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Collection consists of records collected by Françoise Noël in the course of research for her book Nipissing: Historic Waterway, Wilderness Playground (Toronto: Dundurn Books, 2015), about the historical development of the tourism industry in the Nipissing District. The collection was assembled over approximately five years leading up to the book's publication. It contains maps, photographs, postcards, tourist guides and brochures, souvenir booklets, event programs, yearbooks, and other material relating to the history of North Bay and the Nipissing District, especially the tourist industry. The collection is arranged into five series based on documentary form.

Series consists of tourist guides and brochures about Ontario generally and North Bay and area specifically. Series consists of two sub-series: North Bay and area; Ontario.

Subseries consists of tourist guides and brochures about North Bay and area.

File contains tourist maps and brochures relating to North Bay and area, including the French River (including Rene's Cruises), Hartley Bay Marina, and the Mattawa River.

Item is a map and guide to historical sites along Highway 630 / Kiosk Road.

Series consists of programs and souvenir booklets from events organized by North Bay clubs, service organizations, churches, and schools including banquets, church services, memorial services, sporting events, art exhibitions, and anniversary celebrations. Series also contains souvenir booklets from civic anniversary celebrations in Powassan, Cobalt, and Renfrew.

Item is a catalogue for an art auction held at the WKP Kennedy Gallery.

Item is a caricature map promoting North Bay businesses.

File contains outdoor recreation brochures for attractions in the Near North region including: the Corbeil Interpretive Trail, the Restoule-Upper French Canoe Route and Dokis Canoe Route, the Mercer Lake - Little French River Canoe Route, Restoule Provincial Park, Lake Point Cottages (on the south shore of Lake Nipissing), West Nipissing adventure trails, and trails in the Magnetawan area.

Item is an exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition at the WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay.

Item is a booklet produced for the 30th anniversary of Les enseignantes et enseignants retraités de l'Ontario / The Retired Teachers of Ontario #44 Région du Ciel Bleu.

Item is a magazine about North Bay local history.

Item is a book containing articles, news clippings, and photographs.

Item is a booklet from a gala evening at the Clarion Pinewood Resort held on May 14, 2005. Booklet contains a message from the Mayor, a program, dinner menu, and lists of anniversary committee members and past officers.

File contains a poster for the Powassan and District Union Public Library's exhibition "The photography of local historian Hartley Trussler," a map of Trout Creek in the 1890s, an article titled "Trout Creek logging railway" by Brian D. Westhouse, and two pages of thumbnails of Hartley Trussler's negatives.

Series consists of maps of North Bay and other areas in the Nipissing District.

Item is a map of part of downtown North Bay by D.E. Scappatura which shows the location of businesses which are named in an accompanying index.

Item is a brochure containing a timeline of historical events concerning St. Andrew's United Church on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the church building.

Item is a tourism map of the Bonfield - Mattawa area.

Item is a guide created by the City of North Bay Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee.

Item is a history of the Trinity United Church pipe organ.

Series consists of photographs and postcards, mostly of North Bay and the Nipissing District.

Item is a photograph of the old courthouse in North Bay.

File contains postcards of North Bay and other locations in and near the Nipissing District including: the French River, Lake Nipissing, Trout Lake, Lake Nosbonsing, Sturgeon Falls, Mattawa, Nipissing, Callander, Lavigne, Bonfield, Monetville, Saint Charles and Port Loring. The postcards depict: tourist attractions (such as parks, lakes, beaches, rivers, and waterfalls), tourist accommodations (including hotels, cottages, resorts, and camps), city scenes and buildings (including schools, railway stations, churches, municipal buildings, hospitals, and factories), the Dionne Quintuplets, the Chief Commanda steam ship, and trains.

File also contains a few postcards of other places including Temagami, Timmins, Cobalt, Lake Superior, Pembroke, Haileybury, Owen Sound, and Prince Rupert, BC. File additionally includes several souvenir folders containing postcards of Ontario, North Bay, and humorous cartoons.

File contains two brochures published by Nipissing University College about the history of natural resource extraction-based industries in the Nipissing District.

Item is an illustrated fisherman's map of Lake Restoule.

Item is a guide.

Item is a booklet published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Trinity United Church.

Item is a booklet from Scollard Hall's fiftieth anniversary reunion.

Item is a brochure about the history of hydroelectric generating stations on the South River.

Item is a map of North Bay with a street directory.

Item is a brochure containing a calendar of events and a list of the members of the 50th Anniversary Committee.

Series consists of yearbooks from North Bay schools including Scollard Hall, St. Joseph's Academy, and Mother St. Bride School.

Item is the first Mother St. Bride School yearbook.

Item is a road map of Ontario.

Item is a visitors guide to North Bay.

Item is a city map and street guide of North Bay.

Map depicts the northern and southern halves of the District of Nipissing.

Item is a portrait of a high school (?) boy's football team with its two coaches.

Item is a North Bay tourist guide.

File contains issues 1 and 3 of Rond-Point, the newsletter of L'ecole secondaire bilingue de North Bay.

Item is a souvenir booklet containing a list of municipal centennial projects and a calendar of centennial events.

Subseries consists of Ontario tourist guides and brochures.

Item is a catalogue of tourist accommodations in Ontario vacation areas 12 (Rideau Lakes - 1000 Islands), 13 (Seaway Valley), and 14 (Lower Ottawa Valley).

File contains 15 yearbooks of the Algonquin Composite School/North Bay Collegiate Institute and Vocational School titled "The Northland Echo." The file contains yearbooks from: 1923, 1928-1929, 1933, 1936, 1939, 1940-1941, 1946-1949, 1954-1955, 1957, 1961-1962.