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CA ON00126 C23 · Collection · 2007-2016

This collection consists of periodicals collected by the Guelph Public Library Archives. Titles include His Guelph, Her Guelph and At Home in Guelph, My Guelph at Home, and Guelph Life. These magazines focus on the people and events in Guelph and Wellington County. Included are articles written about local writers, artists, entrepreneurs, public servants, and academics. Records are arranged chronologically by date.

CA ON00126 C28 · Collection · 1956 -[197-]

Collection consists of program guides listing the names of production staff, actors, and members of the orchestra. In some cases summaries of the play or of particular scenes are provided. These textual records document theatre in Guelph.

CA ON00126 C19 · Collection · [196-]-2006

Collection consists of program guides, media releases and announcements, photographs, promotional materials, and newspaper clippings related to the Guelph Spring Festival and collected by the Guelph Public Library Archives.

Collection · [1980-1990]

Material covers Burlington’s history as documented by the Hamilton Spectator covering local news from the late 20th century. The collection consists of a mix of newspaper clippings and positive print images on (usually) glossy photo paper. There are occasionally cropping marks and measurements in grease pencil on some of these images when they were used for publication.

Hamilton Spectator
Handbooks and Reports Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0018 · Fonds · 1908-2011

The Handbooks and Reports Fonds contain various documents from the First and Second World Wars, including various training manuals, war diaries, vessel registries and ship descriptions, German wartime administration, and award recommendations.

Harvey Club fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 39 · Fonds · 1919-2006

The fonds consists of records related to the activities of the Harvey Club. Records include meeting agendas, minutes, banquet programmes, membership lists, financial records, correspondence, historical records, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1 Historical records Series 2 Meetings and events papers Series 3 Correspondence Series 4 Financial records Series 5 Membership records Series 6 Bulletins Series 7 Newspaper clippings Series 8 Photographs

Harvey Club (London, Ont.)
Hatt Family Collection
CA ON00395 C.0082 · Collection · 1808-1979, predominant 1808-1877

The collection is comprised of a range of letters, petitions, grants and notes from a number of activities, including correspondence, leases, land patents, and wills. Also included are items that were not acquired during the lifetime of Richard Hatt, but relate to the Hatt family in Dundas and Ancaster. Examples include newspaper articles about the Hatt family businesses, historical tours of Hatt family property, and death notices of descendants of Richard Hatt.

Hatt, Richard
Heit Family
ON00120 015 · Fonds · 1938-1974

This fonds consists of photographs and various textual material.

Heit (family)
Henry Law fonds
CA ON00126 F94 · Fonds · [19-?] - [20-?]

Fonds consists of the research materials of Henry Law who was an avid genealogist. His research interests included various families such as; Baldwin, Coffin, Clare, David, Davis, Defpenfer, Dennis, Dryden, Edwards, Ferrier, Godfrey, Law and Lee. Law also collected books and magazines related to his research interests including the Genealogists Magazine, books related to newspaper research, and the Coats of Arms of Canada.

Law, Henry
Herb Brown fonds
CA ON00408 F029 · Fonds · 1958-1986

Fonds reflects Herb Brown's work as a member of the Executive Councils of the Northeastern University Committee and Northeastern University, and as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of Nipissing College. Fonds contains one file.

Brown, Herb
Hillson O'Hearn family fonds
Fonds · 1925-1963

Fonds consists of two accessions of records donated by Bert O'Hearn, grandson of James Albert "Bert" Hillson, who was Peel County Jail (Gaol) governor from 1935 to 1943. Accession 2003.017 (file 1) comprises correspondence (including telegrams) to James Hillson in his capacity as jail governor, as well as other ephemera and documentary memorabilia collected during his tenure. Correspondence notably includes letters from Salvation Army prison secretary Wallace Bunton regarding prisoner welfare, and letters from prisoners and family members of prisoners. Other documents include copies of official records pertaining to the trial and death by hanging of Gordon Ross Matthew in 1941. Peel County Gaol letterhead is included in this accession.

Note that several items are currently on display in the jail exhibit of the museum. These include a receipt for the effects of Gordon Matthew (1941), letter from Kingston Penitentiary (1944), letter from family of "Ken" (1941).

Accession 2016.031 (files 2 and 3) comprises records documenting the activities of Mildred O'Hearn nee Hillson, the daughter of James Bert Hillson and the mother of Bert O'Hearn (the donor), and her husband William "Bill" O'Hearn, as well as other relatives. Notably records include photographs of James Bert Hillson and youngest son, John Hillson, as well as "Aunt Annie," posing outside the jail. Photographs and ephemera document the Brampton-based social activities of both Mildred and William which include church and musical involvement. Photographs depict the following: employees at Copeland-Catterson Ltd. in 1960; various lacrosse teams ca. 1900 and 1924, the Ionic Male Choir of Brampton in 1949; Brampton High School class of 1926-7; the Brampton Citizen's Band in 1955; what is possibly Grace Church Choir in the 1930s in the church's sanctuary; the Grace Church Choir production of Iolanthe ca. 1930, Baptist Church softball team c. 1930.

CA ON00154 2009.19.2.1 · Item · 1984

Item is a quilted wall-hanging, showing buildings of Port Hope. The buildings depicted on the quilt are as follows: Dunain, Belgrave's Water Tower (Greenwood Towers), The Octagon House, Pinehurst, The Bluestone, The Cone, St. Mark's Anglican Church, Port Hope Harbour, Town Hall, Robert Mitchell House, Forge Cottage, Chapel at Trinity College School, Walton Street, Viaduct, Ganaraska River, Wimbourne, North American Hotel, Methodist Church, United Church, CN Railway Station and The Belvedere. It was created by Betty Kerr (d. 2001) in 1984 to celebrate Port Hope's Sesquicentennial.

Kerr, Elizabeth (Shuttleworth)
CA ON00335 F2259 · Fonds · 1925-1996

Fonds consists of the personal records of Hortense Wasteneys and those she accumulated over the course of her involvement with Trinity College as well as documents related to her research on community service organizations. It includes original source documents accumulated by her father, Hardolph Wasteneys, over the course of his involvement with the Toronto University Settlement as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Contains series:

  1. Personal Records of Hortense Wasteneys
  2. Personal Correspondence of Hortense Wasteneys
  3. Trinity College and St Hilda's College Records of Hortense Wasteneys
  4. University Settlement Records of Hardolph Wasteneys
  5. Social Work Records of Hortense Wasteneys
  6. Photographs (P1591)
Wasteneys, Hardolph
House of Providence fonds
CA ON00279 F13 · Fonds · 1869-2002

This fonds consists of records that pertain to the House of Providence and Marian Villa. More specifically, it consists of histories, commemorative materials, and administrative materials. There are also records related to the Marian Villa Auxiliary.

House of Providence
C42 · Collection · 2015

Collection consists of materials produced to celebrate 100 years of the poem in Flanders Fields by John McCrae. Included is a pamphlet outlining the events and speakers for the unveiling of the John McCrae Statue. There is also two booklets "In Flanders Fields at 100: Time to Remember" published by the Guelph Mercury and "John McCrae in Flanders Fields" published by New Smallprint Press.

Insignia Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0033 · Fonds · 1848-1953

The Insignia Fonds contain various cap, shoulder, and collar badges, pins, tags, medals, and buttons from various Canadian battalions and divisions from the 1840s through until the 1950s. Insignia includes material from the North West Rebellion and the First and Second World Wars.

CA ON00408 F046 · Fonds · 1886-2009, predominant 2003-2009

Fonds consists of local history materials about North Bay and the Near North area that were collected or created by the Institute for Community Studies and Oral History (ICSOH) including: oral history recordings, student projects, archival records, publications, and ephemera. The fonds also documents some of the ICSOH's activities as a research institute including outreach, the organization of conferences and other events, and its administration.

Fonds is arranged into four sub-series: Events and outreach, minutes, oral and community history research collection, and student projects.

Nipissing University. Institute for Community Studies and Oral History
Irving H. Cameron
CA ON00335 F2067 · Fonds · 1866-1932

The fonds includes material Cameron collected on six topics: John Ambery, the Ontario Medical College for Women, the Trinity College Company of the Queen's Own Rifles, Beverly Jones, the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of John Strachan's Birth, and the fire that destroyed Old Trinity (the University of Trinity College at Queen Street West). Materials include letters, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes.

Irving Heward Cameron
Isabel Mauro fonds
CA ON00408 F003 · Fonds · 1940-1943

Fonds relates to Mauro's year as a student at North Bay Normal School in 1940-1941. The fonds consists of a scrapbook and a file of drawings that she created as part of her coursework.

Mauro, Isabel
J. Allan Walters fonds
CA ON00335 F2029 · Fonds · 1908-1990

Fonds consists of extensive correspondence from Dr Walters to his parents, his brother and sister from 1925 to 1945, when he wrote home every few days. They cover student life at Queen's University and more extensively at Trinity College, his working experiences on a Great Lakes steamer, his early married life, his experiences during the Second World War and his career as a doctor.

Contains series:

  1. Trinity College
  2. Correspondence
  3. Dr Kathleen Wark Walters
  4. Medical notes
  5. Personal
  6. Subject Files
Walters, J. Allan