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Arthur Elliot fonds
CA ON00009 F 1100 · Fonds · 1881-1884

Fonds consists of watercolours painted by Arthur Elliot depicting areas of Ontario, such as Muskoka, Cooksville, Sault St. Marie, Orillia, Collingwood and various locations on Georgian Bay. Watercolours predominately depict rural landscapes and everyday scenes, including people, steamships, and houses.

The fonds includes newspaper clippings and photographs of Toronto from the early 1880s.

Elliot, Arthur, fl. 1881-1884
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
Arthur Johnston fonds
CA ON00009 F 1234 · Fonds · 1894-1906

Fonds consists of ten letterbooks and two day books kept by Arthur Johnston. Letterbooks consist of copies of outgoing correspondence, and most of the letters are addressed from "Greenwood". Letters refer mainly to the cattle breeding business, and some later correspondence concerns Johnston’s duties as a license commissioner. Letterbooks contain a nominal index at the front. Fonds also contains two daybooks which list Johnston’s daily expenditures.

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Johnston, Arthur, 1839-1915
Arthur N. Martin fonds
CA ON00009 C 53 · Fonds · 1920-[196-?]

Fonds consists of the records and other material created and accumulated by Toronto architect and artist Arthur N. Martin. Fonds is predominantly comprised of architectural drawings and photographs of various architectural projects. Projects represented include various churches, public buildings, office buildings, memorials, apartments and private homes such as: Kitchener and Waterloo Collegiate; Danforth Park Public School; Metropolitan United Church; Kimbourne Park United Church; St. Joseph's Building; Blessed Sacrament Church in Ottawa; South African Memorial; Toronto East General Hospital and Chateau Benvenuto.

Also included are three watercolours. Subjects are: the front entrance to an unidentified chapel; a cathedral; and a residence.

In addition, fonds includes a lithograph and an oil painting. The lithograph depicts a rustic setting. Verso is an oil painting of a young woman.

Fonds also contains newspaper clippings and pamphlets collected by Martin concerning various projects and architectural issues in the Toronto area.

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Martin, Arthur N., 1889-1961
Arthur Sturgis Hardy fonds
CA ON00009 F 4 · Fonds · 1813-1956

Fonds consists of the personal and political records of A.S. Hardy, and includes some records of other Hardy family members. Fonds includes Hardy family correspondence, created 1813-1956, relating to family matters and business. In addition, fonds contains a genealogy of the Hardy and Sturgis family. Also included are a testimonial book presented to A.S. Hardy as well as scrapbooks relating to his political career. Fonds also contains 803 photographs. Subjects include: A.S. Hardy; Hardy family members; prominent people in Brantford and London; and Fulford Place, Brockville.

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Hardy, Arthur Sturgis, 1837-1901
Arthur W. Roebuck fonds
CA ON00009 F 45 · Fonds · 1870-1969

Fonds consists of personal and political records of Arthur Roebuck, including family correspondence, correspondence and subject files relating to Roebuck's political career, records arising from his time with the Hydro-Electric Power Commission, and records created during election campaigns. Personal records consist of a single large series of chronologically arranged correspondence to and from Arthur Roebuck and many other family members. The series also contains other documents, such as invitations, insurance records, club membership records, passports and clippings.

Correspondence relating to Roebuck's political career is chronologically arranged, and concerns all of Roebuck's career as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Minister in the Ontario government, Liberal Party organizer, Member of Parliament, Commissioner and Senator. Some of the correspondence is with constituents. Subject files consist of clippings, memoranda and pamphlets relating to a wide variety of subjects maintained by Roebuck.

Records relating to the Hydro-Electric Power Commission include agreements, financial statements, engineers reports, administrative documents, legal advice and litigation documents. There is also correspondence relating to the proposed cancellation of Quebec Power Companies contracts from 1935.

Records relating to election campaigns consist of campaign literature, platforms, advertisements, speeches, clippings, and press releases relating to Roebuck's election campaigns of 1911, 1914, 1917, 1923, 1934, 1937 and 1940. It also include files created while Roebuck was the Ontario Liberal Party's campaign manager in 1945 federal election.

Photographs consist of portraits of Arthur Wentworth Roebuck and other family members, and of Roebuck's activities as a member of the Ontario and Federal Governments and the Senate. Activities include a baseball game between M.P.P.s and municipal politicians from Toronto, and a visit by Roebuck and N.W. Rowell to the Government Experimental Farm, Monteith in 1912. Fonds also contains photographs of some of the most prominent individuals of the time, including: William Lyon Mackenzie, Sigmund Samuel, Mitch Hepburn, John Diefenbaker, and a 1940s banquet attended by C.D. Howe, David Croll, L. St. Laurent, Paul Martin and A.C. Hardy.

Fonds also contains two hand drawn caricatures of A.W. Roebuck.

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Roebuck, Arthur W. (Arthur Wentworth), 1878-1971
CA ON00009 F 1135 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1971-1973] (originally created 1908-1970)

Fonds consists of microfilm copies of newsletter and other publications of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, as well as scrapbooks of the Club, containing: circular notices of meetings, newspaper clippings, photographs of Club members, membership and invitation cards, treasurer’s reports, agendas, programmes, issues of "The Lamp", draft musical scores and poetry, cartoons, sketches, correspondence, and other materials.

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Arts and Letters Club of Toronto
Arved Soosaar fonds
CA ON00009 C 325 · Fonds · 1937, 1954-1972

Fonds consists of architectural and technical drawings created and accumulated by Arved Soosaar as an employee of Principal Investments Limited and as an independent architect. Fonds also includes architectural drawings created by Soosaar's students in the architecture program at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

Buildings depicted in the fonds include shopping centres, strip malls, low-rise apartment and office buildings, hotels, and residential buildings. The projects are mainly in the Toronto area with some located elsewhere in Southern Ontario. Projects include: shopping centres in Thistletown, Streetsville, Whitby, Scarborough, Cooksville, Brockville, and Smiths Falls; Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's City Hall Campus (Toronto); offices for Carswell Company Limited (Toronto) and Patterson Springs (Etobicoke); and the International Airport Hotel (Toronto), among others.

Projects by Soosaar's students consist of proposed plans for community centres at Regent Park and Alexandra Park, Toronto.

Soosaar, Arved, 1921-1994
Asa Danforth collection
CA ON00009 F 606 · Fonds · 1799-1807

Collection consists of an agreement from 1799 for Asa Danforth's work on opening a road from York to the River Trent (called Dundas St.); a memorandum from 1807 for Timothy Green which mentions Asa Danforth outlining the contract work done on the road; and an undated claim against B.T. Comfy for "extra work" performed during the construction of the road.

Danforth, Asa, b. 1768
CA ON00009 C 316 · Fonds · [191-?] - 1919

Fonds consists of a single album of black and white photographs of Larder Lake taken for the Associated Goldfields Mining Company by D. Anton Zurbrigg of Milford, Delaware. Photographs depict landscapes of the Larder Lake area and some views of gold miners. Also included in fonds is one photoprint of the Canadian Associated Goldfields milling plant at Larder Lake, built ca. 1915, with a detailed description of the plant on the verso.

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Associated Goldfields Mining Company
CA ON00009 F 1288 · Fonds · 1951-1987

Fonds consists of records created and received by the head office and national administrative bodies of the Association of Administrative Assistants. Fonds includes the letters patent and supplementary letters patent; minutes of the Interim national Council, National Council, National Board of Directors, the Toronto Branch, and the Annual General Meeting; financial statements, including auditors' reports; reports; newsletters; correspondence; rosters and membership lists; printed brochures; and constitutions.

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Association of Administrative Assistants
CA ON00009 F 651 · Fonds · 1854-1874

Fonds consists of four registers created by the Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters for administrative purposes relating to the insuring of Great Lakes ships and other marine vessels. Information included in the registers include the vessel and captain's name, the date and place of construction, the names of owners, tonnage capacity, and general remarks on repairs or alterations done to the vessel. Records are arranged first by year and then alphabetically by vessel name.

Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters
CA ON00009 F 4606 · Fonds · 1982-1994

Fonds consists of the records of the Association of Library Boards of Ontario, which were primarily collected by or acquired from the Association's presidents and treasurers.

These files contain mainly executive agendas, minutes, membership lists, and correspondence covering a wide array of administrative and lobbying issues. The donation also consists of several “special issues” files documenting the Association's actions in response to federal and provincial legislation affecting libraries.

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Association of Library Boards of Ontario
CA ON00009 F 2101 · Fonds · 1868-1897

Fonds consists of records created and used by the Association of Mechanics' Institutes of Ontario.

Included are a series of minutes of annual general meetings of the Association, dating from the first meeting in 1869 through to 1886. Attached to these minutes are some promotional materials for various lecturers that the Association considered engaging to provide educational and entertaining speeches at the Mechanics' Institutes.

Fonds also consists of miscellaneous administrative records of the Association. These include lists of the various member Mechanics' Institutes in Ontario, copies of circular letters and forms used for reporting, tables showing the Institutes' replies to the circulars and lists of their library holdings. There are also accounting records showing the amounts of grants to the member Institutes, and lists of the officers of the Association.

Fonds also consists of a series of essays received by the Mechanics' Institutes Association as a result of a contest they launched in 1876. The Association offered two prizes of $40 and $20 respectively for the first and second best essays on the topic of "Mechanics' Institutes and the best means of Improving them." Fifteen submissions were received and are included in this series. There is also a published version (1877) containing the content of the two winning essays and a synopsis of all the others received.

Also included in the fonds are two bound letter books. The first volume dates from 1880 to 1884 and the second volume dates from 1885 to 1897.

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Association of Mechanics' Institutes of Ontario
CA ON00009 F 1391 · Fonds · 1975-1987

Fonds consists of records created, received and acquired by the Association of Ontario Home Care Associates. Included in the fonds is correspondence, reports, surveys, internal memoranda, minutes of internal committees, membership lists, agendas and minutes of annual general meetings, treasurer's reports and financial statements pertaining to activities for the A.O.H.C.A. Also included are brochures, minutes, programs, correspondence, financial statements and attendance lists of annual Provincial Home Care Conferences sponsored by the A.O.H.C.A. Fonds also includes color photographs depicting delegates and activities and speakers at the 11th Annual Provincial Home Care Conference, held in Windsor in 1985. In addition, the fonds contains a set of ten audiocassettes consisting of addresses given at the 12th Annual Provincial Home Care Conference held in Ottawa in 1986. Recordings include speeches given by Scalo L. Tarrant, E. Nicholson, Werner M. Walsh, L. Kealey, and J. Nowell.

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Association of Ontario Home Care Associates
CA ON00009 F 4605 · Fonds · [ca. 1981]-2006

Fonds consists of the records of the Association of Small Public Libraries of Ontario; these were primarily collected or acquired by executive members on the Association's board. The files contain mainly executive agendas, minutes, membership lists, and correspondence covering a wide array of administrative duties and issues of concern to Ontario's small libraries.

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Association of Small Public Libraries of Ontario
A.T. Gregory fonds
CA ON00009 F 1092 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1970] (originally created 1870)

Fonds consists of a manuscript volume, entitled "The Emigrant, or Life In Canada," compiled and illustrated by A.T. Gregory, recounting his Atlantic crossing, his trip to Upper Canada, and his visits to relatives there. Included in the volume are descriptions of: the author’s sea passage; points along the St. Lawrence; Toronto; aspects of Canadian life; Upper Canada’s flora and fauna; methods of house construction; and sites visited, including Mono Mills, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, and Norwichville. The volume is hand printed and contains sketches reproducing various aspects of the journey to Toronto and of scenes in Upper Canada. A list of illustrations is found at the beginning of the volume, as well as a table of contents which provides a summary of the subject matter of each chapter.

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Gregory, A. T. (Arthur T.), fl. 1870
CA ON00009 F 4627 · Fonds · 1891-2003

Fonds consists of the records of Charles Hedley Atcherley and the Thompson family, primarily Rudolph Edwin Thompson. The two families are related through marriage. Atcherley's wife, Ethel Heather, was the first cousin of Rudolph Thompson's wife, Lila Howse. The fonds documents their lives in Niagara Falls, Guelph and Toronto, Ontario. Charles Hedley Atcherley's records include correspondence files, war related documentation, and biographical records. These records document Atcherley's weekly correspondence to his wife, Ethel, during both World Wars, as well as his professional activities as a soldier. His efforts to return to civilian life in the interwar years and following World War II are also captured here. The correspondence files, in particular, reveal a man dedicated to his family, his career, and his adopted country of Canada. Photographs depict Atcherley as a decorated soldier; a few photographs of Atcherley and his wife are also present. Records of the Thompson family consist primarily of family photographs and genealogical records. These records document various activities of this Toronto-based family in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. Some of the images document well-known locations in the Toronto area such as the Toronto Armoury. Many of the images consist of studio portraits of the Thompson family, as well as photographs of locations in Toronto, Ontario. Fonds also contains a family genealogy authored by the donor, Nancy Conn, entitled The Family History of William Heather and Sarah Morley from England to Upper Canada: the Heather, Bramhall, Morley, and Hall Families. This family history explores the genealogy of these four families including their relationship to the Atcherley and Thompson families. Materials in the fonds have been arranged into three series.

Atcherley, Charles Hedley (family)
A.W. Barton fonds
CA ON00009 C 121 · Fonds · [191-?]-[ca. 1918]

Fonds consists of 79 glass photographic negatives depicting numerous Toronto and area scenes.

Subjects in the fonds include Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers at the Canadian National Exhibition during World War One; numerous views of Toronto buildings and streets, including the Parliament Buildings at Queen's Park, the University of Toronto, the Old Mill, Howard Park Avenue Methodist Church, the Rushholme residence, the Dominion Bank on Danforth Avenue, a store front of Barton's Defender Photo Supply, and a race track (probably the old Woodbine race course).

A number of portraits are also included, some of which may be of members of Barton's family. The remainder of the collection covers miscellaneous subjects, including ships, the entrance to a special effects theatre (possibly at the C.N.E.), a convention of magpie enthusiasts, the Markham High School cadets, the Chevrolet Motor Company building (presumably in Oshawa), a wooden bridge over an unidentified river (possibly the Don River), and views of an early automobile and a child on a pull sleigh.

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Barton, A.W.
B. Napier Simpson Jr. fonds
CA ON00009 F 4395 · Fonds · 1892-1984, predominant 1950-1978

Fonds consists of architectural drawings and other records documenting the architectural work of B. Napier Simpson Jr. Some of the records document Simpson's work as a student and while he was employed by architect Mackenzie Waters (from 1950 to 1955).

A majority of the projects represented in this fonds are houses and other residential buildings, mostly in Toronto, North York, York County and surrounding counties, and the Muskokas; but also in the rest of Ontario and Florida. Many of Simpson's restoration projects are also represented, the most prominent being building restorations for the Black Creek Pioneer Village (in Toronto), the restoration of the Penetanguishene Military and Naval establishments, and Century Village (near Peterborough). Only a small portion of the material pertains to work on commercial and industrial buildings.

An accrual to the fonds in 2004 includes files compiled by Simpson which related to his work with the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. Much of the content of these files is reference material on various towns and regions and the built heritage in these areas. Various pamphlets, newsclippings, reports, notes, walking tours and correspondence document areas of interest. Also included are some topographical maps and photographs.

A further accrual in 2007 includes files related to Simpson's speeches and presentations during his career as an architect, his continued work with documenting houses and properties for purposes of restoration and identifying landmarks and their history. In addition there are drawings that complement existing projects.

The fonds is mostly comprised of Simpson's architectural drawings and photographic files. The fonds also includes a small quantity of correspondence, notes, specifications and research material on some of the projects, as well as card indexes documenting Simpson's clients, suppliers and contractors.

The fonds has been arranged into nine series.

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Simpson, B. Napier, Jr., 1925-1978