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Archival description
CA ON00009 F 4631 · Collection · [192-?]-1969, predominant [192-?]-1949

The collection consists of sound and moving image records accumulated by Alan Bulman from 1965 to 1994. The films relate to Ontario locales including North Bay, Fenelon Falls, and Stratford. Other subject matter in the film footage includes: gold production in Ontario; the University of Toronto; Steep Rock Iron Mines Limited; a school bus in Ridgetown, Ontario; aviation in Toronto in the 1920s; a strike at the General Motors of Canada plant in Oshawa, Ontario; the 1930s Hi-Li game craze (a popular game in the 1930s); Red Cross emergency relief work; men from the Eglinton Hunt Club participating in a fox hunt; and the jitterbug dance. Also included is footage of Ontario troops in WWII.

Two audio cassettes contain interviews conducted by Alan Bulman and Greg Hoy with George Patton in February of 1969. George Patton, former Director of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau (OMPB), discusses his work with the OMPB, Father Joseph Gravelle's purchase of the OMPB's collection of 28 mm films, the OMPB theatre at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), and getting fired from the OMPB in 1934. Patton also discusses his involvement in facilitating the purchase of 28 mm film projectors for every agricultural representative in Ontario, as well as his three month trip to England in 1930, where he made twenty films. In the interview, Bulman also discusses with Patton the content of an OMPB catalogue of films.

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Bulman, Alan, 1926-
Allan Grossman fonds
CA ON00009 F 4371 · Fonds · [188-]-1985

Fonds consists of material created and/or accumulated by Allan Grossman that documents his personal life and political career. It includes pins, buttons and membership cards related to his association with the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, scrapbooks and clippings that document his work as a Member of Provincial Parliament and testimonials from numerous friends and colleagues regarding his public service.

Included are numerous photographs that document his personal life including photographs of travel and vacations with friends and family. There are also numerous photographs of his political career including his trade mission to China in 1972.

Also included are the Province of Ontario Letters Patent incorporating the Junior Conservative Association of Ontario, a poster entitled "General rules and orders to be observed and obeyed by the prisoners in the gaol of the United Counties of York and Peel," 1905, and a panoramic photograph of the group of individuals attending the Conservative Forum held at Trinity College, Port Hope, Ontario, 1942.

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Grossman, Allan, 1910-1991
Mary Wright fonds
CA ON00009 F 4361 · Fonds · 1914-[199-], predominant 1947-1998

Fonds consists of research and working files, photographs, publications and artefacts compiled and created by Mary Wright in documenting the activities of the professional photographic associations of Ontario and Canada.

Included are the planning and promotional material from the annual conventions of the Professional Photographers of Ontario and Professional Photographers of Canada and recipients of the Canadian Photographer of the Year award.

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Wright, Mary
Ferguson family fonds
CA ON00009 F 4599 · Fonds · 1911-[200-?], predominant 1938-1962

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by the Ferguson family of Uxbridge and later of North York, Ontario. Included are diaries, correspondence, literary journals, Christmas and greeting cards, cookbooks, and various publications.

The majority of the fonds consists of correspondence, which was written between Beatrice and Murray Ferguson, the Fergusons and their friends, and Beatrice and her mother Gertrude, as well as between Beatrice's grandparents Gertrude and Frank Botha. Included in the correspondence are letters written between Beatrice Botha Ferguson and her pen pals, one of whom was Canadian poet Louis Dudek. Fifteen volumes of the First Statement literary journal accumulated by Beatrice Botha Ferguson from 1942 to 1944 are included in the fonds, as well as fifteen volumes of diaries written by Beatrice that document a twenty-four year period from 1938 to 1962.

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Ferguson (family)
CA ON00009 F 4598 · Collection · [192-]-[197-], predominant 1939-1960

Fonds consists of storefront photographs of branches of the Dominion Stores Limited located across Ontario but not in the City of Toronto.

The fonds is primarily composed of photographic prints, some created from the original negative near the time of its creation, while others are reproductions printed from a copy negative of an earlier print. The impetus behind the creation of these images seems to have varied over time depending on the need of the moment.

The earliest images, consisting of the chain's smaller stores, seem to have been taken in 1939-1940 when they were considered for sale during Dominion's first re-organization. However, notes on the images state that these locations did not actually cease operations until 1957-1960. The larger downtown storefront locations seemed to have been shot in the late 1950s or early 1960s, possibly for reference purposes, by Dominion's property management office. The images of the urban supermarkets appear to have been taken in the mid to late 1960s during the stores' openings or shortly afterward. Several of the images seem to be proofs of advertising campaigns ("500 Lower Prices" and "Cut Food Costs" being the most notable) as the mix of locations all sport the same sales banner.

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Dominion Stores Limited
CA ON00009 F 4594 · Collection · 1909, 1914-[198-], predominant 1909

Fonds consists of black and white photographic prints predominantly showing the development of the Gowganda townsite in 1909 and the exploration for silver in the surrounding area. Shown is the establishment of an overland route into the area; the development of the townsite from canvas tents to log and squared timber buildings; scenes of the newly erected hospital, jail, Roman Catholic church, assay and legal offices, and various waterfront businesses; the exposure and hand drilling of rockfaces containing silver ore, and the construction of headframes, hoist and boiler houses, cook and bunk houses at various mine sites.

The fonds also contains images documenting Arthur Latimer's sport activites from being a member of the 1914 Schumacher hockey team to the Kemptville Lawn Bowling Club in the late 1970's.

The photographic prints have been organized by size and then by subject. The images dating from 1909, which are all contact prints taken from the original negatives, are predominantly either 16.5 x 10.8 centimetres (i.e., 6.5 x 4.25 inches) or 21.6 x 16.5 centimetres (i.e., 8.5 x 6.5 inches) in size.

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Donald Rodwell Austin fonds
CA ON00009 F 4532 · Fonds · 1888-2003, [photocopied 199-] (originals 1868-199-)

Fonds consists of records acquired and created by Rod Austin for the book he co-authored with Ted Barris entitled "Carved in Granite: 125 Years of Granite Club History", about the prominent Toronto sports and social club. The records include publications of the Granite Club, newspaper clippings, photographs, notes on these sources and drafts of the book.

The Granite Club publications include a near complete run of the Granite Club News, which outlines club activities and news about members. Also included are programs from the annual figure skating carnival, at which several Canadian and world champions who were members of the club performed. A number of Annual Reports are also included as well as greeting clubs and postcards published by the club.

Austin created research files on subjects and people related to the Granite Club. These include original and photocopied newspaper clippings, photographs and material from other published sources and archives, as well as his own notes and photographs. These files also include photocopies of some of the club's meeting minutes. Subjects include various sports, building relocations and allegations of racism. Persons represented in the files include club presidents, prominent members and staff. These records also include audio recordings of interviews conducted with club members.

Fonds includes several draft copies of the book annotated by Rod Austin and others.

Also included is the minute book for the Prospect Park Curling Club and financial statements for the Queen City Curling Club, both of which merged with the Granite Club.

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Austin, Rod, 1927-2002
Bruce Decker fonds
CA ON00009 F 4423 · Fonds · 1873-1877, [198-]

The fonds consists of 87 collodion wet plate glass negatives, 61 copy prints, and 83 copy negatives depicting early settlement images of Barrie, Bracebridge, Orillia, and surrounding areas. The photographs depict aboriginal peoples, homesteading, lumbering activities, maple sugar gathering, a general store and post office, homes, and businesses.

Of particular note are photographs of the town of Bracebridge that show the layout of the town as it existed in the mid-1870s, including early buildings and businesses, such as the British Lion Hotel and the Northern Advocate Newspaper offices.

The photographer who created the collodion negatives is reasonably believed to be Charles Ellis (1844-1921). Charles Ellis was born in England on 16 June, 1844, and emigrated to Canada in 1868, possibly with his future wife Isabella McNabb (1856-1944), a native of Scotland. They lived in Ontario from 1868 until late 1880 or 1881 when the family moved to Manitoba. Two of their children were born in Ontario; four more children were born in Manitoba. It is believed that Ellis created the Ontario negatives between 1873 and 1877, before moving to Manitoba; Bruce Decker created the copy prints and copy negatives in 1979 or the early 1980s.

The process used to create collodion wet plate glass negatives was very rare and had a limited period of use. The wet collodion process was commonly used from 1856 until about 1880, and was most popular in the 1870s.

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Decker, Bruce, 1946-1986
Ziegler family fonds
CA ON00009 F 4413 · Fonds · [188-?]-[ca.1900]

Fonds consists of prints of formal individual and group photographs of members of the Ziegler family and others, perhaps related, produced by a variety of studios in Canada and the United States, mostly in Berlin [Kitchener] and Waterloo, Ontario. Only a few prints bear inscriptions indicating subjects by name, and most of these are clearly members of the Ziegler family: Gordon and Harvey Ziegler, sons of Henry A. Ziegler and his wife Anna; and their cousins Lizzie Ann, Delphina, and Edna Schaefer, daughters of Louisa Ziegler and William H. Schaefer. There is one photograph of Lydia (Ziegler?) Huehnergard, possibly their aunt.

Represented in this fonds are photographic prints from studios in Ontario in Berlin (Green and Company; C. Schneuker; Seiler), Waterloo (A.C. Moyer; Heimbecker; I.W. Wilson; Edwards), Elmira (Levi Vost), and Toronto (W. Mathers; J.J. Milliken). Other studios were located in Boissevain, Manitoba (J.E. Miers), West Superior, Wisconsin (Berryman) and Le Mars, Iowa (Dabb; Brown).

A number of the photographs are in the form of cartes de visites produced by local photographers in Berlin (D.G. Denison; Lundy and Wilder), Waterloo (Lundy and Company; Heimbecker; D. Henzel; P. Reichert; I.W. Wilson), and Elmira (W. Marshall; S. Fischer).

Fonds includes printed funeral card for Elizabeth Ziegler, Henry's mother, who died in October 1896.

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Ziegler (family)
CA ON00009 F 4467 · Collection · [192-]-1999, 2003-2006

Collection consists of photographs, posters, business correspondence, financial ledgers and statements, memorabilia, internal manuals, publications, biographical files, and manuscript memoirs relating to the MacLaren Advertising agency.

The records were acquired, assembled, and created by Edward Enright, the donor, over several decades to illustrate the history of the MacLaren Advertising agency, Toronto, which was run by John A. MacLaren from the early 1920s, and developed into an international advertising business that is still in operation today.

The collection documents the business activities and products of a company that created advertisements, including radio and television advertisements, to sell the goods and advance the commercial interests of its corporate clients. MacLaren Advertising clients included General Motors, General Electric, Imperial Oil Canada, Canada Packers, and the Government of Canada. The collection includes a video created by the company in 1984 as a retrospective, titled, "MacLaren: The Story So Far" (see F 4467-10).

The collection also documents the numerous awards won by the company. It includes photographs and textual records depicting the firm's success in winning the Canadian Advertisers and Sales Executives' silver medal in 1942, numerous newspaper awards in 1963, Strategy's Agency of the Year in 1995, Marketing Magazine's Agency of the Year in 1988 and 1999 and the recognition of John MacLaren as a Canadian Giant in the advertising business. The collection also includes a Tribute to John MacLaren presented as an illuminated resolution by the artist, A. J. Casson, signed by the executive staff in Canada and England expressing their pride in the business and in their leader (see F 4467-1).

Collection also includes MacLaren family records assembled by the donor concerning John MacLaren's illness and death in Florida in 1955, and records related to his wife Christine MacLaren, his sister Audrey Jane MacLaren, and his brother William Hunter MacLaren. Included also are home movies of various family events and the wedding of Barbara, John A. MacLaren's daughter.

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MacLaren Advertising Company
CA ON00009 F 1498 · Fonds · [1833?]-1994

Fonds consists of originals and copies of records created and received by Geen's Prescription Pharmacy. Fonds includes prescription slips (1939-1950), a copy of "Druggists' Bulletin Service Price Book" (1951), suppliers' advertisements, product descriptions, price lists and order forms . The fonds also contains photocopies of articles and photographs including a computer printout of a "History of Geen's Drugstore of Belleville, Ontario" for the period 1833- , by A.F. Geen, written November 1994; photocopied excerpts from articles published in the Belleville "Intelligencer" pertaining to the Geen Pharmacy and family, which contain photographs of the pharmacy's exterior and interior, as well as of P.W. Geen and A.F. Geen. Also included are photocopies of photographs depicting exterior and interior views of the Geen Pharmacy at various times: 186-; 1865-1870; 1871-1887; October 1896; 1925-1930. Other materials include photocopied newspaper advertisements for the Geen Pharmacy and for the drugstore operated by A.M. Sheldon ca. 1833-1835. There are also photocopies of a receipt regarding the sale of the Holden Drug Co. to Albert L. Geen, signed by the seller J.C. Holden.

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Geen's Prescription Pharmacy
CA ON00009 F 4150 · Fonds · 1900-1991

Fonds consists of records created or received by the Caledon Mountain Trout Club during the administration of the club. Specific records include by-laws and regulations; notices, agendas and minutes of general meetings and meetings of the Board of Directors; annual reports; copies of Directors' resolutions; and minutes and reports of committees. Records relating to membership include applications for membership and application for change of membership category forms; and membership lists.

Fonds also includes correspondence between the President, Secretary-Treasurer, and Directors of the Club, Club members and candidates for membership, staff and individuals seeking employment with the Club, clients of the Club's hatchery, suppliers and service providers, local and provincial governments, as well as other country clubs and organizations involved in recreational fishing; questionnaires sent to members on policy and rules issues; corporation annual returns; contracts for supply of service and for purchase and sale of property; affidavits; architectural and technical drawings; photographs; brochures; as well as newspaper clippings.

The fonds has been organized into 13 series.

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Caledon Mountain Trout Club
Town of Port Hope fonds
CA ON00009 F 1874 · Fonds · 1834-1964

Fonds consists of the official records of the Town of Port Hope, which are comprised of Council Minutes, 1834-1963 and By-laws, 1834-1964.

The records are only available on microfilm. The paper records for the Town of Port Hope, including Assessment and Collectors Rolls, 1874-1955; Clerk-Treasurer's Records, 1851-1955; Records of the Port Hope Harbour Commission, 1852-1960 and the Council Minutes and By-laws are held by the Port Hope Archives.

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Port Hope (Ont.)
Fonds · 1966-

The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Fonds consists of the records of the various administrative and medical departments of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and the predecessor organizations of the hospital.

The Fonds includes the following Series:
1) Board of Trustees
2) Office of the President/CEO
3) Medical Staff Advisory Board
4) Sunnybrook Foundation
5) Sunnybrook-Wellesley Merger
6) Sunnybrook-Women’s College Hospital Merger
7) Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Services
8) Physical Medicine
9) Nursing
10) History
11) Reports
12) Publications
13) Ontario Council of Administrators of Teaching Hospitals
14) Building Plans
15) Medical Art
16) Dr. Marvin Tile
17) Portrait negatives
18) Events and Departments Photographs
19) Educational and events 35mm slides
20) Surgical 8mm film
21) Sunnybrook Volunteer Association/Canadian Red Cross Society
22) Artefacts
23) Ephemera

Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Margaret Scrivener fonds
CA ON00009 F 4325 · Fonds · 1971-1988

Fonds consists of records donated by Mrs. Margaret Scrivener that include some personal records and records relating to her career as a Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament, a Cabinet Minister in two portfolios, and in various other capacities. The records cover the entire period of her provincial political career.

The material has been arranged into outgoing correspondence and indexes, speeches, a few miscellaneous files, a few incoming correspondence and private members bills files, and files relating to her tenure on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. The series of outgoing correspondence, in particular, inter-mixes her private affairs with those relating to her various positions in the government.

Substantial information may be found in the fonds relating to the Ministries of Housing, Government Services and Revenue, the Ontario Task Force on Provincial Rail Policy, and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.

Scrivener, Margaret, 1922-1997
High treason register
CA ON00009 F 907 · Fonds · 1926

Fonds consists of "Register of Persons Connected with High Treason during the War of 1812-14, with U.S.A." along with associated notes, correspondence, and indices, compiled by Charles Black, special clerk at the Ontario Department of Public Records and Archives in 1926.

The register is arranged alphabetically by surname, and includes information as to land allotments, charges preferred against the individual, some biographical information, and references used: mainly the Ontario Archives, Dominion Archives, Ontario Historical Society, and Patents Office, Department of Lands and Forests.

Black, Charles, fl. 1926
Murray Gaunt fonds
CA ON00009 F 4152 · Fonds · 1962-1981

Fonds consists primarily of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from Murray Gaunt, MPP, Huron-Bruce. Records also include incoming correspondence to Gaunt for the years 1962-1965.

Files are primarily arranged in chronological order by month and year.

Gaunt, Murray Andrew, 1935-2009
CA ON00009 F 997 · Fonds · Microfilmed 1974-1976 (originally created 1740-1974)

Fonds consists of records of the Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers), its constituent meetings, its standing committees, and other related bodies which entrusted their records to its care between 1955 and 1974. This includes records from the three Yearly Meetings that united in 1955 to become Canadian Yearly Meeting.

An inventory for the original records was prepared by the University of Western Ontario Regional History Collection in 1971, and reference codes were assigned. These reference codes are provided here in brackets next to the title, for the use of researchers who may wish to correlate published references to the microfilm and to the originals. In the University of Western Ontario reference codes, C identifies records of Conservative Friends, O identifies Orthodox records, and H identifies Genessee (Hicksite) records.

Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Sidney Handelman fonds
CA ON00009 F 4166 · Fonds · 1970-1978

Fonds consists of records created and / or accumulated by Sidney Handleman during his career as Member of Provincial Parliament for Carleton. It documents his tenure as Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations as well as his work on various standing committees.

Included are Handelman's correspondence files, subject files, and speech files.

Also included is a motion picture film entitled "A Guide to the Ontario Building Code", produced by Communications Research and Development Limited, Toronto, which features Handleman.

Handelman, Sidney Bernard, 1921-1988