The Communist Party of Canada collection contains posters, booklets, broadsides, and other ephemera relating to political issues and meetings in Toronto from 1917 to 1954. Materials concerning the "Save the Rosenbergs Rally" - Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953) - and some material from New York, are also included. Specific items relate to the Labor-Progressive Party, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Tim Buck, Charles Sims, Milan Stoyadinovitch (1888-1961), North Trinity News, Inside Nazi Germany, The Anti-Nazi Bulletin, What Kind of Government?: Liberal-Labor Coalition vs. Tory Reaction, and The Financial Position of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes.
The Connon collection contains over 600 photographs taken by Thomas Connon (1832-1899) and his son, John Robert Connon (1862-1931), in and around Elora, Wellington County, Ontario between circa 1865 and 1920. The collection contains glass negatives, lantern slides, studio portraits, group portraits, scenic views (many of the Elora Gorge), postcards, tin types, cartes de visite, and stereoscopes. Correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, land records, and other records, gathered primarily as source material for John Connon’s 1930 book, Early History of Elora, Ontario and Vicinity, is also included.
Connon, ThomasThe collection contains ancestry records related to John Cormie (1803-1886) and Ann Heggie (1809-1869), immigrants from Fifeshire, Scotland, who settled in Nichol Township, Wellington County. The family history was compiled by Floyd E. Roadhouse.
Roadhouse, Floyd EarlThe collection contains correspondence, clippings, lecture and sermon notes, diaries, a scrapbook, photographs, and miscellaneous periodicals relating to Andrew Cory Courtice (1857-1908) and Ada Mary (Brown) Courtice (1860-1923) and their family of Toronto. Of note is correspondence between Andrew Cory Courtice and Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier regarding prohibition.
Courtice, Ada Mary (Brown)The Cutten Club collection contains newspaper clippings and articles, the 50th, 60th and 70th anniversary publications, film recording [DVD], photographs, plans and blueprints for the Cutten Recreation Club, and other material. Includes reminisces about Cutten Field by John A. Eccles, 2011. Included is also a film recording from 1940 (col., 33 min.) includes views of the Cutten clubhouse (exterior and interior), staff, chef, cutting grass, skeet shooting in early winter, social dance, men in military uniform, ladies having tea on patio, various golfers (men, women, boys), George & Fiorenza Drew, Edward Johnson, Arthur Cutten, Stanley Thompson and his first wife, caddy Doug Howitt (15 years old), panoramic views of Cutten Club and Guelph, men on horseback, and footage of a charity match at Cutten Fields on October 5, 1940, with Stanley Thompson as host. A completed Cutten Fields Golf Course score card (n.d.), signed by Dino [Bolzon], Joe [Contini], Dave, and Bill, is also included.
Cutten FieldsThe fonds contains the diaries and a cash book belonging to David Allan (1808-1895).
Allan, DavidThe Davidson-Kennedy collection contains photographs and scrapbooks of various Guelph and Wellington County people and scenes, including local groups, homes, military, church, and schools, that belonged to John Davidson (1850-1926) of Sunnyside (16 Arthur Street), Guelph. An illustrated copy of John McCrae’s In Flanders Field, as well as various First World War photographs, are also included.
Davidson-Kennedy FamilyCollection of photographs, slides, film loops and resource materials relating to the career of Derek E. Faulkner, OVC'36. Photographs are from Egypt, Arab Republic of Yemen, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Somelia, Suadi Arabi, Pakistan, Libya, Lebanon, Kuwait, Kenya, Iraq, Oman, United Arab Emirates & Nyasaland. Derek Faulkner served in Africa and the Middle East with the British Foreign Service and FAO after graduating from OVC in 1936. Most of the material is concerned with livestock improvement in these areas.
Faulkner, DerekThe collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and genealogical materials concerning the Dougall and Russell families. Magazine articles and newspaper clippings relating to Thomas Alexander Russell (1877-1940), industrialist, inventor, cattle breeder, and President of the Massey-Harris Company from 1930 to his death in 1940, are also included.
Dougall FamilyClippings, photographs (including family portraits), correspondence, invitations, and other materials relating to the family of Premier George Alexander Drew (1894-1973) and Fiorenza Johnson (1910-1965), the daughter of Edward Johnson (1878-1959). Photographs of George Drew, Fiorenza Johnson, their son Edward and daughter Sandra, and Drew’s second wife Phyllis, are included, as well as wedding invitations for Fiorenza and George Drew and Alexandra and David Scholey, a Christmas card from Edward Johnson (n.d.), a 1930 letter from Drew to Arthur Higinbotham, program of 1939 reception honouring Drew, a postcard from Drew in Nepal, a notice of the Maple Leaf Dinner featuring Drew as speaker, Nov. 4, 1964, and an application record on the custody of the George Drew papers (1992).
Drew, Fiorenza Johnson