- CA ON00131 00952-5-2
- Series
- 1950-1951
Series consists of an agenda book for the Paardeburg Chapter.
148 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Series consists of an agenda book for the Paardeburg Chapter.
The fonds consists of 13 volumes of minute books of the Ladies Benevolent Society, the parent organization of the Aged Women's Home and the Hamilton Orphan's Asylum. The minute books date from 1846-1946 and include transactions of society business, as well as the names of some women admitted to the facility. There are also minutes detailing the relief efforts of the Benevolent Society from 1854-1904.
Ladies Benevolent Society
Part of Hamilton Cotton Company Limited
The description on the back reads “X marks the spot where we stand in Yarmouth”. Photograph by Bob Brooks Photo
Part of Peter Stevens fonds
Series consists of photographs, negatives and contact sheets, as well as advertising and marketing materials relating to product samples, Broadway Magazine and Film Guide, and graphic design publications.
Advertisement for Desjardins Canal
Part of Brookes, Ivan S.
Part of Hammer City Roller Derby fonds
Admiral Percy W. Nelles Chapter records
This subfonds consists of a minute book for meetings of the Admiral Percy W. Nelles Chapter of the IODE.
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Admiral Percy W. Nelles Chapter
Series consists of records pertaining to job applications and job descriptions, mailing lists, member lists, standard procedures and surveys. Series also consists of correspondence related to nomination and resignations, resolutions and legal arbitration. Administrative Records also contains reports, contracts, and papers regarding RHCM’s incorporation and royal proclamation. It also consists of a royal proclamation certificate in a gold, ornate frame.
Part of Hamilton Musical Arts Society
Series consists of administrative records such as by-laws, member cards, membership lists and a minute book listing minutes from executive and annual meetings. The series also consists of member newsletters and other correspondence to members pertaining to upcoming events.
Series consists of meeting minutes for the Active Service Canteen from May 2, 1941 to November 8, 1944. The minutes include items such as nominations of officers, establishment of rules and regulations for the canteen, the patrons, and the volunteers, a volunteer application form, rules and procedures for volunteer duties, schedules and attire, the creation of various committees such as the entertainment committee, the purchasing committee, the magazine committee and the visiting committee, the daily operations of the canteen, issues arising from volunteers or patrons, canteen finances, food and beverage pricing and menu items, as well as equipment inventories and repairs. This series also consists of two canteen administration logbooks. The first one is dated January 26, 1943 to March 19, 1945, and records instructions, suggestions, criticisms, complaints, item breakages, as well as any essential equipment repairs and replacement. The members were asked to enter their comments, sign and date the entry. One of the entries includes a comment about stretching butter with cream due to the rationing of certain foods during the war. There is also a newspaper clipping pasted into the book with positive feedback about the canteen from a navy sailor stationed in Hamilton. The second canteen logbook dates from 1941 to 1945 and has sections divided by letter tabs, which record the administrative operations of the canteen mostly by subject alphabetically, rather than by chronological date. Subjects include, but are not limited to, committees, donations, equipment, meetings, purchases, suggestions, supplies, transportation and volunteers. The book has a number of loose-leaf pages throughout, but also a number added at the end of the volume, including a few newspaper clippings about the canteen.
The material in the fonds consists of four volumes of administrative records pertaining to the Hamilton Branch of the Soldiers' Aid Commission. Two of the volumes are attendance books, including an undated book listing all the soldiers who attended dinners hosted by the Soldiers Aid Commission upon returning from overseas, as well as a meeting attendance book. There are also two volumes of meeting minutes for the Ontario Minutes Soldiers' Aid Commission, Hamilton Branch, dated December 1916 to October 1921, and November 1921 to November 1928.
Series consists of documentation on the history of the Bruce Trail, by-laws, meeting minutes and agendas from committee meetings, board of directors meetings and annual general meetings, as well as annual reports, policies and procedures for the protection of privacy, a director's handbook and documentation on a hike committee.
Part of Tower Poetry Society fonds
Series consists of the minutes and committee reports of the TPS Board, treasurer reports and financial statements, versions of the Society’s constitution, membership lists and samples of the membership form and brochure, as well as the samples of the Society’s stationary.
Part of Hamilton Opera Company
Series consists of the company’s constitution, minutes of the annual meetings, board meetings, executive meetings, general meetings, membership committee meetings and production committee meetings. The series also consists of nominations and resignations, reports of the secretary, social committee and ways and means financial reports. In addition, these are financial records pertaining to donations and grants, invoices, and financial reports for productions and general budgeting. The series contains member lists, member information and member newsletters, as well as an assessment of the Hamilton Opera Company’s new headquarters.
Part of Royal Court Entertainers
Series consists of administrative records such as a management and member list, and a document detailing distribution of earnings for each of the group members.
Series consists of records pertaining to the administrative operations of the Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society, including the Society’s Constitution and by-laws, executive officer’s lists, duties and guidelines, minutes for regular, executive and annual meetings, president’s reports, loan and transfer of ownership agreements for historical material, as well as 2 administrative seals, one belonging to the former Wentworth Historical Society, and one belonging to the Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society. There is also one stamp with the inscription, “Property of Wentworth Historical Society, Hamilton, Ontario.” The series also contains a file with 3 photographs of past presidents and executive members of the Society for the years 1988 and 1989.
Series consists of administrative records including a meeting minute book containing the proceedings of the Managing Committee of the Hamilton and Gore Mechanics’ Institute. The minutes contain a list of officers including Sir Allan Napier MacNab, M.P.P., as Patron, and Colin Campbell Ferrie, M.P.P., (who would become the first mayor of Hamilton), as President, as well as positions for treasurer, librarian, secretaries and the names of the Managing Committee members. The minutes include the establishment of the name of the Institute, the drawing up of the constitution, the solicitation of subscriptions of money and books, membership recruitment and fees, the rules and regulations, the search for locations for the Institute, expenditures, book selections and recommendations, the cataloguing of books, the circulation of books and materials, the purchasing of furniture for the reading rooms, as well as the types of events held at the Institute such as lectures and classes. The volume entries are dated March 5, 1839 to February 24, 1851. There are also some typewritten notes and transcriptions from the minute book. The series also contains a Register of Members and Books Loaned, dated 1862-1864, which records the names of the members, the number of books borrowed and the date of return. The series also contains loose-leaf documents including three copies of the Rules and Regulations of the Library of the Hamilton and Gore Mechanics’ Institute. The document lists the hours of operation for lending and receiving books, the number of materials loaned to members, the fines levied for late returns and damaged materials, as well as the responsibilities of the superintendent to ensure that the rules are observed, the fines are collected, the books are kept in good order and in the proper place, and that a report is made to the Managing Committee as to the state of the Institute’s collection. The series also contains a few membership cards and subscriptions, the terms of subscription and membership fees, some lending cards, which correspond to specific members and indicate the time period the item can be loaned before a fine is imposed including time periods of 7, 10 and 12 days, as well as an annual election card sent to a member requesting their vote on the individuals running for various offices of the Institute including the position of president, vice-president and managing directors for the year 1860.
Series consists of financial records pertaining to insurance and taxes, formal rental agreements for venues and opera music as well as detailed receipts for expenditures on productions.
Part of Hamilton Naturalists' Club
Series consists of records pertaining to the history of the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club and its daily operations. This series includes a copy of the Club Constitution and by-laws, meeting minutes, financial statements such as receipts, revenue and expenditure sheets, investment income and bank account slips, as well as reports from various Club committees.
Part of Opera Hamilton fonds
Series consists of printed annual reports, which includes President’s reports and financial reports, a list of the Board of Directors, and minutes and agendas for Opera Hamilton meetings.
Part of Peter Stevens fonds
Subseries contains photographs and negatives, as well a contact sheet of actor Colm Feore.
Part of Bruce Family fonds
Series consists of an original Day Book for the First Battalion Incorporated Militia No. 2 Company, specifically Captain Brown’s Company, dated 1840, which records the financial accounts and transactions of the soldiers, including canteen purchases of items such as clothing, boots, clay pipes, plates and cups, cutlery, brushes and combs, razors, shaving boxes, soap, towels, and blacking to polish boots. There is a separate page for each soldier which records the items along with the date, and in some cases, indicates the desertion status of some of the soldiers. The series also consists of an original account ledger for the First Battalion Incorporated Militia No. 3 Company, dating from 1842-1843, which records the amount of pay and allowances for each soldier. There are also a few acquittance rolls for Captain Leonard, Captain Tench and Captain Brown’s Companies, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Allan Napier MacNab, which record the names, ranks, signatures, pay, credits and debts of each soldier, and in some cases, the articles in their possession. The series also includes some monthly clearance returns, which record similar information such as the names, ranks and signatures of each soldier, their possessions, debts and credits, as well as any remarks from the captains, including desertions. Some of the records in this series are originals, and some are photocopies of original documents.
Part of Registrar of Shipping fonds
Screw (propeller) steamer vessel measuring 92 x 19 x 6 feet, 107 tonnage, built in Hamilton, Ontario in 1893 by M.O. and A.A. Matthews. The voyage history of this ship is unknown and the vessel was retired in 1919. The file contains builder’s certificates, certificates of survey, registration and ownership documents, memorandums regarding receipt of documents such as mortgages and bills of sale, as well as correspondence to and from the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton, from the Department of Marine and Fisheries, the Department of Transport, the Dominion Sugar Company Limited, and some legal correspondence.
A. Raymond, Vice-President and General Manager, International Braid Company Limited
Part of Hamilton Cotton Company Limited
Photograph by Jacques Tessier
A poem inscribed to Mrs. W. Bruce
Part of Bruce Family fonds
The letters of which are made to look like the bark of a tree. Poem written by John Glasgow, 1880. Decorated with flowers and scroll work. Formal italic hand.
A photocopy of a typed article
Part of Bruce Family fonds
“A Hamiltonian’s Visit to the New Art Gallery of Toronto.”
A photocopy of a handwritten article
Part of Bruce Family fonds
A photocopied, unsigned anecdote about Blair Bruce
Part of Bruce Family fonds
A photocopied, handwritten extract from le journal des Arts
Part of Bruce Family fonds
Part of Bruce Family fonds
Part of Bruce Family fonds
A single gold line along outside of framework on top and bottom, with white imprints of flower, branches, leaves and butterflies worked throughout a gold frame.
A framed border with a design of flowers
Part of Bruce Family fonds
A design of coloured flowers around the border
Part of Bruce Family fonds
Part of Brookes, Ivan S.
67th University Battery Chapter records
Subfonds consists of the following series: minute books, annual reports, and scrapbooks.
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. 67th University Battery Chapter
Part of Hamilton Cotton Company Limited
Photograph by Jacques Tessier
Part of Hamilton Cricket Club fonds
“Allen” Warper and Creel- Side View
Part of Hamilton Cotton Company Limited
Photograph by Jacques Tessier
“Allen” Warper and Creel- Front View
Part of Hamilton Cotton Company Limited
Photograph by Jacques Tessier
- Bill Moore Jr, Cloth Room Foreman
Part of Hamilton Cotton Company Limited