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Fonds Ganesh M
CA ON00431 F5-GM · Fonds · 2020

The drawings were made in 2020 and 2021. The family's first item contributions to CDIC was in July 2020, and an additional one in 2021.

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Fonds Geneviève Girard
CA ON00431 F6-GG · Fonds · 2015-2018

The drawings were made in 2016 and 2017. The family's item contributions to CDIC was in July 2017 to help test the online form.

Raymond Hart Massey fonds
CA ON00416 F04 · Fonds · 1736; 1895-1983

Fonds consists of material pertaining to Raymond's portrayal of Abraham Lincoln on stage and film and includes photographs of Abraham Lincoln, sketches of Raymond as Lincoln, framed playbill on the night of Lincoln's assassination, framed Republican national ticket for President Lincoln, TV Guide awards for Raymond's performance in Tyger, Tyger and Dr. Kildare, and correspondence.

Fonds also consists of the Raymond Massey Rare Book Collection which he bequeathed along with the rest of the items in the fonds.

Fonds consists of the following series: Abraham Lincoln, Correspondence, Publicity, Raymond Massey Rare Book Collection.

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Collection · 1982, 2007

Two documents containing transcriptions and images of the Silver Islet Cemetery:
"Silver Islet Cemetery," Ontario Genealogical Society, 1982
"Silver Islet Cemetery," 2007.

Bateman family fonds
CA ON00329 F 15 · Fonds · 1807-1986

Fonds consists of personal material belonging to the Bateman family, including family photographs, some birth, death, and marriage information, and newspaper announcements. Fonds also consists of the land deeds for the family farm on lot 23 concession 1 (Hopkins Street).

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Varpu Lindström fonds
CA ON00370 F0558 · Fonds · 1887-2012

Fonds consists of Lindstrom's professorial and scholarly research files throughout her career, as well as records documenting her academic activities. Research files pertain to her publications and monographs such as "Defiant Sisters : A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada, 1890-1930" (both the English and Finnish editions), and "From Heroes to Enemies : Finns in Canada, 1937-1947," as well as book chapters, articles, papers, presentations and lectures, and her involvement with the National Film Board production "Letters from Karelia," and subsequent research. The research files span the activities of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian organizations across the political spectrum, such as the Finnish Organization of Canada (left wing), and Loyal Finns in Canada (right wing). Records include oral history interviews (audio cassettes and transcripts), research notes, clippings, a significant and extensive number of photograph and letter collections passed down through generations of Finnish Canadians, diaries, correspondence, publication drafts, academic and professorial notes, microfilm of Finnish language newspapers published in Canada and archival records, financial records of Finnish-Canadian organizations such as newspapers and post-World War II relief funding bodies, scrapbooks, photocopies of rare and unusual documents such as two volumes of a Soviet register of Finnish War Crimes, a list of persons found in the mass grave at Karhumaki, and Soviet lists of North American Finns who journeyed to Karelia to help build a socialist utopia there, academic and professorial files, publicity files, files pertaining to her work with the School of Women's Studies, and her own papers as a university student. The fonds also includes letters written by Lindstrom as a newly-arrived teenaged immigrant to Canada to her best friend in Finland; many of these letters were published in Finnish with English translation in 'Letters from an immigrant teenager' in 2012.

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Greenwood family collection
CA ON00329 F 02 · Collection · 1858-2010, predominant 1858-1997

Collection consists of newspaper articles, photographs, graphic material, correspondence, and business records related to members of the Greenwood family. The collection consists of the following sous-fonds: General Greenwood Family, John Hamer Greenwood, Florence Amery (nee Greenwood), and Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood.

CA ON00031 A2012.087 · Fonds · 1911-1918, 1929-1930, 1933-1936, 1950-1954, 1959-1968

This fonds consists of the diaries of James Rowand Burgess and Elizabeth Oliver Burgess between the years of 1911 and 1974. In the diaries, a brief entry is generally made for each day. Topics covered in the diaries include: rural life, weather, social activities (literary meetings, box socials), farm work, house work, chores, high school work and activities, and community involvement. A few references are made to people leaving to serve in the Bruce 160th Battalion and war-time matters such as the fuel controller. The entries make references to friends, families and neighbours.

Item List:
James Rowand Burgess Diaries:
.001 December 25, 1911 - September 28, 1914
.002 September 30, 1914 - August 21, 1915
.003 August 22, 1915 - December 31, 1916
.004 January 20, 1918 - June 14, 1918
.005 January 1, 1929 - July 26, 1930
.006 November 5, 1933 - August 31, 1936
.007 January 22, 1950 - October 18, 1952
.008 May 13, 1953 - September 25, 1954
.009 October 20, 1959 - February 21, 1961
.010 February 22, 1961 - September 8, 1962
.011 September 9, 1962 - October 5, 1964
.012 October 6, 1964 - October 29, 1968

Elizabeth Oliver Burgess diaries:
.013 July 19, 1915 - April 12, 1917
.014 Jan. 18, 1918- July 19, 1918
.015 May 1, 1920 - December 31, 1920
.016 January 1, 1924 - March 1925
.017 1 page, January 1, 1926 - January 7, 1926
.018 August 10, 1966 - June 6, 1967
.019 September 1, 1967 - October 23, 1968
.020 December 25, 1968 - November 9, 1970
.021 January 1, 1971 - October 10, 1972
.022 February 6, 1974 - December 31, 1974

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Archer family fonds
CA ON00334 F187 · Fonds · 1793-1936

Letters, receipts, copybooks, songbooks and various ephemera relating to John Archer and his family. 16cm.

The papers consist of four series.

Series A: Archer family letters, most with stamped envelopes (1833-1856), Confederate money (1864) Files 1-17.

Series B: Philatelic collection, originals and xerox. (1884-1930). Many local businesses represented on envelope covers. Files 18-19B.

Series C: Receipts, invoices and deeds relating to the Archer and Breckenridge families. (1839-1930). Files 20-31.

Series D: Poetry and various other ephemera. (1793-1936). Songbooks and copybooks being the oldest in this series (1793-1837). Files 32-46.

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CA ON00333 12-004 · Collection · 2003-2012

Collection consists primarily of photocopies and emails with information pertaining to various aspects of Peterborough's history, from both the city and the county. Brief history of the town of Lakefield is also included.

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Standen-McQueen family fonds
CA ON00333 14-014 · Fonds · ca. 1860-ca. 1975

Fonds is comprised of the family papers of Sydney Helmer Standen and Euphemia Young Standen (nee McQueen). These papers include ancestral records and photographs dating from the 1860s to the 1970s and touch geographically on England, Scotland, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. They pertain primarily to the families of Standen, McQueen, Drysdale, Ronald and Bensen and include such individuals as Sydney (Sid) Helmer Standen, Euphemia (Effie) Young Standen, Philip Andrew Standen, Neil McQueen Standen, Sydney Drysdale Standen, Eric James William Standen, James McQueen, Margaret (Maggie) McQueen, and Peter Ian McQueen. Subjects include migration, settlement, farming, education, teaching, military service and war, and domestic life.

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Katharine Hooke fonds
Fonds · 1861-1934; 1999

Fonds consists of historical materials pertaining to the Lakefield, Ontario area: land records, a transcription of the Katchewanooka Herald (1855-1859), Strickland family genealogy, and a family Bible which belonged to Helen S. Wallis.

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Caldwell family fonds
Fonds · 1860-1987

Fonds consists of journals and photographs dated 1860-1908 pertaining to Hugh Caldwell Sr. of Chandos Township, Peterborough County, and his son Hugh Caldwell Jr. The journals were received in original format and as digital scans. Also included are a small number of family records dating to 1987.

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John Quentin Brown fonds
Fonds · 1926-2005

Fonds includes letters between John Quentin Brown and family members and photographs primarily of Quentin and his immediate family. Also included is a copy of The Army’s Mister Brown: A Family Trilogy, 1941-1952.

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Kathleen Bowley fonds
Fonds · 1943-2008

Fonds is comprised of photographs, letters, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings and historical research notes related to the life of Kathleen Richmond Barclay Bowley. Much of the fonds relates to Bowley’s interest and experience in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service and her participation in the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Peterborough Club. Also included are dozens of Barclay family ancestral letters (description to be added at a later date).

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Fonds · circa 1850-1980

The prominent series is the unpublished Manuscript of the family, written by Anna Bycraft Ward. Also included are records from the families named above. Of interest are the early journals of Anna Susannah Hampton as well as family photographs and journals.

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Goheen Family fonds
CA ON00154 PHA 2012.55 · Fonds

Fonds consists of papers, audio-visual materials, genealogy and photographs related to various branches of the Goheen family of Hope and Hamilton Townships; 1808-2012. It has been arranged into eight series: Land Records; Genealogy; Oral History Tapes; Diaries; Pine Grove School Information; Publications; Photographs; and Scrapbook

Mary Greig fonds
CA ON00156 MG 637 · Fonds · 1851-1993

Fonds includes legal papers, photographs, correspondence and school yearbooks for Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School.

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Bruce Bedell fonds
CA ON00156 2012-017 · Fonds · 1896-2003

This fonds comprises: family photographs postcards Chrsitmas cards Valentine card deeds and mortgages for a property in Tyendinaga Township on the north side of lot 6 in the first concession Shredded Wheat cereal box cards (see http://rolandanderson.se/injun-uity_cards.php) Imperial Oil Limited History of Canada portfolios plate depicting Shannonville United Church Hastings County Historical Society banner Maclean's magazine of July 21st, 2003

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Argue family fonds
Fonds · 1860-1980

The fonds consists of 2 boxes of textual records and graphic material about the Argue family of Belleville, Ontario. The fonds consists of the following series: financial matters, brochures/programs, letters, newspaper articles, photos and misc. (phone book, souvenir books, sketches, notes and recipe book).

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