Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Claire Prieto and Roger McTair as individual film makers and as a production team, from the years following their arrival in Canada until present day. The majority of the records consist of sound and moving images, as well as photographs and textual records relating to projects undertaken by Prieto and McTair.

The records pertain to the following productions: Home to Buxton, It's Not An Illness, Different Timbres, Some Black Women, Jennifer Hodge: The Glory and the Pain, Jane Finch Again!, Children Are Not the Problem, Black Nova Scotia, and projects related to employment equity. Also included are research and publicity files accumulated by Prieto and McTair and those concerning their production company.

Prieto and McTair's films have been screened in several film festivals, including Black International Film Festival (Indiana, U.S.A.), Yorkton Film Festival (Yorkton, Saskatchewan), Pan-African Film and T.V. Festival (Ouagadougu, Burkina Faso), 12th International Women's Film Festival (France), American Educational Film and Video Festival (New York), Toronto International Film Festival, Black Light Film Festival (Chicago), Margaret Mead Film Festival (New York), and the Atlantic Film Festival (Halifax).

The fonds is arranged into eleven series primarily based on the films and documentaries produced by Prieto and McTair.

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Fonds consists of records relating to Cancer Care Ontario and its predecessor agency, the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation.

Records include agency annual reports, minutes of the board and various committees, documents relating to Regional Cancer Centres, staff and board members' biographical material, as well as related legislation and agreements.

Photographic records depict staff and board members as well as social events, conferences, interior and exterior views of facilities, and special equipment.

Audio cassettes provide records of seminars, lectures, and speeches relating to cancer care.

Videocassettes capture interviews, information on cancer treatment and diagnosis, and a news item relating to a mammography controversy.

Architectural drawings depict building facades for proposed and existing facilities.

Maps depict patient travel areas for existing cancer care centres.

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Fonds consists of records created and used by the Board of Examiners in Sex Therapy and Counselling in Ontario (BESTCO).

The records date from prior to the board's official creation in the early nineteen-seventies until 2007 and consist of a variety of records created or received by the executive of BESTCO.

As an organization whose primary focus is accreditation, BESTCO's records mainly document the membership process. After initial applications, prospective members undergo a supervisory period, followed by a case study presentation to the board. In the early years, the membership process also included a written test. Records in this fonds reflect this process, including initial expressions of interest, application forms, case studies and written exams. Procedural documents outlining the membership process are also included.

Records not related to the membership process may include: correspondence with other organizations and associations, bibliographies and other reports to support the work of BESTCO members, club histories, newspaper articles regarding sex and relationship therapy, and meeting minutes from BESTCO meetings.

Photographs are group portraits of BESTCO members.

The fonds is divided into three series: correspondence, meeting minutes and resources and documentation regarding sex therapy.

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Fonds consists of publications of Stone and Cox Limited related to the insurance industry in Canada as well as one photograph. These publications include Canadian Insurance magazine, General Insurance Register, The Blue Chart, Brown Chart, Life Insurance Tables and Canadian Life Policy Conditions.

Canadian Insurance is a national monthly publication for the insurance professional. It was originally started as a life insurance publication, but now covers primarily the property and casualty business. The magazine covers economic and social trends affecting the industry as well as news about specific companies, government legislation and significant claims. It includes an annual statistical issue reporting the underwriting results for the industry. Started in 1913, Canadian Insurance has been published continuously.

General Insurance Register is a directory of insurers and those servicing the insurance industry in Canada.

Underwriting experience charts, both Blue and Brown, were established in 1924. The Brown Chart contains a provincial breakdown of direct underwriting results by province and by company in Canada.

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Fonds consists of project and office records documenting Lenscape Incorporated's architectural photography business.

The records primarily include project files pertaining to work performed by Lenscape for specific clients. Clients have been defined by Lenscape as being individuals, organizations, or specific project sites. Project files can include: photographs, architectural drawings, maps, work orders, correspondence, notes, promotional records, or reference materials. Photographs typically depict the stages of construction for individual project sites (commonly referred to as progress photographs), from breaking ground to final completion. Many of the photographs are duplicates spread across multiple formats (prints, negatives, and slides). Most projects occurred in the greater Toronto area, although Lenscape also documented project sites in Ontario, throughout Canada, and globally. In some cases, multiple clients worked on one project site and evidence of these collaborations has been maintained in the individual client file lists.

The fonds also includes credit notes, purchase orders, progress reports, published photograph records, client ledgers, and master negatives lists, which document Lenscape's organizational record-keeping practices. Additionally, the fonds includes large format presentation photographs utilized by Lenscape during the planning stage of individual projects.

Both the original arrangement of project files alphabetically by client and Lenscape's internal project coding system have been maintained. Project codes consist of a numbering scheme whereby the first two digits represent the year in which the project commenced followed by digits assigned sequentially. Documentation of all Lenscape projects can be found in the ledgers in series F 4593-2, Lenscape Incorporated office records. The ledgers are indexed both by client name and project number.

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Collection consists of photographs, posters, business correspondence, financial ledgers and statements, memorabilia, internal manuals, publications, biographical files, and manuscript memoirs relating to the MacLaren Advertising agency.

The records were acquired, assembled, and created by Edward Enright, the donor, over several decades to illustrate the history of the MacLaren Advertising agency, Toronto, which was run by John A. MacLaren from the early 1920s, and developed into an international advertising business that is still in operation today.

The collection documents the business activities and products of a company that created advertisements, including radio and television advertisements, to sell the goods and advance the commercial interests of its corporate clients. MacLaren Advertising clients included General Motors, General Electric, Imperial Oil Canada, Canada Packers, and the Government of Canada. The collection includes a video created by the company in 1984 as a retrospective, titled, "MacLaren: The Story So Far" (see F 4467-10).

The collection also documents the numerous awards won by the company. It includes photographs and textual records depicting the firm's success in winning the Canadian Advertisers and Sales Executives' silver medal in 1942, numerous newspaper awards in 1963, Strategy's Agency of the Year in 1995, Marketing Magazine's Agency of the Year in 1988 and 1999 and the recognition of John MacLaren as a Canadian Giant in the advertising business. The collection also includes a Tribute to John MacLaren presented as an illuminated resolution by the artist, A. J. Casson, signed by the executive staff in Canada and England expressing their pride in the business and in their leader (see F 4467-1).

Collection also includes MacLaren family records assembled by the donor concerning John MacLaren's illness and death in Florida in 1955, and records related to his wife Christine MacLaren, his sister Audrey Jane MacLaren, and his brother William Hunter MacLaren. Included also are home movies of various family events and the wedding of Barbara, John A. MacLaren's daughter.

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Fonds contains photographs created and collected by William Stephen, long time resident of Rondeau Provincial Park in Ontario. These images, comprising of a visual history of the residential and recreational areas of the Park, were used to illustrate Stephen's book Rondeau Forever: Our Home, Our Heritage, Our Memories, published in a limited run in 2006.

The first two series of records primarily consist of recent photographs of interiors and exteriors of the historic cottages within the Park, highlighting original details and unique craftsmanship. William Stephen took most of these photographs in 2005, in preparation for the publication.

The remaining series of records consist of photographs and photomechanical reproductions that William Stephen collected from current residents of Rondeau Provincial Park. These include standing and demolished public structures, views of Rondeau Bay and boating activities on the Bay, residents, signage and picnic sites. These photographs and reproductions are attributed to the original owner or creator.

Arrangement of this fonds is based on chapters created by William Stephen in Rondeau Forever: Our Home, Our Heritage, Our Memories.

This fonds consists of nine series.

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Fonds consists of architectural drawings and other materials generated or accumulated by Peter Smith during his practice as an architect in the firm Lett/Smith Architects while in partnership with William Lett, and prior while a partner in the firm of Thom Partnership, Architects and Planners. The fonds also includes records from Smith's subsequent independent practice, Peter Smith Associates, Inc. and personal records associated with his practice and other professional activities.

The fonds includes series which document architectural projects, proposals and studies; awards received; reference files; promotional materials; model examples for specifications; and letters of interest.

The various series that highlight architectural projects, proposals and studies document the firm's business practice from initial letters expressing interest to preliminary proposals, tender documents, working drawings, contractor specifications, and construction records.

The records document design proposals and construction and renovations primarily related to theatres and other arts centres.

Well-known theatres and arts centres built or renovated by Smith's firms include the Princess of Wales (Toronto, Ontario); the Shaw Festival Theatres (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario); the Grand Theatre (London, Ontario); the Harbourfront Arts Centre (Toronto, Ontario) including the DuMaurier Theatre, Molson Place, and the Power Plant Gallery; Massey Hall (Toronto, Ontario), and the Isabel Bader Theatre (Toronto, Ontario).

The fonds also includes records relating to theatres and arts centres located in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec. Additionally, some materials relate to projects located in the United States (New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore), the United Kingdom, China and Iran.

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Fonds consists of records created or used by Allan Mackay in the creation of the Veterans' Memorial on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature. Besides the artistic and architectural records involved in the development of the monument, the fonds also includes meeting minutes of various committees involved in the process and correspondence regarding the copyright status of the photographs used in the monument.

The fonds includes conceptual wall panels that were created six months into the project and document the evolution of the memorial's composition of images. They include four working panels of photographic images cut, arranged and adhered on paper. Cut outs on the panels reflect spots where Allan Mackay moved the images about. The remainder of the panels consist of montages of images printed on paper. These montages functioned as mock-ups of sections of the wall.

The photographs include digital copies of research photographs constituting the totality of images that the artist considered for possible inclusion in the memorial. They were acquired from various sources, including Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian War Museum, the Glenbow Museum, the Department of National Defence and various publications. The images are not accompanied by references or metadata about sources and citations. Also included are studio photographs that document the evolution of the memorial's composition of images, and include photographs of the conceptual wall panels.

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Fonds consists of watercolour, pastel and ink and crayon sketches by Dave Wall that visually document the proceedings of particular court cases in Toronto, Ontario.

The paintings in this fonds document a variety of legal actions from the early 2000s, although images of cases relating to violent crimes, such as assault and murder, are greater in number. Some of the cases represented are high profile, such as the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration and Solicitor General of Canada v. Ernst Zundel. The largest group of paintings pertains to the Otto Vass manslaughter case.

Subjects in the paintings include trial judges, witnesses, lawyers, police officers, reporters and spectators. Court cases held in various Toronto courts are documented including the Superior Court of Justice, Toronto small claims court, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, and College Park.

Similar to work by other court artists, these works are somewhat impressionistic, with many details sketched in quickly and include many quick sketches. Fonds is arranged into files according to each court case.

There is no file F 4522-0-0-0-4.

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