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Page & Steele Architects fonds

  • ON00009 C 20
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1988

Fonds consists of the records created and accumulated by Page & Steele Architects. Fonds includes architectural drawings, change notices, orders, specifications, contracts, tenders, correspondence, progress reports, accounting records, filed instructions, drawings transmittal forms, work schedules, electrical and mechanical files, construction meeting minutes, slides and progress photographs from various projects.

Nearly all projects represented in this fonds are in the Toronto area, and include: Commerce Court office development; O'Keefe Performing Arts Centre (currently the Sony Centre, formerly known as the Hummingbird Centre); Beth Tzedec Synagogue; Kimbourne Park United Church; Moss Armoury; Regent Park South Housing Development; York University Chapel and Religious Centre; and Garden Court Apartments.

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Elmer H. Russell fonds

  • ON00009 C 202
  • Fonds
  • [191-?]

Fonds consists of three watercolours created by the architect Elmer H. Russell while he was employed by the Ontario Department of Public Works. Two of the paintings are aerial views of Chorley Park and Government House in Toronto, Ontario. The third painting, in a wash technique, shows the main lobby of Government House in perspective, separated into four pieces.

W. and W.R.L. Blackwell fonds

  • ON00009 C 21
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1944

Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Peterborough architects, William and Walter Rollston Lightbourne Blackwell. Projects represented in the fonds include: Hospital for the Canadian General Electric Company; additions to the Peterborough Y.M.C.A.; Hospital for the General Electric Company; Rush Apartments; the Masonic Building; the Canadian Raybestos Company Building; and the Peterborough Lock Company Building.

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Charles J. Gibson fonds

  • ON00009 C 214
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1885]-[192-]

Fonds consists of architectural drawings, photographs and textual records created or accumulated by Toronto architect, Charles J. Gibson.

Includes design specifications, architectural drawings and correspondence pertaining to work performed by Gibson for Mr. F.H. Gooch relating to the construction of a conservatory addition to Gooch's residence at 120 Crescent Road in Toronto and his cottage on Lake Simcoe. The drawings include sketches of a site plan and sections of an ice house attached to Gooch's cottage. Also includes one certificate recognizing Gibson's membership in the Ontario Association of Architects.

Includes a series of photographs documenting: Chandler House, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club memorial capstan, the Queen's Park Archway commemorating the 1901 Royal Visit of the Duke of York and Duchess of Cornwall, Lambton Golf and Country Club and two cottages (all designed by Gibson), as well as the Simpson Family mausoleum in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Also includes photographs of a series of unidentified residential rooms, either designed or photographed by Gibson.

One watercolour perspective painting by Gibson documents a grand Muskoka cottage he designed in 1902, known as "Kawandag." The painting was damaged by water leakage prior to its donation to the Archives of Ontario but the design of the cottage and its setting remain visible.

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Gibson, Charles J., 1862-1935

Craig, Zeidler and Strong fonds

  • ON00009 C 22
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1967

Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Craig, Zeidler and Strong and its antecedents, predominantly Blackwell and Craig. Major projects represented in this fonds were mostly undertaken in Peterborough and are as follows: Peterborough Civic Hospital; Peterborough Memorial Centre; Lakefield Preparatory School; Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School; Lakefield District High School; Peterborough Medical Centre; Abramsky Building; Cherney's store and warehouse; and Peterborough Golf and Country Club. Fonds also includes a list, probably arranged in chronological order.

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Richard Holborn fonds

  • ON00009 C 221
  • Fonds
  • 1958-[1969?]

Fonds consists of 470 negatives and approximately 175 prints in an album, taken in the course of Richard Holborn's work with the Toronto Star newspaper.

Most of the images were taken at the Malton airport (now Pearson International Airport) and capture people in the entertainment business such as the Beatles, Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Jean Shrimpton, and Raymond Massey.

Fonds also includes photographs of federal, provincial and municipal politicians including John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.

Also included are images of local fires, ice storms, pageants, and fatal car accidents.

Unit C 221-0-0-30 is an album compiled by Holborn for display in a local photography store. All prints from this fonds are housed in this album. In addition to prints, the album contains biographical information, a small number of newspaper clippings, as well as press identification and business cards.

Most of the negatives in this fonds are 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" black and white images, although there are some 35 mm and 4"x5" black and white negatives. All but six of the 172 prints are black and white.

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Holborn, Richard F., d. 1999

Reuben R. Sallows fonds

  • ON00009 C 223
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1922

Fonds consists of photographs taken by Reuben Sallows of farmers and farm life. The fonds contains images of rural activities and animals, the harvesting of farm produce, and scenes of women in rustic settings.

The fonds was in no recognisable order when received. It has been arranged into subject groupings. Each photograph includes Sallows' stamp on the reverse and some are annotated with captions.

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Sallows, Reuben R., 1855-1937

McMurrich and Oxley fonds

  • ON00009 C 23
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1986

Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of McMurrich and Oxley and their predecessor, Sommerville, McMurrich and Oxley. Fonds also contains some architectural drawings from Oxley and Chapman, Loren Arthur Oxley's father's architectural firm. The drawings are largely of Hamilton and Toronto buildings. Various projects are documented in the fonds including: Holy Blossom Temple, 1936-1949; Prince's Gate, 1927; Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, 1965-1967; Peace Bridge Approach Plaza, Fort Erie, 1952-1960; Pembroke General Hospital, 1952-1955; Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, Canadian Plaza, 1959 and 1960-1962; Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Fall, Canadian Approach Plaza, 1949-1942; McMaster University Hamilton - various proposals, during the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's; and the Junior Red Cross Hospital, Calgary, 1945-1951. Also represented are the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Hospital at St. Thomas, and additions to St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Reference drawings of architects such as J.P. Hynes and A.A. Post are included. In addition, fonds contains photographs, newspaper clippings and subject files pertaining to various projects, clients and architectural history.

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Walter Moorhouse fonds

  • ON00009 C 231
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1909]-1957

The Walter Moorhouse fonds consists of photographs and motion picture film taken by Walter Moorhouse depicting Moorhouse’s family, his homes, and the community in which he lived. Moorhouse also captured the activities and students at the schools where he was employed, as well as those of the Daily Vacation Bible School and the Y.M.C.A. where he volunteered. There are many landscape photographs taken during Moorhouse’s travels throughout Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada, Germany, and England as well as still life photographs of animals, flowers, trees, and various inanimate objects.

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