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Algonquin and Nipissing Collection
This collection consists of twelve documents concerning the settlement of the Algonquin and Nipissing First Nations at Oka, Quebec, some in Anishinaabemowin, 1831-1853. There are also letters and documents mostly addressed to N. O. Greene, a solicitor and activist, concerning the Indigenous communities of Oka, 1878-1880.
The collection consists of a typewritten "Report on Visit to United Kingdom" by Air Vice-Marshal A. Ferrier, MC. It also includes two typewritten memoranda dated August 4, 1944, and September 11, 1944, which discuss the role of the aeronautical engineering officers in the Royal Canadian Air Force. The collection also features four pages of handwritten notes from a lecture given to the AMAE Division on October 5, 1943, as well as a "Chart of the Directorate-General of Repair & Maintenance & its Associations."
Ferrier, Alan
The fonds includes a collection of AIDS activism materials, with an emphasis on its manifestation in Canada's visual art world, through the collections of Mr. John A. Schweitzer and others. Several of the documents have been signed by either John A. Schweitzer or Robert Mapplethorpe. The materials in the collection include posters, press releases, conference programs, exhibition catalogues, exhibition invitations, exhibition ephemera, programs, brochures, tear-sheets, auction catalogues, and reviews.
Schweitzer, John A., 1952-
This collection consists chiefly of aerial photographs as well as some stereograms, dated from 1930 to 1976. The first six containers consist of Landsat 1:1 000 000 Prints & Negatives. The photographs depict various geographic and geological features including mountains, deserts, volcanoes, farmland, lakes, and rivers. Some photographs depict roads, settlements, and dams. Canada and the United States features prominently in this collection however there are also photographs of the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There are also documents most of which are indexes to the photographs. There are also shipping transmittals, survey cards, letters, a purchase order, and diagrams with flight lines and photo set numbers. The maps in this collection are of flight lines (some with film roll numbers added), hand-drawn maps of locations in the photographs, geographic maps, and physiographic maps.
Abraham Jacob Livinson Collection
Collection consists of correspondence, 1912-1947, from Wilfrid Laurier, Emile Berliner, Ralph David Blumenfeld, John Boynton Priestley, John Huston Finley, Malcolm MacDonald, and others. Some letters include newspaper clippings regarding the author or a brief description of the author's background, written by Livinson.
Livinson, Abraham Jacob, 1888 or 1889-1966
Collection consists of correspondence from J.W.A. Hickson between 1912 and 1956.
Roback, A. A. (Abraham Aaron), 1890-1965
The collection contains materials related to a bicycle relay ride between Sarnia, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, held June 15-16, 1894 by the Canadian Wheelmen's Association (CWA) under its president, A. T. Lane, an early importer of bicycles to Canada who is credited by many contemporary sources as the first person to ride a high wheel bicycle in North America. The relay ride was organised as a promotional event for the CWA's annual meet, hosted in Montreal that year. The collection contains a newspaper article from the Toronto Mail (June 16, 1894) detailing the route and listing the participants, as well as a leather travel satchel used to carry a congratulatory letter to the president of the Canadian Wheelman's Association to be signed by the mayors of the cities and towns along the route. The satchel is embossed with the text: "Sarnia to Montreal relay ride, 1894." The collection also contains a published programme from the CWA annual meet, entitled, "Our city and our sports : souvenir and official programme of the 12th annual meet of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association, Montreal, July 1894."
Lane, A. T.
19th-century medicine in Montreal collection
Collection consists of four documents about nineteenth-century medical services in Quebec. The first is a draft letter dated December 31, 1847, written in Quebec by a physician who requests that the recipient, likely the Governor’s secretary, submit his application for the position of doctor at the Quebec Gaol and House of Corrections to the Governor. This correspondence follows the death of Dr. Farques, who died twenty days earlier. The author notes that he had assumed most responsibilities for an extended period due to Dr. Farques’ illness. The draft contains multiple pencil corrections.
The second document is a letter from Dr. James Fisher (d. 1922) to the Quebec Garrison surgeon, providing a testimonial regarding a head wound sustained by Louis Fortier. Dr. Fisher states that he is unable to offer a prognosis, as head wounds are inherently unpredictable in their outcomes. The letter is signed by James Fisher, Garrison Surgeon, Quebec, on January 12, 1796, and is sworn before J. Blackwood, Justice of the Peace.
The third document is a French-language draft petition dated January 26, 1820, regarding the opening of the institution for the mentally disturbed and orphans. It is addressed to “Son Honneur James Monk, Ecuier, President administrant le Gouvernement du Bas-Canada.” The docket reads: “Projet de Requete presentee a Son Hoheur le President pour les personnes derangees dans leur Esprit & les enfants abandonnes, par les Commissaires.” The paper bears the watermark W. Turner & Son and contains pencil corrections.
The fourth document is a receipt for medical services, dated May 3, 1876, in Montreal.