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Alexander Dewdney fonds

  • ON00009 C 304
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1922]-[ca. 1936]

Fonds consists of 440 photographic prints and 146 nitrate negatives taken by Bishop Alexander Dewdney between 1920 and ca. 1936.

Subjects include northern Ontario churches in locales such as Eagle River, Sioux Lookout, Lake of the Woods, Dryden, Kenora, Keewatin, Lake Harbour, Fort Severn and Eskimo Point. Also, schools in northern Ontario are depicted, including the Pelican Indian School, Kenora High School, Hole River Indian Day School, Sioux Lookout School, and Split Lake Mission School.

Included in the fonds are photographs of hydroelectric power installations at Eagle River. As well, several mills are shown, including the Dryden Paper Mill, Backus Pulp and Paper Mill, and Lake of the Woods Flour Mill at Keewatin.

Gold mines, including the Sultana Gold Mine, Lake of the Woods and the Kickner and Krydner Gold Mines are depicted. Subjects also include lake and river vessels, numerous northern Ontario communities, Natives, fishing vessels and northern scenes. Depictions of fishing stations and various missions are also included.

Included are a number of photographs dealing with the Hudson Bay Company, including Ontario posts at Chesterfield, Wolstenholme, Behren's River, Eskimo Point, Island Lake, Fort Severn and Cat Lake. Several photographs of Hudson Bay Company schooners are also shown.

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Alexander Emerson Belcher fonds

  • ON00009 F 18
  • Fonds
  • 1867-1922

Fonds consists mainly of Belcher's correspondence dealing with local and national political matters. Correspondents include: John A. Macdonald, J.C. Patterson, Alex McNeill, W.H. Montague, N. Clark Wallace, J.P. Whitney, Charles Tupper, Wilfred Laurier, George E. Foster, R.L. Borden, Henry Cargill, and others. Fonds also contains correspondence relating to military matters, personal matters, and the affairs of organizations with which Belcher was associated, such the Ontario Historical Society.

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Alexander Fraser fonds

  • ON00009 F 1015
  • Fonds
  • 1770-1936, predominant 1882-1936

Fonds consists of Alexander Fraser's correspondence, accounts, certificates, commissions, speeches, lectures, sermons, literary works in English and Gaelic, minutes and reports of various societies and associations, military documents, biographical and genealogical information, menus, invitations, cards, programmes, photographs, poetry, music, maps, newspaper clippings, and printed material. Fonds contains the following series: Correspondence, 1779-1936, N.D (Series I) Certificates and Commissions, 1893-1931 (Series II) Accounts, 1844, 1857, 1873-1934, N.D. (Series III) Cards, Invitations, Menus and Programs, 1853-1934, N.D. (Series IV) Speeches, Sermons and Lectures, 1814, 1882-1931, N.D. (Series V) Literary Works: Writings of Alexander Fraser (Series VI- 1) Writings of Other Persons (Series VI- 2) Gaelic Works (Series VII) Societies and Associations, 1858-1933 (Series VIII) Music and Poetry (Series IX) Photographs and Maps (Series X) Biographical and Genealogical Information (Series XI) Clippings, 1826-1936 (Series XII) Printed Material, 1873-1946 (Series XIII)

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Alexander Grant fonds

  • ON00009 F 639
  • Fonds
  • 1807-1963

Fonds consists of the records of Alexander Grant of Duldragen Hall, L'Orignal, Prescott County . Fonds includes correspondence from political acquaintances and Grant children such as Catherine, Ellen, Allen, and John. References made include: politics, the militia, the weather, and family matters. Fonds also includes receipts, commissions, a deed of sale, invitations, accounts, as well as Grant genealogical materials. Also included are 5 photographs of Alexander Grant, his daughter Catherine (later Mrs. Andrew Shaw), and a baby.

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Alexander Isbester family fonds

  • ON00009 C 267
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1955

Fonds consists of black and white photographic negatives and prints pertaining to the engineering activities of Alexander and James Isbester. Subjects include aspects of railroad, highway and breakwater construction projects, as well as images of the Isbesters' family life and turn-of-the- century student life at the University of Toronto.

Fonds includes 366 photographs in two albums, as well as 94 cellulose nitrate film negatives mainly concerned with the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Toronto- Sudbury railroad from 1904 to 1908. Captions identifying individuals, geographic locations and dates of the photographs are included. As well, some of the photographs depict construction scenes regarding the Algoma Central Railway (1900), the Ottawa Northern and Western Railway, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway in Saskatoon. Photographs from Alexander Isbester's later projects, including the Grand Trunk Railway (1920) and the breakwater at Port Arthur (1928) are also included.

Also included are photographs dealing with construction of the Canadian National Railway's Longlac-Nakina railway branch. These are composed of one album of 253 photographic prints, 83 nitrate film negatives, and accompanying captions. Subjects include railway construction, life in the construction camps, and aboriginal peoples, including a treaty signing. Also included are Isbester family scenes.

Thunder Bay District road construction is also represented by two albums of photographs. Included in the albums are 671 photographic prints, 386 negatives, and corresponding captions. The first album includes photos of road construction crews, recreational photographs and general landscape photographs taken by James Isbester. The second album consists of construction progress photos, including images of machinery and snow removal, taken by Alexander Isbester. The captions identify geographic locales, dates and many of the individuals appearing in the prints. Geographic locations include Nipigon, Red Rock, Port Arthur, Fort William (now Thunder Bay), and Thunder Cape.

Fonds also includes 13 photographs and accompanying captions of the 1928 construction of the Port Burwell Breakwater on Lake Erie. As well, there are 290 photographs depicting construction of a cement factory in northern Pakistan in 1955, as well as a single album containing 16 black and white photographs of various locales in the United States, including California, the eastern coastline and the area near Niagara falls, New York. This album of American scenes was found in the Isbester family home in 1972, and the origin, as well as the photographer, is unknown.

In addition, included in the fonds is one album containing 38 gelatin photographic prints dealing with Alexander Isbester's student life at the University of Toronto. Subjects include university buildings, student groups, the Kappa Alpha fraternity, parties and athletics.

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Alexander Kirkwood fonds

  • ON00009 F 1011
  • Fonds
  • 1876-1888

Fonds consists of the personal and business records of Alexander Kirkwood, employee of the Lands Branch of the Ontario Department of Crown Lands. The fonds contains two letters from Sir John A. Macdonald, dated 1876 and 1885, relating to patronage and the transcontinental railway. The fonds also includes a draft copy of the bill establishing Algonquin Park, 1888, as well as a transcribed interview with Kirkwood regarding the sale of Crown lands.

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Alexander Macdonell fonds

  • ON00009 F 971
  • Fonds
  • 1803-1881, 1916

Fonds consists of typewritten copies of correspondence regarding personal, church, political and financial matters involving the Roman Catholic Church in Upper Canada. Also included are copies of some of his published writings. Subjects of the records include: religious, educational, economic, and political activities; relations with the clergy of Upper and Lower Canada; numbers of churches and priests in Upper Canada; attempts to improve Catholic education; relationships among various religious groups in Upper Canada; governmental policy with regards to salaries for priests; travel conditions in Upper Canada; the proposal of the Union of Upper and Lower Canada; the election of 1827; the problems of the Clergy Reserves; Indian affairs around Sandwich, Amherstburgh, and Penetanguishene; the influence of Dr. Strachan on education; immigrants to Upper Canada in 1830; autobiographical information on Macdonnell; the Rebellion of 1837-38; the defence of Upper Canada 1838-39; and other topics.

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Alexander MacPherson fonds

  • ON00009 F 488
  • Fonds
  • 1804-1855

Fonds consists of the correspondence of Alexander MacPherson with his mother and brother-inlaw, Hugh Skinner, and others in Tain, Scotland. The letters contain information about his life and work and about conditions in British Guiana and in Upper Canada. The letters are also concerned with personal and family matters and with conditions in Scotland. A small number of letters concern the settlement of Alexander's uncle's (also Alexander MacPherson) estate in Jamaica. The letters are arranged chronologically.

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Alexander McKenzie fonds

  • ON00009 F 704
  • Fonds
  • [Photocopied 1967] (originally created 1863-1889)

Fonds consists of photocopies of the personal records of Alexander McKenzie. Fonds includes two letters from Sir John A. Macdonald, dated 1864 and 1889, concerning politics and Confederation. Fonds also contains two poems written by McKenzie in 1889, entitled "To A Printing Press" and "The Power Of A Kiss". In addition, fonds includes newspaper clippings of a series McKenzie's published letters, entitled "The Political Situation", 1862-1863.

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