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Material documenting the lives, interests, and activities of members of the Rieder and Anthes families of Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario, with a focus on Martha (Anthes) Rieder and her family. Includes correspondence, diaries, ephemera, photographs, land transactions and mortgages, agreements, clippings, ms. notes, genealogy materials, financial statements, company newsletters, membership certificates, and other personal documents.
Accrual is arranged into 12 series:
Series 1: Correspondence Received by Martha Rieder
Series 2: Correspondence Received by Talmon Rieder
Series 3: Correspondence Received by John S. and Lydia Anthes
Series 4: Correspondence Received by Others
Series 5: Rieder, Martha
Series 6: Rieder, Talmon
Series 7: Anthes, John S.
Series 8: Cook, Ella Anthes
Series 9: Anthes, J.I. Frank
Series 10: Rieder, Peter
Series 11: Property Transactions and Mortgages
Series 12: Photographs.

Material accumulated by William J. Hopp, a baker and plant supervisor at the Dare Biscuit Company in Kitchener, Ontario, and other material relating to the incorporation and history of Dare Foods Limited, including two labour strikes. Includes letters patent and by-laws, training and conference materials relating to the manufacture of cookies and crackers, recipe books containing cookie and cracker formulae, research reports, clippings, bulletins, correspondence and memoranda, photographs, catalogues and brochures, packaging, and other material.

Accrual consists of textual and graphic materials created or accumulated by Dorothy White Russell and other members of the Schantz and Russell families, primarily correspondence received by Dorothy and some of her diaries and notebooks. Also contains miscellaneous materials created or accumulated by Frank Schantz, family correspondence, and ephemera.
Arranged in series as follows: Series 6. Schantz, Franklin Abram; Series 11. Schantz Russell Family Correspondence; Series 12. Photographs; Series 15.1. Russell, Dorothy. Correspondence; Series 15.2. Russell, Dorothy : Diaries; Series 15.4. Russell, Dorothy : Education; Series 15.5. Russell, Dorothy : Personal; Series 15.6. Russell, Dorothy : Teaching; Series 17. White, Etta Schantz, 1866-1900; Series 18. Schantz, Orpheus, 1864-1951; Series 19. Moyer, Mary Gross Nash (1808-1885); Series 20. Russell, Clarke; Series 21. Russell, Donald.

Contents: accrual consists of material relating to the artistic career of Tony Urquhart as well as his personal life. The materials in this accrual are arranged according to the series set out in the original finding aid, with some exceptions.

Contents: fonds consists of material relating to William Kindree's involvement in the WATFOR 360 group and material relating to the 25th anniversary of WATFOR. Includes Kindree's design notes, ms. notes and draft documentation, guides and other publications about WATFOR, photocopied conference proceedings and published papers, correspondence, a newsletter, and a photograph.

Contents: fonds consists of material relating to the career of H.N.B.Hynes, from his work as a student at the Univeristy of London in the late 1930s through his time as a professor of biology at the University of Waterloo until his retirement in the 1980s. Includes material relating to his work on stonefiles in the British Isles, his work for the British government in Trinidad and East Africa, his time at the University of Liverpool including work on river pollution, and his career at the University of Waterloo, including his sabbaticals in Australia. Fonds includes notebooks containing field notes, ms. and ts. notes, publications authored by Hynes and by others, reports, correspondence, maps, and photographs.
Fonds is arranged in six series:

1. Field Notes
2. Research
3. Maps for Research
4. Publications by H.B.N. Hynes
5. Publications by Others
6. Miscellaneous.

The 2010 accrual consists of material relating to John English's personal and professional interests and activities from the early 1960's to 2010. Includes correspondence, manuscripts and research files, records of organizations and political bodies in which he plays a role as well as University of Waterloo teaching files.

Contents: fonds consists of material accumulated and kept by Ross Dixon relating to his entrepreneurial interests, career, and personal life, and to the philanthropic activities of Ross and Doris Dixon. The material documents some aspects of his personal interests and childhood, his early career, and his career in industrial relations at Uniroyal Canada (formerly the Dominion Rubber Company). A significant portion of the fonds relates to the businesses he formed outside of his professional career, the Westmount Construction Company and Westmont Enterprises Limited, for the period from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. These records document trends in suburban home-building and design during that time and include a large number of architectural drawings. The fonds is not comprehensive, lacking documentation relating to the formation and administration of the Westmount Construction Company and Westmont Enterprises Limited and containing only a small amount of material relating the other area of his entrepreneurial activities, investment and financial services. Fonds includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, advertising material, architectural drawings, legal documents, photographs, accounting records, reports, ms. notes, certificates, speeches, company publications, minutes, financial statements, ephemera, and other material.
Fonds is organized into the following series:

1. Personal
2. Career
3. Career: Uniroyal
4. Westmount Construction Company
5. Architectural Drawings
6. Westmont Enterprises Limited
7. Ross Dixon Financial Services
8. Accounting Records
9. Philanthropy
10. Photographs
11. Visual Materials.

Contents: Fonds consists of material related to the family of J.B. English of Plattsville, Ontario. Includes a store ledger dates 1916-1923; two 19th century photographs, and a folder of genealogical information including a family tree.

Records documenting most aspects of the development of the Central Ontario Art Association, the events and activities of the association, and its administration and membership in the period from its formation in 1954 to about 2000, with some gaps in coverage. The records were accumulated by various members and some organization was imposed by the association for the purpose of researching its history. Fonds includes correspondence, membership lists, flyers, announcements, programs, newsletters, exhibitors' catalogues, minutes, reports, the association constitution and by-laws, histories, forms and questionnaires, clippings, lectures and articles, photocopied information, photographs, slides, and other material.
Fonds is arranged in the following series:
Series 1: Administration and Membership
Series 2: Files of Gordon Couling
Series 3: Events and Exhibitions
Series 4: Publications
Series 5: Subject Files
Series 6: History Working Files
Series 7: Photographs.

Three books written by Robert Forbes. They consist of ledgers dating from 1823 to 1873 and daybooks documenting Fobes' activities as a farmer and merchant dating from 1856 to 1891. Also included are three leaflets with information about postal and farmers’ schedules from the Department of Agriculture, Ontario.

Daybook coverage:

January 1871 – October 1881;
January 1882 – December 1891; and
March 1856 – December 1862.

Ledger coverage:

July 1839 – [1858?];
September 1851 – December 1857; and
September 1823 – 1873.

Three files:

3 pamphlets; Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 1 of 3), 1839 – 1862
Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 2 of 3), 1851 – 1881
Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 3 of 3), 1843 – 1891

Contents: fonds consists of material created and accumulated mainly by Ivan W. Keffer, and some by his wife Mary L. Keffer, that documents the lives and activities of the Keffers, especially during the time they lived in Germany. Records also relate to the career of Ivan W. Keffer at the F.W. Woolworth Co. Includes diaries, correspondence, photographs, souvenir postcards and other ephemera, personal documents, reports, clippings, and other material.
Fonds is arranged in the following series:

1. Ivan W. Keffer : Personal
2. Ivan W. Keffer : F.W. Woolworth Co.
3. Mary L. Keffer : Personal
4. Souvenirs
5. Photographs

Contents: accrual consists of materials accumulated by Ivan W. Keefer, documenting his family life while living in Germany and his career at W.F. Woolworth Co. Includes a postcard book and a sales notebook for W.F. Woolworth Co. Arranged in two series as follows: 2. Ivan W. Keffer and F.W. Woolworth Co. ; 4. Souvenirs.

The 2011 accrual consists of material relating to John English's personal and professional interests and activities from the early 1960's to 2010. Includes correspondence, manuscripts and research files, records of organizations and political bodies in which he plays a role as well as University of Waterloo teaching files.

Fonds consists of material relating to activities and interests of James Downey from 1963 to 2004. The fonds contains biographical information, manuscripts and typescripts of his published works and speeches, "commonplace books," files relating to his various academic positions, files relating to consulting and advisory work on behalf of provincial governments. Includes appointment calendars, clippings, personal and professional correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts, reports and research materials. Also includes papers received from Florence Reid.

The fonds is arranged in 10 series:
1) Appointment Calendars (File 1-30)
2) Consulting and Advisory Files (File 31-44)
3) James Downey's Memorabilia (File 45-71)
4) James Downey's Papers and Articles from Carleton University Years (File 72-85)
5) Miscellaneous Correspondence (File 86-175)
6) Notebooks (File 176-198)
7) Speeches and Speech Notes (File 199-261)
8) Works by James Downey : Manuscripts (File 262-266)
9) Works by James Downey : The Eighteenth Century Pulpit (File 267-274)
10) Writings and letters of Florence Reid (File 275-281)

Contents : consists of one group photograph of a construction crew, purportedly for Bridgeport School. They are posed with a sign: "John V. Gray Construction Co. Ltd, General Contractors, head office Toronto ...."

The 2012 accrual consists of material relating to John English's personal and professional interests and activities from the early 1960's to 2011. Includes correspondence, manuscripts and research files, records of organizations and political bodies in which he plays/played a role as well as University of Waterloo administrative and teaching files.

Accrual consists of textual and graphic materials created or accumulated by members of the Schantz families, primarily photographs of extended Schantz family members and materials created and accumulated by Orpheus Moyer Schantz. Also contains family correspondence, materials relating to homestead land holdings, and ephemera. Textual materials were loose when material was donated.
Arranged in series as follows: Series 4. Bowman Family ; Series 5. Schantz, Florence Annie Catherine, 187-1938 ; Series 6. Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 ; Series 7. Schantz, Mary Moyer, 1840-1953 ; Series 9. Tobias and Mary Schantz Family ; Series 11. Schantz Russell Family Correspondence ; Series 12. Photographs ; Series 15.1. Russell, Dorothy, 1900-2006 : Correspondence ; Series 15.5. Russell, Dorothy, 1900-2006 : Personal ; Series 15.6. Russell, Dorothy, 1900-2006 : Teaching ; Series 17. White, Etta Schantz, 1866-1900; Series 18. Schantz, Orpheus, 1864-1951.

Contents: fonds consists of materials relating to the oral history interviews that were conducted, as well as final reports that were created based on the subject. This includes transcripts of twenty one interviews and accompanying appendices, three student reports on the project and related themes, a photocopy of an essay detailing the history of the mill pre Dominion and a file of miscellaneous materials.
Arranged in five series: 1. Research : 2. Interviews : 3. Student Reports : 4. Appendices : 5. Miscellaneous.

Contents: the fonds contains materials relating to the history, products, employees, equipment and manufacturing processes of the Rubber Machinery Shops of the Dominion Tire Co. Ltd, and its parent companies from ca. 1914 to ca. 2004. Includes over 1600 photographs of staff at work, receiving awards and at leisure; manufacturing processes and machines; products made by RMS for used in their parent companies and for contracts; interior, exterior and aerial views of Dominion Rubber facilities across Canada; and photographs taken for publication in RMS and parent company newsletters as well as local media. Also included is information on company history, including newspaper clippings, press releases, leaflets and in-house publications; sales and marketing materials including advertisement proofs, brochures, leaflets, and major equipment listings; company publicity materials including parent company publications, and company portfolios; and RMS created office files including salary and company organizational charts, and industrial relations materials.
Arranged in 6 series:

1. Company History; 2. Office Files; 3. Photographs; 4. Publications; 5. Publicity; 6. Sales & Marketing