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CA ON00419 PIC · Fonds · 1930, 1955-1963, 2016

The fonds consists of textual records of the Otto Pick and Sons Seeds Limited company, a family business and precursor to the Pickseed Group of Companies, which became the largest forage and turf seed company in Canada. The fonds is comprised of 16 ledgers, 5 indexes and an agricultural school report card from Bohemia, with contemporary translation, for Marie Pick (née Jakesova) from when she graduated in 1930. The ledgers, indexes, and certificate with translation are arranged in three series and filed chronologically.

Otto Pick and Sons Seeds Limited
Fonds · 1957, 1975-1998

The fonds consist of records related to the activities of the Oxford County Federation of Agriculture. They are arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Newsletters

Series 2: Photographs
Subseries 1: Delegates to Ontario Federation of Agriculture Convention
File 1, 1976
File 2, 1975
File 3, 1982

Subseries 2: Oxford County Federation of Agriculture Events
File 1, 1975
File 2, circa 1975

Subseries 3: A Taste of Oxford
File 1, 1995
File 2, 1996
File 3, 1997
File 4, 1998

Series 3: Documents
File 1, Correspondence 1992- 1994
File 2, Reports 1992 to 1999
File 3, Brochures
File 4, Submissions and Briefs
File 5, Membership
File 6, News Releases and Articles
File 7, Meeting Agendas, Minutes and Resolutions, 1957, 1975-1977, 1993-1994
File 8, Miscellaneous, 1994

Series 4: Ontario Federation of Agriculture Media Award
File 1, Nomination of Elizabeth Payne

Oxford County Federation of Agriculture
Fonds · 1890 - 1894

The fonds consists of photographic negatives featuring members of the Patteson family. Most of the photographs on the glass plate negatives were taken by Rose MacInnes (nee Patteson) and feature the Pattesons on their estate in Eastwood, Ontario (the former Admiral Henry Vansittart property). The film negatives feature Daisy (Christine Millicent) Moss (nee Patteson) and her son Pat (Thomas) Moss.

It is arranged into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Glass Negatives - Eastwood
Series 2: Film Negatives - Pat & Daisy Moss

MacInnes, Rose Louise
Peel Holstein Club fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1970] - [ca. 1990]

Fonds consists of material created and/or collected by the Halton-Peel Holstein Club. Included are the club's constitution, annual meeting minutes, reports, financial records, receipts & bank statements, membership lists, correspondence, records and photographs pertaining to the Peel Holstein Show, records of a social night, and records created by related organizations including Peel Federation of Agriculture, The Holstein Association of Canada, Ontario Branch, and a publication called "Holstein Heritage: Peel".

As of 1989, the group had members whose postal delivery was for routes in Georgetown, Norval, Orangeville, and Terra Cotta.

Halton-Peel Holstein Club
R.E. Adamson fonds
Item · 1857-1926

The fonds consists of records related to Dereham Centre Sabbath Sunday School, including annual meeting minutes, as well as list of officers elected, teachers, and students attending the school each year. Likewise, the fonds consists of two financial ledgers related to the operation of the Adamson farm located on Concession 6, Lot 14, Dereham Township.

Adamson, Robert Ernest
R.G. Marshall fonds
Item · 1939

The fonds consists of one diploma awarded to R.G. Marshall by the West Zorra and Embro Agricultural Society in 1939 for meritorious service to agriculture.

Marshall, Robert Henry
CA ON00159 P206 · Collection · [ca. 1910-1946]

The Robert S. (Bob) Atkinson Collection consists of two Northern Ontario photo albums depicting the Clay Region between 1910 and the 1940s. One album contains 299 photographs which document the development of Kapuskasing, the construction of the hydro-electric dam, the experimental farm, and the fire that destroyed it. The photographs also illustrate daily life, as well as various outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, and snowshoeing. Many of the photographs have the names of the individuals in them and even the locations, but not all are dated. There are also some photos of Iroquois Falls and Moose Factory in this album. The Moose Factory photos include the visit of Charles Lindberg and wife in August 1931. They also include photos of First Nations’ youth.

The second photo album of 262 photographs contains photographs of families and youth of Kapuskasing and other municipalities of the region, and documents their lives as well as summer and winter activities in the region. Only in a few are individuals identified and dated. In the album are also a large number of photos of the military including some of the Kapuskasing internment camp and various internees. Many of these are dated and contain the name of the individual(s) and location.

Shantz Foundry Limited fonds
CA ON00094 969.148 & 969.167 & 970.078 · Fonds · 1877-1966, predominant 1880-1927

The Shantz Foundry fonds consists of records pertaining to the P.E. Shantz Preston Agricultural Works (1875-ca. 1895), P.E. Shantz Manufacturer (ca. 1895-ca. 1910), P.E. Shantz Foundry (ca. 1910-ca.1950) and Shantz Foundry Ltd. (ca. 1951-1966). These include account books and ledgers, index books, a letter book, time books, product catalogues, agents' contracts, handbills, price lists, production records, photographs and a trade sign.

P.E. Shantz Preston Agricultural Works
CA ON00274 Simcoe County Cattlemen's Association fonds · Fonds · 1977-2000

Fonds consists of the official records of the Simcoe County Cattlemen's Association from 1977 to 2000. Includes financial records, meeting minutes, membership, newsletters and other miscellaneous records pertinent to their activities in Simcoe County.

Simcoe County Cattlemen's Association
Item · 1902, 1904, 1913

The fonds consists of legal records related to the pipeline used to convey water to the cheese company, as well as the sale of the factory in 1913.

Spring Cheese Manufacturing Company
The Heritage of Lobo Fonds
CA ON00412 2015-0011 · Item · 1987-2013

The records include the following series:
3500 negatives of images taken to be used in the book now digitized.
Chapters of the book including the rough research and the submitted chapters to the book.
Copies of photographs .
Administrative records relating to the book's publication.

Lobo Township Historical Society
Thomas Head fonds
CA ON00395 F.0019 · Fonds · 1874-1875

Fonds consists of Patent of Invention and diagram from 1874 and Letters Patent (US) dated 1875 regarding Thomas Head's invention, the Head's Potato Digger.

Head, Thomas
Thomas Preston Hart fonds
Item · 1881-1890

The fonds consists of three books created and compiled by Thomas Preston Hart between 1881 and 1890, related to financial matters concerning his farm/business.

Hart, Thomas Preston
Fonds · 1928-09-24 - 1972-05-18

Records of the Thunder Bay Co-Operative Dairy, Ltd, which operated from 1928 to 1969.

The records include: the Board of Directors' meeting minutes, which provide detailed accounts of the Dairy's management and operation from its founding in 1928 through its eventual liquidation in 1972; a time book listing employee wages and deductions; a financial journal outlining the Co-Op's final years in production; and a folder containing various news clippings and written notes.

Town of Whitby fonds
CA ON00329 F 2011 · Fonds · 1855-1966

This fonds consists of the official records of Whitby, including Council Minutes, 1855-1960; By-laws, 1855-1966; Board and Committee Minutes, 1861-1954; Assessment and Collectors Rolls, 1855-1960; Board of Health Records 1934-1957; Court Records, 1928-1955.

Whitby (Ont.)
Township of Whitby fonds
CA ON00329 F 2012 · Fonds · 1837-1968

Fonds consists of the official records of Whitby Township, including Council Minutes, 1852-1967; By-laws, 1850-1967; Board and Committee Minutes, 1884-1966; Assessment and Collectors Rolls, 1848-1968; and Clerk-Treasurer's Records, 1837-1967.

Whitby (Ont. : Township)
Fonds · 1854-1896

Fonds consists of records created and maintained by the Tyrconnell Women's Institute. Fonds is arranged into the following series:

  1. Tweedsmuir History, 1854-1961
  2. Programmes and Reports, 1960-1962
Dunwich School Section #2 (Tyrconnell)
Varpu Lindström fonds
CA ON00370 F0558 · Fonds · 1887-2012

Fonds 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, Varpu
Fonds · 1873-1886

1 volume of the treasurer's book from 1873-1886 from the West Hastings Agricultural Society.

West Hastings Agricultural Society
William Cober Fonds
CA ON00419 COB · Fonds · 1895-1908

The fonds includes record books, an examination booklet, blank overtime forms and blank forms for “Engineer’s Report of Detention to Trains.” Record books show threshing work Cober performed and his payment circa 1896 and his trips as a fireman or engineer in the GTR southern region. The completed examination booklet is the ‘Examination A Paper. Grand Trunk Railway system. Examination of conductors, engineers and train despatchers in the rules.”

Cober, William