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Fonds consists of photographs of Canadian Car and Foundry facilities in Fort William, Brantford, and Welland, Ontario. The images document the fabrication of cast metal work, railway rolling stock, and World War II aircraft. Images also show the construction and finished interiors and exteriors of many foundry buildings, as well as close-ups and overviews of male and female staff operating machinery and welding. Included in C 190-6 is a very small amount of textual material and a technical drawing.

This fonds has been arranged into six series.

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Fonds consists of photographs taken by Julien LeBourdais, a Toronto-based professional photographer.

The photographs document a wide range of subjects including prominent sports figures, politicians, artists, entertainers, business leaders, and royalty. In addition to notable personalities, the photographs also cover political events including campaigns and elections, diplomatic visits to Ontario, activities of major labour unions, factories and workers, sporting events, protests, and various geographic regions throughout the province. While the vast majority of the photographs are of Ontario events and personalities, some have a wider national or international context.

The arrangement of photographs reflects Julien LeBourdais' original filing system in the first three series and his own arrangement in the remaining series.

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Fonds consists of 1,878 glass plate negatives taken ca. 1895 to ca. 1910 by Simon Peter Bartle and his brother, Herman Arthur Bartle, known professionally as Bartle Brothers.

Photographic subject are predominantly groups and individual residents of various Glengarry and Stormont County communities including: Fassifern, Grantley, Lancaster, Martintown, North Lancaster, St. Andrews, and Williamstown. In addition, general subjects including area business enterprises, dwellings, churches, vehicles, and recreation.

Fonds is arranged into 20 series: portraits (series 1); clothing and dress ( series 2); banks (series 3); business enterprises (series 4); canals (series 5); canoes and canoeing (series 6); churches (series 7); country life (series 8); death (series 9); dwellings (series 10); farming (series 11); farms (series 12); gardens (series 13); hunting (series 14); pets (series 15); railroads (series 16); recreation (series 17); sports (series 18); streets (series 19); and vehicles (series 20).

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Fonds consists of the records created and accumulated by Page & Steele Architects. Fonds includes architectural drawings, change notices, orders, specifications, contracts, tenders, correspondence, progress reports, accounting records, filed instructions, drawings transmittal forms, work schedules, electrical and mechanical files, construction meeting minutes, slides and progress photographs from various projects.

Nearly all projects represented in this fonds are in the Toronto area, and include: Commerce Court office development; O'Keefe Performing Arts Centre (currently the Sony Centre, formerly known as the Hummingbird Centre); Beth Tzedec Synagogue; Kimbourne Park United Church; Moss Armoury; Regent Park South Housing Development; York University Chapel and Religious Centre; and Garden Court Apartments.

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Fonds consists of three watercolours created by the architect Elmer H. Russell while he was employed by the Ontario Department of Public Works. Two of the paintings are aerial views of Chorley Park and Government House in Toronto, Ontario. The third painting, in a wash technique, shows the main lobby of Government House in perspective, separated into four pieces.

Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Peterborough architects, William and Walter Rollston Lightbourne Blackwell. Projects represented in the fonds include: Hospital for the Canadian General Electric Company; additions to the Peterborough Y.M.C.A.; Hospital for the General Electric Company; Rush Apartments; the Masonic Building; the Canadian Raybestos Company Building; and the Peterborough Lock Company Building.

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Fonds consists of architectural drawings, photographs and textual records created or accumulated by Toronto architect, Charles J. Gibson.

Includes design specifications, architectural drawings and correspondence pertaining to work performed by Gibson for Mr. F.H. Gooch relating to the construction of a conservatory addition to Gooch's residence at 120 Crescent Road in Toronto and his cottage on Lake Simcoe. The drawings include sketches of a site plan and sections of an ice house attached to Gooch's cottage. Also includes one certificate recognizing Gibson's membership in the Ontario Association of Architects.

Includes a series of photographs documenting: Chandler House, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club memorial capstan, the Queen's Park Archway commemorating the 1901 Royal Visit of the Duke of York and Duchess of Cornwall, Lambton Golf and Country Club and two cottages (all designed by Gibson), as well as the Simpson Family mausoleum in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Also includes photographs of a series of unidentified residential rooms, either designed or photographed by Gibson.

One watercolour perspective painting by Gibson documents a grand Muskoka cottage he designed in 1902, known as "Kawandag." The painting was damaged by water leakage prior to its donation to the Archives of Ontario but the design of the cottage and its setting remain visible.

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Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Craig, Zeidler and Strong and its antecedents, predominantly Blackwell and Craig. Major projects represented in this fonds were mostly undertaken in Peterborough and are as follows: Peterborough Civic Hospital; Peterborough Memorial Centre; Lakefield Preparatory School; Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School; Lakefield District High School; Peterborough Medical Centre; Abramsky Building; Cherney's store and warehouse; and Peterborough Golf and Country Club. Fonds also includes a list, probably arranged in chronological order.

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Fonds consists of 470 negatives and approximately 175 prints in an album, taken in the course of Richard Holborn's work with the Toronto Star newspaper.

Most of the images were taken at the Malton airport (now Pearson International Airport) and capture people in the entertainment business such as the Beatles, Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Jean Shrimpton, and Raymond Massey.

Fonds also includes photographs of federal, provincial and municipal politicians including John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.

Also included are images of local fires, ice storms, pageants, and fatal car accidents.

Unit C 221-0-0-30 is an album compiled by Holborn for display in a local photography store. All prints from this fonds are housed in this album. In addition to prints, the album contains biographical information, a small number of newspaper clippings, as well as press identification and business cards.

Most of the negatives in this fonds are 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" black and white images, although there are some 35 mm and 4"x5" black and white negatives. All but six of the 172 prints are black and white.

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Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to McCracken's career as a pilot and flight instructor. The slides taken by McCracken depict aerial views of northern Ontario, as well as pictures of camps, airplanes and people.

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Fonds consists of photographs taken by Reuben Sallows of farmers and farm life. The fonds contains images of rural activities and animals, the harvesting of farm produce, and scenes of women in rustic settings.

The fonds was in no recognisable order when received. It has been arranged into subject groupings. Each photograph includes Sallows' stamp on the reverse and some are annotated with captions.

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Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of McMurrich and Oxley and their predecessor, Sommerville, McMurrich and Oxley. Fonds also contains some architectural drawings from Oxley and Chapman, Loren Arthur Oxley's father's architectural firm. The drawings are largely of Hamilton and Toronto buildings. Various projects are documented in the fonds including: Holy Blossom Temple, 1936-1949; Prince's Gate, 1927; Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, 1965-1967; Peace Bridge Approach Plaza, Fort Erie, 1952-1960; Pembroke General Hospital, 1952-1955; Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, Canadian Plaza, 1959 and 1960-1962; Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Fall, Canadian Approach Plaza, 1949-1942; McMaster University Hamilton - various proposals, during the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's; and the Junior Red Cross Hospital, Calgary, 1945-1951. Also represented are the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Hospital at St. Thomas, and additions to St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Reference drawings of architects such as J.P. Hynes and A.A. Post are included. In addition, fonds contains photographs, newspaper clippings and subject files pertaining to various projects, clients and architectural history.

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The Walter Moorhouse fonds consists of photographs and motion picture film taken by Walter Moorhouse depicting Moorhouse’s family, his homes, and the community in which he lived. Moorhouse also captured the activities and students at the schools where he was employed, as well as those of the Daily Vacation Bible School and the Y.M.C.A. where he volunteered. There are many landscape photographs taken during Moorhouse’s travels throughout Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada, Germany, and England as well as still life photographs of animals, flowers, trees, and various inanimate objects.

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Fonds consists of watercolours depicting various locations on the Rideau Canal created by William T. Clegg. The watercolours may have been prepared to document the construction of the canal for presentation to visiting officials. The drawings are not signed and dated, but have information regarding location written on the verso. The watercolours identify various lock stations along the Rideau Canal from Bytown (Ottawa) to Kingston: Hartwell's locks; Hog's Back; Black Rapids; Long Island; Burritt's Rapids; Nicholson's Rapids; Clow's Rapids; Merrick's Mills; Maitland's Locks; Edmund's Mills; Old Sly's Locks; Smith's Falls; First Rapids; Narrows; Isthmus; Chaffey's Mills; Davis; Brewer's Lower Mills; and Kingston's Mills.

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Fonds consists of ca. 10,600 colour photographic prints and negatives depicting converted one-room schoolhouses. The photographs were taken in the course of Logan's research for the book "School's Out: A Pictorial History of Ontario's Converted Schoolhouses".

The fonds includes 5 albums of approximately 600 colour prints depicting interior and exterior views of Ontario schoolhouses, with captions including name of school, geographic location and date of construction. The first album contains portions of text used in the introduction of Logan's book on schoolhouses.

Also included are ca. 10,000 colour prints and 35 mm. negatives depicting Ontario interior and exterior views of schoolhouses.

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Fonds consists of photographic, textual, sound and moving images material created, accumulated, and maintained by Bill and Barbara Montaigne.

Fonds includes black and white and colour photographic negatives depicting local community life and news events in the Pembroke, Ontario area. Portraits and aerial photographs are also found int he fonds. Three file card indices for many of the photographs in this fonds are also available.

Textual records contained in this fonds include newspaper clippings, story files, proof sheets, and correspondence pertaining to Montaigne's activities as a photojournalist. Fonds also includes three scrapbooks compiled by Barbara Montaigne containing magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, cards and other ephemera documenting Bill Montaine's career as a photojournalist, photographer and cinematographer.

Records of Bill Montaigne also include sound recordings and freelance films produced by Montaigne, and some footage of his family.

The records have been arranged in nine series.

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Fonds consists primarily of 966 engineering drawings representing 168 projects. The fonds includes mechanical and electrical engineering plans for all types of commercial, industrial, institutional and residential buildings.

The fonds also includes photographic slides of houses and buildings the firm worked upon.

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Fonds consists of personal and professional records of Toronto architect Jack Ryrie. This includes work done for various architectural firms, including Saunders and Ryrie, Mathers and Haldenby, and Allward and Gouinlock.

Personal records include certificates, diaries, notebooks and sketches and paintings, in a variety of media, created while living in Toronto as well as while traveling and studying in Europe, the Middle East and Egypt.

Fonds also includes records relating to Ryrie's purchase, restoration and occupation of the Toronto residence named "Whitehall".

Photographic records document family and friends, Whitehall, travels and historic buildings of Ontario

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Fonds consists of 64 glass plate negatives taken by J.H. Black. The photographs depict various scenes and individuals around Colchester including: Christ Church; Reverend S.J. Whealan; Grace Baldwin; Maggie Bell; Fanny Wright; Lena Bailey; Edwin Wright; the Pelaw family; the Brush family; the Klie family; Captain Little; Olly Bowring: the Hackett family; the Tofflemire family; freighter and tugs; local industry; and Colchester Beach.

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Collection consists of 35 mm negative copies of ca. 980 slides of historic photographs of the Parry Sound District.

Geographic areas documented include: Ahmic Harbour, Britt, Byng Inlet, Depot Harbour, Dunchurch, Hurdville, Lost Channel, MacTier, Footes Bay, McKellar, Nobel, Orrville, Parry Island, Rosseau and Waubamik.

Photographic subjects are: aircraft, automobiles, banks, blacksmith shops, churches, curling groups, factories, fairgrounds, fire halls, hockey teams, hotels, loggers, lumber mills, mines, parades, railways, schools, ships, smelters, stores, streets, trains, wagons, and various individuals.

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