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Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Peterborough architects, William and Walter Rollston Lightbourne Blackwell. Projects represented in the fonds include: Hospital for the Canadian General Electric Company; additions to the Peterborough Y.M.C.A.; Hospital for the General Electric Company; Rush Apartments; the Masonic Building; the Canadian Raybestos Company Building; and the Peterborough Lock Company Building.

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Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Craig, Zeidler and Strong and its antecedents, predominantly Blackwell and Craig. Major projects represented in this fonds were mostly undertaken in Peterborough and are as follows: Peterborough Civic Hospital; Peterborough Memorial Centre; Lakefield Preparatory School; Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School; Lakefield District High School; Peterborough Medical Centre; Abramsky Building; Cherney's store and warehouse; and Peterborough Golf and Country Club. Fonds also includes a list, probably arranged in chronological order.

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Fonds consists of records relating to David Barker Stevenson's activities as a merchant and a politician. Fonds includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, as well as accounts, promissory notes, a barter book, a day book, account books, and a ledger. Most correspondence is of a business nature, consisting of requests for credit, and discussing various business matters (such as prices of various items). Some letters concern local matters, such as schools, the Municipal Council, and the local church. Fonds also includes some accounts of the Prince Edward Agricultural Society.

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Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by the Congress of Black Women of Canada - Toronto Chapter. The majority of the textual records concern the administration of the Toronto Chapter. Also included are records concerning the Barsa Kelly Cari-Can Housing Co-operative and the documentary Children Are Not the Problem. Fonds also includes sound and moving records concerning the documentary Children Are Not the Problem. Included are motion picture films and audio reels, which contain interviews with day-care workers, parents and education professionals and researchers that explore issues of racism in early childhood education. Artifacts include a Toronto Chapter office sign and a plaque presented to the Toronto Chapter from the Black Secretariat.

Fonds consists of the professional records of Dr. Inez Elliston, a retired educator, community development leader, trainer, lecturer, researcher and writer based in Toronto, Ontario who specializes in intercultural education, anti-racism training, the management of diversity in the multicultural classroom and community, and the delivery of equitable educational policies. Specific records include: correspondence, reports, conference materials, papers and publications, research materials, presentations, teaching aides, promotional materials, clippings and photographs. The fonds documents Dr. Elliston's career as an educator primarily with the Scarborough Board of Education and the Ontario Ministry of Education as well as her work as a private consultant on several provincial and national initiatives addressing citizenship education, the needs of immigrant women, youth leadership training programs and university transition programs. Dr. Elliston's involvement with community groups and organizations such as the Canadian Council for Multicultural and Intercultural Education (CCMIE), the Ontario Multicultural Association multiculturelle de l'Ontario (OMAMO) and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) is also well-represented in the fonds. The fonds also includes Dr. Elliston's research materials and writings, both published and unpublished. Some of the topics addressed include multiculturalism, anti-racism and equity programming in schools, parent education, the accommodation of students in the school system and women's issues. Dr. Elliston's correspondence documents her professional career as well as her involvement with numerous community organizations, her conference presentations, awards she has received and her appointments to various boards and agencies.

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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Fonds consists of the personal records of Daniel G. Hill, 1870-1989. Fonds includes Hill family correspondence, 1870-1989. Fonds also contains personal files created by Hill while he was Ontario Ombudsmen, Ontario Human Rights Director and Commissioner, and Director of Daniel G. Hill and Associates. Fonds also include records created by Hill during his involvement with various associations including: the University of Toronto School of Social Work, the Police Complaints Board, and the Ontario Black History Society. Fonds also includes approximately 800 photographs, ca. 1890-1989. Subjects represented include: Hill family members, Coakley family members, Edwards family members, the Ontario Black History Society, and Hill's various activities as a Director of OHC and Ombudsman. Fonds also includes 4 film reels of Hill family movies, 1953-[196-?]. Fonds also contains 17 audio cassettes containing oral history interviews, conducted 1976-1983. Interviewees include: Donald Willard Moore, Harry Gairey, Keith Spicer, Charles Bush, Harold Butler, Edward Butler, Tom Hodgins, Josie Butler Sloman, Nick Nicklom, May E. Hill, and Daniel Hill.

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Fonds consists of records created and gathered by Alvin Curling during a portion of his provincial legislative career as MPP of Scarborough North, as Minister of Housing, as Minister of Skills Development, and as Liberal Housing Critic.

The records include files created by Curling while he acted as the Liberal Housing Critic (from 1995 to 1996), as well as files from at least two of his predecessors in this role, Joseph Cordiano and Dianne Poole.

The fonds also contains records representing a portion of Curling's work (from 1985 to 1999) in the Scarborough North Provincial Liberal Association particularly concerning his preparation for elections.

Also included are Curling's scheduling records, briefing notes, correspondence files, and speech files. These records, as well as his subject files, are often interrelated, referring to the same events in each series.

The types of records include agendas, background information, bulletins, contact information, correspondence, date books, daily schedules, exhibits, financial records, invitations, issues, itineraries, a journal agenda, maps, news releases, newspaper articles, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, photographs, publications, reference material, reports, scheduling and event summaries, submissions, speech notes, travel documents, and related records.

The fonds consists of seven series.

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Fonds consists of the records created and collected by Alvin D. McCurdy. Fonds includes the personal correspondence and a geneology of the McCurdy family. Fonds also includes material collected by McCurdy relating to: Amherstburg planning and conservation (1953-1983), Amerherstburg schools (1881-1987), Black churches (1852-1988), the Prince Hall Mason's (1854-1989), the Joiners and Carpenters Union (1950-1989), and various black organisations such as the Amherstburg Citizen's Advancement Association (1887-1983). Fonds also contains 12 scrapbooks, compiled between 1880-1989, of newspaper clippings regarding Amherstburg peoples and events. Fonds also contains ca. 3000 photographs, 1850's-1989. Subjects inlcude: Amherstburg church activities, Masons, newspaper clippings and soldiers. Families represented include: McCurdy, Adams, Banks, Holten, Kirtley, King, Munroe, Saunders, Thomas and Thompson families. Fonds also includes 181 postcards, ca. 1905-1987, depicting scenes of southern Ontario and the northern United States. Fonds also includes two oral history interviews, 1974-1976, regarding Ontario black settlers. Interviewees are: Sarah Estella Stokes and Charlie Duncan.

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Fonds consists of the personal, political and business records of Mary A. Shadd. Fonds includes personal and political correspondence with Isaac Shadd, William Still, Thomas Cary, Rev. Samuel R. Ward, and H. Ford Douglass. In addition, fonds contains Shadd's lecture notes. Fonds also includes records of the newspaper, the Freeman, such as subscription receipts, book reviews, draft articles and poetry.

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Fonds consists of the records of the Traill family of Hamilton Township, Northumberland County. Fonds includes: indentures, farm leases, Thomas Traill's will, and Traill family genealogical materials.

Fonds consists of records of four generations of the Osler family, including: correspondence; diaries and journals; commissions, certificates, and diplomas; genealogical material; legal notes; printed material; and photographs. Correspondence includes bound volumes of letters, as well as loose correspondence. The first volume contains correspondence and accounts of Featherston Lake Osler's parents, and that of the Bath family, British relatives of the Oslers through marriage. Volumes two and three contains correspondence and other records of the Reverend Featherstone Lake Osler regarding his life as a sailor, student, and minister at Tecumseth and Dundas. Volume four contains letters of Ellen Osler and newspaper clippings regarding her life and death. The fifth volume contains letters and other records of Edward Osler Jr., the Rev. Edward Lake, and Henry Bath Osler. Loose correspondence contains personal and business letters of various members of the Osler family, mainly Justice Featherston Osler and Britton Bath Osler. Letters also include correspondence with Sir John A. Macdonald, Alexander, and Oliver Mowat regarding the payment of judges and other legal matters.

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Fonds consists of a records of the Clergy Reserves Corporation, including a minute book, 1819-1835, by-laws and financial statements, 1820-1824, and a missionary register containing excerpts relating to missions of the Anglican Church in North West America taken from the files of the missionary register, London, 1813-1855.

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Fonds consists of records of Local 598 of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, as well as some correspondence from some Quebec locals of the International Union. Fonds includes correspondence of the union executive, of R.H. Carlin, and of some Quebec Locals. Fonds also contains records of arbitration against INCO, Falconbridge, Nickel Offsets Ltd., Sudbury Construction Association, Nickel Rim Mines Ltd., and Canadian Industries Ltd. Also included are minutes of membership and executive meetings, plant meetings, stewards' meetings, stenographer's note pads, and miscellaneous minutes of various groups. Fonds also includes records of the union press office, including reference material for newsletters, reference material regarding the United Steelworkers of America, and various clippings. Fonds contains the following series: CORRESPONDENCE: Union Executive Correspondence, 1942-1966 (Series A- I) R.H. Carlin's Files, 1943-1948 (Series A- II) Quebec Locals' Files, 1944-1948 (Series A-III) ARBITRATIONS: 1951-1962 (Series B) Microfilm, 6 reels, in MU 6738 NEGOTIATIONS: 1945-1962 (Series C) MINUTES: Minutes Of Membership And Executive Meetings, 1955-1963 (Series D- I) Plant Meeting Minutes, 1954-1961 (Series D-II) Stenographer's Note Pads, 1950-1961 (Series D-III) Minutes of Stewards' Meetings, 1955-1959 (Series D- IV) Miscellaneous Minutes, Various Groups, 1943-1965 (Series D-V) Microfilm, 5 reels, in MU 6738 PRESS OFFICE: Mine Mill News, Reference Material, 1959-1962 (Series E-I) United Steelworkers, Reference Material, 1961-1963 (Series E-II) Clippings, 1961-1964 (Series E-III) FINANCIAL: Statements, 1945-1956 (Series F-I) Balance Sheets, 1945-1955 (Series F-II) PAMPHLETS: Agreements And Briefs, 1949-1963 (Series G-I) Annual Reports, 1950-1962 (Series G-II) Miscellaneous And Collective Agreements, 1945-1965 (Series G-III) NEWSPAPERS, 1953-1965 (Series H) UNPROCESSED PAMPHLETS AND NEWSPAPERS.

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Fonds consists of 92 albums containing approximately 11,000 photographs of steam-powered vessels. These vessels were part of the American and Canadian Great Lakes fleet in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Included are photographs of steamships, tugboats, barges, lighters, wreckers, government vessels as well as prints depicting the Welland canal and communities along the canal. Also included are miscellaneous photographs of unidentified individuals.

Although the prints in the albums do not necessarily possess identifying captions, Kidd prepared indexes to the albums themselves.

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Fonds consists of personal and professional records of Toronto architect Jack Ryrie. This includes work done for various architectural firms, including Saunders and Ryrie, Mathers and Haldenby, and Allward and Gouinlock.

Personal records include certificates, diaries, notebooks and sketches and paintings, in a variety of media, created while living in Toronto as well as while traveling and studying in Europe, the Middle East and Egypt.

Fonds also includes records relating to Ryrie's purchase, restoration and occupation of the Toronto residence named "Whitehall".

Photographic records document family and friends, Whitehall, travels and historic buildings of Ontario

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Fonds consists of 50 photographs of horse teams and farming, and unidentified portraits. The portraits were taken by various photographers primarily located in Orillia, Ontario. Also included in the fonds is a Grand Dominion & Industrial Exhibition ticket (1887); a J. McLauchlan & Sons advertisement for cream soda (19--?); a postcard of Victoria Harbour, Lamber Co's Office; and a hand coloured postcard of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales on the 1st Anniversary of his visit to Canada in 1919.

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Fonds consists primarily of architectural drawings, project-related photographs and textual records, and business and administrative records documenting the architectural career of Bernard Rasch.

These records date back to Rasch's student days in the late 1960s and the establishment of his own firm in 1973. They also include the projects in which Rasch was the lead when he was a partner in the firms Rasch & Au Architects and Rasch, Au & Habash Architects.

Fonds also includes architectural records created by other firms where Rasch was an employee before launching his own practice, mainly Ryan & Lee Architects and Venchiarutti & Venchiarutti. There are also miscellaneous other architectural records that were acquired by Rasch and likely used by him for reference purposes.

The project-related records document the design and construction of buildings that were built, but also consist of plans for structures that were never realized. Major built projects include offices for the City of Toronto, various branches of the Sterling Trust and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and stores for Canadian Tire affiliates. The majority of the projects, however, relate to the construction or alteration of houses, apartment projects and commercial buildings; also represented are industrial, recreational and institutional buildings. While almost all of the projects were located in the Greater Toronto Area, projects in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, the United States and Costa Rica were also undertaken.

Drawings comprising this fonds document various stages of individual projects, mainly preliminary and construction stages. They include original sketches, tracings, photomechanical reproductions and CAD printouts.

Other project-related records may include specifications, contracts, notes, maps, topographical plans and photographs.

Non-project records in this fonds include business and administrative records documenting the operations of Rasch's practice, information about other architects, and records documenting Rasch's professional activities and community involvement outside his practice.

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Fonds consists of eight portraits, including one cased ambrotype and two cased daguerrotypes. The ambrotype portrait shows Mr. and Mrs. John Rolston (184-?); the case containing two daguerrotype portraits shows Mr. and Mrs. Rolston (185-?), and the third case contains a daguerrotype of Alex Maitland Monro (1832-1884) dated ca. 1860, and an albumen print of the Monro family (1874).

The remaining portraits are of Edith Mary Maitland Monro (1879-1971) ca. 1890 and ca. 1900, and of Mrs. Alexander Maitland Monro (Miss Jane Rolston, 1841-1916 ), ca. 1870.

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Fonds consists of architectural drawings, photographs and textual records created or accumulated by Toronto architect, Charles J. Gibson.

Includes design specifications, architectural drawings and correspondence pertaining to work performed by Gibson for Mr. F.H. Gooch relating to the construction of a conservatory addition to Gooch's residence at 120 Crescent Road in Toronto and his cottage on Lake Simcoe. The drawings include sketches of a site plan and sections of an ice house attached to Gooch's cottage. Also includes one certificate recognizing Gibson's membership in the Ontario Association of Architects.

Includes a series of photographs documenting: Chandler House, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club memorial capstan, the Queen's Park Archway commemorating the 1901 Royal Visit of the Duke of York and Duchess of Cornwall, Lambton Golf and Country Club and two cottages (all designed by Gibson), as well as the Simpson Family mausoleum in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Also includes photographs of a series of unidentified residential rooms, either designed or photographed by Gibson.

One watercolour perspective painting by Gibson documents a grand Muskoka cottage he designed in 1902, known as "Kawandag." The painting was damaged by water leakage prior to its donation to the Archives of Ontario but the design of the cottage and its setting remain visible.

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