This fonds consists of the Brant Agricultural Society minute book (1862-1875), containing the minutes of directors' and annual membership meetings, which took place in Walkerton, reflecting the concerns and activities of the Society, as well as lists of competitors in the Brant Agricultural Exhibition / Annual Fall Fair. It also consists of a membership book containing the names and post offices of subscribers / members of the Society from 1868-1896, with information about dues paid. Enclosed in the membership book is "An Act to Further Improve the Agriculture and Arts Act, 1895"
Brant Agricultural SocietyPhotographs and textual material documenting the history of the Robert Boak family and descendents. Photographs identify members of 1950s Schomberg bowling groups. Family history about the Boak, Broad, and Stephen Henry Clark families.
The records describe the daily activities of the camp and camp tradition, as well as the operational and financial side of running such a camp. The photographs portray the children and camp activities.
The fonds is divided by business papers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and photographs.
YMCA John Island CampThe 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.
Sheridan, Leslie M.Fonds consists of 21 copy photographs of the Farb family as well as the Bernsteins, Crystals and other Jewish families who lived and owned resorts in the Pontypool area.
Farb (family)Fonds consists of 10 copy photographs documenting the Gary family and their cottages in Pontypool.
Gary (family)Fonds is comprised of nine black and white photographs of fishing scenes in Torbay, Portugal Cove and Witless Bay, Newfoundland and Big Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, taken by William H. Carrick while he served with the R.C.A.F. in Newfoundland. The images appear to have been removed from an album. All images have text on the reverse.
Carrick, William H.Fonds consists of records relating to the administration, operation, and activities of the Whitby Dunlops hockey team. Records were created by the executive members of the Whitby Senior Hockey Club. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Financial records, administrative records, correspondence, advertisement and sponsorship, and programs and ephemera.
Whitby Senior Hockey ClubFonds consists of six scrapbooks pertaining to the 1957-58 season for the Whitby Dunlops hockey team. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and some handwritten observations by Ken. Scrapbook five follows the team's 1958 trip to Oslo, Norway to compete in the World Ice Hockey Championship which they go on to would win. Each scrapbook contains a table of contents at the beginning.
Lehman, Kenneth McKenzieThe fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, and Bryce M. Taylor's related material of the XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee, and the Canadian Olympic Association, (1983-1988), detailing the planning for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. It also includes material from the National Advisory Council on Fitness and Amateur Sport, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, annual reports, (1986-1987). In addition, there is material from the Canadian Gymnastics Association, (1975), and proposals for athletic programmes at York University, including a proposal for football (1967).
Taylor, Bryce, 1933-1989Fonds 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.
Lindström, VarpuFonds consists of the research files and reference material used by Frances Dafoe in her capacity as a costume designer for theatre, television production, performances and figure skating competitions.
Dafoe, FrancesThe fonds consists of moving images related to the donor’s family and acquaintances as well as the town of Hearst and Henry Selin Forest Products. These moving images are about weddings, christenings, hunting and fishing, Christmas celebrations with family, trips, and events such as a fire in Hearst, the strike at Henry Selin Forest Products in 1962, a parade in Hearst and others.
Comeau, ClaudeThe fonds includes audiovisual documents and digital reproductions of photos related to the operations of the Gosselin Lumber Company, in Carey Lake and Calstock. Some of these photos belonged to the donor, others were reproduced with the permission of Roland Caron and Georges Gosselin. The fonds also contains textual and audiovisual records about the Double Rink Hockey Tournament of Hearst (Tournoi des Deux Glaces). Documents and photos of the area’s school buildings as well as miscellaneous records complete the fonds.
Catellier, GuyThe fonds contains documents relating to some Franco-Ontarian hockey tournaments for boys and girls. There is also information about the Midget hockey team Les Élans de Hearst. A few pictures can also be found in the fonds.
Grzela, LeoFonds reflects Gould's bird watching activities in the North Bay area over the course of nearly forty years. The fonds consists of records documenting his daily birding observations from 1941 to 1979, with some interruptions in 1954-1957. Records include monthly reports of sightings, annual statistics, bird and mammal species occurrence records, and lists of species sighted. The majority of Gould's observations were made in "a rectangle which extends roughly thirty miles east and west and twelve miles north and south of North Bay." Some of his usual observation places within this area included his home on McIntyre Street, Peninsula Road on Trout Lake, the shore of Lake Nipissing west of the Government Wharf, and Eloy's Farm. He also frequently carried out observations while on walks, drives, and boat rides in and around North Bay.
Gould, Maitland GoldwinFonds reflects Kyle's work in northern Ontario as a counsellor with the Federal Business Development Bank's Counselling Assistance to Small Enterprises (CASE) program. Fonds contains case reports documenting Kyle's visits to small businesses in northern Ontario communities and his provision of management services counselling advice.
Kyle, BuckFonds reflects the Student Athletic Assembly's organization and governance of intramural student athletics at Canadore College, as well as its participation in the Ontario College Athletic Association and its organization of sporting events including Sportsarama and Snofest.
Canadore College. Student Athletic AssemblyFonds consists of a photograph scrapbook from original Appleby student Ford Stuart Strathy, and photographs of Alastair's time as a student at Appleby. Both give a pictorial history of the early decades at Appleby and capture teachers and staff from Vernon Harcourt de Butts Powell, Headmaster John Guest, T.B. Colley, E.W. Whittington, Same Clarke, Mr. Adams and Miss Bird, as well as Appleby students, and the campus.
Walker, AlastairFonds consists of records relating to the publicity of the Appleby College Coronation Choir. Records include itinerary correspondence, greeting cards, and a scrapbook with newspaper clippings, as well as one boxing photograph.
Mayor, Rodney Garth