Records created and accumulated by employees of the Stephens-Adamson manufacturing plant in Belleville, Ontario. Materials include printed catalogues, plans, an order book, photographs, and printed ephemera.
Copies of newspaper articles and photographs of the Gee family, owners of the Canadian Gold Leaf Company, 14 Bettes Street, Belleville, Ontario from 1947. Includes details of the family's history and the gold leaf manufacturing process. Prepared by Diane Brennan, granddaughter of George Gee, the founder of the business.
DVD of promotional film made by Westminster Films for Corby Distilleries in 1977. CD purchased from ArchiveCDBooks with PDF file of the 1940 Vernon's Directory of Belleville, Ontario.
Promotional materials written by Ron Truman for Northern Telecom: 1) CompQuote (Montreal) Displayphone case study flyer 2) Slater Steels (Hamilton) Displayphone case study flyer 3) Health Care Telecommunications Meridian SL-1 flyer 4) The Canada Council Meridian SL-1 Application Report flyer 5) Meridian Report, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 1986
A mix of catalogues showcasing locks and associated building hardware for all the companies involved, but focusing on Corbin. Box of files includes inter company correspondence, newspaper clippings, log books, photographs and shares. A number of other books include a job book for cylinder keys, manufacturing order books and department specific log books. Two awards are also included, 1 for the efforts of a flood control team in 1981 and 1 safety award received in 1960. The fonds also includes a plastic Corbin sign and a key made at the plant.
The fonds contains a Daily Cash Transactions sheet with a hand-drawn layout of the coal yards, an envelope with the company name "The Schuster Co. Limited", miscellaneous materials copied from original documents including newspaper clippings from 1954; pages 62-66 of the Canadian Fuel Marketer ca. 1878-1978 issues; Weaver Liquifuels pages 55-60, 2 envelopes of negatives, and 110 photographs of various everyday operations at the Bill Schuster Coal and Lumber Company, as well as photographs of Bill Schuster and possibly his family. One is an aerial photograph of the site of the company.
Six black and white photographs of operations inside the Graham Food Products plant in Belleville, Ontario, taken by Rapid, Grip and Batten. Includes an image of Roy Lucas, manager.
Negatives and photographs of activities and buildings at the Northern Electric plant on Sidney Street in Belleville, Ontario. These items were contained in a metal Kardex filing drawer. Headings on the file sleeves include:
Erecting Gov. Towers [Negative 2019-055-001]
Dismantling & Erecting N.E. Wooden Tower [Negatives 2019-055-002 to 2019-055-019 and print of negative 2019-055-017]
Wave Guide Flexing Machine Built 1956 by N.E. Co Belleville [Negatives 2019-055-020 to 2019-055-078 and prints of negatives 2019-055-022, 2019-055-023, 2019-055-024, 2019-055-027, 2019-055-028, 2019-055-029, 2019-055-030 and 2019-055-047]
City Fire Dept Demonstration 1955 [4 negatives including 2019-055-084 and 2019-055-085]
Fire in Shopmen's Wash Rm. Partition. 1955 [5 negatives, 5 prints]
Painting Chain Link Fences 1955 Contractor Carter & Son [2 negatives]
Employee Infraction on City Parking Regulations 1955
Car Parks 1955 [Negatives 2019-055-091 to 2019-055-093]
Power House 1954 [11 negatives including 2019-055-094 and 2019-095] *Deterioration of 1947 Plant Roof Due to Negelcted Leak in Roof Membrane, 1955 [2 prints, 3 negatives]
Deterioration in West Wall & South & North Corners of 1947 BLDG. Repointed Brickwork 1955 [30 prints, 32 negatives]
Leaking Flashings [1 print]
Slippage of Roof Material on 1951 Extension Saw Tooths Corrected 1955 By Application of S.I.S. Roofing. [3 prints, 3 negatives]
1951 Extension to Plant [44 prints, 106 negatives]
Paint Shop Construction 1955 [13 prints, 20 negatives]
Shop Partitions Designed & Built in Belleville Plant 1953 [4 prints, 7 negatives]
Standard Benches Designed & Produced in Belleville Plant 1952 [1 print (labelled 'Sound Proof Booth'), 3 negatives]
Moving Pacific Brake from CN Tracks to Belleville Plant [1 print, 4 negatives]
Certificate for one share of $100 of the capital stock of the Springer Lock Manufacturing Company Limited, issued to C. A. Campbell on 24 November 1915. Signed by W. C. Springer, Managing Director, A. J. Bird, Secretary-Treasurer, and Mackenzie Bowell, President.
Panoramic photograph of employees of the Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Company of Canada Limited, Franklin Street, Belleville, Ontario. Taken 1 June 1943.