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Fonds consists primarily of records created or received by Alexander Morris and his family, particularly his father William Morris and his uncle James Morris. Records have been arranged in chronological order, and consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence and other records, of a personal, family ,business, legal, and official nature. Included are land transaction records, mortgages, bonds, receipts, deeds and mining leases, articles of agreement, legal records, reports, and drafts of several of Alexander Morris' speeches. Fonds also contains a scrapbook compiled by Alexander Morris, relating mostly to political matters in Perth. Additional material was later added by Clyde Bell, curator of the Perth Historical Museum. This later material relates to the early history of Perth, and the formation of the Perth museum.

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Fonds consists of records of individuals involved in the Alexander Muir Memorial Fund, in particular Alexander Fraser, Secretary to the Fund and Provincial Archivist of Ontario. Included are: correspondence (relating to donations, an exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition, and the purchase and sale of stick pins); minutes of a meeting; a pamphlet of Nelson Centenary Memorial Fund mementoes; and newspaper clippings regarding the construction and official opening of the Alexander Muir Memorial Garden.

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Fonds consists of the personal and business records of Alexander Stickler. Fonds includes Stickler's school exercise books as well as personal correspondence with relatives in Scotland. Fonds also includes records from his wharf and storage business such as ledgers, cashbooks, waybills, manifests and steamer accounts. In addition, fonds contains letterbooks of the purser of the steamer, the St. Francis. Fonds also contains 109 photographs. Subjects include Alexander Stickler, his family and Glengarry county industries.

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Fonds consists of a photocopy of a handwritten account book listing groceries sold, prices, and names of customers.

Fonds consists of glass plate negatives, lantern slides, celluloid negatives, prints and textual material produced by A.T. Brown. Subject material of the fonds pertains primarily to events, scenes and people of Acton, Ontario ca. 1890-1920.

Included in the fonds are 1604 glass plate negatives, featuring informal portraits of local people as well as photographs of houses, buildings, mills, factories, local churches, the Acton railway station, bridges, structure fires, outdoor activities, a Native Indian encampment, local military groups, a train wreck, ships, ferries, local events such as parades, and sporting events and groups. As well, there are photographs of Toronto, including the Second Great Fire of Toronto of 1904, as well as scenes from rural areas and the area known as Cottage Country.

Fonds includes 47 glass plate positives and lantern slides. Subjects are virtually the same as those of the glass plate negatives, although fewer in number. These include scenes of various Acton, Ontario buildings, scenes from Cottage Country, informal portraits of people, groups and animals, as well as photographs of sporting events, concerts, parades and other public events.

Also included in the fonds are 670 prints, essentially representative of the same subjects as of the glass plate negatives, glass plate positives and lantern slides.

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Fonds consists of personal letter book of Alexander Wood, written 1822-1829.

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Fonds consists of one volume which is an account book in which Alexander Young listed his expenses. He may have been a teacher as several of his entries refer to tuition services.

Fonds consists of glass plate and film negatives created by Alexandras Studios, depicting the activities of Lieutenant-Governor William Donald Ross. Photographs show Ross and his wife attending special events, official openings, and ceremonies, as well as entertaining dignitaries at Government House, Chorley Park. Individuals identified in the photos include Ontario Premiers E.C. Drury, G. Howard Ferguson, Canadian Prime Ministers William Lyon MacKenzie King and R.B. Bennett, and Governor-General Willingdon, as well as Sir Winston Churchill.

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Fonds consists of the personal diaries of Private Alfred F. Armstrong written during his service in the Mississippi campaigns of the American Civil War, 1862-1863.

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Fonds comprises records of Alfred Chapman, a Toronto-based architect between 1906 and 1943.

Fonds consists primarily of architectural drawings associated with projects undertaken by Chapman's architectural firms: Chapman and McGiffin; Chapman and Oxley; Chapman, Oxley, and Bishop; and Chapman, Oxley and Facey. Included are specifications, correspondence, and other materials, including photographs and prints. Projects include residences, office buildings, religious houses, and public buildings, including educational institutions and recreational structures.

Fonds also contains materials related to the architectural projects. These include such as reviews of Chapman's buildings in architectural publications, and also general reference for ornamentation, decoration, and design, in the form of portfolios and loose plates, prints, and tearsheets.

The records have been augmented with materials of a biographical or genealogical nature, some collected by Chapman's son Howard D. Chapman.

Fonds has been arranged into four series according to functional differences in the records.

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The collection consists of a scrapbook of photocopies of newspaper clippings relating to the political career of Alfred H. Le Masurier, Reeve of Markham, 1954-1956. The scrapbook also contains Le Masurier's short memoir, "Brief Recollections Of Political Issues And Events Of Markham Township, 1952-1956". References made include: local, provincial and federal politics, regional development and local transportation.

Fonds consists of records of Caroline Hayward and her son Gerald. Caroline Hayward's records include travel diaries of her trip from New York to Kingston, undertaken in 1843. Fonds also contains typed copies of her prose works, and a photocopy of a sketch of Gore's Landing drawn around 1849. Records of Gerald Hayward include an autobiographical sketch, part of his diary while resident in New York, and a printed booklet authored by Hayward, "The Canadian Cot, a Little Bed in the East London Hospital for Children" from 1875.

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Fonds consists of photographs of aeroplanes and family home movies created by Alfred Malcomson, who worked at the factory of the de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Toronto, an aircraft manufacturer during the Second World War; he also worked as machine operator and designer creating the moulds for automobile parts for General Motors vehicles following the war.

The fonds is arranged into two series.

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Fonds consists of the records of Alfred S. Carter. Fonds predominantly contains manuscripts of Carter's writings, entitled: A Pioneer's Reminiscence of the Great Lakes; The Three Natural Outlets to Tidewater, The Great Lakes, The Hudson's Bay and the Pacific Outlet; and The Three Natural Outlets to Tidewater for the Last Great West's Inexhaustible Natural Resources. References made include: Great Lakes shipping; tugboats; the Fenian Raids; the Welland Canal; a gale force storm; Port Colborne and growing up in Port Colborne. Fonds also contains letters of transmission to E.W. Beattie of Montreal and to Carter's sister, Clara.

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Fonds consists of the diary of Alice S. Patterson. Diary entries relate to: the weather; domestic chores; the health of friends and relatives; church activities (including Church Society meetings, sermon topics, and a list of church donations); social visits; local events, such as deaths and marriages; and farming activities. Diary also contains a list of books (titles and authors) Patterson wished to obtain, on the topics of: religious studies, history, music, homemaking, and Ontario birds.

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Fonds consists of the office records of the law firm, Alison and Alcorn. Fonds includes subject files, litigation files and estate files.

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Fonds consists primarily of photographs, films and slides taken and compiled by Allan Edward Cuthbertson and his family.

Fonds includes early portrait photographs consisting of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes of family members and in-laws. Included is a daguerreotype of James Givens (1784-1846), who was born in Omagh, Ireland, the same town as many of the Cuthbertson family. Givens was an Aide-de-Camp to John Graves Simcoe, Ontario's first Lieutenant Governor, and the Superintendent of the Indian Department of Upper Canada, appointed by Simcoe. James Givens' brother George married the daughter of the Reverend Samuel Cuthbertson, the patriarch of the Cuthbertson family. There is also a daguerreotype of Edward Greer Cuthbertson, the son of the Reverend Samuel Cuthbertson and grandfather of Allan.

The majority of the fonds is comprised of family movies, slides and 11 x 17 photograph albums filled with black and white prints, taken and compiled from the early 1900s until the mid 1940s. Photograph albums follow a chronological order and most of the photographs have captions. Allan Edward Cuthbertson was most often the photographer and the images mainly centre around his immediate family: his parents Frederick Henry Cuthbertson and Mary Ann (Polly) Jackson, his siblings Elaine and Frederick William, and his wife Elma Ferguson and their two children, George and Hugh (Sonny). Family outings and vacations are also captured. The family spent time year-round in the Muskoka region of Ontario, in particular the towns of Bala and Rosseau. There are many images of cottages, canoeing, and natural scenes from here as well as home movies of the scenery of Muskoka, Brantford and Niagara. There is also a series of photographs, lantern and colour slides related to Rotary Club convention trips to the west coast of Canada and the United States and also to the east coast, in particular Atlantic City and New York City. Two trips overseas, in 1911 and 1937, to the United Kingdom and Europe are also documented; the fonds includes images of the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in June 1911 and George VI's Coronation that took place on 12 May 1937. A series of photographs and home movies depict the World’s Fair of 1939 and a western Canada trip in 1940. Negatives exist for some of the photos taken in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Fonds also includes many photographs and slides documenting accidents and disasters. The Toronto Fire of 1904 is represented in several photographs as is the fire at the Lambton Golf Club in 1919, the Westminster Church fire on January 31, 1920 in Toronto, the Shuttleworth Chemical Company fire, the Forum Building fire, the fire at the Wawa hotel in Muskoka and the Parkdale Canoe Club fire in 1923. There are also several images of accidents including plane crashes, automobile wrecks and train derailments. There are lantern slides from the 1920 Westminster fire as well as moving images of a house fire and of a bridge collapse at Niagara Falls in 1938.

Other events captured by Allan Cuthbertson include images of the crowds gathered after a false report of a signing of Armistice on November 7, 1918, the crowds on Victory Day, November 11, 1918 on Yonge Street, Queen Street and King Street in Toronto and the return of Toronto's 58th Battalion on March 23, 1919. There are images of the Canadian National Exhibition from 1919 until the 1940s, including original negatives of the CNE images from the late 1930s. There are also several photographs of the visits of Theodore Roosevelt to Toronto on November 26, 1917, the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, to the 1919 Canadian National Exhibition, the visits of the Ontario Premier Ernest Charles Drury and Colonel W.A. "Billy" Bishop, V.C. to the 1920 Canadian National Exhibition and the Royal Visit of George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Toronto and Brantford, Ontario in 1939. Lantern slides from the 1919 Prince of Wales visit and moving images of the 1939 Royal Visit also exist.

The fonds also contains a large number of newspaper clippings that coincide with the events and incidents captured in the photographs. Several of Allan Edward Cuthberston’s photographs were reprinted in newspapers and both forms are shown together in several of the albums.

Other textual materials in the fonds consist of memorabilia collected by Allan including menu cards, ship logs, telegrams and letters. There are also a number of postcards from Europe and Western Canada.

Also contained in the fonds are documentary art items. These include several lithographic prints of pastoral scenes and buildings.

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Fonds consists of the letterbook of Allan F. MacPherson, with 168 pages of outgoing correspondence and a few loose letters. Letter discuss business matters such as timber cuts and financial transactions.

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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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Fonds consists of records created or used by Allan Mackay in the creation of the Veterans' Memorial on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature. Besides the artistic and architectural records involved in the development of the monument, the fonds also includes meeting minutes of various committees involved in the process and correspondence regarding the copyright status of the photographs used in the monument.

The fonds includes conceptual wall panels that were created six months into the project and document the evolution of the memorial's composition of images. They include four working panels of photographic images cut, arranged and adhered on paper. Cut outs on the panels reflect spots where Allan Mackay moved the images about. The remainder of the panels consist of montages of images printed on paper. These montages functioned as mock-ups of sections of the wall.

The photographs include digital copies of research photographs constituting the totality of images that the artist considered for possible inclusion in the memorial. They were acquired from various sources, including Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian War Museum, the Glenbow Museum, the Department of National Defence and various publications. The images are not accompanied by references or metadata about sources and citations. Also included are studio photographs that document the evolution of the memorial's composition of images, and include photographs of the conceptual wall panels.

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