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J.C.B. and E.C. Horwood collection

  • ON00009 C 11
  • Collection
  • 1750 - 1975

Collection consists of architectural drawings and other materials generated or accumulated by J.C.B. and E.C. Horwood during their training and practice as architects within a succession of firms and work places. It includes a large amount of material from other preceding or contemporary architects and practices. These other materials came into the possession of the Horwoods' firm either through amalgamations of architectural practices, planned succession transfers from retiring architects, inheritance, or through a deliberate process by J.C.B. Horwood of acquiring precedent drawings as reference sources.

The collection contains the work of about eighty-five firms, which existed in the period 1829-1975. The projects largely emphasize Toronto, since most of the firms were based in that city. Nearly two-thirds of the series document Toronto architecture. However, the collection also contains some representation from other areas in Ontario, including Brantford, Brampton, Forest Hill Village, Gravenhurst, Guelph, Hamilton, Lorne Park, Mimico, Muskoka, Woodstock, York and North York Townships. There is also some material for the British Isles, Europe, and the United States, as well as from other parts of Canada. Included also are architectural artifacts, such as Frederic W. Cumberland's pantograph and William G. Storm's wooden writing table.

The records document many building types including schools, churches, government or institutional buildings, department stores, commercial and industrial facilities, bridges, skating rinks, funerary structures, and private residences.

The collection contains a wide variety of architectural record types, including mechanical and engineering drawings, survey drawings, site plans, water-colour perspectives, maps, and photographs. There is a vast quantity of masonry sketch work for a few of the projects, such as Osgoode Hall and University College. The collection also includes prints and engravings used as reference material by some of the architects.

The collection also includes a large number of textual items such as: written specifications, a small quantity of correspondence, accounting sheets, job ledgers, notes, building trade and advertising brochures, reports, daily record showing time spent each day by draftsmen, printed photo-mechanical illustrations, certificates and minutes of architectural societies, and some contracts.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+C+11?SESSIONSEARCH

Baldwin and Cawthra family photographs collection

  • ON00009 C 144
  • Collection
  • ca. 1884, predominant 1891-ca.1902

Collection consists of 49 photographs including cabinet cards, cartes de visite, an album containing 28 portraits and 3 stereographs. Photographs show formal group and individual portraits of several generations of two prominent families in nineteenth century Ontario - the Baldwins and the Cawthras. Robert Baldwin was a leading Upper Canadian Reform politician and an architect of Responsible Goverment. Photographs in this collection are of the family of Baldwin's son, Robert Junior, and his granddaughter, Elizabeth Mary Baldwin.

Collection also includes an album containing cabinet cards showing descendants of William Cawthra, one of Upper Canada's wealthiest merchants. The album is identified on inside cover as being "from Anthony Adamson".

Collection has been arranged in two series, by family.
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Baldwin, William (family)

Frank Wright collection

  • ON00009 C 171
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1890]-1962

Fonds consists of glass plate negatives and lantern slides of miscellaneous subjects, and acetate negatives of the construction of the Burlington Skyway and also of vessels in Burlington Bay. Glass plate negatives and lantern slides show various subjects including photographers with their cameras and equipment; photographers at work; portraits; and also landscape scenes. Negatives show the construction of the concrete and steel supports and framework of the Burlington Beach Skyway, as well as images of various shipping vessels and tugs in Burlington Bay.

Fonds is described in two series : 1.) Frank Wright collection of glass plate negatives and lantern slides; and 2.) Burlington Skyway construction and Burlington Bay.

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Wright, Frank

James Harrington collection

  • ON00009 C 175
  • Collection
  • [ca.1861]-1890

Fonds consists of a collection of cartes de visites and tintypes originally housed in a Victorian photograph album. Photographs show foreign celebrities such as Abraham Lincoln, Bismarck, and members of the British Royal family. They also show Canadian public figures, most notably politicians such as John A. Macdonald and his fellow members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada during the 1860s. In addition, there are also portraits of individuals, many of whom are named, who likely were connected to the original, unidentified creator of this collection. The tintypes and cartes de visite have been removed from the album in which they were originally housed.

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David L. Thomas collection

  • ON00009 C 253
  • Collection
  • 1962-1974

Collection consists of 35 mm negative copies of ca. 980 slides of historic photographs of the Parry Sound District.

Geographic areas documented include: Ahmic Harbour, Britt, Byng Inlet, Depot Harbour, Dunchurch, Hurdville, Lost Channel, MacTier, Footes Bay, McKellar, Nobel, Orrville, Parry Island, Rosseau and Waubamik.

Photographic subjects are: aircraft, automobiles, banks, blacksmith shops, churches, curling groups, factories, fairgrounds, fire halls, hockey teams, hotels, loggers, lumber mills, mines, parades, railways, schools, ships, smelters, stores, streets, trains, wagons, and various individuals.

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Wayne Roberts collection

  • ON00009 C 288
  • Collection
  • 1971-1973, 1986

Collection consists of oral interviews by Dr. Wayne Roberts regarding Toronto labour history, conducted 1971-1973, as well as interviews with Jim Best in 1986 relating to the development of the Civil Service Association of Ontario.

Collection includes a 16-page summary of the contents of the interviews with Jim Best.

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George Hutchison collection

  • ON00009 C 289
  • Collection
  • 1991-1994

Collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by George Hutchison with political leaders, advisors, speech writers and political columnists in regard to Ontario politics during the period 1960-1994.

Interviewees include Norman Atkins, William Davis, Cardinal Emmett Carter, Donald MacDonald, Robert Nixon, David Peterson, and Claire Hoy.

Collection also includes 14 colour photographs depicting some of the interviewees at the time of the interviews.

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J. Norman Lowe collection

  • ON00009 C 290
  • Collection
  • 1904-1927

Collection consists of photographs collected by J. Normal Lowe depicting the construction of Union Station in Toronto (Series C 290-1), the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway in and around Sioux Lookout and Northern Ontario (Series C 290-2), and miscellaneous images of railways and locomotives (Series C 290-2). It includes photos of railway cars, track work, construction equipment, and interior and exterior shots of construction camps.

Also included in Series C 290-2 are photos of the first and second steam locomotives ever used in Ontario - No. 1 "the Lady Elgin" and No. 2, "the Toronto", manufactured for the Ontario Simcoe and Huron Railroad Union Co. in 1853.

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Irving Abella collection

  • ON00009 C 82
  • Collection
  • Copied 1978 (originals created 1971-1973)

Collection consists of oral history interviews with individuals involved with labour and socialist movements in Ontario and Canada. Many of the interviewees are emigrants to Canada.

Subjects include Jewish history in Eastern Europe, Nazi aggression, the Russian Revolution, development of the Canadian labour movement, and the Canadian Communist Party.

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Abella, Irving, 1940-

Claire Hoy collection

  • ON00009 C 99
  • Collection
  • 1984

Collection consists of audiocassette recordings of interviews conducted in 1985 by Hoy in preparation for his biography of former Ontario Premier William G. Davis, published in 1985. The interviews are with 55 of Davis' political acquaintances, family members and friends, including Norman Atkins, Pat Dumas, Roy McMurtry, Hugh Segal, and Larry Grossman.

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Hoy, Claire, 1940-

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