One will for Abram Ball of Galt. Lists gifts of possessions and money to family members, as well as the Galt estate known as "The Cedars" (45 Blair Road) to his wife Julia Ball.

File consists of one agreement between John Hofstetter and the Corporation of the City of Waterloo and the five Rotary Clubs of Kitchener and Waterloo for John to design and build a sculpture for the Rotary International Peace Park.

Profit sharing agreement between Charles Andrew Ahrens of the first part and Charles August Ahrens, Henry J. Ahrens and John Lauffer of the second part.

Materials related to Alan Thomas's will. Includes will and related correspondence.

Birth, Marriage, Will and Cemetery papers related to Alfred Gofton and family. They include:
1. Birth certificate for wife Charlotte Braun;
2. Marriage certificate for Alf Gofton and Charlotte Braun dated June 6, 1923;
3. Will of Elizabetha Schneider dated Jan. 10, 1905 naming John Metz and Albert B. Schneider as executors;
4. Receipts for perpetual care at Mount Hope Cemetery from the 1930s

File consists of material relating to the purchase of and payment for property in Buffalo, N.Y. Includes two land title search documents, one dated 1849 (for Reuben B. Heacock) and the other dated 1865. Includes the original mortgage document from R.B. Heacock, signed by Liborius Breithaupt, April 7, 1848, annotated with a list of payments made. Includes receipts for payments made from 1849 to 1856.

Series consists of business records, correspondence and ephemera related to the life and activities of Louis Breithaupt and his family, first in Buffalo, N.Y. and then in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario from 1848-1881. The majority relate to the operation of his tanning business, and include account books, agreements, correspondence with family, friends, employees and business contacts, freight receipts, invoices, legal and tax documents. Included are records relating to Louis Breithaupt's tannery businesses in Buffalo and Berlin including documentation of his partnership and work with Jacob F. Schoellkopf. It also documents the sale of land by Jacob Hailer to Louis Breithaupt and Jacob Wagner and the subsequent legal documents necessary after Jacob Wagner's death. Includes financial records, agreements and records relating to property.

Also in the series are business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including business and personal correspondence, statements of accounts, freight receipts, notes payable, ephemera, etc. The correspondence is in both English and German and it is evident that Louis was comfortable using either language. Correspondents include relatives and friends, like his mother Catharina, and friends and business contacts like Charles A. Ahrens in Berlin, Ontario, and from from Jacob Hailer.

Fonds consists of two letters patents for the Canadian Suffrage Association. One is dated October 20, 1910 and incorporates Suffrage Headquarters Limited and the other dated April 12, 1912, incorporating the Canadian Suffrage Association.

Fonds consists of one indenture dated May 17, 1669 between Charles Bickerstaffe and his brother William, and Norman Atwood and his brother John.

Materials related to Clare Clark's passing and will. Includes will and related correspondence, photographs of Clare Clark, and materials related to the Carold Institute's investment portfolio.

The majority of the archives of the Concordia Club were destroyed either as a result of the ransacking of the club by the 118th Batallion in 1916, or as a result of the fire of Nov. 17, 1971. As a result the earliest records of Concordia have largely been lost forever. A very small number of items can be traced back to the Concordia Male Choir (1873-1914). These take the form of two items of correspondence, programs for the "Sängerfests", clippings, and photographs. A small number of archival records also can be found which belonged to the "Deutscher Club, Kitchener" (1925-1930), and include a set of house rules, letters patent, and photographs. Some records from the 1930s have also been preserved to this day, and include artifacts, clippings, legal documents, a membership list, photographs, and programs of events. However, the majority of the materials date from the 1950s onwards. These materials document the history of the Concordia Club since the 1950s, and include artifacts, audiovisual material, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, financial records, legal documents, membership records, minutes of meetings, photographs, publications, and scrapbooks.

Two publishing contracts detailing E Palmer Patterson's agreement to sell publishing rights for two books to Grolier. One book was to be titled, "Native Peoples of Canada - Indians" and the other was to be titled, "Inuit Peoples of Canada." Each contract specifies legal provisions such as compensation, copyright and other obligations to be fulfilled by E Palmer Patterson and Grolier respectively. Both of the contracts are signed by E Palmer Patterson, a representative of Grolier, and a witness. Also includes related correspondence and notes.

Materials related to the administration of the Carold Institute. Includes letters patent, financial statements, invoices for legal fees, and related correspondence.

File consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the sale of Talmon Henry Rieder's property in Calgary (Lots 19 and 20, Block 96, Plan A.1) to Mrs. Rose Weiss. Correspondents include Talmon Henry Rieder, real estate agent John Nelson, H.W. McLean of McLean, Patterson & Broad, Barristers & Solicitors (Calgary, AB), solicitor Richard Bate, and others. File also includes a signed agreement between Talmon Henry Rieder and Rose Weiss, as well as an invoice, a receipt, and manuscript notes by Rieder.

File consists of several different blank deeds (with dower, without dower, joint tenancy, house lease). File also includes a cancelled deed between the Westmount Construction Co. and John William McCallum of Kitchener.

Consists of a deed of bargain and sale on vellum. The deed, dated December 12, 1834, details a transaction between Vincent Dewell, and his wife Harriet, with Henry Smith regarding a plot of land in exchange for 50 pounds. The plot of land is identified as the west part of lot 29 on the 8th concession of Hope Township in Durham County, Upper Canada. Two red wax seals appear on the bottom right corner of the deed.

A reproduction of A deed of land from Pollock Manufacturing Ltd. to General Phonograph Corporation of Canada.

A reproduction of A deed of land from Pollock-Welker Limited to Dominion Electrohome Industries Limited.

Consists of one deed of land dated June 5, 1818 between Aaron White of the Township of Hallowell and Joseph Dorland of the Township of Ameliasbury, both of Prince Edward County for 100 acres of land in Hallowell Township.

Consists of one deed of land between William Dickson and Jacob Kinsey for 150 acres of land in Dumfries township, dated April 25, 1833.

Consists of one deed of land between William Dickson and John Campbell for 315 1/3 acres of land in Dumfries township, dated July 14, 1832.

Consists of one deed of land between William Dickson and John Fraser for 50 acres of land in Dumfries township, dated October 5, 1834.

Consists of one deed of land between William Dickson and Levi Howell for 25 acres of land in Dumfries township, dated April 16, 1834.

Consists of one deed of land between William Dickson and William Otis for 50 acres of land in Dumfries township, dated May 9, 1831.

Series consists of documents and ephemera related to members of the Bowlby, Davison and Hoffman family members. Included are clippings, correspondence, marriage certificates and report cards.

Land deed registering the sale of a property in the Village of Elmira, Ontario from William Cavauagh and his wife Adaline Cavauagh to Henry Dunke on September 10, 1879. Also includes a description of property that Henry Dunke deeded to Henry Heimbecker in 1912, which contained a parcel of land originally purchased by Henry Dunke from William and Adaline Cavauagh in 1879.

File consists of material probably accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder and/or Martha Rieder in the process of settling the estate of John S. Anthes. Includes correspondence, statements of the estate, agreements, wills (plus copies) of John S. Anthes and Lydia Anthes, invoices and receipts, a statement of succession duty, ms. notes, ledger balances from the Anthes Furniture Company (1907, 1908), ts. notes from a meeting of executors, etc.

Correspondence is primarily among executors John C. Breithaupt and J.I. Frank Anthes; Peters, Brown & Co. accountants; Millar, Sims, & Gregory, barristers; Talmon Henry Rieder, and others.

File consists of material probably accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder and/or Martha Rieder in the process of settling the estate of John S. Anthes, and in particular, the administration and eventual sale of the Anthes Furniture Company to J.H. Baetz and C.J. Baetz. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, agreements, financial statements of the Anthes Furniture Company (1915-1920), and the will of John S. Anthes.

Correspondence is among J.I. Frank Anthes, John C. Breithaupt, and Albert L. Breithaupt (executors), as well as Talmon Henry Rieder, Matha Rieder, the Baetz brothers, H. Milton Cook, and others.

File consists of material probably accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder and/or Martha Rieder in the process of settling the estate of John S. Anthes, and in particular, the administration and eventual sale of the Anthes Furniture Company to J.H. Baetz and C.J. Baetz. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, agreements, financial statements of the Anthes Furniture Company (1915-1920), and the will of John S. Anthes.

Correspondence is among J.I. Frank Anthes, John C. Breithaupt, and Albert L. Breithaupt (executors), as well as Talmon Henry Rieder, Matha Rieder, the Baetz brothers, H. Milton Cook, and others.

File consists of material relating to a case brought by J.J. Westgate against Talmon Henry Rieder in 1911 regarding the consolidation of rubber companies, and material relating to the formation of a felt syndicate by Rieder, D. Lorne McGibbon of Montreal, A.J. Kimmel of Elmira, Ontario, and others. J.J. Westgate was connected in some way to the formation of the felt syndicate, possibly as a competitor.

Includes:

• agreements regarding the felt syndicate;
• correspondence;
• manuscript notes;
• a writ of summons and plaintiff's declaration (carbon copy);
• the typescript statement of Talmon Henry Rieder;
• a reprinted series of correspondence between McGibbon and Rieder (Sept. 1906 to May 1907);
• financial statements of the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Company Limited and of the Merchants Rubber Company Limited for 1907, 1908, and 1909; and
• a machine print-out of several linear feet containing data about the production of footwear from several companies.

File also includes a letter regarding water rights at the rubber company in Granby, Quebec [probably unrelated].

Materials related to the administration of the Carold Institute. Includes the draft of Memorandum of Understanding between the Carold Institute and the Forum International de Montréal (FIM) related to the event "Building Local and Global Democracy," and related correspondence.

Series consists of Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo financial records. Includes accounting records, budget information, fundraising campaigns and events records, donations and bequest records, legal documentation such as indentures, leases, agreements, plans and correspondence, and audits, taxes, business plans and mortgages.

One document on vellum: a grant of land in Hastings County, Upper Canada to Frederick Keller, heir of the original grantee, his brother David Keller, deceased, dated Feb. 10, 1835.

File consists of Canadian Bestseller Library contract, December 22, 1965 with McClelland and Stewart, signed.

File consists of the last will and testament of Mary Spielmacher Huck, mother of Mary Huck Motz.

Materials related to the Carold Institute's incorporation as a charitable organization in Canada. Includes related correspondence, notes from meetings, forms, invoices, and Bylaw Number 1.

One indenture regarding the purchase of land in Woolwich Township between Samuel Weaver and Wife to John Myers, January 23, 1847., memorial recorded Oct. 5, 1848, number 695 Liber F, Folio 54.

An indenture dated December 31, 1853 at Waterloo between Christian Schantz and Abraham Weber for 1200 pounds for 195 acres of land in the lower block of Waterloo Township. Also includes a short history by Harold Russell about the lands in Kitchener-Waterloo owned by the Schantz family.

Materials related to the land purchase of the lot for 178 Claremont Avenue. Includes related correspondence, deed, and invoices and cheques for land surveys, barrister services, and property taxes.
File arrived in archives with handwritten note by donor that read: “Related to home of Dr. W. G. Reive. 178 Claremont Ave. Kitchener. Lot purchased in 1950 w[ith] 2 parts. 1. W. Mitchell. 2. Snyder Estate (Waterloo Trust). 1953 side boundary alignment (Snyder, Reive, Gould).”

Marriage certificate for William Lapsley and Clara S. Joachimi dated April 14, 1891.

File consists of a marriage certificate for Donald Grant Creighton and Luella Sanders Browning Bruce dated June 23, 1926, a 1949 last will and testament of Luella Bruce Creighton witnessed by Dorothy Forward and Mary Q. Innes, and a photocopy of a 1972 last will and testament of Luella Creighton.

Materials related to the submission and publication of Julia McCarthy’s work in different media. Includes submissions to Vintage 2000, Grain Magazine, Event, The Malahat Review (with poems "A poem considers its life," "Circling like a great silence," " "Tuesday," and "Blind spot"), The New Quarterly (with poems “What we reach for,” “Angel of loneliness,” “The weight of who you are,” “Psalms,” “Kundalini rising,” “Metallurgical lesson,” “Bifocal,” “Poem in grey,” and “November’s conversion”), CV2 (with poems “Diabolos” and “Memoir of a codebreaker”), and Bren Simmers (with poems "Meditations on ephemera," "Bifocal," "The hour glass," "Flying underground," "The poem is an animal," "The white moose," and "Sunflower"). Also includes related correspondence and permission to publish forms.

File consists of correspondence, signed contract, royalty statements. The contract relates to Luella Creighton's editing of Canadian Democracy at Work, by George Greason and Roy C. King.

File consists of one marriage certificate for Isabel Ecclestone MacPherson and Peter John Mackay.

File consists of a laminated marriage certificate for Dana Porter and Dorothy Porter (nee Parker).

File consists of correspondence, correspondence copies to and from Luella Creighton, contract, news clippings, royalty statements. Includes newspaper reviews of The Hitching Post, correspondence with Pamela Fry, S. J. Totten, G.T. Feilding[sic], Jack McClelland and others at McClelland and Stewart Ltd. regarding Miss Multipenny and Miss Crumb, The Elegant Canadians, and The hitching post, as well as with Herbert van Thal at London Authors. Also includes Canadian Library Bestseller Contract draft for Turn East, Turn West, dated February 22, 1968.

Materials related to the administration of the Carold Institute. Includes minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors (January 30, 2017), minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors (February 24-26, 2017), and a partnership agreement between Community Foundations of Canada and the Carold Institute with related press releases and correspondence.

File consists of a document relating to property in Buffalo.

File consists of one indenture between Helena Vogt Motz and William John Motz.

File consists of the will of Helena Vogt Motz.

File consists of a photocopy of one deed of land between John Motz and Eugene Funcken, dated January 21, 1876.

File consists of a photocopy of one indenture stating that John Motz would pay Catherine Voisin 60$ per year. Also included is one item of correspondence explaining the indenture.

File consists of the will and codicil of John Motz.

File consists of materials relating to the death of John Edward Motz. Includes clippings and obituaries as well as estate documents.

File consists of the death certificate for Rose Huck Motz.

File consists of materials relating to the death of Mary Huck Motz. Includes two copies of her will, as well as a codicil to the will.

File consists of materials relating to the business partnership between W.J. Motz and W.D. Euler as well as materials created and accumulated by Euler. Includes shareholder information, clippings, legal documents, correspondence as well as materials about Euler including a statement regarding his will, and historical articles on Euler and the Record.

File consists of a will and codicil as well as obituaries for William John Motz.

Materials related to the administration of the Carold Institute. Includes memorandum of understanding for educational and scholarly cooperation between the Carold Institute and Saint Paul's University and related correspondence.

A. R. Kaufman’s official documentation. Includes passport for the years 1971 and 1976 with stamps for Canada’s customs and the United Kingdom with two photographs and a photocopy of the birth certificate; his birth certificate in the form of a card issued in 1971; and a photocopy of his birth registration.

A contract for the personal services of musicians Dana Andrews, Jim Schoew, Andy Suttles, and Tary Engel to perform during a conference held in the Garden Auditorium at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 9, 1969. The contract is signed by Andrew Telegdi who is listed as the employer.

Also includes a contract for the personal services of musicians Pete McKinnon, Bob Fisher, Bob Buckley, and Terry Frewer to perform during a conference held in the Garden Auditorium at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 9, 1969. The contract is signed by Andrew Telegdi who is listed as the employer.

Both contracts outline terms and conditions, the date of engagement, hours of engagement, and the agreed upon payment for services.

File consists of a marriage certificate for Dorothy Porter for her second marriage to Arthur Walwyn.

File consists of a marriage certificate for Dorothy Walwyn (formerly Porter) for her third marriage to George Dean Gibson.

Materials related to the administration of the Carold Institute. Includes correspondence sent and received by the Institute regarding different matters, agenda and minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors (May 8-9, 1998 and November 4, 1998), minutes of the Meeting of the Members (May 9, 1998), reports of the vice-president (1998) and of the president (1999), accounts for 1998-1999, memoranda and reports from different projects, materials related to the estate of Clare Clark (1999), an agreement between the Carold Institute and T.A.L. Private Management Ltd., printout of draft document "A dissemination strategy for the National Survey of Giving, volunteering and participating" (March 1998), and printout of document "CASA/Social watch. Creating a new vision of a just society: a millennium project of Canadian Civil Society. Part of two global civil society processes" (June 1998).

Materials related to the administration of the Carold Institute. Includes correspondence sent and received by the Institute regarding different matters, agenda and minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors (May 15, 1999, May 8-9, 1998, and May 14-15, 1998), report of the president (1999), information about the estate of Clare Clark, materials related to events the Institute attended or in which participated, memoranda of agreements and cheques with other institutions, and materials related to the "Voluntary action and organization in Canada: the last decade and beyond" prepared for the Clare Clark Memorial Symposium.

File consists of material relating to the purchase of the property and construction of the house at 610 Belmont Avenue in Montreal (City of Westmount), as well as the related mortgage and insurance. Includes correspondence, specifications for the house, receipts, manuscript notes, a deed of mortgage (copy), an agreement regarding a loan and repayment (copy), and by-law no. 229 regarding construction in the City of Westmount (copy).

Materials related to Prudence Grieve’s story “cocks” that was published as part of the book The eye in the thicket. Includes printout, memorandum of agreement between Grieve and Thistledown Press, and related correspondence.

Materials related to different events James Walker attended. Includes printout of the chapter “Blacks” (now "Black History in Canada until 1900") written by Walker and published in New Canadian Encyclopedia Publishing Ltd. and related correspondence. Also includes a memorandum of agreement and printouts of “The black loyalists” for the Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery and related correspondence.
Also contains correspondence related to a request for electronic rights in the form of Pearson Custom Database, a letter of agreement and correspondence for the contribution to Taking Liberties: the history of human rights in Canada, and a talent release form for Walker’s appearance in the documentary “Welcome to Dresden: Jim Crow Lived Here Too.”

Materials related to publications Robert Shipley wrote or in which he collaborated. Includes newspaper clippings and photocopies, a legal agreement between Shipley and Norman Turner Bragg for Shipley to write for the book The mighty waterway, and publications. Publications are:

• Program for the "Ontario History and Social Science Teachers' Association presented 'in pursuit of the national dream'" where Shipley participated with a talk titled "'Slabtown revisited': an approach for studying local history" (1982)
• Articles by Shipley published in Alive and Well (1981-1982),
• Unpublished articles titled "The man, the poet: Irving Layton" (with Halia Zamkow), "Creativity... 'the inextinguishable flame'," "The arrival of the home computer," "I got it off my dad and he got it off his dad," "Women's world: the Nestle boycott: babies and you," and "Minor hockey: a major headache for the kids,"
• Channel Magazine (March 1982) with Shipley's article "Who owns the language of morality,"
• Perception Magazine (March-April 1981, January-February 1981) with drawings by Shipley,
• Niagara peninsula writers lovebook. St. Valentine's day 1982 with Shipley's "Love in the laneway,"
• Northern Travel Survey (1978).

Also contains scripts for the plays "The battle of Slabtown," "There goes my chicken salad," and "A legend from ashes" all developed by students of Banting Secondary School and Robert Shipley.

Collection consists of six British legal instruments, on vellum used by R.A. Haney when teaching law courses. Includes:

• 1. Richard Knight and Elizabeth Collyer to John Hilde, assignment of lease of land, July 20, 1738;
• 2. John Ball and Elizabeth Ball to John Hyde, partitioning of land, Dec. 23, 1754;
  3. John Ball and wife to John Hyde, assignment of land, Mar 14, 1757;
  4. George Elwes and John Elwes to Mr. George Lockett, reassignment of land, Apr 28, 1801;
  5. Benjamin Wall and Joseph Malden, lease, May 31, 1852;
  6. George Lockett to George Winter, reassignment of land, July 3, 1862 and George Winter to John Wright reassignment of land and John Wright to John Hyde reassignment of land.

Summaries of the estate accounts and related correspondence.

Indenture for sale of interment rights from the Corporation of the City of Hamilton to Emma Louise Ratz for a parcel of land in Woodland Cemetery, Hamilton, Ont. Emma Louise Ratz likely purchased this cemetery plot for the burial of her husband Elmer Ratz. Emma Louise Ratz was occasionally referred to as Emily.

Last will and testament of Elmer Ratz.

Orders on passing the accounts, summaries of estate accounts and related correspondence.

Summaries of the estate accounts and related correspondence.

Summaries of the estate accounts and related correspondence.

Orders on passing the accounts, summaries of estate accounts and related correspondence.