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Fonds consists of various records arising from Allan McLennan's law practice. These records include journals and daybooks containing notes on various cases handled by McLennan (often including the names of the individuals involved, the situation, and the advice given to the client). Fonds also includes a letterbook containing copies of outgoing correspondence. The letterbook, as well as many journals and daybooks, includes an address book. Also included are received correspondence, and records arising from specific cases, including: Kenora vs. Keewatin Power Co., Kenora vs. Hudson's Bay Co., Rat Portage vs. Hudson's Bay Co., as well as Hudson's Bay Arbitration records, some Keewatin land titles, and other records.

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Fonds consists of records created or received by Allan Napier McNab, and includes some some records of other McNab family members. Records include correspondence, addresses and speeches, a subscription list, a Militia Brigade Order of 1837, a paylist for Six Nations warriors, two plans of attack on Navy Island, reports, articles, and genealogical information. Materials in the fonds document the Caroline incident of 1837 and other events in the Rebellion of 1837, MacNab's efforts to receive appointment as Adjutant-General and his imprisonment by the Legislative Assembly.

Researchers can also consult microfilm received from Library and Archives Canada, containing a diary of MacNab's daughter, Sophia MacNab, and a scrapbook compiled by her pertaining to Allan MacNab's activities in government, and the social activities of herself and her husband, Viscount Bury (later the Earl of Albemarle) (diffusion microfilm reel A305), as well as Albemarle Manuscripts copied from material in the Ipswich and East Suffolk Record Office (diffusion microfilm reel A22). These materials should not be cited as part of the Archives of Ontario fonds F 38.

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Collection consists of records collected by Alpheus Edward Byerly in his research into the history of areas in Wellington County. Collection contains letters, commissions, returns, notes, notebooks, advertisements, and newspaper clippings relating to the history of Fergus and Wellington county. Some specific subjects and correspondents include: William Lyon Mackenzie, Charles Tupper, Sir John A. Macdonald, the Toronto and Guelph Railroad, and the Guelph and Galt Railroad Company. Fonds also includes a bibliography of works written by Catholics and published in Canada and Newfoundland. Records are arranged chronologically.

Fonds consists of records created and gathered by Alvin Curling during a portion of his provincial legislative career as MPP of Scarborough North, as Minister of Housing, as Minister of Skills Development, and as Liberal Housing Critic.

The records include files created by Curling while he acted as the Liberal Housing Critic (from 1995 to 1996), as well as files from at least two of his predecessors in this role, Joseph Cordiano and Dianne Poole.

The fonds also contains records representing a portion of Curling's work (from 1985 to 1999) in the Scarborough North Provincial Liberal Association particularly concerning his preparation for elections.

Also included are Curling's scheduling records, briefing notes, correspondence files, and speech files. These records, as well as his subject files, are often interrelated, referring to the same events in each series.

The types of records include agendas, background information, bulletins, contact information, correspondence, date books, daily schedules, exhibits, financial records, invitations, issues, itineraries, a journal agenda, maps, news releases, newspaper articles, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, photographs, publications, reference material, reports, scheduling and event summaries, submissions, speech notes, travel documents, and related records.

The fonds consists of seven series.

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Fonds consists of the records created and collected by Alvin D. McCurdy. Fonds includes the personal correspondence and a geneology of the McCurdy family. Fonds also includes material collected by McCurdy relating to: Amherstburg planning and conservation (1953-1983), Amerherstburg schools (1881-1987), Black churches (1852-1988), the Prince Hall Mason's (1854-1989), the Joiners and Carpenters Union (1950-1989), and various black organisations such as the Amherstburg Citizen's Advancement Association (1887-1983). Fonds also contains 12 scrapbooks, compiled between 1880-1989, of newspaper clippings regarding Amherstburg peoples and events. Fonds also contains ca. 3000 photographs, 1850's-1989. Subjects inlcude: Amherstburg church activities, Masons, newspaper clippings and soldiers. Families represented include: McCurdy, Adams, Banks, Holten, Kirtley, King, Munroe, Saunders, Thomas and Thompson families. Fonds also includes 181 postcards, ca. 1905-1987, depicting scenes of southern Ontario and the northern United States. Fonds also includes two oral history interviews, 1974-1976, regarding Ontario black settlers. Interviewees are: Sarah Estella Stokes and Charlie Duncan.

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Fonds consists of photocopies of records created and received by A.L.W. Webb, primarily relating to his medical practice. Fonds also contains material pertaining to A.C. Webb and Arthur Northrup. Documents include correspondence, indentures, advertisements, formularies, accounts and receipts.

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Fonds consists of textual records created and acquired by the Ontario chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, including minutes, constitutions and bylaws, membership lists, newsletters and correspondence.

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Fonds consists of various records created or received by Amos Wright, mostly of a personal and political nature. Political correspondence includes correspondence from R. Baldwin, John Rolph, M. Cameron, John A. MacDonald, W.L. Mackenzie, S.L. Tilley and James Langstaff, among others. The political papers discuss patronage, political meetings, the Georgina Township boundaries question, the University bill, Ontario County political events and contentions, electoral reform, economic policy, the Fenian raids and the U.S. civil war. His family correspondence concerns itself a great deal with genealogical connections in Canada and the United States, and also contains genealogical notes on the Wright and Tait families, 1818-1870. Certain letters contain references going back to the beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay colony. A brother, J.H. Wright, was in British Columbia in mining in the 1860's and his letters discuss various gold rushes there and in the Pacific Northwest (United States), exploration and development of British Columbia, political events and the union of Victoria with the mainland. A cousin, Stephen Wright, was an itinerant Baptist minister in Essex County and New York and writes of religion, family connections and politics. There are also miscellaneous items, including an extract of the 1780 Royal Gazette of New York regarding the Revolutionary War, and an original letter of 1825 from Michael and Abraham Law, new settlers in the Niagara area of Canada to their relatives in Berwick, Pennsylvania, regarding their dissatisfaction with social and settlement conditions.

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Fonds consists of the records created and received by Alexander Neil Bethune. Fonds predominantly includes correspondence concerning Anglican Church affairs. Correspondents are Bishop Strachan in addition to other clergyman throughout Canada, Great Britain and the United States.

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Fonds consists of the administrative records of the Ancient Order of United Workmen Madoc Lodge, No. 195. Fonds includes correspondence, account books, minute books, directories, pamphlets, reports, beneficiary forms and claim forms.

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Fonds consists of materials illustrating the personal life and publishing career of Andrew Dyas MacLean, including private and business records inherited by him concerning his father Hugh Cameron MacLean and uncle John Bayne MacLean, both publishers as well. Further personal records pertain to his paternal grandparents, Rev. Andrew MacLean and Catherine Cameron, and his mother's family, the Dyas family of Toronto.

Publishing records include primarily correspondence, notes, and issues of publications, with some statements, minute books, and other administrative records. Personal records are comprised of correspondence, household accounts, real estate papers, clippings and records of social activities, and various materials illustrating key aspects of the lives of Andrew D. MacLean and his family: for example, his grandfather's sermons, his uncle John's phrenological records, his father Hugh's records of the Toronto Canoe Club, and his own service as secretary to Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. Fonds also includes photographs, paintings, and books.

Fonds contains records reflecting the MacLeans' social and family connections with: European nobility and other members of the upper class, including the Duke of Devonshire, the Queen Regent of Portugal, and Sir Fitzroy Maclean of Morvern; key international business contacts of the time, including Charles S. Rolls and Frank A. Munsey; and important Canadians such as Prime Ministers Bennett, Borden, Meighen and Pearson, Billy Bishop, Goldwin Smith, and E. Cora Hind.

Materials reflect the activities principally in southern Ontario, with some records from the Canadian Arctic, the Rocky Mountains, Scotland, England, Australia, and the Mediterranean.

Fonds has been arranged into eight series.

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Fonds consists of the records of Andrew Drew in his capacity as Commander of the Provincial Marine. Fonds includes correspondence with Colonel Hackett and John McLean, concerning the Provincial Marine. Fonds also contains plans for the establishment of a marine force for Upper Canada as well as Drew's financial receipts and bills.

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Fonds consists of the records created, received and compiled by Andrew F. Hunter while writing a proposed book on Sir Daniel Wilson, an anthropologist and the first president of the University of Toronto. Fonds includes a preliminary rough draft of the biography, as well as notes, pamphlets, and articles concerning Wilson. In addition, fonds contains three photographs of Daniel Wilson, John McCaul and George Wilson.

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Fonds consists of eight letters written by Andrew Heron and one letter by Charles Heron. Six of the letters from Andrew Heron are addressed to his daughter, Sarah Heron, in which he discusses schools in New York state and Upper Canada, and relays news about family members and other people. Andrew Heron's letters to Hugh Boomer and Charles Heron refers to payments and the shipment of cargo. Charles Heron writes to Hugh Boomer regarding business matters.

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Fonds consists of two items prepared by Andrew Hicks, MPP for Huron South and member of the United Farmers of Ontario party, in 1923: a 21 page manuscript; and an incomplete typed transcription (5 pages) of a speech.

The speech summarizes Hicks' views of the United Farmers of Ontario's position in government and condemns his own party leader, Premier Ernest C. Drury, for trying to amalgamate the U.F.O. Party with part of the Liberal Party.

Hicks delivered the speech in the Ontario Legislature on April 11, 1923. The following day Premier Drury called a general election for June 25, 1923 where the U.F.O Party was defeated by the Conservative Party. Andrew Hicks lost the nomination as the U.F.O candidate for the South Huron riding and therefore did not run.

Both the handwritten speech and typed pages are on official Legislative Assembly paper. The typed pages correspond to but are not identical to the handwritten draft.

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Fonds consists of the personal correspondence of Andrew McBain. Correspondents are family and friends in California, Nevada, the Eastern United States, Port Arthur, Midland, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Australia. Subjects include: Canadian gold discoveries, mining in California and Nevada, life at the University of McGill, as well as the Ottawa military establishment. Fonds also contains a series of medical broadsides for curing alcoholism, 1904; pamphlets from the Liberal Association, 1900; as well as school forms and notes for instruction in various subjects.

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The Andrew Merrilees collection is the result of Merrilees' collecting activities in the areas of railways, shippings, and Toronto's social life over many years. Much of the collection consists of published material such as pamphlets and books. However, Mr. Merrilees acquired a considerable amount of original archival material as well. This includes: panoramic photographs taken by Mr. Rickard, owner of the Panoramic Camera Company in Toronto; photos of locomotives built by the Canadian Locomotive Company and taken by Mr. Henderson of Kingston; photos by Ira Bexted of rural scenes from the 1930's; photos of Toronto scenes by Frank W. Micklethwaite; photos of buildings and street scenes in and around Toronto in the 1890's; watercolours, drawings and prints of buildings and street scenes in Toronto, Fort Erie, and Hamilton by James Blomfield; and technical drawings of the Toronto Railway Company showing intersections and switches. Collection is arranged into the following series: Josiah Bruce Photographs (Series F 1125-1); Panoramic Camera Company Photographs (Series F 1125-2); Canadian Locomotive Company Limited Photographs (Series F 1125-3); Ira Bexted photographs, c.1930 (Series F 1125-4); Frank W. Micklethwaite Photographs (Series F 1125-5); Photographs collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-6); Art works collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-7); James Blomfield art works (Series F 1125-8); David Williams scrapbooks (Series F 1125-9); Arnol N. Smith scrapbook (Series F 1125-10); Scrapbook collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-11); Records collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-12); Andrew Merrilees personal records (Series F 1125-13); Rolph Clarke Stone binders and proof-sheets of print work (Series F 1125-14); Railway and ship tickets collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-15); Newspapers collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-16); Maps and plans collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-17); Toronto Railway Company technical drawings (Series F 1125-18); Shipping Registers, Lists, Periodicals, and Pamphlets, 1893- 1978 (Series C-1); Railway Catalogues, Specifications, Equipment Registers, Periodicals, Books, Pamphlets, Reports, Timetables, Guides, Picture Albums and Post Cards, 1849-1976 (Series C-2); Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1835-1948 (Series C-3); Toronto Railway Company Linen Tracings, 1895-1921 (Series D); Pamphlets, 1884-1961 (Series K); Books- Additional (Series O).

The Andrew Merrilees collection is the result of Merrilees' collecting activities in the areas of railways, shippings, and Toronto's social life over many years. Much of the collection consists of published material such as pamphlets and books. However, Mr. Merrilees acquired a considerable amount of original archival material as well. This includes: panoramic photographs taken by Mr. Rickard, owner of the Panoramic Camera Company in Toronto; photos of locomotives built by the Canadian Locomotive Company and taken by Mr. Henderson of Kingston; photos by Ira Bexted of rural scenes from the 1930's; photos of Toronto scenes by Frank W. Micklethwaite; photos of buildings and street scenes in and around Toronto in the 1890's; watercolours, drawings and prints of buildings and street scenes in Toronto, Fort Erie, and Hamilton by James Blomfield; and technical drawings of the Toronto Railway Company showing intersections and switches. Collection is arranged into the following series: Josiah Bruce Photographs (Series F 1125-1); Panoramic Camera Company Photographs (Series F 1125-2); Canadian Locomotive Company Limited Photographs (Series F 1125-3); Ira Bexted photographs, c.1930 (Series F 1125-4); Frank W. Micklethwaite Photographs (Series F 1125-5); Photographs collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-6); Art works collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-7); James Blomfield art works (Series F 1125-8); David Williams scrapbooks (Series F 1125-9); Arnol N. Smith scrapbook (Series F 1125-10); Scrapbook collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-11); Records collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-12); Andrew Merrilees personal records (Series F 1125-13); Rolph Clarke Stone binders and proof-sheets of print work (Series F 1125-14); Railway and ship tickets collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-15); Newspapers collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-16); Maps and plans collected by Andrew Merrilees (Series F 1125-17); Toronto Railway Company technical drawings (Series F 1125-18); Shipping Registers, Lists, Periodicals, and Pamphlets, 1893- 1978 (Series C-1); Railway Catalogues, Specifications, Equipment Registers, Periodicals, Books, Pamphlets, Reports, Timetables, Guides, Picture Albums and Post Cards, 1849-1976 (Series C-2); Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1835-1948 (Series C-3); Toronto Railway Company Linen Tracings, 1895-1921 (Series D); Pamphlets, 1884-1961 (Series K); Books- Additional (Series O).

Fonds consists primarily of correspondence of Buell family members, concerning business, politics and family matters. Fonds also includes agreements, promissory notes, accounts, assessment notices, contracts, affidavits, an Act of Incorporation for the Western Assurance Company, power of attorney records, commissions, telegrams, poetry, and correspondence regarding various issues.

Included is correspondence regarding canal work at various locations, correspondence with several doctors, and a "spirit message" from clairvoyants. Fonds also contains records regarding the construction of the court house and jail at Brockville, including petitions to the government, contracts with carpenters and workmen, land agreements, bills for materials, and signature of subscribers. A family genealogy and autobiography are also included, as well as a copy of a self portrait of Andrew Norton Buell at age 24.

There is substantial correspondence on the subject of the U.S. Civil War, as a sister of the second Mrs. Buell (née Thorp) was married to Union Brigadier-General James C. Rice.

All materials in the fonds has been arranged in one chronological sequence.

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Collection consists of letters, deeds, mortgages, bonds, indentures, and photographs pertaining to business, land and administrative transactions in the Trenton area. There is also a typescript history of Presbyterianism in the Bay of Quinte District and a sketch of St. Andrew's Church in Trenton by Andrew Shurie. Photographs include portraits of residents of Trenton. Records are arranged chronologically.

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