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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).

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.

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.

Interview audio recordings

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

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.

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 book of Timmins and the Porcupine

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.

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.

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.

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).

Map of the Kirkland Lake and Swastika gold areas

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.

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.

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.

General layout - O.N.R. Cobalt project

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.

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').

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.

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.

Clippings

File contains newspaper clippings about the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.

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.

ONTC photos - Dec. 1986

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

R. Surtees Coll[ection]

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

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.

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.

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 (?).

1986 - ONTC photos

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

ONTC photos - Dec. 1986

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

Champlain + Brule on Lake Nipissing

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.

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.

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>.

Surtees

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

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.

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).

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