The collection consists of a series of the Northern Times newspaper, for 1976 and from 1983 to 2018. Some issues are missing.
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- Kapuskasing
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The collection consists of a series of the Northern Times newspaper, for 1976 and from 1983 to 2018. Some issues are missing.
UntitledThis collection includes all the issues Timmins Porcupine News published between November 4, 1974 and June 28, 1978.
UntitledThe fonds contains textual and photographic information about Jacques Poirier. Among the documents are unpublished poems and manuscripts associated with the four poetry publications of the donor. Documents related to Les Éditions du Nordir, unpublished poems written by Robert Yergeau and two plays written by Pierre Albert are also included.
UntitledThis collection contains issues of the weekly Le Canadien de l’Ontario-Nord from 1961 and 1963. These publications provide us with information about several aspects of Northern Ontario’s realities at the time. The francophone situation as well as the economic, educational, political, religious, social and labor activities of the Kapuskasing-Hearst area are discussed.
UntitledThe fonds includes textual records relating to the Rotaract Club of Kapuskasing’s activities between 2006 and 2009. It contains minutes, recruitment posters, a list of members and general information about Rotaract clubs. Some minutes are missing.
UntitledThe fonds contains photographic documents relating to the trial of the lumbermen accused of unlawful assembly following the shooting that took place at Reesor Siding, during the night of February 11, 1963. Located 55 kilometers west of Kapuskasing, Reesor Siding was a railroad siding, where pulpwood had been stalked. The wood had been cut and pilled by non-unionized woodsmen, settlers’ cutting permits licensees and members of the Coopérative forestière de Val Rita, a forestry cooperative. The lumbermen on strike were employees of the Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company in Kapuskasing and the Kimberly Clark Pulp and Paper in Longlac and were members of locals 2995 and 2693 of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union. They were going to Reesor Siding to bring down the pilled wood so that it wouldn’t get to the Spruce Falls paper mill in Kapuskasing. Upon the arrival of the strikers, members of the cooperative opened fire. Three strikers were killed, eight were wounded.
UntitledThe fonds contains textual records relating to the Franco-Ontarian community between 1925 and 1962. In addition to a few documents relating to the Immacculée-Conception parish, information on different francophone organizations to which the parish was affiliated can be found. Much of the documents focus on the Association canadienne-française d’éducation d’Ontario (ACFÉO). Among the documents are letters, pamphlets, reports, studies, newspaper clippings, press releases as well as some publications.
UntitledThe fonds contains textual and photographic records of Roland Cloutier’s involvement in Northern Ontario’s lumber industry. It provides information on some of the Hearst area lumber companies and on organizations such as the Hearst Lumbermen’s Association and the Ontario Lumber Manufacturers’ Association. The fonds also includes documents pertaining to the Hearst Forest Management company, the Northern Ontario Development Corporation, and to René Fontaine in his role as a member of the Ontario legislature and minister in the Ontario government. This is complemented by government reports, studies analyzing the situation and needs of the lumber industry and of Northern Ontario’s economy, handbooks relating to the working practices of the industry and maps mostly illustrating cutting rights in the forest of the region.
UntitledThe collection includes an incomplete series of student yearbooks, from the area’s high schools. In Hearst, student yearbooks from Académie St-Joseph and École Secondaire de Hearst High School are available. Yearbooks from Académie D’Youville and Cité des Jeunes of Kapuskasing are part of the collection, as well. It also includes some yearbooks published by Académie Don-Bosco, Collège Notre-Dame, Collège Sacré-Cœur, Roland Michener Secondary School, and École secondaire catholique Thériault in Timmins. Académie Don-Bosco, Académie St-Joseph, Académie D’Youville, Collège Notre-Dame and Collège Sacré-Cœur were among the private schools that closed after the Ontario government approved the establishment of French public secondary schools, in 1968.
UntitledThe fonds contains documents related to the Kapuskasing Credit Union from 1939 to 2005. Found amongst the documents are financial records, administrative documentation, correspondence, official publications, publicity and press releases, regulations and manuals, as well as printed photographs and negatives.
UntitledThis collection includes an incomplete serie of the newspaper L'Horizon, in printed format, and an incomplete serie of The Weekender, in printed format or in microfiches.
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