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Series consists of correspondence files of Lady Victoria Welby.

File consists of a small payroll book identifying the names of workers and wages paid. The notebook includes an advertisement published in "The Times" on 21 Apr. 1829 describing financial arrangements that can be made in London with the Bank of Upper Canada for the benefit of persons emigrating to the colony. This entry dates from around the time of Thomas Mossington's retirement from the Royal Navy prior to his settlement in Upper Canada.

File consists of folder of correspondence.

The fonds partially documents Fernand Ouellet's research and writing activities for the period 1956-1984. It mainly includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts and archival material collected in the course of his research.

Series consists of historical publications and newspapers preserved by Knowlton Nash because of the historical significance of their date or content. It includes memorial issues of American and Canadian newspapers and magazines related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, the moon landing, the deaths of American presidents and Canadian prime ministers as well as early Canadian newspapers from the nineteenth century and newspapers published during World War II. Also included are three Christmas issues of English illustrated newspapers and a 1939 publication regarding the Royal Visit to Canada.

Fonds consists of the professional records of Knowlton Nash including: research notes, taped interviews, manuscripts, correspondence, publicity material and speeches regarding books written by Nash, including his unpublished memoir; print media articles about the CBC and Canadian journalism; newspapers articles by Nash for the British United Press wire service, and freelance columns and articles that were published in The Vancouver sun, Windsor star, and the Financial post; the newsletter, Washington thru Canadian eyes that was written and published by Nash while working as a freelance journalist in the United States; files on broadcast journalism and various projects at the CBC; daily appointment books; and correspondence regarding Nash's awards and retirement. The fonds also includes video cassettes and teaching material for CBC-TV's education program, News in review; notes and scripts for special news broadcasts on significant public events, including economic summits, the Quebec referendum, the repatriation of the Constitution, and Canadian and American elections; correspondence with viewers, colleagues at the CBC, and people with various organizations regarding editorial policies, coverage of major stories, speaking engagements, and Nash's involvement with educational and philanthropic organizations.

File consists of a four-page holograph letter written on one sheet of paper discussing the challenges facing American residents living in Hillier, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada and the impact of the 1837 Rebellion with his cousin, who lived in Tyringham South, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

File consists of one bound volume, handwritten, for the Kingston Preparative Meeting of Men Friends from February 25, 1841 to October 10, 1867. A Preparative Meeting was used to prepare for the regional monthly meeting (best compared to a parish council) for the Religious Society of Friends.

Series consists of unbound issues of newspapers published in Montreal, Toronto and Victoria, which contain advertisements and notices concerning Jewish businesses.

File contains records on subject (b.1848-d. 1916).

The fonds consists of annual reports of the Consumers' Gas Company (1849-1925) [incomplete], minutes of the Board of Directors' meetings (1947-1925), minutes of special Board meetings, taken from the secretary's and president's notes and agendas; minutes of the Finance Committee (1852-1874), of the Works Committee (1853-1873), and of selected meetings of the Executive Committee (1805-1909). As well, there is a run of 'Street lamps' [publication] (1887-1906).

This series contains the personal and professional papers of Sheila Harbron, which were collected and prepared by her in her capacity as President of the Etobicoke Branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women, 1966-1967, and President of the Governor Simcoe Branch of the United Empire Loyalists' Association, 1989-1992. This series includes the personal papers, correspondence, family and genealogical research, and photographs, of the Buck, Harbron, Hardy, Lester, Matheson, Ryerson families.

The fonds consists of correspondence to Paul Sullivan from family members, including 22 letters from cousin Vernon Sullivan written between 1911-1915 and describing the daily life, concerns, and opinions of a young man first as a farm worker, and then teacher, on the prairies immediately prior to enlisting to fight in World War I at the age of 16. There are also ca. 40 letters from brother Edgar Sullivan written between 1914-1943 describing the life of a homesteader who has moved to Saskatchewan to homestead and operate a business during difficult economic times. The fonds also includes diaries (1915-1971), municipal tax notices (1886-1961), personal correspondence, family wills, deeds and mortgages (from 1848), some business papers, 4 newspapers, a child's book, ca. 15 photographs and 3 business ledgers (1934-1950). The letters are arranged chronologically.

The fonds consists of material which documents Williamson's career as a fine arts bibliographer, librarian and instructor along with associated professional and scholarly activities. It includes correspondence and reports prepared for collection acquisitions (e.g. Germain Bazin library, archives and postcard collection), other library initiatives, interactions with various library departments, and departments in the Faculty of Fine Arts including visual arts, dance, and theatre; material related to her work on YUFA, PLAYU (Professional Librarians Association of York University), the Librarians' Group, and other York University and library committees; exhibition catalogues, monographs, articles and conference presentations authored by Williamson; and research materials, grant files and teaching files.
The fonds also includes a collection of letters and photographs that Williamson sent home during her stay at various summer camps between 1940 and 1951, material related to the Moore Park Ratepayers' Association, and a collection that Williamson acquired consisting of 63 photocopied letters from literary and artistic figures in Canada such as Susanna Moodie and George Munro Grant, addressed to Louisa Murray (1818-1894), literary critic and writer on feminist issues.

Fonds consists of research notes, newspaper clippings, reports, publications, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Portuguese emigration and the Portuguese experience in Canada compiled by Professor Higgs in connection with his scholarly work and teaching on Portuguese history and his collaborative work with Grace Anderson.

Box consists of 26 files of reproductions of letters from literary and artistic figures in Canada, such as Susanna Moodie, Daniel Fowler and George Munro Grant, addressed to Louisa Murray (b.1818-d.1894).

The fonds consists of records of Harry J. Pollock pertaining to his interest and involvement in theatre and to his research on James Joyce. The fonds includes correspondence and clippings, manuscripts, audio tapes, photographic materials, video cassettes, graphic and cartographic materials.

Series consists of a collection of reports and maps of Toronto harbour collected by Dr. Gene Desfor in the course of his research and consulting work. The collection deals with the formation and preservation of Toronto harbour, the Toronto Harbour Commissioners’ Waterfront Development plan of 1912, waterfront property management by the Government of Canada, urban planning for the lower Don River and Harbourfront, and a heritage assessment of the East Bayfront.

Fonds consists of correspondence, brochures, clippings from newspapers and magazines, curriculum vitae, reports, original artwork, photographs (black and white prints and colour transparencies), financial records, speeches, exhibit catalogues, typographical research files, audio recordings, appointment diaries, awards, and design objects created or accumulated by Allan Fleming during his career as a graphic designer, teacher, and administrator. Topics of these records include: previous generations of his family in Scotland; his secondary school education; his years in England working with English typographers; his marriage to Nancy Chisholm; their relationship with Richard Outram and Barbara Howard; work at Cooper & Beatty Ltd., MacLaren Advertising, University of Toronto Press and other firms; the work of typographers such as Eric Gill and Carl Dair; Fleming's work for a wide variety of corporate clients (including Ontario Hydro, Trent University, the Hudson's Bay Company, Gray Coach, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian National Railway, Massey College, and the City of Toronto); television scripts; book and stamp design; his involvement in design juries; exhibitions of his work; book collecting; his declining health after a heart attack in 1971; and his death in 1978.

File consists of a broken run of the newspaper collected by Sheldon and Judy Godfrey because of the advertisements for various Jewish business people, including C. Solomon & Co., Samuel & Co. (guns), Theodore Hart, Alexander Levey, Jesse Joseph, A. & S. Nordheimer (piano fortes), John Levy, Simon Hart, A. Hoffnung (jeweller), William Benjamin & Co., H. Benjamin & Co. (crystal block importer), M. Bessunger (oil paintings), J.A. Harte (druggist), R.M. Hart (advocate), Silverman's Extract, and Wulff & Co., as well as an advertisement to builders regarding the construction of a synagogue on St. Constant Street.

File consists of five prints showing the Port Hope viaduct in Ontario (Illustrated Times, 22 January 1859), the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, Caledonian games on the civic holiday in Hamilton, laying of the corner stone for the Boy's Home in Hamilton (1876), and a hand-coloured rendering of a curling match in Montreal.

The fonds consists of a single, four page letter, dated 1855 November 16, addressed to Father, Mother, Brothers & Sisters, describing Thomas Adams' trip from Straffordville to Toronto in November, 1855.

Fonds consists of: a ticket to the gallery of the United Kingdom's House of Commons issued by John Bright, 15 Feb. 1855; a cyanotype print of an unidentified mine in England; 48 letters written to publisher Elliot Stock by various correspondents including Sabine Baring-Gould, Walter Besant, Ford Madox Brown, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Austin Dobson, James Anthony Froude, William Ewart Gladstone, Edmund Gosse, Andrew Lang, John Morley, William Morris, John Henry Newman, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and Theodore Watts-Dunton; and a letter from journalist Henry W. Nevinson to Ronwen Stock, 26 Aug. 1936, regarding his book, Running Accompaniment: Autobiographic Reminiscences (1936) and her appointment in Toronto.

File consists of a ticket to the gallery of the House of Commons issued by John Bright and a cyanotype print of an English mine with the inscription on verso, "Do you remember the day you threw my pin down the shaft? Are you sorry?"

Fonds consists of nine handwritten notebooks containing the sermons written by William Clark for services held in several locations throughout Canada West (later Ontario), including Blenheim, Burford, Plattsville, Port Dover, and Toronto. The sermons created during the 1870s were written in Baldwinsville and Greenpoint, which were likely communities on Long Island, New York. Each sermon begins with a title and the underlying biblical text, and often include the numbers of the hymns sung during the service.

File consists of a handwritten notebook used by William W. Clark, "Written during my labours on the Blenheim Circuit in the year 1859." It contains sermons entitled: "Preparation to meet God"; "The Worth of the Soul"; "The Fatal Night"; "An Address to Dispisers"; "The Certainty of Death"; "The Young the hope of the Church"; and "The Short bed & narrow covering," Burford, 8 August 1859. The sermons are often accompanied by the numbers of hymns sung at the service.

File consists of a handwritten notebook used by William W. Clark while residing in Plattsville, Blenheim Township, Canada West. The notebook begins with a secton on "Questions & Answers on Ancient History," followed by sermons entitled: "An Invitation to enter the Ark of Safety," Plattsville, April 1859; "Blessedness of the Dead that die in the Lord," Fairfield Cottage, Burford, 6 July 1859; "Christian Perfection"; "Difficulties of Death-bed conversion"; and "The Lord; Coming to Judgement." The sermons are often accompanied by the numbers of hymns sung at the service.

Fonds consists of a photocopy of a typescript and photographs of the history of the Schreiber family.

Accession consists of eighteen letters (seventeen holograph and one typewritten) and one transcription of a literary work of Jonathan Swift.

File contains records on Sheila's paternal grandmother; wife of William Hollis Lester, nee Hardy, (b.1852-d.1936).

Item is heavily scratched, rusted and eroded tintype portrait of three young people.

17 photographs : col. and b&w ; 15 x 11 cm and smaller.

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File consists of a handwritten notebook used by William W. Clark, containing sermons entitled: "Glorying in the Cross"; "Hearing the Gospel," Mt. Pleasant, 1861; "The Faithful Saying," Burford, 18 March 1861; "Repentence" (retitled "Prodigal Son"), Port Dover, 19 July 1861, with second and third discourses; and "Secret Prayer," Port Dover, 21 September 1861. The sermons are often accompanied by the numbers of hymns sung at the service.

File consists of a handwritten notebook used by William W. Clark, containing sermons delivered on the Toronto City East Circuit. The sermons are entitled: "The Pre-eminent importance of Early Piety," August 1863; "The broad way to Destruction," 14 April 1864; "Strength against Temptation," 23 April 1864; "The Christian's Inheritance," 20 May 1864; "The Sufferings of Christ," 15 July 1864; "Christian Thanksgiving," 12 August 1864; "Eternity," 19 August 1864; "The Jubilee," 26 August 1864. The sermons are often accompanied by the numbers of hymns sung at the service.

File consists of a handwritten notebook used by William W. Clark, containing sermons entitled: "The Prayer in the Garden," Toronto City East Circuit, Yorkville, 31 July 1863; "The Sinners Character & End," Toronto City East Circuit, Yorkville, 4 August 1863; "Ejaculatory Prayer," Toronto City East Circuit, 14 August 1863; "The day of Pentecost," Toronto City East Circuit, 3 September 1863; "Joy of Angels," Toronto East Circuit, 30 December 1863; "A rest to the people of God; "Marriage of the King's Son,"New York, 12 October 1875; "The Rejectors of the Feast," New York, 6 November 1875; "The Acceptors of the Feast"; and "The Intruder at the Feast." The sermons are often accompanied by the numbers of hymns sung at the service.

File consists of shipping confirmations from John McGunn, Greenock, Scotland, for cargos consigned to Buchanan's company, 1835, and correspondence regarding Buchanan's books including "The relations of the industry of Canada," 1864-1867.

File contains publication owned by John Harbron.

File contains newspaper clippings that contain portrayals of Cuba in the media and an organization chart of the Cuban government.

Fonds consists of more than 60 letters, newsletters, poems, and greeting cards written by Margaret Laurence to Ian and Sandy Cameron, as well as a copy of Laurence's will. The correspondence discusses Laurence's work as a writing instructor and speaker at the University of Toronto, her relationship with other Canadian writers and Clara Thomas, her move from Toronto to Lakefield, and her involvement with the Writers' Union of Canada conference in Ottawa in November 1973. Laurence comments extensively on her own works and her efforts to encourage other writers (including Ian Cameron), her efforts to produce a recording of songs with her lyrics and Cameron's musical score to accompany "The diviners," the film contract based on this novel, and her elation at winning the Molson Prize in 1975. The correspondence also discusses her divorce from Jack Laurence, her relationship with her children, and her views on social and generational change. The correspondence is accompanied by nine vinyl recordings given by Laurence to the Camerons that feature European classical music, African palm wine music, and Ghanian highlife music. The fonds also contains five letters from John Ruskin, the Victorian writer and art critic, to Kate Towney and Arbuthnot Cameron, 1865-1867, regarding Towney's marriage and financial affairs, mineral collecting, and ideas from Ruskin's book, "Modern painters." These letters are accompanied by notes and transcripts, as well as a letter written in 1907 regarding the Ruskin correspondence.

File contains publication owned by John Harbron.

The fonds consists of correspondence, notes, a scrapbook, publications and galley proofs of publications, both by Richard Henry Tawney and by the Workers' Educational Association. For Tawney there are notes on a book about the economic thinker Henry George (which was apparently never written), chapters in typescript and handwritten for 'Equality,' and page proofs for 'Twentieth Century socialism,' as well as articles and reviews (in typescript and handwritten and published) for 'The highwayman,' (publication of the Workers' Educational Association), correspondence with colleagues in adult education and history, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings with some handwritten correspondence, relating to the Tawney family in England and India. For the Workers' Educational Association there are galleys of articles, and related correspondence for 'The highwayman'. There is also material of a general nature, including reports, correspondence and conference proceedings, and articles related to the education of trade unionists.

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and Sir Charles Halle on the topic of publishing.

File consists of a petition seeking a new church for the English-speaking Roman Catholics of Sherbrooke, minutes of a public meeting called to discuss the provincial election in Quebec in 1885, and legal documents regarding social and commercial matters.

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File consists of handwritten and typed transcritions of letters from unknown correspondents with Victoria Welby.

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