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Bartle Brothers fonds

  • ON00009 C 2
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1895]-[ca. 1910]

Fonds consists of 1,878 glass plate negatives taken ca. 1895 to ca. 1910 by Simon Peter Bartle and his brother, Herman Arthur Bartle, known professionally as Bartle Brothers.

Photographic subject are predominantly groups and individual residents of various Glengarry and Stormont County communities including: Fassifern, Grantley, Lancaster, Martintown, North Lancaster, St. Andrews, and Williamstown. In addition, general subjects including area business enterprises, dwellings, churches, vehicles, and recreation.

Fonds is arranged into 20 series: portraits (series 1); clothing and dress ( series 2); banks (series 3); business enterprises (series 4); canals (series 5); canoes and canoeing (series 6); churches (series 7); country life (series 8); death (series 9); dwellings (series 10); farming (series 11); farms (series 12); gardens (series 13); hunting (series 14); pets (series 15); railroads (series 16); recreation (series 17); sports (series 18); streets (series 19); and vehicles (series 20).

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Canadian Car and Foundry fonds

  • ON00009 C 190
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1946

Fonds consists of photographs of Canadian Car and Foundry facilities in Fort William, Brantford, and Welland, Ontario. The images document the fabrication of cast metal work, railway rolling stock, and World War II aircraft. Images also show the construction and finished interiors and exteriors of many foundry buildings, as well as close-ups and overviews of male and female staff operating machinery and welding. Included in C 190-6 is a very small amount of textual material and a technical drawing.

This fonds has been arranged into six series.

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W. and W.R.L. Blackwell fonds

  • ON00009 C 21
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1944

Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Peterborough architects, William and Walter Rollston Lightbourne Blackwell. Projects represented in the fonds include: Hospital for the Canadian General Electric Company; additions to the Peterborough Y.M.C.A.; Hospital for the General Electric Company; Rush Apartments; the Masonic Building; the Canadian Raybestos Company Building; and the Peterborough Lock Company Building.

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Page & Steele Architects fonds

  • ON00009 C 20
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1988

Fonds consists of the records created and accumulated by Page & Steele Architects. Fonds includes architectural drawings, change notices, orders, specifications, contracts, tenders, correspondence, progress reports, accounting records, filed instructions, drawings transmittal forms, work schedules, electrical and mechanical files, construction meeting minutes, slides and progress photographs from various projects.

Nearly all projects represented in this fonds are in the Toronto area, and include: Commerce Court office development; O'Keefe Performing Arts Centre (currently the Sony Centre, formerly known as the Hummingbird Centre); Beth Tzedec Synagogue; Kimbourne Park United Church; Moss Armoury; Regent Park South Housing Development; York University Chapel and Religious Centre; and Garden Court Apartments.

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Craig, Zeidler and Strong fonds

  • ON00009 C 22
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1967

Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of Craig, Zeidler and Strong and its antecedents, predominantly Blackwell and Craig. Major projects represented in this fonds were mostly undertaken in Peterborough and are as follows: Peterborough Civic Hospital; Peterborough Memorial Centre; Lakefield Preparatory School; Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School; Lakefield District High School; Peterborough Medical Centre; Abramsky Building; Cherney's store and warehouse; and Peterborough Golf and Country Club. Fonds also includes a list, probably arranged in chronological order.

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McMurrich and Oxley fonds

  • ON00009 C 23
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1986

Fonds consists of the architectural drawings of McMurrich and Oxley and their predecessor, Sommerville, McMurrich and Oxley. Fonds also contains some architectural drawings from Oxley and Chapman, Loren Arthur Oxley's father's architectural firm. The drawings are largely of Hamilton and Toronto buildings. Various projects are documented in the fonds including: Holy Blossom Temple, 1936-1949; Prince's Gate, 1927; Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, 1965-1967; Peace Bridge Approach Plaza, Fort Erie, 1952-1960; Pembroke General Hospital, 1952-1955; Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, Canadian Plaza, 1959 and 1960-1962; Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Fall, Canadian Approach Plaza, 1949-1942; McMaster University Hamilton - various proposals, during the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's; and the Junior Red Cross Hospital, Calgary, 1945-1951. Also represented are the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Hospital at St. Thomas, and additions to St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Reference drawings of architects such as J.P. Hynes and A.A. Post are included. In addition, fonds contains photographs, newspaper clippings and subject files pertaining to various projects, clients and architectural history.

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Walter Moorhouse fonds

  • ON00009 C 231
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1909]-1957

The Walter Moorhouse fonds consists of photographs and motion picture film taken by Walter Moorhouse depicting Moorhouse’s family, his homes, and the community in which he lived. Moorhouse also captured the activities and students at the schools where he was employed, as well as those of the Daily Vacation Bible School and the Y.M.C.A. where he volunteered. There are many landscape photographs taken during Moorhouse’s travels throughout Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada, Germany, and England as well as still life photographs of animals, flowers, trees, and various inanimate objects.

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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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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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