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J. D. Edgar family fonds
CA ON00009 F 65 · Fonds · 1680-1988, predominant 1840-1955

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Sir James David Edgar, his wife Matilda, and various other members of the Edgar family.

Their records include correspondence, both political and personal, speeches, lecture notes, invitations, published material, scrapbooks and photographs. As J.D. Edgar was actively involved in politics, correspondents includes many prominent politicians of his day, including Alexander Mackenzie and Sir Wilfred Laurier; there are also letters regarding important political events such as the North-West Rebellion.

Fonds also contains records from other family members, such as the diaries of Maud Edgar, a hand-written Shawnee-English dictionary compiled by Thomas Ridout, a typescript copy of Thomas Ridout's Old Memoir covering the period 1786-1788, photographs of various members of the Edgar family, genealogical material, and correspondence with family in the United States and overseas.

The fonds is divided into 11 series.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+65?SESSIONSEARCH

Edgar, J. D. (family)
CA ON00333 05-003, 90-001, 94-002 · Fonds · 1680-1920, predominant 1750-1890

Collection consists of disparate records from and to North America. Correspondence involves numerous senders and receivers and topics covered include military matters between America and Great Britain, the North American fur trade and Upper Canadian political issues. These materials were collected by Professor David Macmillan through his interest in philately. Correspondents include John Beverley Robinson, William Berczy, Major James Clephane, Basil Hall, James Keith, John Macaulay, William Hamilton Merritt and Andrew Russell.

Macmillan, Professor David, 1925-1988
Edmison family fonds
CA ON00334 F2 · Fonds · 1690-1990, predominantly 1920's-1980's

This collection consists of papers relating to the Edmison family. Rev J. H. Edmison, Presbyterian minister, 1857-1928 includes sermons, news clippings and correspondence chiefly in Chelteham Ontario. Correspondence of J Alex Edmison and family, including ephemera, photographs and memorabilia of McGill, Trent University, Jarvis Collegiate, Broadview YMCA and Queen’s University in the 1920s. Some papers related to Montreal politics (1938-40); research materials related to Camp Ahmek, the Taylor Statten Memorial Fund, and camping reunions (1920s to 1970s); research materials and incidental correspondence relating to the history of Peterborough, Douro Township and other local matters (1960s and 1970s); including incidental correspondence on criminology, penal history, as well as Vercoe family history.

Edmison family
CA ON00009 F 604 · Fonds · 1694-1958, predominant 1723-1893

Fonds consists of personal and professional records of Charles Shirreff and other Shirreff family members. Included are correspondence, land records, genealogical information and biographical information regarding the Shirreff family, notices of appointments, diaries, and other records. Correspondence includes: letters received by Charles Sherriff before his emigration from Scotland; letters regarding Colonel John By; letters detailing Alexander Shirreff’s expenses while exploring the land between the Ottawa River and Lake Huron; letters regarding the purchase of land and the purchase of the Bytown Gazette; and letters regarding the Shirreff family’s claim to the earldom of Stirling. Land records consist of: land grants; a Scottish property transfer; a rent roll of Fitzroy Harbour lots; a statement of property at Fitzroy Harbour; maps of the land by the Carp River and part of Fitzroy Township; and a plan of the Fitzroy Harbour. Genealogical and biographical material includes newspaper clippings, manuscript histories of the family, and a history of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at Fitzroy Harbour.

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Shirreff, Charles, 1768-1849
Fonds Lilianne-Frégault
CA ON00341 P258 · Fonds · 1697-1912, 1936-1995, [reproduit en 1992 et 2000], surtout 1936-1995

Le fonds témoigne partiellement de la vie personnelle et familiale de Lilianne Frégault, principalement de 1936 à 1995. Il témoigne notamment de ses études; de son intérêt pour la carrière de son mari Guy Frégault comme historien, professeur et haut-fonctionnaire et de sa collaboration à ses travaux d'historien; des hommages rendus à Guy Frégault après son décès, notamment par Jean-Claude Falardeau et la Fédération des sociétés d'histoire du Québec, aujourd'hui la Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et de généalogie du Québec. Il témoigne également des relations de Lilianne Frégault avec : Michel Brunet, historien; Jean-Claude Falardeau; Marcel Trudel, historien; Juliette Rémillard; la Fondation Lionel-Groulx; Lydia Frégault; Édith Rinfret et Gabrielle Rinfret. Le fonds est constitué de 4 séries : A) Affaires personnelles et familiales; B) Collaboratrice de Guy Frégault; C) Correspondance; D) Documentation amassée au sujet de Guy Frégault. Il comprend principalement : de la correspondance, incluant des brouillons de lettres expédiées par Lilianne Frégault; des certificats et des diplômes; des photographies, des copies de spicilèges et de coupures de presse; des textes d'allocutions; des imprimés annotés.

Frégault, Lilianne, 1917-1997
Naval Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0011 · Fonds · 1700-1988

The Naval Fonds contain material relating primarily to British, French, and American navies ranging from 1700 to the 1980s. The documents include ship lists and registers, naval statistics, photographs, booklets, and notes on correspondence.

Pewter plates
CA ON00428 2021.18 · Item · ca. 1700

Item is a set of four matching pewter plates. They have a motif of a bird on top of a crown stamped along the rim. The hallmarks on the back of the plate are likely pseudo marks, intended to replicate the look of silver goods. Above these, the letter X is stamped below a crown, a symbol that was often used to indicate a specific quality of metal.

Pewter plate
CA ON00428 2021.39 · Item · ca. 1700-1800

Item is one pewter plate. The hallmarks on the back of the plate are likely pseudo marks, intended to replicate the look of silver goods. Above these, the letter X is stamped below a crown, a symbol that was often used to indicate a specific quality of metal.

CA ON00311 PF61 · Fonds · [17--]-[1945?]

Fonds consists of certificates, correspondence, research material, photographs and other material relating to the legal career and research interests of William Renwick Riddell. The research material relates to William Dummer Powell and to a medieval French folktale. The fonds also consists of several legal documents collected by Riddell. The fonds includes one sous-fonds, which contains the law practice records of Alexander Macdonell, a lawyer in Toronto during the mid-nineteenth century. The sous-fonds also includes research notes by Riddell on Macdonell. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Research material Certificates and membership card Correspondence Miscellaneous legal documents Clippings Photographs Alexander Macdonell sous-fonds

Riddell, William Renwick, 1852-1945
CA ON00003 F267 · Collection · 1701-1962

Collection consists of a binder of handwritten extracts from the Society's journals and printed reports, making reference to the history of the Diocese of Quebec (1788-1867); printed annual reports (1701-1962); periodicals (1851-1941) and microfilm of the journals, correspondence, reports, and manuscripts of the SPG missionary activities in Canada (1702-1889).
Periodical holdings include: The Gospel Missionary (1857); The Monthly Record of Church Missions (1855); The Mission Field (1861-1941); The Net Cast in Many Waters (1866-1898); and The Church Abroad (1903-1940).

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)
Thomas Ridout family fonds
CA ON00009 F 43 · Fonds · 1706-1960, predominant 1787-1894

Fonds consists predominantly of correspondence, diaries and copies of manuscripts relating to the Ridout family in Upper Canada in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The records document the family's service in the War of 1812, and their administrative and business careers, as well as the family's private life, including financial matters and genealogical research conducted by later members of the family.

Family members principally represented in the fonds include Thomas Ridout, Surveyor General of Upper Canada; Samuel Smith Ridout; George Ridout; Thomas Gibbs Ridout; and his wife, Matilda Bramley Ridout.

Records also include commissions, militia records, a Shawnee-English dictionary, household expenses, records relating to land transactions and Masonic Lodges, and Ridout family Bibles. The fonds also contains silhouette drawings and a plan of Samuel Smith Ridout's farm.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+43?SESSIONSEARCH

Ridout, Thomas (family)
Ontario History collection
CA ON00351 GA 6 · Collection · 1716-1950

The collection consists mainly of items relating to the history of Ontario with some items relating to other parts of Canada and the U.S. covering the period 1716 to 1950. These were items which accumulated in the office of Ontario History and which were passed to the University of Waterloo. The contents include correspondence, documents including transcriptions of petitions to the Government of Upper Canada for grants of land, pamphlets, clippings, ephemera, maps, photographs and engravings. The topical and chronological coverage of this collection is wide-ranging.

Peter Russell fonds
CA ON00009 F 46 · Fonds · 1720-1811

Fonds contains personal and business correspondence of Peter Russell, and includes some correspondence from other family members. Included are correspondence, memoranda and circulars, diaries, copies of wills, inventories of personal belongings, commissions, receipts, bills, accounts, bonds, a table of fees, articles of agreements, a copy of an Act to prevent the Exportation of Base Coin to H.M Colonies in the West Indies and America, statements concerning the salary of Peter Russell as Receiver-General of Upper Canada, and a letters patent erecting a District Court in the Home District (with large seal attached).

Fonds also contains an account book of Peter Russell for the years 1793 to 1808. Fonds also includes a copy book of correspondence sent and received by Peter Russell as President administering the government of Upper Canada from 1796 to 1798. Correspondents include Captain Claus, Superintendent of Indians and Indian Affairs, and Captain Joseph Brant. Also included in the copy book are copies of speeches which Russell made to members of the Six Nations concerning their land grants on the Grand River, and speeches made to members of the Chippawa Nation.

The fonds is arranged chronologically, with the account book and copy book being described at the end of the chronological listing.

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Russell, Peter, 1733-1808
Ewen-Grahame fonds
CA ON00344 XS1 MS A001 · Fonds · 1723-1892, predominant 1780-1840

Correspondence, legal and business papers of John Ewen (1741-1821), merchant from Aberdeen, Scotland; his daughter Elizabeth, Mrs. James Grahame; his grandson Baron Grahame; and other members of the Grahame Family. Of particular interest for the study of Scottish Art, Business, Agriculture, Politics and Society, 1780-1840. 64 boxes, over 12 000 items. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Two groupings of correspondence: Boxes 1-26 organized by authors, boxes 27-64 by years

Ewen, John, 1741-1821
CA ON00313 1973-5038; 000-5007 · Fonds · 1723/4-1917

Fonds consists primarily of family correspondence received by Mark Young Stark, and by his daughter, Mary Ann. There are also some letters written by Mark Young Stark, including a number written while he was studying and travelling in Europe as a young man. The letters date from c.1723 to 1917 and are primarily from family and friends. There are journals, notebooks, documents, essays, and newspaper clippings largely related to Mark Young Stark's family and Presbyterianism in Canada. The journals are written by Mark Young Stark from 1829-1831, Mary Bannatyne Stark from 1824, and Mary Ann Stark from 1860-1891. The fonds also includes a published book of sermons written by Mark Young Stark; two small files of receipts and financial documents dating from 1854; two scrapbooks comprised of postcards, pictures, and picture cut-outs, and some original pencil sketches, ink drawings (partially coloured), and small paintings, some of which are signed by Mark Young Stark; and a small case of architect’s tools labelled as being those of Geo. Ed. Street.

Stark, Mark Young
Eldon family fonds
CA ON00009 F 4597 · Fonds · 1725-2009, predominant 1767-1975

Fonds consists of records created or accumulated by members of the Eldon (formerly spelled Elden) family in Ireland and Ontario (initially Canada West), and includes originals and copies of text, photographs, certificates, testimonials, newspaper clippings, artifacts, and maps.

Records are predominantly associated with John Elden (ca. 1711-1785), Joseph Elden (1760-1846), Robert Eldon (1821-1894), Robert Henry Eldon (1861-1945), Frank Irving Eldon (1895-1969), and W. Donald R. Eldon (Don) (1926- ).

Material in this fonds relates to the personal and professional lives of the Elden / Eldon family including birth, marriage and death records; family photographs; land records including a 1767 Irish deed as well as copies of a registry map and land transfers for a Muskoka cottage; current Eldon Arms and Crest records; letters; education records including a yearbook and degree; work related records such as a linen seal (1802) and penmanship book (1725); and professional recognition including the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal (1935) and various certificates and testimonials.

Many of the records were used to illustrate a book prepared by Don Eldon for the Eldon family titled: New Lands, New Hopes: Emigrations of the Eldon Family (2009). Two other books by Don titled: War Poems of Frank I. Eldon: Reflections at the Front and after World War I (2008) and The Eldon Family Bibles (2003) are also part of this fonds. Don Eldon was editor of the War Poems book.

Most of the copies of photographs and text were made by the donor in recent years.

Fonds includes records relating to Frank I. Eldon and mostly his involvement in WW I.

The fonds is arranged into five series based on donor-assigned categories. Files are arranged essentially in the same order as the donor arranged them, with minor changes made by the archivist.

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Elden / Eldon (family)
Philip Embury fonds
CA ON00340 F3376 · Fonds · 1728-[182?]

Fonds consists of diary of family dates, 1728- [182?].

Embury, Philip, 1728-1773
CA ON00093 81/520; 2010/15 · Fonds · 1729-2004, predominant 1939-1966

Fonds consists of reference files compiled by the Naval Historical Section during the 1950s and kept up-to-date until 1965-1966. Documents added after 1966 were added by staff at the Directorate of History, or later by the Directorate of History and Heritage, and, therefore, were not part of the original collection. Most of the documents cover the period of E.C. Russell's tenure as Naval Historian during 1952-1966, and also includes material collected by the first Naval Historian, Dr. Gilbert Norman Tucker, during the Second World War. The material documents the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from the First World War up to the 1960s, with the Second World War being the most covered.
In addition to individual files, there are also 38 series of files with finding aids. These include:

  1. 1000 General Information - Subject Files
  2. 1000-5 History and Activities of the Canadian Naval Service
  3. 1000-100/2 Naval Board
  4. 1000-100/3 Naval Staff
  5. 1000-973 Torpedo Anti-Submarines
  6. 1250 Combined Operations
  7. 1320 Communications - Signals, Telegrams and Cables
  8. 1440-5 Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) History (General)
  9. 1440-6 Halifax, Nova Scotia
  10. 1440-7 Esquimalt, British Columbia
  11. 1440-166/25 Newfoundland
  12. 1440-186 University Naval Training Division
  13. 1480 Naval Intelligence - Soviet Union
  14. 1480-157/100 Great Britain. Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division
  15. 1612 Hydrography - Oceanography
  16. 1650 Operations and Plans (Royal Canadian Navy)
  17. 1650 U-boats (General)
  18. 1650 U-boats (German)
  19. 1650 U-boats (German) - Personnel (Prisoners of War)
  20. 1650-DS U-boats - Daily States: HMC, HM and Allied Ships
  21. 1650-1 U-boats - Naval lans and Policies
  22. 1650-1 U-boats - Operations ans Plans (NATO)
  23. 1650-239/187 Korean Operations
  24. 1700-100/78-78A Naval Historical Section Administrative Files
  25. 1700-100/219 Air Sqaudrons and Groups
  26. 1700-905 Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
  27. 1886 Current History Books
  28. 4000-100/14 Service Personnel
  29. 4531 Personnel Selection
  30. 8000 Ships and Shipping
  31. 8000-160 Canadian Minesweeping Squadrons
  32. 8000-260 Canadian Escort Squadrons
  33. 8280 Sydney Files
  34. 8280 Convoys and Convoy Organization
  35. 8280 Convoys Naval Messages
  36. 8440 Escort Groups and Forces
  37. 8700 Movements and Programmes - Warships
  38. 8885 Staff Requirements
Canada. Royal Canadian Navy. Historical Section
CA ON00351 GA 196 · Fonds · 1730-1972

Contents: accrual consists of material relating to the activities of the Waterloo law firm Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville under various former names (including MacGachen & Colquhoun, and Colquhoun & McBride), as well as material relating to the family history of some of the firm's members. Includes mostly deeds of land, mortgages, declarations, and correspondence; a will, a marriage contract, a birth registration, an insurance policy, a grant of burial lot, and other documents are also present. Accrual also contains two auction sale posters. Most of the documents were created in the local area, and some were created in England and Scotland.
Several files contain deeds and mortgages for Lot 9 and part of Lot 10 in the village of St. Jacobs, showing transfer in ownership from Levi Cress to Christian Henrich in 1884, through several other parties, to John L. Horst and his wife Selina Horst in 1953. Several files also contain material relating to a Fred Kempf and his property in Elmira. Some of the documents seem to have been retained for their relation to personal or family business of members of the firm.

Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville