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What if a Day.

File consists of a typed passage from What if a Day by A.E.H. Swaen from Modern Philology Vol. 5 p. 384.

Steele's Restaurant grand opening.

File consists of two photographs showing Dana Porter and others at the opening of Steele's Restaurant in Toronto. Also includes one item of correspondence from Steele regarding the photographs.

Porter, Dana Harris

Speech File : 1960.

File consists of the transcripts for eleven speeches given by Dana Porter at various convocations and events. Includes one for the University of Waterloo Convocation for the Installation of the Chancellor The Honourable Dana Harris Porter. Also includes four photographs showing Dorothy Porter, Julian Porter and Dana Porter Jr. standing under a painting of Dana Porter at the dedication ceremony for the Dana Porter Library.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook.

File consists of one scrapbook with clippings, speeches and articles on Dana Porter, his work, life, and interests.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook.

File consists of one large scrapbook with pasted-in clippings and magazine articles on Porter, his work, and related interests.

Porter, Dana Harris

Regular Appellate Judges Seminar, by New York University.

File consists of one photograph showing members of the Regular Appellate Judges Seminar held at New York University Law School in 1966. Seated L-R:

  • Bischoff, N.Y.U. ;
  • O' Connell, Oregon ;
  • Hamley, 9th Cir. ;
  • Brennan, U.S. Supreme Ct. ;
  • Traynor, Calif. ;
  • Schaefer, Ill. ;
  • Kenison, N.H. ;
  • Leflar, N.Y.U. ;
  • McKay, N.Y.U.

Standing L-R: Hill, Kentucky ; Kaul, Kansas ; Hodges, Oklahoma ; Heffernan, Wisconsin ; Gibson, 8th Cir. ; Thornberry, 5th Cir. ; Tremblay, Quebec ;
Dufresne, Maine ;
Herrmann, Delaware ; Finch, Missouri ; Paolino, Rhode Island ; Porter, Ontario ; McEntee, 1st Cir. ; Goodwin, Orgeon ; Ramirez Bages, Puerto Rico ; Rodgers, Mississippi ; Spear, Idaho ; Bergan, New York ; Summers, Louisiana ; Gordon, Virginia ; Richardson, Hawaii ; Mason, Iowa ; Smith, Nebraska ;
*Pope, Texas.

Identification from recto.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana meeting Pope Paul VI.

File consists of four photographs showing Dana Porter shaking hands with the Pope, taken on the occasion of the first anniversary of Paul VI Papacy, July 1, 1964. Dorothy Porter is standing next to Dana.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana giving a speech.

File consists of one photograph showing Dana Porter standing behind a head table giving a speech. Nine others are seated at the table.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana and others at meeting.

File consists of five photographgraphs showing Dana Porter with unidentified other men at a meeting of an unknown organization. Some men are wearing ribbons indicating their status in the group (president, director, etc.) and in one photograph a man is seen receiving a scroll from another in a ceremony.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana and others : McMaster University Convocation.

File consists of one photograph showing Dana Porter and others in the McMaster University administration dressed in robes for a convocation ceremony.

In the photograph are:

  • Porter, Dana Harris
  • Stewart, Sean
  • Thode, Henry George
  • Young, J.V.
  • Cooper, W.H.
  • Steam, C.H.
  • Hudson, Paul H.
  • Gilmour, George P.
  • Rawley, O.H.
  • Kellach, R.L.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana and others.

File consists of one group photograph showing Dana Porter and a large group of men seated and standing at tables at an unidentified event.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana and others.

File consists of one photograph of Dana Porter with a group of unidentified men. Many of the men are in military dress.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana and others.

File consists of two group photographs of Dana Porter with who appear to be other members of the Ontario Parliament. The photographs were taken the same day, one an informal shot in a meeting room and room a formal posed photograph.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana and Haim J. Zadok.

File consists of two photographs of Dana Porter with Deputy Attorney-General of Israel Haim J. Zadok during Zadok's trip to Canada. Also includes three items of correspondence regarding the photographs.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana and Beland Honderich.

File consists of three photographs of Dana Porter with Beland Honderich. Beland is in a wheelchair and appears to be at a hospital or convalescent home. Two of the photos show just Honderich and Porter and the third shows a group of men in wheelchairs gathered around a piano, perhaps at a party.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana , Robert Fabian and Keith Simpson.

File consists of five photographs of Dana Porter with Robert Fabian and Keith Simpson taken by Gerry Kainz of the Hamilton Spectator. In the photographs the men are seen examining evidence. Inscription on verso of one reads "A string bag! The main duo which took Sidney Sinclair or Harold Hagger to the gallows for the murder of Dagmar Petrzywalski otherwise Peters. Wrotham, Kent, England." Also includes two items of correspondence between Ed. Black of the Hamilton Spectator and Dana Porter regarding the photographs.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana : Who's Who in Canada.

File consists of four photographs of Dana Porter mounted on information sheets from Who's Who in Canada. Also includes one item of correspondence from Who's Who regarding the photographs.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana : swearing in ceremony.

File consists of four photographs of Dana Porter with Lieutenant Governor Ray Lawson, George Drew and others at Porter's swearing in ceremony as Attorney General of Ontario. Identification from verso.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana : Empire Club.

File consists of three photographs showing Dana Porter with unidentified other members of the Empire Club at a meeting. Also includes one item of correspondence regarding the photographs.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana : caricature.

File consists of one reproduction of a caricature of Dana Porter by Henry H. Bull. Bull was the Crown Attorney for Metropolitan Toronto and the County of York and drew many caricatures of colleagues. The reproduction print is mounted using Durograf technology, a type of screen printing where the image is applied to a spunbonded polyester fibre. The image has been mounted on a piece of acrylic, with a biography of Henry Bull on the back.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana .

File consists of two portraits of Dana Porter, as well as twelve prints of the portraits.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana.

File consists of one portrait of Dana Porter taken by McKague, Toronto, Ont., mounted and in an enclosure as well as nine smaller portraits, some of which are proof copies.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana.

File consists of one re-touched photograph used to create zinc plates as well as eight prints made from the plates of a portrait of Dana Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana.

File consists of one portrait of Dana Porter. Also includes one item of correspondence regarding the use of the portrait in a notice about Porter's death in the Digest Business & Law Journal. Portrait, by Ashley & Crippen, Toronto

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana.

File consists of two portraits of Dana Porter as well as ten prints of the portrait taken by Karsh, Ottawa, Ont..

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana.

File consists of nine portraits of Dana Porter by Arthur L. Cole. . Although the images are the same, some of been re-touched in different ways.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana.

File consists of twelve portraits of Dana Porter taken during one session at Ballard of Eaton's. Seven photographs are draft copies, and the others are re-touched photographs of the selected image from the session.

Porter, Dana Harris

Porter, Dana.

File consists of eleven rough proofs of formal portraits of Dana Porter. Also includes one item of correspondence from the photographer.

Porter, Dana Harris

Pipeline photographs.

  • File consists of twelve photographs showing pipeline work in Hamilton being undertaken by Canadian Bechtel Ltd. and photographed by Richard Finnie. Dana Porter is present in some of the images. Each image has a detailed description on the verso. Also includes one item of correspondence regarding the photographs.
    In the photographs:
    Porter, Dana Harris
  • Crozier, Archibald
  • Roberts, D. L.
  • Guard, Ernest
  • Coynes, R. A.
  • Blair, S. M.

Porter, Dana Harris

Ontario Cabinet.

File consists of one photograph showing members of George Drew's cabinet from 1945. Includes: Percy Vivian, Dana Porter, Charles Daley Arthur Welsh, Bill Goodfellow, Roland Mitchener, Bill Gresinger, Scott, George Dunbar, George Doucette, Leslie Frost, George Drew, Tom Kennedy, Les Blackwell, George Challies.

Porter, Dana Harris

Ontario Cabinet.

File consists of one photograph showing members of Leslie Frost's Cabinet from 1954. Identification based on photograph of 1949 cabinet.

  • Frost, Leslie
  • Porter, Dana Harris
  • Dunbar, George
  • Daley, Charles
  • Goodfellow, William
  • Gresinger, Bill

Porter, Dana Harris

Ontario Cabinet.

File consists of one photograph showing members of Leslie Frost's Cabinet from 1949. Includes : Louis Cecile ; [Horrsscort] ; Bill Gresinger ; Charles Daley ; Dana Porter ; William Goodfellow ; Arthur Walsh ; George Dunbar ; Tom Kennedy ; Leslie Frost ; George Doucette ; George Challies. Identification from attached sheet, not all names are legible.

Porter, Dana Harris

Ontario Cabinet.

File consists of one reprint photograph showing members of George Drew's cabinet from 1945. Includes: Percy Vivian, Dana Porter, Charles Daley Arthur Welsh, Bill Goodfellow, Roland Mitchener, Bill Gresinger, Scott, George Dunbar, George Doucette, Leslie Frost, George Drew, Tom Kennedy, Les Blackwell, George Challies.

Porter, Dana Harris

Immigration photographs.

File consists of forty one photographs showing immigrants coming to Canada under Dana Porter's 1947 plan to airlift 10,000 British immigrants to Canada. Individual photographs feature descriptions on the verso.

Porter, Dana Harris

Hamilton Teacher's Council Banquet.

File consists of one photograph showing Dana Porter with H.E. Plewman (Chairman of the Hamilton Board of Education) and W.A. Tindale (President of the Hamilton Teacher's Council) at the Hamilton Teacher's Council Banquet.

Porter, Dana Harris

Federal Provincial Conference.

Photograph of members of the Federal Provincial Conference (October 3-5), 1955. Identifications from enclosed sheet.

  • Porter, Dana Harris
  • Winters, Robert
  • Manning, Ernest C.
  • Bennett, William Andrew Cecil
  • Frost, Leslie
  • Douglas, Thomas Clement
  • Smallwood, Joseph
  • Duplessis, Maurice
  • Gardiner, James

Directions to wake.

File consists of a small card giving directions from the church to the reception area for Dana Porter's wake at 32 Heath Street West in Toronto.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker.

File consists of ten items of correspondence from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker from the time of their engagement. These letters are the same as those in the spiral bound collection. Also includes copies of the other materials that are in the bound volume.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence : Karsh, Yousuf.

File consists of eighteen items of correspondence between the secretaries of Yousuf Karsh (Joyce Large) and Dana Porter (Margaret Saunderson) regarding portraits of Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

Clippings.

File consists of clippings primarily related to the interests of Dana Porter, including ones on higher education and book reviews. Also includes two from 1968 on the George Drew years of Ontario parliament.

Porter, Dana Harris

Clippings.

File consists of clippings accumulated by Dana Porter and family on Dana Porter, his work, personal life, and interests.

Porter, Dana Harris

Business card : Porter, Dana.

File consists of one business card for Dana Porter which reads "With the Compliments of Hon. Dana Porter, Q.C. Treasurer of Ontario. Parliament Buildings, Toronto."

Porter, Dana Harris

Attendees of the graduation exercises of the 42nd Session of the FBI National Academy.

File consists of one photograph showing attendees of the graduation exercised of the 42nd Session of the FBI National Academy. Left to right:

  • Mr. W.V. Scott, Fire Marshal for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • Mr. W.B. Common, Director of Public Prosecutions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • J. Edgar Hoover, Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ;
  • Honourable Dana Porter, Attorney General for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • Mr. Clifford R. Magone, Deputy Attorney General for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • Honourable William H. Stringer, commissioner of Police for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Porter, Dana Harris