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The collection contains photographs, advertisements, posters, and other material relating to the Bell Organ and Piano Company of Guelph.

The collection contains letters between Alexander Macdonnell (1762-1840), Roman Catholic Bishop of Kingston, Upper Canada, and Lieutenant Colonel James Chisholm (1765-1822), originally from Strathglass, Scotland, of the Royal African Corps of Fasnakyle. The letters concern immigration, climate, harvests, church building, clergy visits, and teaching work.

The Brink-Whitelaw Collection contains legal documents, correspondence, genealogical materials, memorabilia, and photographs related to the Brink, Whitelaw, Cuthbert, and Gunn families originally from Oxford County, Ontario. Papers related to the Whitelaw Machinery Company Limited of Woodstock is also included, as well as photographs and documents related to R. Alex Brink’s time at the Ontario Agricultural College.

The collection includes a typescript of “The Bruces and Their Name" as well as a genealogical sheet with references compiled by Florence Partridge and photocopies of a portrait and newspaper articles on Alexander D. Bruce, president of Vapor Heating Corporation.

Collection contains minutes, newspaper clippings, and copies of the Ontario Messenger (1961-1968) and Widening Horizons (1940-1941) for the Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Ontario.

The collection contains journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, biographical information, and certificates created by and belonging to Dr. Charles Ambrose Zavitz (1863-1942), from his time as a student (1884-1888) and faculty member (1888-1927) at the Ontario Agricultural College. Materials include: two second year prize books from 1886 for Mathematics and Book Keeping ("Switzerland: It’s Mountains and Valleys" by Woldemar Raden and “Agriculture and Live Stock” (Webster's Dictionary, 1885); copies of "Short Notes on Veterinary Medicine for the Use of Students at the O.A.C." by J. Hugo Reed, "What the Rocks Reveal, or Geology Simplified" by James Hoyes Panton (1847-1898), and "The Book of Discipline of the Religious Society of Friends" (1929); a Robertson Associate Award medal from 1933; World's Grain Exhibition and Conference, Regina pin, from 1933; three handwritten notebooks of agronomic recorded experiments; a copy of the 7th Annual Report of the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm, 1881; a coloured copy print of "A Bird's Eye View of the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm"; and meeting minutes of the Committee on Experiments of the Experimental Union, 1886-1891, with names and addresses of experimenters.

Copies of Zavitz’s book “Spiritual Life” (1932), Laura Quirk’s “Dr. Charles Ambrose Zavitz: Agriculturalist, Experimentalist, Professor and Friend” (2004), and “The History of North Middlesex District Women's Institutes: Golden Anniversary, 1903-1953” (1953), are also included. Materials include references to the Society of Friends (Quakers), James W. Robertson (1857-1930), the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association, and the World’s Grain Exhibition and Conference.

The C.A.V. Barker collection contains records related to the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) and the study and practice of veterinarians in Canada. Contents include OVC administrative, clinical, faculty, student, and alumni records; meeting minutes; student notebooks; diplomas; faculty correspondence and publications; photographs, including class photographs; records relating to OVC student societies and fraternities; the personal and professional papers of various veterinarians, including Dr. C.A.V. Baker; films and videotapes; and materials relating to veterinary conferences and professional associations.

The Canada Company fonds contains charters, vouchers, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, photographs, land deeds, and other legal documents. A plan of the “Town of Guelf” (Guelph) from 1827 is also included.

The collection contains various apiculture publications, meeting minutes, proceedings, and other records of the Canadian Association of Apiculturists.

The collection contains a cookbook of recipes published by the Canadian Beekeepers' Council/Le Conseil Des Apiculteurs Canadiens, 1964-1969.