An album containing photographs of the Forbes family and their friends including Millicent Lyall Forbes, George Alexander Forbes, Betty Forbes, Peg Forbes, Pamela Wilson, Ross Wilson, Margaret Neilson, Jean Lyttle, Isabel Taylor, Jane Drope, Betty Hall, Joan MacPhail, Joan Norwich, Jayne Clement, Jack Vincent, Betty and Lou Breithaupt, Eleanor Snyder, Jean Augustine, Patty Ann Augustine, Barbie Augustine, and many others. Several photographs feature Camp Forty at Lake Tyson, Thistletown (part of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto), Christmas celebrations, christenings, and trips to British Columbia, Arizona, California, Texas, South Carolina, and Yellowstone National Park. Also includes a ticket stub or name card for Millicent Lyall Forbes when she attended the Canadian Nurses Association 25th biennial meeting at the University of British Columbia between June 26-30, 1950.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1948. Several entries describe Betty’s work in British Columbia, family events, dances, a trip to Alaska, holidays, and Peg Forbes’s wedding to Colin Andrew (Joe) Wilson. The diary contains letters, invitations, lists, a patch, and press clippings including one titled, Girls advised to train for career and marriage published in The Globe and Mail on January 27, 1948.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1949. Several entries describe Betty’s work as a nurse, family events, and holidays. The diary includes press clippings, postcards, notes, letters, invitations, a program from Maple Leaf Gardens, tickets, a national credit card from Imperial Oil Limited and four photographs of unknown individuals.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1950. Several entries describe Betty’s work as a nurse, family events, and holidays. The diary includes press clippings, invitations, telegrams, postcards, two photographs of unknown individuals, a certificate for a rare blend of Crown Royal whiskey from the House of Seagram, and a registration card from the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1944 during her time as a student at the School for Nurses at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. Several entries describe Betty’s work at the hospital, student exams and marks, school dances, class dinners, and capping ceremony. The diary includes press clippings, letters, notes, event programs, and a photograph of an adult and child. In addition, numerous entries describe events and activities related to the Second World War including an entry written on D-Day (June 6, 1944). Some of these entries contain attached items such as press clippings related to military personnel and banknotes including a 1 lire banknote issued by Italy in 1939, 5-francs Type 1942 issued by Banque de l'Algérie, a 10-AM lire banknote as well as a one shilling and a half shilling Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1945 during her time as a student at the School for Nurses at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. Several entries describe Betty’s work at the hospital, student exams, patient care, and school dances. The diary includes press clippings, a convocation program, letters, telegrams, notes, pressed flowers, restaurant menus, business cards, event programs, and a photograph likely of Betty and an unknown individual. In addition, numerous entries describe events and activities related to the Second World War including an entry written on Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) on May 8, 1945, an entry written on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) on August 15, 1945 as well as entries describing food rationing, and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). Also includes one United States Army Anti-Aircraft Command sleeve insignia. The insignia is circular with an embroidered white background, blue border, and two red capital letter A's in the centre.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1946 during her last year as a student at the School for Nurses at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. Several entries describe Betty’s work at the hospital, student exams, patient care, school dances, a scholarship she received, and her enrollment in a diploma course in Child Study at the University of Toronto. The diary includes press clippings, menus, convocation programs, invitations, postcards, telegrams, tickets, letters, ribbons, and two photographs of unknown individuals.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1947. Several entries describe family events, parties, dances, trips to Buffalo, Sudbury and British Columbia, and Betty’s work at Claremont Nursery School. The diary includes letters, telegrams, invitations, programs, press clippings, pressed flowers, a napkin, and a photograph of an unknown individual.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1951. Several entries describe Betty’s work as a nurse, family events, and holidays. The diary includes press clippings, invitations, telegrams, letters, and a photograph of an unknown individual.

Christmas card booklet featuring illustrated lilacs and a "Best Wishes" greeting on the front cover "From Eliza to Uncle Tobias". The booklet contains the lyrics for the hymn "Like a river, glorious".

Two book reviews and an article clipping that refer to English activist and educator Annie Besant.

Clipping of United Nations World article "The Girl Who Does a Man's Job" about Sylvia de Bertier, mayor of Manom, France.

A berthing card and meal card issued to Cameron Hill during the Second World War likely when he traveled on a troopship sailing from Halifax Harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England between August and September 1941.

The berthing card indicates that Cameron was assigned to cabin S22, in section 3 of the Sports deck. The meal card indicates that Cameron was assigned to eat first meal (breakfast) during the second sitting at table number 28. The name of the ship that Cameron traveled on is unknown.

Materials related to the Bermuda-Canada Conference where James Walker participated in a session titled “Black studies: a comparative perspective” with a paper titled “West Indian immigrants and the Black community in Canada: parallels and promises.” Includes related correspondence, conference schedule, press release, conference program, abstract of Frank E. Manning's presentation for the conference titled “The Black Experience in Bermuda and Canada: Ethnicity, culture, and immigration,” and information about travel and accommodation arrangements.

File consists of one clipping reporting an excursion of Berlin Rubber Co. employees to Penetang on Saturday, July 14, 1906. Comments on Breithaupt Leather and cottaging.

File consists of a carbon sheet with background data about the history of the Commission, clippings about the work of the Commission and about the bringing of hydro-electric power to Kitchener in 1910.

File consists of a Berlin Collegiate and Technical Institute commence program from 1912.

File consists of one clipping reporting the effects of "the worst storm experienced in Berlin in 20 years" and the efforts of the Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway Co.

Weekend Magazine (no. 47) article "Nurse Bennett of the Outports" by Cyril Robinson about the Myra Bennett (nee Grimsley), who began working as a nurse in Newfoundland in 1921.

Bendix Automatic Home Laundry pamphlet detailing uses for the housewife, worker, nurse or chief. The advertisement makes reference to the use of Bendix during the Second World War.

File consists of one brochure for the Canadian YMCA Beaver Club in Oldenburg, Germany. It is billed as the first and last Canadian town centre in Germany. The brochure also notes that as of May 1, 1946 the management will be assumed by the British YMCA.

Page from an issue of Maclean's featuring an article written by Dorothy Eber about Canadian textile artist Micheline Beauchemin.

Clipping from unsourced publication about the July 1948 appointment of Gladys M. Bearman as Vice-Consul, Canadian Consulate in San Francisco.

In memoriam cards for Margaret Hailer Wagner Bean.

Clipping of The Globe and Mail column "A Gallery of Women" about Canadian pianist and music teacher Mona Bates.

File consist of one paper napkin advertisement for Barrett and Couldings 99 cent store.

Contains material relating to Anne Dagg's opinon piece in Forum on Professor Barney Lawrence as a Distinguished Teacher's Award recipent. Includes newspaper clippings, notes, photocopies of an anonymous letter to Doug Wright, minutes of the Editorial Board of the Faculty Association of the Univerity of Waterloo Forum, memoranda, and information about Distinguished Teacher Award nominiations.

Materials related to the Barbara Clague Festival of Song. Includes related correspondence and ephemera. Also contains materials related to the Collingwood Neighbourhood House (Vancouver, British Columbia).

File consists of programmes for banquet to our overseas nurses, doctors and chaplains held by the Brantford Local Council of Women.

Clipping of the Leader-Post article "Montreal harpist is also a writer" about Winifred Bambrick.

Clipping about newspaper editor [Violet Elizabeth] Ballantyne who ran the Emerson Journal following the death of her husband W.B. Ballantyne.

Business card for Mervin Ball, purchasing agent for Krug Furniture.

Page torn from an unknown publication featuring the article "Personality Plus" about homemaker and advertiser Margaret Ball, who worked for General Mills.

Contains one plaque. The plaque was presented to Dare Foods Limited on their 100th Anniversary by the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers' International Union Local 264. The plaque was made by The Award Store, Mississauga, Ontario.

One typescript biography about Irene Baird drafted using a clipping of The Globe and Mail article "Official Answers Questions On Birds and Fish at CNE".

Advertisement trade card for Bacon, Stickney, & Co., enterprise baking powder, coffee, spices, Albany, N.Y. depicting a young woman washing clothes in a wash bucket while a man with a riding crop looks on. Caption reads "The handsomest girl in town."

Advertisement for B.T. Babbitt's 99 soap showing a mother washing an infant with the soap while her daughter does laundry with it and her son blows soap bubbles in the kitchen. The advertisement reads "For the laundry or bath try B.T. Babbitt's 99 soap."

File consists of various awards received by Barbara Smucker as well as clippings and ephemera relating to events that she has partaken in and readings by her. Includes a transcript of a convocation address at the University of Waterloo given May 29, 1986 at which Barbara Smucker received an honorary doctorate.

Materials related to awards received by Joan Hollobon and the Hollobon Award. Includes biographical notes and articles about Hollobon, related newspaper clippings and correspondence, photographs of the Hollobon Award ceremony in 1987 and 1990, and a copy of Science Link by Canadian Science Writers’ Association, Vol. 9, No. 3 (June 1989). Also contains the following awards and certificates received by Hollobon:

• Lifetime Achievement Award by Science in Society Journalism Awards (2010),
• Certificate of appreciation by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association (1981),
• Award of Distinction by the Health Care Public Relations Association (1984),
• Honorary Member recognition of the Ontario Medical Association (1985),
• Congratulation certificate by the Government of Ontario (2015),

Contains correspondence, news clippings, etc. regarding awards won by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record for outstanding reporting, sports writing, typography etc.

Birthday, Christmas, Easter and Valentine greetings, and one postcard. Includes a letter from "Santa Claus," a Dionne Quintuplet postcard, and two hand drawn and coloured pieces relating to China and Japan. One is by Emma Kaufman of a child looking into a goldfish bowl and the other, of rabbits and chicks, is initialled H.T.

Ephemera from Margaret Avenue Senior Public School in Kitchener, Ontario. Includes four report cards for Mary Ham (nee Augustine).

Ephemera related to Mary Ham (nee Augustine) from the Zion Evangelical Church in Kitchener, Onario. Includes a cradle roll certificate, and promotion certificates.

Ephemera including Mary Ham's (nee Augustine) birth announcement (press clipping), hand-painted birth announcement card, congratulation and christening cards, and telegrams. Also includes three pieces of ephemera related to Albert William Augustine and John Ross Augustine.

An envelope addressed to Mr. A. W. Augustine, postmarked Berlin 1910, stamped.

File consists of clippings reporting the death of A.B. Augustine, husband of Caroline Breithaupt.

Materials related to the "XXIV German-Canadian Conference" (October 23 to 25, 2009, Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany). Includes the delegation list, program, and “Speech by H.E. Ambassador Dr. Georg Witschel German Ambassador in Canada ‘Political and Economic Factor that Shape Canadian and German Approaches to Globalization.’”

Materials related to the Atlantik-Brücke association. Includes related correspondence, cost breakdown, draft agenda, program for the "Future of Energy, XXIX German Canadian Conference hosted by Atlantik-Bruecke Canada and Atlantik-Brücke" (September 17-20, 2014), and a template for email introducing Atlantik-Bruecke Canada organization.

Materials related to the "XXX German-Canadian Conference" (April 15-18, 2015, Brussels, Belgium). Includes business card for Eveline Y. Metzen (executive director of Atlantik-Brücke); break-out groups information; handwritten notes on the event; program; agenda for the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice board meeting (May 6, 2015); program report; agenda for the Regional Governments in International Affairs (September 17-18, 2015).

Materials related to the Atlantic Canada Workshop at Carleton University, in 1991, titled “Political Economy of Region” where James Walker participated in the panel “Studying Afro-Atlantic Canadian Culture.” Includes notes, schedule of the event, travel receipts, related correspondence, and preliminary programme.

Clippings from various publications about the life of Nancy Astor.

File consists of Downs Survey: A National Study to Provide Guidelines for the Development of the Resources and Services of Academic Libraries, Aug. 20, 1965; Bladen Commission Report, 1965; Canadian Academic Library Study, 1966; Proposal for A Study to Provide Guidelines ... 1966; Correspondence (Downs, Andrew, AUCC, Questionnaire) 1966; Downs Survey: Research Resources, part 1; Literary Response to Downs Survey, Part II, Dec. 12, 1966; Faculty Responses to Downs Survey, Part II, Jan. 5, 1967; Faculty Responses to Survey, Jan. 16, 1967; Basic Reference Collection; Social Sciences and Humanities Index, List of Periodicals Indexed; Memo to Senate Library Committee regarding Library Automation, Nov. 28, 1966; Budget Distribution in the Downs Report (D.A. Redmond); Arcticle in Globe & Mail, Mar. 30, 1968.

Materials related to the Aryan Affairs Commission (AAC) gathered by Jim Keron, likely when he was a member of the AAC. Includes the meeting minutes of the Aryan Affairs Commission (AAC) privy council held on June 6, 1968; June 10, 1968; June 20, 1968; July 8, 1968; July 15, 1968, and August 21, 1968. File also includes correspondence, an application for membership, a cheque book, sweatshirt order forms, a special occasion liquor license, a petition to disband the privy council, a receipt for stamps, and handwritten notes.

Furthermore, the file contains a wood-mounted rubber stamp with a handle. The rubber stamp die features the group's name, Aryan Affairs Commission, in small lettering at the top and the words "rubber stamp" prominently displayed in the center. Members of the AAC likely used this stamp to mark posters or flyers on bulletin boards around campus to satirize university administration requirements that such materials be stamped for approval.

Clipping of The Globe and Mail article "Woman Reporter Quits After 40 Years on Job" about the retirement of Canadian newspaper reporter Isabel Armstrong.

Advertisement trade card for Armour's Mince Meat and Canned Meats showing an older woman teaching a group of younger women how to cook. Verso reads "It is admitted by every prudent housekeeper, that our Condensed Mince Meat is equal in every respect to the old-fashioned home-made article. Our well known connection with the beef industry, enables us, to put a Mince Meat on the market second to none. We use only the best and purest ingredients, and it is the universal verdict that our product retains its sweetness longer and goes farther than any other brand. Packaged in 12 oz. (net) cardboard cartons. Enough for two large pies. 2 packages for 25 cents. At all first-class grocery stores. Armour and Company, Chicago."

Ephemera related to the Arctic Council. Includes flyers "PAME (Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment) Working Group of the Arctic Council, 2011-2013,” “Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Council,” and “Arctic council Fact Sheet, Arctic council Swedish Chairmanship, 2011-2013."

One letter dated May 19, 1982 from Reuben Baetz, Minister of Tourism and Recreation, to W.H. Kaufman in his position as Honorary President of the Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA, congratulating him on the offical opening of the A.R. Kaufman family. Includes portfolio and news story relating to the opening.

File consists of one clipping reporting the appointment of L.L. Anthes as President of the American Foundrymen's Association.

One booklet containing the annual report and plan of work for the Young Woman's Branch of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The booklet gives information on missionary work, building of a temperance hospital, animal cruelty and more.

An undated press clipping from the Bechler family photo album containing the death announcement of Wilhelmina Henrietta Bechler, daughter of Mr. Fred Bechler.

Materials related to expenditures and payments made for the building of the house at 178 Claremont Avenue by the Reive family. Includes a cheque for Mabel Reive from 1942, bank statements for Mr. and Mrs. Reive, and proceeds of the sale of the house at 33 Brock Street in Kitchener (Mrs. Reive’s property in September 1951) put towards the purchase of 178 Claremont Avenue.
File arrived in archives with handwritten note by donor that read: “Annot[at]ed list(s) of payments made by W. G. Reive related to building 178 Claremont Ave. Kitchener home of Dr. W. G. Reive & Mabel Reive. (also later sources and uses of funds).”

Consists of correspondence, lists and notes.

Consists of correspondence, invitations, members' cards from 1947, and notes regarding parties.

Untitled prose typescript.

Clipping of a poem by Walter Stuebing printed in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Yesteryear in Kitchener"

Manuscript version of a poem by "Stubby", Walter Stuebing titled "Yesterday in Kitchener"

Typescript of poem titled "Words of wisdom."

Clipping of a poem by Etienne de Grellet and quotation from E.W. Howe on success, originally from Forbes Magazine.

Typescript sheet of untitled sayings.

Prose typescript and photocopy of "The wonders of being eighty plus."

Typescript poem titled "Take time."

Prose typescript titled "Sum up of have what it takes to take it."

Typescript of a poem with no identified authoer titled "Success".

Prose typescript titled "Solder Private William Sharpe."

Clipping titled "Rain of urine starts stampede, 24 killed."

Calendar page consisting of a cartoon by Gary Patterson of a skier titled "Psyched out."

Photocopy of typescript poem signed by Emma C. Anthes titled "Not growing old."

Photocopy of typescript poem signed by Emma C. Anthes titled "Living bouquets."

Typescript poem titled "Liquor lengthens life."

Prose piece called "Isle of Mann"

Typescript of an untitled poem by an anonymous author with a note by Norman C. Schneider that reads: "Kindness of Bishop Leland Stark, Motorship Sagafjord, June 7-July 10, 1975."

Clipping of a typescript poem titled "I am fine, thank you."

Clipping of a prose piece titled "How to tell Conservatives from Liberals."

Photocopy of a poem titled "High flight" by J.G. Magee from the New Church Messenger.

Poem by William Powell titled "Growing old" cut from The Rotarian, March 1961.

Photocopy of a humorous typescript letter titled "Dear cousin."

Clipping of a poem titled "Consider."

One "Comment Corner" clipped from the J.M. Schneider Newsletter, April 8, 1982.

Typescript poem, one typescript carbon, photocopy.

Clipping of a poem about aging titled "A prayer".

Prose manuscript of called "A juicy fish".

Untitled poem that begins "A country dog.."

Undated poem cut from a Rotary Club Bulletin called "Ponder."

Date: 1938.10.23 Place from: Winnipeg, Man. To: Catley, Elaine M. From: Allison, W.T. Notes: + 1926 news clipping

Fonds consists of material relating to the life and activities, both business and personal, of Albert L. Breithaupt from his 18th year on. Includes correspondence in German from his mother, Catharine Hailer Breithaupt. Includes correspondence, diaries, legal and financial documents, ephemera and photographs.

File consists of materials relating to an exhibit of Tony Urquhart's works at A.K. Collings Fine Art Gallery. Includes four items of correspondence for Aurelie Collings, exhibit advertising, lists of art works, financial information and a clipping.

Two clippings (one undated) about Canadian journalist and politician Margaret Aitken.

Material relating to Walter Ahrens, son of Henry Jacob Ahrens and Caroline Seiler. Consists of a biographical article appearing in the Oak Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma newsletter. Includes portrait.