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Fonds consists of one handwritten volume which is a day book kept by Joseph Tucker in the operation of his general merchant business. Entries include customers' names, goods sold, and prices. Merchandise sold includes groceries and sundries such as silk, flour, stockings, muslin, and rice.

Fonds consists of one account book maintained by Dr. Charles E. Stacey. Entries in the book include patients' names, addresses, dates of visits, and fees charged.

Fonds consists of one account book kept by John Gimmell, a general merchant in Ramsay Township, Ontario. The account book contains records and orders relating to purchases of merchandise from wholesalers. Whoesalers include: William Kerr and Co., Importers of British and India Goods; Armour Ramsay, Booksellers, Stationers Printers; Mackay and Russel, Wholesale Dry Goods; William Lyman and Co., Chemists Druggists. Merchandise includes: "fancy doeskin", "Arabian Nights", "Castile soap", "flaxen sheeting". Loose documents are inserted in the account book.

Fonds consists of two handwritten volumes which are an account book and an invoice book for a general merchant or wholesaler. Entries include sales of groceries and sundries, prices, and customers' names and accounts.

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.

Fonds consists of photographs taken by H. W. Harrison in Cobalt, Ontario. Photographs depict views of Cobalt, including mines, mills, streetscapes, the railway station and electric streetcars.

Fonds consists of material created and received by Justice David H.W. Henry, mainly during his career as a university lecturer, federal civil servant, a judge of the Ontario courts and the Federal Court of Appeal and as an adjudicator of The Private Court (a private-sector law firm specializing in alternative dispute resolution). In addition to a small amount of material from his early life and career, the records mainly consist of notes, correspondence, background / support materials, court documents, and arbitration documents relating to cases which came before him. Also included in the fonds are speeches on the Combine Investigation Act, reference materials on various legal topics, university lecture materials, administrative files relating to his daily work as a judge at Osgoode Hall, and correspondence with his professional colleagues and acquaintances.

Fonds consists of the operational records of the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA).

Fonds consts of records documenting the TSSA's legislated oversight of fuel safety, pressure vessels, elevating devices and other regulations, as a delegated administrative authority of the Government of Ontario.

Fonds contains records created by the TSSA Chief Executive Officer, the Pressure Vessels program, the Fuel Safety program, the Elevating Devices program, and records from Corporate Services and Strategic Directions.

Fonds also contains records created prior to 1997, when these programs were the responsibility of the Technical Standards Division of the Government of Ontario. Such records were acquired by the TSSA for operatonal continuity.

Fonds has been arranged into series according to the administrative structure of the TSSA and records retention schedules.

Fonds consists of personal and business records of several generations of the Grobb, Rouse and Tallman families. Records include diaries, correspondence, photographs and a variety of other records documenting the families personal lives, work and education.

Fonds includes diaries of Leatha Grobb, Bertha Grobb, Reita Grobb and Beulah Tallman, and they discuss family matters, weather, farming and health issues. Also included are a number of records created over several decades relating to the genealogies of the three families, as well as correspondence on family matters and genealogy, legal records such as wills, land records and marriage certificates. The textual records in the fonds also include records of trips and reunions, correspondence regarding family matters, health, land ownership, and family history, as well as hymnals owned by Abraham, Edwin and William Henry Grobb.

Also included are a number of published works relating to various members of the Rouse, Grobb and Tallman families. These include copies of: Souvenir - The Old Boys and Old Girls' Reunion - Beamsville and Clinton Township; Annals of the Forty - Loyalist and Pioneer Families of Lincoln; Lincoln Historical Calendar 1987; Year Book - 1930 - Ontario Agricultural College and Macdonald Institute; and The Almafilian.

Photographs in the fonds consist primarily of images of the families, and are both candid and professional photographs. The images depict the family in studio portraits, family groups, and celebrating various holidays, weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. Photographs in the fonds also depict various properties owned by members of the family, including the Grobb farm, and the Rouse family home.

Architectural drawings in the fonds consist of depict the Grobb family's home farm.

Maps in the series depict property owned by Grobbs and Rouses, and a cemetery where members of the families are buried.

Fonds consists of handwritten letters received by Joan Arnoldi while serving as head of the Canadian Field Comforts Commission in Great Britain (CFCC). The letters were written by friends and family members, many of whom were serving in the First World War at the time they were written. Also included are letters written by patrons offering support for Arnoldi's work with the CFCC.

Also included is a typed transcript of a biographical sketch of the late Daniel Arnoldi, M.D., president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada that was originally presented and read at the last triennial of the College at Three Rivers in July, 1850.

Fonds consists of a floor plan of Casa Loma, and a pamphlet entitled The Castle-on-the-hill, Casa Loma Hotel, Toronto, Canada, by Lillian S. Foster.

Fonds consists of the constituency files of Odoardo Di Santo, spanning his career as a member of the Ontario Legislature.

Records include both correspondence and subject files. Subjects include abortion; the Morgentaler clinic; the Blair Commission; Downsview Airport; Multiculturalism; the Disabled Persons Employment Act; and the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Gordon Walker while he was a member of Ontario's parliament. Records include responses to public letters about a variety of issues within the province, such as budgets, commissions, and provincial employees' salaries.

Also included are letters from Walker to different Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) about issues he was managing in his role as an MPP, as well as records concerning various group assemblies.

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Ian Scott during his political and legal career. The records document Scott's political and legal career during the time he served as Liberal MPP for the St. David (1985-1987) and St. George-St. David (1987-1990) ridings.

Records include: annotated copies of Scott's speeches and notes of remarks (1985-1990), election materials (1981-1990) including a diary/memoir manuscript by Scott of his 1985 campaign, some material related to Liberal Party fund-raising, and Scott's Queen's Park Reports (1985-1990). Records also consist of records related to his research on legal cases at the time he served as Attorney General, particularly, research material and handwritten notes on cases pertaining to the Ontario Energy Board. In addition, records contain personal papers including biographical information, correspondence and condolences on the death of his parents in 1989. A number of photographs pertaining to his fundraising and election campaigns are also part of this fonds.

Fonds consists of records of the Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers), its constituent meetings, its standing committees, and other related bodies which entrusted their records to its care between 1955 and 1974. This includes records from the three Yearly Meetings that united in 1955 to become Canadian Yearly Meeting.

An inventory for the original records was prepared by the University of Western Ontario Regional History Collection in 1971, and reference codes were assigned. These reference codes are provided here in brackets next to the title, for the use of researchers who may wish to correlate published references to the microfilm and to the originals. In the University of Western Ontario reference codes, C identifies records of Conservative Friends, O identifies Orthodox records, and H identifies Genessee (Hicksite) records.

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Claire Prieto and Roger McTair as individual film makers and as a production team, from the years following their arrival in Canada until present day. The majority of the records consist of sound and moving images, as well as photographs and textual records relating to projects undertaken by Prieto and McTair.

The records pertain to the following productions: Home to Buxton, It's Not An Illness, Different Timbres, Some Black Women, Jennifer Hodge: The Glory and the Pain, Jane Finch Again!, Children Are Not the Problem, Black Nova Scotia, and projects related to employment equity. Also included are research and publicity files accumulated by Prieto and McTair and those concerning their production company.

Prieto and McTair's films have been screened in several film festivals, including Black International Film Festival (Indiana, U.S.A.), Yorkton Film Festival (Yorkton, Saskatchewan), Pan-African Film and T.V. Festival (Ouagadougu, Burkina Faso), 12th International Women's Film Festival (France), American Educational Film and Video Festival (New York), Toronto International Film Festival, Black Light Film Festival (Chicago), Margaret Mead Film Festival (New York), and the Atlantic Film Festival (Halifax).

The fonds is arranged into eleven series primarily based on the films and documentaries produced by Prieto and McTair.

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