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Gilbert A. Milne fonds

  • ON00009 C 3
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1930]-1962

Fonds consist of negatives, positives and prints created and accumulated by Toronto photographer Gilbert A. Milne, documenting the city's post-war urban expansion as well as its arts, academic and broadcasting communities. Subjects include the University of Toronto, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as well as Toronto's subway construction, housing, street scenes, industry, and shipping. Also photographed are public figures of the period including: Dr. Best, Morley Callaghan, J.M.S. Careless, Jack Kent Cooke, Robertson Davies, George Drew, Gracie Fields, Leslie Frost, Foster Hewitt, Peggy Lee, Guy Lombardo, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Vincent Massey, Lester B. Pearson, Michael Redgrave, Barbara Ann Scott, Gordon Sinclair, Lister Sinclair, E.P. Taylor, and Roy Thomson.

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Tim Classey fonds

  • ON00009 C 305
  • Fonds
  • 1962-1987

Fonds consists of approximately 1700 black and white prints and approximately 2300 negatives, depicting Ontario street scenes and architecture.

Much of the fonds emphasizes southern Ontario, with particular emphasis on the northern region of Metropolitan Toronto. Prints and negatives in the fonds depict houses, barns, churches, schools, stores, court houses, city and town halls, and other buildings. The fonds also includes photos of railway yards, cemeteries, parks, dams, bridges, canals and harbours, mainly featuring exterior views, but also including some interior views. As well, photographs of street scenes from various Ontario locales are represented in the fonds.

Fonds is arranged in two series.

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Archibald Robertson fonds

  • ON00009 C 307
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1957

Fonds consists of photos taken by Archibald Robertson during the course of several journeys in northwestern Ontario between 1922-1957. Fonds includes prints and negatives depicting northern Ontario Native activities, bush aircraft and general terrain. Ontario locales depicted include James Bay, Attawapiskat Lake, and Sioux Lookout.

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William Hampden Tenner fonds

  • ON00009 C 311
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]-[ca. 1910]

Fonds consists of glass plate negatives depicting the towns of Fort Frances and Lavallee, Ontario, and surrounding areas during the early 1900s. In addition to a large number of portraits, this fonds covers a variety of subjects and images of life in Northern Ontario at this time. Subjects include: lumbering, agriculture, transportation, housing and social activities, including sporting teams and activities.

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Mathers and Haldenby fonds

  • ON00009 C 315
  • Fonds
  • 1872-1991

Fonds consists of records created and received by the Toronto architectural firm of Mathers & Haldenby, documenting projects with which the firm was involved.

Major architectural projects documented in these records include Queen's Park Phase II, Upper Canada College and various hospital buildings in Toronto; various buildings at the University of Toronto; alterations to the Parliament Building and the Supreme Court Building in Ottawa; the National Library and Archival building in Ottawa; various buildings for Queen's University and the Royal Military College in Kingston; and buildings for Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Other architectural projects documented in the fonds include residences, commercial and industrial buildings, cultural and academic institutions, hospital buildings, and office buildings, mostly located in Toronto but also throughout Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Western Canada, Australia and the Caribbean.

Records in the fonds consist primarily of architectural drawings by Mathers & Haldenby or firms with which they collaborated, as well as mechanical drawings by contracted firms, and reference drawings from architects who had previously worked on some of the buildings. In addition to original drawings and prints, fonds includes reproductions of drawings on aperture cards and in microfilm format.

Fonds also includes specifications, project proposals, one firm prospectus, photographs of buildings the firm worked on, and one staff photograph.

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Savauge family fonds

  • ON00009 C 319
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]-[ca. 1917]

Fonds consists of glass plate negatives taken by a member or members of the Savauge family. Subjects of the photos include views of the Seaforth, Ontario area, including scenes of a maple sugar operation near the town, views of the local C.C.M. bicycle plant shop, as well as interior views of the Savauge family home. Also, photos depict views of the Lake Huron shoreline, views of Souris, Manitoba, as well as views from near Toronto, Ontario, including Fort York, Scarborough Bluffs, and Toronto Island. Included are views of a train wreck, and portraits of various Savauge family members.

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John Macfie fonds

  • ON00009 C 330
  • Fonds
  • [1920]-2009, predominant 1946-1980

Fonds consists of negative photographs taken by John Macfie while he worked with the Department of Lands and Forests in Northern Ontario. The photographs depict various Cree, Iroquois, and Ojibway tribes and activities in the Patricia District, an area that extended directly north of Lake Superior on the western edge of James Bay and Hudson's Bay. It included Fort Severn, Fort Albany, Attawapiskat, Landsdowne House, Sioux Lookout, Weenusk, Moose Factory, Gogoma and Mattagami Reserve.

Macfie photographed with a Kodak camera, a Rolleicord, and a Zeiss Contax for 35 mm colour slides. His images depict native people and activities and include trapping, construction of tools and artifacts, images of dwellings and community buildings and domestic activities. Macfie's photographs also depict activities relating to agriculture, maple sugar farming, the logging industry, the commercial fishing industry, archeological digs along the French and Shebeshekong rivers, site investigations in McKellar, Ontario, as well as aerial surveys of polar bears and other wildlife near James Bay and Hudson Bay. Some photographs depict Ministry staff on expeditions. Life on the Macfie family farm, and the family's timber harvesting and sawmill operations are also documented.

John Macfie provided extensive identification for all of the photographs. This information includes the date and location of the photograph, names of subjects, and description of the activities. Additionally included are articles written by Macfie that provide detail about the subject matter of the photographs.

Fonds also consists of diaries, field notes and a glossary written by John Macfie during his trips to Northern Ontario as a trapline management officer for the Department of Lands and Forests.The field notes represent his official notes of his field trips and most are accompanied by a map of the area examined on that trip. These field notes were the source material for his report on his investigation to the Department. The diaries, on the other hand, present a personal account of his experiences during his field trips. The diaries complement the photographs by describing verbally some of the items depicted in the photographs.

Also included in the fonds is a copy of a technical circular attached to which is a note by Macfie stating how this circular shaped his thinking as a trapline management officer, as well as correspondence between the Royal Ontario Museum and the Department District Officer regarding some specimens collected by Macfie.

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C.W. Jefferys fonds

  • ON00009 C 332
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1930

Fonds consists of two drawings by C.W. Jefferys depicting historical reconstructions of significant events in Canadian history. The works entitled "Confederation Leaders" and "Opening the First Legislature in Upper Canada" were most likely done for the Ontario Department of Education's museum program. Both drawings appear to be copies after the murals of the same name by Frederick S. Challener in the Ontario Government Collection. "Confederation Leaders" is also similar to the Robert Harris painting "Fathers of Confederation" which was lost in the Parliament Buildings fire in Ottawa , in 1916.

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William Armstrong fonds

  • ON00009 C 333
  • Fonds
  • 1856-1872

Fonds consists of water-colours which document Armstrong's trips throughout Ontario, and depict the following subjects : Goat Island and the American Falls, Niagara; Thunder Cape, Lake Superior; Black Sturgeon Lake, near Kenora; Numbering of the Indians at Wequamikoong, Lake Huron; Prince Arthur's Landing; and one unidentified landscape, most likely a military camp.

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Canadian War Memorials Fund fonds

  • ON00009 C 334
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1919

The fonds consists of an incomplete set of prints (one of a limited number printed) and colour reproductions of paintings in the Canada War Memorials Exhibitions. Both the prints and reproductions were created as fund-raising tools for the Canadian War Records Office, and were sold as souvenirs for visitors to exhibition. The prints are by Caroline Armington, Cyril Barraud, Gerard de Witt, and Gyrth Russell and depict Canadian troops and Canadian military activities in the following locations in Europe: Ypres, Cambrai, the Ypres- Poperinghe Road, Vlamertinghe, Mont des Cats, Kemmel, St. Pierre, Ablain St Nazaire, Mont St Eloy, Metern, Steenvoorde, Paris, Berthonval Farm, Arras, Cambligneul, Lievin, and Mons. The colour reproductions are by the following artists : Richard Jack, D.Y. Cameron, Edgar Bundy, Norma Wilkinson, Julius Olssen, Gerald Moira, Byam Shaw, C.R. Nevinson, and J. Kerr Lawson.

In addition, the fonds contains prints by other British and Canadian artists whose works were not included in the official souvenir package, but were most likely created for the same purpose. The artists included C.W. Jefferys, Bertram Buchanan, Cuardel Bly, Dorothy Stevens, and Bentley and Mason.

The fonds is arranged into the following series : prints by name of artist; colour reproductions of paintings. A copy of the Souvenir booklet that accompanied the prints is available: consult a Reference Archivist for more details.

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