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Collection consists of pamphlets, articles, reports, and ephemera relating to North Bay and northeastern Ontario that were collected by the Education Centre Library for its vertical file (a collection of documents maintained by a library to provide easy access to information about frequently-requested topics; vertical files were especially popular before the rise of the Internet). The collection was created from the early 1970s, when the Library was founded, until the dissolution of the vertical file in the late 2000s.

Most files are arranged alphabetically by subject or by place name (in the case of items relating to communities other than North Bay).

Collection consists of newspapers and magazines published in North Bay, Ontario.

File contains 38 regular issues of The North Bay Nugget / The Nugget Daily News / The Nugget. Many issues contain front page articles about significant local events such as the anniversaries of the Ontario Northland Railway and North Bay Teacher's College, the Donald Kelly escape, and a tragic explosion that destroyed the Barry Building on McIntyre Street. Some issues are missing pages.

Dates of issues: 17 October 1922; 6 December 1929; 8, 29 October 1930; 1, 5 November 1930; 16 September 1931; 31 October 1931; 14 November 1931; 2 December 1931; 17-18, 20 February 1932; 9 March 1932; 4, 11, 14, 18, 21, 28 May 1932; 11 February 1942; 29 November 1943; 21 March 1944; 4 April 1944; 12 April 1952; 9 May 1952; 3 October 1959; 29 April 1961; 30 June 1967; 23 November 1967; 8 February 1968; 18 March 1971; 27 October 1972; 10 October 1974; 9-10 January 1975; 2 August 1975; 26 April 1978.

File contains three issues (one partial) of the Capitol News, a free weekly North Bay newspaper published by Commercial Press. Issues are dated 23 October 1930, 3 December 1931, and 26 May 1932.

File contains what appears to be a complete set of the North Bay Daily Nugget issues from May to August 1942.

Item is a special newspaper supplement published by the Daily Nugget for the fiftieth anniversary of the Ontario Northland Railway.

Item is a community cookbook published by the Daily Nugget as a special newspaper supplement.

Item is a tourist brochure for the towns of Cobalt, Haileybury, and New Liskeard. Brochure contains descriptions of each town's history and tourist attractions, photographs, a map of the area, and an advertisement for the Cobalt Mining Museum.

Item is an essay on the history of Ontario Hydro in the North Bay District, with an accompanying letter.

File contains news releases issued by Ontario Hydro's Northeastern Region.

File contains press clippings about Ontario Hydro's Northeastern Region that were compiled by the Ontario Hydro Press Clipping Service.

Item is a special edition of the Daily Nugget published to celebrate Old Home Week and the 75th anniversary of the founding of North Bay.

Item is a report.

Item is a report about air transportation in northern Ontario.

Item is a pamphlet about the Nipissing District.

Item is a booklet about the 22nd NORAD Region, which had its headquarters in North Bay. The stated aim of the booklet is "to provide the reader with an understanding of the Region's vital role in the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)." The booklet also contains information about the construction, layout, and operation of the underground Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) installation in North Bay.

Item is a program from the ceremony for the presentation of a regimental guidon (pennant). Item contains a history of colours, order of ceremony, the Algonquin Regiment's battle honours, order of service for consecration of colours, history of the Algonquin Regiment, and a list of officers and warrant officers on parade.

Item is a postcard of the memorial at the corner of Algonquin Avenue and Front Street in North Bay.

Item is a booklet about the history of the Northern Ontario Public School Principals' Association.

Item is a special edition of the North Bay Nugget published to celebrate the Canadian Centennial. The newspaper contains sections about: Mattawa and District; Temiskaming and District; Sturgeon Falls and District; Temagami, Latchford, Cobalt, Haileybury, New Liskeard, Earlton, Englehart; and the Parry Sound District.

Item is an event program that contains lists of: school staff, the North Bay Collegiate Institute Board, the Advisory Vocational Committee, Students' Council, scholarship and award winners, graduates, and scholars and honour students.

File contains City of North Bay notices of approval and amendment regarding land use and city planning projects, land use plans, and the summary of a feasibility and environmental study of the Highway 11 corridor.

Item is a program that contains lists of: school staff, the North Bay Collegiate Institute Board, the Advisory Vocational Committee, Students' Council, award winners, graduates, members of championship teams, and individual champions.

Item is an event program containing a seating plan.

Item is an essay about the lives of three Sturgeon Falls pioneers: Zotique Mageau, Joseph Michaud, and Georges Levesque

Item is a promotional booklet intended for industrial businesses considering relocation to North Bay. Item contains information about the City of North Bay (including its geographic location, climate, demographics, municipal government, and services), regional transportation, civic data (housing, recreation, and education), local wage rates, and a list of local industries, products, hospitals, and financial institutions.

Item is a program for the Regiment's presentation of colours ceremony.

File contains studies, an inventory of local social services, and brochures for North Bay social services, including: the Rape Crisis Centre, Family Life Centre, Seven Arrows Learning Centre Inc., North Bay Sexual Assault Education Centre, Nipissing Transition House, Ojibway Family Resource Centre, North Bay & District Association for the Mentally Retarded, and the North Bay Women's Centre.

Item is a reunion convention program.

Item is an illustrated promotional booklet.

Item is a short history of Sturgeon Falls.

Item is an essay about Fort La Ronde.

Item is a brief prepared by a study group representing the francophone community in North Bay and submitted to the Wright Commission.

Item is a booklet about the history of the Catholic Church in North Bay, published to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of a Catholic church in North Bay, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of Rev. D. J. Scollard, and the tenth anniversary of the consecration of Scollard as Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie.

Item is a brief history of Cobalt, reprinted from an article in <i>The Canadian Magazine</i>.

File contains copies of articles and documents about early steamboats and later Ontario Northland ships on Lake Nipissing, including a list of wrecks and steamers, photographs of ships, and brochures about the Chief Commanda II.

Item is a report about post-secondary educational institutions in North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie.

Item is a special newspaper supplement published to promote the new College Education Centre prior to its open house.

File contains annual reports, a summary report of the Experience '79 program (a student employment program), and brochures about the conservation authority and the Eau Claire Gorge Conservation Area.