The collection consists of material collected between the 1950s and mid-1970s by A.E. Williams, relating to the United Indian Bands of the Chippewas and Mississaugans. Most of the fonds was created by or collected on behalf of the United Bands of Ontario between 1903 and 1912 in the course of their efforts by Ontario First Nations to assert their rights on issues of land, hunting, fishing, and voting, and to secure payments promised under treaty commitments. Records pertaining to the United Bands of Ontario consist of correspondence, minutes, legal documents, accounting records, research notes, transcripts of records in the National Archives of Canada and the British Public Record Office. Also included are by-laws, claims for unceded territory, treaties, correspondence, band censuses and genealogies, petitions, speeches, memorials, and broadsides. A few documents contain totem signatures.

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Fonds consists primarily of photographs taken by Ron Truman during his career as a freelance journalist and photographer for The Globe and Mail and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

Photographs depict a wide variety of subjects including camping, orienteering, mountaineering, hunting, sailing, canoeing, skiing, scuba diving, skeet shooting, and wildlife and nature research.

Photographs were taken between 1978 and 1987, primarily in eastern and northern Ontario. Photographs depict activities in several provincial parks including Bon Echo Provincial Park, Algonquin Provincial Park, Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Lake of the Woods Provincial Park and Polar Bear Provincial Park. Eastern Ontario sites photographed include Brighton Township, Pontypool, Prince Edward County, Cobourg, Port Hope, Trenton and the Bay of Quinte. Northern Ontario sites include Fort Severn, Winisk, Atikokan, Moose Factory, Moosonee, Fort Albany and Peawanuk.

Fonds also includes digital photographs of Globe and Mail articles written by Ron Truman. The newspaper clippings were arranged in a scrapbook and were later photographed by Mr. Truman in 2011.

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Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (Canada) and its predecessor, the Canadian Friends of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF). The majority of the records date from its founding in 1998 to the closure of its office in 2011. The documents consist of textual records, as well as photographs, sound and moving images, and electronic records documenting the work of the NMCF (Canada) and its founder Nelson Mandela.

The records pertain to the NMCF (Canada) operations, programs, projects and events, as well as to its founder Nelson Mandela.

The fonds is organized into four series.

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Fonds consists of corporation documents, correspondence, agendas, minutes of meetings, membership lists, account ledgers, annual reports, newsletters and other material related to the governance of the Ontario Band Association (OBA). It also includes photographs, sound recordings, correspondence, agendas and other material related to the OBA Concert Band Festival and to the Ontario Provincial Honour Band.

The material has been arranged into three series.

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Fonds consists of correspondence, exhibition brochures, agendas, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, grant applications, photographs and other material related to Ian Trowell's work in founding and developing the Upper Canada Centre for the Visual Arts. It also includes material related to his tenure as President of the Ontario Society of Artists.

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Fonds consists of records created or acquired by the Ontario branch of the Council of Exceptional Children (CEC) in support of their mandate to provide services, professional standards and advocacy for children with special education needs. Records include those of the Ontario branch of the Council for Exceptional Children, an international organization, as well as those of many local branches throughout the province and various special interest groups within the organizations.

Records from the provincial organization include meeting minutes, publications, constitutions and bylaws and correspondence. Local branch records mostly concern advocacy and professional development at the local school board level.

Films, videos and sound records consist of educational resources produced by the CEC for teachers and others involved in special education.

Photographs depict conferences, award ceremonies and team-building activities.

Most of the textual records were arranged by the CEC archivists by year or local branch name.

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Fonds consists of a nearly complete run of minutes and related documentation for various committees of the Ontario Lumber Manufacturers' Association (OLMA) for the years 1966 to 2010. Included are meeting records of the board of directors, the Forestry Committee and to OLMA annual general membership meetings.

Also included are the OLMA articles of incorporation, letters patent, supplementary letters patent and by-laws. The fonds also includes annual budgets and financial statements for the years 1986 to 2009.

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Fonds consists of negative photographs taken by John Macfie while he worked with the Department of Lands and Forests in Northern Ontario. The photographs depict various Cree, Iroquois, and Ojibway tribes and activities in the Patricia District, an area that extended directly north of Lake Superior on the western edge of James Bay and Hudson's Bay. It included Fort Severn, Fort Albany, Attawapiskat, Landsdowne House, Sioux Lookout, Weenusk, Moose Factory, Gogoma and Mattagami Reserve.

Macfie photographed with a Kodak camera, a Rolleicord, and a Zeiss Contax for 35 mm colour slides. His images depict native people and activities and include trapping, construction of tools and artifacts, images of dwellings and community buildings and domestic activities. Macfie's photographs also depict activities relating to agriculture, maple sugar farming, the logging industry, the commercial fishing industry, archeological digs along the French and Shebeshekong rivers, site investigations in McKellar, Ontario, as well as aerial surveys of polar bears and other wildlife near James Bay and Hudson Bay. Some photographs depict Ministry staff on expeditions. Life on the Macfie family farm, and the family's timber harvesting and sawmill operations are also documented.

John Macfie provided extensive identification for all of the photographs. This information includes the date and location of the photograph, names of subjects, and description of the activities. Additionally included are articles written by Macfie that provide detail about the subject matter of the photographs.

Fonds also consists of diaries, field notes and a glossary written by John Macfie during his trips to Northern Ontario as a trapline management officer for the Department of Lands and Forests.The field notes represent his official notes of his field trips and most are accompanied by a map of the area examined on that trip. These field notes were the source material for his report on his investigation to the Department. The diaries, on the other hand, present a personal account of his experiences during his field trips. The diaries complement the photographs by describing verbally some of the items depicted in the photographs.

Also included in the fonds is a copy of a technical circular attached to which is a note by Macfie stating how this circular shaped his thinking as a trapline management officer, as well as correspondence between the Royal Ontario Museum and the Department District Officer regarding some specimens collected by Macfie.

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Fonds consists of project and other records documenting the last quarter century of Peter Favot's career. These records reflect Favot's architectural, urban planning and design experience. Also included are records that demonstrate his interest in new technologies and designs including energy alternatives and increased energy efficiency in building design.

The nature of the projects documented in this fonds include: urban planning in various locations in Ontario; institutional projects including master plans for educational institutions, projects created for First Nations communities in Ontario, and projects for group homes; energy-related projects created for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, as well as projects created independently by Favot; research projects created by Peter Favot both independently and with partners; residential projects in the Sudbury area; commercial projects including financial centres, shopping centres, showrooms, and historic renovations; and church and recreation projects.

Records also include Favot's architectural theses and design articles written for the Sudbury Star newspaper.

Fonds includes architectural drawings such as sketches, technical drawings, conceptual drawings, presentation drawings, plans, sections, elevations, and details.

The fonds also includes textual records which document the projects including: correspondence; cost estimates; meeting minutes; tender bids and contracts; project specifications; reports; schedules; and news clippings.

Fonds also includes photographs documenting project sites, project models and construction work, maps, and artifacts such as wood samples.

Of interest are records relating to Peter Favot's inventions and innovative design products. The design products include: energy-related projects; furniture for children; plans for innovative housing; wood densification; and others.

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Fonds consists of the professional and personal records of D'Arcy Martin. Fonds includes correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, posters, photographs, publications and presentations created and used by D'Arcy Martin in his role as an adult educator, trainer, labour arts supporter, social activist and an education co-coordinator for various unions. The records document Martin's activities in the numerous workshops, seminars and strategic planning sessions that he conducted on such topics as education, unions, training and worker-management relations for a variety of unions and community organizations.

Fonds also includes records that document Martin's writing projects, his consulting contracts and his involvement with various community and political organizations.

Fonds also consists of sound and video recordings of D'Arcy Martin participating in radio interviews and presenting at a variety of conferences. The subjects of these recordings include: Martin's career as a labour activist; the Canadian labour movement in the 1990s; the Communications and Electrical Workers of Canada (CWC); the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto; the Canadian Institute; the International Technology Association of Canada (ITAC); and the Stelco steel company.

Fonds also includes Martin's personal records, ranging in date from childhood to student years at the University of Toronto and adulthood. His educational records are from Hillfield College, Trinity College School and University of Toronto for his three university degrees. Personal records also include correspondence with friends and family, and photographs.

Lastly, the fonds consists of posters documenting Martin's direct involvement in a number of labour movements, social causes, and arts festivals in Toronto and abroad. A selection of the posters pertain directly to Better Read, a printing and publishing operation that existed in Toronto in the 1970s and printed socially relevant material to the public education work that Martin was involved with at the time.

Fonds has been arranged and described into 13 series.

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