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.
Sans titreItem is booklet published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Ontario Northland Railway/Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Booklet contains a history of the railway; photographs of its chairmen and facilities; and lists of personnel.
Item is a souvenir booklet commemorating North Bay Old Home Week. The booklet contains historical articles about North Bay, photos, poetry, and advertisements of local businesses.
Item is a tourist map published by the North Bay Board of Trade that contains advertisements of local tourist outfitters, hotels, and other businesses.
Map depicts the northern and southern halves of the District of Nipissing.
Item contains five maps of Grand Trunk Railway lines in parts of Ontario. Maps are titled: The Highlands of Ontario - Including Muskoka Lakes Dist[rict], Lake of Bays Dist[rict], Magnetawan River Dist[rict], 30,000 islands of Georgia Bay, Kawartha Lakes Dist[rict] ; Eastern section of Georgian Bay ; Huntsville and Lake of Bays, Muskoka District ; Kawartha Lakes District; Lake Nipissing District and Temagami Region.
Series consists of photographs and postcards, mostly of North Bay and the Nipissing District.
Item is a souvenir booklet (with original envelope) containing photographs of North Bay.
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.
Item is a postally used postcard depicting the later C.P.R. station, tracks, train and passengers with baggage carts on the platform.
Item is a postally used postcard depicting the French River and a cottage barely visible on shore.
Item is a postally unused postcard showing the fall in autumn with a Volkswagon beetle on Highway 17 in the foreground.
Item is a postally unused postcard depicting a houseboat belonging to Kervin Bros. and a canoe on the shore of the river.
Item is a postally used postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard depicting a lake.
Item is a postally unused postcard depicting a winter scene of furs, snowmobile, sled with a leghold trap and person kneeling with an axe.
Item is a postally unused postcard depicting a large number of fish.
Item is a postally used postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard. Part of the Capitol Centre's marquis is visible advertising Bob Hope in Monsieur Beau[caire].
Item is a postally unused postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard with notes verso.
Item is a postally unused postcard.
Item is a postally unused postcard.
File contains a postcard collection that was created by the Conolly Family, a pioneering family in South River. The collection consists of a postcard album and loose postcards. Postcards include photographs of South River (including the chemical plant and the Conolly home [?]), Sundridge, Magnetawan, Trout Creek, Huntsville, Toronto, and Vegreville (Alberta), as well as holiday greeting postcards received by the family.
Item is a framed group portrait of North Bay Normal School students and teachers in front of the school building.
Item is an illustrated tourist guide.
Item is a North Bay tourist guide.
Item is the Ontario Motor League's 1945-1946 road book, which contains directions and maps for road travel within Ontario.
File contains Ontario tourism booklets published by the Ontario Department of Travel and Publicity and its predecessors, with titles like "Ontario - Canada's premier province - The Lake-land playground," "Happy holiday haunts in Ontario - The ideal vacation land," "Ontario - Variety vacationland." Booklets contain general tourist information about Ontario and photographs of tourist destinations.
Item is a tourism booklet published by the Ontario Department of Travel and Publicity.
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 brochure about the history of hydroelectric generating stations on the South River.
Item is a voters' list.
Item is an account of the fifth Northern Ontario trip made by delegates from teachers' institutes in Ontario.
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.
File contains programs for Remembrance Day services.
Item is a program from a veterans' memorial service held in Lee Park.
Item is a program for a memorial service held at the Capitol Theatre.
Item is a program for a dinner held in the Crystal Ball Room on Monday, April 8, 1940. Program contains toasts, a menu, and the lyrics of the club's song "Ski Heil."
Item is a souvenir booklet containing a list of municipal centennial projects and a calendar of centennial events.
Item is a catalogue for an art auction held at the WKP Kennedy Gallery.
Item is a booklet published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Trinity United Church.
Item is a program from an event honouring the Trapper Hockey Club.
Item is a map of the Ferguson Highway, a gravel trunk road built between 1925 and 1927 between North Bay and Cochrane.