Fonds consists of incoming correspondence dealing with F.B. Tupper's research on Sir Isaac Brock. Correspondents include: J. Hillyard Cameron, J.B. Glegg, James Fitzgibbon, John B. Robinson, R.N. Sheaffe, Edward Ellice, and others. Fonds also includes letters to Sir Isaac Brock from Lt. General George Prevost, George Glasgow, Henry Proctor, and others regarding the preparation against American hostilities c. 1812. Also included are manuscript extracts from private and public sources providing information and comment on Brock's life and death, as well as clippings from Toronto newspapers regarding Tupper- Brock family history, 1906-1942, and the centennial of the Battle of Queenston Heights. Fonds is arranged chronologically.

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Fonds consists primarily of correspondence of Buell family members, concerning business, politics and family matters. Fonds also includes agreements, promissory notes, accounts, assessment notices, contracts, affidavits, an Act of Incorporation for the Western Assurance Company, power of attorney records, commissions, telegrams, poetry, and correspondence regarding various issues.

Included is correspondence regarding canal work at various locations, correspondence with several doctors, and a "spirit message" from clairvoyants. Fonds also contains records regarding the construction of the court house and jail at Brockville, including petitions to the government, contracts with carpenters and workmen, land agreements, bills for materials, and signature of subscribers. A family genealogy and autobiography are also included, as well as a copy of a self portrait of Andrew Norton Buell at age 24.

There is substantial correspondence on the subject of the U.S. Civil War, as a sister of the second Mrs. Buell (née Thorp) was married to Union Brigadier-General James C. Rice.

All materials in the fonds has been arranged in one chronological sequence.

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Fonds contains records of Thomas Baker McQuesten, as well as records of other members of the McQuesten family.

Records of Thomas Baker McQuesten include private correspondence referring to family matters, the condition of the western front in World War I, the conferring of an honorary Doctorate of Laws on McQuesten by McMaster University in 1944, Ottawa River pollution in 1945, internal politics in the Ontario Parks Association, and the installation of a carillon at Niagara Falls. Also included are records of the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, including correspondence, memoranda, and reports received while McQuesten was Chairman of that Commission. Also included are records of Thomas Baker, McQuesten's maternal grandfather, including a marriage certificate, a certificate of appointment as Commander of the fleet of the British Navy in 1870, and specification of the boat St. Lawrence, of which Baker was second in command in 1815. Miscellaneous materials are also included in the records of Thomas B. McQuesten, including documents relating to the Niagara Parks Commission, the Board of Parks Management of Hamilton, records relating to McQuesten's law practice in Hamilton, as well as photographs (of Thomas B. McQuesten, group photos including Thomas B. McQuesten, and photos of a building), and newspaper clippings containing obituaries of Thomas B. McQuesten and information regarding the family residence in Hamilton.

Records of other members of the McQuesten family include published material and correspondence relating to the Presbyterian Church in Canada, including sermons and orders of service. Also included are materials relating to activities at the University of Toronto while members of the McQuesten family were students at that school. Records also include correspondence among members of Thomas Baker McQuesten's immediate family, and photographs (mostly unidentified). Correspondence of Thomas Baker McQuesten's brother, Calvin Baker McQuesten, is also included, and refers to missionary activities of the Presbyterian Church. Records also include correspondence of and relating to McQuesten family ancestors living in the United States and Britain, and some notes for sermons.

Fonds contains the following series: MCQUESTEN FAMILY PAPERS: Published Material And Correspondence, Presbyterian Church, 1837-1920 (Series A- I); Published Material, University Of Toronto, 1894-1904 (Series A-II); Correspondence Concerning T.B. McQuesten, 1858-1925 (Series A-IIIa); Correspondence, Calvin Baker McQuesten, 1893-1931 (Series A-IIIb); Correspondence, McQuesten Family, 1843- 1957 (Series A- IV); Correspondence, Thomas Baker McQuesten, 1895-1933 (Series A-V); Correspondence, McQuesten Family Pioneers, 1835-1931 (Series A- VI); Miscellaneous, Notes For Sermons. THOMAS BAKER MCQUESTEN PAPERS: Private Correspondence, 1909-1948, N.D (Series B- I); Private Correspondence, 1948- 1949 (Series B- Ia); Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, 1943-1947 (Series B-II); Personal, Biographical Memoranda, 1943- 1946 (Series B-IIIa); Personal, Family Papers Relating To Thomas Baker, 1809- 1948 (Series B-IIIb); Miscellaneous, 1870, 1920-1947 (Series B-IV); Pictures And Newsclippings, 1948, 1967-1968, N.D. (Series B-V).

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Fonds consists of official records for the Township of Yonge, specifically an assessment roll providing names of landowners, valuations of their properties, and taxes assessed on those properties.

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Fonds consists of photographs and textual records pertaining to Tom Kennedy's activities as a soldier and while a Member of the Ontario Legislature.

Photographs include portraits and depict Kennedy at various public events with friends, colleagues and members of the public. Included are photos of George Drew and Leslie Frost.

Fonds includes an album of photographs, mainly containing publicity shots taken by W.D. Tolton of the Extension Department of the Ontario Agricultural College during a tour by Kennedy to the "Clay Belt" area of Ontario. Areas depicted include New Liskeard, Fraser Beach, Engleheart, Heaslip, Schumacher, Matheson, Lac Ste. Therese, Skillington, Porquois Junction, Kapuskasing and Hearst. Subjects of these photos are chiefly fields and farm buildings, experimental farms near New Liskeard and Kapuskasing, a hydroelectric dam at Smooth Rock falls, a sawmill, a trading post near Lac Ste. Therese, and two French Canadian families experiencing economic hardship.

Fonds also includes textual material, primarily dealing with Kennedy's role as Member of the Ontario Legislature. These records include correspondence regarding constituency matters; various speeches, statistics and reports regarding agriculture; personal diaries and scrapbooks.

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Fonds consists of records related to the Grubb (or Grubbe) family, who immigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland in 1833 and settled in the village of Weston, Ontario (now part of Toronto).

Most records pertain to the activities of family patriarch John Grubb including a letterbook, correspondence with the editor of the Examiner newspaper and a receipt for shares of capital stock in the Weston Road Company.

Additional records include receipt for shares of capital stock in the Albion Plank Road Company, an account book, an advertisement for a sale of lots near Weston, a photograph of Ontario Premier Sir Oliver Mowat (an uncle of Mrs. Talbot Grubbe) and a history of the Grubb family written by Talbot Page Grubbe, John's descendant.

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Fonds consists of records documenting the public and private business life of William Cambers of Etobicoke Township. The records include correspondence relating to his work on behalf of the township in the collection of census and assessment information. There is also correspondence relating to his private business dealings and volumes recording expenditures and income relating to land sales and related matters.

The records include: papers dealing with municipal affairs in Etobicoke Township., Canada West, 1849-1856; papers and reports to Sir. Casimir S. Gzowski regarding West York Road and Dundas St., 1846-1848; 11 volumes of account books and notebooks, 1820-1856; two by-laws posters, 1850-1853; and bridge and sluice plans, 1820-1848.

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Fonds consists of ten handwritten volumes kept by William Kyle in the operation of his general merchant business. There are seven ledgers, one cash book, and two orders books. Entries provide customers' names, goods purchased, prices of goods, and customers' accounts. Goods sold include potash, calico, whiskey, handkerchiefs, cough drops, furniture, butter, and tea.

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Collection consists of photographs and other records, chiefly documenting the Ingersoll, Muskoka, Aylmer and St. Marys areas, collected by or given to amateur historian David L. Gibson. It includes photographs in several formats including cartes de visite, cabinet cards, tintypes, contemporary prints, and glass plate negatives and is comprised of two studio collections: the Hugill studios and the H.F. Robinson Studio. It also includes photographs and other records related to the Gibson and the Foulds families as well as records concerning David's personal research and family history.

As a child in the late 1920s, Gibson first befriended Edgar H. ("Ed") Hugill on Keewaydin Island in Muskoka where Hugill worked as the summer postmaster. Hugill operated a photo studio in Ingersoll, Ontario, initially in conjunction with his father, John, and later on his own. After Ed Hugill's death in 1955, the collection of negatives and photographs from the studio came into Gibson's possession. Gibson used the photos in writing books about Keewaydin Island and the Hugill studio.

Photographs in this collection consist of negatives and prints of family members and studio customers as well as interiors and exteriors of homes and businesses in the Ingersoll area, boats and cottages on Keewaydin and surrounding islands, and events in the Ingersoll and Muskoka areas.

Gibson also obtained the collection of another photographer, Harold Franklin ("Frank") Robinson, possibly through the estate of a Wilford Smith. The photographs included in this collection consist of individual and group portraits often taken at weddings, reunions, social events, and YWCA camps in Aylmer and St. Marys, Ontario.

Gibson was an avid genealogist. He gathered photographs documenting the Gibson as well as the Foulds families. The Foulds, David's maternal grandparents, were early settlers in the Brantford area and contemporaries and neighbours of Alexander Graham Bell. The photographs in this collection consist of family portraits, some of which were used to illustrate David L. Gibson's book on the Foulds family.

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Fonds consists of the Township Book for the Township of Blenheim. The volume records the minutes of an annual meeting by the rate payers resident in Blenheim Township held to appoint local officials such as assessor, pound keeper and path inspector. These meetings were instituted under 1822 legislation which allowed for rudimentary municipal institutions in rural areas. During the period covered by this volume, Blenheim Township did not have status as a municipal corporation.

The book records the business of the meetings, the names of officers appointed by the ratepayers, amounts approved for expenditures on roads and bridges, and the ear marks used by residents to identify their livestock.

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