Showing 72 results

Archival description
CA ON00154 2019.4.1 · Item · 1801 - 1813

Whiskey Ledger belonging to Nathaniel Haskill who owned property and lived at Lot 16, Broken Front and Lot 165, Concession 1, Hope Township (now the Municipality of Port Hope). The earliest date of entry is 1801 with most dates primarily from 1807- 1813. - the inside pages are hand written with the purchaser's name, a description and amount of whiskey purchased and the means of payment. Often based on a barter system with payment made in the form of bushels of wheat, cows, barrels of flour etc. Some customers paid in cash. - comprised of 145 pages which are written upon with the remaining pages blank. The first 33 pages include more than one customer, where later pages, 34 - 145 are devoted to a single customer. Each customer has two pages together, side by side. In handwriting at the top is the name of the customer. First name on the left page and surname on the right side page. Left page also lists the date, amount of whiskey obtained and the cost in pounds and shillings. The left page indicates the means of payment.

Comfort and Greer fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 475 · Fonds · 1846-1854

Fonds consist of business records used by Comfort and Greer carding mill. This includes account books, receipts, a cash book and a legal document.

Comfort and Greer
CA ON00353 AFC 361 · Discrete Item · ca. 1877

This photograph album was likely prepared for advertising and promotional purposes by the O'Connor and Lancaster firm, or "Popular Photo Studio". It contains prints of London, Ontario, scenes, as well as advertising and promotional information about London and some of its businesses.

O'Connor and Lancaster, Photographers
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
Woodstock C.O.C.F. fonds
Item · 1902-1905

The fonds consists of one minute book belonging to Woodstock C.O.C.F. Council No. 82 between the years 1902 and 1905.

Woodstock Canadian Order Chosen Friends (C.O.C.F.) No. 82
CA ON00408 F044 · Fonds · 1907-1908

Fonds documents logging production at a shanty (winter logging camp) near Whitestone, Ontario. Fonds contains one logging record book.

Silver Islet Collection
Collection · 1870 - 1910

Photographs and documents from the Silver Islet Mine and Silver Islet Store, including ledgers and a chart.

A rich deposit of silver was discovered on Silver Islet in 1868. A small island at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula, the mine was built deep below the waterline, and relied on breakwaters and pumps. Silver Islet was mined until 1884, when pumps failed, and the mine was flooded. The small community built on shore to support the mine is still inhabited.

Leonard Westland fonds
CA ON00353 AFC 465 · Fonds · ca. 1905-1912

This fonds is comprised of b&w photographs scanned for the Western Archives from photograph albums loaned to us by Westland descendants in 2006. The photographs were selected from the albums based on their local interest in the topics photographed. There are scanned copies of pictures of London and Middlesex County (including areas now part of London including Lambeth and Byron), Port Stanley, Sarnia and other surrounding villages and rural areas in southwestern Ontario. Westland took the photographs between ca.1905-12. There are many local landmarks, events and views that were of interest to Leonard Westland.

Westland, Leonard George
Ingersoll Tribune fonds
Item · 1913 - 1919

The fonds consists of one financial ledger for the Ingersoll Tribune Newspaper from 1913 to 1919, which lists printing jobs and advertisement costs and is arranged by individual or organization name.

Ingersoll Tribune
Nina Meggs fonds
CA ON00416 F15 · Fonds · 1921 - 1924

Fonds consists of 1 photograph album belonging to Nina Meggs, containing 71 black and white photographs depicting Nina's time at Appleby College as a nurse from 1921-1924.

Meggs, Nina
Hines Studio Collection
CA ON00353 AFC 341 · Fonds · 1906-1929

The collection consists of photographs created by Henry G Hines (Harry) and William H. Hines (Bill) over the course of the operation of his photographic studio in London from 1906-1929. The collection includes original glass plate photographic negatives commissioned by various City of London affiliates, local businesses, private individuals and the photographer's personal photographs. There are images of London with focus in east London mainly of industry, manufacturing and commercial for promotion and Port Stanley scenes. Also included are prints, and copies of Hines' photographs collected by Alan Noon and copy prints and digital images of all photographs created by Noon and given as part of the donation.

Hines Studio
Jack de la Vergne collection
CA ON00408 C006 · Collection · 1937

Collection consists of one mining company stock certificate.

de la Vergne, Jack
CA ON00408 F045 · Fonds · 1934-1937

Fonds documents the issuing and transfer of Lois Lake Gold Mines Limited stocks, and contains one register.

Lois Lake Gold Mines Limited
Donald F Parrott Collection
Collection · 1920 - 1940

Photographs of mining and transportation in Northwestern Ontario in the first part of the twentieth century.

Includes:
Photographs of Zenmac Zinc Mine near Schreiber
Photographs of Root River Marine Portage and mining equipment supplies transported

CA ON00094 962.016 & 971.032 & 972.050 & 973.022 · Fonds · 1872-1942, predominant 1891-1924

The Dominion Button Manufacturers Ltd. fonds consists of records pertaining to the Shantz Button Manufacturing Company, a.k.a. Dominion Button Works (1872), the Jacob Y. Shantz & Son Company Ltd. (1891-1912) and the Dominion Button Manufacturers Ltd. fonds (1912-1935). These include price lists, plant and materials inventories, order books, general business accounts, production notebooks, dyeing recipes notebooks, salesmen's order notebooks, a work diary, salesmen's sample cards, photographs and greeting cards.

Shantz Button Manufacturing Company
Fonds · 1929 - 1947

Correspondence and papers of the Pigeon River Lumber Company, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s. Includes the original Letters Patent. Many of the records relate to lands in the Township of Pardee.

Collection · 1870 - 1949

Photographs and documents, generally collected because they would be of interest regarding the history of Port Arthur and Fort William. Includes rail and CPR, ships, fishing, and social and sporting groups.

Fonds Gérald Gélinas
CA ON00402 GG · Fonds · 1940-1950; mostly 1943-1947

The fonds contains textual documents related to the postal service during the Second World War and afterwards. More specifically, the documents are linked to the postal office in Mead, Ontario, a village located approximately 35 km from Hearst. In addition to some correspondence letters, the fonds contains guidelines on regulating the mail sent to or by the prisoners of war, who worked in labour camps in the region.

Gélinas, Gérald
Collection Roger Leclerc
CA ON00402 RLE · Collection · 1946, 1951-1952

The collection includes six digital photos of the Canada Fowarding Company’s installations in Carey Lake and four digital classroom photos from École Sainte-Thérèse in Hearst, in 1951-1952.

Leclerc, Roger