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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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