Fonds consists of various records arising from the settlement of the estate of Robert Pilkington, the clarification of land titles, and selling of land properties. These records include correspondence concerning claims against the estate and discussions of legal technicalities in England, and correspondence from Canada referring to Canadian affairs of the estate. This correspondence deals with the engagement of lawyers and agents and with legal problems. A great deal of the correspondence deals with the sale of land and includes applications for its purchase, descriptions of lots and discussions of prices, immigration, and government policy on immigration. Some of the correspondence deals with Pilkington's mortgage held by native Indians. Correspondents include Hagerman, Strachan, Cameron, and Crooks. Correspondence also includes the outgoing letters of Edward Tylee directed to individuals connected with the Pilkington estate in Upper Canada. Fonds also includes legal documents referring to the estate, including affidavits, deeds, and accounts.

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Fonds consists of photographs taken by George Hunter Photography of the Steep Rock Mines and surrounding Atikokan industrial and residential area. Photographs depict the various aspects of the mining process; including mineral extraction, the refining plant, shipping methods, and operators of the equipment.

Fonds also includes oblique aerial photographs of the Atikokan area and Steep Rock Mine Site.

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Fonds consists of records created or used by Allan Mackay in the creation of the Veterans' Memorial on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature. Besides the artistic and architectural records involved in the development of the monument, the fonds also includes meeting minutes of various committees involved in the process and correspondence regarding the copyright status of the photographs used in the monument.

The fonds includes conceptual wall panels that were created six months into the project and document the evolution of the memorial's composition of images. They include four working panels of photographic images cut, arranged and adhered on paper. Cut outs on the panels reflect spots where Allan Mackay moved the images about. The remainder of the panels consist of montages of images printed on paper. These montages functioned as mock-ups of sections of the wall.

The photographs include digital copies of research photographs constituting the totality of images that the artist considered for possible inclusion in the memorial. They were acquired from various sources, including Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian War Museum, the Glenbow Museum, the Department of National Defence and various publications. The images are not accompanied by references or metadata about sources and citations. Also included are studio photographs that document the evolution of the memorial's composition of images, and include photographs of the conceptual wall panels.

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Fonds consists of letters written by Gilbert Wilson to his family in England while he was working at an Arntfield Mining Syndicate camp located on the Ontario-Quebec border.

The correspondence begins with details of Wilson's travel from Montreal to the camp after graduating from McGill University with a Bachelor of Science degree. The letters provide descriptions of Wilson's summer employment mapping the property. Included are observations regarding his workmates, descriptions of the rugged terrain and work conditions, outlines of his daily routine, and comments regarding the closing of the local railway.

Fonds includes one typewritten letter from Gilbert Wilson's father that requests more specific detail on the location of the camp, discusses family news and his own work on a Parliamentary Bill.

Also includes one typewritten transcription that provides a duplicate copy of a letter to Wilson's mother.

Locations mentioned in Wilson's letters include Larder Lake, Fortune Lake, Lake Helen, the town of Cobalt, Ontario and others.

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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 records pertaining to George Yamada's life as a pacifist and conscientious objector to war, as well as a publisher in both the United States and Canada. These records include correspondence, interviews, photographs, personal records, and published materials.

The majority of the correspondence concerns George Yamada's dedication to pacifism and the conscientious objection to war. Included is correspondence with other pacifists, and with academics, as well as letters written by George Yamada that provide information about his family's history. The interviews and articles published about George Yamada document his life story. The photographs document Yamada's childhood in Nebraska and Wyoming in the 1920s, his extended Yamada family in the USA and Japan, as well as his married years spent on Manitoulin Island with his wife Kathleen. Also included are photographs documenting George and Kathleen's travels, and in particular their five months spent in Japan in 1992. George Yamada's personal records include notebooks, address books, records concerning his estate, as well as photographs of him and his wife Kathleen. The published materials contain a small assortment of publications written by or about George Yamada.

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Item is one panorama photograph created by the Alexandra Studios of Toronto showing the delegates to the 3rd triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in Toronto, May 1922.

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Item is a one-page letter in manuscript ink on blue wove paper from Tom Elice (or Ellis), a runaway slave from Kentucky, to Mary Warner.

Mr. Elice's letter expresses both the excitement of his freedom and the pain of leaving his loved one behind. He writes of his new country, tells of catching up with mutual friends from home, and mentions that 'the girls' have joined the Methodist Church. He asks to be remembered to his former owners, William and Betsy Ellis of Falmouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky.

Written from Chatham, Ontario, the letter appears to be a reassurance of safety after a journey via the 'underground railroad' through Ohio and Michigan, so-called 'free states' that nevertheless were bound by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, requiring all law enforcement officials to return runaway slaves. Bounties were posted on Tom and his six fellow fugitives, according to donor information.

The misspelling of the Ellis name suggests that the letter was written by someone else.

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Fonds consists primarily of certificates, photographs and printed material dealing with the professional life of Elsie MacGill, first woman aeronautical engineer.

Fonds also includes some material related to MacGill's participation in women's rights advocacy and a small number of items pertaining to MacGill's personal life.

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Fonds consists of watercolour, pastel and ink and crayon sketches by Dave Wall that visually document the proceedings of particular court cases in Toronto, Ontario.

The paintings in this fonds document a variety of legal actions from the early 2000s, although images of cases relating to violent crimes, such as assault and murder, are greater in number. Some of the cases represented are high profile, such as the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration and Solicitor General of Canada v. Ernst Zundel. The largest group of paintings pertains to the Otto Vass manslaughter case.

Subjects in the paintings include trial judges, witnesses, lawyers, police officers, reporters and spectators. Court cases held in various Toronto courts are documented including the Superior Court of Justice, Toronto small claims court, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, and College Park.

Similar to work by other court artists, these works are somewhat impressionistic, with many details sketched in quickly and include many quick sketches. Fonds is arranged into files according to each court case.

There is no file F 4522-0-0-0-4.

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