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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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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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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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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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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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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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Canada Packers fonds

  • ON00009 C 262
  • Fonds
  • 1845-1991

Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, sound and moving image materials pertaining to the personnel, facilities, products and activities of Canada Packers, Inc. and its various predecessor companies. Companies represented include the William Davies Company, Ltd., Gordon-Ironside and Fares Company Ltd. (Fort William branch), Canadian Packing Company, Ltd., Gunns, Ltd., Harris Abattoir Company, Ltd., and Canada Packers, Inc.

Fonds includes photographs which depict meat packing and processing plants, slaughterhouses, product advertisements, delivery vehicles, and workers. Also, there are photographs of conventions and meetings, presentations, special events, employee activities, and visiting dignitaries. Included are photographs of senior management personnel such as J.S. McLean, W.F. McLean, William Davies, William Harris, James Harris, and Sir Joseph Flavelle.

Textual records include minute books and financial records, price lists, correspondence, personnel records, annual sales conference programs, annual reports, and a collection of the employee newspaper, "The Maple Leaf." Included are the working files of J.S. McLean relating to the 1927 merger which formed Canada Packers, as well as bulletins relating to the July 1947 strike.

Included in the fonds are 6 reels of motion picture film, produced for Canada Packers or sponsored by the company. The films include commercials for various Canada Packers products, as well as films pertaining to the 50th anniversary of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Ontario Auctioneering Championship, quilting competitions, and a short dramatic presentation.

The fonds also includes 5 audio reels, 4 of which describe the activities of the Shur-Grain Research Farm near Toronto. The fifth audio reel is part of a multimedia presentation dealing with the 50th anniversary of Canada Packers, which also utilized slides. The slides component of this presentation are missing.

Fonds also includes 1 annotated map, entitled "Twentieth Century map of the City of Ottawa and Vicinity Showing latest Surveys and Improvements," published 1902 by A.S. Woodburn of Ottawa, Ontario. As well, there are 3 items of documentary art(presumably posters) 1913-1927, related to the Harris Abattoir Company, Ltd.

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Bellevue Pathé Quebec fonds

  • ON00009 C 263
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1970]-1975

Fonds consists of films created by Bellevue Pathé Quebec for Ontario's Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Trade and Development, as well as footage pertaining to Ontario Liberal Party candidate Harry Nixon's 1975 Ontario general election campaign.

Fonds also includes footage pertaining to Ontario Place at Expo 1970, roadside fruit marketing, Burleigh Falls, the French River, children in Ottawa and explosions.

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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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Dean Sherratt fonds

  • ON00009 C 265
  • Fonds
  • 1966-1975

Fonds is comprised of blueprint and diazo print copies of election district maps showing poll districts in 19 Metropolitan Toronto provincial ridings. The blueprints and diazo prints were used as base maps, with polls being coloured in on the maps. Different colours denoted different political parties, with the colours' varying intensity reflecting the margin of victory.

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