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The material consists of one coloured photograph of Iroquoia Bruce Trail Association volunteers Errol MacKenzie and Jeanne Keldson at a Halloween Party.

Portrait by The Roy Studio, Peterborough.

Photograph by Bill Barrett, London.

Photograph by Bill Barrett, London.

Screw (propeller) steamer measuring 230 x 37 x 21 feet, 1,554 tonnage, built in 1903 in Glasgow, Scotland by Russell & Company. There is little information pertaining to this vessel and its voyage history. The file contains a certificate of British Registry, ownership and registration documents, mortgage papers, receipts, a telegraph, as well as correspondence from Customs House Glasgow, Scotland to the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton, Canada Steamship Lines Limited, and the Department of Marine and Fisheries.

Material consists of 1 audio recording on "Landscapes of Victorian Hamilton," by speaker Walter Peace.

Series consists of a record of war services rendered and directed by the Hamilton Municipal Chapter, and other IODE war service records, including correspondence and honour rolls, as well as forms pertaining to the war charities act of 1917.

Series consists of an honour roll, a commemorative volume containing information about relatives of members of the Betram Hooper/ Wentworth Chapter who served in the Canadian military. Records include the following information about military personnel: name and rank, birth date, parents, whether they were of United Empire Loyalist descent, marital status, where and when they volunteered, home unit, present unit, training location, and details about their military service, including promotions and honours received. All those included in the volume were born between 1903-1923. Records are arranged in alphabetical order according to the individual's last name.

Series consists of honour rolls, commemorative volumes containing information about relatives of members of the General Allenby Chapter who served in the Canadian military. Records include the following information about military personnel: name and rank, birth date, parents, whether they were of United Empire Loyalist descent, marital status, volunteer date and location, home unit, present unit, training location, and details about their military service, including promotions and honours received. All those in the first volume were born 1906-1925, and those in the second volume were born 1875-1894. The second volume predates the first, honouring those who served in the Canadian military during "The Great War" (WWI). Records are arranged in alphabetical order by last name, with a few exceptions. The first entry in the second volume is the record for a relative of a member of the Malcolm Crerar Aviation Chapter. Photographs accompany the records of 18 individuals named in the volumes.

Series consists of an honour roll, commemorative volume containing information about relatives of members of the St. Elizabeth Chapter who served in the Canadian military during Word War I (1914-1918). Records include the following information about military personnel: name and rank, birth date, parents, whether they were of United Empire Loyalist descent, marital status, where and when they volunteered, home unit, present unit, training location, and details about their military service, including promotions and honours received. All those included in the volume were born between 1880-1899. Photographs accompany the records of 14 of the 25 individuals named in the volume.

Series consists of an honour roll, a commemorative volume containing information about relatives of members of the Paardeburg Chapter who served in the Canadian military. Records include the following information for military personnel: name and rank, birth date, parents, whether they were of United Empire Loyalist descent, marital status, where and when they volunteered, home unit, present unit, training location, and details about their military service, including promotions and honours received. All those included in the volume were born between 1859-1925. Names are listed according to rank. Photographs accompany the records of 7 of the 76 individuals named in the volume. This series also contains a ledger recording the list of boxes of hospital supplies sent by the shipping department of the Paardeburg Chapter Hospital Committee to the Red Cross during the First World War.

Material consists of one photograph of Robert and Marion on their wedding day, August 6, 1949.

The material consists of a volume of meeting minutes for the Wentworth County Agricultural Society, dated 1857 to 1888. The minutes record the general revenues including membership fees, funding grants, gate admission fees, booth, stand and stall rentals, and unclaimed prize money, as well as the general expenditures including prize money awarded, salaries of officers, judges’ expense accounts, labour and wages, building and land rentals, decorating expenses, stationary and postage, and badges and ribbons. The minutes also record the reading and acceptance of annual reports, the elections of officers and judges, the money received from membership societies, the rules and regulations of fairs and exhibitions, the logistics of operating the fairs and exhibitions, the prizes to be awarded for each category of entry, the names of the winners and the prize amounts awarded, the formation of committees, as well as the importance of educating farmers on the scientific principal of good agriculture. There are also some newspaper clippings that are glued to some of the pages. The clippings are articles reporting on the Society visits to farms to inspect the livestock and crop yields to determine if the farmer meets the criteria for participation in the fair or exhibition, reports from the judges’ examinations, as well as announcements of prizes awarded. There is also a looseleaf page of meeting minutes from January 21, 1885.

Screw (propeller) steamer measuring 46 x 11 x 3 feet built in Hamilton, Ontario in 1915 by John and William Robertson. There is little information pertaining to this vessel and its voyage history. The file contains a builder’s certificate, a certificate of survey, registration and ownership documents, as well as correspondence from the Department of Marine and Fisheries, Customs Canada, the Department of Transport and the Canada Steamship Lines Limited, to and from the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton regarding the existence and whereabouts of the vessel.

File consists of photographs of the exterior of White Motor Company of Canada Limited at 165 York Street, Hamilton.

Sailing ship measuring 40 x 15 x 6 feet, 22 tonnage, built in 1886 in Trenton, Ontario by A. Cuthbert. There is little information pertaining to this vessel and its voyage history. The file contains ownership, transfer and registration documents, a bill of sale, a memorandum, a postcard, a newspaper clipping, as well as correspondence from various individuals, the Department of Transport and the National Revenue Canada, Customs and Excise Division, to the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton, Ontario.

Image of Wingham, Ontario.

Image of Wingham, Ontario.

Image of Wingham, Ontario.

Image of the Banking District of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Image of the Banking District of Winnipeg, Manitoba

Image of the Banking District of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Image of the Banking District of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The material consists of records pertaining to the Women’s Wentworth Historical Society including administrative records, financial records, correspondence, notices and invitations, inventories, events, publicity and publications, newspaper clippings, commemorative medals, and scrapbooks, some of which contain a small number of photographs.

Material consists of 5 coloured photographs of the Wood Duck bird [photographer unknown].

Material consists of 2 coloured photographs of the Children's Aid Society Christmas Party, 1972.

Material consists of 15 coloured photographs of Jimmy Lomax as Santa Claus at Boilers Restaurant holiday work party, 1980s.

Series consists of textual documents relating to the Hamilton Poetry Centre’s regular poetry workshops and an Executive workshop. Most of the documents are unpublished poems written and submitted by various individuals.

File consists of photographs of Wright Fruit Company, established in April 1927 by chief shareholders, Solomon Wright and Percy Wright. Wright Fruit Company carried on a wholesale and commission business originally from 25 York Street, with other facilities at 77 MacNab Street North and 31 York Street in Hamilton. Facilities included climate-controlled ripening rooms for items such as tomatoes that arrived green and took up to two weeks to ripen enough for sale.

Sketch signed W.B. Bruce

Colourized Image of the Hamilton YMCA.

Colourized image of York Street.

Screw (propeller) yacht steamer built in 1886 in Hamilton, Ontario by Thomas Reid. There is little information pertaining to this vessel and its voyage history. The file contains a builder’s certificate, a certificate of survey, several ownership documents, legal correspondence, as well as correspondence from various individuals, Customs Canada, the Department of Transport, Marine Services, the Dominion Bank, and the National Revenue Canada, Customs and Excise Division, to and from the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton, Ontario.