Library & Archives

Laurentian University archives are accessible to all. We do require that you make an appointment if you wish to access archival fonds which are housed in the archives.

Archival fonds and the special collections housed in the archives, cannot be borrowed through Inter-Library Loan services or taken out of the Angus Gilbert Reading Room. Only in-house consultation is authorised.

Archives staff will provide assistance with research services, however we are unable to commit to more than three hours of our time for such research. As an alternative, there are Laurentian University students that can, for an hourly fee,  assist in this regard.

If you cannot come to the archives to do your research, we can provide you with names of Laurentian University students who, for an hourly fee, could do the research for you. Although we provide you with names of LU students, it is your responsibility to negotiate the agreement with the student. LU archives is not responsible for the research done by the students.

Note:

• You will be charged for postage, when applicable.
• There is no transmission of documents by fax.
• There is no transmission of documents by email.

Procedures and Costs for the Scanning of Photographs (PDF)
Procedures and policies for photocopies of archival documents (PDF)
Use of a Camera by Researchers in the Archives
Rules and Registration Form (PDF)
Floor Plan in pdf format

Presented in this document are some of the private archival collections and fonds of the holdings of Laurentian University Archives. These fonds and archival collections are arranged by broad subjects or major themes. Furthermore, the subject or theme does not represent an exhaustive analysis of what topic areas are in each fonds and the list does not include all fonds or archival collection of the holdings.

The groupings are in alphabetical order.

In accordance to our policy on processing of archival materials, and in compliance to the Rules for Archival Description (R.A.D.) the archival fonds are described in the language of the producer. Occasionally the description can be in the language of the documents instead of the producer.

 

DEFINITIONS

Archives is: recorded information, regardless of date, form or medium and of continuing value.

A fonds is: The whole of the records, regardless of date, form or medium, created, received used and automatically accumulated by an individual or corporate body in the course, or in the performance of their activities or functions, constituing the integral, organic and recorded information of the body or the individual.

A collection is: An artificial accumulation of documents of any provenance brought together on the basis of some common characteristic, e.g., way of acquisition, subject, language, medium, type of document, name of collector, to be treated for description purposes as a descriptive unit under a common title. Collectors may be those outside the archives who assembled the material, or may in some cases be an archival repository itself.

 

 

Accession number	P090-
Title of fonds  (Name of producer of the records)	District Court of Manitoulin Records fonds
Dates of creation of the material	1888-1915
Length & nature of materials	1m 20cm of textual records
Presentation of the producer	Administrative history: The District Court of Manitoulin located in Gore Bay, Ontario was the public administrative office where chattel mortgages and chattel mortgage renewals were filed between 1888 and 1915.
Description of the material	Scope and content: This fonds consists of chattel mortgages and chattel mortgage renewals filed at Manitoulin District Court from 1888 to 1915. The records provide information on what moveable property was held as collateral security.
History of the material	Custodial history: The fonds was donated by Dr. W.R. Wightman from the University of Western Ontario, Department of Geography. It was received in one accrual on October 26, 1992. Dr. Wightman obtained these documents as part of a research project that is now completed.

 International

P137	Fonds Tiphaine Dickson
P146	Joseph Herman Molohon fonds

 

Northern Ontario

1. Arts, culture and communications media

1.1 Arts & culture

P016	Fonds Éditions Prise de Parole
P023	Fonds Théâtre du Nouvel Ontario
P033	Fonds Galerie du Nouvel Ontario
P036	Fonds Jocelyne Villeneuve
P084	Sudbury Operatic Society fonds/ Société d'opérette de Sudbury
P114	Margaret (Peg) and Dennis Roberts fonds
P124	Fonds André Paiement
P126	Fonds Lucien Pelletier
P127	Fonds Robert Dickson
P133	Fonds de la Fondation André Paiement
P138	Fonds La Ruche des Artistes Inc.
P149	Florence Isabella Craig-Yeigh Fonds
P183	Fonds Albert Régimbal
P186	Highway Bookshop Fonds

 

1.2 Newspapers & publications

P010	Fonds de la revue Réaction
P034	Canadian Mining Journal fonds
P050	Arachnee fonds
P100	Fonds Le Communicautaire (Nouvel Ontarien)
P110	Fonds La coopérative du livre de Sudbury

 

1.3 Radio stations

P082	CBCS fonds

 

2. Clubs & social organizations

2.1 General

P049	Sudbury and District Historical Society fonds
P085	University Women's Club of Sudbury fonds
P089	YMCA, John Island Camp fonds
P139	Fonds de la Société Historique du Nipissing
P142	Fonds l'Amicale des mycologues de Sudbury
P147	Fonds Carrefour francophone de Sudbury

 

2.2 Health Services

P093	Fonds des Auxiliaires bénévoles HRSRH/HRSRH Auxiliary/volunteer
P148	The Sudbury History of Nursing Group fonds

 

2.3 Social assistance

P018	Soroptimist Club fonds
P031	IODE, Elisabeth Frye Chapter fonds
P055	Housing Resource Centre fonds
P066	Sudbury and District Ministerial Association fonds
P118	LEAF Sudbury Branch, fonds
P128	Fonds Handicap-4 de Vallée-Est.

 

3. Economy

P013	Canadian Association of Single Industry Town (CASIT)fonds
P090	District Court of Manitoulin Records fonds
P094	David Leadbeater fonds
P097	Monica Neitzert fonds
P107	Lloyd Wagner fonds

 

4. Education

P041	Fonds Roger St. Louis
P083	Fonds Liliane (Gauthier) Beauchamp
P092	Fonds Jean-Louis Bourdeau
P101	Fonds de L'Association franco-ontarienne des conseils d'écoles catholiques
P111	Ernie Checkeris fonds
P112	Roman Catholic School Board fonds [Sudbury Region]
P115	Fonds du conseil des écoles séparées catholiques romaines du District de Sudbury
P117	Fonds du Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel Ontario

 

4.1 Laurentian University

P008	Fonds de l'Association des étudiantes et étudiants francophones (AEF)
P077	Harold Benett fonds
P109	Huntington University fonds
P134	Fonds de l'Association francophone pour le savoir-Sudbury (ACFAS)
P143	Fonds Guy Gaudreau
P213	INORD fonds

 

5. Labour

P002	Cleve Kidd fonds
P003	Brian Hogan fonds
P009	N.O.L.I.A. fonds
P015	Brotherhood of Railway Carmen fonds
P019 (previously RG 11)	Mike Solski fonds
P020	IUSWA /District 6 (Timmins) fonds
P021* (previously RG 33)	Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation fonds
P024	USWA. Local 5417, Elliot Lake fonds
P026	International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter workers (IUMMSW) fonds
P030	Victims of Mining Environment (VOME) fonds
P035	Nelson Thibault fonds
P037	Roger Leblanc fonds
P038	International USWA/District 6(Sudbury) fonds
P040	Homer Seguin (USWA) fonds
P046	Elmer McVey Fonds
P047	Barbara Dunphy fonds
P048	Gilbert H. (Gib) Gilchrist fonds
P051 (previously RG 001)	James L. Kidd fonds
P052 (previously RG 002)	Gordon Hurley fonds
P053 (previously RG 003)	Alfred Fraser fonds
P054 (previously RG 004)	Norman Stephen fonds
P056 (previously RG 006)	Jack. L. Giroux fonds
P057 (previously RG 007)	Robert H. Carlin fonds
P058 (previously RG 008)	Frank Southern fonds
P059 (previously RG 009)	Jim Tester fonds
P060	Dorothy Wigmore fonds
P062 previously RG 012)	Tom Hannaway fonds
P063 previously RG 013)	Laurentian University Faculty Association (L.U.F.A.) fonds/ Fonds de L'Association des professeurs de l'Université Laurentienne (A.P.U.L.)
P064	Mike Farrell fonds
P065 (previously RG 015)	Roy Scranton fonds
P068 (previously RG 018)	Anne Morrison Collection
P069 (previously RG 19)	Dan Sweezy fonds
P070 (previously RG 20)	George Prusila fonds
P071 (previously RG 21)	Victor Baumruck fonds
P074 (previously RG 24)	IBEW fonds
P075 (previously RG 25)	Alan Senter fonds
P076 (previously RG 26)	Louis Brema fonds
P080 (previously RG 30)	Bricklayers and Allied Craftmen fonds
P081 (previously RG 31)	Paul Hatala fonds
P095	Laurentian University Staff Union fonds
P099	Canadian Union of Professional Employees, Local 1555 (CUPE) fonds
P102	David Letho and George Prusila collection
P105	Gowganda Miners Union fonds
P120	United Copper Nickel Workers fonds
P130	USWA Local 4440 fonds
P140	Robin and Archibald McArthur fonds
P151	USWA Local 4458- Timmins fonds
P152	USWA Local 4461- Timmins fonds
P153	USWA Local 4462- Timmins fonds
P154	USWA Local 4857- Timmins fonds
P155	USWA Local 6779- Timmins fonds
P156	USWA Local 7056- Timmins fonds
P157	USWA Local 7243- Timmins fonds
P158	USWA Local 7267- Timmins fonds
P159	USWA Local 8091- Timmins fonds
P160	USWA Local 9171- Timmins fonds
P161	USWA Local 13911- Timmins fonds
P162	USWA Local 4305- Timmins fonds
P163	USWA Local 7580- South Porcupine fonds
P164	USWA Local 4438- South Porcupine fonds
P165	USWA Local 9283- Kirkland Lake fonds
P166	USWA Local 4639- Kirkland Lake fonds
P167	USWA Local 7308- Kirkland Lake fonds
P168	USWA Local 7964- Kirkland Lake fonds
P169	USWA Local 6409 - Kirkland Lakefonds
P170	USWA Local 4354- Kirkland Lake fonds
P171	USWA Local 4584- Kirkland Lake fonds
P172	USWA Local 951- Cobalt fonds
P173	USWA Local 4374- Cobalt fonds
P174	USWA Local 4423- Cobalt fonds
P175	USWA Local 5138- Cobalt fonds
P176	USWA Local 6217- Cobalt fonds
P177	USWA Local 6270- Cobalt fonds
P178	USWa Local 4501- Cobalt fonds
P179	USWA Local 6896- Kirkland Lake fonds
P180	USWA Local 5506- Cobalt fonds
P181	USWA Local 4866- Cobalt fonds
P182	USWA Local 6258- Cobalt fonds
P191	Provincial Mine Workers of Ontario fonds

 

6. Mining industries and related activities (see also Labour Relations)

P007	Denison Mines fonds
P078	Falconbridge fonds
P079	McIntyre Mines fonds
P096	Zepha Trevorrow fonds
P121	Charles Kenneth Leith fonds
P141	William Ernest Hale fonds

 

7. Politics & Politicians

P005	Elmer Sopha fonds
P006	Floyd Laughren fonds
P011	Graeme Mount collection
P017	Grace Hartman Mead fonds
P028	Walford-Nepawhin Ratepayers Association fonds
P029	Barbara Hanley fonds
P043	William S. (Bill) Beaton fonds
P061	Fonds Jean Étienne (Stephen) Fournier
P108	Socialist Party of Canada, Local 33 fonds

 

7.1 Militancy

P001	Dorothy Zaborszki fonds
P027	Joan Kuyeck fonds
P073(previously RG 23)	Mick Lowe fonds
P113	Jennifer Keck fonds
P144	Fonds Mercedes Steedman

 

8. Population & socio-ethnic groups

8.1 Socio-ethnic groups/ groupes socio-ethniques

P004	Finnish National Society of Sudbury fonds
P022	Gertrud Jaron Lewis collection
P039	Fonds de l'Association canadienne-française d'Ontario du grand Sudbury (ACFO)
P104	Federation of the ethnic groups of Sudbury fonds
P119	Abdul Zia fonds
P123	Oiva W. Saarinen fonds

 

8.2 Early settlements (population)

P012	Sandra Slater collection
P014	Underwriter's Survey Bureau fonds
P042	Robert Boudignon fonds
P045	Charles Ferguson fonds
P088	Buchanan Family fonds
P090	District Court of Manitoulin Records fonds
P103	Catharine Dixon fonds
P106	Marguerite (Buell) Blakely fonds
P116	Town of Copper Cliff, collection
P145	Fonds Joseph Alphonse Lévesque
P188	Gerald Goltz Collection
P189	Kunkel Family Collection
P206	Robert S. (Bob) Atkinson Collection

 

9. Religious Communities

P032	Anglican Diocese of Moosonee fonds
P086	Fonds Paroisse St. Eugène
P087	Fonds Paroisse St. Casimir Parish (Catholique)
P125	Fonds des Soeurs de l'Assomption de la Sainte Vierge, (Ontario)

 

9.1 Missionaries

P205	William G (Reindeer) Walton fonds
P212	James Scanlon fonds

 

10.1 Land-use Planning

P122	Sudbury Mining Heritage Committee inc. fonds
P132	Sudbury Planning Board/ Junction Creek fonds
P204	William O. Mackasey fonds

The finding aids are located in the Angus Gilbert Reading Room.

Other online sources of archival information include:

• ARCHEION, Ontario's Online Archival Information Network
• Canadian Archival Information Network
• PDF Guide to Citing Archival Records
• Aboriginal Archives Guide (PDF)
• Aboriginal Heritage
• US National Archives on YouTube
• Copyright Act
• Exception for Educational Institutions, Libraries, Archives and Museum Regulations (P.C. 1999-1351, July 1999)