Fonds consists of records that document the activities of the Toronto based partnership of Moriyama & Teshima as architects and planners from 1957 to 2004.

The records include project and business files. The projects include those proposed and/or undertaken by the partnership such as: public buildings (civic and recreation centres), cultural and educational centres (libraries, museums and university buildings), land-use planning studies, residential buildings (single-family dwellings and multi-unit complexes), and commercial properties (car dealerships and malls).

The project files may include architectural drawings, such as sketches, technical drawings, conceptual designs, and presentation panels. They may also include paintings, photographs, posters and site models. Project files may also contain site surveys or maps, correspondence, financial records, and minutes to meetings.

The business files include contracts and specifications, proposal submissions, site research, various publications, planning reports, public relations materials, and the personal office records of Raymond Moriyama including his scrapbooks, written speeches, and awards.

Fonds also includes audio cassettes and CD-ROMs that relate to the history of the partnership, including detail meetings with clients and other interested parties.

The fonds is arranged by corporate function. A project coding system created by Moriyama and Teshima, Architects has been maintained. Project codes include a numbering system whereby the first two digits represent the year the project was started followed by digits assigned sequentially.

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Fonds consists of administrative records of the Ontario Family Studies / Home Economic Educators Association (OFSHEEA) and records documenting the association's activities in education.

Fonds includes: minutes, annual reports, financial records, policy statements, manual, and curriculum materials, including fabric samples.

Records also relate to various affiliate organizations, including the Canadian Home Economics Association (CHEA), Home Economics in Education (HEIE) and the Swaziland Home Economics Association (SHEA).

Photographs consist of OFSHEEA members, conferences, workshops, awards, partnership events and study tours. Partnership events include summers with Seven Eight Teachers (S.E.T.), as well as study tours exchanged with the Swaziland Home Economics Association (SHEA).

Sound and moving image material consists of recordings of speakers: primarily Canadian Home Economics Association (CHEA) conferences and OFSHEEA workshops.

Transparencies and diazotypes include classroom display areas, demonstration facilities and classroom layout.

Artifacts include fabric samples that exhibit specific sewing techniques such as top stitching and basting.

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Fonds consists primarily of photographic prints created by Toronto photographer Peter MacCallum. Two of the photographic series focus on two Toronto factories: the Wickett and Craig Tannery, and the National Rubber Company. The third series focuses on concrete manufacture and distribution in Ontario.

Selections of these prints were featured in three separate exhibitions: “Tannery: Documentary Photographs of the Wickett and Craig Tannery, Toronto, 1989-1993”; “A Junction Factory: Documentary Photographs of the National Rubber Cawthra Avenue Plant, Toronto, 1992-1994”; and “Concrete Industries.”

The photographs document the interiors and exteriors of the factories and the concrete plants, the workers, the equipment, and the processes involved. The photographer has noted the names of the workers appearing in each photograph and has identified the processes depicted in the photographs.

Also includes research and reference material compiled and annotated by Peter MacCallum during his work on the Concrete Industries documentary photography project such as copies of articles, reports and news clippings concerning the history of the cement and concrete industries in Ontario in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also included as reference material are three contact prints of an aerial view of an unidentified cement plant, two architectural drawings of the Cement Company plant at Belleville, Ontario, and maps of the Corporation of the Township of Thurlow, Ontario highlighting the area in which a cement company was located.

The fonds has been arranged into four series.

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Fonds consists of a 16 mm film reel of the short film "The Settlers." "The Settlers" was produced by long-time Toronto Film and Video Club (TFVC) member Jack Ruddell. The film is 28 minutes in length and stars Bill and Maryon Brechin as two early settlers in Upper Canada dealing with the trials and tribulations of farm life. "The Settlers" won numerous international awards including a Gold Medal at the Photographic Society of America Convention.

Fonds also includes a DVD featuring Jack Ruddell speaking at a Toronto Film and Video Club meeting, explaining the filming process and technical details in creating "The Settlers." The meeting occurred on July 22, 2003.

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Fonds consists of records of David Lindsay's political career, particularly as Principal Secretary to Mike Harris, as President of the Ontario Jobs and Investment Board, and as President of Ontario Superbuild Corporation.

The fonds includes Lindsay's files on government transitions which he co-chaired or advised on in 1995 and 2002; files on visioning and strategy exercises in the PC Party; speeches; trip and event files; and records of invitations. Files in general contain correspondence, memos, reports, handwritten notes by David Lindsay, and materials annotated by David Lindsay.

The fonds also includes material accumulated by David Lindsay, namely: PC Party election campaign communications material including election ads, political ephemera from electoral and leadership candidates, and Ontario budget speeches.

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Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, sound and moving images and artifacts created, accumulated and used by The Order Sons of Italy of Canada (formerly the Order Sons of Italy in Ontario) since its founding in 1915.

These records were created by officers of the Grand Lodge, and officers and members of the local lodges and the Mutual Benefit Society in the course of the following activities: management of the organization's finances; administration of membership; provision of mortuary and health insurance; social and cultural activities; meetings and conventions; charitable work; and advocacy work.

These records also reflect the development of the Order including its rapid expansion in the 1920s-1930s, regeneration in the post-war period, and gradual evolution in the last half of the 20th Century.

Fonds also includes artifacts, original records and photo reproductions used as display items in the exhibit, "Con le mani ed i cuori" mounted by the Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

Fonds is arranged into series by local lodge, and at the sub-series level for the records of the Grand Lodge.

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Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by W. Douglas Short from the time he obtained a movie camera around 1956 until approximately 2003.

Specifically, the records include photographs, motion picture film, videotapes, audio reels, text, and reference material.

Short's records document Sarnia as well as his travels throughout Ontario, the rest of Canada, and the United States as he pursued his interests in promoting tourism, and in photographing, filming, and recording subjects including trains (steam, electric, and model), ships, construction projects, and nature.

The textual records in this fonds include Short's film notes: these could be considered camera shot lists as he itemized, in handwritten and typed text, details of specific trains, locations, and dates. Short used these notes for his film presentations and his self-created promotional material, which is also included in the fonds. Short's text was probably also used by him as reference for his voice-overs, when he transferred some of his film to video, which he sold to family, friends, and his community. The Archives has received copies of some of his videos.

Short also collected published material relating to his photographs and films, brochures from his travels, cards with images of his favourite subjects including trains and nature, and financial records including evidence of the transfer from film to video.

Not all of Short's photographs, motion picture films, or videotapes were transferred to the Archives of Ontario. Not all of the prints or negatives have a match as Douglas gave away some of his prints to individuals featured in the photographs. None of the 8 mm films used to create some of his videotapes or the associated sound tracks were acquired. Based on the listings for Short's presentations, there may have been additional 16 mm motion picture films and videocassettes that also were not transferred to the Archives of Ontario.

The fonds is arranged into two series, one for Short's films and videos (with related material), and the other for his photographs (with related material).

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Fonds consists of photographs taken by Julien LeBourdais, a Toronto-based professional photographer.

The photographs document a wide range of subjects including prominent sports figures, politicians, artists, entertainers, business leaders, and royalty. In addition to notable personalities, the photographs also cover political events including campaigns and elections, diplomatic visits to Ontario, activities of major labour unions, factories and workers, sporting events, protests, and various geographic regions throughout the province. While the vast majority of the photographs are of Ontario events and personalities, some have a wider national or international context.

The arrangement of photographs reflects Julien LeBourdais' original filing system in the first three series and his own arrangement in the remaining series.

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Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Morton Katz during his career as an architect. It includes architectural drawings, photographs and textual reference materials. The records mainly document the projects Katz proposed or completed in his private practice; however, a few of the files are from his earlier work with other architectural firms.

Fonds also includes drawings completed by Katz as a student at the University of Toronto and reference files kept by Katz throughout his career. The reference files include project materials and records related to proposals Katz worked on as a professor at the University of Toronto.

With the exception of a few unidentified photographs, the fonds does not include records related to Katz' work as a sculptor.

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Fonds consists of records created, collected, and used by Robert and Barbara Beardsley during their time as members of the New Democratic Party (NDP), candidates in federal and provincial elections, and as organizers and campaign managers across Canada.

Fonds includes newsletters, membership lists, election nomination papers, scrapbooks, publications, advertisements, speeches, newspaper clippings, polling results, NDP convention booklets, and committee records.

Fonds has been arranged into six series.

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