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The Alexandra Studios was a Toronto, Ontario-based photographic studio.

The studio was started by Louis J. Turofsky in 1911 and occupied a number of Toronto locations until it ceased operations in 1976. The studio seems to have evolved through a number of name changes, including Alexandre Studios from 1915-1921, and then known as Alexandra Studios from 1922-1953. From 1954-1963 the business was known as Turofsky Photographers. In 1964 the firm again was known as Alexandra Studio, becoming the Alexander (or Alexandra) Studio-Turofsky from 1973 to 1974, after which it appeared to have the name of Alexander Studio.

Photographers employed by the studio included Louis J. Turofsky, Nathan Turofsky, Harold Crellin, and Roy P. Mitchell. It would appear that Louis and Nathan Turofsky no longer were involved with the studio after 1960, after which date Crellin and Mitchell ran the business. From 1973-1974 Crellin was President of the company, with Mitchell as Secretary-treasurer. From 1975 until the closing of the studio in 1976, Mitchell appears to have been the President of the company.

The Annex Residents' Association was established to promote issues and concerns relating to the Toronto neighborhood known as the Annex.

Anthony Usher Planning Consultant is a Toronto-based firm, formed in 1984, that provides professional services in land use, resource, recreation and tourism planning.

Anthony J. Usher, founder and principal of the firm Anthony Usher Planning Consultant, has since 1972 undertaken projects to integrate the public interest and concerns of the environment with the aims of municipalities, conservation authorities, Aboriginal governments, provincial and federal agencies, developers, voluntary associations and landowners across the Province of Ontario.

Involvements of the firm include proposals for alternative resource management strategies, preparation of impact assessment reports, natural heritage planning, policy and program evaluation and development feasibility analyses. Public consultations typically constitute an integral part of the firm's research process.

Prior to the existence of Anthony Usher Planning Consultant, Mr. Usher was a Senior Planner and Assistant Director of Hough, Stansbury and Michalski Limited (1978-1983), and Planning Analyst and Park Systems Planner with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (1972-1978). He received an M.A. in Geography (1973) and an M.B.A in Natural Resources and Economics (1979) from the University of Toronto. He was President of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute from 1992 to 1994, is a Registered Professional Planner (RPP) and a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners (MCIP).

The Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO) is non-profit, charitable organization set up in 1933 to preserve the historic built environment and nature landscape in Ontario.

A committee was set up and a brochure issued in Oct. 1932 for the organization of a "Society for the Preservation of Early Architecture and Places of Natural Beauty in Ontario." The Architectural Conservancy of Ontario was founded through the issuance of Letters Patent under the Ontario Companies Act on 1 Feb. 1933. The express purpose of the organization was to advocate the protection and conservation of Ontario's architectural and landscape heritage, to preserve buildings, structures and places in Ontario deemed to be of architectural merit, natural beauty or historic interest.

The main founder of ACO was Prof. Eric Ross Arthur. Other names prominent among the organization's first directors were: Vincent Massey, the architects Howard Dunnington Grubb, Alvan Sherlock Mathers, John MacIntosh Lyle, and Mackenzie Waters, the provincial historian Verschoyle Benson Blake, and the notable librarian William Stewart Wallace.

The ACO has been working to find economically viable uses for Ontario's historical assets, ensuring that the distinctive buildings of the past do not become parking lots or building sites for characterless new development.

The ACO developed a structure of many volunteers at both the local branch and provincial levels, with a central office, the ACO Council, an executive and an Advisory Board. In 2003 there were 11 branches throughout Ontario. Other branches have formed but ceased operations over the years. These branches develop and administer their own programs and fundraising events; work to preserve and restore local sites and structures; and publicize the need to maintain our architectural and landscape heritage.

The ACO publishes Acorn, The Journal of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, and holds an Annual General Meeting each November.

The Archives Association of Ontario was established in 1993 as a result of the amalgamation of the Ontario Association of Archivists and the Ontario Council of Archives.

As the professional association representing both archival institutions and archivists in Ontario, the Archives Association of Ontario provides professional advisory services, administers federal grants, and provides continuing education opportunities.

The Associated Goldfields Mining Company was a firm that operated in Larder Lake, Ontario during the Northeastern Ontario mining boom of the 1910s and 1920s.

Associated Milk Foundations of Canada was responsible for promoting milk consumption and, through public education, for increasing awareness of milk benefits.

The future Associated Milk Foundations of Canada was formed during the 1930s when the Ontario Whole Milk Producers' Association encouraged the Toronto Milk Producers' Association to set up a local organization to promote milk. The Toronto milk producers and the Toronto Milk Distributors' Association collected money to promote milk, eventually leading to the Milk Foundation of Toronto charter being adopted in 1938. Other Ontario markets such as those in Ottawa, Stratford, and Woodstock soon followed.

One of the Milk Foundation of Toronto's first accomplishments was to survey available health education materials for schools. Milk Foundations materials, as well as programs and policies were developed based on scientifically accepted health education standards.

In 1943, representatives from local Ontario milk foundations met and agreed that a provincial body needed to be formed. In 1946, seven local milk foundations merged to create the Associated Milk Foundations. In 1956, the name of the organization was changed to the Associated Milk Foundations of Canada. In 1968, the assets for the individual local Ontario milk foundations were transferred to the Milk Foundation of Ontario.

As of 2008, both the Dairy Farmers of Ontario and the Dairy Farmers of Canada carry out public education through advertising campaigns.

Association of Library Boards of Ontario was a political organization that promoted the preservation and expansion of the province's library sector before the Ontario Government.

With the economic downturn of 1978-1981 and the reduction of library funding, there was a concern amongst library boards at their lack of a political voice before the provincial government. Drawing its first executive from a cross-section of municipally-funded library boards, the Association of Library Boards of Ontario (ALBO) was formed to be more politically pro-active than the Ontario Library Association (OLA) was seen to be at that time.

Starting with the provincial Inflation Restraint Act of 1984, the ALBO pressured Ontario politicians for increased cultural grants and resisted the restrictions imposed by reorganization of Ontario's library system or from new copyright and censorship legislation. However, after almost a decade of political consciousness raising, the need driving the ALBO's existence began to falter as the larger OLA grew more politically active and long-term supporters moved onto newer challenges. Despite still having a substantial membership across Ontario, at their 1990 Annual General Meeting, the ALBO voted to merge with the Ontario Public Libraries Association and Ontario Library Trustees Association, both members of the Ontario Library Association.

Like the OLA, the Association attempted to segment itself into four sections dealing with large, medium, small / rural, and Aboriginal library boards but this internal division was more cosmetic than being actually meaningful to its operation.

The Association of Mechanics' Institutes of Ontario was formed in 1868 to provide centralized management over the various mechanics' institutes spread across Ontario.

The Association of Mechanics' Institutes of Ontario was formed in 1868.

Initially under the jurisdication of the Department of Agriculture, and later the Department of Education, the Association's primary task was to provide centralized management over the various mechanics' institutes spread across Ontario.

By 1881, government officials became concerned that the mechanics' institutes were not achieving their goals. In 1882 the Legislature passed the Free Libraries Act, which gave funding earmarked for the mechanics' institutes to free public libraries. It also provided for the transfer of the institutes' property to any municipality wanting to establish a free library.

No longer receiving public support, the Association disbanded in the 1890s.

The Association of Small Public Libraries of Ontario was founded to address the concerns of the two-thirds of Ontario's libraries serving rural and hinterland communities.

The history of Ontario's library associations consists of numerous organizations created to address the interests of each sector of the profession. Along with those bodies dealing with the concerns of medical, technical, academic, Francophone, and Aboriginal libraries, there were several province-wide organizations made up of the boards of large- and medium-sized institutions. In the early 1980's, out of this mix came the Association of Small Public Libraries of Ontario which was founded to address the concerns of the libraries serving Ontario's rural and hinterland communities.

During the next three decades, the Association often left the political lobbying on behalf of libraries to the larger professional organizations while focusing on the concerns of the small, often resource-poor, local libraries. This included such issues as achieving pay equity, the introduction of computers and micrographics, staff certification and specialization, and faltering municipal funding in the face of increased public demand.

With the founding of the larger and more integrated Federation of Ontario Public Libraries, many of the Association's members also joined the organization's small and medium size libraries caucus. Given that the two bodies were serving the same set of libraries, the Association voted in 2004 to dissolve as an independent body and merged with the Federation.

During 2005, the executive wound down the Association's activities and dispersed the monies remaining in their bank accounts to the membership. In June 2006, the Association's CEO formally turned the records over to the custody of the Administrative Assistant of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries.

Barber Turbine and Foundries Ltd., founded in 1867, manufactured water turbines in Meaford, Ontario, eventually moving some operations to Port Colborne, Ontario which operated under the name of Barber Hydraulic Turbine Ltd.

The Barber Turbine & Foundries Ltd. of Meaford, Ontario, was founded on July 1, 1867, when Charles Barber bought the Georgian Foundry. He immediately began making water turbines and produced his first, named the Canadian Turbine, in the company's founding year. This turbine won a bronze award for best water wheel at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. Around the turn of century, a Swedish company by the name of Boving opened a branch in Lindsay, Ontario. By 1928 it had run into financial difficulty, and in 1929 sold out patents, designs and equipment to Barber Turbines.

Charles Barber's son Tom took over the business from his father, and Charles Barber's grandson, Herbert Hall (son of Charles Barber's daughter and a Mr. Hall, a draftsman at the foundry) took over the business after Tom Barber's death. He operated the foundry until October of 1966, when he sold it, mostly to local shareholders. In February of 1967 it became a limited company, and Herbert Hall served as a consultant until his death later that year.

In 1973 the machine shop operations and the foundry operations were separated. The former was transferred to Port Colborne, Ontario, while the latter remained in Meaford operating under the name of Georgian Bay Foundry Limited (name changed September 26, 1973). This company continued to operate until 1987 when the foundry was again sold. On December 23, 1987, the foundry began operations under the name of Georgian Bay Kennedy Limited. As of December 1989, this corporation was still in business, with its head office in Owen Sound, Ontario. The machine shop went to Port Colborne in 1973. It was to operate under the name of Barber Hydraulic Turbine Ltd. This company was originally incorporated by Ontario as Eleven Fifty- Five Leslie Ltd. on January 28, 1971. The name change to Barber Hydraulic Turbine Ltd. occurred February 19, 1973. The head office for the corporation was in Toronto, Ontario. However, by January of 1980, the head office was in Port Colborne, Ontario. This corporation was dissolved on September 14, 1981.

Barber Hydraulic Turbine Inc. was incorporated on October 11, 1984. The successor to this company is called Barber Water Power Products, in operation as of December of 1989.

The Bartle Brothers, Simon Peter Bartle (1875-1956) and Herman Arthur Bartle (1877-1958) were professional travelling photographers in Glengarry and Stormont Counties during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

They were the sons of Dr. Charles Bartle, a physician, and his wife, Charlotte (Shaver), of Dixon, Osnabruck, Stormont County.

Simon attended public school in Morrisburg, where he obtained an art teaching certificate. While in Morrisburg, he appears to have also studied photography. Returning to Dixon after completing his formal education, he embarked upon a career as a photographer. In this enterprise, he was assisted by his younger brother, Herman.

The Bartle Brothers travelled throughout Glengarry and Stormont Counties, photographing area residents and a variety of local subjects. Their careers as travelling photographers ended ca. 1914 when the Bartles purchased Osnabruck Township property together and went into mixed farming.

In 1917, Herman married Lillian Taylor.

Barbara Beardsley (1927-2005) was an active member of the New Democratic Party and ran in two provincial elections as a candidate in Toronto's St. Andrew-St. Patrick riding.

Barbara Beardsley (neé Tubman) was born in Ottawa in 1927. She met Robert Beardsley in Ottawa in 1944 and they were married in Toronto in 1950.

After attending the University of Toronto's Victoria College, Beardsley devoted her time to caring for the couple's four children. Following the birth of their last child, she returned to the University of Toronto's library school and embarked on a career in the education research field.

Beardsley supported her husband Robert through four federal electoral campaigns in which he ran as an NDP candidate in Toronto's Spadina riding. Throughout this time, her own commitment to the NDP party grew. Beardsley won a bid to become member-at-large of the NDP's Provincial Executive for Ontario and proceeded to introduce a number of changes to ONDP executive operations, including the provision of daycare at conventions and the rotation of Provincial Council meetings around the province.

After federal NDP leader David Lewis lost his seat in 1974, Beardsley was recruited to work for the Ontario campaign to elect Rosemary Brown as his successor. Beardsley herself proceeded to run in the St. Andrew-St. Patrick riding in the 1975 provincial election against Progressive Conservative candidate Larry Grossman, falling only 400 votes short of a victory. She was defeated by Grossman again in 1977.

Following her husband's retirement, Beardsley helped him to start up B+B Research and Consulting Services under the auspices of which the couple worked as party organizers and campaign managers for candidates across Canada. When Beardsley retired in 1990, the couple left politics and moved to Prince Edward County.

In April 1998, Beardsley was the recipient of the Agnes MacPhail Award for her activism and work with the ONDP's Provincial Committee on Women's Issues. She died in 2005.

The Beaver and Toronto Mutual Fire Insurance Company provided insurance against destruction caused by fire and other events.

Bellevue Pathé Quebec was a film production laboratory, and closed its Montreal office in 1977.

Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Ontario was incorporated January 1, 1850 under the terms of the Baldwin Act, Chapter 81, Canada Statutes, 1849.

This act provided for the creation of municipal governments at the town, village and township levels and identified those which would automatically be granted municipal status when the act came into effect, January 1, 1850. Communities not named in the original act could petition the county council or legislative assembly for incorporation on reaching specified population levels.

An incorporated township, lower tier municipality, has a council consisting of an elected Reeve, Deputy Reeves, and councillors the number of which depend on the population of the township. Its responsibilities relate largely to the upkeep of the local road system and the delivery of services such as water and sewage. It has wide powers relating to the regulation of land and local administration through by-laws. It has the power to raise money through direct taxation on land and through the use of debentures.

In 1975 Blenheim Township was amalgamated with the neighbouring Township of Blandford to form the Township of Blandford-Blenheim within the Restructured County of Oxford.

The Blokol Corporation of Toronto, incorporated in 1937, invented and produced equipment for pulverizing coal for burning.

The Blokol Corporation was incorporated on August 13, 1937 and closed for business on May 21, 1954.

The Board of Examiners in Sex Therapy and Counselling in Ontario (BESTCO) is a multidisciplinary, self-regulating association of specialized sex therapists.

The Board of Examiners in Sex Therapy and Counselling in Ontario was originally formed in 1975 as a committee of the Ontario Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (OAMFT), a division of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT). BESTCO operated under OAMFT as an ad hoc committee and then a commission, until becoming officially independent.

In the absence of government legislation regarding sex therapy, BESTCO operates as an accrediting board to develop and implement criteria by which sex therapists in Ontario would be deemed to be qualified as Registered Sex Therapists. Essential to its mandate is the need for sex therapists to be skilled in relationship therapy.

The Brock Monument Committee was organized in 1840 to erect a second monument to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Upper Canada, at Queenston Heights in the present-day municipality of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

The first monument to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was destroyed by vandals. The Brock Monument Committee raised money for the monument through subscriptions, solicited and selected designs for the monument, and oversaw its construction. The committee was disbanded in 1857 when the new monument was completed.

The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen was founded in 1883 in Oneonta, New York as a protective and insurance organisation and was active in Canada from 1885.

Members of the BRT included rail and yard service workers. A Grand Lodge Convention was held every four years to elect officers, including a Canadian representative. Since 1957 it has been affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress. In 1969 it was part of a merger that resulted in the formation of the United Transportation Union.