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CA ON00353 AFC 334 · Discrete Item · 1866-1867

Item consists of a photograph album containing prints relating to the British military garrison at London, Ontario in the late 1860s.

Phipps, Albert Augustus
Albert Edward Kemp fonds
CA ON00370 F0336 · Fonds · 1907-1922

Fonds consists of correspondence of Albert Edward Kemp with political colleagues, government and parliamentary business. There is also financial material relating to Kemp Manufacturing Co., 1909-1923, including financial statements.

Kemp, Albert Edward, 1858-1929
Beer family fonds
CA ON00370 F0375 · Fonds · 1914-1919

Fonds consists of correspondence between Captain James R. Allan and Vivien Beer of Strathroy, Ontario before Captain Allan, was killed; press clippings and photographs of Captain Allan and Private Walter Beer while serving in World War I, and scenes of various members of the Beer family.

Beer (family)
CA ON00329 F 37 · Fonds · 1977-1980

Fonds consists of three series: administrative records, publications, and correspondence. Correspondence contains the incoming and outgoing letters of Alan Dewar, secretary of the Camp X Military Museums Board of Directors. Letters discuss the purpose of the organization, fundraising, and future plans. The majority of letters focus on inviting important people to a dinner held in January 1978 to introduce the plans for the Museum to potential donors and members of the government. Administrative records consist of meeting agendas, minutes, by-laws, and letters of incorporation. Publications includes two published newsletters of the Camp X Military Museums Society.

Camp X Military Museums
Fonds · 1939-ca. 2000

This fonds consists of the administrative records of the Dutton and Dunwich Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society, and are divided into the following series:
-Minutes, 1939-1946; 1982-1986
-Correspondence, 1941-1959
-Financial records, 1941-1967
-Miscellaneous records, ca. 1970-ca. 2000
This fonds would be of interest to researchers studying the origin and development of the Canadian Red Cross, the Canadian Red Cross Dutton/Dunwich Branch in particular, the lives of Second World War Servicemen and service organizations in Canada and Ontario in general.

Canadian Red Cross Society, Dutton/Dunwich branch
CA ON00154 2019.13.2 · Item · 1884
  • this object is a "Master Sailor Certificate" on vellum.
  • the certifiacte is made out to William Wakely, dated Feb. 22, 1884. It has been signed by William Smith, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries and A. W. McLelan Minister of Marine and Fisheries.
  • this certificate allows the bearer, W. Wakely to sail a fore and aft rigged sailing vessel in the inland waters.
Will Wakely
Charles Bothwell Pyper fonds
CA ON00370 F0387 · Fonds · 1927-1973

The fonds consists of newspaper clippings of Charles Bothwell Pyper's articles in the Telegram together with telegraphic messages that served as 'hard copy' for his articles from foreign posts; correspondence, and notes; and newspaper clippings from several other newspapers. It includes a typescript of 'Chamberlain and his critics,' as well as earlier drafts, typescripts, some with corrections, of a book on Winston Churchill, and drafts of unpublished dramatic productions by Pyper. The vast majority of the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, notes and related material concerning Pyper's journalism, arranged alphabetically by subject. Some of the subjects included in the fonds are: Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Winston Churchill, Joseph E. Davies, Anthony Eden, the League of Nations, Palestine in the post-war years, the Spanish Civil War, the Suez Crisis, the United Nations, and World War II.

Pyper, C.B. (Charles Bothwell), 1885-1975
Collection · 1860-

The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.

Dr. Edwin Seaborn fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 20 · Fonds · 1883 - 1951

The fonds consists of records relating to Edwin Seaborn's medical and military careers, research, and personal records. Included are ledgers, research notes, correspondence, programmes, invitations, scrapbooks, postcard collection, photographs, books, newspaper clippings; and copies of diaries, letters and reminiscences of various Middlesex County residents dating. The fonds consists of records created between 1883 - 1951.

Seaborn, Edwin
Dr. F. W. Luney fonds
CA ON00279 SJH-F01 · Fonds · 1907 - 1974

The Dr. F. W. Luney fonds consists of 14 series (and 2 subseries) of records chronicling his scholarly beginnings as a medical student at the University of Western Ontario, his appointment as Senior Pathologist at Victoria Hospital, and the extent of his professional career as Clinical Laboratory Chief at St. Joseph’s Hospital until his retirement in 1961. During his career, Dr. Luney would enlist in the Canadian Army Medical Services Division during WWI, establish a Clinical Pathology Laboratory at St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1928, conduct extensive research in blood transfusion techniques, direct the opening of the Blood Bank Department and St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1945, establish private consulting services for smaller hospitals in southern Ontario, and create the Dr. F. W. Luney Fund to raise funds for the Medical Library at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Records of note include: well-maintained, original photographs of Dr. Luney and fellow classmates posing with a cadaver; records created to document body parts and organs donated to Luney’s private “Museum”; personal notebooks outlining his medical training and professional experiences; a selection of diplomas and certificates; records of his $5,000 donation to the Medical Library at St. Joseph’s Hospital; photographs depicting the two-person multiple syringe apparatus he invented; notes from lectures and seminars that he gave on pathology and blood transfusion-related subjects; and a 60th anniversary portrait of Dr. F. W. Luney with his fellow 1914 graduates.

Luney, Frederick Winnett
Edward Snowden collection
CA ON00370 F0413 · Fonds · 1914-1943

The collection consists of war diaries of the 2nd Field Company of Canadian Engineers (including Intelligence summaries and progress reports) for the period, 1915-1919, 1940-1941 (latter dates confined to Fort York, Toronto). In addition, there are regimental documents including list of regimental numbers, officers and men discharged (1915-1918), nominal rolls, transfer rolls, daily register, register of recruits (1930-1943), and company orders (1921-1925).

Snowden, Edward
Edwin A. Osborn fonds
CA ON00154 2011.44 · Fonds · 1939 - 1945

Fonds consists of the military records and artifacts of Edwin Albert Osborn of the Canadian Army. Materials are related to E.A. Osborn's military service during World War II, 1939-1945. It has been arranged into three series: Military Documents; Artifacts / Objects; Photographs.

Osborn, Edwin Albert
Ernest H. Bartlett fonds
CA ON00370 F0122 · Fonds · 1910-1971

Fonds consists of personal files containing correspondence, articles, photographs, certificates, etc. relating to Ernest Bartlett's family and career with the Toronto Telegram.

Bartlett, E. H. (Ernest Henry), 1903-
Falek Zolf fonds
CA ON00370 F0614 · Fonds · 1943-1961

Fonds consists of handwritten and typescript manuscripts for Falek Zolf's memoirs, handwritten notes for his memoirs, newspaper articles about Zolf and the Jewish literary community in Winnipeg, a report that quotes from his work in a review of the historical context associated with the Canada Post Corporation's Rural Conversion Program in Saskatchewan, a review of the Yiddish edition of Zolf's autobiography, "On foreign soil," and information regarding its publication in English.

Zolf, Falek
CA ON00154 2009.5 · Fonds · 1917 - 1919

Fonds consists of one framed Roll of Honour/Death Notice for Frank Arkless, and one "Dead Man's Penny," 1917-1919. See item-level descriptions for more information.

Arkless, Frank
Fred Burgess fonds
Item · 1884-1961

The fonds consists of records related to Frederick E. Burgess and family. It is arranged into the following series and subseries:
Series 1: Wills
Series 2: Land and Loan records
Series 3: Legal
Subseries A: Standard Tube Pollution
Subseries B: Tobacco Seizure
Series 4: Correspondence
Series 5: Military
Subseries A: WW2 Active service records
Subseries B: Post-War records
Subseries C: Pension
Series 6: Miscellaneous
Subseries A: Photopathological Inspection

Burgess, Frederick Erastus
1830s-1990s

The collection consists of various materials relating to the Vansittart family (specifically Vice Admiral Henry Vansittart) and to the early history of Woodstock. It includes newspaper clippings, land documents, wills and other legal style documents, photographs, booklets and essays as well as a framed miniature portrait and military cross. Subject Files are as follows:

  • Admiral Henry Vansittart
  • Vansittart Family
  • John George Vansittart
  • George Henry Vansittart
  • Vansittart Legal Documents
  • Land Documents (Lot 15, Concession 1, Township of Blandford)
  • Vansittart Homes (Eastwood Park and Bysham Park)
  • Old St. Paul’s Church
  • Andrew Drew
  • Vansittart Avenue
  • Miscellaneous Local History (including the Old Stage Road)
  • Correspondence of George A. Calder
Calder, George
Harley McCurdy collection
Collection · 1942-1945, 1994, 2012, 2016

The Collection consists of copies of military records, correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs related to the naval career of Harley Daniel McCurdy during WWII.

Harley McCurdy
Harold Wakely
CA ON00154 2019.13.4 · Item · 1945

Harold Wakely as a child in a cadets uniform. Photo from 1945 taken at 118 Charles St. Port Hope. Black and white.

Harold Wakely and Don Ashton
CA ON00154 2019.13.3 · Item · 1945

Black and white photograph of two young boys in Cadet uniforms, 1945, taken outside 118 Charles St., Port Hope. - the boy on the left side is Harold Wakely and the boy on the right is Don Ashton.