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Collection Nord-Aski
CA ON00402 NA · Collection · 1988-2008

The collection contains 19 audiovisual documents about various aspects of the area. Some of these documents relate to Nord-Aski’s involvement in the region, while others concern economic development issues or promote the area’s businesses and attractions. Audiocassettes have all been converted to DVD format.

Nord-Aski
CA ON00353 AFC 466 · Fonds · 1907-1961, 2005

Fonds consists of records created and collected by London Motors Limited and the Stansell Family. Family records include a bible, a family history, correspondence, and photographs. Business records include a sales book, a sales pamphlet, photographs, and drawings. Also included is a scrapbook created and curated by Miriam Stansell Kelly, daughter of William Riley Stansell. The scrapbook contains personal records of Miriam Stansell Kelly and business records of London Motors Limited.

London Motors Limited
Northern Woman's Bookstore
Fonds · 1976 - 2016

Correspondence, business documentation, staff resources, photographs, and Literacy Group documents, kept by Margaret Phillips of the Northern Woman's Bookstore, of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The store opened in 1984 and had locations on Bay St. and Court Street, before having to close its physical location in 2016.

2019.8.1 · Item · 1940

The item is a promotional ink blotter for the F. G. Cotter & Co. in Port Hope, 1940.

F.G. Cotter & Co.
CA ON00154 2019.4.1-2019.4.2 · Item · 1809
Part of Nathaniel Haskill Whiskey Ledger

This ledger belonged to Josiah Haskill (written on the inside cover) and contains the year and name of the client across the top of the left hand page in cursive writing and on the right side page at the top is written the year/ "Contra"/ Pound, Shilling and Pence". - amounts of whiskey the client received are listed on the left side and payments with bushels of wheat, oats, apples, bundles of straw, hay, beans, hogs etc. and cash are listed on the right side. - only the top corner of the left hand pages are numbered, the book has a total of 80 numbered double pages or 160 single pages. Some pages have been removed. -

2019.4-2019.4.2 · Item · 1809
Part of Haskill Collection

This ledger belonged to Josiah Haskill (written on the inside cover) and contains the year and name of the client across the top of the left hand page in cursive writing and on the right side page at the top is written the year/ "Contra"/ Pound, Shilling and Pence". - amounts of whiskey the client received are listed on the left side and payments with bushels of wheat, oats, apples, bundles of straw, hay, beans, hogs etc. and cash are listed on the right side. - only the top corner of the left hand pages are numbered, the book has a total of 80 numbered double pages or 160 single pages. Some pages have been removed. -

Josiah Haskill
George Metcalfe fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 478 · Fonds · 1802-1958, n.d.

Fonds consists of the business records created or acquired by George Metcalfe for his cabinetry business, including stencils, books and business documents. Also consists of records of the 8th Boy Scouts Troop of London, including books, photographs and clippings, correspondence and test information.

Metcalfe, George
CA ON00353 AFC 471 · Fonds · 1864-1886

Fonds consist of business records used by Abbott Brother’s Carriage Works. This includes the company’s order book, accounts and handbill, and illustrations and diagrams. For a detailed transcription of contents, see the preliminary finding aid.

Abbott Brother's Carriage Works
Marsh Store
Fonds · 1862-1955

The Marsh Store was a community hub for Coldstream and Lobo Township. There are eight series. These include store records, sawmill and gristmill records, and woollen mill records. Other businesses that operated out of there were: the Coldstream Telephone Company ; Lobo Mutual Fire Insurance; and the Great Western Railway and Telegraph Company. Of special interest are the magazines and books located in the Public Library collection which also operated out of the Marsh Store. Jacob Marsh was also involved with the local council which also operated from his store.

Untitled
Fonds · 1893-1927

The fonds consist of the Letters Patent and Shareholder information, as well as two gristing books and a ledger showing yields from the mill.

Tavistock Milling Company Limited
Thomas Pocklington Fonds
CA ON00419 POC · Fonds · n.d., 1914-1920

Fonds consists of three record books. Two of these are ledgers that date from the period that Thomas was the manager of Consolidated Optical Co. They offer a rare glimpse of daily operations of a Canadian instrument making firm. The ledgers have records of purchases, contacts, receipts, and materials dating from 1914 to 1920. The other record book is a surveying class notebook that is undated.

Pocklington, Thomas, 1882-1962
Lockwood Films fonds
Fonds · 1972 - 2012

Fonds consists of textual records, audio-visual materials and graphic materials relating to the company’s creation of film, video, audio and slide productions. Textual records include year-end financial statements, contracts, releases, scripts, consents, correspondence, proposals, treatments, transcripts, funding applications, promotional materials, awards, production reports and sales reports. Audio-visual materials include masters, submasters, field tapes and elements of productions created for clients by Creative Services and Lockwood Films. Contents include films, videos, audio tapes, CDs and DVDs related to: marketing and promotion of products, services, companies and not-for-profit organizations; internal corporate communications including annual meetings, seminars and internal instruction; training and education; television shows; documentaries; demonstrations for potential clients and stock footage created by Lockwood Films for internal use. Graphic materials include photographs, slides and negatives of Lockwood people and external projects.

Lockwood Films (London) Inc.
Silver Islet Collection
Collection · 1870 - 1910

Photographs and documents from the Silver Islet Mine and Silver Islet Store, including ledgers and a chart.

A rich deposit of silver was discovered on Silver Islet in 1868. A small island at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula, the mine was built deep below the waterline, and relied on breakwaters and pumps. Silver Islet was mined until 1884, when pumps failed, and the mine was flooded. The small community built on shore to support the mine is still inhabited.

William Davies fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 472 · Fonds · 1854-1944

Fonds consist of personal and business-related correspondence and research documents used by William Davies. Personal correspondence to Davies’ brother, other family members and friends, business-related correspondence with agricultural journals, and research relating to agricultural journals are included.

Davies, William
Murray VanZanten Collection
Collection · 2008-2010

Collection is comprised of research material accumulated or created by Murray VanZanten during the course of his research into early financial institutions in St. Thomas and Elgin County. The records were collected and compiled ca. 2008-2010, and organized according to either general information about all the financial institutions in St. Thomas and Elgin County, or divided into subject files about each individual bank. The individual banks are:
-The Bank of the County of Elgin
-The Star Loan Company
-The Southwestern Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings and Loan Society
-The Southern Loan & Savings Company

VanZanten, Murray
CA ON00154 2017.3.1 · Item

Item is an ink blotter from the 'F.G. Cotter & Co.' company from Port Hope.

Janet Berton fonds (MG 52)
CA ON00373 MG 52 · Fonds · 1837-2013, predominant 1950-2004

The fonds consists of records that reflect the different roles that Janet played throughout her life as well as the various activities and functions she performed throughout the community. The fonds is arranged into five series and then various subseries, all of which reflect Janet’s diverse activities.

The majority of the records are textual (i.e. minutes, reports, correspondence, published material, newspapers, etc.) although there is also a sizable photograph collection as well as some maps and plans and even artwork. Fonds consists of: Binder Twine Festival programs, posters, artwork, committee minutes, advertising, press releases, copies of by-laws, books, correspondence, account ledgers, newsletters, speeches, research notes, newspaper clippings, cassette tapes, Kleinburg/community history notes (eg. United Church, historical buildings and homes, families and individuals), walking tour booklets, notes on Kleinburg and Vaughan development, Humber Heritage committee notes, agendas, newspaper clippings, reports, LACAC/Heritage Vaughan books, notes on heritage homes and architecture, minutes and agendas, manuals, newspaper clippings, reports, CFUW books, newsletters, pamphlets, journal articles, minutes, conference notes, newspaper clippings, Kleinburg Home & School Association notes, newspaper clippings, HELP newspaper clippings, minutes, newsletters, Operation Catch-Up files, CACY pollution and development notes, Dellcrest notes, reports, minutes, KARA agendas and minutes, notes, correspondence, address books, calendars, agendas, travel notes and booklets, guidebooks and maps for locations around the world, other Ontario and Canadian heritage books, reports, magazines (York, food, National Geographic, Beaver, cat), fiction books, journals, programs, pamphlets, maps, Kleinburg Shaw store account ledgers from late 1800s to ca. 1930.

Berton, Janet
CA ON00373 RG 1 · Fonds · predominant 1849-2014

Fonds consists of records that reflect the functions and activities of Council as a legislative and regulatory body in legal matters, taxation, justice and public protection, education, public health and welfare, finance, public accountability and planning. Records include, but are not limited to: working papers, minutes and resolutions, by-laws, reports to Council, and Court of Revision Records. The fonds chronicles Council activities and functions, and documents decisions and deliberations, and relationship with the civic administration, the Province of Ontario, the County of York, the Village of Woodbridge before 1971, and the Regional Municipality of York after 1971.

City of Vaughan (Ont.). Council
Kingsmill Family fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 388 · Fonds · c1840 - 2016

The fonds consists of letters, deeds, scrapbooks, photographs, advertisements, press clippings, ephemera and works of art related to individual family members, the family as a whole, and various family business ventures.

Kingsmill's Ltd.