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University of Waterloo. Special Collections & Archives Series
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Books

Series is comprised of various published materials created and accumulateed primarily by Elizabeth Smith Shortt. Includes mostly materials on medical and women's rights concerns, as well as an alumnae news letter and extracts from books regarding Elizabeth Smith Shortt.

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Memorial exhibit typescripts and pamphlets

Series contains leaflets relating to Homer Watson’s life and memorial exhibits. Leaflets contain information about memorial exhibits such as one held by the Waterloo Trust and Savings Company building in Kitchener. One of the leaflets also contains a photocopied sketch of a graveyard scene. The series also contains a typescript biography of Watson written by his friend, Ross Hamilton. Another typescript covers a speech by Watson to shareholders of the Waterloo County Grand River Park. The speech calls for the conservation of a woodland area called Cressman Bush.

Typescripts
14. Address by H. Watson “Conservation of Cressman Bush for Waterloo County”
15. Homer Watson Paintings
16. Expense Account of Ross Hamilton in Connection with H. Watson Estate Feb. 4-10

Pamphlets
17. Homer Watson, Artist - A Tribute
18. Biography of Homer Watson by Ross Hamilton
19. Catalogue Memorial Exhibition of Original Paintings by Homer Watson, R.C.A., L.L.D. 1947

Exhibit clippings

Series contains clippings documenting memorial exhibits for Homer Watson and articles reviewing his life. There are two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings between 1936 and 1947. One scrapbook contains mostly newspaper memorabilia and exhibition advertisements, while the other contains clippings focused mainly on announcing exhibits throughout Ontario along with press and editorial comments. There are also files of clippings that discuss the closure of Watson’s art gallery and studio in 1947. One of the clippings is a print, from a magazine, depicting Homer Watson.

Radio Broadcasts

Series consists of radio broadcasts by Elizabeth Long and others. Many of these broadcasts are radio letters submitted to Long to be read on air at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Long, Elizabeth

Research.

Includes research material collected or compiled by E Palmer Patterson to inform and support his writings about Indigenous Peoples of Canada.

Patterson, E Palmer

Correspondence

Correspondence, originals and carbon copies, memos, reports etc. focus on membership and general matters.

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Meetings

Materials on annual, general, executive, business, and regular meetings between 1968 to 1991. Meeting texts include minutes, accounts, reports, notes, incorporations, announcements, etc.

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Correspondence: Smith, Armand

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

Shortt, Elizabeth Smith

Bowlby, David Sovereign 1826-1903 and Martha Esther Bowlby née Murphy 1837-1925

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.

Clement Bowlby Family

Clement, Florence Grace 1889-1988

Series consists of materials relating to the life, interests, and death of Florence Grace Clement. Includes biographical information, clippings, aid-memories, correspondence, diaries, poetry written and collected by Florence and other ephemera.

Clement Bowlby Family

Jacksonia

Series consists of materials relating to A.Y. Jackson and his connection to the Clement-Bowlby family. Includes clippings, photocopies of correspondence between A.Y. and Florence Grace Clement, authentication information for a painting, genealogy notes, and notes on Jackson and the Group of Seven. Also includes an article on A.Y. Jackson from the September 1945 edition of Mayfair Magazine.

Clement Bowlby Family

Stanbrook Abbey Press

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Stanbrook Abbey Press. Includes printed prayer and bible verse sheets.

University of Waterloo : teaching files.

Material related to various courses taught by Donald Cowan at the University of Waterloo. Includes student grades, questionnaires, exams, notes, handouts, correspondence, overhead transparencies, teaching slides, and other items.

Cowan, Donald D.

Operations : H.A. Cameron Files

Series consists of material created and maintained by Hugh A. Cameron from 1942-1973, consisting primarily of daily journals recording details of work done by the writer and others, in the office, on GRCC property and at other locations: construction, repairs, machinery, inspections, incidents, weather conditions, etc. Also includes correspondence, reports, maps and plans, etc. relating to construction, repairs, equipment, forestry and logging and roads.

Grand River Conservation Commission

Operations : Conservation Areas : Luther Marsh : Biological Area Data Records

Series consists of reports on areas of Luther Marsh . The cover page of each consists contains a block image taken from an air photo, with further compartment lines superimposed, labelled and highlighted. Each report contains a "Wildlife Compartment Data Record" (8. p.) and a "Wetland Evaluation Record" (3 p.).

Grand River Conservation Commission

Correspondence

Series consists of 140 pieces of correspondence and a small amount of related ephemera and clippings. Includes mainly letters written to John Alexander and Jessie Martin from John Gartshore Martin during his service with the Canadian military during World War II, describing his daily activities, social outings, leaves, meetings with friends and relatives, and general news about the war.

Series also contains several letters from Wilson Martin, Jamie Martin, Jamie's financee Muriel Clift, and several other correspondents. The correspondence is in the form of letters, many of which include the original envelopes and stamps; aerograms with original stamps; and telegrams. Series also includes a small amount of correspondence between John Gartshore Martin and an acquaintance from Holland (1994-2004).

Martin, John Gartshore

Decorations, Medals and Awards

Series consists of decorations, medals, and awards presented to John Gartshore Martin, John Alexander Martin, and Jessie Martin, as well as various military insignia and memorabilia.

Martin, John Gartshore

Films

Series consists of film reels and DVD copies of home movies shot by the Guy family. Includes films showing family members and friends participating in various activities both on vacation and at home in Waterloo. Many of the films show 110 John Boulevard and the early development of the Westmount region of Waterloo.

Guy, James Rutherford and George Harrington

Accounting Records

Series consists of accounting records for the Westmount Construction Company, as well as for Westmont Enterprises Limited and its subsidiaries, from around 1952 to 1989. Also present are some accounting records for Ross Dixon Financial Services from around 1982 to 1989. Includes accounting journal pages, general ledger pages, and handwritten notes.

Dixon, Ross

Photographs

Series consists of photographs, including portraits and snapshots, accumulated and kept by Ross Dixon. Includes photographs of Ross and Doris Dixon, relatives of the Dixons, Ross as a child, and houses in the Westmount neighbourhood; and photographs taken at events such as an award ceremony, a Uniroyal conference, and other company events; as well as other subjects.

Dixon, Ross

Diaries

Diaries and diary pages kept by Nazla L. Dane documenting her life and activities.

Dane, Nazla L.

Realia

Artefacts collected by Nazla L. Dane.

Dane, Nazla L.

Manuscripts and Research

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by John Rempel relating to his research, as well as manuscripts created by Rempel. Includes manuscripts of "Building with wood" and "A Primer on the construction and preservation of early buildings", correspondence, and research notes on various topics.

Rempel, John I.

Career : Uniroyal

Series consists of material documenting aspects of Ross Dixon's career at Uniroyal (formerly the Dominion Rubber Company), where he worked from 1947 until his retirement in 1977, as Manager and then Director of Industrial Relations. Material relates to industrial relations, employee relations, management, and workplace safety as well as political and economic issuse of interest to Dixon, and other aspects of his role in the company.

Series includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, speeches, company publications, employee newsletters, conference programs, leaflets and brochures, handwritten notes, forms, ephemera, and other material.

Dixon, Ross

Manuscripts.

Material created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to articles, papers, and reports that he was writing, co-authoring, or reviewing. Includes manuscripts, notes, correspondence, computer printouts, copies of articles, and other related items.

Cowan, Donald D.

Audio-visual materials.

Audio-visual materials created and accumulated by Donald Cowan, possibly for research and teaching purposes and presentations. Includes slides, negatives, transparencies, photographs, and audio-cassettes that are primarily related to various aspects of computer science at the University of Waterloo.

Cowan, Donald D.

Berlin/Kitchener Water Commission

Series consists of records relating to the operation of the Berlin Water Commission, later the Kitchener Water Commission, in the operation and maintenance of the water works and the construction of wells, reservoirs, pump houses, water towers, and other infrastructure. Includes construction project specifications, tenders, contracts and other legal documents, correspondence, reports, blueprints, etc.

Pequegnat, Marcel

Local History

Series consists of two issues of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, commemorating Canada's centennial and Kitchener's 125th anniversary.

Pequegnat, Marcel

Administration : Financial

Series consists of incomplete financial records of the Grand River Conservation Commission from 1936 to 1965. Includes bank books, cash journals, journals, cheque registers, ledgers and cost studies.

Grand River Conservation Commission

Manuscripts

Series consists of manuscript and typescript notes for and drafts of works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Jenny Pincock and others.

Maines Pincock Family

Notebooks

Series consists of notebooks belonging to jenny Pincock, Minnie and Fred Maines containing addresses, ms. and ts. notes, including drafts of works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Jenny Pincock and others.

Maines Pincock Family

Topical Files.

Series consists of folders and envelopes of material relating to a wide variety of topics of interest to Jenny Pincock and Fred and Minnie Maines, including art, literature, politics, war, spiritualism, friends and family. Includes clippings, ephemera, ms. and ts. notes, etc.

Maines Pincock Family

Chattertonian Manuscript

File consists of one manuscript titled "Chattertonian ms." The manuscript itself is a transcribed typed copy of the original, which was compiled and written by George Catcott. Catcott was the first person to be approached by Chatterton regarding the Thomas Rowley poems. The manuscript includes passages from works by Thomas Chatterton, letters to and from Catcott and Chatterton, as well as notes by Catcott on Chatterton and the Thomas Rowley affair. Inlaid in the front of the book is a signature of Thomas Chatterton's as well as a letter addressing the authenticity of the signature. Also included is a print of George Catcott. The bookplate reads "Conrad P. Fry oneth me is me jure tenet, and this booke confesse to be quieunque me invenit."

Davis, Bertram R.

Visual Materials

Series is comprised of visual materials accumulated by Bertram Davis. Includes a print of James Sharple's pastel portrait of Robert Southey.

Davis, Bertram R.

Publications

Series consists primarily of issues of the newsletter produced by the association for its membership. The newsletter contains association reports, announcements of upcoming events and exhibitions, information and tips on art techniques and materials, reports from other art associations and organizations, advertisements, etc. Most issues also contain a list of the association executive and advisory directors. Series includes issues of the Five Counties Art Association Bulletin (1955-1964), Central Ontario Art Association Bulletin (1964-1970), and the Central Ontario Art Association Newsletter (1982-1998). Series also includes page proofs (i.e. before photocopying) of newsletter issues (1982-1998), correspondence and memoranda, brochures and flyers, photographs, and handwritten notes. It is not clear whether every issue of the newsletter produced is present in the series.

Central Ontario Art Association

Subject Files

Series consists of files of miscellaneous documents accumulated by various association members. Includes files on subjects relevant to association activities, such as teaching art, safety in the arts, and the McMichael Canadian Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. Series also includes material from other art associations and members' files of miscellaneous items. Includes photocopied information, correspondence, clippings, articles, lectures, photographs and negatives, newsletters, membership lists, a manual, a bibliography, and other material.

Central Ontario Art Association

History Working Files

Series consists of material created, collected and accumulated for the purpose of researching and writing the history of the COAA. Most files were probably kept or acquired by Oreen Campbell, who was responsible for writing the history of the association during the 1980s. Includes files containing items removed from elsewhere in the fonds for the purpose of gathering key documents for the association's history and especially those containing information about important decisions and developments. Series includes correspondence, typed histories (including draft versions), flyers, announcements, membership lists, newsletters, exhibition catalogues, reports, minutes, lectures, articles, clippings, photographs, the association constitution and procedures manual, and other material.

Central Ontario Art Association

Ivan W. Keffer : F.W. Woolworth Co.

Series consists of material accumulated by Ivan W. Keffer relating to his career at the F.W. Woolworth Co. after his appointment to executive vice-president. Material relates to the performance of the company, the German company, and Keffer's work and personal interests in Germany. A small amount of material relates to his actual role as executive vice-president in North America. Series includes correspondence (from colleagues; some may also be personal), reports, legal documents, clippings, a speech, meeting minutes, photographs, and other material.

Keffer, Ivan Wilbur

Grants

Series consists of materials relating to grant applications made by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Miscellaneous : Works by Others

Contents: series consists of writing other than by Rienzi Crusz. Includes a handwritten document (original) and a typed document (photocopy), as well as a drawing and a poem by Crusz' son Michael.

Crusz, Rienzi

Miscellaneous

Series consists of miscellaneous materials prepared and collected by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Personal, Biographical

Series consists of personal and biographical materials created and accumulated by G. Elmore Reaman. Includes publication announcements, printing plates, ephemera, clippings, correspondence and certificates.

Reaman, George Elmore

Ephemera.

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

Forbes, Betty

Forbes family notebooks.

A wedding planner and two notebooks created by Betty Forbes, George Alexander Forbes, and Peg Forbes.

Forbes, Betty

Readings

Series consists of materials relating to readings given by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

Works by Rienzi Crusz : Reviews

Series consists of reviews of works by Rienzi Crusz. Includes reviews clipped from newspapers and other publications, and photocopies of reviews.

Crusz, Rienzi

Miscellaneous : Works by Others

Series consists of works by poets other than Rienzi Crusz. Includes tss. (originals and photocopies), clippings, and photocopies from published works.

Crusz, Rienzi

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.

Crusz, Rienzi

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

Includes publications and printed items of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association including issues of a newsletter, a guidebook, a submission made by the W.C.W.T.A. to the Social Development Committee of the Ontario Legislature, and a report on the teachers' provincial protest action of 1997.

Johnston, Mary

Scrapbooks: Leadership Books.

This series contains fourteen scrapbooks all of which are assigned individual file numbers. These scrapbooks contain materials relating to the W.C.W.T.A.'s leadership training courses. Materials take the form of b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, correspondence, lists of course participants, course application forms, course schedules and outlines, course handouts, course evaluation sheets, meeting agendas, and ephemera.

Johnston, Mary

Biographical

Series consists of materials relating to Dendy's university education and his career as an architectural historian.
These materials include the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree certificates received by Dendy in the 1970's from the University of Cambridge where he studied Architectural History as well as clippings, ephemera and portraits.

Dendy, William

Correspondence to Eric P. McCormack.

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.

McCormack, Eric P.

Events and Activities: Conferences, Workshops, and Other Courses.

This series includes materials relating to various conferences, workshops, and other courses of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association respectively. They include correspondence, forms, questionnaires, course handouts, ephemera, information booklets produced for conference delegates and attendees at workshops, as well as summary reports of the Waterloo County Principals' Conferences.

Johnston, Mary

Committee Files

Series consists of records relating to the work of several MLA committees. Most records relate to the Regatta Committee and the planning, organization, and results of the annual sailing and aquatic regattas (1930-1932, 1965-1986). Series also includes one file each for the Antique Boat Committee (1978), the Election Committee (1979-1989), and the Recreational Safety Committee 1985-1986).

Includes correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes and agendas, handwritten and typed notes, reports, budgets, invoices, regatta results charts, regatta flyers and programs, newspaper clippings, and other material.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Publications

Series consists of the Muskoka Lakes Association yearbook for the years 1993 to 2006, and an association handbook from 1988.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Operations: Waterloo Plant

Series consists of originals and photocopies, mostly "dept. files," detailing various operations in the Waterloo plant relating primarily to the production of alcohol. Includes applications, correspondence, declarations, ephemera, legal instruments, licenses, newsletters, permits, and photographs which document commercial feed stuffs registration from 1928-1953, distilling licenses, information about exports from the plant between 1887 to 1959, imports for re-distillation 1897-1942, label approval and registration doumentation from 1927-1941, also product evidence files all dating from ca. 1960, possibly used in a legal case, documenting the brands produced and exported in the early years of the twentierth century, accompanied by declarations by former employees.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Topical

This series consists of originals and photocopies of correspondence, clippings, ephemera, essays, newspapers, photographs, etc. relating to all aspects of the history of the Seagram Company and distilling in general, to other business interests such as CanBar and Hopewell Farms, to the history of the plant site itself and the place of Seagram's in the larger context of Waterloo and the industrial history of the area from the 1850's to the plant's closing in 1990.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.: Ephemera

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

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Biographical

Series consists of biographical material about Alice Riggs Hunt. Includes interview notes (ms. and ts. originals), biographical outline by A.R.H. (ts. carbon), clippings, obituary, ephemera and photographs. Includes an "At Home" card and accompanying clipping describing Alice Riggs Hunt's "Debut" in 1903 and a list of manuscripts.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

Suffrage Material

Series consists primarily of material created and /or accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt, documenting her involvement in the suffrage movement in the United States. Includes clippings, ephemera, photographs, artifacts and textual material, including reports by A.R.H. of campaigning work for the right to vote. Photographs include a series of snapshots of the Suffragist Parade in New York City, 1911. Artifacts include breast banners, a flag and a ceramic geese match holder.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

Personal

Series consists primarily of material created and /or accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt, documenting her life, interest and activities. Includes ephemera such as certificates, passports, travel documents and ration cards. Includes material relating to the International Congess of Women held in Zurich, 1919. Includes a trip diary as well as two notebooks, one recording suffrage campaigning in West Viginia and the other, notes about Europe after 1919. Includes a scrapbook of her published writings in newspapers and periodicals. Also includes articles by Thomas T.C. Gregory on Eastern Europe and Bela Kun, ca. 1919 a topic that A.R.H. also wrote about.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

Travel

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt documenting her travels both within the United States and abroad. Includes primarily ephemera as well as two trip diaries.

Hunt, Alice Riggs

Robert Alden Sanborn : Writing

Series predominantly consists of type- and manuscripts drafts written by Robert Alden Sanborn. Focused primarily on the social development of two young girls referred to as "Little Anna" and "Bunty" the narrative drafts include extensive revision annotations. Also in the series are draft letters regarding a child model named Carol and children in the writing of Lewis Carroll, as well as poems written by Sandborn and his mother Mary Farley Sanborn.

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