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William T. Clegg fonds

  • ON00009 C 232
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1832]-[ca.1845]

Fonds consists of watercolours depicting various locations on the Rideau Canal created by William T. Clegg. The watercolours may have been prepared to document the construction of the canal for presentation to visiting officials. The drawings are not signed and dated, but have information regarding location written on the verso. The watercolours identify various lock stations along the Rideau Canal from Bytown (Ottawa) to Kingston: Hartwell's locks; Hog's Back; Black Rapids; Long Island; Burritt's Rapids; Nicholson's Rapids; Clow's Rapids; Merrick's Mills; Maitland's Locks; Edmund's Mills; Old Sly's Locks; Smith's Falls; First Rapids; Narrows; Isthmus; Chaffey's Mills; Davis; Brewer's Lower Mills; and Kingston's Mills.

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Anne M. Logan fonds

  • ON00009 C 238
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1975]-[ca. 1986]

Fonds consists of ca. 10,600 colour photographic prints and negatives depicting converted one-room schoolhouses. The photographs were taken in the course of Logan's research for the book "School's Out: A Pictorial History of Ontario's Converted Schoolhouses".

The fonds includes 5 albums of approximately 600 colour prints depicting interior and exterior views of Ontario schoolhouses, with captions including name of school, geographic location and date of construction. The first album contains portions of text used in the introduction of Logan's book on schoolhouses.

Also included are ca. 10,000 colour prints and 35 mm. negatives depicting Ontario interior and exterior views of schoolhouses.

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Bill Montaigne fonds

  • ON00009 C 239
  • Fonds
  • 1946-1987

Fonds consists of photographic, textual, sound and moving images material created, accumulated, and maintained by Bill and Barbara Montaigne.

Fonds includes black and white and colour photographic negatives depicting local community life and news events in the Pembroke, Ontario area. Portraits and aerial photographs are also found int he fonds. Three file card indices for many of the photographs in this fonds are also available.

Textual records contained in this fonds include newspaper clippings, story files, proof sheets, and correspondence pertaining to Montaigne's activities as a photojournalist. Fonds also includes three scrapbooks compiled by Barbara Montaigne containing magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, cards and other ephemera documenting Bill Montaine's career as a photojournalist, photographer and cinematographer.

Records of Bill Montaigne also include sound recordings and freelance films produced by Montaigne, and some footage of his family.

The records have been arranged in nine series.

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John H. Ross and Associates fonds

  • ON00009 C 24
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1975

Fonds consists primarily of 966 engineering drawings representing 168 projects. The fonds includes mechanical and electrical engineering plans for all types of commercial, industrial, institutional and residential buildings.

The fonds also includes photographic slides of houses and buildings the firm worked upon.

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Jack Ryrie fonds

  • ON00009 C 25
  • Fonds
  • [188-?]-1990

Fonds consists of personal and professional records of Toronto architect Jack Ryrie. This includes work done for various architectural firms, including Saunders and Ryrie, Mathers and Haldenby, and Allward and Gouinlock.

Personal records include certificates, diaries, notebooks and sketches and paintings, in a variety of media, created while living in Toronto as well as while traveling and studying in Europe, the Middle East and Egypt.

Fonds also includes records relating to Ryrie's purchase, restoration and occupation of the Toronto residence named "Whitehall".

Photographic records document family and friends, Whitehall, travels and historic buildings of Ontario

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Ryrie, Jack, 1903-1988

J.H. Black fonds

  • ON00009 C 252
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1900

Fonds consists of 64 glass plate negatives taken by J.H. Black. The photographs depict various scenes and individuals around Colchester including: Christ Church; Reverend S.J. Whealan; Grace Baldwin; Maggie Bell; Fanny Wright; Lena Bailey; Edwin Wright; the Pelaw family; the Brush family; the Klie family; Captain Little; Olly Bowring: the Hackett family; the Tofflemire family; freighter and tugs; local industry; and Colchester Beach.

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David L. Thomas collection

  • ON00009 C 253
  • Collection
  • 1962-1974

Collection consists of 35 mm negative copies of ca. 980 slides of historic photographs of the Parry Sound District.

Geographic areas documented include: Ahmic Harbour, Britt, Byng Inlet, Depot Harbour, Dunchurch, Hurdville, Lost Channel, MacTier, Footes Bay, McKellar, Nobel, Orrville, Parry Island, Rosseau and Waubamik.

Photographic subjects are: aircraft, automobiles, banks, blacksmith shops, churches, curling groups, factories, fairgrounds, fire halls, hockey teams, hotels, loggers, lumber mills, mines, parades, railways, schools, ships, smelters, stores, streets, trains, wagons, and various individuals.

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Multilingual Television (Toronto) Limited fonds

  • ON00009 C 257
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1989

Fonds consists of video cassette tapes representing programming produced by Multilingual Television Limited during the period 1979-1989. Included in the fonds are complete programs, inserts and raw footage produced by CFMT. These consist of magazines, news, variety shows, dramas, game shows, documentaries, specials and promotional programming.

Material in the fonds includes samples from each of the ethnic groups represented in CFMT's programming, in addition to selections of each type of programming as well as representative samples from each year's productions. Very little English-language programming is included in the fonds.

Included in the programming is CFMT's first broadcast from September 3, 1979. Also, a selection of native programming from "Pow-Wow" and "Native Express" is included. Programs from other ethnic groups are also represented, including Ukrainian Magazine, Dutch Magazine, and Macedonian Magazine. As well, two informational productions aimed at Asian refugees in Toronto are included, as are programs relating to a tribute to Robbie Burns, and a Citizenship Court held on Canada Day. Promotional segments for English- language programming, as well as for an Italian-language entertainment magazine, "Incontri" are included.

Fonds also includes selections of productions purchased by CFMT for use in its programming, as well as productions of unknown origin. These consist of numerous documentaries and dramatic presentations including a dramatization of a Bulgarian peasant wedding, as well as numerous news magazine items from Japan, Portugal, Germany, Armenia and Holland which were probably not created by CFMT.

Also part of the fonds are a number of programs produced by other production companies, television stations, or networks. These include "Paradox of Norval Morriseau" and a production focussing on native issues, entitled "Beauty of My People," which were both produced by the National Film Board. Also, there are dramatic episodes produced for Portuguese audiences by EDIPIM-TV, as well as episodes of "Eho Hamara Jeeuna" produced by Mandeep Film Enterprises, and an episode of "Karamchand," produced by LIN-TV. An episode of "The Late Show," with host Suzanne Somers is included, as is news footage of Grenada, produced by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).

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CHIN Radio/TV International fonds

  • ON00009 C 258
  • Fonds
  • 1979-1991

Fonds consists of videocassettes of television programming produced by CHIN. Fonds includes variety shows, magazines, documentaries, advertisements and dramatic presentations, as well as CHIN-sponsored picnics and musical contests at Ontario Place. As well, a history of CHIN is included, produced in 1982. Editions of Festival Italiano, dated 1979, 1985 and 1989 are represented, as are two programs of Musica, Musica from 1986 and 1989. A 1984 Easter show and 1987 Christmas show are also included.

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Thorkild C. Hansen fonds

  • ON00009 C 26
  • Fonds
  • 1927-1990

Fonds consists of material created, received, and collected by Thor Hansen and by his daughter, Sister Anitra.

Fonds includes textual material such as correspondence, architectural drawings, sketches, publications, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and memoranda from the period 1927-1990.

Also included in the fonds are 525 photographs, primarily dealing with Hansen's work as an artist. They include interior views of British-American Oil Company buildings, as well as of artwork found within those buildings, ca. 1955- 1965. As well, there are five reels of motion picture film, with subject areas including the Toronto British-American Oil Company building, Native Indian handcrafts and figures, Toronto street scenes, and Thor Hansen at work.

Fonds also includes one audio cassette, dealing with Thor Hansen's retirement party and tribute speeches, 1968. Two undated audio discs are included, with Adrienne Clarkson interviewing Thor Hansen.

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