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Fonds
1945-2012

Fonds consists predominantly of original handwritten letters from Robert H. Lawrence, who was stationed in England during the Second World War, to Marion Mortimer of Hamilton, Ontario. The fonds also includes greeting cards, postcards, telegraphs, newspaper clippings and a travelling salesmen's route itinerary.

Lawrence, Robert

Robert Livingstone fonds

CA ON00131 00961
Fonds
1922-1923; 1932-1933; 1935-1942; 1946-1960

The fonds consists of 20 handwritten journals that address topics such as the weather, mundane activities of everyday life, and historical events such as royal visits, the Depression, World War Two and the Korean War.

Livingstone, Robert

Robert Stamp - History of the Q.E.W.

Part of Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society fonds

Material consists of 1 audio recording on "The History of the Q.E.W.," by Robert Stamp.

Roller Fever Book

01-2 - 3
File
1979

Part of Hammer City Roller Derby fonds

Rope forming at the Dundas Cotton Division

CA ON00131 2-HPL_01135_64l
File
1957

Part of Hamilton Cotton Company Limited

Photograph by Tom Bochsler

Rose and Annie Barker files

CA ON00131 00079-6
Series
[1890-1893], 1944

Part of Wesleyan Ladies' College fonds

Series contains documentation of the lives of sisters Rose Barker (1867-1944) and Annie Barker and of their time at Wesleyan Ladies' College. Rose received her degree in 1893, and Annie received a certificate in music that same year. Series is comprised of the funeral address of Rose Hannah Barker, lesson notes, examination questions and essays, a certificate from the Temperance Society, and accounts, which consists of handwritten records of payment.

Rosedale

File
1907-1919

Part of Registrar of Shipping fonds

Screw (propeller) steamer built in 1888 in Sunderland, Scotland by the Sunderland Ship Building Company. In 1919, on a voyage from Cardiff, Wales to Bordeaux, France, the S.S. Luella collided with the Rosedale and caused her to sink, with the loss of most of the ship’s papers and documentation. The file contains mortgage papers, a collision report, a transcript of register for transmission to Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen, as well as correspondence from Customs Canada, the Department of Marine and Fisheries and the Inland Navigation Company Limited, to the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton.

Royal Court Entertainers

CA ON00131 01109
Fonds
1937 - 1941

The fonds consists of administrative records pertaining to the Royal Court Entertainers of Hamilton; in particular, membership lists, correspondence, financial records, posters, and newspaper clippings.

Royal Court Entertainers fonds (01109)

Royal Hamilton College of Music fonds

CA ON00131 00615
Fonds
1904 - 1970

The donation consists of letters patent incorporating the Hamilton Conservatory of Music, by-laws and minutes, financial records and statements, insurance, mortgage statements, invoices, quotes for maintenance work, applications, syllabi, reunion lists, appreciation and honorary fellowship certificates, and correspondence.

The fonds consists of records of the Royal Hamilton College of Music and includes the following series: governance, administrative records, education, financial records, minutes, correspondence and publicity. ﾠ

Royal Hamilton College of Music

Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Chapter records

CA ON00131 00952-22
Subfonds
1951-1964

Part of Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) fonds

Subfonds consists of minute books for meetings of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Chapter as well as a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, correspondence, thank you cards and photographs pertaining to the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.). Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Chapter

Russell T. Kelley Limited

CA ON00131 00766-2-7
File
1948

Part of Superior Engravers collection

File consists of photographs of employees at Russell T. Kelley Limited, an advertising agency named after the agency's founder, Russell T. Kelley, who opened the first office at Main and MacNab in 1913. The company later moved to Main Street, and then to the stone building at Main and Walnut Streets, the former home of Col. Dr. George Rennie, Hamilton's chief coroner.