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.
For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database:
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