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Andrew Hicks speech

  • ON00009 F 4506
  • Item
  • 1923

Fonds consists of two items prepared by Andrew Hicks, MPP for Huron South and member of the United Farmers of Ontario party, in 1923: a 21 page manuscript; and an incomplete typed transcription (5 pages) of a speech.

The speech summarizes Hicks' views of the United Farmers of Ontario's position in government and condemns his own party leader, Premier Ernest C. Drury, for trying to amalgamate the U.F.O. Party with part of the Liberal Party.

Hicks delivered the speech in the Ontario Legislature on April 11, 1923. The following day Premier Drury called a general election for June 25, 1923 where the U.F.O Party was defeated by the Conservative Party. Andrew Hicks lost the nomination as the U.F.O candidate for the South Huron riding and therefore did not run.

Both the handwritten speech and typed pages are on official Legislative Assembly paper. The typed pages correspond to but are not identical to the handwritten draft.

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Eliakim Barnum account book

  • ON00009 F 4257
  • Item
  • 1824-1833

Item consists of one handwritten volume which is the account book for a Haldimand Township tavern owned by Eliakim Barnum. Entries include liquor sold, prices, and customers' names and accounts. Small documents are inserted in the account book.

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Howard Vernon Hearst audio interview

  • ON00009 F 4636
  • Item
  • ca. 1975

Item is a single reel-to-reel audio recording of an interview with Howard Vernon Hearst, conducted by his great-nephew Doug Davey around 1975.

Subjects covered in the interview include the Hearst family early history in Ontario. Also recorded are remarks on the life of William H. Hearst: his family activities; his law training and his early law practice; his entry into political life including his years as Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, and his time as Prime Minister (Premier) of Ontario; and his life after his political career ended.

A majority of the interview focuses on the life and experiences of Howard Vernon Hearst including his early family life, education and school social life at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall, employment, service in the First World War and as a member of Canada's Siberian Expedition, and meeting and marrying his first wife.

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John Hunter diary

  • ON00009 F 4427
  • Item
  • 1887-1895

item is the daily diary of John Hunter, a carpenter in Williamsburgh, Ontario, in the nineteenth century.

Hunter's diary contains daily one line entries commenting on the weather, or the nature of the day's work. Additional information may include where or for whom he was working. The work was mostly carpentry, and he comments on going to mills for planks or lumber, lathing, or working on porches or furniture, and laying floors. But Hunter appears to be a jack-of-all-trades, and other entries refer to the following: shingling; painting; working on outside of house; building skiff keel; glazing windows; and boat building.

Though little is known about Hunter, the diary reveals that he worked in the Williamsburgh and Morrisburg area of Dundas County. He enjoyed skating in the winter, and was religious, spending many of his Sundays going to church services (both Lutheran and Presbyterian are mentioned) or for a 'preaching'.

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Hunter, John, fl. 1887-1895

John Lawrence letter

  • ON00009 F 93
  • Item
  • 1837

Item is one letter written by John Lawrence to Valentine Harden Tisdale who was born in 1815 in the Long Point area of Norfolk County, Ontario.

Subject of the letter consists of an account of the William Lyon MacKenzie uprising which led to the outbreak of the Upper Canada Rebellion.

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Letter of Tom Elice [Ellis] to Mary Warner

  • ON00009 F 4536
  • Item
  • 1854

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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Elice (Ellis), Tom

Old Firehall and Ryerson Press drawing

  • ON00009 F 4591
  • Item
  • 1939

Item consists of a pencil drawing entitled Old Firehall and Ryerson Press by Ontario artist James Blomfield.

The drawing depicts a 1930s streetscape of Queen Street West near Peter Street in Toronto. There are people walking on the sidewalks, cars on the street, and a number of storefronts depicted including an old firehall with clock tower and 299 Queen Street West in the background. This building is perhaps best known as the former CHUM-City building located at Queen Street West and John Street but was originally constructed as the headquarters of the Methodist Church of Canada in 1913 by Burke, Horwood and White. By 1959, Ryerson Press, originally the publishing arm of the Methodist Church, had grown to occupy the entire building.

The drawing has been signed and dated by the artist at the lower right in orange coloured pencil. A circle divided into three sections has been drawn above the artist's inscription.

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Pickering Agricultural Society minute book

  • ON00009 F 4479
  • Item
  • 1850-1866

Item is a Pickering Agricultural Society minute book. The volume contains the handwritten record of the Society's beginnings from 1850 to 1866 including its constitution, minutes of meetings, lists of subscribers, financial accounts as well as agricultural fair details.

In addition to being a record of the early history of this Society and agricultural practices in Ontario, the volume features examples of calligraphy and one page of cross writing.

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Royal Party at Government House photograph, Toronto, 1901

  • ON00009 F 4509
  • Item
  • 1901

Item is a group portrait photograph of 16 dignitaries standing and sitting on the front veranda and steps of Government House (the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario) on Simcoe Street in Toronto. The photograph was taken by Toronto photographer, J. Fraser Bryce on October 11, 1901 during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Canada.

Each person is numbered in the photograph and a corresponding key on the border identies each person by title and/or name.

Dignitaries of note include: the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, The Earl of Minto (Governor General of Canada 1898-1904), the Countess of Minto, Sir Oliver Mowat, Mrs. Thomas Langton, Professor Ramsay Wright, and Hon. Andrew Blair, Minister of Railways (1896-1903).

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