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.
Research notes compiled by Edward Wright on the history of match manufacturing companies in Deseronto, particularly the Dominion Match Company, with extracts from minutes of the Council of the Town of Deseronto , copies of advertisements from the Canadian Grocer, 1911-1922 and scans of match boxes.
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.
Booklet produced at the time of the closure of the Corbyville plant of Corby's Distilleries, containing a history of the Corbys and photographs of employees and site buildings and vehicles.
Promotional materials relating to Corby's Distillery in Corbyville, Ontario, collected by William Dack: 1) "A Proud Canadian" sticker 2) Postcard of a boy fishing in the Moira river next to the distillery buildings at Corbyville 3) Card advertising tours of the J.P. Wiser Distillery at Corbyville 4) Six notecards with pen and ink drawings of buildings at the distillery site in Corbyville by Poul Thrane
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.
Photocopy of an article by Stella-Marie Brown, a student at Napanee Secondary School, on the history of the Marlbank Cement Plant, written for an essay contest sponsored by the Lennox and Addington Historical Society and published in The Tweed News on 23 August 1978.
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.