Subseries contains audio recordings of oral history interviews Surtees conducted with former Ontario Northland Railway employees.
Item contains 16 photographs of the Old Home Week parade in 1925, including floats, dignitaries, and the presentation of the city charter.
Item is a map of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (rail line in red ink) and its stations/stops around 1934.
Item is a map of northeastern Ontario showing rail lines and stations/stops of the Ontario Northland Railway (rail line marked in red), the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Canadian National Railway.
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.
Item is a plan of Location CNR4 (scale 1 inch = 100 feet) with two inset plans showing the location in relation to the surrounding area (scales 1 inch = 2640 feet and 1 inch = 200 feet).
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.
Zonder titelItem 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.
File contains photographic two maps of the northern part of the District of Nipissing.
File documents an academic program review of the history department.
Item is a memorial booklet containing an obituary, photographs, news clippings, eulogies, and dedications from title page of books authored by Surtees.
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.
File contains submissions and memoranda to the Committee.
File contains an essay (author unknown).
File contains correspondence, news clippings, hearing submissions, and reports.
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.
Subseries contains maps and technical drawings relating to the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway/Ontario Northland Railway or to transportation in northeastern Ontario. Technical drawings show rail lines, terminals, dikes, mines, and railway infrastructure.
Item is a map of the Moose River at Moosonee showing an area to be dredged to create a new channel to let the ice out in the spring, and a proposed dike from Butler Island to the mainland.
Item is a plan of the Cochrane townsite with two new subdivisions outlined in red.
Item is a map showing the railways operating in Canada (as well as some in the United States and Mexico) as of autumn 1990.
Item is a map showing geological formations and mineral deposits in the Kirkland Lake and Swastika areas. The map features extensive notes about the area's geology, mineral veins, and mining development.
File is a technical drawing showing mining levels and shafts/winzes/raises in Cobalt, annotated with ground radar penetration, lines of drilling, and drill footage information.
Item is a map showing Haileybury and the Bucke area to the west of Lake Temiskaming, including roads, trails, creeks, and the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway.
File contains system maps and a timetable of railway and highway services provided by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway/Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.
Item is a map showing the Canadian Pacific Railway's railway and steamship lines in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.
File contains system maps showing rail, bus, air, marine, and telecommunications services provided by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.
Item is a plan of North Bay.
File contains photographs of Ontario Northland employees, trains, and facilities.
File contains photographs of railway employees, surveyors, and a locomotive.
File contains photographs of Ontario Northland employees, facilities, and trains, as well as captions for the photographs.
File contains photographs of former employees of Ontario Northland Railway employees who Surtees interviewed, and Ontario Northland facilities (including stations, rail yards, and the interior of a maintenance shed), staff, and a work crew on a rail line.
File contains photographs of Ontario Northland staff, railway cars, stations, and tracks, as well as photographs of a blacksmith shop and other buildings at a museum or historical site.
File contains photographs of former Ontario Northland employees that Surtees interviewed, including Mrs. Chivers, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brill. File also contains photographs of a cattle car, a cornerstone, and Ontario Northland staff (?).
File contains photographs of Ontario Northland clerical staff in their office.
File contains correspondence and photographs relating to the father of Colonel Andrew Duncan, who was an engineer who worked on a Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway survey crew in the Kirkland Lake/Swastika area around 1908-1913.
File contains photographs of interviewees and Ontario Northland staff on a research trip taken by Surtees.
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.
Item is a photograph of conductor Sam Farmer standing on the platform beside passenger train cars.
Item is a photograph of a conductor standing in the aisle of a passenger car.
Item is a photograph of a man reclining on a railway handcar.
File contains photographs of the construction of a railroad bridge across the Moose River which were taken by Charles Shaw in 1930-1931. File also contains a letter and photograph identification key by Elizabeth Shaw, Charles' widow.
Item is a photograph of three men sitting on a baggage cart on a railway platform.
File contains three photographs of railway workers and their boxcar accommodations.
Item is a photograph of baggagemen unloading baggage from a railway car on a platform.
File contains photographs of a work crew maintaining a railway line.
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).
File contains correspondence with Ralph Celentano about his grandmother Evelyn Chivers, a former stenographer/typist in the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway's purchasing office. File also contains descriptions of photographs that are not present, and permission for Surtees to publish them.
Series contains photographs of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway/Ontario Northland Railway (ca. 1910-1953) that were given to Surtees by various donors for use in his book. Some photographs are accompanied by descriptive information and permissions to publish. Series also contains photographs taken by Surtees on research trips around northern Ontario of Ontario Northland Railway infrastructure, staff, and former employees he interviewed (1986-1991).
File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.
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.