July 7, 1945 edition of the Kitchener Record, includes promotion results for the K-W Collegiate .

Letters, cards, and postcards written to Betty Forbes and Bill Land from Millicent Lyall Forbes, Helene, Isabelle Alexandra Burt (Aunt Diddy), and Uncle Art. File also includes letters from Ray McMurphy to Betty Forbes, an account with Smuck's China and Gift Shop in Kitchener, and a wedding program for Thomas Land and Sylvia Wink.