Donor List:
Charles Shaw Band fonds - donation by John
T. Band
John T. Band, the son of Charles Shaw Band,
donated two films to his family's personal papers in the Charles
Shaw Band fonds (F
694). Both films are compilations of home movies
that depict the Band family's recreational activities as captured
between 1925 and the 1940s. (F
694-2)
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Barbara and Robert Beardsley
Barbara and Robert (Bob) Beardsley were active in the NDP party.
Bob Beardsley first ran in the 1962 federal election in the Toronto
riding of Spadina. Barbara ran as the NDP candidate in the 1975
and 1977 provincial elections against Progressive Conservative
candidate, Larry Grossman, in the Toronto riding of St. Andrew-St.
Patrick. Their personal papers, found in the Barbara and Robert
Beardsley fonds (F 4459), document their respective electoral
campaigns and their involvement in the NDP. (F 4459)
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Browne Church Interiors fonds - donated by Thomas G. Browne
Thomas G. Browne donated his family’s business records,
Browne Church Interiors fonds to the Archives of Ontario in August
2004. The Browne family operated a church decorating business
from 1905 - 2002, doing artistic and restorative work in hundreds
of churches throughout Ontario. The records donated include business
records, photographs, and original artworks. (F 4443)
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C. P. Brzozowicz fonds - donation by Danuta Brzozowicz
Mrs. Danuta Brzozowicz donated this collection in May 2003. Czeslaw
Peter Brzozowicz was a Polish-born and trained engineer who emigrating
to Canada in 1942. He set up his own Toronto consulting engineering
practice in 1945. Some of his first clients were Canadian Breweries,
the TTC, Ontario Hydro, Massey-Ferguson and Orenda Engines in
Malton.
The practice of C. P. Brzozowicz Ltd., Consulting Structural
Engineers mainly focused on structural designs for warehouses,
machine shops, machine bases, storage silos, grain elevators,
Catholic schools and churches, office buildings and apartments,
hospitals and sewage and water treatment plants.
This fonds consists of ca. 1,950 architectural drawings (include
technical drawings and survey maps), 6 albums (ca. 600 photographs
and textual records) and 20 centimetres of textual records, covering
1949 to 1978. (F 4412)
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Dan Buchanan
Dan Buchanan recently donated the map Township of Brighton in
the County of Northumberland, which is part of a series of ½
inch : 1 mile township plans created by the Ontario Office of
Public Roads and Highways in 1915. The donation filled a gap that
previously existed in the cartographic series. (RG 14-131)
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Estate of Mrs. Evelyn Carr - Alexander Hamilton fonds
The records donated by the estate of Mrs. Evelyn Carr consists
of records documenting the personal and official activities of
Alexander Hamilton, merchant, postmaster, local official and Sheriff
in the Niagara District in the early nineteenth century. (F
576)
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Cartwright Family fonds - donation by Charles Humphries
Mr Charles Humphries donated twenty-five letters to the Cartwright
Family fonds (F 24). The Cartwright family were businessmen
and politicians active in the Kingston, Ontario area from the
1780's to the present. Fonds consists of documents created or
received by various members of the Cartwright family, relating
to their genealogy, land holdings and political and business activities
in the Kingston, Ontario area. (F
24)
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Crysler Family fonds - donation by Cynthia Crysler
Cynthia Crysler donated the Crysler family fonds (F 4421)
to the Archives of Ontario in November 2003. The records consist
of the personal, financial, land and business records, both textual
and photographic, of several generations of the Crysler Family.
The family were peach farmers in the Niagara Peninsula and the
records beginning with their arrival to the area in 1781. (F
4421)
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Patrick Daniel - Benson family fonds
Patrick Daniel donated a further accrual of records to the Benson
family fonds (Benson
family fonds F 507). The Benson family lived in Port
Hope and Peterborough during the nineteenth century, and were
involved in businesses such as a general store and railways, and
in the administration of law. Thomas Benson (1804-1857) commenced
his business career as a general merchant at Kingston, moving
to Port Hope in 1832. During the Rebellion of 1837 he served at
Niagara. In 1845 he settled at Peterborough, where he leased a
flour mill, and in 1850 became the town's first Mayor. His son,
Thomas Moore Benson (1833- 1915), continued the family business,
also practising law at Port Hope. He was appointed Deputy Judge
of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham in 1882, and Senior
Judge in 1887. (F
507)
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Lois Darroch fonds
In 2003 Lois Darroch made a second donation of her records as
a writer to the Archives. Together, the two donations comprise
the Lois
Darroch fonds ). Mrs. Darroch, who died in 2004,
was an author of four books. Her books include a biography of
political reformer, Robert Gourlay, and a historical novel, titled
Four Went to the Civil War, which was based on the letters of
her grandfather, Alonzo Wolverton, and three of his brothers who
participated as Canadians in the American Civil War. Her donation
consists of files related to her research and writing as well
as the original letters of the four Wolverton brothers.
Documents
from the Front: The American Civil War and Fenian Raids in the
1860s is an online exhibit that highlights this donation. (F
4354)
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Colonel F. H. Deacon fonds - donation
by Dr. John T. Saywell
Dr. John T. Saywell donated records to the F.
H. Deacon fonds (F 275). Colonel Frederick Herbert
Deacon (1874-1948) was the founder of the Toronto brokerage firm,
F. H. Deacon and Company early in the twentieth century. The donation
consisted of 20 cm of textual records and 10 cassettes of oral
history interviews relating to the history of the F. H Deacon
investment company, along with Dr. Saywell’s research into
the securities industry in Ontario.
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Bruce Decker - donation by Robert Decker
Robert Decker donated a collection of wet glass plate negatives
on behalf of his late brother, Bruce Decker. Bruce Decker purchased
these negatives in the 1980s and spent many years of his life
researching the photographer and the locations depicted in the
photographs.
The photographs were taken by Charles Ellis and document rural
life in the Orillia, Barrie, and Bracebridge areas in the 1870s.
The images depict aboriginal peoples, homesteading, lumbering
activities, maple sugar gathering, a general store and post office,
and homes. The wet glass plate process is extremely rare and this
donation represents the only example of this process in the Archives’
holdings. (F 4423)
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Rosie Donovan fonds - donated by Alistair Brown
Alistair Brown donated the Rosie Donovan fonds (F 4442)
to the Archives in August 2004. Rosie Donovan is a professional
photographer formerly based in London, Ontario, and now residing
in England. The photographs are from two different exhibitions
of her work: one is titled, Rites of Passage and these photographs
depict the physical manifestations of the rituals surrounding
death. The second exhibition is titled, Ex patria and consists
of portraits of people of Scottish descent living in Canada. These
images can be found in the Archives
of Ontario Visual Database. (F 4442)
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Sir Ellsworth Flavelle - donated by Betty Love
This fonds consists of over 12,000 prints and negatives taken
by Sir Ellsworth Flavelle and donated by his daughter, Betty Love.
Sir Ellsworth Flavelle (1892 -1977) was the only son of the well-known
businessman and financier, Sir James Flavelle and was an accomplished
amateur photographer. His photographs include views of family
life, sporting activities and rural and city scenes taken in and
around Toronto, Muskoka, and Oakville taken in the early 1910’s
until shortly before his death in 1977. These records will be
processed and made available in 2005. (F 4428)
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Edward Enright - MacLaren Advertising collection
In 2005 Edward Enright donated the records of MacLaren Advertising to the Archives of Ontario. MacLaren Advertising was a Canadian subsidiary of a US based advertising firm that was in existence since the early 20th century, and one time was Canada’s leading advertising firm. Originally established in 1922 as the Toronto branch of the US based Campbell Ewald advertising firm, under the leadership of John A. (Jack) MacLaren, Campbell Ewald Canada became MacLaren Advertising Company Limited in 1935. The records in this donation consist of director’s minutes, bylaws, financial ledgers and statements, advertising posters and photographs of the executives, office interiors, and staff functions. The collection also includes memorabilia and biographical files and manuscript memoirs acquired, assembled and created by the donor over several decades to illustrate the MacLaren Advertising agency and its founder, John MacLaren. (F 4467 MacLaren Advertising Collection )
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Mary Louise Gaby - J. C. McRuer fonds
In September 2004 Mary Louise Gaby, daughter of the late Justice
J. C. McRuer, donated to the Archives an 8mm motion picture film
of the McRuer family’s trip to Europe in 1936. One of the
purposes of the trip was to attend the unveiling of the Vimy Ridge
memorial in France in July 1936 (Mr. McRuer was a First World
War veteran). In addition to footage of travels in England, Switzerland
and Germany, the reel of film includes shots of the unveiling
ceremony, including King Edward VIII who abdicated the British
throne a few months later. This film has been added to the J. C. McRuer fonds (F
1329).
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Gray Family fonds - donation by Ronald and Walter
Gray
The
Gray Family fonds (F 4383) was donated to the
Archives of Ontario by Ronald and Walter Gray. The fonds consists
of letters created and received by members of the Gray family
that relate to the World War I experiences of brothers Charles
(Charlie) and Walter (Wally) Gray. Some of the letters were written
by the brothers to their family members; others were received
by Charlie and Wally from their mother Emily, and from their siblings
and friends. There are also letters received by Emily that relate
to her son Charlie's death at Ypres. The letters are not all dated,
but are arranged in chronological order as closely as possible.
Fonds also consists of a commemorative scroll presented posthumously
to Private Charles Gray, who died at Ypres on 3 June 1916.
Fonds also consists of photographs of Gray family members taken
prior to Charlie and Wally Gray's departure from Toronto to fight
in the war, and a photograph of Charlie's gravesite at Lijssenthoek
Cemetery in Belgium. Click
here to visit a virtual exhibit based on these records.
Gray
family fonds (F 4383)
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Molly Haldenby - Records of the Lieutenant-Governor William
Ross MacDonald
Lieutenant Governor William Ross Macdonald served as the Queen’s
representative in Ontario from 1968 to 1974. His daughter, Molly
Haldenby, donated a guest register from her father’s office
that contains signatures of prominent guests, including those
of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Prince Philip.
The leather-bound, guest register is beautifully annotated with
hand-drawn designs representative of various visiting groups and
organizations. Designs are drawn in coloured ink and many are
signed by the creator, John Cozens. (RG 24-29)
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Frank Hammond
In 2004, Frank Hammond very generously donated 213 glass lantern
slides and narration notes that had belonged to his father, William
St. Helier Hammond. Hammond was a professional photographer
for Simpson’s and Sears, and was also member and president
of the Toronto Camera Club. The slides and notes were a presentation
that William Hammond gave to the Toronto Camera Club, as well
as other groups, about the history of Toronto, from its early
days as a French fort called Rouille, through its rapid development
in the nineteenth century, and up to the early 1920s. Subject
matter includes Toronto landmarks and buildings that are no longer
standing, as well as scenes of well-known Toronto streets in the
1800s and early 1900s. (F
4436)
It is anticipated this donation will be available to the public
in 2005 through the Archives of Ontario
Visual Database and Archives
Descriptive Database.
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M. O. Hammond fonds - donation by Mrs. Jean Horne
The recent donation of 5,600 prints and negatives taken by photographer
M. O. Hammond, and .5 meters of his correspondence
is a significant addition to the existing M.
O. Hammond fonds (F 1075) at the Archives of Ontario.
The records were discovered in Mrs. Jean Horne’s basement
and were donated to the Archives via the Toronto Arts
and Letters Club. M. O. Hammond (1876-1934) was a well-known
journalist with the Globe newspaper, a writer and accomplished
amateur photographer who lived most of his life in Toronto. Of
note and new to our collection are images of prominent politicians,
literary figures and artists not found in the previous Hammond
donation, original glass negatives of Hammond’s earliest
work and some of the large format prints that Hammond submitted
to various photo exhibits. (F
1075)
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Michael D. Harris fonds
In 2003 Michael (Mike) D. Harris, the 22nd Premier of the Ontario,
donated to the Archives the private records of his political career
as MPP for Nipissing (1981-2002), Progressive Conservative Party
Leader (1990-2002), and Premier of Ontario (1995-2002).
The records donated consist of a variety of media both created
and accumulated by the former Premier and his staff in the various
capacities that Mr. Harris served during his political career.
Records of Mike Harris as Party Leader include campaign records
related to his successful leadership bid in 1990; 1995 and 1999
election campaign records and communications materials including
speeches, press releases, and television ads; some records related
to the 1995 transition in government as co-chaired by David Lindsay;
general and issues correspondence; and photographs.
Records of Mike Harris in his role as Leader of the Progressive
Conservative Party, particularly with respect to election campaigns,
is most strongly represented in the fonds.
Records documenting Mike Harris as Premier include his speeches;
scheduling, tour and itinerary records; some briefing books related
to trade mission trips, and
photographs of official events and trips.
Records of Mike Harris as MPP for Nipissing include records of
his Executive Assistant, Bill King; records of his Constituency
Assistant Gord Prisco;
correspondence and meeting files with constituents; Nipissing
campaign records; scrapbooks and ephemera; and audio and video
recordings of Harris events in the riding.
In addition the fonds contains some personal correspondence files,
mostly letters of thanks and congratulations sent or received
by Mike Harris. (F
4419)
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Michael Hicks
Michael Hicks is the grandson of Sir James and Lady Matilda Edgar
and nephew of Katherine Beatrice Edgar, whose 1898 diary he recently
donated to the Archives of Ontario. Sir James Edgar was a Member
of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons from 1896-1899.
Lady Matilda (Ridout) Edgar was a writer, historian and one-time
President of the National Council of Women. Diaries of Katherine’s
older sister, Maud, were previously donated to the Archives as
part of the Edgar family fonds. Interestingly, the two sisters
both wrote about the some of the same events in their 1898 diaries.
(F
65)
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Donna Hill
In 2005 Donna Hill donated an additional body of records to the
Archives of Ontario documenting her late husbands interest in
the history of the black community in Ontario and his career as
a leader in the human rights movement in the province. (F 2130)
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Cleeve Horne fonds - donation by Mrs. Jean Horne
This fonds consists of the personal papers and photographs of
Cleeve Horne (1912-1998), painter and sculptor. Horne created
portraits of many famous Canadians such as Alexander Graham Bell,
Pauline McGibbon and John Diefenbaker. Horne was also an art consultant,
and along with Clare Bice and Peter Haworth, was a member of the
Government Art Committee who selected the works for the Ontario
government office complex at Bay and Wellesley Streets, downtown
Toronto. (F 2154)
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James R. Horwood
An exciting addition to one of the Archives’ most
significant and well-known collections was received in early
March of 2005. Mr. James Horwood, who has previously donated
records to the Archives of Ontario, donated four new items
to the J.
C. B. and E. C. Horwood collection of architectural records.
The donation includes two beautiful architectural renderings:
a pen and ink perspective sketch of the Bank of Hamilton
in Wingham, Ont., 1893, designed by D. B. Dick, and a watercolour
perspective sketch of the Library in Osgoode Hall, ca. 1856,
likely by W. G. Storm. The donation also consists of a bound
book of handwritten specifications for University College,
Toronto, and a daily records for 1906, kept by J. C. B.
Horwood, showing the time spent each day by Burke and Horwood
draftsmen on their various jobs. (C
11)
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Mrs. Robert Hotz - John White fonds
Thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Robert Hotz of Middleton, Maryland,
the Archives of Ontario has recently received the personal notebook
of John White, the first Attorney General of Upper Canada. In
addition to financial memoranda, the notebook includes a diary
(1792-1794). The early entries describe White's trip from Montreal
to Kingston. After this, brief daily entries record his health,
social engagements and matters relating to his working life, both
as parliamentarian and as prosecutor. Although this fascinating
verbal snapshot of the province's first days was published from
transcripts in 1955, the whereabouts of the original has been
unknown for many years. The Archives of Ontario is delighted to
have received it, and it is now available on microfilm in our
Reading Room. (F
4448)
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Myrna Inglis – donation of CKNX radio broadcasts of
agricultural lectures and events
The Archives acquired a unique piece of our collective historical
puzzle when Myrna Inglis of Walkerton donated 19 radio transcription
disks from Wingham radio station CKNX. The station has served
the agricultural community for decades but much of its heritage
was lost in a fire in 1962.
Dated roughly in the 1940s and 1950s, the content illustrates
the three-way partnership among the then Department of Agriculture,
Guelph Agricultural College, and the small independent radio station.
Mrs. Inglis discovered the disks abandoned in the basement of
a Walkerton office building and had the foresight to rescue them
and offer them to the Archives of Ontario. Employees at Library
and Archives Canada donated their time and expertise to transfer
the disks to CD and audio-cassette so this bit of history would
be accessible to our researchers. (RG
16-332)
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J. A. Jamieson - donation by C. Robert Ivey
C. Robert Ivey donated textual records, technical drawings and
photographs to J.
A. Jamieson fonds (F 2160). J. A. Jamieson (1859-1940)
was a mechanical engineer, inventor and contractor, practising
in Montreal, who designed and build grain elevators around the
Great Lakes. (F
2160)
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Murray Johnson - John P. Robarts fonds
Murray Johnson has donated 42 doodle drawings made by former
Premier John P. Robarts. The Premier was a habitual doodler while
speaking on the telephone in the Premier’s Office. Gladys
Armstrong, Mr. Johnson’s late aunt, who worked as a secretary
in the Premier’s Office, saved and kept these 42 drawings.
Some of the drawings may hint on what was on the Premier’s
mind at the time – one drawing is a caricature of one of
his Cabinet colleagues! The drawings have been added to the John
P. Robarts fonds. (F 15)
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Julien LeBourdais
In 2004 the Archives of Ontario received a further donation of
records from Julien LeBourdais, a noted Ontario photojournalist.
Julien LeBourdais’ professional career began as a freelance
photographer in 1965. Among his clients were the Toronto Star,
United Press International, Toronto Life, and assorted medical
associations. While continuing his freelance work, LeBourdais
became a contract photographer for the United Press International
in 1969, a position that lasted until 1978. During this period
he covered many sports and news assignments. In 1978, Mr. LeBourdais
was promoted to Toronto Newspictures Bureau Manager, United Press
Canada where he remained until 1985. Highlight shoots from this
period include the Pan American Games in Puerto Rico, the wedding
of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, numerous elections across
Canada, and a trip to Germany and France with Prime Minister Trudeau.
In 1985 he became the Senior Photo Editor for the Canadian Press,
covering the 1988 Calgary Olympics in this capacity. Julien
LeBourdais fonds (C 193)
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Charles D. Lennox fonds - donated by Sarah Sutcliffe
Sarah Sutcliffe donated records to the Charles D. Lennox
fonds in 2001. Charles D. Lennox (1862-1949) was a prominent
Toronto architect. In 1880, he joined the practice of his brother,
renowned architect E. J. Lennox, for whom he worked until he left
for Europe in 1915. After World War I, Charles D. Lennox resumed
his architectural work in Toronto, latterly employed at the Ontario
Hydro-Electric Power Commission. He retired in 1935.
The fonds consists primarily of 51 architectural drawings. It
also includes specifications for one of the projects and miscellaneous
textual records pertaining to Charles and his brother E. J. Lennox.
As well, it includes a taped interview of Toronto architect David
Cameron (1886-[198-]) about E. J. Lennox. (F 2114)
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David Lindsay
David Lindsay was the Principal Secretary to Mike Harris from
1990 to 1995 and continued as Principal Secretary in the Premier's
Office from 1995 to 1997. In February 2004 Mr. Lindsay donated
records related to his involvement in the Ontario PC Party, the
transition to the new Harris government in 1995, as well as speeches
and event files related to various parts of his career. (F 4426)
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Edward Lukeman fonds - donated by Marry Lukeman
Edward Lukeman was an Ontario artist and graphic designer who
spent most of his adult life in Port Hope until his death in 1987.
This fonds consists of a selection of 47 pencil sketches of Toronto
street scenes drawn by Lukeman ca. 1945-1955 and donated by his
wife Marry. Included are sketches of St. Lawrence Hall, interior
of Union Station, William Lyon MacKenzie house, Sunnyside amusement
park, St. James Cathedral and views of Front Street from Union
Station. The donation also includes 22 posters designed and printed
by Lukeman and a watercolour sketch of Leitchcroft Farm, Highway
7 near Peterborough. (F 4429)
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Hugh David Lumsden
In 2004 the Archives of Ontario received an accrual to the Hugh
David Lumsden fonds. Hugh David Lumsden was a Provincial Land
Surveyor in private practise 1866 in Woodville from 1866 to 1870,
and intermittently thereafter until 1881. In 1870 he was elected
Reeve of the Township of Eldon; he also was the Lieutenant and
then Captain of the 34th Battalion of his local militia.
Also in 1870 Lumsden began to be connected with the location
and construction of railways, and for almost forty years he was
continuously engaged in railway surveys in every province in Canada,
with the exception of Prince Edward Island. From 1904 to 1909
he was employed by the Dominion Government as the Chief Engineer
of the Transcontinental Railway from Moncton to Winnipeg. Afterwards,
he acted in a consulting capacity with the CPR, until he retired
from active work in 1914. (F
1049)
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John M. Lyle fonds - donated by W. O. Chris Miller
W. O. Miller donated 28 architectural drawings to the John
M. Lyle fonds (C 33). The donation consists of architectural
drawings, including blueprints and whiteprint copies, of a residence
for Dr. D. King Smith, located at 15 Highland Ave., Toronto.
(C
33)
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Peter MacCallum fonds - donated by Louise MacCallum
Louise MacCallum donated the Peter MacCallum fonds to the Archives
of Ontario in December 2003. Peter MacCallum is a Toronto photographer
who specializes in documentary studies of industrial sites and
processes, industrial workers, and urban architecture.
The Peter MacCallum fonds consists of 180 black
and white prints, which document two industrial sites in Toronto:
the Wickett and Craig Tannery and the National Rubber Plant on
Cawthra Avenue. MacCallum’s photographs are also found in
the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Art Gallery
of Mississauga, the City of Toronto Archives, and the Multicultural
History Society of Ontario. (F 4424)
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John Macfie
John Macfie donated an accrual to the John Macfie fonds
in August 2004. This accrual consists primarily of Mr.
Macfie's personal diaries and field notes from the time period
he was trap line manager for the Patricia District for the Ontario
Department of Lands and Forests. (C 330)
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D'Arcy Martin
D'Arcy Martin (1947- ) is a social activist, an adult educator,
and an education coordinator for various unions in Ontario.
Fonds consists of the professional and personal records of D'Arcy
Martin. Fonds includes correspondence, memos, minutes, reports,
publications and presentations created and used by D'Arcy Martin
in his role as an adult educator, trainer, social activist and
an education coordinator for various unions. The records document
Martin's activities in the numerous workshops and seminars he
conducted on such topics as education, unions, training and worker-management
relations for a variety of unions and community organizations.
Fonds also includes records that document Martin's writing projects,
his consulting contracts and his involvement with various community
and political organizations. D'Arcy
Martin fonds (F 2190)
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Heather McCallum
The Archives of Ontario was fortunate to receive a donation of
records from Heather McCallum. The Alice McCallum fonds consists
of ten portfolios and two folders of children’s drawings
and related records that were created by Ontario school students
of Alice McCallum in the 1940s and 1950s. The portfolios date
from two different periods and schools in Mrs. McCallum’s
career: in Vankoughnet (Muskoka) from 1943 to 1948 and in Nottawasaga
(Collingwood) from 1955 to 1958. The drawings are the work of
young children and the topics vary from Bible stories to scenes
from their daily lives. (F 4444)
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John McQuarrie fonds
John McQuarrie (1946- ) is an Ottawa-based commercial photographer
who specializes in coffee-table books. Mr. McQuarrie donated 1,783
slides of Toronto and vicinity to the Archives of Ontario in 2003.
The photographs were taken between 1998 and 2000, and were used
as source material for the book Toronto: Then and Now by Mike
Filey (Toronto: Magic Light Publishing, c2000). McQuarrie co-designed
the book as well as shooting the contemporary photographs.
John McQuarrie’s earlier publications focused on the Canadian
Air Force, from World War II to the Gulf War, and the Canadian
Armed Forces in their role as Peacekeepers. McQuarrie later documented
the cattle business and working cowboys. (F 4422)
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Dr. William Metcalf - donated by Mrs. R. E. Deane (Dorothy)
Mrs. Deane donated the records of her great uncle Dr.
William Metcalf. Dr. William Metcalf was a late nineteenth-century
psychiatrist who gained provincial prominence for his innovative
treatments of psychiatric patients while he was superintendent
of the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston. He believed that restraints
were not the most effective means of treating psychiatric patients
and thus started to introduce the practice of nonrestraint.
The fonds consists of a complete set of love letters between
Dr. Metcalf and his fiancée, Emma Clarke, some of Dr. Metcalf’s
professional correspondence, photographs, Dr. Metcalf’s
medical certificates and research material on Dr. Metcalf. (F 4417)
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Malcolm Moffat
A very rare map by James Spencer, a little known Ontario publisher,
has been donated to the Archives of Ontario by Malcolm Moffat.
This aesthetically unique document entitled Dominion of Canada:
Quebec and Ontario (recto), British America, United States, Mexico
and the West Indies (verso) serves as a valuable record of the
province in 1874, depicting everything from railroads and fur
trade regions to names of land owners.
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Raymond Moriyama fonds
In 2004 noted Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama donated his
private papers to the Archives of Ontario. Raymond Moriyama was
born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 11 October 1929. He lived
through part of his teenage years during the internment of the
Japanese Canadians in the British Columbia interior. After the
War, his family moved to Hamilton, Ont. where he attended high
school. He received his BArch at the University of Toronto School
of Architecture (1954) and his MA at McGill University (1957 -
Architecture and Planning). Mr. Moriyama worked for the City of
Toronto Planning Board, 1955 to 1956, then the architectural firm
of Fleury, Arthur and Barclay, 1957 to 1958. He left to set up
his own practice in Yorkville, Raymond Moriyama, Architects and
Planners, later relocating the firm to the renowned 32 Davenport
Rd. site in 1966. In 1970 he went into partnership with Ted Teshima.
Mr. Moriyama attracted important residential and business clients
while developing his practice, but has mainly been known for institutional
commissions. His early well-known projects include the Edwards
Gardens shelter, 1958; the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre,
1963; Brock University, 1969; and the Scarborough Town Centre,
1973. Moriyama received the Massey Medal for architecture in 1961
and 1975 and was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of
Canada Gold Medal in 1997, in recognition of his achievement and
contribution to the profession. In 1982 Mr. Moriyama won the Governor
General's Medal for Architecture for his design of a Japanese
Ceremonial Bell and for the Metro Toronto Reference Library. He
received this honour again in 1987 for his design of Science North
(Sudbury, Ont.)
Prominent and award-winning designs by his firm, Moriyama &
Teshima Architects, from 1973 to present are extensive: Bay Bloor
Radio interiors; Bata Shoe Museum; Malton and Barrie civic centres;
Whitby and Ottawa-Carleton Municipal Halls; the University of
Western Ontario's John Labatt Visual Arts Centre; buildings at
York, McMaster, Brock, Guelph and Windsor universities; North
York City Centre and Library; Casino Rama (Rama Tp., Ont.); River
Run Centre (Guelph); Mississauga and Durham YMCAs; Peace Bridge
Commercial Centre (Ft. Erie), the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, the
Ramsay Lake plan, 1991 (Sudbury), and the National Museum in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia.
Raymond Moriyama's work has been featured in several international
architectural journals and in television documentaries. Moriyama
was elected as the new Chancellor of Brock University by the University
Senate in 2001 and is the recipient of several Honorary Degrees.
He is an Officer of The Order of Canada and a member The Order
of Ontario. (F 4449)
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Dr. Hanna Newcombe
In 2005 Dr. Hanna Newcombe donated the records of the Peace Research
Institute-Dundas (PRI-D). The PRI-D was established in 1976 and
concluded its work in 2005. The organization was a private, non-profit
body devoted to international peace advocacy and research. Dr.
Newcombe was one of the organizations founding directors. (F
4466)
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Heather Norman - donation to the T. Eaton Company fonds
In 2004 Heather Norman donated her mother’s copy of a film
print of the 1966 Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade to the Archives.
This copy has been added to the T. Eaton Company fonds (F 229).
The rich history of the
Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade in Toronto,
now a 100-year-old tradition, is featured in an Archives’
web exhibit.
To view the exhibit, click
here. (F
229)
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Melville H. Parker fonds - donated by Melvine Petroff
Melvine Petroff donated the Melville H. Parker fonds
(F 4441) to the Archives in August 2004. The donation
consists of photographs created or received by Melville Howard
Parker relating to his employment in Northern Ontario, mainly
with the Patricia Transportation Company and Dryden Paper Mill.
The images depict mining and lumbering activities, views of landscape
and surrounding areas, as well as images of workers and equipment
used, and means of transporting lumber and goods in winter and
summer months.
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John Pendergast
The Pendergast family were fruit growers who lived near Queenston,
Lincoln County (now Niagara), Ontario during the nineteenth century.
John Pendergast (1841-1912) was a fruit grower in Niagara, Ontario
during the nineteenth century. William Pendergast (d. 1890) was
a fruit grower in the Niagara area of Ontario during the nineteenth
century. The fonds consists of personal and financial records
of John and William Pendergast including records relating to land
transactions, correspondence, and personal financial accounts.
(F 840)
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Dr. Charles T. Peterson
Charles T. Peterson (b. 1913) was a periodontist based in Toronto,
Ontario. Dr. Peterson studied under and was mentored by Dr. Harold
Box of the University of Toronto. In 1948, Peterson began private
practice in London, Ontario, in addition to continuing independent
research based on the writings of Dr. Box. Between 1949 and 1976,
he wrote over seventy articles for dental and other journals.
In 1960, Dr. Peterson formed the London, Ontario- based Western
Dental Foundation, which encouraged the development of oral medicine
through advanced study, particularly in faculties of medicine
and dentistry in universities. Peterson retired from practice
in the late 1970s. (F 1394)
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Zdzislaw Przygoda fonds
Dr. Zdzislaw Przygoda (1913-1996) was Polish-born and trained
engineer, He established his own engineering consulting firm in
Toronto in 1954. During 22 years he designed over 40 schools in
and around Toronto. He also designed structures for Maple Leaf
Mills Ltd., the Monastery of Cistercian Monks (Mono Mills) and
the McMichael Gallery.
This fonds consist of ca. 540 architectural and technical drawings;
34 photographs and ca. 4 ft. of reports, pamphlets, project files
and specifications. The records span the entire scope of Przygoda’s
practice on his own from 1954 to 1991. (F 4414)
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Bernard Rasch
In 2004 the Archives of Ontario received the records of Bernard
Rasch, a Toronto-based architect who was in practice from 1972
to 2002.
Rasch’s firm specialized in the design and renovation of
residential buildings including high and medium rise buildings
and single-family homes. He and his associates also worked on
a large number of projects involving retail businesses, plazas,
restaurants and office buildings. Rasch and his various partners
designed fire halls, ambulance stations, community and seniors’
centres, banks, schools and playgrounds.
Mr. Rasch played a very active role in the architecture and heritage
communities. He served as the President of the Ontario Association
of Architects in 2000 and in 1982 and he was the chairman of various
committees of The Guild Inn throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He
took a leadership role in civic affairs by serving on various
advisory councils; he has been a teacher of architecture and has
taken part in several design juries. He was awarded the Canadian
Housing Design Council Award and the Canadian Architect Design
Award, amongst others, and has published widely in magazines and
journals. (F 4447)
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Mrs. Beryl Reed
Beryl Reed donated close to 50,000 slides, prints, and negatives
taken by her late husband, Bruce Reed, to the Archives of Ontario
in 2004. Bruce Reed was a prolific photographer who documented
tourist scenes throughout Ontario. It is expected that these photographs
will be processed and made available to the public in 2006. (RG 65-35).
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Peter Richardson
In 1954, Peter Richardson was studying to become an architect
at the University of Toronto. He was a student of the famous architect,
Eric Arthur, and as such, took part in Arthur’s on-going
project to produce measured drawings of historic structures in
Ontario. Richardson’s project, which he donated to the Archives
of Ontario in 2005, was an old house built in 1832 near Queenston,
called Glencairn. His field notes include a brief history of the
house, 20 photographs of its interior and exterior, and 26 measured
drawings including floor plans, elevations and architectural details.
The Measured Drawing collection, compiled by Eric Arthur, is
also part of the Archives’ collection. These field notes
provide the researcher with an interesting look at the behind-the-scenes
work involved in creating architectural measured drawings. (F
4463)
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Peter Ridout
In November 2004 Peter Ridout donated 23 original letters written
by his ancestor, Thomas Gibbs Ridout (1792-1862), to his family
in York (now Toronto) while visiting and touring England for the
first time in 1811-1812. The letters provide a fascinating glimpse
into British society at this time in which London was the hub
of an empire that spanned the globe. Whatever the many attractions
of cosmopolitan London, the young Thomas Gibbs’ Ridout still
preferred his hometown, and indeed, returned home to defend Upper
Canada in the War of 1812:
“I prefer [York] far above this most rich & magnificent
city on the earth with all its gold & splendor, Palaces,
Princes & People & anything that is wonderful. York
in my eyes is a jewel.” (Letter to his brother, George
Ridout, 18 December 1811)
This superb donation has been added to the Thomas
Ridout family fonds (F 43). This newest donation
of letters will be made available on microfilm in 2005.
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Peter Robinson
In 2002 Peter Robinson donated to the Archives two beautiful
parchment documents with pendant wax seals in excellent condition.
These have been added to the John
Beverley Robinson family fonds (F 44). Both documents
are dated 1854. In one, Queen Victoria grants the hereditary title
of Baronet to John Beverley Robinson and his male heirs –
Peter Robinson will one day inherit this title. In the other,
the College of Heralds in London, England, grants family arms
to the Robinson family. These documents are featured in an Archives
web exhibit on preservation.
These documents are featured in an Archives web exhibit on preservation.
To view a preservation case study dealing with these documents,
click
here.
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John H. Ross and Associates fonds - donated
by Mrs. Edna Ross
Accrual of 45 glass-mounted colour slides showing buildings for
which John H. Ross and Associates did engineering work during
1964 to 1975. John
H. Ross and Associates fonds (C 24)
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Robert W. Runciman
In 2004 Bob Runciman, Progressive Conservative MPP for Leeds-Grenville,
donated to the Archives the private records of his political career
as an MPP since 1981 and as a member of the Harris and Eves governments
between 1995 and 2003. The Robert W. Runciman fonds (F 4432) will
be available to researchers in spring 2005. (F
4432)
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Jack Ryrie fonds - donated by the Faculty of Architecture,
Landscape and Design of the University of Toronto
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design donated a scrapbook
to the Jack Ryrie fonds in 2002. (C 25)
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Rita Segsworth
In April 2005 Rita Segsworth donated a collection of photographs
to the Archives of Ontario that document landscapes and rural
scenes in the ‘near north’ of Ontario. Included are
images of woodland scenes, lake views, and steamboats around the
Muskoka region. (F 4468)
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Justice Joseph Sheard
Joseph Sheard is a Toronto lawyer who also served as a judge
in Ontario from 1977 to 1999. In 2004 Mr. Justice Sheard donated
his benchbooks (trial notes) and his personal copies of his Reasons
for Judgment to the Archives of Ontario
(RG
22-794 and RG 22-795).
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Morton Shulman fonds - donated by Dianne Saxe
The Morton
Shulman fonds (F 4394) was donated to the Archives
of Ontario by Morton Shulman's daughter, Dianne Saxe, in 2001.
Fonds consists of photographs, drawings and political cartoons,
textual documents, and broadcast interviews created or accumulated
by Morton Shulman in the course of his multi-faceted career and
public life as coroner, millionaire investor and philanthropist,
politician and physician. Amateur motion picture films and, to
some extent, the textual documents provide a glimpse of Shulman's
private life.
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B. Napier Simpson Jr. fonds - donated by Audrey Simpson
and Napier Simpson III
The B. Napier Simpson Jr. fonds (F 4395)
was donated to the Archives of Ontario by Audrey Simpson and Napier
Simpson III in 2002. Napier Simpson Jr. was a distinguished architect
and public servant who practised in Ontario from ca. 1955 to 1978.
His widow and son donated ca. 34 boxes of original architectural
drawings and ca. 5,200 photographs of Napier Simpson Jr.'s projects
and his slides documenting vernacular architecture.
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Peter Smith
In 2004 architect Peter J. Smith donated his records to the Archives
of Ontario. Mr. Smith worked in the firm of architect Ron Thom
from 1963 to 1973, becoming a senior partner. He was project architect
for the Expo ’67 master plan and activity areas, the Metropolitan
Toronto Zoo, the Shaw Festival Theatre and Trent University’s
Bata Library. Smith entered a partnership with William P. Lett
in 1973 to form Lett/Smith Architects.
As Toronto principal for the firm, Peter Smith has been responsible
for all of its performing and visual arts projects including:
the Isabel Bader multi-purpose theatre for Victoria University
(2002 OAA Award of Excellence and City of Toronto Architecture
and Urban Design Award); the Princess of Wales Theatre, on King
St. W.; Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton; the Harbourfront Arts Centre,
Toronto, which includes the Power Plant Art Gallery and the du
Maurier Theatre Centre; renovation and reconstruction of the Grand
Theatre, London, Ont. (Governor General’s medal for design);
North Bay Arts Centre renovation of the Capitol Theatre; the Kleck
Theatre at Occidental College, Los Angeles; and National Library
and Archives building Auditorium reconstruction, Ottawa.
Mr. Smith has a deep involvement with the theatre community beyond
architecture. He was the 1993 recipient of the prestigious Drama
Bench Award presented by Canadian Theatre Critics for “Distinguished
Contribution to Canadian Theatre”, the first architect to
ever receive this award. That same year, Smith was elected to
the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. He is a member of the
Canadian and US Institutes of Theatre Technology and has been
involved in costume and set design at a regional professional
theatre level. Peter Smith currently serves on the Ryerson University
Theatre School Advisory Committee and the U of T Design review
Committee. He is also Canadian representative on the OISTAT Architecture
Commission (International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre
Architects and technicians) (F 4446).
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Thomas S. Smythe
In 2003 Thomas S. Smythe, the grandson of Conn Smythe, transferred
copyright of the records he donated relating to his grandfather’s
business records and correspondence from his career as General
Manager and owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and records relating
to his involvement in other businesses, in horse-racing, and charitable
activities on behalf of the disabled. (F
223)
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Robert Teteruck
Robert Teteruck donated 65 black and white prints to the Archives
in September 2004. The collection, Robert Teteruck fonds,
depicts Toronto railroads and yards and sections of the Gardiner
Expressway in Toronto. Railway lands include areas south of Front
Street from Union Station to east of Strachan Avenue, and the
Junction areas. The Gardiner Expressway photographs depict sections
of the highway structures and surrounding lands. (F
4445)
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Bob Welch fonds - donated by Robert Kemp-Welch,
C. Elizabeth A. Kerley and W. Mary-Jayne Mete
Robert Kemp-Welch, C. Elizabeth A. Kerley and W. Mary-Jayne Mete
donated records to their father’s fonds (Bob
Welch fonds (F 112)) in December 2001. Bob Welch
(1928- ) was a politician and cabinet minister in the Ontario
government from 1963-1985. Fonds consists of radio broadcast scripts
for the program "Bob Welch Reports from Queen's Park",
broadcast weekly by CKTB, a St. Catharines radio station. The
fonds also includes some of Bob Welch's materials created during
the 1971 Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention, including
speaking notes, convention kits, and lists of delegates.
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Joan Whitley - John Wilkins fonds
In 2004 the Archives of Ontario received the records of John
Wilkins donated by his mother, Mrs. Joan Whitley.
John Wilkins was born in 1945. He formed Ardam Design Build in
the late 1970s. The company focused on up-scale residences, associated
outbuildings such as garages and cabanas and landscape design.
He won a prize in 1985 from the Canadian Housing Design Council
for the Restoration and Renovation of a house at 53 Elm Avenue
in Toronto. The John Wilkins fonds primarily consists of photographs
and architectural drawings undertaken by Mr. Wilkins company.
(F 4433)
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Tely nightsiders of 1953 - donated by Harold Whyte
This fonds consists of a motion picture film created by Harold
Whyte and Ray McFadden, staff photographers for the newspaper,
the Toronto Telegram. The film, depicts in comic fashion, night
shift activities at the Toronto Telegram in 1953. The film also
depicts newsroom equipment such as typewriters, cameras and telephones
and staff who were working for the Telegram.
Harold Whyte created a video version of the film in 2002 to which
he added a soundtrack which helps to identify persons and provides
a storyline to the original 1953 film. The video version also
includes and identifies a group photograph of Telegram photographers
who covered the 1951 visit of Princess Elizabeth to Canada. Tely
nightsiders of 1953 (F 4407)
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