Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by members of the Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP law firm and its predecessor firms. These records document the nature of the firm's legal practice, its finances, the internal organization of the firm, and its administrative processes, as well as biographical information about firm partners and records pertaining to the history of the firm. Records in this fonds include correspondence, memoranda, financial statements, ledgers, photographs, certificates, reports, newspaper clippings, committee minutes and partnership agreements. The fonds has been arranged alphabetically in seven series. Also included is a sous-fonds containing records of firm partner Walter Williston.
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLPSeries consists of a variety of administrative records created and accumulated by partners and staff members of the firm. These records are divided into three sub-series: administrative files, committee files, legal opinions and partnership agreements.
Sub-series consists of records relating to the operation and administration of the firm, its members and offices. These records document changes in partnership, firm mergers, firm policies, the administration of the law firm, and human resources issues. Records in the sub-series include memoranda, correspondence, lease agreements, manuals, reports, newspaper clippings, financial statements, brochures, day planners, deeds, letterhead, notes, floor plans, telephone books, partnership agreements, and office directories.
Item is a manual pertaining to the operations of the firm, divided into the following chapters: emergency procedures, directory, fringe benefits, terms of employments, facilities, word processing/steno services, filing, reception and switchboard, mail room, accounting, billing practices, printing, library, secretarial duties, communications, office equipment, instructions to paralegals, insurance and supplies.
File consists of draft letters, a Royal Bank of Canada monthly letter, and a memorandum, accumulated and/or written by Bryce MacKenzie for firm articling students on the subject of drafting letters, opinions and agreements.
File consists of firm brochures pertaining to the general work of the firm and to its program for articling and summer students.
File consists of memoranda, correspondence and leases regarding Fasken Calvin MacKenzie Williston & Swackhamer's lease agreements for office space on the 10th and 11th floors at 36 Toronto Street and office space at 20 Toronto Street. Also included is a lease for office space on the 10th floor of 36 Toronto Street, issued to Fasken Cowan Chadwick & Rose in 1915.
Item is a photograph taken on a Fasken law firm trip to Shanghai, China, on 30-31 May and 1 June 1989. Included in the photograph is Robert Issenman, Richard Potter, Francis Fax, and Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
File consists of a letter and three common share warrant certificates from the Rio Tinto Mining Company of Canada Ltd.
File consists of memoranda and correspondence regarding Ruling 16 of the Professional Conduct Handbook, which pertained to directories, announcements and professional cards.
File consists of three copies of "The Rio Tinto Recorder", a magazine produced by the Rio Tinto mines for its employees and community.
Item is a day planner maintained by Collamer Calvin for the year 1963, listing his daily appointments. A note accompanying the day planner states the following: "Note: This is the diary of Mr. C.C. Calvin for 1963. It would be noted that he had a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Toronto-Dominion Bank of Thursday, August 1, at 11:30 a.m. Mr. Calvin died after dinner in the evening of Saturday August 3rd. B.R. MacKenzie, November 15, 1973."
File consists of correspondence, deeds, promissory notes, insurance policies and other notes pertaining to Alexander Fasken's work in Fergus, Ontario, for clients in the Bye family regarding the transfer of land near Pilkington, Ontario.