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A.E. Wicks Ltd. fonds

  • ON00009 F 242
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1949

Fonds consists of business records of the A.E. Wicks Ltd. lumber company. It includes a large number of subject files, which contain correspondence, memos, invoices, statements, orders, and advertising. Correspondence in subject files is with suppliers, forest products customers, camp foremen, government officials and departments, and local railways, particularly the Temiskang and Northern Ontario Railway, a carrier frequently used by the company. The files relate to: acquisition and distribution of supplies to camps, management of camps and sawmills, liaison with Federal and Provincial Governments under whose jurisdiction various aspects of the operation fell, cutting and scaling, setting up camps and contracting with foremen, insurance, financial accounting, and other topics. The fonds also includes contracts, accounts, deposit and bank books, shipment and stock ledgers, payroll records, insurance register, and journals containing accounts and daily mill reports.

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A.E Williams - United Indian Bands of the Chippewas and the Mississaugas collection

  • ON00009 F 4337
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1812]-1975

The collection consists of material collected between the 1950s and mid-1970s by A.E. Williams, relating to the United Indian Bands of the Chippewas and Mississaugans. Most of the fonds was created by or collected on behalf of the United Bands of Ontario between 1903 and 1912 in the course of their efforts by Ontario First Nations to assert their rights on issues of land, hunting, fishing, and voting, and to secure payments promised under treaty commitments. Records pertaining to the United Bands of Ontario consist of correspondence, minutes, legal documents, accounting records, research notes, transcripts of records in the National Archives of Canada and the British Public Record Office. Also included are by-laws, claims for unceded territory, treaties, correspondence, band censuses and genealogies, petitions, speeches, memorials, and broadsides. A few documents contain totem signatures.

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A.F. Jackson fonds

  • ON00009 F 1483
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1927

Fonds consists of eight volumes of records containing financial records of the A. F. Jackson farm. These include ledgers (financial records arranged by personal name or product), 1887-1895; and journal containing daily transactions from 1887-1927. Fonds also includes a small amount of loose material, including an invoice and balance sheets.

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Agricultural Society of the County of Addington fonds

  • ON00009 F 1259
  • Fonds
  • 1853-1876

Fonds consists of a minutebook of the Agricultural Society of the County of Addington, consisting of: minutes of meetings; lists of members, lists of executive members; and lists of recipients of prizes in competitions in the following agricultural and relating activities: the rearing and breeding of horned cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and poultry; agricultural implement production; arts and manufactures (including craft and textile work); dairy product production; and horticultural product production.

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A.H.D. Ross fonds

  • ON00009 F 1095
  • Fonds
  • 1827-1945

Fonds consists of the records of Alexander Herbert Douglas Ross. Fonds predominantly includes transcriptions of Ross's essays such as: The Canadian Society of Forest Engineers; High School Teachers; Inspectors and University Professors; A Canoe Trip to James Bay; Explorers of Canada; Queen's University Graduates and Alumni Arts Class of 1888; and Observations on the Bridges of the Falls of Chaudiere on the Ottawa River. In addition, fonds contains newspaper clippings and correspondence pertaining to Queen's University, military matters, and forestry. Fonds also includes photographs of various classes at Queen's University, Kingston. Also included is a plan and brief rough specification of a bridge, at Chaudiere on the Ottawa River, signed by Colonel By, 1827.

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Aikins - Sutherland family fonds

  • ON00009 F 58
  • Fonds
  • 1837-1916

Fonds consists of correspondence, commissions, degrees, bills, receipts, and other records of James C. Aikins, James Sutherland, and Donald G. Sutherland. Correspondence includes letters of Captain James Sutherland concerning the activities of the steamboat Traveller in the Rebellion of 1837. Also included are letters of James C. Aikins, referring to political matters, such as letters from constituents and letters referring to the department of Indian Affairs and the Department of Lands (later the Department of the Interior). Correspondence of Rev. D.G. Sutherland is concerned mainly with family matters, but also refer to business conditions, farming, and the formation of the Economy Engine Company of Gananoque. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.

Commissions and diplomas include academic certificates and diplomas of Donald G. Sutherland and his daughter Clara, as well as commissions appointing James Cox Aikins to positions such as Senator, Secretary of State, and Lieutenant- Governor of Manitoba and Keewatin. Sutherland and Aikins items have been separated, then arranged chronologically.

Bills and receipts are mostly those of Rev. D.G. Sutherland, and are arranged chronologically.

Fonds also includes miscellaneous items, including the accounts of the steamboat St. George from the years 1842 to 1843.

Fonds also includes a photograph of James Cox Aikins, and an album entitled "The Ministry of the Dominion of Canada," including photographs of members of the government, including L.F.B. Masson, L.F.B. Baby, John Henry Pope, Lt.- Col. Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, James McDonald, Sir Alex Campbell, John O'Connor, D.L. Macpherson, J.C. Aikins, H.L. Langevin, J.C. Pope, Charles Tupper, and Sir John A. Macdonald. Album also includes a photograph of a meeting room.

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Aime Breton fonds

  • ON00009 F 1341
  • Fonds
  • [Microfilmed 1974] (originally created 1940-1973, predominant 1940-1959)

Fonds consists of the business and legal records of Aime Breton. The fonds includes magazine articles, correspondence, mining claims, telegrams, and reports, predominant 1940-1959, relating to the Pronto Uranium Mine, mining development, and legal matters.

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Albert J. Kinsey fonds

  • ON00009 C 70
  • Fonds
  • 1937-1946

Fonds consists of reels of 16 mm. film featuring scenes from Toronto and Southern Ontario 1937-1946. Film subjects include Georgian Bay scenes, including Camp Franklin, Franklin Island, and Nascoot; 1939 Royal Visit; Victory in Europe Day; Ice Follies; a Skating Carnival; and scenes from the Niagara region.

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Albert Lawrence collection

  • ON00009 C 68
  • Fonds
  • 1970-1971

The collection consists of sound recordings relating to Lawrence's campaign for leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in 1971. The collection includes 4 audio tapes consisting of his announcement to seek the leadership, as well as interviews conducted with Lawrence by a number of radio stations. The fonds also includes a phonograph record produced for the Allen Lawrence for Leader Campaign Committee, used during the 1971 Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leadership Convention.

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Albert N. Morgan fonds

  • ON00009 F 650
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1903

Fonds consists of the records created and compiled by Albert N. Morgan in his capacity as Temiskaming Telephone Company solicitor. Fonds includes: legal correspondence, a telephone directory, a Temiskaming Telephone Company Ltd prospectus, and voters' lists for the electoral district of Nipissing, 1900-1903. Fonds also includes 12 maps of the Nipissing District.

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