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CA ON00009 C 257 · Fonds · 1968-1989

Fonds consists of video cassette tapes representing programming produced by Multilingual Television Limited during the period 1979-1989. Included in the fonds are complete programs, inserts and raw footage produced by CFMT. These consist of magazines, news, variety shows, dramas, game shows, documentaries, specials and promotional programming.

Material in the fonds includes samples from each of the ethnic groups represented in CFMT's programming, in addition to selections of each type of programming as well as representative samples from each year's productions. Very little English-language programming is included in the fonds.

Included in the programming is CFMT's first broadcast from September 3, 1979. Also, a selection of native programming from "Pow-Wow" and "Native Express" is included. Programs from other ethnic groups are also represented, including Ukrainian Magazine, Dutch Magazine, and Macedonian Magazine. As well, two informational productions aimed at Asian refugees in Toronto are included, as are programs relating to a tribute to Robbie Burns, and a Citizenship Court held on Canada Day. Promotional segments for English- language programming, as well as for an Italian-language entertainment magazine, "Incontri" are included.

Fonds also includes selections of productions purchased by CFMT for use in its programming, as well as productions of unknown origin. These consist of numerous documentaries and dramatic presentations including a dramatization of a Bulgarian peasant wedding, as well as numerous news magazine items from Japan, Portugal, Germany, Armenia and Holland which were probably not created by CFMT.

Also part of the fonds are a number of programs produced by other production companies, television stations, or networks. These include "Paradox of Norval Morriseau" and a production focussing on native issues, entitled "Beauty of My People," which were both produced by the National Film Board. Also, there are dramatic episodes produced for Portuguese audiences by EDIPIM-TV, as well as episodes of "Eho Hamara Jeeuna" produced by Mandeep Film Enterprises, and an episode of "Karamchand," produced by LIN-TV. An episode of "The Late Show," with host Suzanne Somers is included, as is news footage of Grenada, produced by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).

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Multilingual Television (Toronto) Limited
CA ON00009 C 258 · Fonds · 1979-1991

Fonds consists of videocassettes of television programming produced by CHIN. Fonds includes variety shows, magazines, documentaries, advertisements and dramatic presentations, as well as CHIN-sponsored picnics and musical contests at Ontario Place. As well, a history of CHIN is included, produced in 1982. Editions of Festival Italiano, dated 1979, 1985 and 1989 are represented, as are two programs of Musica, Musica from 1986 and 1989. A 1984 Easter show and 1987 Christmas show are also included.

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CHIN Radio/TV International
Thorkild C. Hansen fonds
CA ON00009 C 26 · Fonds · 1927-1990

Fonds consists of material created, received, and collected by Thor Hansen and by his daughter, Sister Anitra.

Fonds includes textual material such as correspondence, architectural drawings, sketches, publications, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and memoranda from the period 1927-1990.

Also included in the fonds are 525 photographs, primarily dealing with Hansen's work as an artist. They include interior views of British-American Oil Company buildings, as well as of artwork found within those buildings, ca. 1955- 1965. As well, there are five reels of motion picture film, with subject areas including the Toronto British-American Oil Company building, Native Indian handcrafts and figures, Toronto street scenes, and Thor Hansen at work.

Fonds also includes one audio cassette, dealing with Thor Hansen's retirement party and tribute speeches, 1968. Two undated audio discs are included, with Adrienne Clarkson interviewing Thor Hansen.

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Hansen, Thorkild C., 1903-1976
Notman and Fraser fonds
CA ON00009 C 261 · Fonds · 1870-[ca. 1875]

Fonds consists of photographs created by the Notman and Fraser photographic firm in its Toronto studio.

Fonds has been arranged into three series.

Notman and Fraser photographic studio, 1868-1883
Canada Packers fonds
CA ON00009 C 262 · Fonds · 1845-1991

Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, sound and moving image materials pertaining to the personnel, facilities, products and activities of Canada Packers, Inc. and its various predecessor companies. Companies represented include the William Davies Company, Ltd., Gordon-Ironside and Fares Company Ltd. (Fort William branch), Canadian Packing Company, Ltd., Gunns, Ltd., Harris Abattoir Company, Ltd., and Canada Packers, Inc.

Fonds includes photographs which depict meat packing and processing plants, slaughterhouses, product advertisements, delivery vehicles, and workers. Also, there are photographs of conventions and meetings, presentations, special events, employee activities, and visiting dignitaries. Included are photographs of senior management personnel such as J.S. McLean, W.F. McLean, William Davies, William Harris, James Harris, and Sir Joseph Flavelle.

Textual records include minute books and financial records, price lists, correspondence, personnel records, annual sales conference programs, annual reports, and a collection of the employee newspaper, "The Maple Leaf." Included are the working files of J.S. McLean relating to the 1927 merger which formed Canada Packers, as well as bulletins relating to the July 1947 strike.

Included in the fonds are 6 reels of motion picture film, produced for Canada Packers or sponsored by the company. The films include commercials for various Canada Packers products, as well as films pertaining to the 50th anniversary of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Ontario Auctioneering Championship, quilting competitions, and a short dramatic presentation.

The fonds also includes 5 audio reels, 4 of which describe the activities of the Shur-Grain Research Farm near Toronto. The fifth audio reel is part of a multimedia presentation dealing with the 50th anniversary of Canada Packers, which also utilized slides. The slides component of this presentation are missing.

Fonds also includes 1 annotated map, entitled "Twentieth Century map of the City of Ottawa and Vicinity Showing latest Surveys and Improvements," published 1902 by A.S. Woodburn of Ottawa, Ontario. As well, there are 3 items of documentary art(presumably posters) 1913-1927, related to the Harris Abattoir Company, Ltd.

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Canada Packers
Bellevue Pathé Quebec fonds
CA ON00009 C 263 · Fonds · [ca. 1970]-1975

Fonds consists of films created by Bellevue Pathé Quebec for Ontario's Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Trade and Development, as well as footage pertaining to Ontario Liberal Party candidate Harry Nixon's 1975 Ontario general election campaign.

Fonds also includes footage pertaining to Ontario Place at Expo 1970, roadside fruit marketing, Burleigh Falls, the French River, children in Ottawa and explosions.

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Bellevue Pathé Quebec
Henry S. Moore fonds
CA ON00009 C 264 · Fonds · [ca.1890-1937]

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Henry S. Moore. Records include 325 glass plate negatives, 30 lantern slides, 214 cellulose nitrate negatives, and 9 prints created between ca. 1890 and the 1930s. The records document the activities of Henry S. Moore's family, including group and individual portraits of family members at residential homes and cottages, or engaged in recreational activities, such as swimming, boating, biking, skiing, and track and field. Other activities include camping in Muskoka, Ontario and at Van Wagner's Beach and Winona Park near Hamilton, Ontario, as well as farming at a farm in Stoney Creek, Ontario. Other subjects represented are Hamilton street scenes (James St.); landmarks, such as the Wentworth Street Incline Railway and the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Spur Bridge; and buildings, such as the Moore and Davis real estate office, the James Street Baptist Church, the Royal Yacht Club by the Burlington Bay Canal, the Hoepfner Refining Co. plant, and Hamilton City Hall on James Street decorated for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Other buildings and structures depicted in the collection include the factory of Toronto-based contractors Russell and Brooks, the Shrine Peace Memorial in Toronto, Ontario, and the Martello Tower at Fort Mississauga in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Also included are images of rural settings, such as seascapes, people at the beach, rural towns, people picnicking and picking flowers, and scenes of cattle and pigs. Other photographs depict modes of transportation, including airplanes, cars, sailboats, and steam ships (the Cleopatra, the Modjeska, and the S.S. Sagamo). The collection also includes a programme from a 1903 piano recital. The fonds has been arranged in four series, according to photographic format.

Moore, Henry S., 1867-1937
Dean Sherratt fonds
CA ON00009 C 265 · Fonds · 1966-1975

Fonds is comprised of blueprint and diazo print copies of election district maps showing poll districts in 19 Metropolitan Toronto provincial ridings. The blueprints and diazo prints were used as base maps, with polls being coloured in on the maps. Different colours denoted different political parties, with the colours' varying intensity reflecting the margin of victory.

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Sherratt, Dean, 1954-
CA ON00009 C 267 · Fonds · 1897-1955

Fonds consists of black and white photographic negatives and prints pertaining to the engineering activities of Alexander and James Isbester. Subjects include aspects of railroad, highway and breakwater construction projects, as well as images of the Isbesters' family life and turn-of-the- century student life at the University of Toronto.

Fonds includes 366 photographs in two albums, as well as 94 cellulose nitrate film negatives mainly concerned with the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Toronto- Sudbury railroad from 1904 to 1908. Captions identifying individuals, geographic locations and dates of the photographs are included. As well, some of the photographs depict construction scenes regarding the Algoma Central Railway (1900), the Ottawa Northern and Western Railway, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway in Saskatoon. Photographs from Alexander Isbester's later projects, including the Grand Trunk Railway (1920) and the breakwater at Port Arthur (1928) are also included.

Also included are photographs dealing with construction of the Canadian National Railway's Longlac-Nakina railway branch. These are composed of one album of 253 photographic prints, 83 nitrate film negatives, and accompanying captions. Subjects include railway construction, life in the construction camps, and aboriginal peoples, including a treaty signing. Also included are Isbester family scenes.

Thunder Bay District road construction is also represented by two albums of photographs. Included in the albums are 671 photographic prints, 386 negatives, and corresponding captions. The first album includes photos of road construction crews, recreational photographs and general landscape photographs taken by James Isbester. The second album consists of construction progress photos, including images of machinery and snow removal, taken by Alexander Isbester. The captions identify geographic locales, dates and many of the individuals appearing in the prints. Geographic locations include Nipigon, Red Rock, Port Arthur, Fort William (now Thunder Bay), and Thunder Cape.

Fonds also includes 13 photographs and accompanying captions of the 1928 construction of the Port Burwell Breakwater on Lake Erie. As well, there are 290 photographs depicting construction of a cement factory in northern Pakistan in 1955, as well as a single album containing 16 black and white photographs of various locales in the United States, including California, the eastern coastline and the area near Niagara falls, New York. This album of American scenes was found in the Isbester family home in 1972, and the origin, as well as the photographer, is unknown.

In addition, included in the fonds is one album containing 38 gelatin photographic prints dealing with Alexander Isbester's student life at the University of Toronto. Subjects include university buildings, student groups, the Kappa Alpha fraternity, parties and athletics.

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Isbester, Alexander John, 1879-1942
Arthur Heeney fonds
CA ON00009 C 27 · Fonds · 1941-1984

Fonds consists of the records of architectural draftsman, Arthur Heeney Junior. Fonds includes ca. 1,700 architectural drawings of Heeney's numerous projects including the Toronto Hospital for Consumptives in Weston and the Muskoka Hospital in Gravenhurst. Fonds also contains ca. 210 photographs of various projects. In addition fonds contains correspondence with clients, memoranda, and newspaper clippings relating to hospitals.

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Heeney, Arthur, 1900-1987
Hugh Wilson fonds
CA ON00009 C 271 · Fonds · 1846-1887

Fonds consists of cartographic and textual records created, used and acquired by Hugh Wilson in his capacity as a public land surveyor. Included in the fonds are manuscript maps, survey contracts and instructions, pamphlets and field notes pertaining to the mineral location surveys of the north shore and islands of Lake Superior. Other items are surveys of various Ontario communities, townships, and railways, as well as a general map of the Dominion of Canada, and a few New Brunswick sheets produced by the Geological Survey of Canada. Numerous Ontario surveyors are represented in the collection including Thomas Devine, J. McNaughton, Isaac Traynor, David Gibson, and Sanford Fleming.

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Wilson, Hugh, d. 1890
Jack Satterly fonds
CA ON00009 C 272 · Fonds · 1939-[194-?]

Fonds consists of maps and drawings created and accumulated by Dr. Jack Satterly during his employment in Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources, Department of Mines.

Included are manuscript maps of Dryden-Wabigoon Area, Kenora District, Ontario, annotated by Dr. Satterly during field work in 1939 and 1940; manuscript maps of Garrison Township, Ontario from 1947; published maps produced by the Department of Mines, one showing Cochrane District in Garrison Township in 1949 and the other showing the Dryden-Wabigoon Area in 1943; and a hand-drawn map of McAree Township, Kenora District, Ontario.

Also included are section drawings of lot lines 4/5 to 14/15 in Zealand Township, Ontario.

Satterly, Jack, 1907-1993
Donald B. Smith fonds
CA ON00009 C 273 · Fonds · 1970-1999

Fonds consists primarily of copied photographs of conservationist and Native-impersonator Archibald Stansfeld Belaney or, as he was known after 1930, Grey Owl. Most of the collection depicts Belaney's wilderness travels between Chapleau and Temagami, Ontario; Senneterre and Métis-sur-Mer, Québec; Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba; and Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan. The images document the aboriginal and white families who knew Belaney; the northern flora, and fauna; and fur trapping, lumbering, and wilderness tourism industries. A small portion of the collection records life in Belaney's hometown of Hastings in southeast England, and the activities of Canadian troops in the trenches of World War I. Also included are images of: the Biscotasing area; various Hudson's Bay Company posts in northern Ontario; Grey Owl's wife Anahareo and daughter Dawn; Grey Owl with beavers, including his pet beaver Jellyroll; and images of Grey Owl during the filming of his movies “Summer” and “Winter”. Textual records included are excerpts from his books Pilgrims of the Wild, and Tales of an Empty Cabin, as well as various newspaper clippings concerning Grey Owl. Professor Smith mounted the photographs into 52 subject-based binders and provided descriptions for most of the images. During the physical processing of the collection, the binder pages were placed into file folders but the original subject-based arrangement was preserved.

Smith, Donald B., 1946-
CJRT-FM fonds
CA ON00009 C 274 · Fonds · 1971-1990

Fonds consists of audio reels, audiocassettes and videocassettes relating to programming activities of CJRT-FM, Inc. Fonds is comprised of general programs such as music and informational programming, as well as programming related to its "Open College" radio activities. Fonds includes open reel audio tapes (80 hrs.) and videocassettes (25 hrs. of sound recordings only) of broadcasts of concerts from its CJRT Festival series (1973-1989), as well as general music programming. Also included are broadcasts of speeches from the Canadian Club (1980) and the Empire Club of Canada (1980-1982), with speakers including business, industry and political personalities such as John Pearce Bunting, Barbara Amiel, Maureen McTeer, Michael Wilson, Sinclair Stevens, John Sewell, Frank Miller, and Art Eggleton. Other CJRT informational programs are represented, including broadcasts of News Journal (1978-1988), On the Arts (1978-1988), and Science Journal (1977-1987). Also included are open reel audio (70 hrs.) and audiocassette (31 hrs.) recordings of programs related to CJRT's first Open College course, "Sociology" (1971-1972), as well as programming from other non- credit courses (1971-1990)

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CJRT-FM
Duncan Campbell Scott fonds
CA ON00009 C 275 · Fonds · [ca. 1905]-[ca. 1906]

Fonds consists of photographs created and accumulated by Duncan Campbell Scott during his tenure as a civil servant for the Department of Indian Affairs for the Federal Government. The fonds is arranged into three series. The photographs in Series 1 depict the customs and traditions of native peoples. Series 2 depicts the photographs of the James Bay Indian Treaty Tour and, Series 3 are views of northern Ontario.

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Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1862-1947
Harry Beattie fonds
CA ON00009 C 278 · Fonds · [191-]

Fonds consists of photographic prints and negatives believed to have been produced by Harry Beattie. The majority of the photographs appear to have been taken in the Niagara region, particularly around the Winona area. Other Ontario locations depicted include Stoney Creek, Grimsby, Sudbury, Ruel, Owen Sound, Port Arthur, Toronto, Jerseyville and Niagara Falls. Also included in the collection are photos of Chicago, and Victoria, British Columbia.

Subjects of the prints and negatives include various aspects and scenes of orchards and vineyards, including the harvesting and transportation of fruit. Other subjects include fishing in Lake Ontario, winter scenes, views from the Niagara Escarpment, Great Lakes steamships, a 1912 train wreck at Grimsby, Ontario, and the installation of Bell telephone lines. As well, there are numerous family portraits of Beattie's family, his wife's family (the Orrs) and his mother's family (the Wentworths).

Fonds includes 195 cellulose nitrate film negatives as well as 194 black and white gelatin photographic prints.

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Beattie, Harry
Ray M. Hall fonds
CA ON00009 C 28 · Fonds · 1916-1955

Fonds consists of ca. 200 architectural drawings of Galt architect, Ray M. Hall. Projects represented are predominantly from the Galt area and include: a building for Galt Malleable Iron Company, residences for the Hespeler Housing Commission, stores for J.A. McIrvine, a school for the Galt School Board, and the Waterloo County Registry Office. In addition, fonds includes 6 photographs depicting the Waterloo County Registry Office, unidentified factory buildings, and a private residence. Fonds also contains 8 trade brochures for steam boilers, glazing compound, mortar mix, and cedar shingles.

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Hall, Ray M., 1892-1960
Charles Trevelyan fonds
CA ON00009 C 283 · Fonds · 1929-1960

Fonds consists of home movie footage photographed by Charles Trevelyan. Fonds includes footage of the Trevelyan family fishing, swimming and boating at their cottage at Willow Beach on Lake Simcoe. Also included is footage depicting an early Shriners' parade, as well as city street scenes from Toronto, Beamsville and Thornbury, Ontario, as well as family activities at these locales.

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Trevelyan, Charles, 1896-1981
CA ON00009 C 284 · Fonds · 1986-1988

Fonds consists of records accumulated by Playing With Time, Inc. Fonds is comprised of a complete set of draft scripts, representing three seasons of "Degrassi Junior High," 1986-1988. Material represents 42 episodes, each of which generated 3 or 4 draft scripts, including an outline and shooting script for each episode. Fonds also includes a draft script for a television production entitled "Danger".

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Playing With Time, Inc.
McCarthy Aero Services fonds
CA ON00009 C 285 · Fonds · [1919?]-1920

Fonds consists primarily of 4"x 5" black and white aerial oblique photographs of various cities, towns and locations throughout southern Ontario, Quebec and the United States, taken by McCarthy Aero Services Limited. Several larger sized prints are part of the fonds, including a montage featuring Camp Borden. Most of the photos were taken in 1919 or 1920, mainly from an estimated height of between 200 and 300 feet; the Camp Borden photos were taken at a height of approximately 5000 feet.

Majority of photographs depict views of southern Ontario cities and towns, including along the St. Lawrence River, lake Ontario, Toronto, Ottawa and the Niagara Falls and Niagara River region. Quebec photos include views of Montreal, Vaudreuil and Hull. American photos include views of cities along the Canadian border, such as Detroit and Buffalo. An exception is two aerial photographs of Fort Worth, Texas, which may have been taken by another firm.

As well, there are a number of views of early aircraft, some of which are thought to have been used in aerial photography activities.

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McCarthy Aero Services