Fonds consists mainly of correspondence of various Baldwin family members, and documents relating to land transactions and business matters. Correspondence relates mainly to estate and business matters, but some letters discuss political and personal issues. Included in the correspondence are some letters of Elizabeth Russell, including a marriage proposal from Robert Baldwin. Other records include commissions, indentures, land patents, deeds, accounts, volumes of legal advice of Robert Baldwin and other lawyers, and other records.

Fonds also includes a number of business and estate papers of Quetton St. George, a French royalist officer who immigrated to Canada in 1798, became active in the fur trade, and whose business William Baldwin superintended after he returned to France in 1815.

Fonds also includes one legal size bound volume with pasted and loose inserts of eight lithographic letters by Robert Baldwin (Dec. 1847), various 1840's Reform Election Committee documents and posters, an English landscape print (published 1797), plus notes and published china and pottery markings for a Toronto auction ca. 1917. Included on one volume page is a sketch map of Thorah Township lots.

The volume's provenance can be traced to the Reform Election Committee of the Township of Thorah through its use as a canvass book for the Legislative Assembly elections of the 1840s for the York North Riding, formerly the 4th of York (County of York -- the Home District, of which Thorah was part until 1850).

The register contains lists of Thorah residents and proprietors from the 1842 Census, 1844 Assessment Roll and the 1847 canvass, with their occupation, assessed value and canvassed political allegiance. Robert Baldwin's lithographic letters soliciting support were composed for distribution to three separate audiences: new voters, supposed friends and supporters, and "to parties who formerly voted against us but who...will be induced to go with us now".

The relevance of the ca. 1917 inserts is unclear, since they may have been placed in the volume after it found itself in the Osgoode Hall Library.

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Fonds consists of records relating to the financial and personal interests of several generations of the Russel family. The records are chiefly concerned with the family's landholdings and various financial enterprises.

Correspondence, financial and legal records reflect the family's extensive landholdings throughout Ontario and Quebec and the importing, merchant and metal trading businesses operated by various members of the family.

Among the records are maps of the family's property and surrounding areas.

Fonds also includes a series dealing with Colin and Sarah Russel's involvement on the Management Committee of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Montreal.

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Fonds consists of one personal notebook kept by John White, the first Attorney General of Upper Canada.

The principal content of the notebook is a diary kept from 1792 until 1794. The early entries describe White's trip from Montreal to Kingston upon taking up his office. Thereafter, brief daily entries record his health, social engagements and matters relating to his working life, both as parliamentarian and as prosecutor. Among the associates frequently mentioned are Governor Simcoe and Chief Justice Osgoode. A transcription of this diary, edited by William Colgate, is published in Ontario History, vol. XLVII, no. 4, pgs. 147-170.

The diary entries conclude on 5 April 1794. A few pages following are occupied with memoranda of payments to various persons, all dated in 1797.

White also used this notebook to record his expenses, starting with his arrival at Montreal in 1792, and continuing, on a somewhat sporadic basis, until 1795. The accounts begin at the rear of the volume and are upside-down in relation to the diary entries.

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Fonds consists of the records created, received and collected by the T. Eaton Company Limited and some of its associated operations. Most of the textual records come from the Eaton's executive offices at national headquarters, in Toronto. The fonds contains few records from lower administrative offices or from individual stores. Offices and department's represented in this fonds include: President and Vice- President, 1869-1965; Secretary, 1890-1987; Advertising and Art, 1861-1988; Controller, 1890-1975; Corporate Property Management; Public Relations, 1912-1988, Merchandise, 1889-1977; General Office, 1899-1972; Law Department; Mail Order Office, 1884-1976; Manufacturing, 1855-1961; Personnel Office, 1880-1988; Sales and Expense, 1921-1960; Statistical Insurance, 1899-1930; Staff Superintendent, 1911-1962; Store Superintendent, 1901-1979, Central Division, 1922-1979; Maritimes Division, 1897-1957, and the Western Division (Winnipeg), 1905-1961. In addition, fonds contains some textual records from the following Eaton owned companies: Brampton Tire and Rubber Company; the Eaton Knitting Company Ltd.; Guelph Stove Company Ltd.; T. Eaton Acceptance Company Ltd.; T. Eaton Acceptance Company Ltd. of Montreal; T. Eaton Maritimes Company Ltd.; T. Eaton General Insurance Company Ltd.; and T. Eaton Realty Company Ltd. Fonds also consists of ca. 90,000 photographs, created or acquired by Eaton's. Photos include prints, negatives, proofs, slides and copy prints created or supplied by Eaton's in-house photo studio and used in various departments and offices throughout the organisation. Subjects include: advertising, building expansions, displays, portraits of employees, employee activities, promotions, transportation as well as historical events such as Royal visits. Also included in the fonds are 124 posters's created between 1925 and the 1980's. Subjects are: automobiles, Centennial celebrations, clothing and dress, shoplifting and store security, department stores, paper conservation, sporting events, parades and processions, price lists, radios, restaurants, sales promotions, strikes, tapestries, and tourism. A number of items are not creations of Eaton's, including two cartoon reproductions, two Statistics Canada posters, and two posters for Sunbeam automobiles. Fonds also contains 431 architectural drawings, survey plans and decorative drawings, 1900 - 1975. These records mainly concern Eaton's merchandising properties, employee recreational facilities and Eaton family properties. There are also reference drawings for American and Western Canadian department stores by the Chicago firm, D.H. Burnham and Company, as well as mechanical designs by Russell Motor Car Company for a machine gun mounted vehicle. Also included are 16 mm. films and videotapes, created 1927-1982, pertaining to Eaton's annual Santa Claus Parade, commercials, Eaton family history, community relations, staff training and market research. As well, the fonds includes 81 hours of sound recordings (1940-1984) on audio reel and audiocassette. Sound recordings include radio commercials as well as interviews with Lady Eaton and speeches by Eaton's managers.

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Fonds consists mainly of records relating to land acquisition and title, as well as some personal records of members of the Williams family. Fonds contains Crown patents for land in 18 townships in the Newcastle District (Counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, and Durham), other land records (including deeds, mortgages, agreements, conveyances, Powers of Attorney, and other records for hundreds of lots of land in Port Hope, Fraserville, and 23 townships, mainly in the Newcastle District, and maps and plans relating to a house and property in western Canada, in Buckhorn, Ontario, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Personal records of Williams family members include correspondence, financial records (bills, invoices, receipts, accounts), property records (mortgage, insurance, and rental records), estate records of various family members, death certificates of various family members, copy of marriage settlement, deed of separation of Charles and Emma Seymour, and other personal records.

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Fonds consists mainly of records and copies of records connected with Edward Merrill's legal practice. Included is correspondence relating to legal matters, and also includes letters of appointment to Samuel Merrill. Legal correspondence is that of Edward Merrill regarding cases tried before him, petitions, the and position of County Court Judges. Correspondence has been arranged chronologically. Fonds also includes various legal records, including affidavits, agreements, bonds, releases and elections, wills and estate books, and other records. Legal records have been arranged alphabetically. Also included are miscellaneous records, including poll books for elections in 1828 and 1830, for which Samuel Merrill was Deputy Returning Officer. Attached to these books are several petitions regarding the contesting of the election of 1828.

Fonds consists of three handwritten volumes, two cash books and one account book, which contain the business records of William Tench, Charles Tench, and John Forster.

Fonds includes a cash book kept by William Tench from 1827 to 1840 in which he recorded expenses, goods sold, and payment for jobs in relation to the operation of a general merchant business and a farm. The cash book also served as a diary in which he recorded various activities. Entries were made for such things as payments for tanning a calfskin and for getting straw into a barn, sales of tea, sugar, and other groceries, remedies for various physical ailments, listings of "produce of farm", and a "journey to Toronto with 5 fat hogs".

Also included is an account book kept by William Tench and John Forster from 1802 to 1803 which has records apparently relating to the operation of a mill. Entries are made for barley, wheat, oats, and bran including names of customers and prices. Included in the account book is an index listing customers' names.

The account book was also used by Charles Tench from 1852 to 1880 for business records related to the construction of houses.

Fonds includes a cash book, kept by Charles Tench from 1813 to 1906, contains records relating to the operation of a general merchant business and the construction of houses. Entries include sales of groceries and many liquor items as well as the costs of building materials.

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Fonds consists of nine handwritten day books, eight of which are also ledgers. The day books contain records relating to the general merchant business of Charles Jones. Entries give customers' names, prices of goods, and goods sold. The goods include both groceries and sundries such as butter, brown sugar, salts, peppermint, blankets, chalk, calico, and logs.

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The fonds consists of records related to the ship-building heritage of the Ditchburn family, in particular Ditchburn Boats Limited, a boat building company owned and operated by Herbert Ditchburn in the Muskoka region of Ontario.

Fonds includes correspondence, notes and designs related to patent applications for boat parts invented by Herbert Ditchburn and for boat designs as well as general business documentation for the Ditchburn Boats Limited and its predecessors.

Fonds also consists of historical records and information about various shipbuilding companies owned by the Ditchburn family, including the Ditchburn and Mare Shipbuilding Company, which operated in England and built ships for Queen Elizabeth I to defeat the Spanish Armada as well as records related to Ditchburn family members.

Also includes material related to particular boats built by Ditchburn Boats Ltd. including boats built for the RCMP, the RCAF, raceboats that competed in the America's Cup and other speed boat races, in particular a series of boats built for Betty Estelle Carstairs.

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Fonds consists primarily of the personal and business records of Thomas Benson and his descendants, principally his son, Thomas Moore Benson. It also includes papers of other family members.

Records of Thomas Benson include incoming personal and business correspondence, a letter book of outgoing correspondence, diaries, records of land acquired and sold, account books from his store in Port Hope and his mill in Peterborough, records relating to the Port Hope and Peterborough Railway, records accumulated by Benson as Paymaster of the 3rd. Battalion of Incorporated Militia, as well as records of Benson's estate.

Records of Thomas Moore Benson include incoming private and business correspondence, several letter books of outgoing correspondence, diaries, notes, examinations, certificates and correspondence relative to his training as a lawyer, and records pertaining to his law practice. Law practice records includes day books, journals recording payments, docket books, files relating to litigation and the settling of estates, and files relating to mortgages in the town of Omemee. Thomas Moore Benson's records also include appointments and commissions, records of land acquired and sold, subject files and scrapbooks, daily accounts, clippings and printed materials, and records relating to his retirement and his estate.

Records of Frederick Albert Benson include letterbooks, primarily recording business correspondence, a ledger, militia records, a minute book, and records of his estate.

Records of Richard Lowe Benson include certificates, notes, and correspondence relating to this training as a lawyer, and to his later law practice.

Records of Thomas Bingley Fuller Benson relate to his interests in the shipbuilding industry during the early 20th century.

Fonds consists primarily of the personal and business records of Thomas Benson and his descendants, principally his son, Thomas Moore Benson. It also includes papers of other family members.

Records of Thomas Benson include incoming personal and business correspondence, a letter book of outgoing correspondence, diaries, records of land acquired and sold, account books from his store in Port Hope and his mill in Peterborough, records relating to the Port Hope and Peterborough Railway, records accumulated by Benson as Paymaster of the 3rd. Battalion of Incorporated Militia, as well as records of Benson's estate.

Records of Thomas Moore Benson include incoming private and business correspondence, several letter books of outgoing correspondence, diaries, notes, examinations, certificates and correspondence relative to his training as a lawyer, and records pertaining to his law practice. Law practice records includes day books, journals recording payments, docket books, files relating to litigation and the settling of estates, and files relating to mortgages in the town of Omemee. Thomas Moore Benson's records also include appointments and commissions, records of land acquired and sold, subject files and scrapbooks, daily accounts, clippings and printed materials, and records relating to his retirement and his estate.

Records of Frederick Albert Benson include letterbooks, primarily recording business correspondence, a ledger, militia records, a minute book, and records of his estate.

Records of Richard Lowe Benson include certificates, notes, and correspondence relating to this training as a lawyer, and to his later law practice.

Records of Thomas Bingley Fuller Benson relate to his interests in the shipbuilding industry during the early 20th century.

Records of Dr. Clara Cynthia Benson primarily relate to her childhood and school life, her social life in Port Hope, Ontario, and her interest in her family's genealogy.

Records of Emma Louisa (Fuller) Benson consist of a small amount of personal correspondence, a school report, and a record of household expenses.

Records of James Binley Benson consist of his orders and commissions as well as volumes of transcribed poetry.

Records of Laura Abigail (Fuller) Benson consist of a travel journal, personal correspondence, personal photographs, and records of financial accounts and interests.

Records of Mary Edith (McCaul) Benson consist of personal correspondence, purchase receipts and a photograph.

Records of John Benson consist of a letter from his father Ezekiel Benson concerning land in Hay Bay, Upper Canada.

Records of Samuel Benson consist of a single letter sent to him from solicitors, in his capacity as a provincial land surveyor (PLS).

Records of Robert Cochrane Morris consist of certificates issued to him in various capacities.

Records of Ethel Constance Blake consists of two volumes of notations and clippings on the subjects of The Great War and current events between 1914 and 1916.

Fonds also contains photographs taken and accumulated by the Bensons relating to the family and their activities in Port Hope, St. Catharines and other locations. This includes portraits of individuals, mainly Benson family members and friends. This also includes views of Port Hope and St. Catharines, in addition to other parts of the province. This series has been divided into seven sub-series based on content; including portraits of Benson family members and friends, photographs of cities and towns in Ontario, photographs of militia groups, photographs of Benson family homes, photographs of railroads, leisure activities, stereographs, and other miscellaneous photos acquired by the Benson family.

Fonds also includes records relative to the activities of Port Hope barristers Thomas Trevor Baines and John Wright, which were acquired by the Benson family.

Fonds also includes a volume of account records of a practice of Dr. P. H. Salter of Port Hope, Ontario.

Fonds also contains a field notebook created between 1842 and 1844 by land surveyor John Knatchbull Roche.

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