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The Zepha Trevorrow fonds consists of 15 postcards and two letters that Ed Trevorrow sent to his wife, Zepha, while in Northern Ontario in 1911. The fonds gives insight into the life of a gold prospector in Northern Ontario in the early 1900s. Indeed, not only does Ed Trevorrow report of his gold prospecting to his wife, but the correspondence also accounts for the different locations visited between July 10 and August 15, 1911.

Although Trevorrow travelled between Timmins and North Bay, and even on the Québec side of the region of Temiscaming, the images of the postcards mostly depict the South Porcupine 1911 fire, and early mine settlements of the same area.

One image of an abandoned house, formerly belonging to Superintendent of Moose Mountain Mine Fred Jordan in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of solid iron ore and Roberts River overlooking a landscape of trees at the closed Moose Mountain Mine in Sellwood, Ontario. Another mass of solid iron ore can be seen in the background on the hills.

One image of a 70 ton Buicyrus steam shovel with a 2 1/2 yard shovel at the closed Moose Mountain Mine in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of an outcropping of solid iron ore at an abandoned Lumbering dam on the Roberts River in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of the remains of a building at the closed Moose Mountain Mine grinding mill site in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of part of the transformer station (left), the compressor house (without a roof), a coal trestle (beside the compressor house) and a dilapidated building at the closed Moose Mountain Mine grinding mill site in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of the remains of buildings at the closed Moose Mountain Mine in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of J.R. Gordon, president of the Sudbury, Ontario Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, right, speaking with G.C. Monture, assistant metals controller of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in Ottawa, Ontario and guest speaker at the year end meeting of the Sudbury Branch of the Canadian Institute for Mining and Metallurgy.

One image of Ed Chaput, a pioneering Northern Ontario prospector, descending a 60 foot shaft at a mine in the Township of Shakespeare, Ontario in the District of Sudbury.

One image of Sudbury Daily Star News Editor Alan B. Baker (left) and Engineer in Charge of Underground Developments Reino Pero wearing miner's clothing and standing inside a headframe at Lake Geneva Lead and Zinc Mine in Hess Township, Ontario.

One image of Delbert Kohlsmith, wearing coveralls and a miner's helmet, standing over a metal scoop bucket full of rock at Creighton Mine in Creighton, Ontario.

One image of Robert Forsythe (left) and Karl Luoma operating a mechanical mucker underground at the Ontario Nickel Corporation mine at Moose Lake in MacLennan Township, Ontario.

One image of Winnabelle Merrifield operating an Orford locomotive at an International Nickel Company (INCO) mine in Sudbury, Ontario after being awarded $5 by the company for suggesting that the locomotive cabs be lengthened to stop water dripping from overhead bins into the locomotive cars.

The Leslie M. Sheridan fonds consists of three digitized 16mm film reels that depict Copper Cliff, Sudbury, and other areas in Northern Ontario filmed by Sheridan. The films show the industrial landscape of Copper Cliff and Sudbury from the perspective of Inco management and hardrock miners during the first years of the 1930s, a period of increased industrial expansion despite the Great Depression. The films also give insight into life in Copper Cliff and surrounding Northern Ontario towns in the 1930s and 1940s and depict leisure activities including skiing, swimming, hockey, and the celebration of some national holidays. Northern Ontario communities depicted include Copper Cliff, Sudbury, Coniston, and Biscotasing. Industrial sites depicted include Frood Mine, the Copper Cliff Concentrator, the Coniston Smelter, the Port Colborne Nickel Refinery, and the Big Eddy Dam and Power Plant at High Falls.

The United Copper Nickel Workers (UCNW) fonds consists of three records that document a particular era of the history of the nickel industry in Canada: World War II. More specifically, the Constitution and by-laws of the union attest to the objectives of its members, while the agreement with Inco provides insights on working conditions. The brief submitted by Inco to the National War Labour Board in 1943 also provides information on labour relations during the war.

One image of rocks and trees at the closed Moose Mountain Mine in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of a lake at the closed Moose Mountain Mine in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of an arm of a 70 ton Buicyrus steam shovel with a 2 1/2 yard shovel at the closed Moose Mountain Mine in Sellwood, Ontario.

One image of the remaining uprights for a tennis court and several trees in front of abandoned houses in Sellwood, Ontario.