Series consists of one copy of The Dare Story and colour transparencies that were used in the book. Also known as the "green history book," The Dare Story, was published in February 1988. The book provides a brief history of Dare Foods Limited, an outline of the Dare philosophy, and an outline of Dare Foods Limited's vision for the future, as well as many colour images of staff, products and production.

Series consists of television advertisements for Dare Foods Limited cookie, cracker and candy products. Television commercials were produced by MacLaren Advertising, Media House Productions, Enterprise Advertising, Benton & Bowles, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Canada Inc., TQS le mouton noir de la télé, and Télé-Métropole Inc. Commercials were broadcast throughout Canada, the United States, Japan and Germany and are in French, English, Spanish, Japanese and German. Series includes film reels, videocassettes, a CD-ROM and colour photographs.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by subsidiary companies of Dare including those it purchased. Includes ephemera, financial information, operating materials and historical information.

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

Series consists of signs that were used in store displays.

Series consists of two sheets of share transfers. The sheets were probably removed from a share certificate book, however, the connection has been lost. One sheet refers to the Howe Candy Company.

Series consists of one scrapbook that was used to record the history of The Dare Company Limited, Major Foods Limited, Dare Foods Limited, and subsidiary companies. The scrapbook contains newspaper and magazine advertisements, new product announcements, appointment notices, and article clippings. The date and source of each clipping is noted. The scrapbook also includes samples of product packaging, articles on the opening of the biscuit plant in Surrey, B.C., and 3 black and white photographs. The scrapbook was most likely produced at the Kitchener head office and is organized chronologically.

Series consists of material relating to the administration and operation of the Dare Foods Limited Sales Department, as well as to the the training of personnel, policies, and procedures. The series contains training manuals, sales manuals, policy and procedure manuals, analysis of marketing and sales department, training and development, and a sales trend report. Records were created primarily by the Sales Department.

Series consists of advertisements that were produced for radio and includes auditions by performers. Advertisements were produced by J. Walter Thompson Ltd., Newberry Sound Studio Co. Ltd., Custom Advertiser’s Commercials, and D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Canada Inc. Series includes recordings of “Dream Sweet Dare,” “Lemon Creme Jingle,” and “The Magic Name is Dare.” Series consists of audio discs and includes audio reels and an audio cassette.

Series consists of memoranda, descriptions, advertisements, colour prints and negatives of store display contests. The contests were run nation-wide by the Sales Department for sales personnel to encourage creative displays and to motivate increased sales.

Series consists of product picture books and binders including black and white or colour photographs of candy, biscuit and cracker products, product information sheets, product brochures, and samples of packaging.

Series consists of information sheets for cracker, candy, and cookie products. The sheets were used by sales personnel across Canada to advertise products to potential buyers. Sheets include colour images of products and product specifications. Three copies of a colour photograph of cracker products, and display signs are also included. These records replaced the earlier picture books and were also distributed by the sales office.

Series consists of C.H. Doerr Company Limited price lists for cookie and candy products. The price lists are organized by region with lists for individual stores. Series includes H.S. McCabe’s price lists, formulas for cookies and candies, and “Cookie Sheets.”

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 candy, biscuit and cracker manufacturing industry periodicals, pamphlets, advertisements, correspondence and machinery plans from supply and related companies. The publications were sent to The Dare Company Limited and pertain to candy and biscuit manufacturing.

Series consists of boxes, cellophane, and tin tie packages that were used by C.H. Doerr Company, The Dare Company Limited, and Dare Foods Limited for biscuits, crackers, potato chip and candy products. Series includes colour slides of redesigned packages and coupons. Tin tie packages were introduced with one line in 1957.

Series consists of price pages for biscuits and candy products. Price pages list products, product code number, universal product code (UPC), item code number, package weight, case weight, cubic feet per case, net price delivered to stores and warehouses, and were used by sales personnel. The lists are organized chronologically and then by region: Lakehead and West, East of Lakehead, Newfoundland, and Quebec. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island regions are also included.

Series consists of clippings of newspaper articles on Dare Foods Limited from four different newspapers. Series includes clippings from the Tavistock Gazette, Toronto Star, Kitchener Daily Record, and Kitchener This Week.

Series consists of records pertaining to the National Sales Meeting that was held at Banff Rocky Mountain Resort in Banff, Alberta between September 7 and 10, 1989. This was the first national sales conference for Dare Foods Limited. The series contains correspondence, planning records, a scrapbook, colour snapshots, and colour slides that were used in a presentation.

Series consists of photographs of the Quebec National meeting held in September 1995. The theme of the meeting was The Dawning of a New Dare. The photographs were sent to the Dare Foods Limited head office in Kitchener from various regions.

Series consists of moving images and sound recordings that were produced by Dare Foods Limited and its employees for internal events such as birthdays, retirement parties, presentations, meetings, as well as consumer panels and promotional events. The majority of moving images are on videocassette and a few are on film reels. The sound recordings are on audio cassette.

Series consists of accounts, correspondence, purchase records, a share register, annual statements, and records pertaining to the change of name from Mother Dell’s Bakeries Limited to Dare Foods (Candy Division) Limited.

Series consists of the C.H. Doerr Company, Limited and The Dare Company, Limited minutes of annual and special meetings of the shareholders and Board of Directors. A book of share certificates is also included. The minutes consist primarily of decisions regarding the appointment of board members, salaries of board members, by-laws, issuing of stock, the name change from the C.H. Doerr Company, Limited to The Dare Company, Limited as well as other issues. The minutes were typewritten by the Secretary and signed by the President.

Series consists of one Dare Foods Limited manual on corporate planning and production control. Copies of the manuals were distributed in binders and were produced at the Kitchener office and distributed to employees.

Series consists of letters patent, correspondence, financial statements, accounting records, and payroll journals for Major Foods Limited. The series is arranged in the order in which the files were received.

Series consists of supplementary letters patent for The C.H. Doerr Company, Limited and The Dare Company, Limited. The records pertain to company name changes, and include correspondence, land appraisals, trade name licence agreement, petitions, declarations and extracts from the general by-laws of The Dare Company, Limited.

Series consists of material relating to J.R. Worthington's employment in the candy manufacturing industry. Series contains files pertaining to candy manufacturing including machinery, production, suppliers, ingredients, publications and different lines of candies. Series includes formulas, correspondence, and machinery, equipment and ingredient advertisements and pamphlets. Includes correspondence and records relating to J.R. Worthington was employment at McCormick’s Limited, London, Ontario.

Series consists of bilingual ingredient lists for biscuits and candy products, correspondence, memoranda, copies of legislation pertaining to labelling of foods, and French translations of ingredients and product names.

Series consists of C.H. Doerr Company, Limited and The Dare Company, Limited, financial statements. Series also includes a summary of financial reports. The series is arranged chronologically.

Series consists of financial records of Dare Foods Limited. Includes year end reports and credit statements.

Series consists of day books and a payroll journal in tabular format that were used to record employees, pay, pay periods and number of days worked. The ledgers were maintained at the Kitchener head office.

Series consists of financial statements, accounts payable, legal records, correspondence, property records, potato chip packages, and records pertaining to the Surrender of Potato Chip Division. Includes records of Saratoga Products, Toronto; Saratoga Products Toronto and Hamilton; Saratoga Products Limited and Dare Foods (Potato Chip Division) Limited. Series is arranged chronologically.

Series consists of material relating to the St. Jacobs Canning Company Limited, St. Jacobs Cider Mill, and Dare Foods (Canning Division) Limited. Series includes financial statements, statement of earnings, records relating to the purchase of the St. Jacobs Canning Company by Major Foods, minutes, accounts, correspondence, records relating to the purchase of St. Jacobs Canning Company by Dare Foods Limited and records relating to the purchase of Dare Foods (Canning Division) Limited.

Series consists of Candy Division files. The first file contains candy formulas. The second file contains correspondence and maps of Candy Division property in Hamilton and Toronto.

Series consists of formulas for cookies and crackers, a copy of the Biscuit Division Production Control Procedures Manual, and the Biscuit Division Plant Tour. The records were probably kept at the head office in Kitchener, used in Kitchener and possibly Hamilton.

Series consists of two issues of Dare Cookie News, the Dare Foods Limited internal newspaper publication on cookies.

Series consists of one issue of Dare Candy News 1, no. 1 (spring 1976), the Dare Foods Limited internal newspaper publication on candy.

Series consists of correspondence, agreements and records pertaining to the acquisition and sale of Archway Franchise Inc. by Dare Foods Limited. The series is arranged chronologically.

Series consists of Dairy Maid Chocolates minute books, letters patent, correspondence, accounts, property records, and legal records.

Series consists of videocassettes, the book “Dare: The First Century, A Corporate History of Dare Foods Limited 1892-1992,” a print of the commemorative painting, colour and black and white photographs, artifacts, centennial clothing and merchandise, centennial events organizational records, and the score for the Dare Cookies song. The records were created primarily at the Dare Foods Limited, Kitchener office.

Series consists of one copy of the book Builders and Boosters, Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, 100th Anniversary, 1886-1986. The book was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce. The book includes information on S. Merner and C.H. Doerr.

Series consists of the Big V Drug Stores twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversary books. The twenty-fifth anniversary book includes a letter addressed to Richard Harris, District Sales Manager for Dare Foods Limited, Kitchener from Mahlon M. Dyer, Executive Vice-President, Big V Pharmacies Co. Limited, London, Ontario. The books consist of black and white photographs of Big V staff, stores, events, and includes some text.

Series consists of artifacts, including two cookie cutters and a clipboard, from Dare Foods Limited.

Series consists of licences in mortmain, accounts, stock options, correspondence, real estate and equipment leases and bills of sale, estimate for a contract, taxation records, and a share certificate book. Records pertain to The Dare Company, Limited, The Howe Candy Company Limited and Major Foods Limited.

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

Series consists of materials relating to the family of Dana Porter, including his wife Dorothy Porter (nee Parker), and his sons Dana Jr. and Julian. Also includes materials created about Dana Porter posthumously and collected by his family.

Materials related to Julia McCarthy's creative process. Includes drafts of poems at different stages, research materials accumulated by McCarthy during her writing, drafts of McCarthy's books and copy-edit notes and comments received from her editors and Don Domanski, published poems in different media, and promotional materials for her publications.

Series consists of correspondence written by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of correspondence written by Rienzi Crusz. Note that a detailed listing of correspondents is given at the file level.

Series is comprised of correspondence to and from unidentified correspondents.

Contents: series consists of one folder containing 90 pieces correspondence to and from Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of correspondence recieved by Rienzi Crusz. Some letters have been annotated by Crusz. Note that a detailed listing of correspondents is given at the file level.

Series consists of correspondence recieved by Rienzi Crusz. Includes letters from other authors and poets, some containing criticism and editorial comments on Crusz's work; letters from publishers; and other correspondence. Includes photocopies. Some letters are annotated by Crusz.

This series includes correspondence to Eric McCormack in the form of letters, faxes, and a few e-mail print-outs. Also includes some supporting documents including news clippings, application forms, grant agreements, press releases, typed literary biographies, handwritten notes, typed copies of book reviews written by Eric McCormack, and ephemera. This includes correspondence conducted by Eric McCormack with his publishers as well as with the editors of literary journals and anthologies to which this author has contributed his work.

Some of this correspondence was conducted with other authors, poets, and artists regarding Eric McCormack's works or their own work. Also contains correspondence with the organizers of conferences, workshops, readings/lecture series, literary festivals and other literary events in which Eric McCormack took part. Some correspondence relates to reviews of Eric McCormack's works, while other correspondence relates to reviews of other peoples' works written by him primarily for The Globe and Mail.

Additional correspondence relates to literary competitions in which Eric McCormack was invited to be an adjudicator. Applications for grants from the Canadian government, literary awards won by this author, requests for permission to reproduce Eric McCormack's works of fiction, as well as praise for this author's works from fans, form the subjects of other correspondence.

Note that the large majority of correspondence in this series consists of correspondence received by Eric McCormack, which was subsequently divided into titled folders by him. A small amount of the correspondence in this series was sent by Eric McCormack.

There is much overlap in terms of themes and correspondents between series 2.1 and series 2.2 and in some cases where the topic or matter being addressed in correspondence in one file is unclear, this is often clarified by reference to other files where the same topic forms the subject of the correspondence.

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

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

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

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

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

Series is comprised of correspondence between Elizabeth Smith Shortt and her family members. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Series is comprised of correspondence to and from Elizabeth Smith Shortt. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent. Correspondents without known surnames are at beginning of series.

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 correspondence received by Talmon Henry Rieder. Most correspondence is personal, from family and friends, including from his wife Martha Rieder. Includes letters, telegrams, and postcards.

Series consists of correspondence received by various individuals in the Anthes family: Martin Anthes, Carrie Anthes Breithaupt, and Leo Anthes. Includes letters, invitations, clippings, and a postcard.

Series consists of correspondence received by Margaret Rieder. Includes primarily Christmas cards, and one birthday card. Correspondents include: Anthes, Carolina; Clarke, Evelyn; Edkins, Phyllis; Morley, Margaret Louise and Anna Elizabeth; Parry, Magaret; Rieder, Emeline Merner; Rieder, Margareth Anthes.

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

Series consists of correspondence from Virgil Burnett to others including Robin Magowan, Juliet Mattila, and John Buchanan Brown as well as one set of correspondence between Robin Magowan and Francine [Goldenhar?].

Series consists of correspondence among various parties regarding Rienzi Crusz. Note that a listing of correspondents is given at the file level.

Series consists of correspondence among various parties regarding Rienzi Crusz.

This series includes correspondence from Eric McCormack in the form of letters, faxes, and a few e-mail print-outs. Also includes some supporting documents including news clippings, application forms, grant agreements, press releases, typed literary biographies, handwritten notes, typed copies of book reviews written by Eric McCormack, and ephemera. This includes correspondence conducted by Eric McCormack with his publishers as well as with the editors of literary journals and anthologies to which this author has contributed his work.

Some of this correspondence was conducted with other authors, poets, and artists regarding Eric McCormack's works or their own work. Also contains correspondence with the organizers of conferences, workshops, readings/lecture series, literary festivals and other literary events in which Eric McCormack took part. Some correspondence relates to reviews of Eric McCormack's works, while other correspondence relates to reviews of other peoples' works written by him primarily for The Globe and Mail.

Additional correspondence relates to literary competitions in which Eric McCormack was invited to be an adjudicator. Applications for grants from the Canadian government, literary awards won by this author, requests for permission to reproduce Eric McCormack's works of fiction, as well as praise for this author's works from fans, form the subjects of other correspondence.

There is much overlap in terms of themes and correspondents between series 2.1 and series 2.2 and in some cases where the topic or matter being addressed in correspondence in one file is unclear, this is often clarified by reference to other files where the same topic forms the subject of the correspondence.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Roger Clark (son-in-law of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

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

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

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

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

Series consists of correspondence written by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of correspondence written by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of correspondence in which the correspondent is unidentified.

Series consists of correspondence received by Rienzi Crusz from unidentifiable correspondents.

Series consists of correspondence recieved by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of correspondence recieved by Rienzi Crusz.

File consists of correspondence received by Virgil Burnett from friends and family. Includes ephemeral items found in the correspondence such as clippings, articles, poems, etc. Note that correspondence has been left in original order. Correspondents include:

• [?], Al;
• [?], Bill;
• [?], Chad;
• [?], Chris;
• [?], Ford;
• [?], Josephine;
• [?], Kim;
• [?], Marcella;
• [?], Martin;
• [?], Melina;
• [?], Peggy;
• [d’Almeida?], George;
• [Lindsay], Marion;
• [Switzer], Dave;
• AIDS Committee of London;
• Boegehold, Alan;
• Cruz, Rienzi;
• Culhane, John and Hind;
• Devrient, Michel;
• Ducornet, Guy;
• Ducornet, Rikki;
• Edmunds, Helen;
• Erb, Deb;
• Erenberg, Ellen;
• Gallery Stratford;
• Gentilli, Jeremy;
• Goldman, Barbara;
• Hanewich, K.Y.;
• Harbringer Gallery;
• Haverford College;
• Heller, Grace;
• Hine, Daryl;
• Horner, Judith and Hammond;
• Liidemann, Ryan;
• Littlewood, Jill;
• Magowan, Robin;
• Manchester, Barbara;
• Mavor, Susan;
• McGann, Jerome;
• McInnery Burnett, Maud;
• Morey, Arthur;
• Morgan, Robert;
• Morgan, Thomas;
• Mulhallen, Karen;
• National Gallery of Canada Foundation;
• Nordley Beglo, Jo;
• Otter, Sandra;
• Pippin Burnett, Anne;
• Plaskett, Joseph;
• Rago, Juliet;
• Roth, Martha;
• Salvation Army;
• Shute, Laurence;
• Stefanescu, Isabella;
• Tahon, Jean-Luc;
• United Way;
• Urquhart, Jane;
• Wilbur, Richard;
• Yamashige, Lloyd.

Series consists of items of correspondence between John Herbert and others that have been published.

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

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

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

Series consists of envelopes saved by Rienzi Crusz.

Series consists of correspondence to and from Jenny Pincock, Fred and Minnie Maines, and others.

Series consists of cards, letters and printouts of e-mails to and from Eric P. McCormack.

Series consists of seventy seven items of correspondence to and from Alice Riggs Hunt and a number of correspondents. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Romain Rolland and Phyllis E. Wheelock. Arranged by name of correspondent.

Series consists of correspondence to and from A.R. Kaufman of a variety of topics, including birth control.

Series is comprised of ca. 150 items of correspondence between Tony Urquhart and others. Includes letters, cards, and email printouts. Correspondents are listed at the file level.

Series consists of correspondence from William Lyon Mackenzie King to his nephew Arthur King, also to Arthur's wife Kathleen Marion King, written between January 8, 1923 and July 5, 1950. Although Mackenzie King's first letters are directed towards the interests of a growing boy, over the years he stays involved in Arthur's progress through school, university and ultimately in the workplace. He mentions his own activities although often not in detail, sends thank you letters and holiday greetings. He gives Arthur advice on his career, mentions books of interest, and talks about politics, friends, family and visitors to Kingsmere.
Arranged chronologically.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Paul S. Burtness and Warren U. Ober and others, primarily military figures associated with the U.S. Forces during World War II, and in specific those who had knowledge of the event surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor. The letters were received during the course of research by Burtness and Ober into the events of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which ultimately culminated in their book "The Puzzle of Pearl Harbor." Includes ms. and ts. letters from generals, admirals and lieutenants as well as a Pearl Harbor historian and the secretary to John F. Kenndy. Details about the correspondence are listed at the file level.

Correspondents include:

• Brereton, Lewis H.;
• Hart, Thomas C.;
• Ingersoll, Royal E.;
• Kimmel, Husband E.;
• Lincoln, Evelyn;
• MacArthur, Douglas;
• Miles, Sherman;
• Stark, Harold R.;
• Wohlstetter, Roberta.

Personal and administrative correspondence sent and received by Robert Shipley to and from different persons and institutions. Includes correspondence related to the University of Waterloo, his work and different positions he held, submissions of his writings, applications for grants and jobs, letters of acceptance and rejection, invitations to events, letters thanking him for participating in events, invoices and payments, letters congratulating him for his work, correspondence related to the Canadian Armed Forces, correspondence received from politicians, and personal correspondence.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Rienzi Crusz and others, as well as between others regarding Crusz. Includes letters, cards and email printouts. Correspondents are listed at the file level.

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

Correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family and friends, including Moyer, Nash, Kolb and Russell relatives.