Fonds documents Surtees' work as a Professor of History at Nipissing University. Fonds contains one series documenting Surtees' research for his book "The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902," a history of the Ontario Northland Railway/Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Other records in the fonds reflect Surtees' academic activities and research interests, including First Nations and northern Ontario history.
Item is a map of Indian and Inuit communities in Canada, with an attached hand-drawn map of southern and northeastern Ontario that appears to show treaty dates and boundaries.
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.
Item is a memorial booklet containing an obituary, photographs, news clippings, eulogies, and dedications from title page of books authored by Surtees.
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.
Series documents Surtees' research for his book <i>The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902</i> (published 1992), a history of the Ontario Northland Railway/Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Series is arranged into four subseries: interview audio recordings, interview files, maps and plans, and photographs. Series also contains other records created or collected by Surtees in the course of his research including correspondence, newspaper clippings, photocopies of archival records, Ontario Northland reports and newsletters, and ephemera.
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.
Item is a souvenir booklet from the reunion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Lodge 234, which took place in North Bay on August 8, 1935. Booklet contains reminiscences of lodge members, membership lists, an account of the reunion, and histories of Lodge 234, North Bay, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Canadian National Railway. The booklet also contains photographs of members and locomotives, and advertisements for North Bay businesses.
File contains a collection of items sent by Fleece to Surtees, including a list of railway slang vocabulary with definitions, a map of the Ontario Northland Railway's North Bay shops, and a souvenir folder of North Bay postcards from 1925. The file also includes photocopies of news clippings, an inventory of quarterlies from 1946-1970, a personnel file, an essay entitled "The Contribution of C.C. Farr to the Development of the Lesser Clay Belt - 1872-1905" by Jane Gerrie Barnum (April 1971), and a program from the unveiling of a historical plaque in Swastika, Ontario (September 26, 1976).
File contains correspondence with archives, museums, and historical societies across Ontario about research into the Ontario Northland Railway and the controversy regarding the planned destruction of Ontario Land Registry Office records.
File contains correspondence, notes, and photocopied excerpts of finding aids and archival records (from the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Archives?).
File contains photocopies of seniority lists of Ontario Northland Railway enginemen and engineers, personnel and discipline records, the Ontario Northland's 1985 timetable, newspaper clippings, list of pamphlets, captions for photographs (not present), and a list of articles from <i>The Daily Nugget</i>.
File contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about North Bay history collected by Mme. A. Seguin, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of district fur trading reports, and a timeline of Nipissing Central Railway Company dates compiled by Terry O'Connell.
File documents Surtees' research at the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Archives. File contains archival descriptive information including printouts of archived drawing plan reports, item-level descriptions of collections, and lists of files and plans.
File contains graphs showing flag stops along each subdivision of the Ontario Northland Railway, with elevation and grade (slope) information. File also contains lists of subdivisions and flag stops, and notes regarding photographs to illustrate chapters of Surtees' book.
Subseries contains files relating to oral history interviews Surtees conducted with former Ontario Northland Railway employees. Files contain transcripts, interview notes, photographs, and records given to Surtees by the interviewees.