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Fonds consists of reference files compiled by the Naval Historical Section during the 1950s and kept up-to-date until 1965-1966. Documents added after 1966 were added by staff at the Directorate of History, or later by the Directorate of History and Heritage, and, therefore, were not part of the original collection. Most of the documents cover the period of E.C. Russell's tenure as Naval Historian during 1952-1966, and also includes material collected by the first Naval Historian, Dr. Gilbert Norman Tucker, during the Second World War. The material documents the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from the First World War up to the 1960s, with the Second World War being the most covered.
In addition to individual files, there are also 38 series of files with finding aids. These include:

1. 1000 General Information - Subject Files
2. 1000-5 History and Activities of the Canadian Naval Service
3. 1000-100/2 Naval Board
4. 1000-100/3 Naval Staff
5. 1000-973 Torpedo Anti-Submarines
6. 1250 Combined Operations
7. 1320 Communications - Signals, Telegrams and Cables
8. 1440-5 Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) History (General)
9. 1440-6 Halifax, Nova Scotia
10. 1440-7 Esquimalt, British Columbia
11. 1440-166/25 Newfoundland
12. 1440-186 University Naval Training Division
13. 1480 Naval Intelligence - Soviet Union
14. 1480-157/100 Great Britain. Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division
15. 1612 Hydrography - Oceanography
16. 1650 Operations and Plans (Royal Canadian Navy)
17. 1650 U-boats (General)
18. 1650 U-boats (German)
19. 1650 U-boats (German) - Personnel (Prisoners of War)
20. 1650-DS U-boats - Daily States: HMC, HM and Allied Ships
21. 1650-1 U-boats - Naval lans and Policies
22. 1650-1 U-boats - Operations ans Plans (NATO)
23. 1650-239/187 Korean Operations
24. 1700-100/78-78A Naval Historical Section Administrative Files
25. 1700-100/219 Air Sqaudrons and Groups
26. 1700-905 Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
27. 1886 Current History Books
28. 4000-100/14 Service Personnel
29. 4531 Personnel Selection
30. 8000 Ships and Shipping
31. 8000-160 Canadian Minesweeping Squadrons
32. 8000-260 Canadian Escort Squadrons
33. 8280 Sydney Files
34. 8280 Convoys and Convoy Organization
35. 8280 Convoys Naval Messages
36. 8440 Escort Groups and Forces
37. 8700 Movements and Programmes - Warships
38. 8885 Staff Requirements

Contents: accrual consists of material relating to the activities of the Waterloo law firm Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville under various former names (including MacGachen & Colquhoun, and Colquhoun & McBride), as well as material relating to the family history of some of the firm's members. Includes mostly deeds of land, mortgages, declarations, and correspondence; a will, a marriage contract, a birth registration, an insurance policy, a grant of burial lot, and other documents are also present. Accrual also contains two auction sale posters. Most of the documents were created in the local area, and some were created in England and Scotland.
Several files contain deeds and mortgages for Lot 9 and part of Lot 10 in the village of St. Jacobs, showing transfer in ownership from Levi Cress to Christian Henrich in 1884, through several other parties, to John L. Horst and his wife Selina Horst in 1953. Several files also contain material relating to a Fred Kempf and his property in Elmira. Some of the documents seem to have been retained for their relation to personal or family business of members of the firm.

Collection consists of mortgages pertaining to land transfers made in the Counties of Essex, Hereford and Worcester in England during the 1700s and 1800s.

Fonds consists of material pertaining to Raymond's portrayal of Abraham Lincoln on stage and film and includes photographs of Abraham Lincoln, sketches of Raymond as Lincoln, framed playbill on the night of Lincoln's assassination, framed Republican national ticket for President Lincoln, TV Guide awards for Raymond's performance in Tyger, Tyger and Dr. Kildare, and correspondence.

Fonds also consists of the Raymond Massey Rare Book Collection which he bequeathed along with the rest of the items in the fonds.

Fonds consists of the following series: Abraham Lincoln, Correspondence, Publicity, Raymond Massey Rare Book Collection.

Fonds consists of records of four generations of the Osler family, including: correspondence; diaries and journals; commissions, certificates, and diplomas; genealogical material; legal notes; printed material; and photographs. Correspondence includes bound volumes of letters, as well as loose correspondence. The first volume contains correspondence and accounts of Featherston Lake Osler's parents, and that of the Bath family, British relatives of the Oslers through marriage. Volumes two and three contains correspondence and other records of the Reverend Featherstone Lake Osler regarding his life as a sailor, student, and minister at Tecumseth and Dundas. Volume four contains letters of Ellen Osler and newspaper clippings regarding her life and death. The fifth volume contains letters and other records of Edward Osler Jr., the Rev. Edward Lake, and Henry Bath Osler. Loose correspondence contains personal and business letters of various members of the Osler family, mainly Justice Featherston Osler and Britton Bath Osler. Letters also include correspondence with Sir John A. Macdonald, Alexander, and Oliver Mowat regarding the payment of judges and other legal matters.

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Fonds consists of correspondence, original and in facsimile of John Wesley to his family and associates.

Item is one pewter plate. The marks on the bottom suggest it was likely produced by Samuel Duncumb, an English pewterer active in the 18th century.

Collection consists of records accumulated by William Blainey, of the law firm of Metcalfe, Blainey and Burns. The collection includes English legal documents pertaining to property transfers involving the Joseph Flood family, of Christow, County of Devon.

Fonds consists of minutes of the churches in Scotland which became the United Presbyterian Church in 1847 including, for example, the Associate Presbytery, the Associate Synod, the United Associate Synod, the United Presbyterian Synod and the Burgher and Anti-Burgher Synods. Includes correspondence re missions in Canada.

Fonds consists of lecture notes taken by William M. Wright, a student at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1913 to 1915. The notes provide a partial record of the content of courses offered at the law school during the period. They cover all areas of the curriculum, indicate texts used and cases examined. In two instances, printed lecture notes prepared by the law school accompany the notes. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Lecture notes

Fonds consists of the following series: album of Ministers and Presidents of the Wesleyan Methodist Church 1744-1929; portraits and letters of the Ministers of St. James Methodist Church (Montreal) 1898; album of portraits and letters of the Ministers and Presidents of the Methodist Conference in Canada 1892; and portraits of Methodist Ministers and their wives [18--].

This fonds consists of research in 19th century Canadian historical geography, mainly in Upper Canada/Ontario, focused on emigration from the U.K. and settlement in Newcastle (Peterborough County) District and London (Talbot Settlement) District. Included in the research materials are several maps, a small collection of photo negatives, and microfilm reels.

This collection contains archival material related to the Vidal and Nisbet families of Sarnia. Graphic material (photographs, photographic plates, silhouettes, albums, artwork), newspaper materials, correspondence (letters, letter books, postcards), personal records (military, legal,marriage, wills, financial), diaries and biographical histories are included. Family members with a prominent presence in the collection include Charlotte Vidal Nisbet, Alexander Vidal, and Richard Emeric Vidal.

Fonds consists of records relating to early Loyalist settlement in the Niagara region including documents relating to claims for compensation for losses incurred during and following the American Revolutionary War, as well as early military records including records relating to the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

These records document the military involvement for multiple generations of Cryslers and Crysler relations as volunteers and sometimes regiment leaders for various causes.

Extensive correspondence and diaries from the mid-1800s until the early 1980s provide a comprehensive perspective of pioneer and more recent farm and family life in the Niagara region.

Detailed financial accounts and receipts document a wide range of expenditures and produce sales in the operation of a fruit and dairy farm throughout much of the twentieth century.

Mortgages, deeds, wills and estate records provide much detail about property transactions relating to members of the Crysler family over two centuries of land ownership in Niagara Township.

Beginning in approximately 1920, several family members developed an interest in family and local history and compiled research notes and family trees about Cryslers and related families including: Clements, Durhams, Cosbys, Fields and others.

The fonds includes photographs in many formats of family members, friends, social occasions and family properties. In addition, the fonds includes ephemera in the form of greeting cards, advertising, posters, broadsides, maps, programs and other materials.

Pencil and watercolour sketches and artworks created in the mid to late nineteenth century portray birds, horses, family members and other subjects.

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Fonds consists of letter from Daniel Giddings to John Cleaveland about religious condition of troops at Louisbourg, 1748; sixteen letters from John Cleaveland to his wife about Louisbourg and his activities there, 1759.

Collection consists of architectural drawings and other materials generated or accumulated by J.C.B. and E.C. Horwood during their training and practice as architects within a succession of firms and work places. It includes a large amount of material from other preceding or contemporary architects and practices. These other materials came into the possession of the Horwoods' firm either through amalgamations of architectural practices, planned succession transfers from retiring architects, inheritance, or through a deliberate process by J.C.B. Horwood of acquiring precedent drawings as reference sources.

The collection contains the work of about eighty-five firms, which existed in the period 1829-1975. The projects largely emphasize Toronto, since most of the firms were based in that city. Nearly two-thirds of the series document Toronto architecture. However, the collection also contains some representation from other areas in Ontario, including Brantford, Brampton, Forest Hill Village, Gravenhurst, Guelph, Hamilton, Lorne Park, Mimico, Muskoka, Woodstock, York and North York Townships. There is also some material for the British Isles, Europe, and the United States, as well as from other parts of Canada. Included also are architectural artifacts, such as Frederic W. Cumberland's pantograph and William G. Storm's wooden writing table.

The records document many building types including schools, churches, government or institutional buildings, department stores, commercial and industrial facilities, bridges, skating rinks, funerary structures, and private residences.

The collection contains a wide variety of architectural record types, including mechanical and engineering drawings, survey drawings, site plans, water-colour perspectives, maps, and photographs. There is a vast quantity of masonry sketch work for a few of the projects, such as Osgoode Hall and University College. The collection also includes prints and engravings used as reference material by some of the architects.

The collection also includes a large number of textual items such as: written specifications, a small quantity of correspondence, accounting sheets, job ledgers, notes, building trade and advertising brochures, reports, daily record showing time spent each day by draftsmen, printed photo-mechanical illustrations, certificates and minutes of architectural societies, and some contracts.

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Fonds consists of records of Marshall Spring Bidwell, Barnabas Bidwell, and other members of the Bidwell family. Records of Barnabas Bidwell include correspondence, certificates, legal documents, and financial records. Included are letters and court records regarding the deficit in the accounts of Berkshire County. Records of Marshall Spring Bidwell include correspondence, degrees, certificates, licences, deeds, mortgages, wills, property records, Crown land grants, and other records. Bidwell's business correspondence consists of letters sent to John Bogert or to the firm of Ford and Bogert, Barristers in Brockville. Other letters are from Bidwell to Henry Cassady, a Kingston lawyer who looked after Bidwell's Canadian affairs after his departure. Records of the Bidwell family include genealogical information, information on properties held by family members, as well as correspondence, notebooks, diaries, legal records, clippings, and other records of individual family members.

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Fonds consists of photocopies of correspondence re ministry in Nova Scotia, 1785-1787; microfilm copy of journal with entries between February 1785 and April 1787 that cover Garrettson's ministry in Nova Scotia and include references to followers of Henry Alline and Calvinists, 1752-1826.

This fonds contains case files, reports, doctrines, treaties, charters, bills, papers, certificates, journals, lectures, addresses and speeches, personal papers, correspondence and scrapbooks from the personal and professional life of David Mills: teacher, office holder, farmer, lawyer, politician, journalist, author and judge.

Fonds consists of genealogical records, correspondence, diaries and journals, and writings of the Mountain, Roe and Jarvis families. There are also collected materials and photographs on the families. Books from Mountain family members. Fonds consists of the following series: Series I. Mountain family records, Series II. Roe family records, Series III. Jarvis family records Series IV. Collected Mountain-Roe-Jarvis material, Series V. Mountain family books.