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Bob Surtees fonds

  • CA ON00408 F033
  • Fonds
  • 1910-2001

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.

Surtees, Bob

The Northern Connection

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.

Charles William Shaw photos

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0078-10
  • File
  • Printed in 1994 (originally created 1930-1931)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

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.

Photographs

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).

Correspondence - Colonel Andrew Duncan

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS04-0078-30
  • File
  • Printed 1993 (originally created 1908-[ca. 1913])
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

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.

Interview audio recordings

Subseries contains audio recordings of oral history interviews Surtees conducted with former Ontario Northland Railway employees.

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.

System maps - 1941, 1971, 1991

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0116-04
  • File
  • Photocopied [199-] (originally created 1941, 1971, 1991)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

File contains system maps and a timetable of railway and highway services provided by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway/Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

Photos of interviewees

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 (?).

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.

Canadian railways

Item is a map showing the railways operating in Canada (as well as some in the United States and Mexico) as of autumn 1990.

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.

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.

Evelyn Chivers

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.

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>.

Maps and plans

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.

News clippings

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

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.

Index of railway subdivisions. Ontario Northland Railway

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.

Bucke - Nipissing District.

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0081-04
  • Item
  • Copied [19--] (originally created 1887)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

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.

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).

Plan of North Bay

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0078-22
  • Item
  • Printed [198-] (originally created 191-?)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

Item is a plan of North Bay.

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.

ONTC photos

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.

ONTC

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.

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).

Canadian Pacific Railway eastern lines

  • CA ON00408 F033-S01-SS03-0081-03
  • Item
  • Photocopied [198-] (originally created 1919)
  • Part of Bob Surtees fonds

Item is a map showing the Canadian Pacific Railway's railway and steamship lines in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

Railways in Northeastern Ontario

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.

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