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1897 daily diary that has been used an accounts book for the years 1900-1905.

Baby album for Barbara Buchanan. Includes information on her birth, milestones, family members, photographs and more. Also includes items inset into the album seemingly by Barbara when she was older.

Materials related to the history of the Buchanan, Woelfle, Cook, and McEwan families as well as to extended family members and friends in Waterloo Region. Includes family documents, photographs, information on the family home, ephemera and more that document multiple generations of a Waterloo Region family.

Certificates obtained by Olive Woelfle in institutional management, first aid, and home nursing.

Materials from the Cook family reunion in Kitchener, Ontario.

Cookbook maintained by Lydia McEwan Woelfle. A note laid into the cookbook indicates that the recipes come from Lydia's grandfather [George]'s second wife, who was referred to as Mrs. Rance.

25 items of correspondence from Kuwa Usagawa to Olive Woelfle between the years 1948-1957. There is also one item of correspondence from Kuwa's sister Suzuo from 1979.

One item of correspondence from Wellington Ervin Woelfle to Olive Woelfle.

Thirteen items of correspondence from others to Olive Woelfle.

Correspondence to Olive Woelfle from her nieces Barbara and Phyllis and her nephew Ross.

Four items of correspondence to Wellington Ervin Woelfle from his daughter Olive Woelfle, including a father's day card.

Clippings, notes, and research files on Daniel Bechtel Detweiler's contribution to Hydro in Ontario.

Death notices, in memoriam cards and materials relating to burials for members of the greater Buchanan family.

Diabetic recipes from the Toronto General Hospital, likely used by Olive Woelfle during her work as a dietitian.

Daily diary for Olive Woelfle covering the years 1930-1934. The diary is completely filled in and there are occasionally ephemera items inset throughout.

Daily diary for Olive Woelfle covering the years 1935-1940. The diary is completely filled out.

Diary written by Fanny Bellhouse Buchanan from the age of 13 years, 4 months, 1 week, and 5 days old. Inset are ephemera such as a prayer, a first aid certificate for her son Victor Buchanan, and references for her husband Percival Buchanan as a teacher.

Guidelines for menus and diets for various health issues used by Olive Woelfle when she worked as a dietitian.

Binder of notes from Olive Woelfle's time as a student at the Macdonald Institute, where she graduated as a dietitian.

Materials relating to extended family members and friends of the Buchanan family.

One large scrapbook album used to record generations of descendants of Andrew and Anna Christina Oberholtzer.Andrew was born in 1769 and the last descendant with a listed birth date was born in 1912.

Various handwritten and typed notes relating to the history of branches of the family. Also includes copies of correspondence between Rev. Moses Erb and others, as well as his recipes for medical treatments.

Materials related to the family of Gertrude Woelfle and Victor Buchanan, as well as to their children Ross Buchanan, Phyllis Buchanan Orr, and Barbara Buchanan.

Transcript of an address given to Sarah Parry and George Rance on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary.

Text of a speech delivered by Lina Shepherd, at the golden wedding anniversary of Wellington Ervin and Lydia McEwan Woelfle.

Photographs of downtown Kitchener, buildings in the region, the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and a group of men in a bar.

Materials relating to the history and design of the Woelfle family home at 123 Young Street in Kitchener. Includes plans of the house with proposed changes, as well as a document outlining the historical architectural significance of the house.

Materials relating to proposed changes to Walter H. Breithaupt's home at 155 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener. Includes architectural drawings and a project plan.

One house key.

In memoriam booklet provided by the funeral home to the family of Wellington Ervin Woelfle. Includes a list of people who attended the funeral, as well as flowers sent.

Invitation to Wellington Ervin and Lydia McEwan Woelfle to a reception for Queen Elizabeth and King George VI when they visited Kitchener in 1939.

One item of correspondence indicating that Lydia McEwan Woelfle has been granted life membership in the women's auxiliary of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, in Kitchener.

Locks of hair kept by Lydia McEwan Woelfle, likely from Edith, Olive, Gertrude and Phyllis Woelfle.

Materials relating to the family of Lydia McEwan and Wellington Ervin Woelfle, as well as their children Olive Woelfle, Gertrude Woelfle Buchanan, Edith Woelfle Ahrens and Phyllis Woelfle.

Examination from the Macdonald Institute for the course Sci II - Biochemistry. The examination was written by Olive Woelfle and has handwritten notes by her on the page.

Cards and notes on the care of various items of the home, from Olivia Woelfle's time at the Macdonald Institute's household management program.

Trip scrapbook album kept by Lydia McEwan Woelfle for a Mediterranean cruise in 1930. Lydia, Wellington and Olive took the trip through the James Boring tour company. The scrapbook includes a trip booklet, a list of passengers, the daily cruise bulletins, photographs, ephemera, a diary and a book on the history of the near east. Countries visited included Portugal, Morocco, Spain, Gibraltar, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria [Lebanon], Palestine, Egypt, Albania, Jugo Slavia [Montenegro, Croatia], Italy, Monaco, France and England.

Three hand embroidered napkins belonging to Olive Woelfle. The napkins are embroidered with decorative motifs as well as monogrammed with Olive's initials.

Materials relating to the life of Olive Woelfle.

The 1949 Ovenden chronicle, the yearbook of Ovenden College. Barbara Buchanan attended Ovenden during this time, however this copy of the yearbook belonged to her friend Judy Kingsford who gifted it to Barbara in 2017.

Personal records of members of the Woelfle and Buchanan including birth and baptismal certificates, passport and customs documents, marriage licenses, and membership in the Victorian Order of Nurses.

One photograph of Betty Breithaupt doing the "polar bear swim" at Van Wagner's Beach in Hamilton.

Photograph of George Odlum 'Pop' Philip as well as a handwritten note about his life.

Photographs of family and friends at French River, and Niagara Falls, among other places.

Photographs of members of the Buchanan, Cook, Brubacher and and Woelfle families. Includes Lydia McEwen Woelfle, Wellington Ervin Woelfle, Samuel Woelfle and Cordelia Cook Woelfle, Gertrude Woelfle Buchanan, Phyllis Woelfle, Olive Woelfle, Edythe Woelfle Ahrens, the family dog Towser, and others. Places shown include the family house at 132 Yongue Street, Kitchener, Grand Bend, Bayfield, Chicopee, the Grand Canyon, California, Galt, New Orleans, Ottawa, and Elora.

Photographs of family and friends at River Glen Cottages at Chicopee.

Photographs of family and friends on vacation at Bayfield, the Gaspe and other places.

Photographs of family and friends. Many photos are identified as being taken at Oakwood, which is possibly Oakwood resort in Grand Bend.

Photographs of members of the Buchanan and Woelfle families largely on trips around rivers. Includes images of Wellington Ervin Woelfle, Lydia McEwen Woelfle, and others. Family members are shown along the Grand River, French River, in Georgian Bay, San Souci, West Montrose Bridge, Deer Horn Lodge, Paris Ontario, Brantford, Collingwood, Prescott, Muskoka, and Victoria Park in Kitchener.

Photographs of Wellington Ervin Woelfle and Lydia McEwen Woelfle among others on a trip to California between 1923-1924. The family took a train from Kitchener, across to the west coast of Canada, and then a ferry to Seattle, and another train to California. All of the cities and sites that they stopped at along the route are documented. This includes cities in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, as well as in Washington state and California. Highlights include the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, Hollywood (including a movie being shot on a beach), and seeing Ralph DePalma go 115 miles per hour.

The photographs in this album are not identified but appear to be more of a trip taken to California in 1923-1924 as well as through New Mexico and Florida. Some images can be identified as having been taken in Daytona Beach, Albuquerque, Culver City, and Ormond Beach.

Photographs of members of the Woelfle family and friends. Highlights include First World War soldiers, images of fishing, and of a man flying a plan.

Photograph album maintained by Olive Woelfle. Contains images of family and friends, her time at the Macdonald institute, and images of her friend Kuwa Usagawa in Japan. Also contains a care log for Gertrude Woelfle Buchanan and a patch from the Macdonald Institute.

Photograph album largely of Olive Woelfle, Edith Woelfle Ahrens and Gertrude Woelfle Buchanan. Also includes photographs of friends and family, including Cook family relatives.

Photograph album kept by Barbara Buchanan largely documenting her time at Ovenden College and the Ontario College of Art and Design [then OCA]. In addition to photographs there are clippings, cards, artwork, and other ephemera.

Photographs of members of the Buchanan and related families, as well as friends. The photographs were taken at home, as well as in California, Ottawa, South Carolina, Florida, England, Scotland, Australia and Samoa. The photographs from Australia are also accompanied by clippings from the Canadian trade delegation trip to Australia in 1937. W.D. Euler lead the trip, and it is possible that Wellington Ervin Woelfle and family went along with him. There are also clippings of W.D. Euler going to the New York's World Fair, and of the King and Queen of England visiting Canada in 1939. Some interesting photos include those of the mother grapevine in California, all you can drink orange juice bar, and the Aimee Semple McPeherson temple.

Red velvet photograph album with decorated pages. Inserted into the album are 31 photographs, mostly carte de visit and card photographs of members of Lydia McEwan Woelfle's family and friends from Ottawa.

Photographs of members of the Buchanan family, especially Barbara Buchanan and her siblings Ross and Phyllis.

Photographs of Wellington Ervin Woelfle, Lydia McEwen Woelfle, Gertrude Woelfle Buchanan, Edith Woelfle Ahrens, Olive Woelfle, the family horse Kitty, the family dog Towser, W. Quickfall, J.B. Weaver, and members of the Cook family. The photographs show the family members at home, as well as in London, Ontario.

Photographs of Wellington Ervin Woelfle, Lydia McEwen Woelfle, Edith Woelfle Ahrens, Olive Woelfle, Victor Buchanan, Ross Buchanan, and H.J. Sims as well as other family members. The family is shown traveling through Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. Highlights include images of pelicans, spanish moss, peacocks, people lawn bowling and playing shuttleboard, and dolphins at Marine Gardens.

Photograph albums kept by members of the Buchanan and extended families.

Photographs of descendants of Thomas and Hannah Gunston Bellhouse, as well as photographs unidentified but believed to be members of the Bellhouse family.

Photographs of the Buchanan family, particularly of Barbara Buchanan and her sister Phyllis Buchanan Orr. The photographs show the sisters at play as children, as well as with family and friends, and images of Barbara during her time volunteering for the Red Cross and Canadian Blood Services. Also includes one image of Victor Buchanan.

Photographs of descendants of James and Elizabeth Williams Cook. Photographs are identified as follows:

1. Annie Christina Cook Elsley, Alice Elvira Cook Oberholtzer, Melinda Caroline Cook Oberholtzer, Elizabeth Jane Cook Quickfall, Hannah Marie Cook Brubacher, Cordelia Diana Cook Woelfle, Ellen Roselia Cook Bricker, Henrietta Josephine Cook Weaver. [Mary Jemima Cook Sims is misidentified as Eliza Artemesia Cook] [10 of the 11 daughters of James and Elizabeth Williams Cook]
2. Thomas Quickfall [husband of Elizabeth Jane Cook Quickfall]
3. Alice Cook Luudwig [daughter of Jacob S. and Mary Ann Hett Cook]
4. Washington Elsley and unidentified [son of David and Annie Christina Cook Elesley]
5. [?] Elesley
6. Helen Smyth's parents Brickers
7. Sadie McEwan Bricker, Col. Rance Bricker, Nora Langford Bricker, David Bricker, Susan Bricker [Sadie McEwan is Lydia McEwan's sister. The sisters married first cousins]
8. John and Hannah Maria Brubacher
9. Helen Smyth's parents the Brickers and grandma
10. James Cook and grandson Jacbo Cook [son of Jacob S. and Mary Ann Hett Cook]
11. Standing L-R: Alice Elvira Cook Oberholtzer, Angeline Margaret Cook Davis, Elizabeth Jane Cook Quickfall, Cordelia Diana Cook Woelfle, Melinda Caroline Cook Oberholtzer. In centre: Jacob S. Cook. Seated L-R: Ellen Roselia Cook Bricker, Hannah Maria Cook Brubacher, Mary Jemima Cook Sims, Anna Christina Cook Elsley, Henrietta Josephine Cook Weaver
12. James Cook
13. Elizabeth Williams Cook
14. [Henrietta Weaver]
15. Unknown, possibly a child of Henrietta Cook and Jacob Weaver.
16. Jacob Weaver

Photographs of family members who are identified as living in Red Deer, Alberta, and surrounding area.

Photographs of the Woelfle family home at 132 Young Street, Kitchener.

Photographs of Lydia McEwan and Wellington Ervin Woelfle. Also includes photographs of the couple together, sometimes alongside their children.

Photographs of descendants of George and Sarah Parry Rance, and Owen and Jane Blackstock McEwan. Photographs are identified as follows:

1. L-R William McEwan, Lydia McEwan Woelfle, Jemima McEwan, Sadie McEwan Bricker, Frederick McEwan
2. Standing L-R Sadie McEwan Bricker, Lydia McEwan Woelfle [holding portrait of thier mother Mary Jane Rance McEwan], Seated L-R Edith Woelfle Ahrens, Gertrude Woelfle Mott, Olive Woelfle, Phyllis Woelfle on lap of George Rance
3. Jemima McEwan
4. William McEwan
5. Frederick McEwan, Sadie McEwan Bricker, Jemima McEwan, Lydia McEwan Woelfle, George Rance
6. Elizabeth M. Rance [daughter of Sir Hubert Rance]
7. Elizabeth Rance Carpenter
8. Richard and Mary Jane Rance McEwan
9. Mary Jane Rance McEwan and Elizabeth Rance Carpenter
10. [Jemima McEwan?]
11. [Sadie McEwan Bricker?]
12. William McEwan
13. [Sadie McEwan Bricker?]
14. Mary Jane Rance McEwan

Photographs of Olive, Gertrude and Edith Woelfle.

Photographs of Barbara Buchanan and her friends when she was a student at Ovenden College in Barrie.

Photographs of Samuel and Diana Cook Woelfle.

Place holders and tally cards used for bridge parties.

Two poems by Elizabeth Williams Cook, one addressed to her husband James Cook and one to her children.

Porcupine quill box made of birch with decorative porcupine quills. Quills are in three colours - natural, purple, and blue and are arranged in geometric patterns are well as images of flowers.

Four Second World War ration booklets.

Letters of recommendation for Olive Woelfle.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings of interest covering a variety of topics.

Unidentified photographs of Buchanan family members and friends.

Newspaper clipping from the The Evening Journal of the wedding of Lydia McEwan and Wellington Ervin Woelfle.

Wedding memories album kept by Gertrude Woelfle Buchanan upon her marriage to Victor Buchanan. The album continued to be used after the wedding to store photographs, a handkerchief and ephemera including cards, newspaper clippings, and more.

Pair of pince-nez glasses worn by Wellington Ervin Woelfle.