Series consists of records documenting the financial affairs of the village. Included in this series are the following records:
-Assessment rolls, 1908-1967; 1969-1970; 1972-1993
-Auditor's Reports, 1916-1956
-Audit Reports, 1957-1961
-Auditor's Reports (Road Expenditures), 1961-1966
-Financial Statements and Auditor's Reports, 1962-1965
-Financial Reports, 1971-1973; 1980-1982
-Financial Information Returns, 1981-1992
-Consolidated Financial Statements, 1983-1993
Fonds consists of the full-range of corporate records divided into the following series:
-Police Village of West Lorne series, 1902-1907
-Council series, 1907-1997
-Clerk's series, 1908-1997
-Treasurer's series, 1908-1997
-*The Police Village of West Lorne records series pre-date the incorporation of the Village of Rodney.
Fonds consists of various records created and maintained by the Michigan Central Railway. Fonds includes:
•Record of locomotives through St. Thomas shops for classified and unclassified repairs, with history of individual rail motor cars, 1936-1959 (R6 S1 Sh3 B7)
•Locomotives repair/ maintenance logbook, with index, 1902-1936 (also contains a colour depiction of a standard type Grant locomotive, 1873 and a certificate dated November 13, 1962 attesting that R.G. Ray is a life member of Charity Lodge No. 5, B. of L.F. and E. (Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen) (R6 S1 Sh3 B7)
•Index of railway engines acquired and disposed of, 1880-1907 (R6 S1 Sh3 B7)
•In volume with running head "Record of Traveling Auditor's Reports and Bond of Agent", records of the certification/ qualification, discipline and dismissal etc. for Michigan Central Railway engineers and firemen, 1872-1909. Not indexed. (R6 S1 Sh1 B3)
•Records of the certification/ qualification, discipline and dismissal etc. for Michigan Central Railway engineers and firemen, 1872-1931. Indexed. (R6 S1 Sh1 B3)
•Record of enginemen, 1903-1930. Not indexed. (R6 S1 Sh3 B3)
Fonds consists of approximately 200 file cards with typescript summaries of notices originally published 1902-1918 in the St. Thomas Daily Times, the St. Thomas Evening Journal, London Free Press and other newspapers relating to the Southwestern Traction Company, the London and Lake Erie Railway and Transportation Company, and the London & Port Stanley Railway.
UntitledMembership lists, correspondence and records relating to Club members.
UntitledThis series is comprised of records relating to special events organized and/or sponsored by the Club.
UntitledThis series consists of the minutes of meetings of the St. Thomas Kiwanis Club.
UntitledThis series is comprised of the records of the Key Club of Arthur Voaden Vocational School in St. Thomas.
Series consists of records created, kept and maintained by the village clerk, including duties on behalf of the council and legislative requirements of the office:
Records include:
-Voters' Lists, 1961-1974
-Agreements, 1961-1982
-Belmont Community Centre Board records, 1962-1995
-Correspondence, 1963-1997
-Photographs, ca. 1968
-Belmont PUC records, 1970-1997
-Planning records, 1975-1996
-Preliminary Lists of Electors, 1978-1994
-Records regarding annexation, 1979-1983
-Belmont Area Fire Board/ Volunteer Fire Department records, 1981-1999
-Belmont Parks & Recreation Committee records, 1987-1997
-Infrastructure records, 1989-1994
The fonds is arranged in two series:
Application Files series, 1971-1986
Minutes series, 1971-2010
Colour slides, ca. 1968-ca. 1986, showing Norfolk & Western, Canada Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio, and miscellaneous other railway cars, infrastructure and staff, most from St. Thomas and area, along with jpg/tiff format image files digitized from the original slides on a series of dvds.
Slides relate to the following subjects (from donor-supplied image folder labels):
Caso Canadian Assigned Locomotives
Caso Car Dept Employees
Caso CNCP Era
Caso Local Trains
Caso Loco Shop Detroit Switchers
Caso Loco Shop Employees
Caso Misc Employees
Caso Passenger [Trains]
Caso Run Though Trains
Caso St Thomas Loco Shop
Caso Train Trips
Caso Waycars and Misc
Caso Wrecks
Caso Trackage
[Chessie] Derailments
NW Wreck Simcoe [June 1975]
CO/CHESSIE: St. Thomas area; CASO: early years
CO/CHESSIE: St. Thomas area; CASO: later years
NORFOLK & WESTERN RR: St. Thomas area
Fonds consists of administrative, public outreach, field notes and memorabilia records and photographs related to the activities and events of the St. Thomas Field Naturalist Club and its predecessor, the Elgin Nature Club. Included are: minutes, annual reports, programmes, newsletters, field observation notes, bird censuses, scrapbooks and photographs. Fonds is comprised of the following series:
-Publications, 1939-2004
-Minutes, 1941-1992
-Events, 1941-2000
-Correspondence, 1946-2004
-Newspaper clippings, 1950-2010
-Membership and Attendance, 1952-ca.2000
-Annual Reports, 1953-2009
-Constitution and By-laws, 1956-1993
-Treasurer's, 1958-1999
-Hawk Cliff Wildlife Area, 1968-2003
-Accessions, 1980-ca. 2000
Fonds consists of records created, collected and maintained by Steve Peters in his role as Alderman and Mayor of the City of St. Thomas, Ontario, 1988-1999; as MPP, Elgin-Middlesex-London, 1999-2011; as Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, 2003-2005; as Ontario Minister of Labour, 2005-2007; and as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 2007-2011.
Fonds comprises the following series:
Alderman/Mayor series
MPP/Minister/Speaker series
Fonds consists of fifty-five 8 x 10 black and white glass-plate negatives showing scenes in Aylmer, Ontario and East Elgin County, 1913-1936, including interior and exterior views of businesses and residences and portraits of prominent citizens.
UntitledThe Burwell Family fonds is primarily comprised of the peronal and buisness papers of Hannibal Burwell (1825-1886), his son, Alfred E. Burwell (1871-1943) and his daughter Hannah Alberta Eliza Burwell (1864-1929), later Mrs. David Williams.
•There are 20 related artifacts including two family bibles, a portable writing desk belonging to Hannibal's father, Mahlon Burwell (1783-1846), a prominent surveyor, Justice of the Peace and MLA, Albert Burwell's South Africa War medals and volunteer service medals and a portrait of Mahlon's daughter Louisa Burwell (1818-1834).
•The fonds is divided into the following series:
•-Associated Artifacts series, ca. 1800-1914
•-Books series, 1808-1931
•-Personal Documents and Ephemera series, 1810-1932
•-Financial and Real Estate series, 1861-1886
•-Correspondence series, 1863-1887
The fonds reflects the history of Archibald McLachlin and his family from 1859-1926. The textual records consist of his correspondence, financial records, business records, documents related to his duties as returning Officer for West and East Elgin, and minutes and reports for Alma College. Also included are financial and business receipts pertaining to Walter McBrien, a family relative, and various discrete items retained by McLachlin and his family. The fonds is arranged into the following series:
-Personal papers series
-Business records series
-Returning Officer for West Elgin and East Elgin series
-Alma College series
-Walter McBrien series
Fonds contains a collection of diaries created by Charles "Charlie" Smith Baker, who lived in Belmont, Ontario for over 57 years. Fonds also contains a rough draft of manuscript titled "Charlie: Memoirs of a Belmont Farmboy" written by D.A. Sale, which summarizes Charlie's life and each of his diaries. Fonds also includes miscellaneous material including correspondence, ephemera, newspaper clippings and photographs.
UntitledThe Events series comprises reports, clippings, documentation, and photographic records relating to certain large events that the Engineering Department was called to handle. It consists of 3 files:
-The Timken Plant Flood around the Carr Drain, 1947
-The Mill Creek Viaduct construction, including in-progress construction photographs
-The Governor-General's 1972 visit to Alma College, showing the City Engineer needing to plan detours and decide which roads to close.
Fonds consists of records created, collected and maintained by the Clachan Women’s Institute, including minutes of meetings, records of the Clachan 4-H Homemaking Club, and six volumes of Tweedsmuir Histories.
Fonds is arranged into the following series:
- History series, 1888-1998
- Tweedsmuir Histories, 1890-2014
- Minutes, 1914-2014
- Programmes, 1928-2008
- 4-H Homemaking Club, 1967-1993
- Financial, 1984-April 2000
- Correspondence, 1989
This series contains documents relating to the history of the Clachan Women's Institute.