Boys Home of Toronto - donated by Uri Igra
Uri Igra, the Executive Director of Turning Point Youth Services,
donated an accrual to the Boy's
Home of Toronto fonds (F 831) in July 2002. The Boy's
Home of Toronto is a childcare agency for young offenders and
emotionally disturbed youths. The Home was established in 1859
by concerned citizens as a haven for the city's destitute and
neglected boys. (F 831)
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Canadian Artist's Representation
CARFAC (Canadian Artists' Representation/le Font des
artistes canadiens) donated their records to the Archives
of Ontario in 2002. CARFAC is incorporated federally as a non-profit
corporation and is the national voice of Canada's visual artists.
This fonds consists of the general operational records of Canadian
Artists Representation Ontario. This includes correspondence,
minutes and research material relating to all aspects of its activities.
The major focus of the records is the protection of economic rights
of arts creators in dealing with galleries and government agencies.
(F 4403)
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CUPE Ontario fonds
CUPE Ontario made a further contribution of records documenting
their organization in 2004. These records provide insight
into the activities and issues facing CUPE the Canadian
Union of Public Employees. (F
1289)
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Dairy Farmers of Ontario
The Dairy Farmers of Ontario was formed in August of 1995 following
a merger between the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and the Ontario
Cream Producers’ board, which themselves are part of a century-long
tradition of cooperation between Ontario dairy farmers. This donation
consists of organizational records, Board minutes and correspondence
documenting the predecessor marketing boards, associations and
co-operatives that eventually came together to make up what is
today the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, including the Ontario Cheese
Patrons’ (later Producers) Association, Ontario Whole Milk
Producers’ League, Ontario Concentrated Milk Producers’
Association, and many other local and provincial bodies. These
records capture the growth of Ontario’s largest farming
sector, and are a unique and valuable addition to the Archives
of Ontario’s agricultural holdings. (F 4464)
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Davy Pulp and Paper Company - donated by Carol Davenport
Carol Davenport donated the records of the Davy Pulp and Paper
Company in 2001. Davy Pulp and Paper Company was a Thorold, Ontario-based
pulp and paper company, whose development and operation spanned
1845 to 1936. (F 4406)
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Ditchburn Boats - donated by Irma Ditchburn
Irma Ditchburn donated the records of the Ditchburn Boat fonds.
The records consist of business records, correspondence, drawings
and photographs relating to a variety of boat building firms owned
by the Ditchburn family. They were involved in the design and construction
of several of the luxury pleasure craft known as the Muskoka Boat.
The firms also designed and built small craft for the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police and the Royal Canadian navy. (F 2191)
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Ferranti-Packard Limited - donated by Paul Coleman
Paul Coleman donated an accrual to the Ferranti-Packard
Limited fonds (F 4142) in 2002. Ferranti-Packard
Limited was a transformer and electronics-manufacturing firm with
Canadian operations based in the Ontario cities of Toronto and
St. Catharines. (F 4142)
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MacLean-Hunter Limited fonds
A accrual, or further donation, by MacLean-Hunter Limited was
made in 2003. This fonds consists of the business records of MacLean-Hunter
Limited, a major Canadian publisher which also has stakes in the
newspaper publishing industry, the radio and television industry,
and the cable industry. (F 138)
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Moriyama & Teshima Architects - donated by Raymond Moriyama and Ted Teshima
In
2004 the Archives of Ontario acquired a further 34 metres
of textual records, 2,400 photographs and 8,800 architectural
drawings to add to the existing collection of the Moriyama
and Teshima Architects fonds.
Raymond Moriyama and Ted Teshima donated the records of
Moriyama & Teshima Architects to the Archives of Ontario
in July 2001. Moriyama & Teshima Architects are one
of Canada's most prestigious architectural firms and are
now part of Ontario's documentary history thanks to the
donation. [More]
(F 2187)
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New Brunswick Museum
In 2004 the Archives of Ontario received the donation of a single
watercolour perspective drawing of Queen’s Park. The drawing
was held in the collection of the New Brunswick Museum for many
years. Finally in 2003, recognizing that the drawing has an important
relationship to Ontario’s history, it was transferred from
the New Brunswick Museum to the Archives of Ontario becoming the
George W. Gouinlock fonds (F 4418).
George W. Gouinlock (1861- [1926 or 1927]) was a Toronto
architect active between 1888 and 1927. He was principally
known for his designs for the main Independent Order of
Foresters Building (the Temple Building), undertaken in
1895 at Bay and Richmond Sts., the Gayety Theatre, and the
Birkbeck building at 10 Adelaide Street E (now the home
of the Ontario Heritage Trust). Gouinlock was also the principal
architect for various exhibition buildings at the Canadian
National Exhibition grounds early in the century. He also
designed the library extension of the Ontario Legislative
Buildings built between 1909 and 1911. (F 4418)
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New PL
CFPL Television started broadcasting in London,
Ontario on November 28, 1953, the second private station
to go on the air in Canada. Now called the New PL and owned by
CHUM, the station is donating all of its newsfilm
created between November 28, 1953 and December 31, 1968 to the
Archives of Ontario. This newsfilm provides a comprehensive and
complete record of their newscasts and has been preserved over
the station's almost fifty years of operation. [MORE]
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Onet Networking Limited
In 2004 the Archives of Ontario received the business records
of Onet Networking Limited, the first Internet Protocol network
in Ontario and the third in Canada. (F 4437)
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Ontario Family Studies/Home Economic Educators’ Association
The Archives of Ontario received a donation of records from the
Ontario Family Studies/Home Economic Educators’ Association
(F 4435). The Mission of OFSHEEA is to initiate and facilitate
the professional development and personal growth of educators
to promote quality family studies programs in Ontario. The Association
has played an active role in the development of family studies
curriculum and has provided advice to the Ministry of Education
in this regard. OFSHEEA has also been involved in International
Development of family studies. (F 4435)
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Ontario Farm Drainage Association records
A recent accrual was made to the Ontario Farm Drainage Association
fonds (F 1268). Donated by the Land Improvement Contractors
of Ontario, this addition of records includes correspondence,
minutes and other administrative documents. (F
1268)
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Ontario Federation of Labour
In the summer of 2004 the Archives of Ontario received a further
donation of records from the Ontario Federation of Labour (F 4180).
The Ontario Federation of Labour, which represents organized labour
in Ontario, donated many of the organization’s business
records including correspondence of senior officials and research
files. (F 4180)
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Ontario Music Educators' Association
The Ontario Music Educators' Association first began donating
records to the Archives of Ontario in 1978 and the most recent
accrual of records occurred in 2002. Fonds consists of various
administrative records of the Ontario Music Educators' Association,
including minutes, constitutions, financial statements and reports,
treasurer's records, records of conferences and workshops, publications
and records of the President (including correspondence, memoranda,
notes, directories, agendas, minutes and other records kept by
A. Baird Knechtel).
Ontario Music Educators' Association fonds (F 1219)
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Ontario Professional Planners Institute
The Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) is the voice
of the province's planning profession. The Ontario Professional
Planners Institute was organized in 1986 with the amalgamation
of the four Ontario chapters of the Canadian Institute of Planners.The
fonds consists of the general operational records of the Ontario
Professional Planners Institute and its predecessors. This includes
correspondence of the Board of Directors, minutes of the Board
and committees, reports and research material relating to a variety
of topics of concern to the planning community. (F 4402)
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The Order Sons of Italy of Canada
The
Order Sons of Italy of Canada originated in Sault Ste. Marie,
Ontario, in 1915. After the successful foundation of a social
club for Italian immigrants one year earlier, Father J.P. Martinez,
a local Catholic parish priest, encouraged the members of this
group to apply for affiliation with the Order Sons of Italy in
America. Founded in 1905 in New York City, the goal of the Order
Sons of Italy in America was to re-unite in one single family
all Italians scattered throughout North America.
By the early 1920's enough local (or "filial") lodges
had sprung up across Ontario to qualify for the formation of a
Grand Lodge in 1924. The creation of the Grand Lodge led to the
official incorporation of the Order Sons of Italy in Ontario (OSIO)
in 1926. By 1939, there were 28 lodges, nine of which were female
lodges. In 1993, with its spread to Manitoba, the OSIO was officially
reincorporated as the Order Sons of Italy of Canada.
The Order Sons
of Italy of Canada fond is now available through
the Archives of Ontario Reading Room and the Microfilm
Interloan Service. The records, which date from 1915
to the 1990s, document the experiences of Italian Canadians in
the 20th century. They are also an excellent genealogical resource.
(F
4378) [More Sons of Italy]
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Osgoode Society
The Osgoode Society is an organization that studies, researches
and promotes public interest in the history of the law, the legal
profession and the judiciary in Ontario and Canada.
Collection consists of oral history interviews of lawyers, judges
and others in the legal profession, relating to various aspects
of legal history in Ontario and Canada. Osgoode
Society collection (C 81)
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Polish Combatants' Association - donated by Mieczyzslaw
Szczeinski
Mieczyzslaw Szczeinski donated the records of the Polish Combatants'
Association. The Association was formed shortly after the end
of World War II, unites veterans of the Polish Armed Forces, the
Polish underground, and Polish veterans of other Allied Armed
Forces. Polish
Combatants' Association fonds (F 1415)
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Provincial Council of Women of Ontario fonds
The Archives of Ontario acquired a further accrual of records
from the Provincial Council of Women of Ontario (F 798). The Provincial
Council of Women of Ontario was established in Toronto in 1923
in order to act as a voice of women on various social issues affecting
women and society as a whole. It has its origins in the National
Council of Women and its move in 1918-1919 to establish provincial
councils. (F 798)
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Provincial Grand Orange Lodge of Ontario West
In 2004 the Archives of Ontario received the records of the Provincial
Grand Orange Lodge of Ontario West (F 4409). The Orange Lodge
is a fraternal organization which can trace its origins to early
Protestant settlers in Canada. The Orange Order was formally organized
in Canada at a meeting in Brockville on January 1, 1830. (F
4409)
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Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario fonds
In 2003 the Archives of Ontario received a further transfer of
records from the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO)
(F 2168). The RNAO is the professional organization for registered
nurses in Ontario. It began in 1904 as the Graduate Nurses' Association
of Ontario. (F 2168)
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St. Lawrence Starch Company
Established
in 1889 by founder John Gray, the St. Lawrence Starch Company
was a family owned private company specializing in the manufacturing
of corn based products. Between April 2001 and October 2002, the
company, based in Port Credit (now Mississauga, Ontario), donated
virtually all of its corporate archives to the Archives of Ontario.
The St. Lawrence Starch Company fonds (F 4392)
is a rare and exceptional example of a truly comprehensive business
fonds. The records cover over 100 years, from the company's beginnings
to the late 1990s. St. Lawrence Starch also generously provided
financial support to assist with the processing, description and
transfer of the records. [MORE St. Lawrence Starch Company]
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St. Peter's Anglican Church offertory and poor's account book
- donated by Bruce Elliott
Bruce Elliott donated the Offertory and Poor's Account Book to
the Archives of Ontario. The Account Book is now part of our Church
Records Collection and is available through our Microfilm
Interloan Service.
This volume is the accounts book kept by Reverend Edward Denroche
for St. Peter's Anglican Church in Brockville. The left-hand pages
of the volume itemize the date and amount of offerings received
in the Church; the right-hand pages itemize amounts given to the
poor, including names and details, such as "to blind Foster
to pay for a cord of wood" - and "to French Mary".
Many of the entries were made during a cholera epidemic, and record
assistance to victims and to others such as runaway slaves. St.
Peter's Anglican Church offertory and poor's account book (F 2188)
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Toronto Field Naturalists’ Club fonds
The Archives of Ontario received a further accrual of records
from the Toronto Field Naturalists’ Club (F 821). The Toronto
Field Naturalists' Club was a naturalist and conservation association
active in Toronto. It was formed in 1923, and organized into special
groups representing interests such as birds, mammals, flowers,
wildlife preservation and geology. The main activities of the
club were to organize outings to various natural habitats, and
to have lectures on naturalist topics. (F 821)
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Workers' Educational Association fonds
The Archives of Ontario received a further accrual of records
from the Workers' Educational Association. The Workers' Educational
Association (F 1217) was first founded in England in 1903 as an
instrument to bring together labour and education. The Canadian
association was founded in Toronto in 1918. (F 1217)
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World Federalists Movement – Canada
In 2005 the Archives of Ontario received a further accrual of
records from the World Federalists Movement – Canada
(WFM-C). The WFM-C is a not-for-profit research, education
and advocacy organization. Records held in the World Federalists
of Canada fonds (F 795) document activities and history
of the organization. (F
795)
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