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Archival description
Resumes, martins + mine
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0078-11 · File · 1910-[ca. 1930]
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains a variety of photographs taken in Timmins, Porcupine City, South Porcupine, and Hayle that depict camps, mines, a sawmill, prospectors in canoes, lakes, rapids, and the visit of the Governor General to Timmins (September 26, 1914).

CA ON00408 F033-0228-04 · File · 1937
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

Item is a commemorative booklet published (by the Lions Club of Timmins?) for Timmins' Silver Jubilee, or twenty-fifth anniversary. Booklet contains a history of Timmins and the Porcupine mining district, an account of the anniversary celebrations, and maps, descriptions, and photographs of Timmins and other local communities and mines.

S. D. Lawlor
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0078-20 · File · 1914-1918, [193-?]
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains an unbound album of photographs that document the work of a (Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway?) surveying team in Northern Ontario from 1914 to around 1918. The album contains photographs (many captioned) depicting: the surveying crew at work and rest; winter travel with sleds and snowshoes; railway construction, including trestle building, laying rail, and construction equipment; railway cars, infrastructure, bridges, stations, and personnel; natural landscapes (such as river rapids and falls) and events (including floods, ice jams, a forest fire, and storm damage to trees); wild animals and pelts; a baseball club and field; transportation including canoes and a horse sled; a Hudson's Bay Company post and dog team; and the Revillon Brothers' schooner and post on James Bay. Locations depicted in the album include Elk Lake, Earlton, Gowanada Road, the Abbitibi River, Cochrane, Moose Factory, Matheson, Black River, New Liskeard, the Matogami River, Madawaska, and Haileybury.

File also contains a Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission baggage notice, and eight loose photographs (some of which appear to have come from the album) with subjects including surveying and transportation of railway ties by rail.

Roy Ruttan
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0078-09 · File · 1938-1953
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains photographs of railway trestle construction, railway workers, and their accommodations.

Clippings
CA ON00408 F033-S01-0081-01 · File · 1973
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

News clippings
CA ON00408 F033-S01-0080-01 · File · 1971, 1973-1974
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

ONTC newspaper clippings
CA ON00408 F033-S01-0116-03 · File · 1973-1975
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

CA ON00408 F033-0079-06 · File · 1979-1981
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File documents the design of a bas relief commemorating the arrival of French explorers Samuel de Champlain and Etienne Brule at Lake Nipissing in 1615. File contains sketches by Hans Wiemer of the relief's design, a map titled "Exodus of Nipissing from Lake Nipissing to Lake Nipigon - 1650-1651," and a photograph of the relief.

1986 - ONTC photos
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0079-08 · File · 1986
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains photographs of Ontario Northland clerical staff in their office.

ONTC photos - Dec. 1986
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0079-07 · File · December 1986
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains photographs of interviewees and Ontario Northland staff on a research trip taken by Surtees.

ONTC photos - Dec. 1986
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0079-14 · File · December 1986
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains photographs of Ontario Northland employees, trains, and facilities.

Seguin
CA ON00408 F033-S01-0077-27 · File · 1962-1986
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains memoirs and autobiographical notes of Clara Fournier Seguin. File also contains technical drawings by the Ontario Northland Railway Engineering Department of roadbed cuttings, embankments, standard tie and rail anchor spacing and ballast sections on branch lines.

R. Surtees Coll[ection]
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0079-12 · File · 1986-1988
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains photographs of Ontario Northland employees, facilities, and trains, as well as captions for the photographs.

Interviews - Huntington
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS02-0078-01 · File · 1988
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains photographs of Jack Huntington and his wife (?), and photographs of a coloured illustration signed "Russ" depicting a man clearing snow from a fire hydrant while watched by four dogs.

Surtees
CA ON00408 F033-S01-0079-01 · File · 1988
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains correspondence, notes, and photocopied excerpts of finding aids and archival records (from the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Archives?).

Potential interviews
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS02-0078-04 · File · [ca. 1988]
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains notes about interviews, some of which did not take place.

Kelly Morgan
CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0078-14 · File · [ca. 1910]-1989
Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains a variety of photographs depicting: trains crossing a trestle, a steam shovel excavating, railway ties loaded on truck, engineer (?) "Barney" Morgan, the last Ontario Northland passenger train from Timmins (1989), a railway caboose of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway, and a train crew with their locomotive. File also contains permission signed by Kelly Morgan authorizing Surtees to use the photos "of Mr. T. Morgan and others" in his book.