Material created and accumulated by Arthur Benjamin Schantz. Includes one new years card.

Series consists of records relating to the administration and activities of the Muskoka Lakes Association, and in particular the annual meetings, meetings of the executive committee, and meetings of association directors. The records demonstrate the concern for and activity surrounding the MLA's involvement in issues affecting the environment and the quality of life in the Muskokas and address such topics as water quality, acid rain, planning and land use, water levels, taxation, etc. Series includes minutes for the annual meeting of the MLA (1894-1947), meetings of the executive committee (1972-1980), and meetings of association directors (1980-1986), as well as attachments and supporting documents including agendas, financial statements, budgets, association newsletters, correspondence, lists of board members, reports, surveys and questionnaires, minutes of board sub-committees, ephemera, photocopied clippings, etc.

Material created and accumulated by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz. Includes two greeting cards.

Material created and accumulated by Herbert Cecil Palmer Schantz. Includes one envelope addressed to Herbert.

Issues of local newspapers and printed material.

Series is comprised of ms. speeches given by Elizabeth Smith Shortt at various events and lectures.

Series consists of correspondence received by Martha Rieder over the course of her life. Includes letters, telegrams, postcards, and invitations from family and friends, including correspondence from her husband Talmon Henry Rieder. Series includes sympathy letters received by Martha upon the death of Talmon.

Series consists of images of the interior and exterior of buildings, staff, events, regional and national meetings, displays, staff BBQs, award banquets, retirement parties, and birthday parties. Includes black and white and colour photographs, negatives, slides and transparencies.

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder relating to his personal life and his career, as well as material accumulated by Martha Rieder during the process of settling Talmon's estate. Material relating to Talmon's career pertains to his involvement in the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, Canadian Consolidated Felt Company, and Ames Holden McCready, as well as with the Westmount Improvement Company.

Series contains material relating to the construction of the Rieder house at 610 Belmont Avenue, Montreal; the vulcanization of rubber; the formation of the felt syndicate; and Talmon's property in Calgary. Includes:

• incoming and outgoing correspondence;
• agreements and other legal documents;
• diaries;
• ephemera;
• life insurace applications and policies;
• company newsletters (Foot-prints and The Dominion from the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, and From the Ground Up from Ames Holden McCready);
• membership cards, certificates, and other personal documents;
• clippings;
• ms. notes;
• estate statements;
• a prospectus (Westmount); and
• other material.

432 pieces of correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family. Includes letters to and from Dorothy Russell and Franklin Abram Schantz, and letters from Dorothy's husband Clarke Russell.

Series is comprised of miscellaneous correspondence not to or form members of the Smith-Shortt family.

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Ella Anthes Cook. Includes autograph albums, a scrapbook, ephemera, and correspondence.

Series consists of five scrapbooks created by Isabel Mackay. The scrapbooks include clippings of Mackay's works, reviews, obituaries, and photographs of contemporaries.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Martha Rieder. Includes financial records, ephemera, and textile materials.

Series consists of one ledger book kept by Rieder and Ruby, General Merchants of New Hamburg.

Series consists of photographs, most of which depict Ivan W. Keffer and his family. Includes mainly snapshots of Ivan, Mary and Mary Jane Keffer taken while they were living in Germany, during their outings and travels. Series also includes a portrait of Ivan W. Keffer at his desk and several photographs relating to the F.W. Woolworth Co.

Material relating to Orpheus Moyer Schantz's activities and interests; primarily entertainment, business and leisure pursuits. Includes ephemera, art, and business cards.

Series consists of material relating to the life and family of Johann Christoph Schneider. Includes clippings, ephemera, photographs, biographical information.

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

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Ella Daniels Schneider and Frederick H. Schneider.

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.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Elizabeth Schneider Gofton.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Albert Carl Schneider.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Catherine Schneider White.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Jane Urquhart relating to her professional commitments and writing. Includes handwritten and typed drafts of many of Urquhart's works, research for her works, as well as material relating to other professional commitments including prize judging, readings, etc.

Series consists of photographs documenting the operations, products, events and personnel of Dominion Rubber and later Uniroyal.

Series consists of photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies and other images relating to the distillery, its employees, its history, and also to the local area. File titles are for the most part as assigned by the Seagram Museum.

Material relating to Franklin Abram Schantz's activities and interests, primarily household and personal accounts and investments. Includes correspondence, clippings and ephemera.

Material created and accumulated by Arthur M. Bowman. Includes one item of correspondence.

Series consists of photographs created and accumulated by the Hobson family, thier relatives and friends. Includes photographs of a drugstore, a banquet hall, a Kiwanis trip and Victoria Public School students.

Material created and accumulated by Sophie Schantz. Includes one autograph album.

Material created and accumulated by Franklin Abram Schantz. Includes two new years cards and one birthday card.

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.

Records documenting the family life of Harvey J. Sims and his wife Florence Katherine Roos, who married October 29, 1902. Correspondence to Florence is sparse but includes three letters from her old friend Isabel Grace Christina "Bella" King, sister of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Florence had a literary bent and some of her writing is present in the collection, including her biography of Sheriff George Davidson.

A quantity of letters from Peter H. Sims to his son Harvey are present from 1888 (when Harvey was 17) to 1912. Peter gives opinions, advice, and instruction on every aspect of Harvey's life. He attempts to guide Harvey through the narrow path to success in the legal profession, counselling frugality, moral rectitude, and duty to family above all. He even gives Harvey step-by-step instructions on cleaning and painting his basement to make it healthy.

Correspondence from Harvey's mother Jemima is not as sympathetic. In 1898, on hearing a report that Harvey had been struck by a ball, she advises him strongly to give up football as "beneath the dignity of a practising barrister." Harvey never took this advice as he had a strong interest in many sports and made his mark in all of them: football, curling, and lawn bowling.
Also present in this series is correspondence from his sister Rella and her family, legal agreements, ephemera, football ephemera, lawn bowling scrapbook and trip ephemera.

Material created and accumulated by Hervey M. Bowman. Includes notebooks, ephemera, correspondence, etc.

Series consists of material relating to the administration and operation of the Lang Tanning Company in Kitchener Ontario, from approximately 1888 to 1974. Contains minutes, agreements, and clippings. Also contains a colour photocopy of a site plan from 1938

Material created and accumulated by Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz). Includes an autograph book, notebooks, and a Christmas card from her husband Ward White.

Material created and accumulated by Orpheus Moyer Schantz and his family, including his wife Carrie Schantz. Includes material relating to the Great Smoky Mountains, correspondence, clippings, greeting cards, poetry, material relating to Orpheus' lecture and tour guide work, and other ephemera. Also includes 5 drawings, 1 painting, 20 photographs, 1 map, 1 luggage tag.

Series consists of records relating to the operation and activities of the Berlin Water Works Company and the sale of the company to the Corporation of the Town of Berlin. Includes correspondence, reports, contracts and other legal documents, architectural drawings, and other material.

Series consists of miscellaneous materials relating to the life and interests of the Pincock and Maines families and friends. Includes photographs, manuscript and typescript. notes and drafts, ephemera, etc.

Records related to the Schantz Russell family history. Includes ephemera, drawings, a floor plan of the Schantz family home in Kitchener, Ont., correspondence and family histories written by Harold Russell.

Series is comprised of ephemeral materials created and accumulated by Elizabeth Smith Shortt. Includes a wedding invitation, stock and bond records, and stationary.

Series contains materials relating to the estate of John Ratz. Includes correspondence, tax records, receipts and invoices, cheques, ledger books and legal documents.

Series consists of alcohol-related ephemera for which no direct Seagram connection is apparent, and includes an advertisement, bill of lading, charter, invoice from a Galt merchant, liquor permits, a temperance pledge card, prohibition ribbon, and wine lists.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Edwin Oliver Clement and wife Helen Keefer Clement née Thompson. Includes clippings.

Photographic prints and negatives. Prints include a ca. 1885 portrait of Peter H. Sims, three photographs of W.L. Mackenzie King given to Harvey by King, as well as negatives of Chicopee house and grounds, and of the Sims family.

Materials related to A. R. Kaufman's family. Includes family photographs with Jacob and Mary Eidt Kaufman's family, A. R. and Jean Kaufman and their children, and other members of the extended family and friends; correspondence received by A. R. and Jean Kaufman; materials related to A. R. and Jean Kaufman's wedding and anniversary celebrations and birthdays; A. R. Kaufman legal documents; and materials related to A. R. Kaufman retirement and passing.
Also contains materials related to A. R. Kaufman's personal affiliations in the Grand River Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, the Royal City Lodge of Perfection, Springfield College, and a Silver Jubilee medal awarded to Kaufman.

Series consists of photographs of William Lyon Mackenzie King, his family and friends. Includes formal and informal portraits as well as snapshots taken in Toronto, Ottawa, Denver and Kingsmere.
Arranged in chronological order.

Series consist of materials relating to the life and death of Rev. Edwin Clement and wife Mary Couch Clement née Pope. Includes clippings, a map of the Clement family plot, and genealogical information on the family.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by J.I. Frank Anthes. Includes ribbons collected by J.I. Frank.

Series is comprised of financial materials created by the George Pattinson Woollen Mill and its predecessors. Includes journals, a general ledger, figure slips, a coal account book and a ledger index.

Series consists of correspondence received by John S. and Lydia Anthes from family and friends, some addressed to both and some addressed to John or Lydia individually. Includes letters and a telegram.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Blanche Mildred Kelly née Clement and husband Frederick Bowman Kelly. Include clippings, and a birthday card sent to an infant Blanche by her grandmother.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Adam Bowlby. Includes one obituary and a photocopy of the obituary.

One diary belonging to Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz). The diary was given to Etta in 1882 for her sixteenth birthday and in it she has written poems, songs and diary entries. Also includes clippings, drawings, fabric swatches and writings that were inserted into the diary.

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.

Series is comprised of ms. reports created by Elizabeth Smith Shortt, primarily related to her medical and women's rights work.

Correspondence to and from members of the Schantz family, friends and relatives.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Emma Louise Schneider Siegner.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Heinrich Metz Schneider.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Violet Smith (sister of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Material created and accumulated by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz. Includes diaries, scrapbooks, ephemera, school books, an autograph book and artifacts.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Ethel Lapsley Schneider and the Lapsley family.

Series consists of material relating to the Charles A. Ahrens family, primarily photographs, genealogical and biographical information.

Series consists of material relating to the immediate family of John Metz Schneider, including his wife Helena (Ahrens) Schneider and children (to the age of majority or marriage), and his parents Johann Christoph Schneider and Anna Elizabeth (Metz) Schneider.

Series consists of textiles created and accumulated by members of the Clement-Bowlby families. Includes a baby bonnet, tatting, doilies and darning examples created by Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement as well as name tapes belonging to William Pope Clement and a group of embroidered bookmarks.

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.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Damaris Isabelle Smith (mother of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Series is comprised of school notebooks created by Elizabeth Smith Shortt.

Material created and accumulated by Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz). Includes one photograph, ephemera, cards, certificates, examinations, and other records.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Adam Shortt (husband of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Charles Bowlby Clement and wife Gertrude Clement née Unger. Includes clippings and two poems written by Charles.

Series is comprised of invitations and announcements created and accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family.

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.

Material related to the estates of George Ratz, Clara E. Ratz and Elmer Ratz. Includes statements of accounts, correspondence, blueprints and legal documents.

Series is comprised of ms. speeches given by Elizabeth Smith Shortt at a variety of events.

Series is comprised of various legal and educational certificates accumulated by Elizabeth Smith Shortt.

Series consists of originals and photocopies of correspondence, invoices, partnership agreements re the business interests of Joseph Emm Seagram, George Randall and William Roos from 1869-1899.

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 records documenting aspects of the lives, careers, and interests of Charles E. Greb, Harry Greb, Clara May Greb, Erwin C. Greb, and Charles E. Greb Sr.; and the lives and disappearance of basset hounds Velvet and Jasmine. Includes press clippings; correspondence; birth, marriage, and death certificates; wills; photographs; certificates and awards; ephemera; and other material. Material probably collected and compiled by Charles E. Greb.

Material created and accumulated by Orpheus Moyer Schantz. Includes one small memorandum book.

Series is comprised of pamphlets accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family that relate to a variety of subjects.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Ernest D'Israeli Smith (brother of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Series is comprised of clippings accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family. Includes primarily clippings on topics of interest such as medicine and women's rights, as well as those relating to members of the family.

Photographs and photograph albums containing pictures of Forbes, Buck, Land, Wilson, and Kaufman family members as well as their friends. Many of the photographs capture family events, holiday celebrations, family trips, camping, cottages, family homes in Kitchener and Hespeler, Ontario, Betty and Peg Forbes's school experience and nursing career, individuals and battalions connected to the First World War and Second World War, and more. The photograph albums were primarily created by Betty Forbes.

Press clippings, notes, and programs created and accumulated by the Forbes family.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Edwin Perry Clement and wife Janie Elizabeth Clement née Bowlby. Includes clippings and biographical information on the family, an autograph book owned by Janie, correspondence and ephemera. Note that textiles created by Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement are located in Series 22: Textiles.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of David Sovereign Bowlby and his wife Martha Esther Bowlby née Murphy. Includes clippings, correspondence, genealogical notes on the Murphy family, a print, and an article about David Sovereign from the Fifth Annual Report of the Waterloo History Society.

Series is comprised of materials relating to the company Rittinger & Motz as well as the newspapers that it owned and operated. Includes stationary, ephemera, legal documents, clippings, etc.

Series is comprised of diaries kept by Elizabeth Smith Shortt for the years 1872-1932. Not all years are accounted for.

Series is comprised of photographs of photographs created and accumulated by the Motz family. Includes photographs of family members, the Motz family home, and of a printing press in England.

Series is comprised of materials relating to the life of William John Motz and his wife Rose Huck Motz. Includes correspondence, ephemera, legal documents and clippings. Also includes a scrapbook from a Candian Press Club trip to Europe in 1929.

This series includes the diaries of Rev. J. H. Shoults over the period 1870-1884. There are nineteen diaries in total and they are kept in copy books, bound diary books, and notebooks. The majority of diary entries relate to Rev. Shoults' work as a Minister with the Christian Church, though reference is also made to his work as a teacher, to family affairs, to farming and gardening activities, to shopping and errands, to prices of food and farm goods, to his personal finances, to social visits (Rev. Shoults had many friends and acquaintances), and to weather conditions.

Materials collected by Mary Johnston documenting the history of education both in the Waterloo Region and broadly in Ontario. Includes school registers, minute books, historical notebooks kept by students, etc.

Series is comprised of personal effects, including artefacts, of various members of the Smith-Shortt family.

Series is comprised of general materials related to the Motz family and their history. Includes a family history, and family correspondence.

Series consists of photographs and other visual materials relating to the Kitchener Water Commission and the Grand River Conservation Commission. Photographs relating to the Kitchener Water Commission depict construction of water works facilities, pump houses, and pumping equipment mainly at the Shoemaker (now Greenbrook) and Strange Street pumping stations. Some photographs include the water commissioners. Photographs relating to the GRCC depict the the construction of the Shand and Conestogo dams.

Series also includes a mid-19th century portrait and cartes-de-visite of unidentified women and men, perhaps friends or relatives of the Pequegnat family.

Series consists of ephemera including advertisements, business cards, calendars, labels, signs, stationery, trade cards, etc. which illustrate some aspect of Seagram history.

Series consists of material created and accumulated by John S. Anthes and material accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder and Martha Rieder during the process of settling his estate. Some of the latter material relates to the administration and eventual sale of the Anthes Furniture Company. Series includes correspondence, agreements, wills, estate statements, financial statements of the Anthes Furniture Company, share certificates, an accounting journal, a cemetary map and grant of burial lots, a marriage certificate, and other material.