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Bob Surtees fonds
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ONTC archives

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.

Clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

O'Connell, Terry

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.

Personal files

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>.

Correspondence re ONR hist[ory]

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.

L[orne] J. Fleece [(Curator of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Archives)] to R. Surtees - Volume II

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).

Souvenir commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lodge 234. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. 1884-1934

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.

Seguin

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.

Interview - Many

File contains notes from interviews of Ed H., Ken Moorehead, Peter Dyment, Evelyn Chivers, and Clara Seguin. File also contains descriptions of photographs donated by Kelly Morgan (in file 0078-14), an essay or speech about the history of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, and an autobiographical statement in French and English by Clara Fournier Seguin.

Potential interviews

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

Interviews - Huntington

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.

Interview files

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.

Roll of honour

Item is a design drawing of a roll of honour commemorating Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway employees who served in World War One, including those who were wounded, taken prisoner, or killed in action.

Transportation maps featuring Northern Ontario

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0081-11
  • File
  • Photocopied [ca. 1990] (originally created 1921-1929)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains three photocopied maps titled: Area to be served by Northern Light Railways (Cobalt Daily Nugget, 31 May 1921, p. 5); Map of Central Canada showing transportation and commercial development (Natural Resources Intelligence Service, Department of the Interior, January 1927); Road map of the north eastern portion of the Province of Ontario (Department of Northern Development, 1929).

Ontario Northland Railway - North Bay terminals

Item is a plan showing the Ontario Northland Railway's North Bay terminals (scale 1 inch = 100 feet) with annotations detailing exclusive ONR trackage, Alderdale Subdivision interchange trackage, and terminal yard trackage. Item also contains two inset plans of an oil separating plant (scale 1'=50'), and the right of way to Nipissing Junction and property owned by Ontario Northland Railway (scale 1" = 200').

News clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and Surtees.

News clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

Kelly Morgan

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.

Surtees

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

Roy Ruttan

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

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